Vinted OUT SOLD eBay For The First Time Ever! | S08E09

For the first time in my reselling career, Vinted beat eBay on sales over the weekend. This has never happened before and I actually don't have ALL my inventory crosslisted yet. Are times a changing??

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_02 0:02

For the first time in my reselling career, Vinted has beaten eBay for sales over the weekend. This has never happened before, and I don't even have all my inventory cross-listed yet. Our times are changing. 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. Monday night again. Holidays over. It's like a distant memory already.

SPEAKER_00 1:05

Fromwards and upwards to the next one.

SPEAKER_02 1:07

Yeah, keep going to the next one. Well, welcome back to the Monday night podcast show. Appreciate you being here, spending time out of your busy schedules. And I'm Carboot Chris, full-time reseller. This is Bargain Bell, who's with me now, who is my wife. She's not a reseller, she has a real job. And yeah, so that's who we are, just in case you're new here or you're a new listener. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:35

Anybody else hot and sweaty?

SPEAKER_02 1:37

Poor hot, isn't it? We've even I've even brought the fan in today.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

I can't believe the last time we were on the show and we had to cut it short because we were too bloody warm. I really didn't think we'd still be in the same situation like three weeks later.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

We stepped off the plane from Gibraltar like we were back in Gibraltar. It was bloody horrible.

SPEAKER_02 1:59

It's boiling, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_00 2:01

Like 30 degrees when we got off the plane.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

We just had 30 degrees for a whole week. So we were like, come on, let's get back to some.

SPEAKER_00 2:08

Let's get back to England and have some cooler weather. Nope. Nope. Not in the slightest. And I've noticed like Devon, Devon and Cornwall, they've been getting really hard, yeah. Really warm.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

So tonight's show we're going to be talking about a couple of things. The main one being the fact for the first time ever, Vinted has overtaken my eBay sales over the weekend. Only for one day. But just to put it into context, that has never happened with my selling platforms ever. Vinted has never ever outsold eBay on a day, on a single day. So that's kind of big news for me. Like, where's this going? We're going to talk about that a bit later. Have a little thing in your chat, you know, in your head about what you can chat about. You know, do you have a similar sort of experience? Is Vinted overtaking your eBay or is eBay still flying for you? A lot of people are saying the summer slowdown at the moment. Is it a thing? I don't know. I don't know. In the meantime, Belle's going to say hello to as many people as possible, aren't you? In the allotted time. Get your chit-chat ready. And you've got exactly one minute to get all your hellos in. And until the end of this little piece of music. Here we go. One minute music playing. Go.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

I've got Kevin Hawthorne, Deborah Sardine, Kavalis, Jamie D, Rosie Marsden, Helen Graham, El Ravente, Queenie Conquest, Fluffy the Muffin, Line Like Vinti, Jules B, Carol Harris, Alex's Retro Drip, Lynn Lynn, Demise Family, Chris Tyler, Pixel Fix, Trugman 1, Sandra Parker, Lisa, Rachel Fantastic, Harland, Harlan Superfan. Pretty sure I mean that's Jeff. Weird now, isn't it? How we can guess his names when he changes them.

SPEAKER_02 4:13

Changes like the wind. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Life in the first lane. Nothing major. Karen Evans, Class and that's it.

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To everyone.

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Cas everyone.

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I can't even hear the music.

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No one's got any excuses because no one wants to be outside at the moment because it's too warm.

SPEAKER_02 4:35

Alknacks. Have we said Alknacks? No. It just popped in there at the end. Popping at the bottom. So I saw a couple of comments while we were going through there. Um and a big thank you, everyone who commented on photos, videos, and stuff was when we were away and saying, you know, wishing us uh happy holidays. Thank you all very much. And there's a few people in the chat here as well, and in the comments from the last video as well. Thank you to everybody for sending messages. Yes. And Chris Tyler mentioned something. Chris Tyler says, Hello, Chris, you have subscribers only mode on. Only I've been putting that on for the last 10 shows. This probably this series. So hopefully you're okay with that. Surely you're a subscriber anyway, Chris, aren't you? Come on. Hit that subscribe button, a long time follower of the channel. What else have we got?

SPEAKER_00 5:45

Ooh, Deborah Sardine said, Did anyone watch Bargain Hunt last Monday? She was one of the sellers alongside Gary Keith. Oh, okay. She's getting a bit of a celebrity on there. You've been on there a few times now, aren't you, Debs?

SPEAKER_02 5:59

We probably did quite a few shows in one day. You know, filmed them.

SPEAKER_00 6:09

We did. We did was it Harding Hunt that we had on the other day?

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Trugman says, why wouldn't you subscribe? It's free.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 6:19

Well, how much does it cost Trugman? How much? Free. That didn't even appear. Hang on a second. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

I know I look like I've wet myself.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

Yeah, you've just tripped everywhere, babe.

SPEAKER_00 6:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

And that is the bottom of the chat. You might notice in the top corner, I have put a link to my eBay live page. eBay now gives us two links. They give us a show link and they give us a link to all our shows. So I'm doing an eBay live tomorrow at 6 pm. That's Tuesday, 6 p.m. It's going to be pop culture, Disney, toys, plushes, pops, Funko's, that kind of stuff tomorrow, six o'clock. So if anyone wants to pop along, if you scan that code, it will take you to all my shows. You can save me or you can save the show. You can bookmark it, all that business. If you want to.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

Life in the first lane said it's not warm, it's moist.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

Moist, yeah, that's a good word for it, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 7:32

Humid. My humid.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

My back is I mean I don't I'm not really a sweaty person, am I babe? Well you are now. But I am sweating. I can like feel the bottom of my back. And we just walked the dog as well. Because we waited as long as we possibly could before we took her out. Yeah, didn't last too long, did it? We gave her a dip in the sea, so she's alright. And uh life in the first one said, I've now got a job, I can buy toys again.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

Just don't tell Lana. Congratulations.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

Yeah, nice one. I've spoken to Steve already today. Congrats getting a new job.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

I'm glad you're on your way to new beginnings.

SPEAKER_02 8:13

That's it. That's it. New start. Cookie, get out, please. Get out. That's not your bed. She thinks stuff on the floor is her bed. Get out.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

She likes the bags as well.

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She loves sitting in an IKEA bag.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

She does.

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She's out now.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

Bel Reventi said that's my Chris. It overtook eBay last July, August, and it hasn't really gone back. eBay grew close last month.

SPEAKER_02 8:41

Really? Wow. I've not got everything cross-listed yet. I was doing I've been doing it in categories. You know, because I've got a lot of listings. So I've slowly been cross-listing everything. I started off, I put all my jerseys on, and then I was doing all my footwear and trainers, and then I put all my hats and caps on. And now I'm moving on to all my other clothing, which is not a lot really. I've probably only got about 100, 150 other items to go on. And then after that, it's kind of just all the other bits and pieces, things like Funko Pops, toys, miscellaneous, brick of brack. So I'm hoping, I'm aiming for to have everything cross-listed so that the entire store will always be cross-listed, maybe by sort of the end of the month, maybe a little bit longer. I'm just drip feeding them in. I don't want to list too many in one go. So kind of like every day, every day I kind of list sort of 10-15 new items on there until I've caught up. But yeah, I mean, considering that fact, pretty, pretty happy with. We might as well crack on and talk about this vintage eBay thing. So over the weekend, mainly Sunday. I mean, it wasn't a great weekend for eBay on the whole, but Sunday in particular was was pretty bad. But things to note from this weekend, I didn't list anything new over the weekend. So on eBay, there was only realists and sales similars both days, Saturday, Sunday. That's what I do on a weekend. And Vinted, there was no new items either. There was only reposts. So I was reposting old listings, reducing the price and stuff. So that's equal all equal, right? Both sites have promoted listings on on certain well, vinted has promoted on everything, so it has a it's permanently on the 895 spotlight. eBay has promoted listings on about two-thirds maybe of the store, or I can't remember if it's a third or two-thirds. And both sites have the same listings. In fact, eBay obviously have about 1700 listings on my eBay store, and there's about a thousand on my vintage store. So technically, in that respect, eBay has the edge because there's more things for people to buy. So on Sunday, it wasn't a great day, like I said, I did 30 quid on eBay. I actually thought it was going to be a no-sales day right up until the end of the day. So I did 30 quid on eBay, but on vintage on Sunday I did 150 quid. So it absolutely smashed eBay for the first time ever. That has never happened before. Vinted has never outsold eBay for me anyway. So interesting, and the fact that I don't have everything cross-listed yet. I'm getting there, I'm slowly putting more and more on. As Vintage improves for me, as I seem to sell more and more, it gives me more confidence to put more and more on there. And yeah, it's it's interesting. It kind of saves the day, doesn't it? Because that is, you can 100% say that that £150 that Vintage sold on Sunday is money that I definitely would not have sold if I didn't have my vintage account or I didn't cross list. I would only have my eBay, which would have done the same amount £30. That's there's no variables in there. I I just would have lost out on £150 if I didn't have vintage. So and on that same note, I was saying to you that over the I not last week, but just before I went on holiday, because obviously I shut vintage down, so then the sales go slow, don't they? To nothing basically for a week. But just before I went on holiday, my 30 days sales on vintage was about 1200 pounds I'd done in 30 days on vintage. That's what my stats said, and that's the most it's ever been. And that actually is that I'm pretty happy with that. Like if you multiply, if I carried on at the same rate, say on average, you know, that's 12, 13, 14 grand a year for uh my side, my side hustle to the hustle. So my side, my side platform, my second platform, you know, that's not bad at all. And hopefully, when I cross-list everything in my eBay store, that will get even better. You were doing alright on vintage, but you just find that when you just stop listing, that's it, it goes dead, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 13:39

Yeah, I've got I've got a pile of stuff up in the attic for going on there, because every time I go through my wardrobe, it stuff that I used to just charity shop and now just stick into a bag and it gets put to one side so I can be bothered listing it on vintage. But I do find that as soon as I start listing, because I don't I mean I have a couple of things that are higher priced, but most of the stuff is just low, low value, high street stuff, so it doesn't go for much, but yeah, all adds up, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

All adds up, every penny counts, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 14:16

Yeah, it all adds up for paying for things like your spends for your holidays and bits and bats like that.

