April 23, 2025; General Hangout & Q&A
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Customer Experience and Refunds 🔄 The importance of effective communication with sellers about refunds and returns was highlighted, showing the balance between customer expectations and seller policies. 💡 Issues surrounding refunds often arise when returns are not processed correctly, emphasizing the need for clarity from sellers regarding their refund policies.
Payment Timeliness 💰 Payment reliability was discussed, with mention of holiday delays affecting transactions, particularly with Chinese suppliers. 🕒 Understanding timelines and potential payment hitches is crucial for maintaining smooth operations in e-commerce ventures.
Return Policies and Inventory Management 📦 Return and inventory management practices were emphasized, particularly the nuances of processing customer returns and how unsellable inventory can impact financial reporting. 🔍 Emphasis was placed on the need for meticulous record-keeping for inventory, including the tracking of both sold and returned items to avoid discrepancies during tax reporting.
Business Strategies and Growth 🚀 The narrative about pivoting strategies resonated, with discussion around the need for adaptability in sourcing and selling practices. 🎯 Focusing on higher-value opportunities was noted as pivotal for maximizing profit margins, particularly in reselling ventures.
Networking and Community 🤝 The value of a supportive community for sharing resources and business strategies emerged, enhancing collaborative efforts and individual growth through shared experiences. 💬 Interaction and communication with trusted individuals in the field can lead to valuable insights and optimized practices.
Actionable Summary:
Refund Process with Sellers 🔄 Clarify return policies with sellers to avoid customer frustration and ensure timely reimbursements. 💡 Consider implementing a clear communication flow with customers about their return statuses.
Optimize Payment Systems 💰 Maintain awareness of potential payment delays, especially during holidays, to manage cash flow effectively. 🕒 Develop contingency plans for unexpected payment issues.
Effective Inventory Management 📦 Conduct regular inventory audits to ensure accuracy in financial reporting related to Cost of Goods Sold (COGS). 🔍 Implement tracking for unsellable items to minimize accounting discrepancies.
Adapt and Pivot Business Strategies 🚀 Stay agile in sourcing strategies to capitalize on high-demand products and adapt to market changes. 🎯 Evaluate inventory for high-value reselling opportunities to maximize profit margins.
Strengthen Community Ties 🤝 Engage with fellow entrepreneurs for support and shared resources to enhance learning and growth opportunities. 💬 Foster connections that encourage idea sharing and collaborative ventures for mutual benefit.
Utilize Formative Experiences for Growth 📚 Approach challenges with an open mind and view them as opportunities for learning and adapting. ✨ Surround yourself with individuals who share your values and aspirations to drive motivation and inspiration.
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[00:00-13:15] The speaker discusses ongoing issues with refund processes for a product transaction, reflecting on the complexities of managing refunds and communication with sellers. They express frustration over delayed refunds but reassurance in their past experiences of receiving timely payments under usual circumstances.
[13:15-25:00] The discussion shifts toward the efficiency of payment processes during holiday periods affecting vendor cooperation. They also raise concerns about clarity in refund policies, especially regarding whether full refund amounts include shipping costs.
[25:00-41:30] The interaction touches on experiences with an air cooler purchase and missing information about refunds. Participants share practical advice and their own experiences with product returns, highlighting communication barriers with suppliers.
[41:30-56:10] The dialogue continues as participants reflect on their overall experiences with payment and seller reliability. Future improvements in how refunds are handled by suppliers are anticipated, exploring potential language and clarity issues that hinder effective communication.
[56:10-01:10:50] Participants delve into specifics regarding brokerage operations and stocking management challenges. They exchange thoughts on utilizing tools for better inventory management, relating personal experiences in navigating the complexities of selling products on various platforms.
[01:10:50-01:27:30] The talk shifts to online shopping challenges and strategies when dealing with returns. The importance of clarity in refund policies to ensure effective management of refunds is emphasized alongside issues of incentivizing product reviews from customers.
[01:27:30-01:45:10] The group discusses their strategies in handling various products and maximizing potential profit margins. Conversation includes insights into effective inventory management practices and leveraging market trends for financial gain.
[01:45:10-01:56:40] Participants share anecdotes about their entrepreneurial experiences, emphasizing the importance of consistent operations and managing a diverse portfolio. There are discussions on various products in different markets and the dynamics of managing inventory.
[01:56:40-02:08:30] The conversation transitions to discussing potential future implications for sourcing strategies amid changing regulations in importing processes. Participants share knowledge about advertising strategies and affiliate marketing, recognizing the potential to build sustained revenue avenues.
[02:08:30-02:35:10] As the discourse continues, strategies to optimize their Amazon businesses are exchanged, detailing how to navigate product sourcing efficiently. The realization that maintaining focus on one's objectives is critical to success is reiterated.
[02:35:10-02:55:30] Participants reflect on the challenges faced in their respective business ventures, along with sharing strategies to remain competitive in changing market conditions. Entrepreneurial spirit is fostered, with encouragement to explore diverse avenues within e-commerce.
[02:55:30-03:10:00] In closing, the group discusses ongoing developments within online marketplaces and anticipates future prospects and opportunities. Themes of resilience, adaptability, and lifelong learning as critical components of entrepreneurship resonate strongly.
(00:00) that day. So, I I told them to leave it with me. I messaged the provider. Uh I know it's not their fault, but I just mentioned, you know, they haven't been refunded. It's over the return day now, which is the member's fault. So, like, they should have returned it, but they left it too long.
(00:16) So, like, make sure that they get refunded or the person that sold the item is going to have a lot more issues than just refunding like this one $30 purchase. And they said, "Yeah, yeah, we're trying. We're trying." And then after like a week or so, they didn't refund it. So then I I myself ordered one of those products from the same seller.
(00:35) It was returned to that seller broken and they got a a bad feedback and then they end then they ended up refunding the member. I love it. Yeah. I've never really had uh an issue with receiving uh payment. Um unless of course there's like a Chinese holiday or something like that. That's the only circumstance that comes to mind in any way in which I've had issues receiving payment um in a timely way.
(01:02) I had to return a couple of things because of that. But uh I don't you know always know as a you know as a Canadian what the Chinese holidays are. So I have to when I'm placing any order if I did know that I would probably make different choices. Yeah. Most of the time it's fine. That's like that was like the one and only situation I heard that there was ever an issue.
(01:21) Uh, but then yeah, they got a negative feedback and I'm pretty sure like the specific thing I said was this person's buying fake reviews and then they ended up refunding the member. Yeah. Well, the only other issue I've had maybe here and there that well comes to mind too as I'm talking about it is um sometimes the uh one of the freebie provider won't provide all the information that pertains to the purchase.
(01:47) So, just for example, that uh one air cooler I even though they call it an air conditioner um that I got just recently um most of my money was refunded for it, but there was no caveat that said that it was a full refund or that it would be a partial refund or whatever. So, I think I ended up paying $11 or so out of pocket.
(02:04) But, you know, I'm I really don't give a [ __ ] cuz it's like $100 that it's worth, right? So, I'm not going to [ __ ] about $11. But, I guess that's the only thing too is some of the details missing sometimes. So, you have to just be um a little bit cautious. Yeah. And sometimes just try to clarify with them up front if it's like a full refund.
(02:23) If you do that every time, which is kind of a pain, they should clarify that for sure. They should. And when they say full refund, too, they should they should uh understand that uh to most people that would mean the entirety of the purchase price, including tax and PayPal fees. And that's not always the case. Usually, the full refund is just the base price.
(02:43) um if you're in most in most cases. Yeah, I'll see if I can mention that to them. Uh sometimes there is a bit of a language barrier because most of those guys are based in China. Um but I will mention it to them and hopefully they can adjust going forward. Hopefully they do. Yeah.
(03:06) But I mean overall it's been it's a a really good experience. I would say um some of the free freebie providers pay faster than others. like some I've had receive payment within days of submitting a screenshot of my review. Others it takes a number of weeks. Um but overall it's been a pretty good experience I would say. Good. And yeah, like with the payment, I know most of it has to do with like the actual sellers themselves.
(03:30) Uh obviously if the freebie providers on it and contacts the seller, you're going to get refunded sooner, but it's also based on how quickly the seller is actually going to refund you. Yeah. uh who I find I've worked with like Tony Stark who's one of the freebie guys. He seems pretty good and quick and following up on things.
(03:47) I don't know who else. I mean there's Adam, there's Sarah, Margarita, J. So many of them. There were a couple that were in there not that long ago that I booted out that weren't uh they weren't providing like any any deals or anything. And then I added a couple more as well. So the idea is yeah cuz they all have links in their bio too which you can kind of go through and and and source yourself from. Mhm.
(04:14) I've kind of done that in some cases cuz every time if I ever fly down to the US I'm like let me just order some stuff which is myself uh go to the US and just ship it back to yourself if if it's worth it or bring it back. Yeah. I mean usually I end up buying small light stuff if I have you know free check luggage with Air Canada.
(04:35) So, Mhm. toss it in there and call it a day. I actually got some stuff where um Amazon screwed up with Prime Delivery and it didn't arrive for like more than 2 or 3 days after I left New York and it said every day it's coming within like for 24 hours or 48 hours. I don't know why it was not prime as they claimed it was.
(05:01) And then I had to like basically call up Amazon. They gave me a $50 USD credit and then refunded me for all the items. Uh, and I'm like, "Okay, cool." So then I got at timely it was shipped to a a forwarding sort of parcel service thing and where you can usually pick it up for X amount, but u I ended up asking that guy, hey, can you just, you know, rehip it to me? Mhm.
(05:28) Because that's what I end up using when I go to US. It's called I think bounce or there's another word I think which is I forget what it's called. Uh which is basically a free membership which allows you a pickup address in whatever city you're visiting. Right. Right. That's a nice little freebie. Doesn't happen all the time, but that's nice.
(05:47) Yeah, cuz the US has I think a lot more options if you ask me in terms of products. Obviously with the tariffs, I wonder how that's going to evolve. But yeah. Yeah. I mean, who really knows? Couldn't you just bring it over as a used item? Save say your personal Oh, I'm not concerned about me bringing it in my personal luggage.
(06:08) That's exempt anyways. I don't care. I'm talking more about like just in general Chinese sellers and their products on Amazon US like from a broader perspective. Oh, I thought you meant the Yeah. So, I seen something today actually about um the tariffs and somebody specifically, it was in one one of the Facebook groups uh for Amazon showed a conversation that they had with a freight forwarder and the freight forwarder reduced like their tariff bill by like $200,000 just by doing straight import fraud and just saying that the value of
(06:38) the item 80% of what it was supposed to be. So instead of like instead of like $7 and something per unit, they were claiming that it's, you know, a dollar something per unit and it literally reduced their tariff bill by like over $200,000 and straight fraud, but 100% those people are going to do that. And like if it's a Chinese company specifically that's importing the products, they don't care cuz good luck trying to [ __ ] prosecute them.
(07:02) The freight forwarders, if they ever get busted, they're going to get [ __ ] But the Chinese companies don't care. Isn't that a federal crime? Oh, 100% it would be. And then there's also uh penalties that you have to pay. It's like something like two or 300% if you get caught of what the tariffs would have been.
(07:20) So if you're reducing it by like 200 250 grand, you're going to have to owe threequarters of a million dollars if you get caught. Wow. Yeah. But I mean, do you really think do you really think companies based in China care? Like good luck trying to prosecute them. And how exactly would you police that too, right? Well, yeah.
(07:41) Like I think it would be just like anything else where a certain amount will get over the border. Uh but also like when you're declaring a value for certain items like sometimes it can be subjective, right? So like if that Chinese company is bringing items over and saying that it's 80% of the value, I would imagine they can probably also and probably would forge documentation to indicate as such.
(08:04) Right. So it's like okay like this container gets open at the border. You have to prove us uh give us proof of what this actually costs. They'll just provide you fake documentation. Exactly. And they would do that for just to make the sale, right? 100%. And I mean, import fraud has been happening forever, even before tariffs.
(08:25) Uh bra, you say you've been doing that for almost two years now, doing import fraud or what? I don't know if you want to admit that. Uh, you shouldn't be doing that, dude. Be careful with that [ __ ] It's one thing to do that if you're under 18, but once you're an adult, I mean, when I was a kid, I used to import things like brass knuckles from the US and sell them, but I mean, I was 13 years old, so I wasn't that concerned about it.
(08:58) You get Chinese products for $100 and they say it's 10. Yeah. Like, I've seen that a lot, too. And I mean, like I mentioned before, I used to get cigars from the States and they used to send them as books or gifts or candles, but that got shut down, too. I mean, that kind of happens quite a bit. If you're if you're buying a used car from private seller, they'll the listed price will be like 15k or 20k and they're like, "Oh, you know, we sold it for 12.
(09:26) You wanted if you wanted to uh sell it fast." So, but the CLA has 12, but they'll actually sell it for like 17 for sure. And I can see like in a lot of cases where it's like personal stuff where like it's not going to probably cause a huge ruckus and you're just going to have to pay like the difference if you get busted.
(09:42) But when it becomes like a business and it's like multi-millions of or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, that's when they crack. Yeah. How's everybody doing? We have some faces popping up in here. What's going on? What's cracking? Not much new, just business as usual. What's up, gang? How's it going, sir? I'm I'm out dashing right now, so uh I'll just be listening for the most part. Cool.
(10:14) Cool. How much we make today? I just started $12 first ordering. Beauty. Not bad. Hustling. Hustling. Yes, sir. Inca Ron, how's it going? Uh, everything's going good. Just deal with that um thing I'm going through. So, yeah. Dealing with that thing you're going through. No. Yeah. Yeah. The section three. So, I'm just So, it was a section three that you end up getting. Yeah.
(10:58) So it um I got it the day after I messaged you the following day. Ah yeah. And so have you submitted all your documentation as of yet? Yeah, I did my second I'm on my second appeal. I think I did not I think they asked me for like my prep center information. So I didn't got the contract signed because of the Easter weekend.
(11:25) So, I signed that and um set up everything. I called the health, the rep, she told me it looked good, but we can we can wait. Did you have to do a video call as of yet? Yeah, I did. I did everything the same day, like hours, right? No [ __ ] So, now it's just a waiting game. Yeah. Yeah. It sucks. And it sounds like it's like it's it's obviously scary, but we know now from lots of people's experience like they're not that difficult to go through, right? Like as long as you have everything prepared, it's a pain in the ass to put all the
(12:00) documentation together, but it's you should be fine. Yeah. The only reason I'm not really worried about much a part of my time is because it's mainly Amazon purchases and the one um distributor I'm working with I actually called the brand and like hey do you do you sell to these guys and they were like check the records? Yes.
(12:27) So I'm think I'm in the good. Yeah. Good. Yeah, like you should 100% be fine as long as you have everything together and you're doing things legit, which I know you are. So, yeah. Well, it's still a stress 100%. 100%. So, is all your inventory right now locked down and your funds frozen yet? No, my phones are frozen and the only thing I can't do is just inbound anything.
(13:10) But um just have to wait. But your but right now your your account still your account still active and you're still actively making sales. Correct. Yeah. And I can withdraw money. I can withdraw money from my Canadian um side, but my entire um US section is just down. Right. Well, it'll be over soon.
(13:32) And then you can breathe. And what does everybody else have going on? Inca is at the warehouse prepping. He says, "What's new with everybody?" Bro, don't you have a mic? Uh yes I do. Sitting there sitting there typing. What are you doing? I'm just uh like talking to chat GPT making like indicators and [ __ ] Indicators for what? Like what do you mean? For trading.
(14:20) I'm still trying to learn. Still doing paper trading. Yeah. And how's it going? pretty good. But [ __ ] chat is pissing me off, man. Why? I asked it like one question and then I keep asking it other questions after and it just referring right to the old question. I'm like, man, it's it's the 01 pro version, too. I'm I'm so confused.
(14:49) I swear some days like for I like I swear some days like Chachi just turns [ __ ] for temporarily. Yeah. Yeah. I had to refresh it. But my my shipment that took like a month finally like uh they received all the units. Mhm. And it's been selling pretty well. But what's it called? Uh one of the items that I sent like from the day that I sent it, it it dropped down like $5, which is basically my whole profit.
(15:21) So that's that suck. Yeah. Is your account uh do you have like any of like the Head Start program activated on your account yet? Is that the one where I can sell uh without it being received yet? Yeah, when you have units inbound. Yeah, I actually got a sale like that, but then it took too long for them to receive the units.
(15:45) So, I'm pretty sure the buyer just canled the order. Have you seen Have you seen your units available for sale like before they're actually available at all? like outside of that. Uh yeah. Yeah, it shows available. It doesn't show inactive. Yeah. But but this other unit that went in is like been selling like crazy and it has pretty good margins, too.
(16:10) I I sold like 15 in the past 3 days since it's been uh received. That's solid. Yeah, good profit. So, I'm happy with that. So now we just have to keep rinsing and repeating with that. We have to get rid of the the shitty stuff, replenish the good stuff, and find some more stuff. Yeah, this this is the third time I replenished this one. So pretty good.
(16:33) Beauty. Yeah. So that means I need I need to go in your storefront and find what it is. That's the That's the one that they sent me like uh 200 extra units of. Is that your 200 extra? Yeah, remember I told you about it like a long time ago, right? And the person ended up being like very [ __ ] to deal with.
