The Biggest Reseller MISTAKES I’ve Made In 25 Years | S08E08

On today's podcast we’re talking about the biggest reseller mistakes I’ve made over the last 25 years. Looking back, there are definitely things I’d do differently, but every one of them taught me something. Perhaps you would like to share your mistakes too?

I'm joined by the infamous "Bargain Bell" for this podcast.

Plus the usual honest interactive reseller chat you've become accustomed to!

My YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@CarBoot_Chris?sub_confirmation=1

My Website - http://www.carbootchris.com

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Welcome back to the podcast. Today we're talking about the biggest reseller mistakes I've made over the last 25 years. Looking back, there are definitely things I'd do differently, but one of them, but every one of them taught me something. Perhaps you'd like to share your mistakes too. My name's Chris, aka Carboot Chris, and I'm a full-time UK online reseller. I operate mainly on eBay, but also on vintage and whatnot. I'm bringing a regular podcast all about reselling with a bit of fun thrown in too. Hopefully to keep you company to entertain you and maybe a little bit of education. Who knows? Welcome to the Everything Reselling Podcast. Hello everybody. Sorry guys, I messed up the intro. Last week I messed up the outro. This week I messed up the intro. Well, I guess that's live, innit? This is what happens when you go live. Nothing's perfect, and I'm definitely not that. As you'll see from tonight's show, nobody is perfect, and I'm definitely not. Apart from when it comes to being a husband and wife.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

It's actually perfect to me.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

I should say perfect for me.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

Okay. Anyway, welcome everybody. I hope you're good. I hope you've had a good week of reselling. Or if you're not a reseller, I hope you've had a good week at work or a good week chilling out or whatever you do to pass the time of day. Thank you very much for being here on a Monday night. We're here every week at 8 pm. And so if you're listening back to this on Spotify or Apple Music, please feel free to come over and join us here on YouTube every Monday at 8 o'clock. It's not that I don't want you listening on the podcast. I love it. And ideally, I'd love the actual audio element of the podcast to overtake the YouTube views, and it's going that way right now. But feel free if you fancy live interaction, come over and join us on a Monday night at 8 o'clock. Belle's here today with us.

SPEAKER_02 2:17

Hi.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

In body, but not in spirit. Is that the right way to say it?

unknown 2:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:25

You're okay, aren't you?

SPEAKER_01 2:26

I'm okay. I'm just tired and we're, I think I've definitely gone into holiday mode.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

You're already in holiday mode.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

My body has gone. We're not doing anything, we're going on holiday.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

Yeah, we're gonna be away from Wednesday. So this there will not be a show next week's folks. So there'll be no podcast episode next week. There'll be no audio episode. It's a week off for us, but we'll be back hopefully the following week for our final two episodes of this series before we we start again on new on a new series.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

And hopefully they gave you balloons to celebrate.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Yeah, that is good. Hopefully, in the new series, we'll start getting guests back on again. I've kind of I've put all anything that's like takes up brain matter over the last few months. I've put on the back burner, so I've tried to make it as simple as possible because there's been a lot going on. So I kind of it takes a lot to get a guest on and get organized.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

We've been in survival mode, haven't we? We've just been surviving.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

And the channel, the channel, really, you might have noticed the channel has been really in survival mode for the last sort of six months whilst Belle's been going through her cancer stuff. I've been literally doing a Monday night and a weekend video and nothing more pretty much for the last six months. But hopefully we're gonna get back into it, we're gonna get back to some normality of the on the channel. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:48

Well, we said aren't we we're gonna this holiday we clawed our way towards this holiday? If anybody knows us, we would have at least had one other holiday by now. We always have one at the beginning of the year, so I think we've really felt that as well in amongst it all. And we've literally decided that there's not a metaphorical line, we're gonna go find some sand somewhere and draw a line in it while we're on holiday, step over it, and then we've got sand here in real. No, after this holiday, we need the we need the shutdown, we need the shut-off, shutdown, reset. We're gonna cross that line and we're gonna come back and life after cancer is going to begin. Because at the moment I still feel like I'm in survival mode. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

We need to press the reset button. Sometimes you do, don't you? Sometimes you just gotta press the reset button.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

I think we just need to both take a deep breath, don't we?

SPEAKER_00 4:43

Whether you have to take a break, take a holiday, or just turn off social media. Sometimes people take a reset ride doing that, don't they?

SPEAKER_01 4:50

We take holidays. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

So thank you for being here. And Bella's gonna say hello to as many people as possible in the one minute. I feel like this is gonna be super quick. All right. I don't know, there seems to be quite a few people in the chat.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

No.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

No?

SPEAKER_01 5:06

No, it's gonna be super quick. Okay, then. So we're gonna say hello to the hardcore ones that are here. Right, we're off. So I've got Kevin Hawthorne, Lynn Lynn, Jeff Davis, Deborah Sardine, Mark Hill, Helen Graham, John Hughes, Kavalis, Richard Payne, Speedfoot Flips, Sharon Island, Paul Hillman, Pixel Fix, Pitco, Cla Clow, Clow. Don't know how to say that, but hi. Uh, Emsdem, Lisa, Oliver Ian, Babs, Limelight Vince.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

Change the name again.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Rosie Marsden Tap Peddler, and that's it. Is that it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Where is everybody? Watching the football.

SPEAKER_01 5:54

Do you know what everybody's doing? Everybody's actually spending the evening being able to breathe because it's not super hot and we're not all hiding, sweltering. They're probably out enjoying the outdoors again.

SPEAKER_00 6:07

Remember last week on the show we had to call it a day at an hour because we were absolutely boiling.

SPEAKER_01 6:12

And it just went downhill from there, didn't it? Our house has been like like hell's living room. It's been so hot.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Uh Lisa's in as well. Welcome, Lisa.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

We got what did we do after we got off the show last week? What did we go and order? We literally went and ordered a fan, didn't we?

SPEAKER_00 6:31

Yeah. We bought a fan on Amazon, didn't we? A big, a big one.

SPEAKER_01 6:35

We ordered Amazon Prime, deliver next day, getting this fan because we're not gonna die for the next few days in this heat. And guess what? Didn't bloody show up till the Thursday, did it?

SPEAKER_00 6:45

It was the first time ever that I've ordered an Amazon Prime item and it's not turned up the next day. Basically, everybody suddenly decided we're about to hit a heat wave, gonna buy a fan from Amazon, and we were about three days in before we got it.

unknown 7:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:04

And I complained to Amazon, I said, what am I paying Amazon Prime for? And so they refunded a month's worth of Amazon.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

But they didn't bring the fan any quicker, which is what we wanted.

SPEAKER_00 7:13

They didn't bring it any quick quicker, but I did get nine quid back from Amazon.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

Woo! But anyway, we did eventually get our supersonic fan, and I think it's saved us for very good. It's a very good fan. It is saved us for the last few days.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

There's another heat wave coming, apparently.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

I've had a look and it's not I don't think it's quite as bad as what we've had that last week.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

We're picking our heat wave, we're going to it on Wednesday.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Hopefully. It's different when you're abroad though, isn't it? We've all seen the memes and the videos and the reels. It's definitely different when you're abroad.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

When you've got your air con and your pool and the no work and cold drinks and yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

Jeff said, is it not hot enough in the UK for long for long enough to justify having air con? Uh not really, Jeff, to be honest with you. No. Normally, sort of summer sits sort of between 20 and 25 degrees, and you can manage in that without aircon. But the minute it starts hitting 30, it's it's not good. But it doesn't happen that much during during our summers.

SPEAKER_02 8:12

No.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

So no, I would not spend it's not only like 300 quid just for one aircon unit for one room. Right? It's not just that, it's the electric cost it takes to run it as well. So yeah, it's it's if it was just the cost of getting the aircon unit, then it might not be so bad, but then you've got to run it 20. You have to run it 24-7, don't you? Otherwise, there's no point. Uh Colin Lingus has popped in.

SPEAKER_01 8:38

I don't know why Cameron has just sent me images of tiki stuff.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

Alright. Yeah, we've seen all those tiki things now.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

See in the range. Oh, well, that's not Cameron.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

Secret Carper said I got a portable aircon unit game change. Yeah, that's what I was just this minute saying 300 quid. I've seen them myself. Well, we oh, have we frozen? What's going on?

SPEAKER_01 9:02

We met up with George the other day.

SPEAKER_00 9:04

We're freezing, we're freezing. Hang on.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

We met up with George the other day, and he said he's got one, didn't he? He paid 400 quid for one.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

Yeah. But yeah, it's it's the ongoing cost as well, isn't it? I would if if I thought we were gonna get a few weeks worth of that kind of weather, then I probably would get one, but it's just not worth it, is it? Don't know.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

I don't think going through the menopause, we might need one regardless of the summer, because I tell you what, I think that fan's going to be in permanent need during the night.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

Just make do with the fan.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

I was gonna read a comment and I've lost it now.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

Rose has said it's been up to 35 degrees in F60. Yeah, it was what was it here last week? Hottest I've ever known in North Wales.

SPEAKER_01 9:44

But we got in the car and the car was 41 degrees.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Yes. I sent the picture to Jeff. The inside the car was 41 degrees when we got in it the other day. Oh my god, it was hot. But actually, I think we're at about 34 here in North Wales. That were hot enough.

SPEAKER_01 10:00

But we've had to use we've been using your car because my car's got all leather seats. Now that's burning when you get in. We had to go and get dog towels the other day, didn't we? And put them on the seats because we just couldn't get in the car. It was so hot. But Limelight said, How's your house viewings going? They're not haven't had any.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

We've had two cancellations now.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

We've had two book in and then cancel. Two book and two cancel at the last minute for varying reasons.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

We kind of we'll put it on hold now until we get back from our trip.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

So not because they don't we haven't had reasons for them them they don't want to come and view because both of them have said they want to book back in, but they've had reasons why they haven't been able to show up on those occasions. So yeah, so at the moment we've not had a single view in. So I feel, I personally feel, after the hassle it took us to get it on the market in the first place, with the decorator not showing up and then all the issues with the floor plans, and now the viewings being cancelled. I think the universe is telling us to stay. It's telling us to stay if we're not listening to this. Come on. There's some there's a higher being at work here.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

Uh Richard Payne says 30p an hour to run an aircon unit. That's £7.20. I just checked it. That's £7.20 for every 24 hours. He won't spend that on the heating. I I have palpitations if I'm hitting £7 when it's middle of winter and we're putting the heating on. But that that I mean, if if you're only doing it for like three days when it's a heat wave, because that's all all it is normally, isn't it? Then it's not so bad. But if you're running that every day for a month, that's a hell of a lot of money, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 11:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

Unless you've got like if you've got solar panels on the roof that can help run it, then that's good. Maybe we should get solar panels so that we can then buy an aircon that can run for free. That's a good idea, isn't it? It costs us about six grand after all said and done.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

You just get aircon for that. Deborah said, hope you enjoy every single second of your forthcoming holiday. Oh, don't you worry, Debs, we will. We are both so, so ready for it. The last time we went away was our Poland trip, wasn't it, at the end of December.