SPEAKER_02 14:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

But yeah, I go through phases of being asked and not being asked.

SPEAKER_02 14:28

Yeah, well, you don't have to really, do you? It's just a nice little extra, you know, if you can sell a few of your bits, a few of your stuff. Like when you buy new stuff in, you tend to list some old stuff, don't you?

SPEAKER_00 14:38

I try I try to, because I've got way too much, I've still got I've still got way too much stuff in my wardrobes in my drawers, so I do need to go through it again. And like I said, and once upon a time, that would you normally have gone into a bag and gone to the charity shop. Whereas now I'm kind of like, well, if I can get four or five pounds for it, then might as well.

SPEAKER_02 14:59

I think a lot of people are in that boat with Vinted. I think that's brought a lot of people into like this whole reselling platform game. Rather than donate, people are willing to make a few quid. And it's hard times as well for people, isn't it? Like if you can gain you know an extra tenner here and extra 20 quid there out of your own stuff that you were going to give away for nothing, then why wouldn't you? Because it's not that difficult on vintage, is it? Yeah, there's a very, very small barrier to entry. It's it's almost nothing, it's not like eBay. eBay feels much harder to get into as like a private seller like you.

SPEAKER_00 15:33

Well, I have got I've got a handful of stuff lifted on eBay, but the most interaction that I get on eBay is going to delete it after I've sold it on vintage. That's pretty much what I list it on eBay and then I go back and delete it. That's all I ever do. I don't really ever sell anything on eBay. And I've got the same items on both at the same price.

SPEAKER_01 15:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

But it never I bet I get barely I get barely any views or anything on eBay.

SPEAKER_02 16:05

Strange, innit?

SPEAKER_00 16:07

Really get hardly anything at all.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

Trugman said, I've listed new items, traffic's been right down in the last 10 days. I guess a lot also depends on what kind of stuff you sell. What is your main seller? I mean, for me, my main bulk is sports jerseys, NFL, NHL, baseball jerseys, basketball jerseys. So it's actually not a bad time to sell those because people want short sleeves, they want stuff for holidays, they want stuff for festivals, all that kind of stuff. So actually they're doing alright, they're doing pretty well. And then the rest of my stuff, you know, I've got I've got a lot of coats and jackets at the moment, which is not great. Although I did sell yesterday, well, this morning actually. I thought it was gonna come in the sale just after before midnight, but it came in just after, so I didn't include it. But I sold on was it vintage? Oh, yeah, on vintage. I sold on vintage again a woolly hat.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

Oh yeah, you did just show up.

SPEAKER_02 17:05

I sold a s I sold a Stone Island woolly hat on Vinted early hours of this morning. So it just shows you, middle of a heat wave, people still want this stuff.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

People might be going to cold countries for holidays. They might be going skiing.

SPEAKER_02 17:19

Everyone's in the sun or watching the football, says Trugman.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

Deb said it's her fifth time being filmed at Bargain Hub.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

Wow, that's a lot.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

Film every November at West Point United. She's just fortunate to have items they like.

SPEAKER_02 17:32

Oh, that's good. Uh, is anyone else's eBay mobile app been really buggy recently? Keep getting error, a network error and nothing loads. I've not I've not found any problems, Ross, at all on that one. I have noticed, have you noticed an update on the app actually? The app now has eBay an eBay Live button right at the bottom. See here? eBay Live button right at the bottom here somewhere. You never used to have that there. It used to have just a weird button at the top where the categories were. Now it's got its own dedicated button at the bottom. So just shows you they're it's slowly integrating it into the main, into the mainstream of the app.

SPEAKER_00 18:17

Ian G has joined us. Hi, welcome, Ian. Ooh, he's got sun heat stroke. Oh, that's not nice. No, not nice.

SPEAKER_02 18:25

It's horrible, that in it. Jules says even the even eBay from a browser's been glitching. I've not had any glitches that I can think of at all.

SPEAKER_00 18:37

I've not been on it enough to see if it was any.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

Um Fluffy the Muffin says, are people's buying habits changing? Where they buy and what they buy. It's a really good question. It's one that I had noted down actually. Possibly.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

Well, I I've already said that I barely buy off eBay anymore. Definitely shop more on Vintage than I do on eBay.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

I I must admit, I must admit, I have I've been buying a lot more on vintage. Even for myself, I've been buying on vintage, you know, clothing for holiday rather than eBay. It's just kind of easier just to pick off to pick off one or two items, and they're mostly cheaper prices. And also I like the fact that you can do bundles in people's stores. So you once you've quite often if you find something you like in a store, you go into their store, they've got more of the same size because they're selling their own stuff, and sometimes there's a few bits that you can buy. And the same goes when you're buying to resell as well. Sometimes you you find uh a Funko pop and then you go into the store and you realise you've got hundreds of Funko Pops, and then you can do a deal with them. And I I kind of like that aspect of Vinted a lot. Alex's retro drip says I don't like waiting two weeks to get paid. Yeah, it's kind of a pain, but if you think about it, Alex, once you've done your initial wait, like when you first signed up to pro, after that, it doesn't really make no odds anymore, does it? Because you're just on a roll-in payout. What I tend to do is whenever you talking really loud. Sorry. But why are you talking so quiet? Because you're deafening me.

SPEAKER_00 20:19

You're deafening me.

SPEAKER_02 20:21

What I tend to do is wait until I've got a hundred quid available for a payout, and then I just draw it out. I don't like leaving loads in there in case people have had money stuck, haven't they? Yeah, in case vintage suddenly like suspend your account, close you down. I don't like leaving loads in there. I'd love to actually leave it to like a thousand pounds and just wait and then but I don't trust them to be honest with you. So when it gets to a hundred, I draw it out. That's what I do anyway.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

I don't know where you're up to super noodles, yeah. Super noodles.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

Just look down here.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

Okay, I know where you're at.

SPEAKER_02 21:01

Supernoodle says I've also started cross-listing to Vinted recently, had the worst month of sales ever on eBay, and Vinted actually has been helping loads bringing up the Slack. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think it's it's and I've always said this anyway, like if you're not crosslisting and you don't have like a contractual reason to not cross cross-list, as we know, some some people in the community have, you know, they've signed deals with eBay, or they've signed deals with whatnot, or they've signed deals with whoever. If you don't have that hanging over you, then I really don't see why you wouldn't at least be on two platforms. Like Vintage and eBay are the obvious two. I mean, people also cross list onto Etsy if you've got the right kind of stuff, or Deepop if you're down with the kids. So I don't really see why you definitely wouldn't do eBay and vintage because they're the two that kind of complement each other with the same kind of things that you can. Sell.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

And as we've just said, we're shopping more on there, so I'm assuming other people are as well.

SPEAKER_02 22:07

Yeah, definitely. Like in the first one, I said I've gone off eBay at the moment. I seem to window shop, check out certain sellers, etc., and seem to be buying more on vintage and team of. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

I have, I mean, it's different for me because I'm a reseller. I always say I have lots of save searches set up on both platforms. So I'm constantly looking at those to see if there's any new items appeared, both for me personally, and also to flip back on one of the platforms or both of the platforms. So I have lots of save searches, so I do look at both all the time.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

I think I look at certain things. So like eBay, I would look at for certain products, like when I've been looking for like vitamins or I've been looking for hair products and stuff. Things where I think I might be able to find a seller on eBay a little bit cheaper and maybe get free postage. But clothing, shoes, anything like that, vintage. I don't can't remember the last time I looked on eBay for an item of clothing. Because I just don't think you can you can compete with the prices that you can buy stuff on vintage when it comes to clothing.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

It's kind of the way I think of it, like like shopping on vintage is like going to the car boot sale.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

It's like an online car boot.

SPEAKER_02 23:23

But shopping on eBay is like going to the shop.

SPEAKER_00 23:26

Yeah, quality.

SPEAKER_02 23:27

Yeah, like you're much more likely to get a better service. You're much more likely to get a product that isn't fake. Talk to me about that. There might be a video out in some point in the future. But yeah, the kind of you get a different level of service, right? But sometimes, and this is when it all works out. Sometimes you can get exactly the same product, but a lot cheaper over on Vinted. Just because it's a different kind of seller in the majority.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

I still think there's a lot of people like me on Vinted. I feel that's how I feel. I feel vintage is dumb made up largely of individual normal people who are just pulling stuff out of the wardrobe and throwing it on vintage to make a little bit of it.