(17:01) So, they're still at home. Uh I told her I was like, they reached out to me saying, "Oh, uh we sent you like extra units. Can you send them back?" I'm like, "Sure." Like, "Can you send me the labels to print out?" and then took her like a couple days to reply and then she sent me a label saying each box is uh 1 kilogram instead of 10.
(17:28) And I'm like the label doesn't really match the product. And then she's like oh okay. And I'm like, "Okay, um, this is like taking up a lot of my time, so can you give me a free case, like 12 minutes?" And then and then she's like, "Uh, we'll just give you a discount for your next order." And I'm like, "What's the discount?" And then and then later she's like, "Okay, fine.
(17:58) I'll I'll just give you a free free extra case." I'm like, "Okay, thanks. Can you send me an invoice? for the product. Oh, nice. And then I'll send them out. And then they just she just never sent me an invoice and never reached back out to me after. So I just have them in my house. So you never sent back any of the 200 units? No, they're just in my house.
(18:20) My mom was getting mad at me though cuz it's taking up a lot of space. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, it's like $1,000 worth. It's shitty because like technically Yeah. like you're doing the right thing where you shouldn't send it into Amazon because if you get ask for invoices, you're going to be hooped.
(18:39) And like it never really used to be like that. And like I've gotten a lot of free products like before that was a big issue and I've sent them in and got free stuff. But like I've gotten like thousands of dollars of stuff for free from Costco. Thousands. Um is it something that you can like sell locally? You're on eBay at all? Yeah, definitely locally.
(19:00) Yeah, it's pretty good product. Yeah. Blow it out. Get that free money. I'll give her a couple days. If she doesn't reach back, I'll I'll start listing on marketplace. Oh, yeah. If they don't respond to you, I mean, that's that's on them. Yeah. But you have you have to consider that if that happens though, you may not be able to buy from them again.
(19:18) Like, they may not sell to you again. I'll just make I'll just ship it to my cousin's house, man. Okay. Yeah. And how's the other business going? pretty good. Uh yeah, I haven't I haven't gotten sales today or yesterday. So, but so far, uh yeah, around 8,000 for the for the past 30 days. So, I've been seeing your ads quite consistently on Instagram and on Facebook.
(19:55) Yeah, my friends started seeing them, too. They're like, "What the [ __ ] are you doing?" I'm like, bro, just go by. Are you advertising only Canada or Canada and the US? No, I'm advertising Canada, UK, US, and Australia, but I'll probably stop the Australia stuff. Why? Well, just no sales from there yet. Okay.
(20:21) Yeah. US, US and Canada and UK seem to be pretty good, though. And because it's coming from like your supplier, it costs you the same regardless to ship it to them, right? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Cool. Just straight drop shipping. When you're Yeah. When your supplier is shipping it, like does it like do they have their address on it? No, I I got it figured out where it's like I have to pay.
(20:49) It's like the shipping is just a couple days slower. Mhm. And then the label is actually created in the country that it's being shipped to. And I I did like a test buy for one of them to come to my house and it it just had a Canada Post label on it. So, it's pretty good. And is it just like a random address that's added on there or what? Yeah, it says from uh like Ottawa or something.
(21:16) I think it's the place where it got received at. They just put a label on it. I got no clue to be honest. Yeah. And so that works for like the US and other countries as well. Yeah, cuz a lot of them are like through UPS. So it says uh label created in the US. So Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty good so far. Have you gotten your Google listing in your eBay store yet? No.
(21:51) Yeah, I've I've been upgrading my website though. But yeah, I'll I'll do the Google today. Thank Thanks for the reminder. I actually forgot about that. Google takes like literally like [ __ ] a minute. Okay, I'll do it right now on this call. Hey, start getting eBay set up, man. Like you're you're missing out on a lot of good potential sales.
(22:12) All right, I'll do that, too. I'm just I'm just lazy, man. Quit it. Stop. Yeah, cuz even on marketplace, I get a lot of like new watches and I just don't post them. I'm like, [ __ ] it. I don't know why. For Facebook, I'm not sure, but like I I know like there's crosslisters that are available for eBay and Shopify for sure.
(22:36) Uh I don't know how well they integrate into Facebook, so like you can re like crossost things more easily. No, Facebook. I I have to do my own listings and it that's the thing with Facebook. I don't want to deal with all these like stupid customers, right? But I I did sell someone to Facebook today. So, so like is it like just local that you're selling them on Facebook? Yeah.
(23:00) Yeah. Facebook's been pretty good actually. I I gotten multiple like uh repeat buyers. Like someone bought a watch from me about a year ago and then yesterday he came back to buy two more. So nice. Pretty good. Yeah. You could probably also like I've seen like ads integrated into uh Facebook Marketplace where like they look like regular marketplace ads and you probably could advertise that more Canadawide I would imagine.
(23:30) So it looks like an ad on Facebook on Facebook Marketplace but you can like advertise it can wide. Yeah, I I'll look into that then. Yeah, seems pretty good. Thank you. Yeah, I'll start doing the Google listing right now. Do it. Yeah, thanks for the reminder. Of course. Y So then you're going to hit 10 grand for what month are we going into? May.
(23:59) Uh I mean actually it is it would be possible but I just need to work on uh like more advertisements in the in this upcoming week. Mhm. And just uh make my Shopify store a bit better. But it seems doable for sure. Do it for me, man. Do it for me. You got high expectations. Just quit [ __ ] around and do it. It's fine.
(24:33) When are your midterms over? Oh, I'm done. Oh, you're done school now. Yeah, I have until May 12th and then I start again. Yeah, quit slacking, man. Get it done. All right. All right. I'll Google Google right now and then send it to you. Do it, Google. I think it might actually take I don't know if it'll go live right away. I don't recall.
(24:54) It might take like a day or something before they approve it. That's fine. At least I'll I'll get it done. Definitely. Yeah. Thank you. How about everybody else? What's going on?Wami Med, you guys just popped in here. Bell, how's it going? Yeah, not much. I'm just just join just listening in here. I'm just I think Walmart UX is supposed to restock on Wednesday night.
(25:28) So, I just set up Hey, from the group buy and I'm just waiting around here to see if anything restocks. Looking for Pokemon or for sports cards? Um, I do those optic blasters in the US, but preferably Pokemon. I'm hoping the EV pouches drop on Walmart. Yep. Uh, for the optic blaster boxes, I know one of the dudes that we just brought in the server for cash outs, he's paying I think 65 US each bulk.
(25:55) Yeah, that's crazy. That'd be great if they restocked. I saw some guys in uh HA last week. Absolutely destroyed. They like 400 of them or something ridiculous. So, he's saying 65 right now. Yeah, 65 US, I believe. Let me just double check. I'm pretty sure that's what I saw. cuz I had I had those I had those listed for 65 and I haven't gotten a sale yet, which is strange cuz all my other stuff is selling.
(26:20) Yeah, it seems like the US market for those is super strong. Where did I see that? Where did I see that? I thought I saw 50, but that was a while ago. So, price could have changed. I seen it literally just the other day. Give me a second. I'll find it. I'm swear somebody was paying like 60 65 US [Music] per Who did I see? Who did I see? How much is the retail US for the optics? Um I want to say it's 25 or 35.
(27:00) I can look. One second. It's not bad at all. Yeah, and those were super super easy to get on Walmart. Uh, Cold Chill, how many did you get? I got a couple dozen. Yeah. You haven't sold any yet? No, surprisingly. I've been listing them as lots. Okay. Uh yeah. I don't know what Walmart retail is, but uh Shields has them for 30 US.
(27:54) It could be cuz my account got suspended for 3 days. I don't know. That might be a reason why cuz I listed it just before that. My suspension was over about two days ago. Oh, no. I Yeah, they that they've been on my case. Crazy. I don't know what the issue was. These uh Bath and Body Works guys, I accidentally disconnected my mic.
(28:21) What did you say? No, I was just saying when I got suspended, these people on my case, even though I filed an appeal and removed the images, even after the appeal, they're like, "No, you just got to take it down for the Which is which is super weird." Yeah. Huh. Have you relisted them since? No, I haven't.
(28:46) I just bundled them up with something else. Uh, so no, I see ES, the guy that uh popped in the server yesterday, he's paying 50 US per and if you have 40 plus, he'll pay you extra. What do you know what the quantity limits in in Walmart Canada were? Uh, when I was buying Yeah, when I was buying them first, they were five, then they got reduced to two.
(29:14) Oh [ __ ] there were five initially. Oh, when I started it was a two per. The very first time I looked at it, it was five, but it got reduced pretty quickly. Damn. But I mean, yeah, super easy to buy back toback and they stay in stock for like days. Yeah, they were they were up there for over 12 hours.
(29:33) At least since when I started buying it. I'm pretty sure like they were in stock for like over a day. I'm pretty sure. Was that the same day it released when you pinged it? Yeah. I swear to God. I swear to God they were in stock for like more than a day. And like there's no way these [ __ ] things are still in stock. I guess it's not as popular here.
(29:52) Well, yeah, I guess so. But like, yeah, in the US they sold out immediately, Nick. How's it going? Not bad. What about you? Good. Good. Sorry, I'm just eating dinner right now, but um yeah, what's going on? No worries, Kwami. I see I see that you're one out there. How's it going? Yeah, not so bad. How are you guys? Good, good.
(30:24) What's going on? Yeah, I just been uh I haven't been on active on the server for I mean I just I joined just a couple of months ago actually not really understanding what everything was about but and I was working at the same time but now I I kind of wanted to pay more attention to to Amazon. So I started like coming back into the server and figuring out what's what's happening here like all the bots and the PS and the keywords.
(30:53) I'm like oh god I need to figure out what what's happening in here. Have you have you started figuring things out a little bit? Yeah, at least I've started using seller watch. Um, today I was reading around trying to start putting in keywords to be able to, you know, to catch some of the things before they happen. I've done a bit of the A to monitor and got a few things from there and the deals.
(31:20) Uh, also I've got a few things from there that I've actually sent in and and they've done well. Beautiful. So, yeah. Uh, I'm just generally trying to get myself into the server more and and kind of get to know how stuff works and and take advantage. It looks like a really great, you know, place to be with all the the available channels and I don't know, just overwhelming from the beginning, but I'm I'm starting to just piece it out bit by bit and take it one at a time.
(31:54) Yeah, don't feel bad. Even people have been in here like since we started it, it's still overwhelming to a lot of people. There's there's a lot going on in here, man. I know, right? I had a quick question though for um Koshala when he spoke about the Barton and Body Works. Y are they do they have IP on Amazon for like I don't think they sell on Amazon.
(32:17) They don't, right? So I know I have a couple of listings, but I was worried about whether they they had IP, you know, complaints or not for Amazon in Canada. I don't believe there's any Bath and Body Works IP issues in Canada from what I've seen. Uh the ones that culture were talking about were specifically like special edition uh Bath and Body Works stuff.
(32:37) Oh, actually they do sell in Canada on Amazon. My bad. Oh, Bath and Body Works sell Canada themselves on on Amazon. Uh yeah, let me see. They have listings here. Let me see. I've never seen Bath. I've been selling them for a while. Yeah, I've never seen you have a store on on Amazon. That I don't think so. No, I don't think I didn't think so, but I just thought maybe they would um cuz I I I I initially I I tried to ungate with just their um regular online uh invoice or receipt and that's how I got to list them and they got ungated like right
(33:19) away. So, I thought maybe though and I know they're really kind of restricted in the US I guess. So, I was worried about what did I did I do something wrong? Like it was just instant like I just uploaded the receipts. I they don't even give you actual invoices, right? So, I just pulled out the email and then printed out from the from the site and PDF.
(33:45) They just uploaded it and within like a minute it got ungated. I don't believe they're that restricted in the US because even like the US listings are full of a lot of third party sellers. Okay. And yeah, like I've never heard of any IP issues for Bath and Body Works in Canada or the US, right? And for what it's worth, if like uh just like as like a funny haha, uh Chris Grant, the person who made IP alert, he regularly sells Bath & Body Works stuff. So there you go. Right.
(34:19) Yeah. Just be careful on eBay, man. They've been on my ass hard on eBay. Yeah. I haven't started. Yeah, that's one thing I want to actually like look into starting because I see lots of things. Um Jordan, there's lots of, you know, stuff that come out of the on deals that you always show up on eBay. I'm like, you know what? What's happening on eBay? I need to jump on there as well and see.
(34:42) Could be a good thing. What do you guys think? Like how do you combine eBay and uh and and Amazon? I recently got registered for Walmart, but I am looking is it is it a good thing to like have all these together at the time or how do you manage all of that together? Anybody? I personally think it's always a good idea to diversify, but if you're like in growth mode and you want to go hard, you should you should more so focus on one thing until you get really efficient at it and then look at expanding from there. Because like if you're diverting
(35:14) your attention a lot, it could it could sacrifice your business. But like say just say for example like if you're trying to build up Amazon and you find yourself still having spare time where it's like I'm done everything I can do for Amazon. I spent all my money and I still have some extra time. It's like okay cool then explore other things.
(35:32) But if if you're spending like every minute of your waking hours on Amazon and you're not able to get everything done then you should just focus on that in my opinion. Yeah, I mean I I totally agree. I that's what I do actually. I do all the sourcing every time. Like, okay, I'm out of cash.
(35:51) I have nothing to there's nothing to purchase again for another god knows how many days. So, how about start looking on sourcing for Walmart or something and trying to and it's hard to source for Walmart in Canada. So, but yeah, but there there ways I've I've devised to to use the same data from Amazon kind of to translate that to Walmart to see how it works.
(36:13) And I've got a few things going that that I've really sold out just by using the data from Amazon in Canada for now. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't dug into Walmart at all like either in Canada or the US, but that's something that I do want to like expand out a section in the server specifically for Walmart because it's obviously becoming a major player and people are having really good success with it. Yeah.
(36:40) Yeah. With WFS is really great. I've seen listings that are only seller fulfilled and I jump on it with WFS and send test units about 10 of them I sell out in like within two weeks it's all gone. beauty. Uh Evan, you came off your mic for a second. Were you wanting to say something? Yeah, just um I received an email the other day.
(37:04) Um and I think anybody who was on Chris Grant's email list would have received it. He's um having a Walmart challenge or something like that with over the next uh couple of months. It's kind of similar to his OA challenge, but of course the the Walmart challenge is new. So, um, you know, depending on the the the price of that, I might I might look into it just if anything out of curiosity.
(37:25) I mean, I agree with what you're saying. You should try to focus on, you know, one marketplace um or at least most of your attention on one marketplace instead of dividing your attention among an array of marketplaces. But I'm just curious to see what if any traction you could gain in Walmart Canada versus US or for sure.
(37:48) And yeah, like diversification and exploring other marketplaces, like I said, like I think is always a good idea. Um, it's just like in growth stages, it's just hard to divert your attention. But once you're established and you have things in place where you don't need to focus all your time, specifically like on Amazon, it becomes a lot easier.
(38:08) But a lot of people do really well trying to diversify off the hop. It just depends on what kind of personality you have. And and how much time you have, too. You have to realist. You just have to journal. Well, I mean, what I did to to figure out exactly how much time I have, cuz I still work full-time, is I kept um a record of um what I did throughout the course of a month and then average the amount of free time that I would have so that I have a realistic picture of how many hours I can devote per week.
(38:37) Um, and then just I can decide how to allocate my time for there. Definitely. And were you realistic with yourself when you were uh indicating how much time you had? Cuz I know even with myself when I first started doing that, I lied to myself a little bit. It's like I was actually, you know, I was, you know, quote unquote working, but I was actually looking at like YouTube or something.
(38:58) Yeah, I was I was pretty realistic. So what I did was um I calculated obviously the number of hours and minutes that I had but I always assumed that I had 50% less than that figure so that even if I had say you know a 75% or whatever I would still have more than enough time to be able to to be able to work on it.
(39:17) And you just never know too whether you know you're going to get sick or you're just going to feel extra tired and you need to take a rest. I'm not really one to to push myself to the point of burnout. I have to because if I end up doing that then it's going to take me days or a week to recover.
(39:32) Um so I try to allocate my time um very conservatively. Yeah. And I like when I've talked to people that do that a lot of people when they're really real with themselves they realize that they have a lot more time than what they thought. Yeah. I mean obviously you have to I mean if you're if if you're a novice with on a particular marketplace whether it's Amazon, Walmart, eBay uh etc.
(40:01) Um you obviously want to schedule more time than you think because you're on a learning curve. But as you as you were saying as you get more efficient um and selling on that marketplace um then you have a much more realistic picture of what your time is. I mean, there's still a lot about Amazon that I'm learning, but I mean, thankfully with how I've allocated my time so far based on that time diary that I kept, um, I'm at the point now where much of what I'm sourcing, I'm able to sell through between, you know, 75 anywhere from 75
(40:30) to 90% of it. I just sent in on my largest shipment about a month ago or so. Um, and I'm already sold through about 80% of it. So, that's encouraging for me. It's just like, you know, any other seller, the issue right now is capital or specifically the lack of it. Definitely. So then in your spare time, do you also like I know you were into books for a while.
(40:57) Uh do you also look for like and you've been doing the freebies, which is nice to see, but do you also like look for like opportunities? I know you're in a smaller city, but like say you look on like Facebook Marketplace for stuff that's like free that you could flip and get more capital. Yeah, I yeah, I do look at that uh occasionally.