SPEAKER_00 12:13

And as much as that was a nice trip and it was beautiful, we were in good, was it?

SPEAKER_01 12:19

We were not in a great mindset, were we? Because I'd not long since had my diagnosis.

SPEAKER_00 12:22

Yeah, we knew what was coming, didn't we?

SPEAKER_01 12:24

Yeah, so this is this is our this is our reset holiday.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

Miami, Florida is only 33 at the moment. Yeah, that's what it was like here last week in North Wales, Rob.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

Yeah, well, my lad and his wife came back from two weeks in Florida on Thursday, and they literally have said it has been like 35, 36 degrees for most of the time while they've been there. So it has been hot.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

Rich welcome aware we moving. We're hoping to sit, we're gonna stay local, Rich. That's if anyone actually comes and looks at the house and decides they want to buy it. We're we'll stay. We if we could stay on our estate, we would do, but we're downsizing, we want to go to a bungalow, we want to have a smaller house. This house is too big for us, really.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

So Oliveren's joined us, and Flogger has joined us and Tap Peddler.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

I would say Krillin, I would say the majority, right? There's 78 people watching right now. I reckon 70 of them don't have aircon. Easily in the UK.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

I think that's a high. We just don't.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

We don't have it. Unless you've got unless you're rich, you've got like a mansion, or you know, you don't have money worries. You just don't have aircon.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

Bab says she's not changed her name since you last noticed it.

SPEAKER_00 13:40

Oh, right, okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

That's you can't you have to apologise. Chris is not in a very good headspace at the moment. He can't speak, he can't read, and he can't grind or anything. That's what you just said to me a minute ago when you're going, I can't read stuff.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

Well, last week I messed up the teleprompter. That's because it was going too fast. It was going too fast. And then on my intro today, I messed up my intro. I specifically wrote it shorter so that I didn't mess it up, and I still messed it up.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

Oh, he's messing it up. I can't do it properly. Uh Oliverine says primer getting worse. He's had a few recently. Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

I'm just getting down the chat and then we'll crack on with the show. Deb's Deb says turn our dehumidifier on the dry mode, blows out cold air, sort of. We put our we went on Chat G and Chat G suggested having our big fancy fan going, then have the dehumidifier sort of nearby. So we turned on the dehumidifier, and basically it really helped, didn't it? Because it took out all the humid air in the room.

SPEAKER_01 14:45

Didn't massively cool it down, but it's not a good thing. Didn't really cool the stickiness out of the room.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

Yeah, you know how we were sat in there, and well, they're sticky, but it definitely helped. So we had both running.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

And that was killing them.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

Yeah, the dehumidifier doesn't cost a lot to run, to be honest with you. I've tested it.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

You say he says we had it running. I was working from the living room because there ain't catty nails chance. I was sitting in that conservatory during during those hot days. And like I said, I'm already running it a few degrees hotter with my uh menopausal state. So Chris literally set it up in the living room with the door shut. So I mean poor Chris was up here sweating to death. You just kept popping down every so often, didn't you? Just for a cool off.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

I was absolutely dripping up here, dripping. Well, thank you everybody as well who popped along. I had a last-minute decision, you know, our eBay live show last week where I sold off all almost all. Look, a lot of it's gone. The Jurassic Park, Jurassic World stuff. I've replaced it with pops in there now.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

I've never even noticed.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

But yeah, I sold off everything that I wanted to sell in one show. But also I had a last-minute decision to also broadcast it live on YouTube, didn't I? I thought, you know what? Why don't we broadcast it on YouTube at the same time?

SPEAKER_01 16:04

Why not let's make our life that little bit more difficult and put it on YouTube as well.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

So thank you to everybody who popped along to watch on there. Appreciate you. And everybody who came along to actually actually watch on eBay, and especially those who bought something, thank you very much. Really do appreciate it. We did six, we did about £600 in that show. We said at the start of the show what would be we'd be happy with, and we both said £500 would probably be a fair amount for what we were selling. Um we did £575, plus we do make a small amount on the postage as well. So it worked out we took about £600, and of course, there's zero fees on eBay Live at the moment. So we're that's it. Take home £600. So we were very happy with that, really, weren't we?

SPEAKER_01 16:51

Well hopefully you were because it was your stuff. But you don't know, it's once it's gone, it's gone, and that's it. You don't think twice about it, do you?

SPEAKER_00 16:59

I'm not even thought about it, so it's gone.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

I was wondering, you've got your um Jaw stuff sat in the attic.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

Is that some of the jaw stuff is gone, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:09

Is it is it going to Lou? Are you gonna give Lou fuss refusal?

SPEAKER_00 17:12

Maybe. I've got some Jaw stuff to sell.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

Thought about you, Lou, when I saw it up in the attic. I thought, oh, I wonder if he's watching. Oliver Ian is though. All right. I wonder if he's partying with it. I know Lou's been after some of it. Linlan says she's been really breathless with the heat, felt unwell and not sleeping. She's hoping to meet a twin sister. Oh, she's got a twin sister. Linlin's full of surprises, isn't she? There's two of them. And she's having a knee replacement on Wednesday.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Good luck with that one.

SPEAKER_01 17:39

Yeah, good luck.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

Christina said you look like a packet of refreshers in that t-shirt.

SPEAKER_01 17:45

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

Kind of.

SPEAKER_01 17:46

This is a vintage retro wrangler's wrangler. Like the jeans, wrangler top. Not wrangler's. Wrangler. Wrangler. Is that right?

SPEAKER_00 17:57

Yeah, wrangler.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

Wrangler. Wrangler.

SPEAKER_00 17:59

You can see your brow underneath that. Everybody's looking at that now. That's what Chris.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

Well, that'd be hard. I've got a vest top on.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

Looks like a brow underneath.

SPEAKER_01 18:08

Oh, maybe that that might be my bra strap.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

Yeah, that's a bra strap. Tonight's duck race prize. We've got a special. It's a panda duck unicorn. And that is tonight's prize for the duck race. Plus, you get some of my favourite sweeties, the mini mockies. They are amazing, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

You just buy them every time you go out to the shop.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

Yeah, I just buy two packs every time I go in there. I'm the only reason they buy these things in the shop. I'm constantly, yeah, I'll have two of those. I'll have two of those. So I have £1.25 a packet. So yeah, you get the mini mockies and you get the Panda Duck Unicorn. That's tonight's duck race price. So good luck to everybody. Stay tuned if you want to see who wins that.

SPEAKER_01 18:51

Deborah said yesterday at the car, boot a bloke had a bog standard tabletop fan up for sale for £100. Retail night $29.99. Well, people are going to chance their arms, aren't they? The fan that we bought, we ordered it on the Monday because Prime Day was the Tuesday, but they were doing some pre-Prime Day sales, and it was in the pre-prime day sales. The next day, when it should have been Prime Day, it was at full price.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

Well, it makes sense. Supply and demand. Why would you sell it cheaper when everyone's crying out for fans? You wouldn't, would you?

SPEAKER_01 19:28

Yeah. Clearly saw you was like, nope, I'm not selling it at this price. Up it went. Oliverine says the universe is fed up as moving.

SPEAKER_00 19:36

Yeah, probably. Big thank you to all our channel members here on YouTube. All the names going across the bottom of the screen right now. Lots and lots of members. We have around 65 members right now. And it gets you access into our Discord group. It's not a guru group before anyone says anything. It's not about being a guru, but we do help each other and we do support each other and we do chat about random things as well as reselling. It's just a nice little community. So if you fancy joining us, it's $2.99 a month. And YouTube take one pound of that. So that means I get $1.99 of it.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

And if you want to really be that interested in it, it's you might why are you saying it like that? You might want to know that you also get to see images of Chris in Budgie Smugglers. So that's the sort of chat it is.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

Watch the people scrambling to join now.

SPEAKER_01 20:36

You know, for all the reselling content that's in there, there are then people AI Chris in the chuppa-chup budget smugglers.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

I don't know where it is now. It's lost in the uh in the archives.

SPEAKER_01 20:49

But it was pretty funny. Whoever did that, well done.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

Might have been George, George's treasure shed. Well, thank you anyway, everybody. Thank you for all your support of the channel. Even I thank thank you, everybody who supports the channel. Just because you don't pay $2.99 a month, it doesn't mean that you don't support us.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

It means you're enjoying a Greg's coffee.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

Yeah, it means you're spending your money elsewhere, which is fine. We appreciate everybody. Thank you all for coming here and spending your Monday nights with us and supporting the channel in whatever of a way you do. So thank you very much.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

Jess said it's supposed to be 40.6 degrees at near him at the weekend.

SPEAKER_00 21:24

Now that's what we won't be here, will we? That's hot. Uh let's get down the chat and then we'll crack on with the show.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

Is that Lisa asking us where we'll be going? You mean when we go on holiday, Lisa? We're going to Gibraltar slash Spain. Because we're gonna walk over the border. So yeah, looking forward to it. And it's only a baby flight. As much as I like going to America and all that, I don't like them flights. I'm too old. I'm too old for them long flights. So this is a baby flight. This is a One.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Clax says, Can I ask what software you use with making tax digital, please? Not sure what to use. I use QuickBooks. I've not had to send a report yet to make making tax digital. The first one was due in July, I think. The quarterlies. So yeah, QuickBooks. And they had to change the product I was using in order to use QuickBooks because I was on self-employed, which isn't compatible with making tax digital. They don't actually sell it anymore. So I had to switch to online. QuickBooks Online. Oh great. Timekeeper says 40 degrees would have me hiding in a chess freezer. Yeah, probably the best place to be. Fix it Frida's pop in as well. Welcome to Fix It Freda. So anyway, there you go. So next week we won't be here. So we'll be skipping a week and we'll be back hopefully the week after.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

Did you see the Pixel Fix it? They'd definitely be interested in buying some Jar stuff.