SPEAKER_02 24:16

Well, that's what they want. That's how they want it to stay. They're kind of tolerating us resellers, they're tolerating us by giving us these pro accounts. But in reality, they don't particularly want us, but they'd rather have us than not, because they know that a pro seller will go on there and they will buy from the people that they really want. So when we buy a ton of stuff from private sellers, that makes those private sellers happy. That means they list more stuff and they make more money. So they kind of like they want us on there because they want our buying power, but they don't really want us selling our stock on there. And that comes across in the T's and C's anyway. That's the way it is on Vintage. Demise Family says Vintage has never been an eBay for us, but it's going okay on Vintage. eBay's always the best. We already have we have already been the last quarter on eBay, and we still have over a month of summer. Right. Yeah, I think though the kind of things that you guys sell is probably the majority, because you you have a lot of higher-end sort of toys and collectibles and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 25:28

Kind of suited a little bit better to eBay, but well, obviously the big difference between eBay and Vinted is eBay, you've got a worldwide audience. You haven't got Vinted, have you?

SPEAKER_02 25:38

No, not yet, anyway. But yeah, you've got that worldwide collector's audience, and that's really what sort of fits in with demise. How does Crosslist work? I've I've tried Crosslist, but honestly, I couldn't quite get on with it. But I know some people swear by it. I I'm currently testing another platform, which hopefully I'll be able to talk about sometime soon, but it's going very, very well. How does Crosslist work if the item sells on each platform and you only have one? I believe Crosslist will take down the other one. And most crosslisters will are doing that now.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Celerator as well is what are the chances that you're going to sell that one item on both platforms at the same time?

SPEAKER_02 26:24

It's slim, isn't it? It's very slim. I normally manually do it because I like to know for sure that it's being done. So I tend to manually uh do it. Hi Krillin, hi Rob, welcome. Uh Life in the First Lane, Steve says, how do you think it's going to match and marry up when the fees start on eBay Live? What would your listing selling order be then? eBay, eBay vintage, whatnot, etc. Well, whatnot's not really on the scene at the moment. I still have my account there. You never know, I may go back one day, but right now I feel like eBay Live is slightly better than it. But when eBay Live, I've got until September before I start getting hit with fees. Some other people are already on to fees now. But I will probably reduce the number of shows that I do on there, maybe like once or twice a month. Whereas I'm at the moment, I'm trying now. We're back from holiday and bell's on the mend. I'm trying to get back into once a week again, make the most of zero fees while it lasts. And after that, I think I will probably go down to once or twice a month, just ad hoc shows. But who knows, who knows what might happen. It'd be nice to get a good supplier of something that I could just sell on there, but it's easier said than done.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

Wilhelm says there's three charity shops nearer that are not taking any donations.

SPEAKER_02 27:44

Wow. So they're still overrun with donations, despite the fact that vintage are up and coming. Oh, Raventa Ross says for me in the last year, Vinta's been much better performing than eBay. eBay isn't pulling its weight. The difference in the last 12 months has been stark. Interesting to hear that.

SPEAKER_00 28:30

It's Christmas in July. As soon as you hit July, you're not far from the Burr months and people start shopping for Christmas. Okay, trust me.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

And Ross says, I've worked hard to get eBay a bit closer to Vintage. I do not feel comfortable relying on vintage too much. Absolutely, yeah. Totally agree with that one, Ross.

SPEAKER_00 28:47

It's a bit haphazard, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 28:49

It's haphazard. You never know if you're gonna get a ban. Uh, you never know if you're gonna get like a suspension. I've had a suspension as well for a duplicate listing. And you get a lot of idiots, and and you do, yeah. Yeah, you just get some right wallies, don't you?

SPEAKER_00 29:03

Jeff says a lot of people will be headed to Norway. You reckon?

SPEAKER_02 29:07

We're gonna go and see what it's like in the Viking, land of the Vikings.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

It's on my list of places to go.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

Uh Mushy. Mushy's got in got some problems with eBay at the minute. It's buggy. Oh, what a shame. Uh hopefully it'll fix itself.

SPEAKER_00 29:23

Deb says all of the car boot sales down here in Cornwall have been very quiet with sellers and buyers. Usually the fields are full of both buyers and sellers, very strange. Is it too hot?

SPEAKER_01 29:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:35

Because we we had I went to Chester Rugby Club on Sunday and it was busy, but it's not as busy as normal, and you know it's a really sunny day. But also, I had reports from two separate sellers at real car boot sale on at the weekend, and they both told me they went to the one on Saturday, I didn't go. Went to the one on Saturday, and they said it wasn't a great day, even though the sun was shining and it was a hot day. But sometimes just too hot to stand out in it, isn't it? It's too hot for the booters anyway.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

And on nice sunny days like this, people have got better things to do than go walking around the car boots, haven't they?

SPEAKER_02 30:13

Yeah, Alex's app was updated by eBay last week. Yeah, they're really pushing the eBay live, and I'll tell you what, I saw it. You guys probably saw it as well. If you watched the England-Norway game, eBay Live advertising in the adverts, weren't they? eBay Live had adverts right that is prime time advertising space, isn't it? Right in the middle of a massive game that everyone in the country is watching. eBay Live for advertising. When has Whatnot ever done that?

SPEAKER_01 30:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

I was crying out, you know, like when I was really enjoying Whatnot, but I was really like crying out for them to do some proper advertising, help us out as sellers on the platform, get some buyers on there, but they just never did. They just relied on social media stuff.

SPEAKER_00 30:57

Well, you know the other thing, the other place where we've seen eBay live advertising?

SPEAKER_02 31:01

Where?

SPEAKER_00 31:02

The cinema.

SPEAKER_02 31:02

Oh, at the cinema as well.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

eBay Live Adverts before the film came on at the cinema.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

We went to see Toy Story, didn't we? Yeah. eBay Live Adverts there. They're putting everything behind it. And they knew they would because they're they're always big on TV advertising. They always have been. You you always see TV adverts all year round. So it's very interesting. They're obviously put in a hell of a lot of money. I bet they've already spent a budget bigger than whatnot I've ever used for their advertising. Whether it'll work, I I expect it will. I'll tell you. What have we done so far? I don't think it's been a bad day compared to yesterday. eBay today. See a bit more like it. £192.58 today. Yesterday £32.99. But yeah, not too bad at all. £192, I'll take that today. That's not bad. That's a decent day, really, to be honest.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

eBay's been shocking for sales for me for the past few weeks. Messaged eBay and they said there was a technical issue. I get refunded my shop fee for the month as compensation.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

Oh, I might have a technical issue as well. Oh well, at least you got something back from them, Sarah. That's good.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:38

Yeah, I can feel a bit of a technical issue coming on. Save me 90 quid.

SPEAKER_00 32:44

Would be good. Hi, Lizzie Scott.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

Hi, Lizzie. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 32:50

You guys look so well and relaxed. You know when people what did you say the other day when people say you're my mum did it to me.

SPEAKER_02 32:57

My mum messaged me. I sent her a picture. I don't know what it was now. But my mum messaged and said, Oh, you look well.

SPEAKER_00 33:05

With the Gibraltar rock behind you on the beach.

SPEAKER_02 33:07

It would be, wouldn't it? You look well. You know what that means? It means you look fat, basically.

SPEAKER_00 33:11

He literally, I've not seen the message. And he went, Oh, have you seen the message of mum? Mum said mum said I'm fat. And I was like, I'm thinking Frida wouldn't have said something like that. So I went and looked at the message. You would actually. I went and looked at the message and said, Oh, you look really well. I'm like, she hasn't said you're fat. You look well on there. You've got a good tan, you're looking relaxed.

SPEAKER_02 33:33

Limelight Vinti says, I don't think I'd ever buy anything on eBay. Like, why not Vinti? Why not Limelight?

SPEAKER_00 33:38

Vinty. Did you just call him Vinty?

SPEAKER_02 33:40

Well, Limelight Vinti. Why not?

SPEAKER_00 33:43

I person I personally. I personally still haven't watched an eBay on.

SPEAKER_02 33:50

Technically, have you seen a lot of mine?

SPEAKER_00 33:52

Well, no, apart from yours, but I haven't watched anyone else's.

SPEAKER_02 33:56

Um I forget.

SPEAKER_00 33:57

I haven't, I just don't think don't think about it.

SPEAKER_02 34:00

Krillian said Vint is doing a lot of television advertising here in the US. It's always had a lot of advertising here in the UK. During when Vinted really took off here, it was locked down. Like during lockdown, Vinted absolutely smashed the adverts. They were on everything. Prime time TV, the lot. They really absolutely smashed it. And it worked, clearly. They got a lot of people on board.

SPEAKER_00 34:24

Geordie Riesell has joined us. Hello.

SPEAKER_02 34:26

Welcome.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Klaus said, finally got a refund on Vintage today for an item I bought in May. It never arrived. I've I'm gonna say I've got an item of the same thing that it got to a post office, and the person for some reason couldn't collect it using the code, so the post office wouldn't give it them. And then they did get a code that worked, but when they went, the post office have said it's been sent back to me, and this was sometime in May. But it's it's like two pound. It's like it's two pounds, and I'm just like, but you know the thing is the person is continually messaging me because they keep saying to me that when once it comes back, they want me to resend it back out, they want to buy it again.