(41:14) Unfortunately, much of the uh the freebies on Facebook Marketplace in my area are just unsalvageable. So, um I mean, and I'm not the least bit handy. I'm, you know, I I tinker with something for 2 or 3 minutes and I I want to throw it in the garbage. So, um but yeah, there's not too many opportunities that way. So, I've been focusing a lot on the freebies in the server, and I occasionally like to take advantage of the deals where possible.
(41:39) But, um, because by the time that I get to them, they're uh the products are sold out, I'm actually pretty excited for the the session on Friday about botting, so I can get into that. Um, because I think I'll have a lot more success that way than trying to do it manually. 100%. Have you signed up for any of the free acco? No, not yet. I'm just looking into it.
(42:00) It's it's so it's so hard for to to narrow my focus a bit, right? I mean, I'm getting better at it, but I struggle like everybody else, right? Because there's so many opportunities to make money in the server between the deals and, you know, sneak and uh sneakers and so on. So, I have to figure out um uh what just uh ongoing how much exactly how much time I have and to focus on one thing.
(42:26) If I were to suggest anything, and for anybody that's in here, if you're unfamiliar with botting or reselling on eBay, etc., um, if you have a little bit of money, uh, I would suggest that you talk to Vin or Q Montreal and ask to see if he can reopen up the Pokemon acco. You're probably not going to get a ton of units with utilizing him.
(42:52) However, most drops you will probably secure some units. Uh so that way like even if you're not paying attention, you can still get like say some Pokemon Center drops or some Walmart restocks and those things, let's just like all the recent sets minus like Journey together are very profitable, right? So like the Pokemon Center stuff that released today, super profitable.
(43:15) So if you have, you know, a little bit of money, even if you have access to some money on your credit card that you're not going to, you know, die over, very worthwhile in my opinion. Yeah. I mean, as far as the drops are concerned, um, what few ones I've been able to get, I've been focusing primarily on ones, uh, at retailers with generous return policies because they have limited capital.
(43:39) So, you know, if I don't end up selling it either because the market is saturated or because I haven't been um as diligent as as I should have been in checking the prices to ensure that my pricing is competitive, I at least have the option of returning it and I don't lose any money, right? Yeah, that's fair.
(44:00) Wami, you came off your mic a couple times. What's up? Yeah, I was just trying to I'm looking forward to that boarding session Friday as well. Um, and yeah, as you mentioned, the acco is something I'm also looking at trying to see figure out, you know, what's going on in there and and be able to join that as well. And then was this another thing about the is it group buying or something? Is it the same as the acco? So, have you joined the utility server as of yet? I have. Yeah. Okay, cool.
(44:30) So, group buys are essentially like group discounts. So some some of it have to do with botting some not. So like for a lot of the for example like Heiha and Stellar like those are bots that you can use. Uh so you can purchase them and then you can bot websites on your own behalf like Walmart, Amazon, Pokemon Center etc.
(44:56) So we have discounted rates for those bots and then we also have like group buys for different proxy providers. Um, I don't want to go too too deep into the rabbit hole of botting if you're not familiar with it because they get very overwhelming very quickly, but like you for some retailers you pretty much require proxies and then if you want to run multiple profiles, you almost always need proxies as well.
(45:18) Uh, it's almost like making like a separate workstation and internet connection. So like we we have we have group eyes from multiple different providers. So just you can find the things that work for you and prices and different uh different types of proxies etc. And then we also have uh group buys like I'm working on one right now for good life fitness for example and that will be going live on Monday.
(45:40) So not just specifically for body. Yeah I know I joined the the fitness thing too beauty. Yeah that sounds good. Thank you. Definitely. But I'm excited for the Friday session. and I can't wait to see what it's about. I've done a little bit of uh botting, like setting up a few scrapers here and there for for some websites, but I just want to see how um it's going to be done on Friday, learn more from there.
(46:11) Definitely, there'll definitely be a lot to look over and a lot of good information to learn. Uh one one thing with botting though is like I think some people get into botting and they just assume, you know, it's going to be super cheap and super easy, which it isn't necessarily the case. Like botting it doesn't have to be super expensive, but expenses can add up where you know like your bot subscriptions, your proxies if you're you know depending how many profiles you're running, uh if you're utilizing a server, etc. Like those
(46:39) expenses can add up fairly quickly and there's also there's also a learning curve, right? So like it's not like it's super super complicated, but there is trial and error to be successful with it. So, you can't just get a bot and just expect to be successful immediately. You have to you have to do some trial and error, right? Mhm.
(46:58) And a lot of people just think that they can just buy stellar and just start checking out hundreds of units. I know. Yeah. Even when I try to do the regulariz scrapings, I know you have to sometimes you have to um do your configuration multiple times to grab the specific locations, you know, the experts and thing that's going to run through.
(47:20) So I yeah kind of understand that definitely. But yeah, it should be should be a good session and very informative on Friday for sure. Looking forward to it. Melanie, how's it going? just popped in here. Are you here, Melanie? Maybe. I am. I am. How's it going? Sorry, I was on another screen. I was just listening. How's it going? It's going okay.
(47:56) How are you? Not too bad. Not too bad. Long time. Hello, everybody. I know. I know. Have you been busy? Yeah, busy. Yeah. And how's busy? How's Amazon going for you? It's going well, thank you. Are you breaking are you breaking new records? No, not yet, but I'm trying to Are you trying to spend money? Are you in Nick's still in competition? We are, but he I think he beat me last month, so I'm not talking to him anymore.
(48:32) And I should hit a new high this month, too. Oh, nice. Yeah, if it keeps going. Um, how it's going. Sales have been slowing down a bit the past couple days. But yeah, I have a [ __ ] ton of stuff to prep though that I'm going to knock out tomorrow. What happened to the roommate? Oh, he like So, he's still prepping, but like we're kind of just doing duo right now cuz we got [ __ ] out so fast. Mhm.
(48:59) Um, like we just kind of poor thing and I Yeah, we both prep at the same time. Um, yeah, like we talked about it. It's, you know, eventually he'll probably want to do it on his own, but right now it's like the we're getting units out so fast and I don't think I'm really like at the size yet where it like benefits like it it benefits me extremely by um him doing it all on his own basically. Yeah.
(49:33) Cuz like we could get an entire big shipment out in like 5 hours just do a wing and then it's like good, right? For sure. Oh. Yeah. One thing at a time. And so if I remember correctly, Melanie was the first one to 50k months, right? And then I think so. Yeah. Now you're surpassing her. Yeah. Yeah. Right now I think I'm at Let me check.
(49:56) Got to catch up, Melody. For the month so far, I'm at I'm at 46.8K 8K for the month so far. So, we're making progress. So, we go 4. I'm at 40 43.5. You're at your 43.5. You're close. 43. Wait, you're at what, Melanie? Yeah. 43.5. Okay. You're still doing well. Damn, that's really good. So then, Nick, Nick, you're on track to if you maintain the same pace, you're on track to do about 61 grand this month.
(50:29) Yeah. which is amazing. But honestly, with the way sales have been slowing down a little bit, I think it might be more like 55 or something. But we'll see. I think it's all about the checking in. Like I I have so I have so much stuff. It all goes to to the west and I get mad and I try to reroll it and and whatever and it just I it's very frustrating.
(50:51) Yeah, my last shimman that I just sent in, it went to Calgary, so I'm just waiting. Hopefully the one um hopefully sorry some [ __ ] Pokemon [ __ ] restocked. Pokemon restart. Um yeah, the accessory pouch collection. I just got a notification, but it's on Amazon. Oh [ __ ] People go buy go buy run. No, it's Amazon.
(51:23) That's the one thing like I'm good at checking out on like [ __ ] Shopify sites, but Amazon's a tough one when you're doing a manual unless anyone has the sauce. Amazon's just buy now. What's so hard really? It's not I go to click to check out and yeah, there was a problem is this quantity is no longer available. Blah blah blah.
(51:50) Oh, were you able to check out Melanie? No, I'm not buying I'm not allowed to buy anything. Yeah, I have a big pile. You guys know that I'm not allowed to buy anything. So, I list my stuff. You still haven't listed everything. No. Oh my god. Melanie, I'm on I'm I'm on a freeze. Jesus. Call got me.
(52:17) I don't I got stuff delivered in the mail from Pokemon, I guess, from um whatchamacallit. And I'm like, "Oh shit." So, is this a selective buy then? Oh my god. I I'm like I'm in the doghouse. Like, I put myself in the doghouse cuz I don't have time to list stuff on eBay because there's always something else to do. Get somebody to honestly get somebody to list for you.
(52:46) Who? Five bucks a listing or something. Yeah, like a niece, nephew, friend. I know. I was going to ask my I was going to ask my nephew, come take pictures and and list my stuff. Yeah, it's not hard. And like they they they can go through and make take the pictures, make the listings, and just put it in draft and then you can just quickly go in there and prove it.
(53:07) Easy by the time I ask and they come over and whatever. I could have probably done it myself, but it's been six months. Like I still have, you know, all my stuff that we bought like six months ago. Those that are probably not worth anything anymore. What do you What do you have sitting around? Cuz some of that [ __ ] appreciates buying I got those disc drives. Okay.
(53:29) I got some. Yeah. I got some Pokemon. Uh I don't know. Some big something from GameStop. They're pretty big. I don't know what they are. Um I got Oh, I got some autograph book. I got some autograph books. Which ones? I don't know. I never opened it. Um Um Hold on. Let me think. Oh, aside from like the server stuff, I have like Hula brand new running shoes.
(54:01) Uhhuh. That I could be making money on. Like do you have like the Van Halen autograph books? No. I think it's brothers something brothers. Yeah, that's the that's the Van Halen ones. Alex Van Halen. Those worth like 150 bucks each right now. Come on, get those [ __ ] listed. Yeah, like eBay listings literally do it in 3 minutes.
(54:30) All you have to do is just go on sold, find one that has like a a star on it. So those are like the top rated sellers. And just do click sell. Copy it. Yeah, literally just copy it. The only time it takes is really just the pictures. The rest is just if you know the price, you just put in the price, the shipping, should have an idea. And then yeah, just copy paste.
(54:50) Like I even sometimes copy paste their descriptions too. So yeah, you can also Well, I'm definitely going to copy paste a description. You can also lift pictures, too. Like you can literally you can literally drag pictures if you have uh like this uh a listing open and then you're listing, you can drag it from that listing into yours and it just copies it.
(55:09) Well, unless you're like me. Yeah. Unless you're in a [ __ ] house like me where they copyrights, you know, actually before I I actually copied another sellers's listing sold and it was it wasn't a brand's uh picture. It was actually theirs. So, I copied it and they reported me. So, that was my first strike actually um a month a month ago and I didn't get any stock funnel.
(55:36) No, no, no. It was theirs. They took a picture of it and then somehow Yeah, I I didn't crop it, which I probably should have, but it was it was just against a It was on a table against the white background, so it wasn't anything like Oh, they restocked again. Be quick. But yeah, they were What are you What are you buying? Can you send me a link? They're already out of stock, so I don't know if it was It's the pouches.
(56:03) It's the prismatic uh accessory pouch from Amazon. Quick. I got to go in and start setting all my my things again. My um pings and dings. I don't get any notifications. Yeah. Yeah. Listing. It's very quick. It's it's very quick. You can literally within 5 minutes tops if you're like slow to it to list on eBay.
(56:27) I made a dent and I cleaned out my office so I kind of know what I have. Um, well, kind of like not really know what I have, but I have whatever. Did you get your area to do it, Nick? Uhhuh. You're raising my blood pressure. Mel Melanie, were you in here? Like I think this is probably within like a few months of us starting when we bought like the Monster High Jack and Sally dolls.
(57:00) Were you in here then? You know what I meant? I I think I was still not allowed to buy anything back then. No, I don't I didn't buy those, but I remember you guys all bought them because like today those are worth like 500 bucks. Oh my god. Oh, you know what I still have that are not worth a dollar? I don't think are those Rachel dolls. Okay.
(57:20) Yeah, like the the Miss Rachel dolls. Yeah, Miss What were those called? Miss Rachel dolls. like inter Miss Rachel like interactive something. Yeah, I saw Yeah, they're selling for like 20 30 bucks. I saw those on Costco the other day. Probably shouldn't have held on to them for so long. You should have sold them around Christmas. Yeah, I'm I'm surprised those freaking Makami boxes dropped.
(57:50) Uh I haven't checked them in a few days on or like in a week plus. Honestly, I want to see what they're at now. I have full expectation that they'll come back up. So, are you just going to hold on to yours for now? Yeah, I haven't listed mine yet. That's the plan. Yeah, same. Did anyone end up buying the Morakami Louis Vuitton purses? I did not. No, I tried to.
(58:12) I couldn't get it. Those went crazy. I think they're like it was 4,000 retail and they were selling for like 7,500. People go crazy over stuff like that, especially when you have the authentic whatever. Yeah, I'm too scared to sell because eBay, bro. I' I I I've been listing stuff on eBay that are like $5,000 plus and I've been shipping them. No insurance.
(58:42) Actually, I packing I'm actually packing one right now. $5,000 going out today. Yeah, you need insurance. How much would it cost for insurance? You need a shirt insurance and a signature on that [ __ ] man. Yeah, until someone I was going to say, how much is it for insurance? $7. No, no, no. Like a couple hundred bucks.
(59:01) It's a couple hundred. Yeah. If I were to fully insure it for 5,000 USD, it's like going to be like 250 more than that. Yeah. Yeah. But still, I mean, you just [ __ ] need one of those to go missing and it's like, [ __ ] me. I should have done. Well, actually, you know what? I I insure half of mine.
(59:22) So like I'll send one, it's not insured. The other one I send it, it's insured. Yeah. So not not what I recommend to you guys. By the way, that's just me. Um did I I don't know if I told you or everybody that's in here. I went on a thrifting trip like like I don't know. I think it was like two weeks ago and I found a super expensive trombone that I bought. I saw that. Yeah. Oh wow.
(59:49) Did I Did I tell you that? No, I didn't hear. You didn't I saw the post like where you posted what you bought it for and then what it was selling for on eBay. Oh, I didn't even know. That's actually crazy. I saw it somewhere. You do it in your sleep, Jordan. I guess you do [ __ ] in your sleep.
(1:00:07) I didn't know I posted about it. So, wait. So, you bought it for how much? It was expensive for the thrift store. It was 200 bucks, but it's like a it's called a con Elcart trombone and it's like from like the '60s and so like I just so happened to it was like in the case and everything. I looked it up while I was at the thrift store cuz I was like this looks interesting and yeah like they actively sell for like 1,100 like 14,500 bucks.
(1:00:32) Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's amazing. I don't There's always something There's always something like that. You never know. 100%. You just don't know what kind of thrift stores you go to. Is it like Goodwills? Cuz I know those have been like those people have been scamming uh quite a bit. I actually don't have a Goodwill here, but we do have some value villages.
(1:00:52) And then there's like smaller like local thrift stores. So that one I found actually in a small town outside of Saskatoon called Warman and it's like a Metanite thrift store. Uh so it takes like I don't know a 15-inute drive outside the city to get there. And I know like for people in big cities it's like you can't even get anywhere in big city in that time.
(1:01:10) Um but yeah, like so uh the day that we went thrifting, I hit a new like small like hole in the wall thrift store that was [ __ ] We hit both Valley villages that were that are in Saskatoon and then we went out to Warman and hit the two thrift stores that were out there and yeah, it was a pretty decent haul. Yeah, you just don't know.
(1:01:32) There's even like in Toronto is a huge city and then there's thrift stores that are holdable. One was like a fire station or whatever. And I remember when I was doing books at the beginning, I found like all kinds of stuff in there and she would be like, "Okay, well like 50 cents a book." I'm like, "Okay.
(1:01:52) " And then I became staff because I was fixing her shelves as I was I was like um scanning everything. So then I didn't pay for anything. She made me a staff member cuz I was rearranging her shelves as I was scanning the books. Yeah, there was all kinds of stuff in there. Bra says, "I'm holding a meet and greet at Saskale.
(1:02:14) " There's like almost nobody in Saskatoon that's in the server, so I'm sure. How's the weather, Georgia? It's been [ __ ] beautiful. I'm sitting here with my window wide open. It's like like I think it was like last week it snowed. I fell asleep with my windows open, my heat off, and I woke up and it was [ __ ] snowing out and I was so cold and I was so pissed.
(1:02:38) But, uh, this week has been beautiful. Nice. Mhm. It's nice to hear that you're out of the deep freeze. Well, hopefully it stays that way. I wouldn't [ __ ] count on it. Oh, you don't know. The year has been crazy, too. It was snowing last week or whatever, I heard. And then this week, I got my balcony door open, also. Don't talk to me about crazy weather.
(1:03:01) You don't even know. Oh, I know. That's why I asked how your weather is there because I know it it was nuts in the winter. Did you go do you do any garage sales? Like sometimes May 24 is like a big garage sale weekend thing that people do. I think they're just starting to pop up. Uh there is like a big uh there's a big like uh entire community one not this weekend but next weekend.
(1:03:27) like the entire like they've had they've had it for decades where it's like their entire community puts on a garage sale like blocks and blocks and blocks. So I'll be going to that next weekend and yeah partaking that's I like that stuff especially when they do like street runs but all the houses do it at the same time. Yeah, that's one it's like it's called like the Montgomery garage sale.