SPEAKER_00 23:09

Okay. I think when we come back from holiday, I'll do my next eBay live. It'll probably be a collectibles one. I've got quite a few little bits and pieces, just random things that I'm going to put in it. And then after that, I think I'm going to consider doing back to the future after that one. So yeah, there's going to be more eBay lives coming up over the next few weeks.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

Did you see that Nightlife said that he's been off work with a shoulder injury for three months?

SPEAKER_00 23:35

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 23:35

He says so now he shut down his storage unit and took all his stock to the tip.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

Oh, so that is that it for your reselling now, Rich? You finished.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

Well hope it's on the mend now. That's a long time.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

To have um a shoulder issue.

SPEAKER_00 23:49

Criker, yeah. Cortex. I've just had my first vintage sale to Australia from the UK. Oh, nice one. It's a beltet. Okay. Right. Let's talk about just get me notes up. Mistakes. Now I asked Belle to help me out with this one and she couldn't because she said I was perfect. That's true, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 24:21

I it I not only did I say you were perfect, but I said you're too you play things safe so you don't really make mistakes. You're very thorough, you're very methodical.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

We all make mistakes.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

You do, but you don't do them often, and if you do the never major ones. You're very calculated in the decisions you make with the business, and you always have been. You're not gung-ho dive in head first and regret it later type of person.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

I suppose. Okay, so it'll be interesting to me to find out what he thought he's done wrong, because I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

I don't I've not done anything wrong per se, but there's things that you know you you could definitely do differently. So I'm gonna start off with some of my some of my mistakes. Now, in the intro and in the title, I put 25 years of reselling. Now, there's a break in the middle of that because most of you know that I started my reselling in 2015, so that would only be 11 years. But if you really know me, then you'll know that I had a shop, a high street shop, back in the year 2000, 2002. I had it for two years, and I was reselling games, videos, DVDs, all kinds of entertainment and media. Top shelf videos, top shelf videos. I was reselling all kinds, buying, selling, new use, trading. So back then I was reselling, and then I went into normal jobs, joined the cops and all that business before coming back out eventually into reselling onto eBay. So really, my reselling journey goes right back to the millennium, probably, the start of the year 2000, really. So I'm gonna start with that because I definitely made some mistakes when I had my high street shop. So if you think while I'm telling you my little stories, if you have a little think, what mistakes have you made in your reselling journey? If you're willing to share them, let me know, and maybe we can all learn something by them. So I'll give you my first one. So the first mistake I've got is opening my high street shop without enough money in the bank. So not having the cash flow when I started my first business, and that was a big mistake. I opened that shop around 25, 26 years ago. I didn't have enough cash behind me, I didn't save up enough money. I underestimated the need for a chunk of money when you start. I had some money and I took a loan out, but I didn't have enough, and it hurts you a lot. But if you have a quiet week in the shop, which you do have a lot of quiet weeks in the high street, even back then, 25 years ago, still have quiet weeks. You know, it can be quite stressful if you've not got another outlet to earn money from. But also not having that cash flow meant that I didn't have the money to buy enough stocking to make it attractive for customers to come in. Like what you need is as a trader in a shop, you need enough money to buy in the brand new games that people want. So at the time it was PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, stuff like that. What you needed to do was buy in those in brand new games so that people would come in and trade in their used games, and then you make a little bit of money on the new game, but you make a big chunk on the trading of the secondhand games. That's where you make most of your money. You mark them up, you put them back out on the shelves in the secondhand section. So by not having enough money in the bank to start with meant that I couldn't buy enough games in. And it kind of has a knock-on effect. People come in, they want the latest game, you haven't got it, or you could only buy a handful, so they've sold out very quickly, has a massive knock-on effect. So I put that down as for as far as I could recall. One of the biggest mistakes I made in business was cash flow and not realizing at the start of your journey to make sure you've got enough in the bank to be able to be successful, to give yourself the best chance.

SPEAKER_01 28:44

Pretty sure you're not the first person or the last person that's absolutely, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

And I was kind of I think I got carried away with because I was working at Marks and Spencer's at the time. I kind of got carried away with the idea of having my own shop. I thought it was going to be great, I thought it was going to open it and everyone was going to be coming in, there'd be cues outside the door. You were as only a baby, wasn't it? And I was only very, very young. I was 20, 21, something like that, 21 years old, running my own shop. Look at 21-year-olds these days, most of them are still at home. Not doing very much. So, you know, it was a big gamble, and I didn't anticipate correctly how much money I would need behind me. So it was hard. It was very hard work. Let's go to the chat.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

And you know what gets me as well? You've never been a massively sociable person, but you put yourself, you just keep going into these roles that are like you have to be sociable, like owning a shop, you have to converse with people.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

I was probably more sociable back then.

SPEAKER_01 29:45

As you get older, how did you go when they came asking for the top shelf stuff? Being so young.

SPEAKER_00 29:52

Um I don't know. They were like, what would you recommend? And I say, Oh, this one's good.

SPEAKER_01 30:04

Did you watch them all just to make sure they work? They're brand new and sealed.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

Did you have them properly wiped before I put them out?

SPEAKER_01 30:12

Did you have dirty magazines as well?

SPEAKER_00 30:14

No, we can't do magazines. We didn't do magazines, just videos. Yeah, just videos. Knights Life says, Yes, mate, your shoulder getting bad nearly six months ago. It's so hard going from good money, driving articulated lowers to 1236 pounds per six pay out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

That is, yeah, that's that's shite.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

That is bad.

SPEAKER_01 30:38

That is shit.

SPEAKER_00 30:38

Could it I don't I don't understand though, Rich. Like you went off sick, but then you got rid of all your reselling stock. It seems to be a disconnect there. Couldn't you have picked up the reselling whilst you were off?

SPEAKER_01 30:52

Not well, he's got a bad arm.

SPEAKER_00 30:54

Would it have been too bad to do it? Is that what it was?

SPEAKER_01 30:56

If he's off with a bad shoulder, then obviously.

SPEAKER_00 30:59

I suppose.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

Jeff says he's only made two mistakes, but one of those he just thought he was wrong, so he was actually right.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

I'm not trying to say he's boring, Oliver Ian. I love the way he is. You're not boring either.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Yeah, I am.

SPEAKER_01 31:13

No, you're not.

SPEAKER_00 31:14

I know I am. I'm not stupid.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

Why are you arguing against me when I'm telling you you're not boring?

SPEAKER_00 31:20

You have to say that. You married me.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

No, I don't have to say that. I could say I could tell you if you were boring, but you're not boring.

SPEAKER_00 31:25

Well, tell me then.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

You're not boring. I find you quite entertaining, to be fair.

SPEAKER_00 31:30

Really?

SPEAKER_01 31:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:32

Me and you both then. Here we go. Ross El Raventa says, not focusing on average sale price at first was losing money too much on low-value items, too much work for lots of effort, sell-through rate was everything. Fair enough. Yeah. Knowing your numbers is important, isn't it? Like where your profit margins are, really important.

SPEAKER_01 31:59

Cheryl's joined us. Hi, Cheryl. Hi, Cheryl. Oliver Ian says it's all crazy. Okay, Chris. Your competitors don't seem to have fared much better in the years to come. Game, GameStation, etc.

SPEAKER_00 32:08

They've all gone, haven't they?

unknown 32:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

I would have liked to have lasted a bit longer, but I just ran out of money. I ran out of cash flow and I couldn't compete. 21-year-olds these days are soft, yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 32:22

Sitting at home playing on consoles.

SPEAKER_00 32:24

True, true. Not all of them. Let's not give give everyone the same.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

We know a couple of young lads that are like 14, 15 who are really big budding entrepreneurs. They've got their fingers in all sorts of pies at the moment.

SPEAKER_00 32:38

I bet there's some very young people who resell. We've had a few viewers, haven't we, who have been in their teens who resell.

SPEAKER_01 32:47

Yeah. But I'm still going to agree that a lot of people of that age would not be trying to open their own shops.

SPEAKER_00 32:56

Our eventor said Fleet was a mistake. I know you've just done your video, but have a different experience. Did you due diligence was let down by Fleet Customer Service? Only just broke even, not to say others can't do well. Yeah, it's a totally personal experience. I've I buy very specific items on Fleek. I buy the jerseys, and that's what I do. Don't really buy anything else. So when you're narrowed right into a niche and that's what you're looking for in a specific app or channel or whatever, or you know, buying site, then you can become a much better expert at what you're looking at. Don't get me wrong, I've I've made mistakes buying jerseys in the past. There's only so much you can see on a video. Sometimes it still comes over fake. You know, someone's just going like that, you know, to show you a jersey. You can't 100% tell if it's fake or not. But on the whole, I've had good experiences.

SPEAKER_01 33:50

The gingers joined us. Hello, child. Oh hello. Speaking, speaking of uh children that don't do anything. Yeah. No, I'm only joking. He's he's a very hard worker. Kids nowadays. He's a very hard worker is Cameron.

SPEAKER_00 34:03

Kids.

SPEAKER_01 34:05

Is that is that do I keep saying that?

SPEAKER_00 34:08

What?

SPEAKER_01 34:08

He said to be fair, she said.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

What?

SPEAKER_01 34:11

Cameron's comment. Do I keep saying it to be fair?

SPEAKER_00 34:15

To be fair.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

Is it one of them is it one of them sentences? Do I say it a lot?

SPEAKER_00 34:18

No, one thing you do one thing you say a lot.

SPEAKER_01 34:21

Seriously.

SPEAKER_00 34:22

No, well you do say that. One thing you say a lot is for me. Like when you're trying to explain something, you say, for me.

SPEAKER_01 34:31

Well, what else should I say?

SPEAKER_00 34:33

I don't know, but you say it a lot.

SPEAKER_01 34:35

No, that was not. I've never noticed that before. So now I'm gonna be conscious of that again.

SPEAKER_00 34:42

It's like if I was explaining like something on there, you'd say, for me, I would do this. You know, that's what you you say that a lot.

SPEAKER_01 34:51

How do I start a sentence then if it's I don't know, but you say it a lot.

SPEAKER_00 34:55

It's okay. I'll let you off. It's okay. I'm not getting divorced just yet. Uh Clax says, not getting an accountant earlier, getting getting things because I like them rather than because they were good sellers at the start. That's a fair point. But also, I do think that a good place to start is things that you like and know, because you tend to have more knowledge on them. That's kind of how I started with figures and toys and movie-related things, because I like them and I and you get to become a bit of an expert in something that you like, don't you? But I guess it can also be a negative, can't it? Like Clark says there.