SPEAKER_02 35:09

I'm like two quid, just come find it somewhere else.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

A lot of effort for two pounds.

SPEAKER_02 35:14

You really want it, you want to wait months for this two pounds. What is it? A pair of knickers or something. It is a pair of knickers, two pairs of knickers, two pairs of bells, one knickers.

SPEAKER_00 35:22

It's not worn knickers.

SPEAKER_02 35:24

That's a bargain, actually. There are probably people watching who would pay two pounds for two pairs of your worn knickers.

SPEAKER_00 35:28

They're not worn knickers, the new knickers.

SPEAKER_02 35:31

Rafa, yeah. Raf says Vinti are a weird company, their customer service is appalling, correct? I'm still waiting for contact from something that I've got going on with them. It's mental, they don't like commercial sellers. We make them a lot of money. Absolutely, yeah. They can't be bothered supporting us.

SPEAKER_00 35:46

Well, I had another one, didn't I, where I sent an item and it went to a locker, and she was another one. She said she couldn't get the code to open the locker, it wouldn't work. And this this went on for probably a good eight weeks or so. And eventually I messaged her and I said, Look, I said, if if you still can't get it out of the locker, I said it's not told me it's being sent back or anything. I was like, get on to Vinted and tell them that you've got an issue. Well, what did Vinted do? Vinted resolved it by basically saying that our item had arrived, because technically it had, and they finalised it on my end. So then she wasn't happy because she's like, Well, I've paid for an item I've not got, but I can't do anything because they'd release the money and I can't give it a back because I've got no way of doing it. So I was kind of like, You're gonna have to get back onto Vintage, I don't know how to give you the money back. But in theory, I'd lost the item as well.

SPEAKER_02 36:44

So it's up to Vintage. End of the day, that's why people pay a buyer protection fee, is so that when they don't get their item or it's damaged, they get the money back, and it doesn't affect you either.

SPEAKER_00 36:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:56

Because you sent it through Vintage's postal system, which covers you.

SPEAKER_00 37:00

Yeah, I mean, again, it was only it was only like five pounds, but I I get her frustration because she'd not got the item either.

SPEAKER_02 37:09

Well, Rachel, welcome when my eBay live fees come in. I just won't be doing one pound starts. I think that's probably wise. It will take too much off you, really, to do one pound starts, unless you're sure it's not going to end up one. You know, if it's some like an item that you're pretty sure there's going to be some bids on, then fair dos, you know, get get some interest in it. But if it's one of those items that you think, you know, I'm not really bothered about how much it goes for, but I definitely don't want it to go for a pound because then I'll only get about 30p or something from it. Yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 37:37

John Hughes has joined us. Hi, John. It certainly is hot, hot, hot. It is hot in here. With the fango in it's hot.

SPEAKER_02 37:44

I know. Ray Deb says, I see you sold your camel. It wasn't a camel, it was a giraffe. Almost. Close.

SPEAKER_00 37:58

Jeff definitely enjoying the World Cup.

SPEAKER_02 38:02

A camel and a giraffe don't really look the same, do they? Do they? I mean, the neck is kind of a giveaway and the two humps. The two humps.

SPEAKER_00 38:14

We're not going there again.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

No, I know, I know, let's not do it.

SPEAKER_00 38:18

Damien said, had my first sale to Australia last week on vintage and also picked up some action figures for the first time from USA to resell. Vinted has been amazing for me over the last 12 months.

SPEAKER_02 38:31

Brilliant. Good to hear, Damien. Nice one. Andrew said, a friend told me they were streaming eBay live on the underground.

SPEAKER_00 38:39

Oh really?

SPEAKER_02 38:40

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 38:41

They really are pushing it.

SPEAKER_02 38:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:44

Class says I get more notifications from eBay for someone going live than I do selling something.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

That is the problem. The notifications are a bit of an issue because you can't individually turn them off. You either want notifications from someone or you don't, so you get everything or nothing. It's a bit of a pain, to be honest.

SPEAKER_00 39:03

Lisa says she's been seeing some big YouTubers doing adverts in their videos for whatnot.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 39:08

But we have said this with whatnot, aren't we? They've great really gone down the social media side because there's a lot on TikTok doing talking about whatnot, like buying from whatnot and then showing what they've bought and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 39:20

Yeah. They've definitely gone down that influencer sort of route. They've always been down that route, like giving extra benefits to people or even paying them to make videos and stuff. They've always gone down that route.

SPEAKER_00 39:33

Well, Raventi says, whatnot have a Formula Two or what not have a Formula Two branded car? Probably a bit too tight for Formula One. eBay has partnership with McLaren. Hey Laura Ryan. Hi Laura. I haven't seen Laura for a while. Nice to see you. I hope you're doing okay.

SPEAKER_02 39:59

Laura says I'm finding eBay crap now. And by the way, I've been banned permanently from Vintage for putting a fake football top.

SPEAKER_00 40:07

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 40:09

Have you appealed it, Laura? Have you appealed it? That's a downer. What a nightmare.

SPEAKER_00 40:17

There's loads of people selling fake stuff as well.

SPEAKER_02 40:20

There's an unbelievable amount of fake items on Vintage. It's mad. Yeah, Fluffy says, my nan used to say you look healthy.

SPEAKER_00 40:29

AKA fat. Deb says people tell me I look well at all the time. I just know they mean I've put weight on, which is true. We're all in that boat. Don't you worry about that one.

SPEAKER_02 40:44

Limelight says I don't like to feel rushed into making a decision to buy. Plus, if I want to buy a red jump, I don't want to watch through an hour or something showing all different colours and sizes. Fair enough, yeah. It's it's a weird one. It's not for everybody, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_00 41:00

I didn't mind when Whatnot first came out. It was a little bit different. But yeah, I'm I'm the same now. It's I think because I don't watch so like I don't watch YouTube, I don't watch a lot of social media videos, I don't I don't do stuff like that. So for me, I haven't got the patience to sit and watch like someone online selling. Like you said, if I want to buy something, I want to buy something.

SPEAKER_02 41:29

Rachel says, I'll be riding two Humps in an upcoming video. Andrew might take that the wrong way, says Russ. Here we go. Sandra says, Hi, my husband got fed up with all my stock being in the house. So we've taken on a unit. It's brilliant. House is clear, and I can now get I can get on now much better than being at home. I stayed more focused. That's good to hear, Sandra. Yeah. Yeah. It's good to get it out of the house, isn't it? I mean, that's the aim for us if we ever if we ever move. It's to is to kind of get it separate it out if possible. It may not be possible because some of the houses we've looked at, you know, it can still house us in the business, but it's not always possible to separate it completely. That's what we want to do ideally. And I think if like if we ever join forces to do reselling ever in the future, we would definitely have to move out into something like a unit, an office or something. We would definitely have to do that because there's no way the pair of us are gonna work from home and have double the amount of stock or double the amount of work to do. There's no way we would definitely get a unit. That is like if that ever happens, which it probably won't because Belle doesn't want to do it. But if it does, that would be what we would do.

SPEAKER_00 42:53

Don't know. I've had a few wobbly moments since changing jobs. It's been close. Since changing jobs, I've had a few wobbly moments where I've gone, yeah, let's let's just take the blend.

SPEAKER_02 43:02

But I've been telling Belle that if she wants to do it, she needs to actually give me like some notice. Because I'd I'll have to change the the entire structure of the of the business. I would we would go limited, we'd go VAT registered, we'd change everything. And I would prefer to do that there at the start of a financial year if possible.

SPEAKER_00 43:20

Maybe next year. This time next year.

SPEAKER_02 43:23

No, yeah, I think you're pretty happy with your job, aren't you?

SPEAKER_00 43:27

Yeah. Now Raventa said they've been having a lot of issues like me with lots of parcels not being delivered to shop, so next time.

SPEAKER_02 43:34

I've had a few. I've had a few with the codes where they've not been issued codes to pick them up from the post offices and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 43:42

Codes that they have been issued don't work.

SPEAKER_02 43:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:45

But some buyers would be just rubbish at collecting. They are very well.

SPEAKER_02 43:49

There you go. Roth says uh if anyone gets banned for selling a fake item on vintage that you can categorically prove is real, contact the vintage legal team. Tell them you're going to small claims. There you go, try that. Vintage AI is not great either.

SPEAKER_00 44:06

I said to you the other day, I said, I think me and him, and maybe there might be people in this chat, but I feel like we're in the minority when it comes to when I when my vintage item arrives, as long as I I'm available to collect it, which nine out of ten times I am. I pick it up straight away, I open it straight away, and I confirm if I'm happy or not straight away. I can't remember the last time I sold something and it didn't time out before I got the money.

SPEAKER_02 44:35

It always times out.

SPEAKER_00 44:36

They just wait, and I'm just like, what's the point? The money's not in your bank anyway. You've already left your bank. Just press the button.

SPEAKER_02 44:44

Just say it's okay and let someone get their money out.

SPEAKER_00 44:48

But I just can't believe, you know, it's not like the odd person, it's the odd person that I actually receives it and says everything's fine. Just bizarre.

SPEAKER_02 44:59

Uh Lizzie said since I've not been able to get out to the shops, I'm addicted to eBay live. Buying nearly every day, the house is full of pushes. Well, Lizzie, all I can say is make sure you come along to tomorrow's show. Six o'clock. Click the link up here and come and join us on my eBay Live. Me and Bella are gonna do it. You're gonna come and out this time, aren't you?