(1:03:54) It's like the entire neighborhood participates. Obviously, not everybody comes and puts [ __ ] out, but there's always a lot of people that have a lot of [ __ ] out every year. That's cool. How's your dad doing? He's He's fine. Same old. Same old. Same old. I feel like I haven't been on a call in forever. Yeah, you've been slipping.
(1:04:21) Yeah, I've been a little busy. I've been sending you my receipts for every restaurant I go to though. You have and I've been adding the names in the utility service. I just haven't started putting the guys together yet. Yeah. I know we have more than obviously different restaurants and you guys have like Chick-fil-A, Shake Shack, whatever.
(1:04:43) But yeah, but I'll be I'll be I'll be putting guides together for all those though. like any anything that's like in more than one city in Canada will be viable for sure. Yeah. And for anybody that doesn't know what we're talking about, it's just ways to loop cheaper food. Been testing some methods. Yeah.
(1:05:08) My roommate did the factor one a couple times, but it it seems I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or something, but he only had two cards, like two physical cards that he could use. And then he tried using a virtual credit card after and it didn't seem to be working. So, I don't know if it was a coo issue or like they don't take virtual credit cards anymore.
(1:05:28) But yeah, it still worked with the physical cards though. Yeah, they they still do take the uh virtual credit cards. Um um sometimes you have to use Wise instead of COO, but um I've consistently had good results with both of them. Maybe he just needs a new card number or something. Is it I don't know cuz it he was trying to use the card on a different website as well, like non-food related, and it wasn't working either.
(1:05:53) So maybe that card number is broken or something. I don't know. Yeah. Click the button and get a new card number. Yeah, I'll I'll help him with that. It might have to do with his address. Might not be jigging. Yeah. Yeah. Because we live together, right? Like we I've used so many different variations of the address that I don't even know like what I don't even remember which ones I used, you know? I keep I keep a spreadsheet of everyone that I use just so that I know I don't repeat them.
(1:06:24) Yeah, I was doing that when we had the Uber deal going on. I want to do the factor ones again or even any of the other ones to be honest. I haven't done any of them in a long time. But the factor ones are good, but I only did it actually once I think. So, I don't know why it's so difficult. I don't know why it's so difficult here because then I got to go down and tell the concierge cuz if my name isn't on it, they refuse it.
(1:06:52) Uh, we're so so spoiled that it's like, oh, we have to put put in some effort for free food. I know. I was going to say, Melanie, you're getting $100 worth of food for like 10 bucks. I know. I know. I know. I should wish I would call it. It's actually just a call. That's why I got mad because they turned my food away because I think I put like my first initial last name or I did instead of Melanie I put Mel or I put I don't know Melie or Melissa or I think if I keep my last I don't know I don't know how to jig it properly and
(1:07:27) even the address like just tell them if it I'm not that invented. Just tell them if it has your something to do with your unit number on no matter the name no matter how [ __ ] it looks just just like tell them it's mine. Okay. Yeah, I should I should do that actually. And I should just save factor. Mhm.
(1:07:46) Well, I got I got I haven't done it in a long time to be honest. Just went to Costco yesterday and spent $300 on nothing. So, you can spend $300 or you can get food for essentially nothing. Which one's better? I know. Literally nothing. And the other thing that you can do, although it's going to cost you more money with the uh the mail kits, is if you don't want to keep creating new addresses eventually or keep uh jigging your address for the accounts that you have, is just to wait it out maybe a few weeks or a month or whatever and they'll send you 50% off
(1:08:22) coupons or 80% off coupons for those kits. And usually it's for a number of boxes, but they're, you know, conse consecutive orders one week after the other. And once the discount gets decreases to a certain point, say 20% or 30% when it's really not that worth it, just cancel it. And you know, a month later or a few weeks later, they'll send you the same discount or like a variation of the the same discount.
(1:08:49) So, have you been doing it, Evan, like lately? Yeah. Yeah, it's been great. Actually, I've done it for HelloFresh uh chef's plate. I've tried uh Good Food. I mean, good food's a little bit more difficult cuz you um you can't use the virtual card numbers with it. It only takes the hard credit card numbers. Um and then I've just I've tried all of them to see which ones I like and I'm kind of down to HelloFresh.
(1:09:12) And in fact, Chef's Plates not is a little too uh um they don't really have enough variation in their recipes and many of the recipes that they do have I just don't like. So um and I find that they're with their meat products too, it's much lower grade. Like I've had a couple um boxes come with spoiled meat in it.
(1:09:31) So Oh gosh. Doesn't one company own another company if I remember correctly? Yeah. HelloFresh own HelloFresh owner owns Factor. Factor is like kind of their top tier meals, right? Because it's it's the meals are you don't just have the the ingredients for the meals that you prepare yourself. The the meals are prepared for you.
(1:09:55) You just have to eat them. Yeah. So, they cost a lot more for that reason, right? Yeah. Know, I I ordered them once. It wasn't actually bad to be honest. Yeah. And I did order HelloFresh. Hello Fresh. And the only thing I didn't like about it, you guys are going to make fun of me, but I don't know. With HelloFresh, the meals were like I had four pans going. That's not for me.
(1:10:19) I need a one pan meal. You can adjust the recipe if you want. You can make whatever you want with it. You don't have to follow exactly what they I made a very good bowl of once. That was good. Yeah, but it can last you for like multiple nights, Melie. So, you could have dinner for like three or four nights in a row.
(1:10:36) That's true. I know. I got to start ordering them again. Especially the factor, I think, cuz that's the easiest. And they are healthy. Like they don't have um most of them are like no carb or whatever they whatever you choose. Well, they're pretty high in sodium. So, if you're if you have a sodium sodium sensitivity, um like you got to watch that.
(1:10:59) But other than other than that, say for a few meals, some of the fat content can be higher on them, but uh they're pretty good overall. Melanie, don't you eat like fast food all the time? Yeah, I don't have a problem with fat content. Never mind that. What are you worried about healthy for? No, I don't. I just there I think factor meals are more geared towards like the health conscious calorie deficit some keto like you know what I mean you can pick from those they're marketed that way but when you actually examine the macronutrient distribution it's it's
(1:11:33) really it's just that no it's marketing it's just marketing oh [ __ ] okay yeah because I remember everyone was on it for a while back then I Nick I think you ordered like back to back to back to back. Yeah. Like seven times in a row or something. Yeah. I got to get back on that. Yeah. Occasionally in my area in my area, I don't know what it is, but I get a ton of those uhons for for new customers.
(1:12:05) That's why I ended up I think it was what was it a couple months ago? I posted a whack of them. They just come to my mailbox for in my area to to be new customers. Oh, it's good. They probably lose so much money from us, but who cares? They make money. I see so many like living in a condo. I see so many of those boxes downstairs.
(1:12:27) They're obviously doing a good business. If they didn't want you to abuse their system, they'd make it so that you couldn't. This is true, Jordan. This is very true. Well, well, and the thing is too, they know that with all these coupons that they're issuing exactly how much money they stand to lose if if all those coupons are used. So, yeah, they probably every month or so they they drop them all at the condo.
(1:12:55) So, everyone has the option to try them out. Has anybody used uh that new retail radar for any Amazon sourcing yet? I actually saw your post. I didn't even click on it. I should really Where what was that under? You put it under server announcements or no? Yes. So, it's it's actually pretty good. Um, I used it this morning and I was able to find a solid amount of products in a very short period of time.
(1:13:37) Where did it go? Maybe I'm not using it right, Jordan. Does it connect through to to to your uh Keepa account at all? Like cuz I clicked on that little um chart icon beside the products that uh that display and um it nothing kind of came up for me. So, I don't know if I had to I have to have to back door it into my Keepa account or something.
(1:13:59) No, that's just to view the price history from that retailer. So, when they're like it's still like a new system. Oh, I see. Okay. But yeah, they're going to track price history for the individual retailers. So, you just sign in or create a new account. Yep. And then what do you hook it to? Anything or nothing? Nothing.
(1:14:20) You can sign in with Google or make a new account. You don't get hooked up to nothing, though. Oh, okay. It is it is like it's still a bit rudimentary, but it's it's pretty decent for what it is. Like it's still in beta testing, but um I find it's pretty good and it works a lot better than Stock Track and it also has stores that Stock Track doesn't have or that like Stock Track hasn't really supported Walmart very efficiently for a long time.
(1:14:45) Uh I don't think Stock Track has Visions. I found a [ __ ] ton of stuff from Visions. Um, so yeah, like there's obviously still some things that need to be adjusted and like be able to identify like open box and refurbish stuff a lot easier, but if you're able to go through there and cherry pick stuff, like I went through and I just sorted by highest percentage off and just started cherry picking stuff out that um it's like, oh, I recognize that brand or I think this would do good, etc.
(1:15:11) And yeah, I found some solid [ __ ] very quickly. No, that's good. I got to I got to take a look at that cuz that's off track is good, but like you said, I think it it's a little harder to navigate to be honest. Yeah, this one has a lot like if you already have the product, yeah, it's okay, but if you're searching the product, I think it's more difficult.
(1:15:31) Yeah, this one has a lot better platform for that and they're going to make it even more user friendly for that, too. What's up, Evan? Is there going to be a charge for it or No, I just I don't believe so. I think Ali, this is Ali's thing from YZ Prep. Um, he is he's going to either support it via ads, uh, affiliate links, or maybe have like a a subscription for like enhanced features like extracting data via CSV. Right.
(1:16:03) Right. But I think like the main the main site is going to be free. What's up? I'm not going to take a No, it's okay. I just wonder were were you saying I think I read it in um in the announcements when you uh had announced the the the software that it would be embedded in the server or something? That's that's the hope very soon. Yes.
(1:16:26) Because I've been looking Yeah, yeah, I've been looking for like exactly that for a long time because like we have Best Buy but like we have we don't have Walmart, we don't have Toys R Us, etc. So essentially make channels similar to Best Buy where like all those deals are coming through there, all the new ones.
(1:16:42) Um and then you can set your keywords or scroll through the channels that way too. Yeah, that'd be awesome. 100%. Yeah, I put I put Ali on a bunch of different websites that he can go on to to sign up for different affiliate links for different websites. So that will be able to help support some of the cost for that stuff as well.
(1:17:08) So if he sticks with it and implements some of the features that people have been suggesting, I think it has really good potential. Oh, it looks really cool. And I think another thing that would be good Oh, sorry. Oh, no. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, I just think another thing would be good for us, especially those of us who do OA and RA, is to um uh enroll in the I think it's the Amazon reviewer program.
(1:17:37) Uh the program in which you uh record short videos um demonstrating uh products or just showing products and uh you can earn um affiliate uh commissions for that based on watch time. Mhm. We have somebody in the server that actually has done that very like like semi like semi fulltime. Oh, really? I didn't know that. Um, what is his username? His name is Adam, but what's his username? Uh, oh no, it's not Adam. It's not Adam.
(1:18:11) It's David. It's David. Davided. It's Yeah, David that does it. that guy from Calgary. Yeah, he mentioned that I think he and or his wife has done it quite extensively. Yeah, I know there's um a um a media well small media company out in BC. Um I think they had a YouTube channel. uh one of the two co-founders uh discovered it early on and I think uh made about half a dozen videos or something like that and just gradually added to the the store videos and over time I think within about a year period of her first
(1:18:51) year and granted this was early in the introduction of the program I think she made like $11,000 just doing that and these were just 30-second videos she didn't show her face and there wasn't any found. Yeah, I've seen like things like that. Uh Tik Tok shop affiliates. Um even like doing like uh certain Facebook pages with like content because you can actually get partnered on Facebook and get paid for content.
(1:19:18) So whether that's posts or videos, etc. There's lots of different things that have a lot of really good opportunity. And I would love to introduce all that information into the server. I just want to find people that are specifically in those and have been successful and they're not full of [ __ ] So, if anybody ever finds those people, tell me because I would like to integrate them in here and not somebody that's just like just not actually doing it and just trying to sell a course.
(1:19:43) There's too many of those. But yeah, there's like I've even seen people like just doing random quotes on Facebook and they just do, you know, random quotes like every day and eventually they're able to build up a Facebook page that makes like $1,000 a month and they're like they're not like high quality.
(1:20:02) They're just like random photos that are taken with their phone. Takes a while, but people can build things up like that. Just come on the mic, bro. Come on the mic. Yeah, I just finished the Google thing. Uhhuh. Uh yeah, it turns out I did try before. Okay. And uh for some reason they said I was suspended cuz my products did not I don't know something with my privacy policy or some [ __ ] like that. Okay.
(1:20:51) So I I fixed those and then I submitted a review for it to be reviewed again. Beautiful. Yeah. And I'm just uh making a new ad right now. So you might see that on your feed the next couple of days. Beauty. Yeah. You haven't put up your blog yet. I see, man. Okay. Hey, I just did the Google thing.
(1:21:16) All you have to do is go to Shopify and just add a [ __ ] blog page. Come on, man. Okay, I'll do that right now. And just just like grab some ideas and generate some like do deep research post GPT and generate some articles. He has some good keywords. All right. Yeah. I I noticed uh one competitor. what he does on Reddit is like, "Oh, did someone buy off this website before?" And then he makes like a fake account saying, "Yeah, like I received it and stuff.
(1:21:50) " That that's a little like that's a little gray, but I love grow marketing like that. You should I I told I told you that's how I built up my entire business before. Yeah. Through Reddit. Yeah. I saw like you you can you got a guy through Reddit text like not too long ago. You were showing me the trap. Yeah, even Yeah, for the server like we have people that join something regularly and the traffic says it's coming from Reddit.
(1:22:13) I literally just go on there on my serendipity account and just like like talk to people or somebody asked like about botting or something, I just check this out. Yeah. I'll I'll do a blog. Yeah. And the main purpose of the blog is just to have those keywords that will populate in Google when people are searching for it, right? then they'll come to you.
(1:22:36) Well, then shouldn't shouldn't I wait for my Google thing to be verified first? Well, no, because your website right now is on Google. Like if I search your website, it pops up on Google, just not like your specific your specific like listing. Oh, okay. So, the blog would help that too. Correct. So, then that way like somebody doesn't have to specifically search for your website name.
(1:22:55) They can search for, you know, some something some something some watch and then your website will pop up. Okay. I I'll do the blog today then. You better not ask me about it tomorrow. I'm going to It should be done tonight. Yeah, you have no You have no school. Quit slipping. I I just bought a new mattress, so it's it's like kind of comfortable.
(1:23:19) So, you're telling me you got to break it in or what? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Get her done. Yeah. I'll get I'll get back to work now. But yeah, how are you though? How how what are you up to? Just chilling, dude. Chilling, you know. Nothing exciting. Yeah. Same old, same old. You got to start a new business venture, man. You're getting too comfortable.
(1:23:48) No, I still have way too [ __ ] much to do right now. Oh, I Yeah. Yeah. Good luck with that. I have so much [ __ ] on my to-do list to do. Like some days it's like I look at my list and it's like there's so much stuff to do. I just don't want to do anything. Yeah, that's how it is, man. But then you just got to start 100%.
(1:24:11) You're preaching to the choir. All right. I I'll get back to doing the ad now. If you if you see it though, uh tell me how it is. Are you making ads like on Canva or what are you doing? I'm just stealing the competitor's ads and then taking off their watermark, man. [ __ ] that. You know, you know what's crazy? What? I saw someone's ad that's like selling the same thing I do and then I I go to their profile and then I see cuz I post customer reviews, right, on my story to I I see their customer reviews and they're just straight up screenshotting
(1:24:55) my story. I was like, "What the [ __ ] That's crazy." And and their post like posts like I'm I'm used to people stealing my videos and stuff. Like that's not a problem. I I used to steal people's videos when I first started, but customer reviews is crazy, man. That's hilarious. Yeah.
(1:25:21) Um I seen like Have you I seen something on Instagram the other day. I think it popped up because I think I clicked on one of your ads. It was called like I want to say the page was like Moody's Mods, something like that. Oh yeah. Have you seen their page? Yeah, they they stole my videos too, man. And did they? Yeah.
(1:25:38) And the thing is they're like the biggest sellers. So Well, yeah. Like they have like some of the videos that they have like they look like decently well produced and Yeah. Like it looks like they have like a decent amount of traction and traffic. Yeah. I'm I'm going start stealing their their ads, too. [ __ ] it. Going for everyone. So unethical. So unethical.
(1:26:05) Bro, I in one of their ads, it's actually my video. They're they're advertising my video. I was like, what the [ __ ] You didn't like comment on their [ __ ] or anything? I I did and then they blocked me. Yeah. And then and then the other guy that stole my customer reviews, I I saw he was Muslim and then I just pulled the uh this is haram card like, "Hey man.
(1:26:38) " And then he just blocked me. I'm like, "Okay, there's just no point." So I just emailed him. I'm like, "You will not be forgiven until the day of judgment. just got to do anything. [ __ ] it. I wouldn't even like It's shitty, but like I wouldn't waste my time. Like unless you're going to like attempt to litigate against somebody, it's like whatever.
(1:27:00) Yeah, exactly. It's I just I just blocked him from my account so he so he won't steal anymore. Take it as flattery over anything. Yeah. On your videos, like I imagine there's a way you can probably watermark it that's harder to remove, right? Yeah, I could do that, but it's just too much work, man. For for a guy that has all this [ __ ] going on all the time, you're always [ __ ] pretty lazy, bro. Just just let me be.