SPEAKER_01 35:41

Cameron's agreed with you. I do do that all.

SPEAKER_00 35:45

She does say she says for me, like when you're trying to explain something, you're gonna be really cut self-conscious about that. I'm just not gonna talk. What do I say a lot that I repeat?

SPEAKER_01 35:56

You don't talk enough to say something repetitively.

SPEAKER_00 35:58

Fair enough. There it goes back to me being boring, like you said before.

SPEAKER_01 36:03

It's not. I'm gonna get my tiny little violin out.

SPEAKER_00 36:11

What is wrong with your man? Is that it? Has nobody ever made any more mistakes? No one ever made any more mistakes. Right, do you want my next one?

SPEAKER_01 36:23

Chris loved a good plush to sell back in the day. He did, he was plush mad at one point.

SPEAKER_00 36:29

Oh yeah, but if the thing with plushes, right, and I still buy them now, I just don't buy them in the quantities that I used to. You could get them so cheap, you could you could sell them at a good profit, you could post them without them getting damaged. I think plushes are one of the perfect entry-level things to buy that really you can't lose much on. Honestly, even now, I still buy good plushes.

SPEAKER_01 36:54

Jeff says, Carboot Chris, your t-shirt, who is Chester and why is he mad?

SPEAKER_00 36:59

Um Madchester is is harks back to the 90s where Manchester used to be called Madchester for obvious reasons. In the days of the indie bands and groups of the 90s, in the 90s, Manchester was very much known for its music scene and they and they kind of nicknamed it Madchester. There you go, a bit of history for you.

SPEAKER_01 37:22

Now it's just crap, Chester. Chester, yeah. Uh flogger said, My biggest regret in reselling has been not working as hard for myself as I did for my other jobs.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

Oh, you know what? Flogger. I'll come to that in mine in a minute. I've got something similar to that. Maybe you'll agree with me. Maybe it's ringing along the same lines. Dan says I took a few bags of clothes down the tip today, all the rubbish we bought three years ago to sell on eBay. Oh, what a shame that you had to tip it.

SPEAKER_01 37:57

I'm all I'm sitting is all these people that are tipping stuff when I could be selling on vintage.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

You could be vintage, couldn't you? Why don't you sell it on vintage, Dan? You could have done bundles. You could have bundled stuff on vintage. And flogger said, I've refound my love for reselling so it no longer feels like the slog that it used to. That's good. How did you manage to get it back? That's my question. And lying like Vince said, I've made mistakes buying items too quickly without thoroughly checking them. Then when I get home, they're chipped or bits missing. I've learnt my lesson now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:30

I think sometimes though, it doesn't matter how much you look at something, you can see it. Sometimes you just miss it, don't you?

SPEAKER_00 38:35

I've done it so many times. Like, picked up something, absolutely examined it. Yeah, ceramic things. Whether it be in a charity shop or a car boot sale or something, I've examined it. And then when I get home, the minute you go to photograph it, all the floors are highlighted by the lights and stuff, aren't they?

SPEAKER_01 38:58

Elverenti says, we've all bought absolute junk.

SPEAKER_00 39:00

Oh, yeah. I bought so much junk, so much crappy stuff.

SPEAKER_01 39:06

Looking back, it was rubbish. We buy much better quality now.

SPEAKER_00 39:09

Oh well, that's good. That's good. You've learned from it, you see.

SPEAKER_01 39:13

Tap pedlar said pressure on at the boot sales stall to move on, or to move on, or because of competition, you can miss stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:23

Yeah, and then sometimes you don't check things properly, do you?

unknown 39:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:26

Right, ready for me next one? And it's still linked to having my shop back in the early 2000s, okay? Because I made mistakes there. Um you know, I hold my hand up, I made mistakes. I could have done better. My next mistake was not selling online alongside the high street shop. Now, this was early 2000s, right? eBay wasn't the big beast that it is now. We didn't have other selling sites, we didn't have a we didn't have smartphones for starters. I think in the early 2000s, I probably had an a Nokia the size of like that. Couldn't sell anything on that. So you pretty much had to get a desktop computer. eBay was within about sort of five years old, sort of 96, wasn't it? So it was very early days on eBay. And I failed really to capitalise on the early eBay start. I should have listed everything in my shop while I'm stood there, twiddling my thumbs, right, waiting for a customer to come in or playing on games. That's what I was doing.

SPEAKER_01 40:27

Because you were 21. Yeah, I was young. You know. When we said most 21-year-olds are sat in the bedrooms, you were just stood in a shop doing it.

SPEAKER_00 40:35

I had a TV up in the corner of the shop. I'd have different games on it. I was standing there playing on the games, testing the games out, waiting for a customer to come in. When really what I should have been doing, I had a computer in there, a desktop, whole bloody desktop thing that I used to access to search for stuff to buy and on websites and stuff. I should have been listing on eBay. I could have listed everything in the shop on eBay. That's what I'd do now, wouldn't I? If I had a high street shop now, I'd be on eBay as well. I'd be on every platform I could possibly think of.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

That was our idea when we were going to do a movie themed cafe. We were going to have a cafe that had a selection of eBay stuff, and you were going to have a plot a position in the background where you were going to continue listing.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

I think the the mistake of not selling on eBay at the same time as running a high street shop probably finished off any chance that I had of success in that shop. I relied way too heavily on the footfall and not getting myself online. And I don't know what the decision was behind it. I can't remember. But I should have done it. And it cost me, it cost me the shop, really. And I guess the sorry, I guess the lesson from that is try not to rely on one way of making money. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Have multiple income streams.

SPEAKER_01 42:05

But you can't say that's been a mistake because we haven't always had the option to have multiple multiple streams.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

No, but I could have been on eBay at the time. There wasn't much else I could sell on. Play.com you could also sell on yourself. And I remember trying a few bits on play.com. I used to buy a lot on there to resell in the shop, but they also opened it up so you could sell on there, but I didn't go into it big, not big enough. Mistake.

SPEAKER_01 42:38

When a hobby turns into a job, it can take the fun away.

SPEAKER_02 42:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:43

Jamie T says, mistakes. I've made a few, but then again, too few to mention.

SPEAKER_00 42:48

Original.

SPEAKER_01 42:50

Oliverine says, and you genuinely look puzzled why you weren't selling anything. Now you've just admitted to playing on games in the shop.

SPEAKER_00 42:56

Listen, it was it was two years of playing on games in the shop and selling the odd thing when someone came in.

SPEAKER_01 43:02

Andrew said back then, cash in the post checks for items. You did have Amazon auctions back then.

SPEAKER_02 43:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:12

Clax says my big biggest mistake having YouTube playing whilst listing several films later, I've spent an hour watching YouTube videos and I'm still on my first listing.

SPEAKER_00 43:22

That's not me at all.

SPEAKER_01 43:24

Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_00 43:26

That's not me at all, honestly. These bloody YouTubers are distracting.

SPEAKER_01 43:31

When I'm sat working and suddenly I'm getting clips of Ali Katz from Bloody, whatever he's called, and he's got Chris shouting down the stairs, watch that clip. So I know what he's doing. Or he's sending me memes.

SPEAKER_00 43:44

I do do that. Jules B says, Would you have a shop again when you can make just as much money from home with no overheads? I think I probably wouldn't do it now, but actually, I think it's I was chatting to somebody. Do you remember? Sam from Devon with all the tattoos. Yes. Right? He's got a shop now in painting.

SPEAKER_02 44:06

Oh right.

SPEAKER_00 44:07

Right, he's got a collectible shop full of stuff. I wish we'd have known it was there when we went down there. I'd have paid him a visit.

SPEAKER_01 44:12

Was it there when we were there? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:14

I didn't have a clue. Oh. He messaged me the other day and said he'd got a shop. He's got a shop with all games, computers, collectibles and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 44:21

Oh, you mean when we visited? Yeah. I thought you were talking about when we lived there.

SPEAKER_00 44:25

No. But he said to me, You wouldn't believe the benefits a high street shop gives you for people selling you their stuff. It creates a focal point. He's all over social media. He's videoing everything that's coming in. He's videoing his shop. He's videoing all the latest toys that come in and the trades that he's doing. And people just come in, sell him stock, and he's got stock coming out of his ears, all these collectibles. So there is benefits to having something like a high street shop where people can come to you and sell you their stuff, a focal point which you can advertise using all the social media channels you have now, your TikToks and Instagram reels and stuff. You know, I definitely think there is, if you can, if you can frame it right, like he seems to have done, you can make it work.

SPEAKER_01 45:18

Register Directro says I used to love selling on the eBay, early eBay auctions, no photos usually, unless you paid the 12 PS. Ah. Imagine that doing an auction without a photo. Who here has written a physical check most recently? I get them from my auntie in Scotland.

SPEAKER_00 45:37

I've not written a check. Must be 10 years since everyone.

SPEAKER_01 45:40

Well, we haven't got checkbooks, have we? We don't get them issued anymore. I think you've got to request them now.

SPEAKER_00 45:45

My my account says you can have checks, but I think you have to ring them up and say, Can you send me a checkbook?

SPEAKER_01 45:51

Yeah, but my my auntie sends them all the time.

SPEAKER_00 45:53

Oh, there you go. Jules has sent one today. First for for years. And Cheryl's all for keeping cash alive. Okay, so there's that. I've done two of my mistakes. Here's an here's the next one, a mistake, right?

SPEAKER_01 46:09

Can I just say with all these mistakes you're listing, you're going down in my uh How am I? Yeah, you you're you're knocking yourself off that pedestal.

SPEAKER_00 46:16

I'm trying to prove to everyone that we're only human. And but the thing is, the mistakes we make, they shape us for the future. It's like when you get married and get divorced. Hopefully, I'm a better husband now.

SPEAKER_01 46:30

Well, I'm hoping that we're both better husband and wife because we seem to be doing a good job of it this week.

SPEAKER_00 46:35

We're doing alright, aren't we? We've passed the seven-year age.

SPEAKER_01 46:38

To be fair, I think we both agreed it wasn't us. We weren't the issue.

SPEAKER_00 46:45

Okay, mistake number three for me. For me. This is what you do.

SPEAKER_02 46:53

I'm not saying it.