SPEAKER_00 45:22

And I tell you the last time.

SPEAKER_02 45:24

No, I don't think you did. You've ducked out of a couple, aren't you?

SPEAKER_00 45:31

You mean while I was going through radiotherapy? Well, any old excuse. Any excuse. And starting a new job.

SPEAKER_02 45:39

Well, yeah, so come along because you might get a bargain, honestly. I've got some crackers.

SPEAKER_00 45:44

No, I did out you on the last one because you should Jurassic.

SPEAKER_02 45:47

Was it?

SPEAKER_00 45:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:48

Oh, there you go then. Chris Tyler says, Chris, here's an idea. Tell eBay to get a channel on TV like QVC, then people can use eBay Live on that. It's a good idea, isn't it? They could have their own channel, couldn't they?

SPEAKER_01 46:03

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 46:03

They could kind of what they could do, eBay Live could have their own TV channel, you know, like channel number 780, where all the dod all the crappy dodgy channels are at the end. They could they could feature a different seller each time. Like on a rolling thing, different sellers. That's it. That's is actually a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 46:26

An hour at a time.

SPEAKER_02 46:29

Yeah, or yeah, or not even the whole show. Just give them an hour or half an hour even. And then flick to the next one.

unknown 46:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:37

Uh Sandra said I was surprised at the price of the unit. £20 a week plus two pound insurance. Thought it would cost a lot more. That's good. £80 a month. Not too bad, is it?

SPEAKER_00 46:49

I don't know. QVC failed. Thought it was still going.

SPEAKER_02 46:53

I think they're still selling channels, isn't there? On Sky. Like down number £890, along with some other channels that I've never watched in my life.

SPEAKER_00 47:03

I drunkenly I I got very, very drunk at home once and didn't realise till they arrived that I ordered a set of really expensive knives. And yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:17

It wasn't after you watched one of your crime programmes.

SPEAKER_00 47:20

No, it wasn't. I was I was very I was very, very drunk, and when they arrived, I spoke to my sister who was with me at the time, and I was like, these weren't these knives have arrived, and she went, Do you not remember? You were amazed, you thought they were fantastic. They were chopping canting cans with these knives, and you were just like in awe. I was like, Nope, don't remember that.

SPEAKER_02 47:39

Didn't take much, does it to impress you?

SPEAKER_00 47:41

Cost me about 90 quid, them knives. They saw you were really expensive.

SPEAKER_02 47:47

I bought, do you remember? You know, like you had QV QVC, and then there was another one called, was it bid up TV? And you basically bid you never knew where it was gonna end. You never knew like what point it was gonna end, did you? And I bid on a mountain bike once, right? And I won it. I don't know what I paid now. It was when I it was actually when it was this long ago, it was when I had my shop in Stockport because it got delivered there. So what happened was I I bought this bike, let's say it was 200 quid, right? It's quite a decent mountain bike. When it got delivered, two of them arrived. So they sent me two of the bikes, only paid for one. So I got one for free.

SPEAKER_00 48:34

Buy one, get one free?

SPEAKER_02 48:35

Yeah. I said I got one for free.

SPEAKER_00 48:39

For free. That's better than my drunken knife debar.

SPEAKER_02 48:46

Yeah. But does anyone remember that? I think I'm sure it's called Bid Up TV or something.

SPEAKER_00 48:50

It was. It's quite addictive. You used to have to get your bids in, but yeah, you know, because they started off at like a penny, didn't they? And then you'd have to put bids in, but you didn't know where it was going to end.

SPEAKER_02 49:00

I I can't quite remember what the rules were on what you ended up paying, but it it was a good concept and it was quite addictive as well.

SPEAKER_00 49:08

Yeah, well, I can say that I made sure my credit card was nowhere near me whilst drunk in the house after that.

SPEAKER_02 49:16

Uh Carol said I totally agree, but I always collect straight away and pay the seller if it's okay.

SPEAKER_00 49:21

It's mad, innit? Why do people do it? I'd understand, right? I'd understand if the money was still in their account until they okayed it, but it's already gone. It's already sat in a holding account. It's not in their bank. It's not even in their bank, is it? So they're getting no benefit from not letting not giving you your money.

SPEAKER_02 49:37

Ross said, is that why you cut down on the booze bell? Too many drunken purchases.

SPEAKER_00 49:42

I don't know. I don't even know if they still sell it. I still remember bizarrely what I was drinking. I drank a bottle of, it was called Fat Sam's. Don't know if anyone remembers that. It was like um like a shot liqueur type stuff. Don't know it. Yeah, well, it's probably why I never drank it again.

SPEAKER_02 50:00

Bid up and price drop. That's it. There were two channels, wasn't there? Bid up and price drop. Demai says, I drunk bought a ninja cooler. Oh, it's Beth that said that. Ninja Cooler.

SPEAKER_00 50:14

See, it's dangerous, isn't it? Dangerous. This is why you shouldn't drink at home.

SPEAKER_02 50:19

And Andrew says, uh, I ideal world was another channel, and that's still going. Peter Simon is on Ideal World.

unknown 50:27

Cool.

SPEAKER_02 50:28

Anyway, we're we've hit the bottom there. Could be worse places to hit. But we'll take this moment to say thank you to all our VIP members. Really appreciate you. You're all taking the time to subscribe officially to the channel. It's $2.99 a month to join the membership, the VIP membership. And that gets you entry into our Discord group and some other little bits and pieces. You get emojis and all kinds of stuff when you're in the chats, you get priority chat replies or something like that. But importantly, you get into our little Discord community and come and join us if anyone's thinking about it. If you do join, make sure you do it via desktop because it's cheaper than doing it on your phone, the Apple Tax. Yeah, so come and join us. $2.99 a month. We've got about 65 members at the moment, something like that. It kind of hovers between 60 and 65. I think we're about 65 at the moment. I've just seen drink and dive dumpster divers on there. We've not seen those guys for a while. I need to check in with them and see how they're doing.

SPEAKER_00 51:34

Yeah, they had a lot of personal stuff going on.

SPEAKER_02 51:37

Yeah, they did, didn't they? Haaland's super fan. Going forward, will Manchester City be able to afford the services of Erling Haaland? I'm thinking he's going to need a hefty raise. I think that he's already getting paid quite a lot of money, Jeff. I think he's on, you know, something crazy, like 500k a week or something, plus bonuses. He is the biggest paid player in the Premier League, I think. So I don't think he can get any more. Is that vodka and orange you're drinking? I wish. Yeah, no chance.

SPEAKER_00 52:12

No, it's peach juice.

SPEAKER_02 52:15

Oh, I've forgotten. Where's my have I not had this on all stream? I've not had my main my main banner on. Have I missed that off the entire stream? Dunno. Fluffy the muffin says my cousin drunken ordered a custom-made replica of an archaeological fan. It took six months to arrive. It was payday, she didn't have a heart to cancel it.

SPEAKER_00 52:38

Oh wow. It is. It's it's see, it's just so easy. But um what I am seeing is it's a woman thing clearly. I haven't seen any of the men come forward and say, Oh, I drunkenly bought this. We just get sucked in, don't we? It's so bad. I know uh my friend that I used to work with in Newton Abbott Dawn, she got sucked in, and she was sober, which makes it even worse. She got sucked into buying a really, really expensive Christmas tree, and I mean like paying instalments, expensive, it was about 500 quid. And when this tree came, she put it up and took a picture for me, and it was that big it didn't fit in a living room, she couldn't fit the top of it on, and it was like covering the TV and all sorts.

SPEAKER_02 53:26

God, what a nightmare. Deb says I bought Tanzanite ring off QVC. The stone dropped out after a week. Oh, geez.

SPEAKER_00 53:35

Yeah, I do remember getting jewelry off QVC. Aquamarine, that was a big one. I used to love Aquamarine. That was big at one point, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_02 53:43

John Hughes, we bought a jellycat finger puppet, five of them with proper tags. I put them on eBay, I showed the tags, and eBay banned me saying I was selling fakes. We're back on, and we'll sell them on vintage.

SPEAKER_00 53:56

How weird's that! That's annoying, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 53:59

There are a lot of fake jelly tags though at the moment, John. So just be careful just in case. I don't know how you identify them. I've not looked into it, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:10

Life in the first line says, Have you seen the new fancy water bottle shop on Cheshire Oaks? Yes, we have.

SPEAKER_02 54:17

It's water drops. It's water drops. And guess what? That's what I'm drinking right now. Water drops. This is a cola water drop. It's not the bottle, but I've got loads of water drops. I buy them. I don't buy them on subscription like they want you to do, though. He buys them cheap off vintage. I get them on vintage. People buy them, don't like them, and just sell them on vintage for cheap. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:38

You do, you do.

SPEAKER_02 54:39

I like those water drops, and they've got like vitamins and stuff in them.

SPEAKER_00 54:43

Electrolytes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:46

Ross said, my friend who drunkenly bought a trip to Dallas is a man belt. They didn't remember doing it. All the travel arrangements were okay though.

SPEAKER_01 54:55

Oh, bloody.

SPEAKER_02 54:56

Jesus, that's a bit much, isn't it? 164 days until Christmas.

SPEAKER_00 55:01

Oh, I'm already on countdown, don't you worry? I'm already on countdown. You hit July, I've told you the birds are not far away.