(1:27:34) [ __ ] it. School already [ __ ] me up last semester, so I'm I'm still up. Yeah, which is good. Yeah. made made a decent profit this month. Decent profit like just on your website. Yeah. And like uh Facebook, how much did you profit? How much did you profit this month? Like uh 7 to 8K. It's not bad at all. Yeah.
(1:28:06) Especially I'm I'm still a uni student, so I'm like I'm like balling compared to these other [ __ ] They're like, "Oh, I'm going to get a part-time job." And [ __ ] like that, getting paid minimum wage. I'm just flexing on them. I don't really flex, but it just in my head I'm like, "Damn, that's Where's uh where's like the Lambo, bro? What's Ron say? I'm saying your [ __ ] Yeah.
(1:28:50) It's crazy cuz when I first started this actually, they were like [ __ ] uh trying to clown on me. They're like, "Oh, no, nobody's buying that shit." I'm like, "All right." Like, "You don't have to buy it." Just like And then Yeah. Who was saying? Especially one kid. Who was saying that? Sorry. Who was saying that? like my classmate.
(1:29:11) I was like I was like, "Yo, like I sell watches." And then he's like, "Oh, okay. What the [ __ ] Who's going to buy that?" And then and then next month I'm like back in like uh what's it called? Feb February 2024. I made like three three uh months straight 10k profit. And then he's like, "Fuck, man. Um, I have to go to my part-time job.
(1:29:42) I'm getting paid like $18 an hour and I have finals and [ __ ] I'm like I just I just I'm like, "All right, bro." Like, whatever. Yeah. H That's how it is, man. I mean, don't don't uh don't get buttth hurt about it. That's just how most people are. Yeah. I don't I don't really care. It just you're just funny cuz like I don't know.
(1:30:07) I feel like once you get into a a business and it's not like you're getting paid hourly like the value of the money is kind of weird. So I think I know what you mean, but explain what you what you mean by that. Like I I used to work part-time jobs from uh since I was in grade 8 until like my first year of university. Mhm.
(1:30:36) And then so I'm basically working around 8 hours for like $100, $110. And then now I just make like one sale which takes which takes me just like a couple of texts to my supplier stuff like that and then I'm basically making uh $100 in like a couple minutes when I used to work the whole day for it. Right.
(1:31:06) But so when did you start this business though? Oh like uh late 2023. Right. Right. So, you've been doing it for multiple years and so like obviously when you first started it wasn't like that and you had to front front end load a lot of work, right? Yeah, that is true. That's with like any business. Yeah. Yeah. I know. That's what I'm saying.
(1:31:27) Like it's it's just crazy. Like obviously it takes up a lot more work, especially at the start, but then once once you get a hang of it, it's like it's it's just like uh it just changes your mind a little bit. Yeah, man. That's why that's why people start business, but that's also why that's why there's so many people that don't do it because it's like, oh, it actually takes effort. Yeah.
(1:31:52) Yeah. Like some some days like I was working a lot more than like a full-time job would have required me to do. And then some days I'm barely doing anything and still making money. So yeah, that's what we do, man. That's what we do. That That's why I I'm just going to like raise my capital again and then uh go go hard on Amazon.
(1:32:27) Oh, but I actually wanted to ask Cole chilling something. What's up? Like I've heard stuff that says uh day trading is as Jordan said actually haram. It depends on the stocks you trade in in itself. Day trading isn't but the stocks that you trade it depends on those. How about like uh NASDAQ? Well, that's the market index, right? Uh yeah, you would have to So there there are apps uh apps out there.
(1:33:00) uh al I don't remember off the top of my head but they essentially uh scrape all the data from these stocks and they tell you which company is Sharia compliant. So yeah there's an app for Android as well. It's on your phone and they have a web app. There's a couple of companies that do this but you would have to look through those.
(1:33:24) But day trading in itself from what I understand and from what I looked up when I actually tried to day trade is permissible. But again it's the companies that you have to worry about. Yeah. The the part I was concerned about is cuz uh we're not allowed to make profit or sell something that we don't own. And that's a shares in a company.
(1:33:49) So you can you can invest in stocks. There's no issues with that. Yeah. But day trading, you're like buying contracts. Oh, okay. Well, I mean, it dep Well, it also depends on like you can't do futures, you can't um uh Yeah, you can't do some of that stuff. Yeah, there there are some restrictions within day trading at itself. Yeah.
(1:34:10) Okay. All right. Thanks. But yeah, I don't know, man. If if you can do well on day trading, like props to you, but it's a very very very high steep learning curve. Yeah, I've I've noticed that in the past week that's why I'm just making like indicators to help me a little bit, but it's still even then it's like kind of unpredictable, especially with Trump.
(1:34:45) Well, I mean, if you if you there there's those market indicators where they follow these politicians like the Nancy Pelosi tracker and these other trackers. And even Trump, I mean, he basically like he before he tweeted uh uh what do you call it? Lifting some restrictions on the tariffs uh or extending it rather for 90 days.
(1:35:09) He said uh you know, buy the dip or something like that, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, it's a great time to buy something like that. And then I would say like 12 hours to 24 hours later he announced it and then you know the the market went up quite a bit. So yeah, with with stocks I mean it depends what kind of trader you are.
(1:35:29) There's some traders that that basically just buy on instinct uh looking at certain market indices and uh indicators and stuff like that. Others they have to do pretty in-depth re research and you know some people day trade some people do you know longer trades like you know hold for a couple months.
(1:35:53) So there's it really depends on your strategy but I'm I'm I'm not like anyone that did particularly well with it. So take what I say with a grain of salt. Yeah. But doesn't that technically mean that like meme coins is haram also? I think. Oh yeah, 100%. That's why I never bought me coins. Yeah. But but like I mean like crypto like you can Bitcoin and Ethereum, they're fine because there's a utility behind it and people actually use it for transactions.
(1:36:23) And then there's some other coins which have some utility behind it. So they are. But like if you're talking strictly meme coins like someone just puts up like you know a picture of [ __ ] and this just says buy it. We're going to pump it and based on just literally a meme, then I would I'm pretty sure that's not allowed.
(1:36:41) But yeah, again, you'd have to ask a scholar about this, bro. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously. All right. Okay. Thank you, Cole. Chill, I have a question for you. Go ahead. We were talking about uh yesterday in our ticket call about utilizing different AI models to feed it information about like say p past ticket calls, ticket like actual sales uh sales data for tickets uh and then have it like say connected to like Google news and read events about uh certain artists to help predict if events will do good or not. Do you think with your knowledge
(1:37:22) of AI today if any AIs could actively do that and predict what events will do good um or be profitable rather for that? Well, it would depend on how much data you have for training and you would probably have to create a more custom uh AI model for that or at least tweak tweak the ones that are available or I mean you could even do it but uh to get the best results you would have to tweak it a little bit and I don't see why not.
(1:37:58) It could, but that just seems very hard to predict in a sense cuz there's a lot of variables that go to it and there's going to be a lot of different keywords and yeah, that's not something I've ever dealt with that complex uh when I did machine learning and of course that you know it's changed quite a bit but in terms of what tools we have now honestly I'm not sure.
(1:38:27) It could be done, but I don't know how good it would be cuz it just seems like I'm not too familiar with the ticket market itself to say as well. So of how you know past events and news related to those events affected sales. So that would also greatly depend. But if people like if you say, "Oh, like you know, for example, there's u a new event that's coming out and it sells out within I don't know like u x amount of hours and that's easy to predict uh the price and all that stuff." But potentially it could work.
(1:39:05) Yeah, cuz I mean if you think about it, there are trading algorithms out there, right, for stocks that work pretty well. And of course they're all private, right? So, um, if they can do it with that, then you can definitely do with tickets. Yeah. Because like the thing it would be like not finding like super mainstream artists, but stuff that maybe other people may miss and like a lot of like v virality can cause a lot of people to want to go to those people's concerts.
(1:39:36) uh like if somebody do does really good or is like super hyped in like a a festival or they have like a breakout hit song, whatever the case may be, and picking up some of that stuff is a little bit takes more work. So, I was thinking about putting together like an AI tool that can do that or that can pick up like indicators of like maybe artists that are not as well known, but they have a decent audience in this city and this this venue only has a 100 seats and they actually have like an audience an active listening audience of like
(1:40:06) 10,000 people. So, it's a good indication that this event will probably do good in this city. Yeah, it could be done. Like when I was in the NFT space, they had bots that kind of looked at social sentiment too. So they had one, they would track wallets and two they would so that would be the buys and then two they would track social sentiment via Twitter and they they would they had of course preloaded in accounts, right? the major accounts like the major movers and influencers and then other smaller accounts and then they would aggregate
(1:40:42) that and they would they would have like a social meter uh for how hyped something is or how overhyped it might be etc. So, and that was before AI. That was like, you know, back in 2019ish, 2020ish. So, yeah. I mean, definitely could be done, but it would be pretty complex. Uh, cuz I haven't I mean, that's just from what I would say right now because I haven't really made anything complicated with AI yet.
(1:41:12) So, and you know, the the AI environment changes pretty quickly, right? How fast they're progressing. So, who knows? Right. Because like even things like when you mentioned about like social hype like that could be a good indicator too like if it can track uh Instagram, Twitter, etc. uh and see like once something is posted and how many people like it or interact with it in a short period of time because even like just general flips and drops that we've found.
(1:41:43) Uh we've based a lot of it on like data like that where it's like okay like this has a ton of interest in short period of time so we know this is going to do do well right and that could 100% apply to artists too. Yeah, cuz those things like with the social meter then that would kind of involved a little more on the calculation and math side because you'd have to set up the logic about you know x many posts equals this uh social meter and these keywords combining with the keywords and all that.
(1:42:11) So that that's where I it would get complicated within the logic uh itself. But if you're talking about just looking at scraping a lot of data, I mean there's already apps that do that right for social media. They look at keywords and for products uh they look at hypes and how many views they're getting um for across all social media platforms.
(1:42:31) So potentially you wouldn't have to even worry about that. You just have to get their API from these programs. But then you would have to build a logic in to what constitutes you know hype for that particular venue, right? And I suppose like the big idea would be to have if possible it essentially try to analyze the data that's being fed.
(1:42:59) So, it's like, okay, it can see like so many interactions, but it can also see or read through comments about what people are thinking about it, right? And you know, if there's way more positive versus negative plus this plus this, then it's like, okay, then we have a good indication that this is going to do well. Yeah.
(1:43:18) Yeah. The LLMs will work really well because they can kind of understand what sort of like understand what people are saying in their text. But I would say the major hurdle would be the logic uh behind Um, the sentiment analysis, bra, we have a new project for you. I mean, that's that's a full-fledged app right there. That is like, you know, that that is like $50 a month kind of app.
(1:43:48) Oh, [ __ ] No. If it can actually make you money, it would cost a [ __ ] ton more than that. Yeah. I mean, that at minimum. Give me a week. Yeah, bro. All right. All right. Steve Jobs. Because like when things like when things can actually make you money, you can charge for them. Like if you can actually show people the value that it can produce, right? Yeah.
(1:44:09) Something like that. Like and like the same kind of concept could apply to uh artist events, but then also like general flip opportunities and things to invest in, right? You can probably use similar logic just focusing on different categories. Yeah. Yeah, I mean like with all the data in this Discord, you could build something pretty powerful with just just the amount of sheer data you have here.
(1:44:34) Oh yeah, we have 100,000 pings come through this server a day. That Yeah, that's that's wild. Like even you I would obviously start small with within a specific category and then see how well that works and then move it on towards others. But yeah, it's I mean, yeah, it's definitely something that's viable because there's there's a lot of like the feeds with the information feeds that you have um that that can easily be used to track hype and news and potential drops.
(1:45:02) You could even create an app that like like a calendar kind of app where it tells you something is dropping and then link those drops uh combine that with the sentiment analysis of what people are talking about those drops. So that way you have future hype before it even dropped. And that I mean that would be relatively more simple uh because you're just tracking the sentiment and you don't have to do much logic behind that.
(1:45:31) Uh but yeah, once it gets more complicated uh and and if you have less data then that's where it gets tough, right? But yeah, even starting with something like that I think would be a viable a viable place to start to start building out a tool like that because like that's what I have like the the two VAS that we have in here doing like basically all day is looking through stuff looking through their keyword pings looking through our information feeds etc and determining what kind of stuff could be potentially do well and like that is time consuming
(1:46:02) and where's there's obviously like only so much that one person can look through so there's lots of opportunities that are being missed as Well, right. Yeah, for sure. So, yeah, I mean, if you can get a good dev who can work with AI, who's familiar with like cursor uh with Windsurf with the different uh integrating uh different APIs with it and working with that and definitely, you know, that is something that's pretty wild. the calendar thing.
(1:46:34) I think actually now that I think that's a pretty good idea because if you have hype beforehand then even for something that's niche that's not that wellnown but if there's people talking about it then you can have your bots and your you know cards ready beforehand 100%. And like that's that's like the major thing is just identifying those potential opportunities, right? Because like if you could have something that gauges all that and it's like here look into this this is why.
(1:47:01) And then you could narrow down things so much easier, so much quicker and you can go through so much more data. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean there's there's endless opportunities. Like when I look through the Discord, I'm just thinking of like so many different things, so many different applications that someone could make from this and charge people for it.
(1:47:22) So there's there's a lot of stuff here 100%. Ali, you popped in here. How's it going? If you're here, maybe, maybe not. Yeah. What's up? What's going on? How's it going? And about to head out soon. Yep. We long days, long days. We were talking about uh retail radar a little bit earlier. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's That's so crazy.
(1:48:03) Rest. I was thinking about talking to you about it for a while, but I'm like I needed to get some more people first. Make sure it's uh a little more polished. I don't want it to just get destroyed in like five minutes of use. It's like, why the [ __ ] didn't you tell me? This is like the things that we've been looking for and we have a group of people that can [ __ ] test it for you and tell you bugs and features.
(1:48:24) I know. I know. But I wanted to I if if you get a bad taste from the first time you try it, no one hops back on. So, I got to make sure that there's something at least something there for the first time that people hop on. But I've seen like people people have been on there like 40 50 minutes every time they hop on. Yep. From what I've been seeing.
(1:48:45) Well, just just wait. You're going to probably have an influx of more users because I just sent it to my VA. So, they're probably all going to be joining today. Don't worry. I think it's I think it's good to scale. I'm just pumping out as much of the the little extra stuff. I know UPCs is a big thing people wanted.
(1:49:03) So, um I have Best Buy, Walmart in the bag. I'm trying to get the other ones down. So, what prompted you what prompted you to start building this? I think it was we had a couple people that were sourcing from Stock Track. Mhm. And then I did some research into it. Apparently, um it's pretty bad now or it's or maybe it's just not upkept, something like that. Mhm.
(1:49:34) Um, and I thought it'd be cool. So, I did it for fun just to like I originally was going to be like um would find things and just send them to clients like hey like here's I don't know I probably do something around that but then I just decided you know it's it's for more than just sellers cuz some people they literally just look for deals for themselves or for anything.
(1:49:55) So, I wanted to get into the get into something with software cuz there's like two or three other softwares we're working on and I haven't had anything go public yet. So, this is kind of getting my feet in the water for that. So, are you building this yourself or are you using a developer? My developers, yeah, I do have some I had some help initially to figure some things out.
(1:50:22) Like I'm all of our internal software at YZ is built by mainly me anyways. So I know about the more backend stuff. It's just the front end which is I'm horrible at. That's what I had to polish up. So it took about a month and a half and to get something going and then now it's just uh little updates here and there. Beauty.
(1:50:43) So with the storefronts that you have, do all these storefronts have APIs or are you scraping the data? M it's a mix of both I'd say maybe uh see one two three a couple of them do like Walmart definitely doesn't I think Best Buy does and some of them they're like they don't have yeah I would say like half of them have APIs but even the API data doesn't it's not like it's not that like Best Buy API won't give you PCs easily you have to do it another way which is super annoying so it's like you'll get post the stuff you need and then you got to figure out
(1:51:20) the rest. Mhm. But I'm going to add uh Costco soon. I think that's one that people want and I think I added a bunch that people don't use. Like I don't know. I've never seen anyone go to the Toys R Us one or Visions. I don't know why I added them. Don't [ __ ] No, do do not remove those. I was just talking about uh earlier how I hopped on Visions this this morning.
(1:51:49) I found a [ __ ] ton of stuff for Amazon. Do not [ __ ] remove them. This is why I need to start charging for this soon once it gets good because if I'm going to add more retailers, I'm already at a couple hundred a month. So, it's going to it's just going to get higher and higher to upkeep the to upkeep.
(1:52:08) And if people start using notifications a lot, which I just put up today, so I don't even know how it's going to work. But if they start using that a lot, that requires even faster checks. Mhm. So, let's see how it goes. As long as the bases are covered, like there's no stupid bugs here and there, then it shouldn't be everything should be pretty quick from now on. Definitely. But it's good.
(1:52:29) I'm getting feedback from from people. I had some people um from before. I had some people that were like clients too that I messed them about and then now I've been getting some feedback like some are in DMs, some people use the email and then some are on Discord. We have like 40 people in the Discord already which is majority that's probably from you anyways but that's a that's a big jump.