SPEAKER_00 46:54

Nope. Proper, no proper stock control. And this is really important. Like, when you're starting off reselling, I would urge you, don't have the mindset of I only sell a hundred things, so I don't need stock control. I would say to you, start as you mean to go on, get that SKU system set up. I know Demise Family, if you're watching, get that SKU system set up. He's got thousands of items and doesn't have a proper SKU system. I mean, it would it would give me a major headache. But I would try, guys, right? If you're listening to this and you're just starting out, get your SKU system set up. Get a numbered system, get a lettered system, get some kind of system. Admittedly, my system when I started was a bit like Demise, I was in categories, so I'd have boxes with media or DVDs, and then I'd have clothing, and then I'd have t-shirts, and then I'd have trainers. I'd have it categorized instead, but having an actual numbered box where you could directly find your item is so much better. So it was a big mistake not doing a SKU system when I first started, probably because I didn't even realise you could have a SKU system when I first started. This was way back in 2015. The knowledge and information on YouTube was absolutely nowhere near what it is now. There's hundreds of resellers that talk about different things now on YouTube. But when I first started in 2015, there was probably less than 10 that I knew about. You know, there was there might have even been less than five that I could even reel off off the top of my head. Very, very few. So yeah, have a SKU system, have some kind of stock control so you know exactly where you can find stuff and start organized from day one.

SPEAKER_01 48:43

Rosie says they may not have in a proper SKU.

SPEAKER_00 48:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:47

Oliverine says you just want to prove that you live life on the edge now. Jeff says he always tells his brother he's on wife number four. Perhaps it's something he's doing wrong. I'd possibly look at that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:01

I think if you get to number four, then you probably have to start having to think about it.

SPEAKER_01 49:05

Start looking internally. Flogger says you yeah, you gotta have a system from early doors, it quickly gets out of control.

SPEAKER_02 49:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:12

Jamie says, I remember spending 400 quid at an auction on bowling club badges. Do we know what that is? Loads of them around 2009. And you could list on eBay without photos. He did really well just with descriptions.

SPEAKER_02 49:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:26

And how we have come along since then. Now we have to have perfect, perfect photos, perfect background.

SPEAKER_00 49:35

Rosie says, same here, having a skew system.

SPEAKER_01 49:39

Yes, as if you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space. Jamie says, I still wonder how well those badges would have done if I'd taken four souls. Yeah, exactly. You never know.

SPEAKER_00 49:50

Exactly. And Bab says we hadn't heard of SKU, it's the best thing ever. Yeah. I I didn't know about it until I was in like the 300s, four hundreds in the stock room. And I was then, you know, I was kind of I resisted it for a while because I knew it was going to be a big job to change it all. And I think I got up to like a thousand items, and then we moved house from Stockport down to Devon. And I took the opportunity when I was packing away stock to start doing skews. So when I unpacked everything in Devon, everything was skewed in boxes, ready to go. And it was the best thing that I'd one of the best things that I'd done, really.

SPEAKER_01 50:32

Jeff says, I always introduce Tracy as my first wife. She's the only wife I've ever had, but she's also my first wife.

SPEAKER_00 50:37

That's such a good idea, that Jeff. Oh, that's such a good idea. You can't do that though. No, I can't. I can't do that. I can say what can I say?

SPEAKER_01 50:48

I could say You'd have to say I'm your second.

SPEAKER_00 50:49

I could say, here's this is Belle, she's my second wife. Can you imagine? It wouldn't be as funny, would it? What could I say instead?

SPEAKER_01 51:02

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 51:03

Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 51:03

And I'm not even third-time lucky, so.

SPEAKER_00 51:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:07

If you count your first engagement, I guess I am.

SPEAKER_00 51:11

Oh, no, that's not a wife, is it? Attempted. That's it. Steve's got it. Current wife. Just say current wife. Yeah. Can you imagine? It just dawned on her, then what that meant.

SPEAKER_01 51:23

Current wife. He ain't going nowhere. He knows he's got it good with me. What was it? We went watching Toy Story 5 yesterday. And what were you wetting yourself about during it?

SPEAKER_00 51:38

There was a funny bit. There was an absolutely hilarious bit in Toy Story 5 that hit home with me about what life is like living with Belle. This is what it was so funny.

SPEAKER_01 51:50

Sporky's got a wife and she's a bit dim. A bit dim.

SPEAKER_00 51:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:55

And something's said, and she reached she gives a different comment, and he he and Sporky turns around and says, I love her, but this is going to be hard work. And he literally was chuckling like the side man.

SPEAKER_00 52:06

I could not stop laughing because all I kept thinking of was me and Bell. It's like a meme, you know. I need to dig that out. Someone must have a clip of that somewhere. It was something to do with donuts. Yeah, I don't know what it was. Toy Story 5 was so good. We didn't, we really enjoyed it. And like Belle, Belle said when she came out, she thinks it might have been the best Toy Story. I think it was. And how often do you get five in?

SPEAKER_01 52:29

And they actually can say that you think it's the best one.

SPEAKER_00 52:33

But yeah, I thought they did really that moment, that moment just made me laugh so much.

SPEAKER_01 52:38

He wouldn't stop laughing.

SPEAKER_00 52:39

I just kept chuckling away to myself. Anyway, anyway. Let's do my mistake number four. Okay. This is something that this is something that's ongoing now. I'm trying to change this. Not 100%, but I just want to do better at this, right? And I've been testing some things this year, and I made a promise to myself or a target at the start of this year that I was going to achieve something on this throughout this year. I'm not there yet, and we're already halfway through. But I've written down here chasing treasure instead of building systems. That sounds incredibly boring. Like I'm carbout. I'm carboot Chris treasure hunter, right? But for years since I started, like most of us, I've built this business around finding one-off bargains. Like just one item, chances are you don't find it again, or you very rare, you're not gonna find the same item again. If you do, it might be once, twice, you know, three times, Max. But you know, finding un unbelievable things at boot sales. I love it. I love finding great stuff. I love finding an item that I get for a pound, and you flip it for £100 or £20 or £10. But what I've been trying to change is to try and focus on repeatable and replenishable stock because that's the better move as a business for the future, for the levels of work that I have to do. The amount of work you have to put in, the amount of time you have to put in as a reseller selling one-off items, as opposed to managing to find a product that you can repeatably buy time and time again, buy it in bulk or develop a product from you know, or find a product and just make it better, and have an evergreen listing that just sells and sells and sells.

SPEAKER_01 54:50

This is a repetitive conversation that you keep having with me, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 54:54

I'm trying, right? I'm constantly an item that I'm gonna do. I'm trying to build bring Bell-in on it and to find me. I my target was by the end of this year to have five items that I could repeatedly buy, repeatedly sell.

SPEAKER_01 55:09

And how have the ones you've bought so far done? Not that good.

SPEAKER_00 55:15

Not that good.

SPEAKER_01 55:16

So we went with crystals.

SPEAKER_00 55:18

Well, I've done crystals, healing crystals. So lots of fancy rocks, which he then made me sort through and put them in order. Because I thought, well, I can keep ordering them if they do well. Uh I've I've sold some. I've been thinking with the price because I wasn't sure what price to do. The tarot cards have been doing better recently. I dropped the price on them and they're starting to move now. But you came with fancy cloths and yeah, I was building a book, I was trying to build value, right? So what I did was I bought job lots of tarot cards, different versions. So you get tarot cards, you get a mat, like a tarot mat, and you get a lovely wooden storage box for it as well. So I was trying to build value in the product by giving these three items, and they're actually doing better now. Obviously, I've dropped the price a bit, and they're doing better, and I'm still making profit. But it's not enough for me to convince me to to buy more. And these are things I'm testing, that's what you've got to do, innit? And your other thing was a complete, has it been a complete flop? The gaming Dungeons and Dragons style gaming dice, and again, what I was doing with those was I've done what one listing, I've got different types of dice sets, I've got and then extras you can put on, like a dice tray, dice tray, pouches, and stuff like that. And I've sold a few, but it's it's been difficult. So I'm trying, but I haven't hit the jackpot yet. But this is this is something, it's not a mistake per se, because we all buy one-off items and we all make a success of it. But I think if you don't want things to be so time consuming and difficult as a one-man banned reseller selling one-off items, it is the most difficult thing. If you can find replenishables and repeatables, I've been trying to do it for you know six, seven, eight months now. If you can find something that you can repeat, then that makes life a lot easier.

SPEAKER_01 57:20

What was your other thing? Dog walking bags that you were looking into.

SPEAKER_00 57:24

Oh, yeah, I was considering developing a dog walking bag, like getting a basic one and then contacting the manufacturer. Because there's different things I want on it. Like as a dog walker, when I've got my bag on, there's things I think, oh, I could do with that. Why can't I have that on my bag? So I've been thinking about that and developing a basic bag but making it much better. Like trying to make almost like private label.

SPEAKER_01 57:50

Trying to make it so that it's still cost effective for people at the lower end, because you can buy really expensive dog walking bags.

SPEAKER_00 57:58

So my conclusion to this is the treasure hunting is exciting, right? It's the thrill of the hunt, it's the part that we all love. But the repeatable income, the repeatable selling the same items, replenishables, that's what builds big and better business. And I'm I'm not always in it for the big, better business. But if I can have half a dozen repeatable replenishables, then the pressure is less on me to get the one-off items. That's what that's the thinking behind it. So let's go back to the chat.

SPEAKER_01 58:32

Bab says I sold something the other day, an early listing, or I'd forgotten, no skew, what a pain in the buttons.

SPEAKER_00 58:37

Oh. And you know what's worse? Sometimes you make a mistake on a skew, don't you? Sometimes you put it in the wrong frickin' box. And when that happens, my heart sinks because I know I've pretty much got to go through every box to find it.

SPEAKER_01 58:51

And you're just lucky if it's in the next one. Olivine says you're after finding the lesser timepiece pocket watch by the sounds of it.

SPEAKER_00 58:59

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 59:00

Flogger says he's just learning that Toy Story 5 is out, so he's got to go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:06

You won't regret going to see it. Very good.

SPEAKER_01 59:08

El Raventa, definitely having a supplier is so much less work than traditional sourcing. Also selling boring things, sell people things they need rather than things they want.

SPEAKER_00 59:19

I'm still I'm looking at I've got a few products that I'm researching right now, which I'm probably gonna try like I have the others. It's all you can do sometimes, trial and error, keep trying, keep thinking about ideas. I'm keep coming back to the dog bag for some reason. I keep coming back to it. So I might have a go at doing something.

SPEAKER_01 59:38

Because you realised after I bought one what a bloody fantastic idea it was when you thought it was gonna be rubbish.

SPEAKER_00 59:45

Yeah, when Belle said she was getting his dog bag, and I thought, I'm not wearing that. But I tell you what, it's been a bloody game changer for dog walking.