SPEAKER_02 55:09

We've now got to plan our next big trip, haven't we? Now that that one's out of the way. We are going to.

SPEAKER_00 55:15

We were planning that trip whilst on our other trip.

SPEAKER_02 55:18

We were actually. So yeah, we've got to plan our trip to North Carolina to rally.

SPEAKER_00 55:26

Yes, I'm so excited. I have literally, I've got my little list being created of all the this is a bucket list trip, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 55:35

It is a bucket list trip. This is a bucket list trip.

SPEAKER_00 55:37

Of all the Christmas events because we're gonna when we get there, we're gonna be watching the Christmas parade that Santa's in, and then it's is it Thanksgiving before or after it? After. Jeff will be able to confirm. So we're gonna be there for Thanksgiving as well, which I've always wanted to see a proper Thanksgiving, especially if there's pumpkins. But then straight after Thanksgiving, I've seen that loads of Christmas stuff kicks in. So before we leave at the beginning of December, I'm gonna fit in as many.

SPEAKER_02 56:07

We're not gonna have a lot of time after Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_00 56:09

I'm gonna fit in as many events as I possibly can. Rallying off a home of the Stanley Cup champion. It certainly is, and we're gonna try and fit in a hurricanes. Hurricanes match with Jeff and Tracy. So I've got lots planned, don't you, Warrior? It's gonna be full on.

SPEAKER_02 56:28

It's gonna be good.

SPEAKER_00 56:29

It's gonna be full on. So excited. Elrin said my friend went to Dallas Cowboy game and did a stadium tour. We've been to quite a few stadiums, but we've never actually been in them, are we? We tend to go outside and just have a nosy and then go away.

SPEAKER_01 56:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:49

Because we went to we've been to the Miami Heat Stadium.

SPEAKER_01 56:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:53

And we just thought about that one, but yeah. We just get pictures outside. And what was the one with the big baseball outside in the San Diego pad race? They had a giant baseball outside.

SPEAKER_02 57:06

That was an impressive stadium, that one. I would like I really want to see a baseball game. In fact, these are bucket list items. Yeah. These are bucket list items. I want to see a baseball game. I want to see an MLS game. I want to see ice hockey, which we're gonna do hopefully. Fingers crossed the first time.

SPEAKER_00 57:24

We did do a tour of the one in New York. The stadium that we went out to.

SPEAKER_02 57:32

Oh, we did a tour of the Yankees Stadium.

SPEAKER_00 57:34

We did a tour of the Yankees Stadium. That was the day you you proposed to me, wasn't it? You proposed me to me in the morning, and then we went to the Yankees Stadium.

SPEAKER_01 57:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:48

I don't remember the order of it. I mean, I'm still having nightmares about that day anyway.

SPEAKER_00 57:55

But yeah, so we we do sort of, whenever we go somewhere, we do go look at the stadiums. We just never we don't very often make it inside, do we? I think it was an impressive one in Ireland.

SPEAKER_02 58:07

Oh yeah. Oh that was big, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:09

The uh Croak Park Croak Park Park in Dublin.

SPEAKER_02 58:14

Dublin. It's Croak Park, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 58:16

Massive, it's huge.

SPEAKER_02 58:18

Irish football stadium. It's yeah, it that is one of the big it's like a hundred thousand seater. That one, it is huge.

SPEAKER_00 58:25

Massive, and we did um we didn't only do a tour of it, they do a sky walk. You can walk along the roof. We did a roof walk on that one, if you remember.

SPEAKER_02 58:37

Oh yeah, yes, Jeff, it is cheaper on the outside of most stadium.

SPEAKER_00 58:42

I think what it is is when we've gone, that it's always been out of season, hasn't it? So there's never been anything on. The only thing we've ever managed to catch and watch was the Orlando Magic Orlando basketball. That's the only thing we've ever managed to actually be somewhere when it's been on. So I did say to him that maybe we need to start looking at like if we want to do a baseball match or we want to do it.

SPEAKER_02 59:05

We always go with the wrong time when it's off season. Like I've really wanted to see an MLS game, whether it be Orlando City or New York City. Yeah, whenever we're there, it's it's wrong time of year for it, you know. Same with the baseball. We've never been the baseball baseball, we've never been anywhere where we could have gone to watch a game at that time, but we're gonna do it. We need to start planning it better. We need to start planning our bucket lists better, don't we?

SPEAKER_01 59:32

We do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:34

Oh, Krillin sent his customary two dollars. Thank you, Krillin. Did you see Scottish fans invade the Red Sox at Fenway? I didn't think I saw that. Is that to do with the World Cup? I assume.

SPEAKER_00 59:49

Life in the first place. No one told you about Christmas cancelled for 2026. That's the fourth time you've mentioned it. Can I just say the last Christmas, considering I love it, was pretty pants with what was going on. So this Christmas is big. This Christmas starts now. Okay. Unfortunate for Chris.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:11

So Krillin, I'm not sure. I'm not sure about that, but thank you so much for the two dollars. I assume that's a World Cup thing that went on.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:18

Pumpkins are going to be shorter this year due to the hot weather. They better bloody not be. Like the pumpkins.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:25

On another note, making tax digital. I sent my first quarterly report to HMRC today via QuickBooks, because you have to send them quarterly. The first quarter is the deadline is the 7th of August, but because the period is up to the 5th, I think it's the 5th of July, you anytime after the 5th of July to up to the 7th of August, you can send your update. And I sent it via QuickBooks today, so mine's in. Dead, dead easy. All you gotta do is just make sure that your books are up to date up to that date, and then just hit send to HMRC, and it just sends it electronically, and there you go, it's done. That's all you gotta do. You don't have to do anything else. It's very, very simple. So that was sent today, and the next one I think is around November that I've got to send the next one. So that was done. And talking of tax stuff, I had a nice 2K tax bill to pay today. But isn't it not a surprise? I knew it's it's this midway tax that you have to pay. So it's coming, I think the deadline's the end of this month. So I paid it, got it out of the way.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:39

But speaking of tax, I got I got tax loads last month.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:44

Oh yeah, you're on emergency tax, aren't you?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:46

I was on emergency tax for the second month, considering all I did was move from one job to the other. Don't know how I ended up on emergency tax, but I ended up on emergency tax two months. So I rang up last month to say, because if they taxed me about 500 quid, it was ridiculous how much they taxed me. And it's a good job I rang up because you know what? They'd put my new job down as a second job. They stored me down as working for Devon and Cornwall Police as a primary role. How have they even come up with that information? How have they come up with that information?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:19

I do not understand. Someone's not done their job properly for that to act.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:23

And everything, it's like, how can you come up with that? So, yeah, I was not impressed at all.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:31

But it should be a good month this month if I get it back.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:33

Well, hopefully you'll get it back this month, and we'll be rolling in it for the month, won't we? Dinner's on you.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:38

It's better than the not rolling in it that I did last month.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:41

Yeah. What time is it? We are we nearly ready for the duck race. What time is it, Mr. Wolf? Uh it's about ten past nine.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:47

Do you remember that game?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:48

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:49

Do you not remember that game?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:50

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:51

Did you ever play games as a child?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:53

Not games like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:54

You didn't play what time is it, Mr. Wolf?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:56

Oh, what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:59

When you were in school. Or you were playing when you were playing with Mr.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:02

Say school properly first before we move on.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:05

School.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:05

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:06

And you were playing with your mates, and one person used to stand facing the wall, and you'd go, what time there'd be a line of people, and they go, What time is it, Mr. Wolf? And they go, one o'clock, and you'd have to try and get close to him. And if you turn round, he'd cut and caught you, then you were out.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:20

That is a stupid game. Never heard of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:23

You had to try and get to where he was at the front.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:25

No, never heard of that. Oh. That's stupid.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:29

No, it wasn't. It was a good game.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:30

We used to play Kickstone 1, 2, 3.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:33

Did you play that?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:34

Yeah. I don't remember how you play it now, but I remember Kickstone 123. And Cannon? What?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:40

Cannon.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:41

Cannon.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:42

Where you used to put the pegs up? You used to put the pegs up? Yeah, you used to put the peg, the little dolly pegs, up. You'd put three and then one across the top, and you used to have to throw a tennis ball. And if you knock the pegs down, you all had to run, and one person had to try and catch you where you had to try and get back and put all the pegs back up again.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:00

No, no, never played.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:02

Seriously, it's like we you just weren't a child then, were you? I used to play kiss cat. Yeah, everyone used to play kiss cat.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:13

And scarecrow. No, don't know what that means.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:15

We play scarecrow, where if you got ticked, you have to stand with your arms like that until someone ran underneath it and then you were free again.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:21

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:21

No. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:23

I don't know what she's talking about. Um Chris Tiley said, Did you win any premium bonds lately, Chris? Yes, we did actually. We've we've won the last couple of months. What did we get this month? Two was it 200? 200. 200 quid we got on this month's premium bonds, which was nice. That went to pay off uh that goes on our mortgage, so we paid that off on the mortgage.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:44

There you go. Loads of people remember the Mr. Wolf game.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:48

I've never heard of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:50

It was a fun game, used to say dinner time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:53

It was great.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:54

And then it'd be like dinner time, and they'd eat them.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:56

Fluffy the muffin. One thing I doubt is that it was great.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:00

It was a really and it involved a lot of the kids because you had like a big row of kids. Nonsense. Also duck duck goose. Yeah.

unknown 1:05:11

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:11

Cannon was brilliant. See, the whole street played it.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:14

British Bulldog, I'll have that one. Yeah, remember that one. Why are we talking about all this shit?