(1:52:53) I mean I was expecting it a little bit later which is it's even better that it comes now. So cuz these guys will actually give me feedback which is what I want. Well, yeah, because a lot of us are actively using it for deal finding and [ __ ] uh resale purposes, right? Yeah. I mean, there's tons of people that'll just use it and then the moment there's a bug, they just that's it.
(1:53:12) Like, they'll just ignore it and keep doing it. I need to know. So, it's hard for me to know, right? And I I think like most of us that are in here understand that because we're we're in the process of building businesses, right? Yeah. Like even even little things like you want to copy the title. I mean, that's what it originally was.
(1:53:32) And then I don't know why I changed it, but um if you didn't mention that, that would be there for I don't know how long until someone told me. Anything I know, anything I notice, I'm going to tell you. Yeah. Let me see. The price history. Price historyries are pretty bad. That's what I'm trying to improve.
(1:53:54) Uh one of the big things was speed, but luckily I think it's okay. The problem is I test everything on a pretty decent computer. So, I'm hoping I'm hoping it's working well on everyone else's. Um, like I mentioned to you, um, especially if you have like heavy Amazon sellers in there, um, utilizing affiliate links I believe could cover if a lot of your expenses have not make you a pretty healthy profit pretty early on.
(1:54:23) Yeah, I want to look into the thing you sent. Um cuz I think I just in the beginning it was just something on my task list to look into and I saw it for I think Walmart and Best Buy and one of them was already declined. The other one I've never really worked with affiliate links before.
(1:54:38) So I had to look learn a bit more about it. But I know that stock the the other website stock track was definitely doing that. So must be something for even if it's a couple retailers it should be fine. Yeah. And like so like the ones that I sent you like they're essentially like extending their affiliate program to you. So you're going to get approved regardless, right? It it'll you'll have a lesser percentage, but some of them are still pretty good.
(1:54:59) It's better if you can get approved like Walmart Direct, but if you can't, then that's still an option. Um, but yeah, like once like when I tell you that like with Amazon sellers especially if they're using this, which they will, you'll be you'll be able to earn a very fair amount of money because it it'll add up quick when people are buying 20, 30, 40, 100 of this unit, right? And then cookies are left and then you still get the affiliate commission for anything else that they buy for the next 24 or 72 hours.
(1:55:29) So, the the one you sent me that's uh you think they would approve it in its current state? Yes, you'll you you'll get approved with no question. Yeah. I think maybe I should going too official with the route. I wasn't looking at third parties. Yeah, I'll look into that for sure. Yeah, that even if it just offsets the server cost for now, it just lets me build for so much longer without having to worry about like other features and stuff and how to I don't know like payw wall like the CSV thing. I'm still trying to figure that
(1:56:00) out cuz I can't have everyone download all the CSVs of all the products of all the retailers. I'm going to have to figure out what's the limitation on that. But that shouldn't be too too bad. Well, is your data like your backend data? It's being stored in like a database, I imagine. Yeah, it's I mean, it's growing pretty big because I have I have a couple like we have history and then we have the the products and we have the prices.
(1:56:28) So, it's not like it it has to be connected every time you want to download. It's not like it's going to be um if it's the latest price, I mean, that one will be faster. I doubt anyone needs history cuz that would just kind of make it that would just take up so much resources. Probably not worth adding it to like max like like up to like yesterday the past seven days.
(1:56:49) No, even adding even adding a day is just it's it's just getting out of the latest price. That's where the bottleneck would be. Mhm. So I had the the the drops for today and all that that's calculated beforehand when it's going in. It's not a live calculation. So I think if they want to get that you you'll be able to download the drops that happened like today for example but not all the product prices for yesterday and all the product prices for today.
(1:57:19) That would be it would be just too much resources right now. I think I was looking to I haven't even added on the alert side. I added it for brands, retailers and um products but not for the drops yet. That's the next thing I have to add. What that's probably the most important one. So, what kind of database are you using? This one is just uh right now it's just a bunch of I think I have a mix, but it's mainly MySQL, just a couple of those.
(1:57:49) And I was going to change it up to something more efficient, but honestly, it's working fine as it is, but the data you're accessing is not like coming from any database directly. It would take forever to load this many products. So it's kind of like there there's some background work with some um uh there's like other two or three other servers that are always kind of indexing all the data that are ready to serve it.
(1:58:18) So you don't have any if you search up something out of you know a million products it's not going to take a couple seconds right so I'm not a developer in any capacity I have very limited knowledge but I know like for example our seller watch uh software that we have it is using I'm pretty sure it's using SQite uh for our database as well and we are working on implementing like a a CSV download discord command and it we've already had it working and it's able to produce all the data that we have from our database and it can produce like like because with one of my
(1:58:55) threads for example I have like over two million records and it's able to produce it in a relatively short period of time. What's a relatively short period of time? Uh when my nephew was testing it, it was like with like under a minute. Okay. Yeah. So right now, like if you're doing back end or quering stuff, that's perfectly fine.
(1:59:18) But what you'll end up happening when you have 10 million records or 30 million records is it doesn't scale. And SQL like you won't ever be quering SQL. And this is something I learned too. You won't be querying SQL directly for anything in like higher production. you you you instead you have another layer of another server that basically just indexes all your SQL stuff and you can keep updating that layer.
(1:59:44) Um but that layer is all indexed. So right now we have about a little over a million something of the products from all the retailers and you can search up any of them within um I think 100 100 milliseconds you'll get a response with the latest price and the whatever data we need. Okay. So that's in production that's where I mean cuz for us obviously it matters more just time but it's uh it's a lot faster even the price history like it's it's literally connecting the prices from however long it's been tracking it and that's available in like
(2:00:16) half a second when you click it but there's over 45 million records in price history right now right so that's something I tried doing the SQL way the first time and it was like 3 4 seconds and then but I realized as it grows it gets longer and there's no way you're waiting 5 seconds for a search like after a while.
(2:00:36) It's just not going to it's not going to work out, right? But yeah, man. Like I think if you stick with it, you have a lot of potential for like some of the things that I mentioned to yourself even for even for like not even just like Walmart, even for like Best Buy and Home Depot because like Best Buy has a third party marketplace.
(2:00:56) Home Depot in the US does. cuz I don't know if they're in Canada yet, but they will. Yeah, dude. Send me all whatever retailers have the best. I'll put them on. I hope Costco has something cuz I I don't know how their thing works cuz I think they I don't know if they're paywalled or like log like you have to log in to see prices.
(2:01:15) I'm not I don't remember. But um I know people want Costco. If you have any other suggestions, let me know cuz I'm I I know I'm at Costco and I think someone wanted Rona. I don't know how how many people use that. Maybe I'll have a vote or something in a while. I don't know. I just I don't want to waste until until it has some sort of like revenue or something supporting it.
(2:01:40) I don't want to just keep throwing in retailers, but I do want more options cuz most people are just using Best Buy and Walmart, right? I I can tell you that Toys R Us Visions has really really good potential. Um, and I think like so like there's multiple different people you can market to.
(2:02:00) Like there's like your regular everyday consumer there trying to find deals. And so when I mentioned to you about like getting more users and posting on red flag deals, I I noticed like you you mentioned um I looked through I'm a bad post. It's crazy. Well, I looked through like some of your Reddit posts and like it looked like you did it on Reddit.
(2:02:17) Is that correct? Yeah, I just I went to their Reddit. I was mad. I'm like, you know what? I don't think it was in their Reddit, so let me just throw it up there. Um cuz I didn't even mention the name or a link or anything. It was crazy. And it was on a post of Stock Track, which is advertising literally stock track. So, I thought it was fine.
(2:02:36) So, with that, what what I was thinking is actually going on Red Flag deal forums directly, right? Not not not the first post that we're going to make. like we're going to interact a little bit, not have anything to do with our like retail radar, but then like once like say you you just watch it and you find like a really good deal, then it's like, "Okay, cool.
(2:02:52) We post a deal like 90% off this and then you post your link that goes to retail radar." Yeah. So, that was when I actually first tried to post it. I there was no um if you look in the URLs when you're looking through stuff, it'll like navigate throughout, but there was no navigation in the URL when I posted it initially.
(2:03:12) So, even if you wanted to share something, it would just take you to the main page. Now, I have a share link, which basically just searches up the product. I'm probably going to make that better, too. Um, but I did that because I realized if I was to post a link, cuz I saw people posting deals, I'm like, that's the next basically what you're saying, that's the next way to do it.
(2:03:29) I have no way of actually putting a specific product. Now that I do, that's that's probably like a more organic way to get people to go there. 100%. And like when you post on like the red flag deal forums, your post has to be approved. But like when you start posting things like that and like say like even multiple different accounts that have different age history on red flag deals, then they'll be like, "Oh, like like this is the next stock track.
(2:03:50) " So they'll let that go through. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Man, I was going to message them too for like permission or something. I'm like, you know what? If I don't say the name or mention anything, maybe like why would they even bother? and then just karma banned but appealed it still banned and and all those places they're going to do that because like they're very protective over that [ __ ] which I get it right but um but then like if you want like another retailer that you could add in and I what I would say is you should try
(2:04:20) to get approved for the affiliate program before you do is I Herb because if you look at IHB's commission schedule some of their products have [ __ ] 20% commission and I Herb is still like even with the restrictions, it's a [ __ ] wet dream for Amazon sellers. So, wait, hold on. Oh, no. Sorry. Okay. I had Healthy Planet already done and I deactivated it cuz I thought it was useless.
(2:04:49) I don't know if people use that, but I Herb is probably the one that should have done. I sourced I sourced from uh Healthy Planet before. Healthy Planet is very good for Amazon. Yes, it is. Healthy Planet had that I think I stopped because their online inventory and their store inventory are two different websites and it was just like I don't have the confidence that people use it enough.
(2:05:08) But now that there's actual users on there obviously it makes it a lot easier to justify adding new retailers cuz I can just see if people are using them. So I Herb I'll put that on the list. That's definitely one. But if they have a great affiliate, even better. But yeah, but see see if you can get approved for the affiliate first because then it would make more sense because like they have a [ __ ] ton of products.
(2:05:30) Um, but if you can get approved, which you have you already have a platform, so I don't see why you wouldn't. Uh, but yeah, like their affiliate commissions can be extremely high. And like if you just take for example like a standard Amazon seller that will find things for sale and buy them for IH herb, it's not hard for them to spend a couple thousand dollars in a day.
(2:05:52) And you multiply that by 10, 20, 100, it can [ __ ] add up very quickly. Even if your average commission is like less like most platforms, you're probably going to be averaging like one to 5% best. But like I've seen I Herb some of their commissions have [ __ ] like up to 20% which is ridiculous. But even at like 2% it can add up super quickly.
(2:06:10) Yeah, I'm looking at that thing now. It looks like they're pretty leaning with it. You can deep link any product or page on the site. And see, that's what I'm saying, man. I don't know why you didn't tell me what the Are they people that cancel a lot of orders? What's that? Is I hear one that cancels a lot of orders for you guys? Like the OA orders? No, they're very lenient.
(2:06:35) Okay, that's good. Yeah. Yes. I want to use flash clash there. So that's impact on here. Okay, that's cool. [Music] And see like with this so like just like forward thinking. Um if you want to stay Canadian focused, cool. But with iHerb itself like their their websites are interlin. So like uh iHerb.com is the same as.ca.
(2:07:00) They just have different currencies. I'm pretty sure they share the exact same stock. So you can probably very easily change links based on people's location or you know whatever. And so then you can cover both Canada and the US very easily with just one website. H I was even thinking about throwing Amazon in there, but that was just a behemoth that I don't know how to deal with it.
(2:07:25) I think someone suggested that too, but most people are selling to Amazon. So maybe it'll be like a CA US thing. I don't know. I'm looking at it and the more I think about it, especially with this group, I was tailoring it towards everyone, but I don't mind tailoring it more towards resellers just because if it is going to be a chargeable thing, if there's a lot of expenses, it makes more sense for people making money off of it to pay for it, right? And then I can add, you know, the all those reseller specific stuff, which makes more sense. Anyways, I would I
(2:07:58) would say if you're going to go that route, have like your main platform with like the price drops available publicly because you'll get a large audience with that, especially if you have affiliate links available and then specialty features uh behind, you know, a reasonably priced payw wall. Yeah.
(2:08:16) Because like like and I'm telling you like the affiliate links are going to be able to produce more revenue than you than you expect. Dude, if that's true, then I don't even have to worry about too much with the revenue because again, it's honestly to cover most of the costs. A bonus on it would be great. But if it covers most of the cost, I don't mind just getting as many users as possible because that's a really good like stepping stone for me.
(2:08:41) Um cuz I the ideal world that we were building like software in is for B2B um not so much consumer base. So anything that's just you know gives me some sort of experience is good. And yeah, it was going to be if it was like payw walls, it would be like the very specific features, certain like filtering or downloading like the things that only people that really really need to use it would would need.
(2:09:07) Um, or it would be a very like a $5 a month type thing um to have like unlimited access to the to all the basic stuff if you don't want ads. Something like that. I don't know. I haven't looked into it too much to be honest. I even with like an average consumer like with if you can get approved for some of those programs you're going to earn a lot more on affiliates than than you think.
(2:09:32) Like I'm telling you like a lot more. Yeah. Okay. We're going to put that to the test, man. If that if it works out like that, that's perfect. Then I don't even need to worry about like some low-level pay walls and stuff. It's not going to maybe be a concern. Yeah. No, not not probably probably not not at all.
(2:09:49) But and and I'm not I'm not I'm not trying to like understot like you're going to be able to earn a lot more than what you expect if you have the traffic. They're hyping this up like crazy. I really have to look into it though. Let me see what else stock I have. They have IKEA. I don't think anyone would source off IKEA. Shoppers Drug Mart.
(2:10:12) I I've actually tried that one before. It's not as easy. Um, I think they have too many limits for people to buy anyways if they're trying to buy bulk. Uh, the source was a really good one, but that went away now. It did. Let me look through my list of retailers and give you some ideas here. What are you at so far? Right now there is Walmart, Canada Computers, Canadian Tire, Home Depot, Sport Check, Staples, Toys R Us, Visions, and Walmart.
(2:10:50) Maybe PetSmart. Pets Smart. That's good. Yeah, I got to get some different niches in here, too. A lot of these are just general. Um, yeah, I'm trying to think of the big sites that like a ton of products. I imagine like with Shopify sites in general once you are able to tap into that be relatively easy to do with Shopify.
(2:11:14) Staples is Shopify but they're so annoying. Staple Yeah, Staples is different. Yeah. Did you say uh I didn't realize it for a minute. I thought everything was fine and then I looked at the pricing. Um, but uh just for as like one that comes to mind would be Hobbiesville. And if you look at the bottom of Hobbiesville website, they have an affiliate program that has a standard 5% commission.
(2:11:41) Well, you do 14 home. So, I mean, how many I heard does I heard have physical stores? I don't know if they have physical stores, but all their stock is online. That saves me a lot of headache to be honest, worrying about the stock. I don't believe they do. I don't think Hobby Seb Shopify and standard Shopify.
(2:12:12) So, you won't have the same issues as you did with Sapos. They have a store in Toronto, but I'm assuming they're mainly online. Yes. I don't know if they have like store specific stock online. Okay. I hope they don't. It's very annoying to add all that stuff. It's really beneficial for Canadian Tire.
(2:12:33) Like they they have the varying prices thing. It's not even I mean if you scroll enough you'll see them, but they'll have the you know store for store specific price. Mhm. Um I'm probably going to add something there if especially we're doing it for resellers. I'll add something to sort by the ones that are varying in prices cuz those ones you'll find a crazy deal and it might be near you and the price will be like a couple hundred bucks cheaper than any other store. Yep.
(2:12:58) I think there people that do that right now is a little Did you say Best Buy? Yeah, Best Buy is in there. like shoppers, right? London drugs maybe. I don't know. Uh London drugs. I have London drugs. I disabled them. I don't remember why now. London drugs would be good. I don't know about any affiliates that they have, but it would be good as general.
(2:13:37) Yeah. I mean, if it drives enough traffic to the website, then I can just say anything is good. But I have London drugs already set. I don't know why I disabled it. I think it was taking I think it just everything they had was like a max like four per purchase. And that doesn't matter, man.
(2:13:59) We We placed back to back to back to back. Is that why I stopped? I'm trying to remember if that's why I stopped. I think Well, I think Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're like Canada computers. The way that we have to get the data for them is so annoying. But now I think there's a little capacity. It's just that Walmart is taking up so much of their resources and it's so important too that I need to I don't want to add too many too quickly.
(2:14:24) But I'll put this one on the Dude, I'm just going to I'm going to figure out this affiliate thing this week cuz if I can get it set up and it actually, you know, if it starts turning out good, then then I won't be worried about, you know, maxing out resources or anything. Right. So, if you like the one that I sent you, I believe from like I know it covers Best Buy.
(2:14:43) I want to say it covers Walmart and like others as well. Uh but just like for that and like that's super easy to get approved with. And you think about it like say even if you get like a 2% commission and it's not hard for an OA seller to spend a couple thousand dollar and you times that multiple, right? So even like somebody spends two grand and you get 2%, you'll very easily get $40.
(2:15:05) And that can happen multiple times per day and that can happen multiple people. Yeah, it'll add up a lot quicker than what you think. I'm looking at a bracket sense website. See what they have. Home Bar use that it is. It is good. I think it will probably be a pain in the ass for you and I don't think it'll provide as much appeal.