SPEAKER_01 59:52

Yep. Oliver Rain says problem with the tarot cards, the buyer already knew you would drop the price in the future.

SPEAKER_00 59:59

Oh, fucking hell.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:02

Dancer the thought Facebook marketplace was finished, but the demand for Pokemon is so strong, I'm doubling my money within hours of listening. Getting to stock is difficult, though.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:11

Interesting, Dan. Interesting. Thank you for sharing.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:15

Pokemon will never die. Andrew said, is it said you it is said you need to try a hundred items to find three good sellers?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:22

Yeah, well, I'm only on like three or four.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:25

So you're on the opposite way around to that.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:27

I need to what do I need to do? I need to do another 30 items just to get one. Yeah, that's what you're saying.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:35

Retro sheller is that not interested in selling bulk of bulk of stuff. I have no interest in. Love the hunt for both personal and selling, wouldn't have it any other way.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:48

Yeah, I I I understand that, and I always thought that, but you know what? It is such hard work doing one-off items, listing them, you know, finding them, sourcing them, and it's even getting harder now getting things at the right price to set to resell. So everyone's prices are going up, even at car boot sales.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:07

Well, you used to be able to get like retail appetite and stuff like that, and you don't get it.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:12

There's nothing comes in sales anymore, does it, to be able to like I don't even I don't even bother with the TK Maxx like yellow labels anymore. You know why? Because I seem to end up getting I get stuck with it and it seems to like it seems to sit forever because there's just I don't think the value's in it anymore, and you end up having to shell out a quite a large chunk of money and wait for ages to get your money back, it's not worth it. But I understand this comment from Retro Shell, I totally get it. I love the the hunt as well. But what I would like to do is do the hunt but have less pressure by having these evergreen items over here. I all I want is half a dozen, right? Five or six evergreen items that I can just replenish. I don't even have to think about it. When the numbers get low, I can just order some more in, right? Because that takes the pressure off. Imagine if you could have an evergreen item that that could sell, you know, four, five, six a day.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:08

I love where these are impressive from what evergreen.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:13

Evergreen. Will Young sang about it, you don't remember? But yeah, imagine if you could just have that on one half of your business. Repeatable replenishables, even if you've not got much interest in it. I don't really care about crystals. But if I could find some that I could get in and you know reset. I don't really care about this.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:34

This is where you're going wrong when they message you and go, I need a crystal for this, and you're going, Well, I ain't got a bloody clue what crystals for what.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:40

But yeah, imagine you you could have one part of your business just has a few replenishables, repeatables that you can just keep ordering and keep tweaking that listing to make it the best listing possible. Put a video in there and do all kinds of stuff, have multi-quantities with multi-variations of colours and sizes and things, and you can just leave it there. All you gotta do is change that number every time you order, right? And then on the other side of your business, you've got your one-offs, it's the thrill of the hunt. You can go out to your boot sales and your charity shots and find stuff, but there's less pressure because this side is doing the heavy work for you, it's doing the heavy lifting. That's what I'm at, that's what I'm after.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:21

Santa says, I don't think the big money is in selling tarot cards, but in doing tarot card reading for people. That's probably right, yeah. Like a psychic car boot, Chris, the psychic new business idea.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:32

I've seen people do tarot card readings on TikTok.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:36

Basically, you they pay, someone goes on, they pay they pay like pay whatever, 20 quid, and they'll do an online reading over TikTok.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:45

How is that?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:46

It's nuts, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:47

Good old Miss Fit Meg.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:51

When you used to read her on the on the lottery show.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:53

She was made famous by the lottery, wasn't she?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:56

Yeah, and she used to be in the did she ever win the lottery? No, I don't.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:58

Well, she was fucking shit then, wasn't she?

SPEAKER_01 1:04:04

Uh she probably wasn't allowed to. There's probably a clause in there somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:08

Yeah, yeah. Jules says even charity shops are selling some items more expensive than they were originally in the shops.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:14

Yeah, that is true. El Raventa says, yeah, I don't bother with TK Maxx labels anymore. Did it once, wasn't really worth it. As you say, it just sits, gets saturated as hell, and TK Max does does mess markets up a lot.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:28

Yeah, I've done it a few times. I've not done it for about two two years, at least two, three years. I don't even think I've done proper a proper TK Maxx shop while I've been here in North Wales. So that's three years. I haven't done anything like that since. Uh I honestly think it's a waste of time. I really do.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:46

Oliver Rain says, Do you do you not think the American sports tops are your ongoing items, Chris, at this point?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:52

Absolutely. But they're not replenishables as in they're still individuals. They're still in I've still got to list them individually. Because even if I got two tops the same, I can't really put a multi-quantity on it.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:05

Your Disney pins?

SPEAKER_00 1:05:06

The pin, no, the pins is. The pins is an evergreen item that I do sell.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:10

Yeah, your pins.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:11

Uh that's one that's one replenishable that I have. But the tops, I can't do even a multi-quantity because every single top is got slightly different floors in it. Maybe this one's got a mark on it and this one hasn't. You can't do it with that. So, really, having the jerseys is basically a one-off item. I have to put all the effort the same in.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:32

Do you not remember when you went through your vinylmation phase? You had hundreds of those, didn't you? They were replenishables.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:40

Yeah, possibly, but I couldn't just go out and order them.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:43

Are they still a big because I you haven't had vinylmations in the world? I don't buy them anymore. You used to literally order bulk bulk stock of that.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:51

Yeah, but they weren't really they weren't repeatable or replenishable because it wasn't there was no guarantee of the supply.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:57

But they were a quick list. They were good. Quick listings, easy to package and postage, and they seem to sell all the time. I don't even think if you've got any even left in your store, is everything gone?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:08

They're all gone. I sold uh I sold them off when we were in Devon. I did them on like whatnots and stuff. I got rid of all my stock of them. I didn't bother getting them again. They're okay, but it wasn't making loads out of them.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:20

Dan says we're going down to 400 listings next year, 1200 in a flat was madness looking back.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:26

Wow. That's a lot, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:28

AMPJ says I had to close my psychic business due to unforeseen circumstances.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:33

That was good.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:34

Olivier says she wasn't that mystic then.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:38

Flogger says I like repeatable processes, something you don't have to think about too much. Yeah, yeah, and that's what I'm looking for. I don't want it to be my entire business. I just want it to be a part of the business that ticks over on a daily basis. That's what I want without the effort. And then I can also have the other half that I enjoy getting the thrill of the hunt.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:59

Olivereen says he understands that, but you seem to be good at replenishing them.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:03

Yeah, I'm doing well at the minute, sourcing the jerseys and stuff. I'm doing alright. I've always got stock coming in. So I'm happy with that. I must have a I must have two, three, three hundred jerseys sat in the garage right now that aren't touched. I just keep working through them on a daily basis.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:23

Dan says we bought some shoes and trainers from TK Mats last year. Had all had two or three red sale labels. We still haven't sold the majority.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:31

That's what happens. It's in my opinion, it's not worth it.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:34

Andrew says he loves Disney trading pins, Sarah Grubry Plen. Yeah, you do a lot of Disney pins, don't you?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:40

Yeah, I do, I sell a lot.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:42

Oh, tell them the sad story that you had with your Disney pins.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:46

I sold a pack of three. I've sold I do them in different bundles. So the more you buy, the cheaper it gets. So I did a bundle of I sold a bundle of three to somebody, and they were for a they were to go in their friend's coffin because they were a Disney fan. So I sent these pins, it was way in advance, you know, plenty of time. And they never arrived. And she contacted me after the funeral and said they didn't come, so I couldn't put them in the funeral, but she still wanted them. She was very absolutely fine with them. It's not your fault. They got stuck in transit somewhere. So yeah, she was she was absolutely fine. I was just disappointed that they didn't arrive for them.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:30

And it's always something like that, isn't it? It's always like something. I don't don't get me wrong, nobody should lose their items, but something like that when it was very specific and very personal. Just sad that they were the ones that went missing.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:43

Yeah. So I sent her out, and luckily I had the same ones, obviously replenishable, repeatable. I had the same ones I could send out to her. She's got those and she put them in like a memory box of the person. So yeah, it all was well that ended well, really.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:59

Uh Dan says we bought oh no, I've read that one. Retro Shelly says, I don't know, man. I don't find it too much hassle, to be honest. Even in terms of supply of bulk, doesn't interest me. Much lower margins.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:11

Well, everyone's different, aren't they? Everyone's different with what they want. Everyone's different.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:15

Jeff says, I'm always curious why a psychic has a doorbell, shouldn't they? No, I'm coming to the door.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:20

Jeff, come on. Get off chat GPT. Next you'll be coming up with a ladder joke.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:24

Oliver Ian says, How are you getting on with all them shoes you bought on sale from that place the other month?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:29

Most of them have gone.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:30

The Joni shoes.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:31

Oh, not the Joni ones. I'm still selling those.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:34

We bought the whole freaking shelf of them.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:35

Yeah. I've not sold a Joni pair of shoes for a couple of weeks, but at one point.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:40

Still a hell of a lot of stacked on your table.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:43

But the Rocket Dogs have all gone. I sold all the Rocket Dogs. I've still got a couple of Geox left. But yeah, the Joni's taking a bit longer. I've probably priced them too high.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:54

Lana ended up with a pair of them Rocket Dogs for a birthday. The retro shell says, Don't get me wrong, I love an easy multi-listing, but it's but for it to be decent, you need it flowing out regularly, don't you? Which isn't easy finding decent stocking numbers for good price on a reseller sales.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:14

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:16

Unless you jump on the trends, but they don't last long and the competition is huge.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:21

No, that's it. Right, my next one. I've got two more to do, and then we've got the duck race. My mistake number five is being too scared to spend money. Now, people call me tight sometimes. But when you're early in business, I think, or in in the case of Em's Den, who are just very tight with what they spend. They don't like spending more than a pound on something. They'll they'll appreciate that. When I first started, I was kind of like, I didn't want to spend a lot on stock because my motto was like, spend small and make the biggest amount of profit you can out of something. Rather than spend £20 on something and get 50 back, that wasn't what I was doing because I was too worried about tying up my money in the early days. So really what I I should have been a bit braver with the money, but I guess that comes with experience and it comes a bit more with knowing what you want to what you can buy and where the profit lies. So as you get more experienced, you get a bit more knowledgeable, then you're willing to spend more on items. Now I wasn't hesitating buying something for 20 and flipping it for 50. Whereas when I first started, I probably wouldn't have done that so much. I put here I'd often walk walk away. Well, the lesson is don't be reckless, but don't stop fear stopping you buying genuinely good stock. And I think my mindset changed quite a lot when we started doing those trainer lady deals. I spent a hell of a lot of money. I plowed thousands into buying those trainers.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:01