SPEAKER_00 1:05:19

Because we just asked, because you said, what time is it, Mr. Wall? I didn't say that though, did I? I said it duck duck goose, huh? Duck duck goose. But I will tell you one thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:31

Kingstone 123 was where it's at.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:32

I will tell you one thing before us before we move on. And you'll remember from when we first met. Can you get off me chippy tits? The last time I played canon was with my niece and children. About I'm gonna say, I think it I was just before I was 30, so I was probably about 29. It was just when I'd started in the cops.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:55

And wow, responsible, you know, adult stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:59

No. So my niece knocked it down, and we all went to run. And as we went to run, and I was like chasing it, I fell forward like that and landed with my arms out. And I broke both my wrists. That was my last experience of playing canon. And now to this day, whenever my niece. We talk about she goes, Oh, remember that time we were playing canon and broke both your arms. But you don't remember, I just started with the cops, didn't I? Yes, and he ended up with one hand in plaster and the other in a splint.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:37

Chris was born a 40-year-old man.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:39

I know. Not so sure what you did as a child.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:43

As I studied clearly elastics. Oh no. Never heard of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:55

All these games are nonsense. Do you know what it was? You know why? You know why? He was rich when he was a kid, so he had posh things to do. These are what the paupers did who had no money. We weren't rich, but you were compared to me.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:11

We had rich. Yeah, my mum and dad had money up to about me being eight. So never really experienced it. Because then my dad lost it all. So you know, never really experienced, you know, having you know, nice things. Enough to not experience playing all these fun games. What did we play? What did I play? We used to play hide and seek, obviously. And if the if the field would we were just playing football, to be honest. We didn't we have those we used to get those plastic what do you call them? Airm through the holes it. Yeah, air, but uh I know which ones you mean. Yeah, they were plastic balls, all with little holes in, like air holes. We used to play football with those and if the field was open because it was a nice day, you know, we'd play football on there. Just play football. Just play football. Yeah, just play football. That's pretty much it.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:08

I can't I was gonna say, but even my kids played these, but my kids played them because we played them, so we taught them how to play it. Did you play rounders? Yeah. Play rounders. Oh, there you go. There's a game.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:19

But not independently. Only if it was Rounders Day on PE.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:23

Oh, see, no, you didn't play it like outside of school.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:26

No. Oh. Just play football.

unknown 1:08:29

Just play football.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:31

Well, I like football. I used to go around on my bike. We used to go around on our bikes. Did you have a chopper? No, I had a BMX. I had a red and yellow, proper BMX. It were good.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:42

Knock a door run.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:43

I think we've all done knock a door run. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, done that loads of times.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:46

I don't, are you sure? Because you feel like a bit of a goody two shoes.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:49

No, I've done knock and run loads of times.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:52

Knock and run, you don't even know what he's got. What do you mean? It's knock-a-door run.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:58

No, no, no. In Stockport.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:00

Oh, in the posh in the posh place.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:01

Knock and run. Not knock a door. Why do you have to say knock a door? That's stupid. It's a knock and run. It's knock a door. It's not knock a door. It's knock and run. Jesus Christ. Anyway, we're getting right off track here now. Demise, we had money, but Yorkshire parents may as well have had nothing.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:23

Kirby. Please tell me you played Kirby.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:26

Yeah, sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:27

Oh, I loved Kirby. Sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:29

Oh, it was the other one where you lined up and someone used to lob something at you. What was that? I hated playing that. Someone always hit me with it in the ball.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:38

I know what you mean, and I can't think what the game was.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:42

Someone will know. You line up and it's not it's not knock a door run, it's knock and run.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:52

Deb had a purple chopper. Cool. MK1. I'm still waiting for the BMX. I asked for Santa Cules. Well, he's in the chat. Try asking again.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:04

Yeah. Anyway, let's crack on. Come on. We've got the duck race to do. And then it's Chris's final thought before we wrap up for the uh the podcast. Drop a comment below if you're watching this back or you're listening back and you want to come and drop a comment, drop a comment. What kids' games did you play at school? And if you know the one where you lined up and you had a ball lobbed at you, let me know what that was called because I've forgotten.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:31

Deb says where I was called from knocked or run was called Red Apple. What the hell?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:38

That is weird.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:39

Red Apple. Oh, knock and run like the Amazon drivers. That's what we were all training for.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:47

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:51

That is good. Oh, where's Flana come from?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:55

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:56

Hi, Flana.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:57

She's changed her name. Lana is my name. Yeah, but we're still gonna call her Flana. Yeah, that's true. Let's stick with Flana, it's better, it's more descriptive.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:08

Lisa remembers the game but can't remember what it was called.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:11

Me and my mate used to play a game on the street, and we just used to light fires.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:18

It's called being an arsonist.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:19

He'd get his he'd nick a lighter and we'd start lighting things on fire in the street.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:24

I don't believe you were ever naughty.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:26

Oh, I was naughty, alright. We got bollocked for lighting a fire in the street once. Someone came out and bollocked us and threatened to call the police. We're only light, we're only we're only setting little fucking leaves on fire.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:40

Have you not seen what the wildfires that go on?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:43

Oh we're in the middle of Midland Midland Road in fucking Bramore. Not a wildfire.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:50

Nothing major said, Are you thinking of dodgeball?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:53

No, well it weren't called Dodgeball. It had another, it had a special name, but I couldn't remember. It might have been, was it British Bulldog? Was it that?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:01

It was British Bulldog, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:02

Oh maybe it was just that, Deb so. Not Dodgeball. That's too modern Dodgeball.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:08

I changed it because you were picking on me. We're still gonna pick on your Lana.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:15

What what else does that read? So can we read it as something else? Lana is my name. Not really. No. Lanais? Lana. Like a French Lana.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:28

La Anis. La Anis.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:34

Lana. Oh, here we go. Chris was great to see you again at Chester Rugby Club. Nice one, Rick. Nice one. Good to see you. Met a few people at Chester Rugby Club at the weekend.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:52

Wouldn't have met them while I was there because he wasn't with me at all. He he was like, Are you gonna come up? Get up and come to the car boot with me. So I did very kindly, and then he didn't spend a single second with me.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:02

You know why? She spends ages on a stall. Like she stops at the she went to the first row, she stops at the first stall looking at clothing, and by the time she comes away from that stall, I've done the entire row. I can't stand there waiting for her to look at blouses or dresses. But the whole I got a job to do the whole time.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:24

We met up once at the car to drop stuff off.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:27

Yeah, because you're so bloody slow. Knocky nine doors up in the northeast.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:33

Knocky nine doors. Like like the first one says, we used to steal pints of milk in the mornings and people's fence panels to base forts in the woods.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:45

I think Demai says, I think you were just getting bullied line up and get a ball booted at you. Probably, yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:52

Well that was when seeing as you used to play football a lot. Did you used to have the what was it called? It wasn't called Wally, was it?

SPEAKER_02 1:14:00

Wally, yeah, Wally.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:02

You used to line up against the wall and was that the one you're thinking you used to line up against the wall, someone used to boot the ball at you.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:06

That's it.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:07

Wally Wally. But what I was gonna say is there used to be a thing where when you were playing football or if you lost a game, there used to people used to make a tunnel like that against a wall, and you had to walk through while they all kicked you.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:20

No, that was definitely you getting bullied on that one. I never done that.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:23

It was just it was it's brutal when you think back to the things that kids used to do. But yeah, we there was a like a rule like if you you were the one that lost or whatever else, the whole rest of the group used to stand in a line like that and make a little tunnel, and as you walked underneath, they used to kick you.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:42

Bloody hell, Sandra's from Bryny.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:44

Brinny?

SPEAKER_02 1:14:45

Bloody hell, Sandra. You were lucky to get out of there alive.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:52

The game you you where you lined up and someone booted a ball at you was called Red Ars. I've never no, never heard of that. We've obviously all played the same games, it's weird different names.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:02

It's weird how they all get different names, isn't it? Ricky says, So you look like you did well. Love the big Eevee plush you got next time. I'll ask for a pick. Oh, no worries. Yeah, I get a pick next time. I'll put it on the Instagram. Yeah, I did get a big Eevee plush. I listed that today, actually.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:18

Nothing major says you're thinking of stuck in the mud where you had to freeze until someone went under your legs to free you. I do remember playing stuck in the mud, that was a game, yeah, that we played. Similar death. It was called Red Art Wall Ball Suicide.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:37

Chris Tyler had a good game. Hide a penny under a leaf for a stone or dog pick.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:44

The things we used to do to do you know what, right? This is great because you you reminisce and look at some of the amazing stuff that we did, you know, getting booted by your mates for fun. What are the kids of our generation gonna be like when they're our age? What are they gonna be like and go, oh yeah, we did this as a kid, oh yeah, we sort of played in our games. It's like we were on TikTok for two hours. We were watching YouTube, it's like they're not gonna have these sort of fun things.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:09

There's no interaction, is there? No personal interaction. Uh Sandra's not from Brittany. I do apologize, Sandra. It's one of the worst scaves you can give somebody is to say you're from Brittany, so I apologize. Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:23