(2:15:34) Do you have GameStop? GameStop would be pretty good. And um what's that called? Memory Express. Memory Express. Okay. I don't remember that. That's basically the Oh, that's New Egg is what I was going to add. Yeah, New Egg's pretty big. New New Egg. New Egg is like New Egg is like an Amazon. That might be a pain in the ass.
(2:15:57) Yeah, it will only be sold by New Egg. Um, but yeah, I do need to see what they, but I know they they have they have deals that other websites might not have. Um, Express, this website looks crazy old, but maybe that makes it easy. Let's see. Yeah, they have I'm all Damn, I don't have affiliates. What about Staples? Yeah, I have Staples on there, man.
(2:16:53) Staples Staples has a [ __ ] ton of products. 36 rolls per case. What is this? Oh, see I see what you mean about things being out of stock. Oh, dude. Yeah, I saw 36 rolls of toilet paper, thousand sheets per roll, $30 at Staples and But yeah, you can certainly have people like obviously you have resellers that are going to be watching sites like this, everyday consumers then, but you'll probably also have other businesses that like the Facebook pages that do deal posting.
(2:17:41) They'll watch sites like this 100%. I'm trying to figure out what's the best way for me to get stock cuz I don't want to waste so much out of stock stuff showing at the top. Especially like I think stables are one of those places that does it a lot. But I can't do it for all the Maybe I could do it for the top products.
(2:18:05) Or the other way was that whenever someone checks it, I'll just cash it for a while and if it's old enough, we'll try to refresh it so that we know that there was some interest in that product. But either way, it's it doesn't end up being too reliable, right? And you would be able to sort out why The instrumental.
(2:18:44) Yeah. You see what kind of value more more people can give you. Yeah, man. I'm glad you messaged. It's funny cuz I feel like I saw you in the Discord the day before, but then I thought I just clicked the wrong Discord cuz there's like some other I think like Nick or some other people were there too.
(2:19:07) I thought I was just clicking the wrong Discord and then you messaged the next day. Oh [ __ ] you were. I found you. I found you. Was it off Twitter? I feel like it was off Twitter. Yeah, it was. I was okay. I guess that's a good thing. I literally I've had Twitter on my phone for the past 3 years and it's been bugged where it doesn't let me see anything or sign in and I finally uninstalled it and reinstalled it the other day cuz one of my friends was just telling me to I don't know get on it for something and then first thing I saw was serendipity. I saw there was
(2:19:40) like a old post my could have been tagged after we reposted this back in the day. But that's what I saw. I seen that you liked my post. I your profile. I seen that you were building something. you didn't [ __ ] tell me about. So, I looked into it. Other stuff we're building, too, man. But that's not that's not ecom related, bro.
(2:20:02) We're trying to build a robot to do prepping. It's so annoyingly difficult. But one of my friends, like an old childhood friend, I just connected with him recently. He he got uh they just got an investment of like 12 mil to build humanoid robots which is crazy cuz the original company sold like robotic mounts for cameras. They work with like Netflix and stuff and then all of a sudden they get like 10 mil of funding or like 8 mil USD of funding just to build humanoid robots.
(2:20:39) and he was telling me how like the the gap of hardware with AI now it's not it's not that big of a deal as it's not out of reach as I thought. So I've been trying to look at some machine and see if anything's feasible. Even if we don't use it ourselves I would love to just sell it to like a 3PL a bigger 3PL or something.
(2:21:00) That'd be crazy. 100%. And those types of things can save people money and a lot of time. So yeah, people are probably going to be willing to pay a decent amount of money for it. Yeah. No, it's I I was so like I've always been interested and then when I got actual exposure from him and he was showing me everything, I was just going I was losing my mind like this is crazy that they're actually doing this and he's like a whole childhood friend.
(2:21:28) So all of a sudden he comes back. I haven't been for like a decade and then he's buying the same car I have. So he was like asking for advice and he came back, we reconnected and then he was like, "Oh, yo, by the way, we just got an investor for 10 mil." I'm like, "What the hell?" He was at like the guy who's investing, he basically sold a VFX company to Netflix for 150 mil and now he's just spending money on everything AI, which is crazy.
(2:21:56) Yes. That's what's bene that's what beneficial about uh connecting and talking to people because you never you never know who you're going to talk to and what how things can change. Yeah, that's sick. How are you guys managing the tariffs? No more importing. I've been basically ignoring them until uh until things are actually sorted out, finalized.
(2:22:26) I just haven't been paying any mind. If that'll ever happen. Yep. Yeah. Apparently, there was news that they're doing something with um like the auto industry or something. It's my roommate works in the auto industry and he got laid off because of the tariffs. But he said that there's a chance that um they're going to go back now.
(2:22:48) Like some news got released today. I'm not exactly sure what it was, but something like they're not going to charge tariffs on specific companies that did something free tariffs. No, I see that Trump said a couple hours ago that the auto tariffs would go up in Canada. Oh, really? Well, cuz we would cease to exist without us or something like that.
(2:23:12) I don't know. I'm kind of so dumb, though. like uh you know Japanese cars you can literally import if if they didn't tariff them or if they didn't prevent them from prevent Canada from importing Japanese cars like right now there's a restriction where you can only import a vehicle that's 15 years or older from Japan but like for example if you wanted to buy u like I don't know like a Corolla or what do they go for like 20,000 plus here 30 yeah 30 yeah around 25 I said 25 plus from Japan. They sell them there for
(2:23:49) like like 176. So like more than $10,000 cheaper. Okay. Probably like 15k cheaper. And then even as you go up like the minivans are even cheaper. And yeah, like I know I know guys that actually do uh JDM trading where they import vehicles from Japan. Like they'll import minivans, they'll import sedans, and they'll get them really cheap, like really low mileage, like they'll be less than 100k, usually around between 50 to 60k driven.
(2:24:25) And they'll buy them for like $2,000. And these are like Toyotas and Hondas, like 2000. That's crazy. 2006 to like 2010 models. And then it'll cost them with shipping, it'll cost them like 5k to bring it over here. And they'll sell it for like 12. Yeah. With that low mileage. Yeah. Those are like the prime years for like Civics and Accords and [ __ ] too.
(2:24:49) Mostly the the vans do really well here. Like the Yeah, the the the minivans cuz minivans are so damn expensive. Wait, what are the minivan ones? Not the Pilots or the SUV, right? No, the mini um talking about the Toyota ones. Toyota and Honda both like they get there's Odyssey's Sienna and so yeah Odyssey Sienna is a North American vehicle so they don't have a Sienna.
(2:25:15) They have something similar. Um it's called an Alfred which is like pretty much the same size of a Sienna just the body shape is different and like it's kind of made differently but it's I would it's comparable. So, and yeah, they they he he buys them for like around 7Kish shipped and then he flips them for around 12 12 to 14 15K.
(2:25:44) So, Ali, the the dimminim dimminimus is going away come May second. Is that correct? For China yet? Not for Canada yet? No. All other countries are still under the impression that once they come up with a system to manage it then they'll go away. Um but the one that's for sure changing is is China. And so do you I would imagine that you know like is that still going to apply like importing Chinese products from Canada to the US? Yeah.
(2:26:20) Yeah. So, I've recently learned, although this wouldn't apply to resellers, but for private label people, like it's so easy to manufacture in Canada or sorry, state that it's manufactured in Canada. Mhm. Um, you can literally do, they say it's uh whatever has the most value change in it is the reasonable change, but someone would need to pick your item and ask you to prove how it's made in Canada for you to actually have a problem.
(2:26:46) And even those guys like the the buddies doing robotics, even just loading the software in Canada is the value ad for them to make it made in Canada, right? And they've shipped so much product to the states, right? Completely terrorree. Um, just for a a reference, a record as proof of what I was talking about for affiliate, while we're talking, I just looked at some products on retail radar, and I found a product that I can buy on clearance right now at Walmart for $5.
(2:27:20) It sells on Amazon US, 5,000 units per month, and after my expenses, profit is $8.69 a unit. So, you don't think somebody you don't you don't think somebody's going to go and [ __ ] Walmart with your affiliate link and clear out that clear out that stock. Dude, I love that. I love that. It's actually It's crazy to see you actually did something.
(2:27:42) I did I did that [ __ ] two minutes while we're talking. Powerful. I got to watch out. I was I'm going be s Well, no, your group is the main main users of it right now anyway. So, I wasn't going to be selling the same product in like next week. Well, like no, like like and like with [ __ ] like this, all you have to do is like if you're focusing resellers, like literally just make a quick clip, show an example like this is what I found.
(2:28:09) This is what it's selling for. I mean, here you go. You can [ __ ] uh if Walmart has say a hundred in stock, I just made $800 in profit. I need to get on content. I'm so lacking in content for the prep for anything I do. I just always stuck away from content. I have an Instagram for YZ that I only have touched in like 4 years and I don't know what every time I try like even me getting on Twitter was trying to get into the software content something like that and I look at people doing it.
(2:28:45) This is not Bro, have you have you looked into the AI AI generated content? There's literally accounts I follow on Tik Tok that are completely AI face generation and voice generation. And I think but a lot of them they they do the avatars of themselves and then you can see their mouth.
(2:29:05) But they their content if it's interesting enough, no one looks too deep. No one really cares cuz they they put their image like they put their face like really small in like the corner. Did you see that one girl? She said like every time she's wearing a cap, it means she's AI and if she's not wearing a cap, it means it's actually her.
(2:29:20) And most people don't even think. Yeah. I mean, people don't really pay attention to the face. If the face isn't really the content, it's like the the background that you're showing. Like for example, if you have a video of someone walking into like what Jordan said, Walmart picking up a product, scanning it uh on seller ramp or something and just showing how many units uh they bought or how much their money they could make and then you could just have the narrator with the AI image um AI video at the bottom just talking about it cuz there's
(2:29:50) there's accounts that I follow that are essentially all AI generated but they talk they talk about like business content and like different products and different uh brand ideas and all that stuff and they have like hundreds of thousands of followers. So yeah, they Jordan, do you do content posts that aren't your that aren't you? Like that's not your voice or your video or something.
(2:30:17) So I'm similar to you where like I don't really do content. So like the videos and stuff that you see that are on our platform, I have absolutely [ __ ] nothing to do with. Uh Danny in our server, one of our staff members, he has a VA that he's training to make content and he's been training that VA to make content for us. So I don't make any [ __ ] content.
(2:30:39) Like the content that I make is stuff like this where I just do videos just talking about [ __ ] But even like your see for me even content is like if I'm looking at your Twitter right now this is basic like you know it doesn't in my head I just don't I don't think that oh I should post this like something that happened or just something that that goes on but it would be useful if I did.
(2:31:05) I think I started thinking that way. It's weird though. I don't know if I do it on like do I make an account for the bit just for posting randomly or see the script writer. I think the hardest part is just getting the script written and then the video just use AI and then like not even not even a video just like you know okay like I'm looking at this right now A2A monitor updates and it's like a bunch of checklist of things and then like some screenshots like that's that's good enough to get people like if you're scrolling and you see something
(2:31:33) interesting. I don't even do that. So feel like I should start with that. So, you just have to get out of you just have to get out of your head that like whatever you're posting like because that's a big thing is like who who who would care about what I'm posting. Get that out get that out of your head.
(2:31:48) Just [ __ ] post it anyway and just post consist consistently and then you'll eventually knowledge. Well, yeah. Then you'll like the people that are interested in what you do will eventually find you, right? And it's not it's not it's not even like you need thousands of followers to make something happen. I've built these businesses that we have doing no [ __ ] advertising, posting random [ __ ] I'm an [ __ ] online to people that that deserve it.
(2:32:16) And that's that's all I do. Yeah, I got to get content. I think that's the next thing. Especially with software, I think it makes so much more sense to do content. Prep I've always justified like no one really needs that for this, but I mean it could help, but it's always been okay. But then when you get into like a brand new territory, yeah, it's uh even just building it.
(2:32:40) I was just going to do like, you know, I don't know, just content about like we're building this or what issues we ran into or I don't want it. I'm going to like sit down one day and just like write out what I'm going to try and then do it properly, just start posting. And like I I just want to say this because um when I tried uh retail radar this morning, I did it because um so my my VA team is coming off of a long Easter break. Okay.
(2:33:14) And so I had to do some sourcing this morning for like the lead list that we have. So for Canada to US, I had to source for that list. I literally open up your site and if you look at my list today, there's 10 products. There's three from Toys R Us and seven are from Visions. I found them all on your site and I found them all probably within about 20 minutes and they're all viable products for somebody to buy in Canada and send over to the US and they're all [ __ ] profitable.
(2:33:40) That's crazy, bro. That's that's honestly the best thing to hear right now. So like you obviously like in order to be like efficient like that you have to be able to like have experience and cherrypick stuff but like somebody could literally just brute force it look right. Yeah. I mean these are nothing that you can't even find on if you go on the retailer website themselves.
(2:34:01) It's just that yeah it's presented a little bit better and a little bit more convenient. But still you need to know what you're looking for. Even the type of product or the type of sale. You'll know if that's a [ __ ] sale. I mean that's also why we have the history for it too. You'll see like the original price drops for some products when they go on sale or sorry, it increases for some products that make it sound inflated and you can see the actual what's real, what's not.
(2:34:26) And that just comes with experience, too. But it's really good to hear that it's actually some it's it's just kind of like um like proof of concept almost even though it's already like there like that's why as I was making I'm like, "Okay, this makes sense." But the proof of concept of just someone that didn't know about it a couple days ago making money off of it is amazing.
(2:34:47) Well, yeah. And like the thing is like yes, that info all exists in the retailer site, but like they're all in separate categories. They're not organized as neatly. Um I can't just look at everything all in like one master list or it's a little bit more complicated, too. So I just don't, right? So instead I like I never [ __ ] manually source on websites because it's just eh just pain in the ass.
(2:35:08) But when I see sites like this, like I've always been a big fan of Stock Track, but I know that it's [ __ ] [ __ ] and they don't maintain it. But I've always been a big fan because I know what kind of potential it has. And so you're recreating things that I know can be very good and you're already making it better. Yeah, I think this next month is just going to be like I'm not even Yeah, the next month there's going to be tons of of updates, fixes, adding little things that make everything a little more convenient and then it'll be something
(2:35:40) solid that we use was daily if not already, which has been But yeah, like let me pull Let me pull up this product here. So, this product here, I'm not going to share it, but I can buy it US cost for about $107. I can sell it in the US, and my profit is about $39 a unit, and this sells about 50 units per month.
(2:36:04) This other product here, uh, where is it? This guy has a really good sales rank. Profit per unit is 1023. How many units per month does this sell? Oh, yeah. [ __ ] yeah. This one, this one sells 400 plus units per month. That's amazing. And if I check it now, it was in stock this morning. Uh, this particular product is still in stock right now.
(2:36:35) So, this is after being exposed to the customer base that we have. They're buying these units and they still have stock. So, there's obviously lots of money to be made. Yeah. here. That's amazing. I'm going to check it out, too. And there we go. This is how this is how this [ __ ] works. This is how this [ __ ] works. No, that's motivation enough.
(2:37:00) That's really good cuz stock track was pretty [ __ ] Like, I haven't really used stock Track, but I heard that it has a lot of problems. So, if this could get over all those pitfalls, that would be amazing. It did, but it's still even with the issues that it had, it was still good. Yeah. Still profitable. Yeah.
(2:37:17) This makes it better. Exactly. That's one of the things when I went on Stock Track, it was it was so like if you can make that website still useful enough to go on, then it means that Polish one has to be okay. 100%. The thing that they did really good was that the speed is really good on their website.
(2:37:41) Like you're never delayed on anything loading and and clicking around. It doesn't feel slow. It feels really fast. It's just garbage in terms of their UI or there's no categories. There's no I don't I mean I don't know. It's I don't think it's been touched in like years or months at least, right? And like I I'll see if I can find the message.
(2:38:02) But I contacted the owner of Stock Track probably like three years ago asking them like if we can do something with this, if you want to partner with this, if we can integrate it somewhere else, if I can help you with it, and never [ __ ] heard anything back. Dude, I I contacted him on Reddit before I started it, just seeing if he wants to just let me do something with it.
(2:38:20) But yeah, no response. I don't know if he just is maybe he's taken off the website. There's like if you turn up ad block there's like 50,000 ads when you hop on and then there's people donating for this and that. But maybe maybe it's doing okay for him. But I don't know how you can upkeep the data if it I don't even think I think for some for the easy ones I think it is automatic.
(2:38:40) But anything that would have changed is just completely broken. Yeah. Like Walmart's been down for like 6 to 12 months, right? Walmart. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, there's like some like they have they have their trending products, but they haven't had price drops for probably like six to 12ish months for Walmart.
(2:39:02) And Walmart was Walmart was always something that was super good. And Walmart is something like occasionally you can find things that like are priced they're normally [ __ ] $80 and they're [ __ ] a dollar or like $5. Super good clearance. and they're good for personal stuff and they're good for re reselling stuff and it's shitty to find without a resource like this.
(2:39:25) Yeah, they got rid of their pricing on all their websites that was storebased pricing. Even if you go to their even if you scan it on the phone app in the store, it'll say online pricing shows and then their tracker or the um or that like their price scanners in the store. Those are the ones that are accurate.