But you made thousands.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:03

And I made thousands back. And it kind of opened my eyes a bit at that moment that the more you spend, the more profit you can make back. Only as long as it's calculated, like not reckless, like I said earlier. So that was one of my not necessarily a mistake, just a learning curve, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 1:12:22

Mm-hmm. Emerson said, Yes, we are very tight.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:26

They know. But they're not tight.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:28

I was gonna say I was gonna say, I have I have a bunch of flowers that are still thriving on the window ledge downstairs that prove you guys are tight. They're definitely not tight. Yeah, that prove you're not tight.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:39

I think they might be tight when it comes to buying stock, but they're not tight.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:43

No, they're very they're very generous and kind in more ways than one. Yeah. Dan said we sent an order with Royal Mail last month from Blackpool to D-side. It got there eventually via Belfast and Birmingham.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:55

They are as bad as each other. They're all as bad as each other. I don't I don't see any difference between the the postage companies, really.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:03

Oliverine says in the early days, Chris would offer £3 on things.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:07

That is true. That is true. Let me do my last one, and this one is kind of harping back a bit to something we mentioned earlier. So, mistake number six, this is ongoing right now. It happens, and it's happened all throughout my reselling time, including 25 years ago when I was playing games in the shop. And that is procrastination and laziness. I can be lazy.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:34

I will agree with that.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:35

I can be lazy, I get distracted easily, I procrastinate a lot. It can take me a couple of hours in the morning just to get myself going and get going like listing, but then once I'm photographing stuff, I'm off, I'm away. But I can be very, very distracted. I'm definitely guilty of it. And yeah, as resellers, and especially when you work from home as well, I think is worse. And when your wife is working downstairs. Yeah, when Belle's working downstairs.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:09

To be fair, that should have stopped now because with my new job, I don't have time to interact with you.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:14

Well, I just get the cold shoulders with bloody headphones.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:17

He wanders in all the time, and I'm normally on phone calls, and I hear I can hear him in the background, and then he wanders round and walks back out again.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:26

I think as resellers, there's always something that we'd rather do, to be honest with you, unless you're super motivated. You know, go sourcing, watch YouTube, tight. I forget tidy the office, but you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:37

I don't know actually, you're doing well.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:39

It's it's tidy at the moment, only because we're selling the hour. Anything but accept the job that actually grows our business and makes us sales. It's weird, isn't it? I've got a garage full of jerseys out there. I sell jerseys day in, day out. Look at my solds, guys. If you don't believe me, go and look at my eBay sold, find carboot Chris, select solds, jerseys, jerseys, jerseys, jerseys, jerseys every day, every single day. And I'm vintage as well, right? I've got a garage full of jerseys out there. Why aren't they listed? Why aren't they listed right now?

SPEAKER_01 1:15:11

I don't know, you tell me.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:12

It's profit. It's profit that I should be selling. They should be listed now. But I procrastinate, I get distracted, and sometimes I am a bit lazy. Yeah, I was I've put here, if I'd have stayed a little more focused over the years, maybe I could have achieved a lot more than what I I have achieved now. But then we're quite happy with what you're achieving. But I am happy. I am happy as well. That's the thing. And also, like, if I I I would never be listing like for eight hours a day. It's just not me. It's too much work that anyway. Like if I can get 20, 25 items listed in a day, I'm pretty happy. You know? And sometimes I get to 20 and I say, okay, I've kind of done my work for today, and I'll go and do something else. I'll still do stuff in regards to business, don't get me wrong. You know, I do work a lot of hours still, but I think if you don't have those moments of procrastination, or the moments of just sitting back and watching a YouTube video, or or the moments of laziness, right? If you don't have those, I guess you could face burnout, couldn't you? You could burn yourself out through just working like all the time. So mistake, maybe it still happens now. Could I do better? Yes. But also you have to be careful you don't burn yourself out.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:38

Emstem said, Thank you guys. We're blushing. It's only the truth. Dan says YouTube is the biggest biggest distraction, but I couldn't work in silence.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:47

No, I can't either. I can't, I can't work in silence. YouTube is the biggest distraction, it probably is for both watching and as a content creator. That's two sides of the sword for me. I got both sides of that. I watch and I create, so it's double whammy.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:02

Flogger said there's something to say about being lazy, though. The benefit being that lazy people look for shortcuts and shortcuts in repeatable processes make efficient systems. Oh yeah, that's brilliant.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:14

I love that.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:15

That's very good.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:16

It's true, actually.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:17

Oliverine says clearly Belle ain't helping enough.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:20

She's not, no.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:20

No, not anymore. I don't. But I've got my own work to do.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:23

She's got her own job, hasn't she?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:24

I'm knackered by the time I finish these days. Dan says that's a holiday sitting in the loft door garage. Jeff says, if you want to find the easiest process for a task, give it to a lazy person, they'll figure out a method requiring the least expert see.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:39

That's what Flogger just said as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:41

Oh, gentlemen marketeers in Simon, I find it incredibly hard to switch off. I've finally sat down and put on reselling content. Yeah. I don't really find it that hard to switch off, although I never switch off. Like even when we go away on Wednesday, my laptop's coming with me. And the only thing I'm going to do every day in the morning, I'm going to set up my well sit on the balcony having a cacao. Well I'm just going to set up my listings for the day.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:07

Have we got a balcony?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:08

I don't know. I'm going to set up my listings for the day, and it will take me about 20 minutes of my day.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:16

And if we're lying around the pool, we'll be answering queries and doing whatever.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:21

But I still consider myself kind of switched off at that point, even though I'm not we're never truly switched off, are we as resellers? But I do allow myself my weekends, I allow myself my evenings as much as possible. I think you kind of find a little balance. Like sometimes we'll be sat watching a film, won't we? And I'll still be kind of on eBay, but and asking me what's going on. I'll be half there. I'll be half there and half on reselling.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:46

Not understanding what the hell's going on because he's missed all the vital bits. Vlogger says, lazy people think there's got to be an easy way of doing this. We think outside the box. Does that mean I'm lazy? Because I'm a I'm a if there's a if there's a if there's a better way of doing it, let's do it. But does that mean I'm lazy? I think I think I just like to have smooth processes.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:08

Jordy says, Are you still using Listing Monster? You should have the jerseys on. I should have. I still use Listing Monster. It just means that I can be even more lazy. Oh, it's just a moth. It just means it gives me more laziness time. That's what it does. It's a real moth. It's a moth. I don't care. They eat all the little flies. I don't want it in my face. Oh, for God's sake. Bab said I decided to paint the shed and do weeding today. My plan was to clear stock on the dining room table.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:37

No, that is procrastinating.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:40

Taboot Keith, watching YouTube is working as you're learning and gaining knowledge from other resellers' purchases and sales.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:48

Unless you're watching stuff that Chris watches, like eight his kiddies' cartoons. Not sure what he's learning from that.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:55

I go back to my childhood a lot. It's an escape from the terrible life I live right now.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:07

What's the other thing that I find you watching all the time?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:09

Top of the Pops. Oh, I I have Top of the Pops on repeat all day long. Once you've watched one Top of the Pops from like 1985 or something, as it finishes, it just rolls on and it'll give you another Top of the Pops from like 1992. But you don't just listen, do you? You've then got the videos that you're watching. I'm listening mostly, but I'm also now and again, if it's like, oh I remember this one, I'll turn on and watch it. Oh, that was that fit bird I used to fancy.

unknown 1:20:36

What?

SPEAKER_01 1:20:37

Like Belinda Carlisle or something.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:39

No, we're not Belinda Carlisle.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:41

Joking at you.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:43

Doing eBay has been ideal in this heat, says Dan. I wouldn't want to be working in a factory or warehouse in this weather. Oh, you know where we went at the weekend when we were back in Manchester? We went to the Adidas factory.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:56

Oh, you did.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:57

In Bradbury. The Adidas factory. Oh my word. I was in there about 10 minutes. I was melting. I don't know how the staff in there are expected to work. It was boiling. There was no fans on, there was no air con in there. Nothing.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:14

It's like a tin box, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:16

It's like tin all the way around. It's a metal room. It was awful. Like everyone was coming out of there, absolutely dripping. It was it was terrible. So I don't know how those the staff in there were working. It was awful.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:29

There's a legendary creature called the Mothman. Well, it's in my bedroom at the minute. It's not me. Uh Flogger says, I think the difference is that all lazy people think that way, whereas only some non-lazy people hold that power. Oh, that must be you.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:47

There we go.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:48

Let's critique Bell's YouTube. You don't really watch YouTube.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:51

I don't.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:52

I'm not a YouTube watch.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:53

I don't watch any YouTube.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:54

No, I shouldn't watch anything.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:56

I uh I haven't I haven't been sucked into the YouTube world, believe it or not.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:01

Ricky Gervais's new series, Alley Cats, looks really good. I can't wait for that to come out.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:06

I think the only time I watch YouTube is if I'm looking for something specific. So like while I was going through the cancer stuff, I was trying to look for information. So I found the odd video and stuff like that. But outside of that, no. This is why it's a standing joke that I don't watch Chris's videos. I don't watch anyone's videos.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:30

Claque says, I saw a retro reseller buy the Casino Royale poker set on a video that same week I went to a car boot and saw one and bought it. Wouldn't have known if I hadn't seen it. Fair enough, yeah. YouTube is giving away all the secrets as usual.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:43

Sharon says Top of the Pops January 1989. You might see me. Oh, were you singing on it? Were you singing or in the crowd, Sharon?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:51

I've probably watched that episode. I think I've watched every episode of Top of the Pops going right back to the 1980 or something like that. I don't bother watching the 70s because I'm not really that keen on the 70s stuff.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:01

But standing next to Bruno Brooks, who we're told to dance enthusiastically, or would be thrown out. Is that why everyone looks all like super happy when you see them light?

SPEAKER_00 1:23:15

Have you got a clip of it, Sharon? Send us a clip.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:18

We need to see that. Yeah. How old would you have been, Sharon?