Conway Hill's on fire, it certainly is. We had to shut the windows this morning.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:26

Oh, yeah, it was stinky this morning, but it's lifted. Right, let's do the duck race, guys, because everyone's getting bored out of their mind with this chat now. Let's are we ready for this duck race? Belle's gonna do the commentary.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:40

I did it on the last one.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:42

You can do it again, you're good at it.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:45

Don't try and button me up when I know you're lying.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:50

Oh, what happened to the screen then? We all went a bit funny then, we went a bit frozen.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:57

We did, didn't we, Andrew? We all went out all day, came home, got drunk, nobody mobile phones, just had a laugh.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:06

When I when I we used to go out to plays, say I would say to my mum, oh, you know, can I go out and play? And she'd be like, Who you with? And you there was a boundary as to how far I could go. Like you're not allowed to go past the whatever, to field or something, say, for example. And then you just gotta be in by six o'clock. You know, time and that's it. You don't see me for hours.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:30

Used to hear my my mum used to whistle us like a dog.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:33

Nowadays, if you went if your kids went off for that amount of time, they'd be calling the police.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:39

Yeah, they'd be reported as missing, wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:41

I'd be on Facebook. I don't want to see my child.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:46

37 ducks racing in the 216th duck race.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:50

Yeah, not many in tonight. I think people have forgotten to enter. Also, I need to say a big thank you to Rosie Marsden. Rosie, are you here? Rosie is providing today's duck race prize, which is this amazing mug. Let me put it on big screen.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:12

I don't I didn't play that game, but that's funny.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:15

Rosie Marsden is providing this amazing duck mug. Thank you. That's cool, isn't it? Thank you very much, Rosie. She's gonna send it directly to the winner, which is a big help. And she's got another mug that she's gonna do in August. So we'll have another mug to give away. That's very kind of you, Rosie. Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:35

You're just reading Frey Anti Bentos there. Force the word was another up here. Two teams, one team had a word, and each player, each person assigned a letter. When the other team caught you, they had to beat the letter out of you. Once they got everyone, they won. Wow, we were brutal, weren't we? Yeah, fluffy says, and a random kid would tell you that your mum was shouting for you.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:05

There's Rosie. Thank you. Appreciate the prize. It's a great mug, that uh right. Here we go. Are we ready? Shuffle those ducks. You ready, Bo? And we're off.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:22

We are off. Cannot see a single name at the moment because everyone's come out at the front of the pack. Let's see, it's slowly breaking up. Who've we got at the front of the pack? I think it's speedfoot flips looking at that, and then just behind that is Karen Evans and Sarah Marsden. Pumpkin Picker is wearing the Christmas pattern. Liger in Ms W Kemi just before, just above them. Really can't see many of the names up at the front. The cloud allotment is in the middle as a naked duck and 49 toddy. Sandra Parker is just pushing her way to the front. She's also a naked duck, and Jeff Davis is a super duck just behind that. Down at the bottom, we have Laura Shack. Laura Shack. And just above her is Lizzie Scott. Speed foot flips is making his way in the opposite direction now with Tiny Cloud leading the pack with Sarah Marsden. Mark Hilly's not far behind, and Jules B is bobbing along up at the top, pretending that she doesn't exist, so no one will notice her. Kaboot Keith is the pink duck with the hearts. He's now dropping off after having a peek at the front. Cavalis in his little space outfit is was leading the pack, but nothing major addressed as Donald Trump has now pushed his way to the front. Who's that there? Carol Harris is the purple duck. This is an ever-changing front pack. We've now got Simon Elliott up at the front. Laurisharki's still bobbing along down at the bottom there. She could make her way forward if she really tried. Lisa is just in front of her. A lovely Scotty dog is a little reindeer. So sweet. But the most of them are going in the wrong direction now. We just have tiny cloud up at the front, leading the pack. Sarah Marsden. Is it Sarah Marsden? Down at the bottom. Oh, oh, no, no, it's all changing again. We've got the last three seconds. This is coming out of nowhere. It is Gilded Geezer. Don't know where you came from. That's a new name. That's a new name. But well done to the Gilded Geezer. Gilded Geezer as the vampire duck. Awesome.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:32

Did yeah. Well done, Gilded Geezer. If you're watching this back, send me a message on Instagram or Facebook and give me your full name, your address, and I will pass that with your permission to Rosie Marsen, who will send out your prize. Which is that amazing mug. So well done to you.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:49

Yeah. Life in the First Lane says, I think we should have a game of red ass for charity. We pay five pounds each to play and donate to animal to an animal charity.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:59

I'm good, thanks. I'm good.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:01

I think that'd be good fun. I'll be referee.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:04

No, you can go on the fucking wall if you want.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:08

I'll be referee. Make sure that you're all playing it correct. I think that's a good plan.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:15

Just on another note, while I was doing ChatGPT helps me with the duck race comments and it pulls out all the names who have people who have commented. But recently, it's been I've never asked it to do this, but recently, Chat GPT, after it gives me all the names in a list of all the commenters, it's been given a roundup of all the comments. And they've been quite amusing. I thought I'd read out today's roundup. I've never asked ChatGPT to do this, but it at the bottom of the list, oh you probably can't see it. At the bottom of the list, it it's come up with Duck Pond News. So basically, it's read everyone's comment and it's given a roundup of the comments. So it's gone like this. Cloud9 Allotment is the reigning duck race 2215 champion and has already claimed the prize. Trugman is now openly entering purely to win the sweets. The comments are full of welcome back and hope you had a great holiday. So you've clearly been missed. Carol Harris reminded you to watch out for the Gibraltar monkeys. Solid advice. Carboot Keith has evolved from quack quack to simply quackers. Character development. And the Guilded Geezer continues to provide a full weather forecast and motivational quote with every duck race entry. It's become a feature rather than a bug.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:40

Well, it served its purpose because they've now won.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:43

So without any prompting, ChatGPT has gone out on a limb and it's now given a full roundup of all the comments every week. So if you want a feature on that list, make a funny comment, especially especially for ChatGPT and see if it picks up on it next week. Yeah, it's good, isn't it? It did it last week, look. That's last week's one. Oh yeah. Let's see if it had any funny comments from last week. Deb Debs Deborah Sardine has requested a crispy duck, which feels a little too appropriate given the heat wave. Heather Martin summed up the nation's mood with it's too hot. Trugman again raised a genuinely useful point that GSP should take responsibility once parcels reach Litchfield.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:36

So yeah, it gives Oh, Jamie D believes both the show and his duck came up short this week.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:45

So it's quite funny it gives these summaries. It's just evolved that on its own.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:55

Of the wheat material with do everything you can now. You just never know what's round the corner. Good comment.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:02

Yeah. And on this one it says Jeff Davis continues to provide the official duck race historical record better than most governments keep archives.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:13

Oh that's good.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:15

There we go. So I just thought I'd I'd share that with you. I might make that a regular thing, the roundup of the comments. Just for fun.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:23

Who is it that's come up with shock ball for charity? Fluffy. Fluffy, why you being evil?

SPEAKER_02 1:25:28

No, we're not doing that again. Holy moly, the gilded geese is in.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:34

Whee! Well done.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:37

Send me a message, drop me your name, your full address, and with your permission, I'll send it to Rosie Marsden, who will send out your mug price.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:45

What about shock ball? Five pounds of charity every time Chris gets a shock. Sounds like great fun to watch.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:54

Oh there we go. We are done.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:59

For such a nice group of people, they have got an evil streak. Yeah, they are evil. They've got an evil streak, haven't they?

SPEAKER_02 1:26:03

They're proper, proper, evil.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:06

I promise you, I know last year things were a little bit, or should I say, our seasonal events have been a little bit mere recently, but they will we'll be back on it for this year. We'll be back on it for the end of this year. Yeah, yeah. Much to Chris's dismay. I know.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:26

Okay, guys. Well, thank you again for joining us on this Monday night. I appreciate you watching the podcast and also taking part. And if you're listening to the podcast, whether it be on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Alexa, and all that stuff, thank you very much for listening. Don't forget to hit the subscribe button. Don't forget to hit the download button if you're on the audio. That's really important for me. And uh yeah, so thank you very much for joining us. Much appreciated. How many shocks does £100 get me? Yeah. A lot, actually. A lot. Right, okay. We're done.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:07

Have a good week, everybody.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:08

Don't forget to click my eBay Live link in the top corner here. That'll take you to my eBay Live page where you can save me as a seller and also bookmark the show for tomorrow. We're on tomorrow, Tuesday, 6 p.m., the 14th of July, and hopefully we'll get back to doing regular eBay lives. Tomorrow's a pop culture Disney plush toys Funko show. Please come and join us. And now I'm going to finish with Chris's final thoughts, and then we'll go straight into the outro to finish up. I'm not using, I'm never using that auto prompter again, the teleprompter, because it just doesn't work. So, Chris's final thoughts. Here it is. People often ask me which platform is the best, but I'm not sure that is the right question. The best platform is the one that's working for you today, and that can change over time. Spent a lot of years in reselling, and it's taught me one thing: don't get too comfortable. Markets change, platforms change, and buyer habits change. Keep an open mind, keep adapting, and never assume today's winner will still be tomorrow's. Take care of yourselves and each other, and I'll see you on the next one.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:21

Bye.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:25

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.