SPEAKER_00 1:23:22

If you don't mind me asking. Lime Light says, I love watching the BBC archive programs on YouTube. It's fascinating watching the documentaries from the 60s and 70s. Yeah, it's it's amazing. There's so many like full episodes of programmes, you know, from the from the 80s, 90s and all that. Even older. I don't watch the older ones, but sometimes I find myself watching a full episode of some something, you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:45

The only thing you watch me see watch it, see me watching full episodes of our murder programs.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:51

Crime programs in preparation.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:54

I'm obsessed with with real crime, true crime, that sort of stuff. I just can't get enough of it. I'm fascinated.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:03

Well, there you go. We've shared some of our mistakes. We're we're only human, but we'll wrap it up when it comes to Chris's final thoughts. And no, I definitely won't be using the teleprompter this time.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:15

Do you know? I was struggling not to laugh because I could see how fast it was going, and I thought he's not gonna keep up with that.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:22

And then he was like, I missed a line and it was all over. If you want to watch the panic in my eyes last week, right, go and watch last week's live and just fast forward to the end where we do Chris's final thoughts. And I realize that on StreamYard they've got this new function where you can take your text that you've written and paste it into a teleprompter, and it appears on my screen here, but you guys don't see it. So I can read it off and look at you guys at the same time, which is great, just like you know, they do on TV.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:54

I thought you guys could see it.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:57

So, yeah, you can do that, and it looks like you know, I'm just looking at you guys. Of course, I'm reading because it's very robotic, but uh yeah, but you can see the panic in my eyes last week as I missed a line and the teleprompter just carried on. Like there was no human behind it, like watching how fast I was going, like they do on the real tell. They slow it down and speed it up. It just carried on. I was done. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:21

Jeff says, according to YouTube, his average daily watch is 2.2 hours of YouTube.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:26

I bet I watch more than that.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:28

Flogger says, watch out, Chris. He already knows he's one of these days he'll end up under the party or somewhere if he's not careful. And I know exactly how to do it and how to get away with it. Jeff said this will be the 215th duck race. Sharon says I was I have it on video, buried somewhere. I was 20. Buried buried.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:47

No, what?

SPEAKER_01 1:25:48

Buried. Thank you. I was 20, the age limit was 25. It was in the days when they all mined. Well, I'll have to try and find it. Bab says Dexter. I haven't watched Dexter yet. I tend to go for the truth life crime stuff, not fiction. Yeah, but I like the true life stories. I like I like the true life stories. Not because I'm a sicko when I'm gonna go out and murder people, but because I can't get my brain around how another person can do stuff like that. And that's what fascinates me.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:22

Yeah, Pixel Fix says I like watching the old Saturday morning stuff on YouTube when I'm lazing about on a Saturday. You know, I started watching because I was I'm starting to run out on top of the Pops episodes now. CD UK from the early 2000s, Anton Deck, Cat Dealy. Yeah, I started watching a few of those.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:38

That don't surprise me. Oliverine says for me, it's the guy from the 80s now. There, babe, right, yeah. Just rub my back that goes up massive chimneys and takes them down Brit by Brit health and safety wasn't a thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:50

I think it's that coke I've just been drinking.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:52

You mean he wind it?

SPEAKER_00 1:26:53

Yeah, can you win me?

SPEAKER_01 1:26:55

Oh, bloody out, eh? For those listening, I'm slapping Chris. Oh, there we go. Pixel fit. Oh no, we've said that. Def Jeff says, once CBC hit the stumble last week. No, I lost it.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:12

I did.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:13

I did.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:14

I lost it. There I was thinking I was being clever with a teleprompter.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:18

Fred Dibner was ace. Don't know who that is.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:21

Dexter was based on a real seric though, I said.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:24

Oh, was it? I might have to look at that. Sharon says, I'm the one with the great big red curly eight's perm. That's everyone. We'll have to dig it out. So what was it? January 1989.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:37

Well, I'll have a look for that.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:38

January 1989.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:39

It'll be on there, it'll be on YouTube. Just search it out. Search it out, Sharon, and send me the link to it. It'll be there, guaranteed. It's got pretty much every episode. Right, are we ready for the duck race? Here we go. Let's line this up. Share the screen. Duck race. Doing it this week and I did it last week.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:06

Flogger says, Chris, your theme tunes remind me of the fun house one from the 90s, nostalgia overload.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:13

What theme tune?

SPEAKER_01 1:28:14

I don't know. Maybe our theme tune on here. It is the fun house, isn't it? No, what's what's it?

SPEAKER_00 1:28:19

No, it's um the th oh the theme tune that I used to have was Going Live.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:25

Going live.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:26

Going live with Philip Schofield.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:28

Go in, going, going live.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:32

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:33

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:35

Queenie Conquest says, I'm currently obsessed with watching divers that recover cars from rivers and lakes. I've seen a few of those, Queenie. Yeah, they're interesting.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:47

Yeah. I like anything like that. Don't have to be murders. They can be found alive, but I like stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:52

Right. Are you ready for the duck race, babe?

SPEAKER_01 1:28:56

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:56

Here we go. Do you want to just before we start just tell everyone how they can enter the duck race, especially those people who are only listening and not watching?

SPEAKER_01 1:29:04

If you are only listening, listening, you can no longer just listen anymore. You have to come over to YouTube.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:09

No, we don't have to do that.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:11

You do have to come over to YouTube if you want to be part. For the duck race. If you want to be part, well, that's what you just asked me to explain. Oh, get on with it.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:16

Stop arguing. Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:18

Yeah, you'll have to come over to YouTube, even if it's just to get your name in the duck race. So basically, once this stream has finished, come back to the video and leave a comment underneath. Hopefully, a nice one, and that will get you into next week's duck race.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:32

Okay, you ready?

SPEAKER_01 1:29:34

And we are up. Now we have some set the pack off up at the front as a naked duck, and just below it is Trugman with Peter Ray's world and limelight Vince. Mark Hill is just behind the front of the pack, along with I can't see who that is at the top. Uh Steve O'Brano is just bobbing along there in the middle of the pack, along with Flogger and Paul Hillman. Emsdem UK is pushing their way to the front. Mark Hill, Trugman, Chris Tyler are currently leading the pack. El Revente is coming to have a peek at the front to see what's going on, but hasn't quite made it into the first place. That is still being held by Trugman. Chris Tyler is going in the wrong direction, but Sharon Island has come through to the front as a naked duck, along with Jamie D, Alknax, and Kavalis. In the middle of the pack, I can see Jeff Davis, Phil Higginson, Paul Hillman, Lazy James, Pixel Fix, and down at the back of the pack, Flacken. Flakin, is that the word? Flagin. Is Sarah Marsden, nothing major, Helen Grayman, Graham, Derothy Watkins, Phil Higginson? Let's go back to the front of the pack with the last 40 seconds before this race is over. We still have Cavallis up there, Jamie D, Trugman, and Flogger. Can Truckman hold out for the next 30 seconds? They've been up there from the beginning. Lisa has now made it to the front of the pack as well as Soft Sam. Jamie D in the little dinosaur outfit just peeked at the front there, but seems to be going backwards now and not forwards. Right, the pack is starting to break. We are down to the last 15 seconds. Most of the ducks are going in the wrong direction. There's only Drugman out at the front. Can he hold this for the next nine seconds? Nope. Nope. He's gonna get taken over. Dilwanger has taken over him, but it's not gonna be Dil Wanger. It is Cloud9 Allotments in coming out of nowhere.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:35

Cloud9 Allotments, you have won. You have won the duck race. Cloud9. If you're here, Cloud9, please send me a message on Instagram or Facebook or somewhere. Send me a message, give me your address and your name details, and I will get your prize, which is these two things. The Panda Duck Unicorn and the Mini Mocky Sweets are yours. They're coming in the post, but only if you claim them within a week. If you don't, they're gonna go to somebody else.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:07

A flogger got all excited. They said it was their first duck race, and they were right up there at the front.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:12

Oh it's close. I was just thinking, you know, you know how Cam was in the chat before. I'm wondering if he was with his girlfriend.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:19

He was.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:20

Was he?

SPEAKER_01 1:32:21

Well, it was her hand in the picture.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:22

Are we allowed to say girlfriend at this point?

SPEAKER_01 1:32:24

No, he's not, they're not, they're just they're just friends. She's a girl.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:29

I've said it already.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:30

He's not still watching, you're joking, aren't you? They don't support us that well.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:34

No, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:34

The only reason he came in was because I messaged him because he was asking me about them tiki's for you, and I said, I'm on the show, I can't show you. Oh. And that's when he messaged me and said, Send me a link to the show because he obviously wanted to show his non-girlfriend.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:50

Just one of the many fascinating facts that he has on his mum and stepdad. What did he say? Was always an opening thing with them which made us laugh. One that we had a walking dead wedding. That's always that's always an opening statement when he meets new girls as a bit of an icebreaker. Second, that you're a reseller and you're a YouTuber. He has a famous YouTubing stepdad.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:21

All these things that he uses to make the girls swoon at his feet. But yeah, he definitely won't still be with us now.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:28

No, probably not. Or at least he's definitely not now that we said the word girlfriend. Imagine they're sat there, both of them now. Awkward. Literally dying inside.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:40

Yeah, awkward.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:41

Oh, I hope they're still there.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:43

You're joking, if they were still there, he'd be putting a rant in there. Oh, would you? I'd be getting it in the neck. I would have had my phone pinged with a message.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:52

Right, guys. We're done for the show. Thank you very much for joining us. Very much appreciate you being here. Uh spending your Monday night with us. Sorry, I'm just trying to line up the outro. I'm not using the telescope.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:08

Apparently, it was Cloud9 Allotment's first victory.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:11

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 1:34:11

Brilliant. So they're now in the Champion of Champions race at the end of the year.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:17

Yeah, so don't forget, no show next week, no podcast, no Monday night show. We are not here, so we'll be back hopefully the following week. So it's a week off for everyone. You all deserve a week off, so you can have a week off. And now you've got a week to figure out what you're gonna do next Monday night. Yeah. Go entertain yourself somewhere else. But we're gonna finish with Chris's final thoughts, and then that will be it. I'll run the outro. So uh once again, thank you all so much. And here's Chris's final thought. Looking back, I honestly don't regret any of the mistakes because every one of them shaped the reseller that I am today. There are no real mistakes if you're willing to learn from them. They're simply learning experiences. The only real mistake is making the same one over and over again. Keep learning, keep improving, and keep moving forward. And take care of yourselves and each other, and we'll see you in two weeks.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:17

Bye.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:21

That's it for today's episode. Don't forget to like or make a comment. I always reply to comments. And if you're on YouTube, hit the subscribe button. If you're on one of the audio channels, hit the download button, and we'll see you next time.