(2:39:45) I I low key want to find someone that just wants to like quit their job and give me the scanner so I can figure out some way to get inventory which would be crazy. Um, however long that works. But apparently internally they change a lot too cuz that's just never been accurate when it's low stock for them and and the websites know where they have it.
(2:40:06) Thank god they still have the store store store related data they have and but I mean that's it. So that's furthest as it gets. So I might be able to I don't know what kind of information that they'd be willing to share but I might be able to connect you with somebody that has done something similar to that in the US because there is a software that exists that tracks store stock like that and they they are using not brickseek they are using I don't know in what capacity but they are using store employee data um yeah I think should be there's no
(2:40:42) other way right and so the software I I w I'll have to confirm. I'm pretty sure it's called Seeker. Um, and I'm pretty sure they're using store employee data for like Home Depot and I want to say for Walmart in the US. So, I could probably find you the person to connect you with. I don't know in what capacity they'll be willing to share with you.
(2:41:04) Um, you might have to pay them something. I don't know. I don't know the personally, but you might be able to connect with them and say like, "Hey, I'm in Canada. I have some questions about this. You know, can we work something out about like how you did this?" and I might be able to give you some ideas. Do you know if it's giving them is it just inventory or is it pricing per store as well? It's both because Oh, wait.
(2:41:25) Well, yeah, then it would be whatever they have internally. I mean, yeah, that's like internally is fine. Um, there are similarities between the US and Canadian system. So, yeah, that may that may work because I don't know how other people need it, but you're crazy because like that's how people are finding like penny deals at Home Depot in the US. That's what they're using.
(2:41:43) They're using Seeker and that's how they get their data. Very interesting. Seeker. How would they get their into store data? Would it be would it be have to be from an employee? They got most likely like some type of manager access that let them into their system. Yeah, that's it's back it's back door [ __ ] 100%.
(2:42:06) It's probably not it's probably not kosher, but that's what they 100% probably did. Yeah. If I if someone I mean if someone is quitting Walmart and they want to grab one of those zebras, I can probably figure out a way to just like I've seen people selling the Walmart ones, but they ask me 800 bucks for a Walmart Zebra and I'm just I know it's not going to work.
(2:42:29) But they have an app login that's zebra scanners that they used. Oh, they have they have inventory management, price checking, everything is a different app on there for Walmart. the dish. If I was to be able to get on an active one, like with an active account on it, I could figure I can I could do enough to get something some more data, some other level of data.
(2:42:52) I'm sure hooked up hooked hooked up to like a Raspberry Pi or something and just extract everything. I would just sniff the [ __ ] out of whatever's coming out of it network-wise and just I don't know. I figure some I mean I've already done you know the Walmart uh the the stock that I have for Walmart.
(2:43:15) It's not easy to get that was that took a minute um to to pull all store stock for a certain product in stock or out of stock. And that's the only data they have when they're backing until it's in stock or out of stock. Cuz there's even like you can check, oh, if it's delivering today, then you think it's in stock in the store, but then if you check that at like 8:00 p.m.
(2:43:34) , it'll say delivering tomorrow, even if it's in stock. So, that didn't work out. That's a million other things we tried, but for now, if it works, bro, you're if you're finding profitable products, that's all that matters to me. So, and so like like I mentioned like I'm not a dev in any capacity, but we we have tools and developers in the server that are working with stuff like that that I've been [ __ ] hounding for [ __ ] like this forever.
(2:43:59) And so some know some things in some capacity like um I would like cold chilling here. I literally had him go to Walmart last week and he was checking to see if [ __ ] the Walmart in store app was popping up on his phone when he went in there and what the Walmart Wi-Fi password was because our developer asked for that because if we can get access to certain things like that, we can find early links and more product data.
(2:44:20) So, I may not exactly know the things that you need, but I might know some people that might be able to help you along the way. Yeah, a good connection to have if I ever get stuck on something major that I think would be very beneficial. It's always good to have someone to reach out to and just see, you know.
(2:44:41) Again, I'm not a dev either by like any professional capacity. This is just as I go learning obviously, but I'm trying to get into that world. So, have a good night. I I have a quick question that's kind of it's unrelated. I don't mean to switch the topic, but I'm just uh you know kind of confused on something.
(2:45:09) What's up? So, I'm doing my I think we went over briefly, but I'm filing my taxes tomorrow and I'm having some trouble with like inventory write offs. So, for example, like with the inventory Amazon damages and loses and whatnot, like that's simpler inventory that you receive damage. Like that's simple to uh you know, you just I guess expense it to your cogs. Just write it off.
(2:45:32) Um, but what I'm like most confused about is customer damage returns because I use A2X for example. And you know, say a customer buys an item, A2X automatically like expenses that to COGS and then say the customer returns it to you and you get it um removed to you. A2X apparently doesn't like reverse the um the COGS expense when a customer returns it.
(2:46:01) So like say if you receive that inventory and it's unsellable and you got to throw it out. Like if you write it off and expense that your cause again, isn't that technically like a double expense because already expensed it? Yes, it's been it's been so long since I've done our taxes. I had to think of this. Give me a Right.
(2:46:28) Because if you wrote it off because A2 like you sell A2X does the COGS for that sale. A customer returns it. A2X doesn't reverse that COGS and put it back into your inventoried asset account. It just stays in your COGS, I think. Are you sure if you write it off? Are you sure A2X doesn't reverse it? That's what I emailed them and that's what they said.
(2:46:54) Let me see what the email I got was because yeah, like that's the only thing I'm stuck on and I'm like, do I write this [ __ ] off or do I just leave it, you know, cuz I'm like filing tomorrow. So, you said the cost of goods sold expense is not automatically reversed when a customer returns an item via FBA. A2X's COGS entries only include data for items that have been sold or do not account for and do not account for returns.
(2:47:19) This is because A2X doesn't have information on whether a return item is sellable or not. So we assume all returns are non-ellable and manual adjustment is needed. So that said, from what I recall though, like does an A2X they may not track that specific inventory, but they would track it as a unsellable return. Correct. Um, I think so.
(2:47:47) I I'm not 100% sure to be honest because from what I recall, they track it as a unsellable return that's tracked automatically and then if it's resellable then you're just basically adding it back into your back into a shipment and then it just tracks it as like a new new inventory. Yeah, from what I recall, I believe that's what it does.
(2:48:09) I'm not 100% certain if I recall correctly, but I'm almost almost certain that's because I know when you do your inventory valuation, there's like the sellable inventory and an unsellable tab. I guess that's for like items that you haven't removed yet that are still in like the Amazon warehouse. Oh, [ __ ] You're making me go back like 5 years. I haven't I know.
(2:48:31) It's [ __ ] Dude, this has been racking my brain. And I'm like, do I write the [ __ ] off or do I just play it safe and [ __ ] keep it on, you know? Like I had to redo everything with A2X cuz I switched to it. So it's like I [ __ ] had to redo all my books and it was a pain in the ass. But everything is good now.
(2:48:50) Going forward it's going to be so much easier with the M SKUs. 100%. But it was like I want to [ __ ] blow my brains out, dude. Like uh like you don't have an accountant. I do. I'm going to go see him tomorrow. Well, you call him and ask him. He should be able to tell you no, I guess. But he doesn't [ __ ] use A2X, right? Like, and Yeah, but he should he should be he should understand how the process Well, I guess not really. Yeah.
(2:49:19) Uh, call Carmela. Just call her. Yeah, call her. Call her tomorrow morning. Like by phone or on Discord? Does she have a phone number accessible? I guess that's like on her website or whatever. call her by phone. Here, here's a website. Just say, "Hey, I'm Nick. I'm an Arcane. I have this question. Can you help me?" Uh because yeah, she's she's actively used A2X. She's used uh taxate.
(2:49:43) She has customers that too. Okay. So, yeah, her website, I'm pretty sure it's carapillo.com. Okay. I'll send it to you. Just call her and just and she should be able to tell you. I don't want to tell you something wrong because it's been so long since I've done it. Yeah. I know. Like my gut is saying that it's like I don't know, man.
(2:50:03) cuz it's like already been expensed and this guy's saying, "Oh, they're I got another email too. Let me I'm quite certain like A2X when you put it in there like so your original item it's counted as your cost of goods and then they track it when it's sold and then if it's returned it's automatically counted as a unsellable return and then they basically debit that against that account and then so if you resend it it's like sending new inventory.
(2:50:26) I'm almost certain that's the way it works. Yeah. So, it's like setting a new inventory essentially. But what happens if you have to dispose it? Like are you saying that you do write it off again? Well, quote unquote again or Well, so it would already be it should already be considered I believe. Mhm.
(2:50:47) As like I believe I want to say there's a separate account if you had A2X make your accounts and like QuickBooks or Zero. I believe I believe it makes a separate A2X account for unsellable inventory from what I recall. But again, it's been so [ __ ] long since I've done that. Yeah, I'm going to log into QuickBooks and see if I don't recall that.
(2:51:14) I think it depends if you had when you set up A2X if you because in the settings like uh A2X has a chart of accounts that you can right that you can sync with your [ __ ] So I use zero so it be it be should be more or less the same but but they have like A2X A2X this A2X this A2X this all these different chart of accounts that you can sync with your software and then it automatically puts the corresponding data into those accounts for you.
(2:51:38) Yeah, I think I looked at that, but I don't remember seeing an unsellable thing. Let me see if I go into like what would that be in my balance sheet or whatever. Probably it'll be in your chart of accounts. Yeah, let's see. No, it doesn't seem like there's anything unsellable. Just like inventory asset is what I put.
(2:52:04) And yeah, my cost foods. They might just like debit it against like your cost of goods then. But uh I don't know. Yeah. It's weird too now with all the [ __ ] Amazon deferred transactions and stuff because technically like say you got $100,000 in sales on Amazon. It's like because of the um the what is it the deferred transactions.
(2:52:29) It's like QuickBooks will only report like 95,000 of it cuz like the the pay like the sales information is kind of like delayed by a week or two or some [ __ ] right? So that means like your cost of goods aren't like 100% accurate to that current moment. So, if you do like an inventory count, I think your cost of goods are still going to be like a tiny bit off because you're kind of like behind two weeks on the on QuickBooks or zero or whatever.
(2:53:03) So, it's [ __ ] it's confusing, but I did my my account like and then I'm pairing it with my QuickBooks and like they're both very close. So, I'm so happy I outsourced all the accounting and bookkeeping [ __ ] Yeah, [ __ ] me. I'm like, it's time to [ __ ] Yeah, but the [ __ ] I've been learning, I'm like, it's time to [ __ ] open a bookkeeping business. Godamn.
(2:53:22) Like, this is all things that I had to do. And I've imported all the accounts and double [ __ ] from A2X and had my [ __ ] bank statements not import properly and had to find a [ __ ] converter for a bank statement because I couldn't upload it directly into Zero. And I've done all that [ __ ] and I [ __ ] I [ __ ] hated it.
(2:53:39) But or when you when you upload a [ __ ] a 100 bank transactions for one month and then you're like going through it and you're like, wait, something doesn't match. and you realize that only 98 of them uploaded, so you have to go through them one by one and find the missing ones. Like, yeah, it's a pain in the ass, right? Or you, if you were like me, you waited until about, you know, a week before your filings were due and you did the entire year of bookkeeping in one go. So, that's basically what I did.
(2:54:04) So, you're trying to upload bank statements from like the entire year that because you didn't pay attention to zero, uh, something errored out and they stopped importing statements. So you try and import statements from a year ago and you find out you can only import statements from like three months ago. So you have to download these [ __ ] statements and then the PDFs don't upload directly into [ __ ] zero.
(2:54:23) So you have to find a converter. [ __ ] me. Oh gosh. Yeah. But I mean I'm happy it's like up to date now. All my books are cleaned up. So A2X definitely is um like is great. The only thing is I think um it only pulls your transactions from like six to 12 months. So if you're doing transactions from like two years ago, you got to enter all those SKs in manually and stuff too, right? Like you got to import them all and [ __ ] find out the costs for them, right? Like average like especially when you're um you're uploading inventory to the
(2:55:03) same MCQ with like all different costs. You have to like do the average price and stuff. It was a pain in the ass, man. But I'm glad it's done. And now if you keep up with it, maintain it, it'll be even better. Yeah. Like exactly like categorize all my expenses and then just buy A2X like once or twice a year and just do all the um the payouts basically.
(2:55:25) Reconcile all of them and stuff. Or you can do a system like Stefan has who just popped in here. Good timing. Yeah, we were just talking about you popped in here. I was like, oh, he has his own [ __ ] manual system. He's got he's already got this down. Well, it's manual and it works, but that's the issue. It's manual, so it ends up on me doing it.
(2:55:48) But I'm pretty sure I haven't used at uh A2X directly, but I mean it sounds good. It's expensive. It's good. It's expensive. But we just Yeah, we're just talking about like a scenario that I was trying to figure out because A2X expenses expenses um you know your goods when you get a sale, but apparently when you re like you get a customer refund for damaged inventory or whatever, apparently they don't reverse that cog.
(2:56:18) So, I was asking Jordan like, "Oh, the inventory that we received back at home that we can't resell, that's like a write off like that we have disposed. Like, do we write that off? Do we expense it to COGS or is that a double expense?" I'm like, I'm [ __ ] confused. I don't know. What's your system there for? So, like writing off.
(2:56:43) I despise accounting and so I've I've outsourced it all like come like five years ago. So, uh, Nick was putting me on the spot and I have to try and remember how to do this [ __ ] because I haven't done bookkeeping or accounting for a long [ __ ] time. So, from with my knowledge from A2X, from what I recall, and again, I'm not 100% certain, so I told him that he should just call Carmela tomorrow morning, but I believe um when A2X returns inventory, they're basically debiting it against your uh cost of goods as unsellable inventory
(2:57:19) regardless. And then when you if you resend that inventory in uh it's basically like sending in new inventory. That's what I believe happens, but Nick says that A2X specified otherwise. Yes. So, if you send inventory back in, you would basically just send it under the same like M SQU that you bought it for, right? Correct.
(2:57:45) And that would it would like recalculate that cost. Correct. Doesn't that mean that that was already taken out of your inventory asset then if it's already like adding it back in when you resend it in? It's confusing, man. This this shit's annoying. Well, because when you're adding like so when you add a new inventory, you're adding it as your asset as part of your part of your inventory account.
(2:58:10) When it's sold, it's being removed as cost of goods sold. Yeah. where it's being sent back. Is there saying, "Oh, we don't reverse the cogs because we don't know if it's going to be unsellable or damaged." So, you have to like do it manually. Mhm. Yeah. [Music] Yeah. I don't Yeah. I think I got another email too cuz that was like can you [ __ ] clear this up fully? [Music] Yeah.
(2:58:49) Unfortunately with that I'm not 100% certain. I'm I'm not confident I'm not confident enough to tell you a answer. This this is from a different person. It says A2X does not automatically expense AM Amazon inventory losses to COGS using manual cost prices with the cost feature in A2X only reflects the numbers sold of each skew and does not capture the cost of inventory that has been disposed of or lost for inventory losses such as returns and lost items.
(2:59:17) These changes are not accounted for in Amazon settlements and need to be entered manually into systems like zero Amazon settlements. So like would that be like reimbursements or I have no idea. I don't think you Okay, I'm not gonna stress myself too much about that. I don't think you need to manually enter in reimbursements.
(2:59:48) No. No. So, I don't know what that was about. Mhm. But when you do find out, tell us. Yeah. Just allow me to jump in. For a refund, you'd have to make a manual adjustment to fix the cost. This is because A2X has no way of knowing the items being returned with damage public. Yeah. And I like try clarifying like I understand them, but since COGS are already expensed on a sale automatically, I'm wondering what happens to the COGS portion on a refund.
(3:00:26) Is that portion reversed automatically when a refund takes place? And they said no, that portion needs to be reversed manually. So, interesting. I mean, it's okay. I'm not going to stress out too much about it. I guess the easiest way is just like, you know, doing an inventory count and then seeing what's on your QuickBooks or whatever and then just matching it and then you have your like adjustment.
(3:00:53) If there's like a discrepancy, you just write that discrepancy off. I guess that's kind of what you do, Stefan, right? You just like look at your inventory asset account and you do like an actual count every month or something and then you match the amounts. Yeah, pretty much at the end of the month I'll just tally up all the inventory kind of from the order sheet that hasn't been shipped out yet and then all the inventory in Amazon warehouses and then I just compare that to the last count I did and then the difference between the two is costs. I see. And
(3:01:29) then also based on the current inventory value in QuickBooks. Yeah. The thing with the current inventory value that's like confusing now because with the deferred transactions it's always going to be like a little bit off of your actual Amazon sales, right? Like that's what I've seen at least. Like if you do the sales summary for the year, say you got like 300,000 sales, in actuality, it's like QuickBooks is only going to report or the summary is only going to report like 290,000 of it even though you got like 300,000 sales cuz
(3:02:04) Yeah. And it's kind of confusing. That's what that's what my account was saying about software like A2X. It's like not that it's not accurate, but it's like what Amazon like invoices you versus what they put in the sales summary is like actual documents, right? So like in the case of an audit or something, right? Like CRA would like those documents, right? But then you would just be going off of like what A2X put, which is just like slightly off.
(3:02:34) It's like% off or something. Yeah. Yeah. cuz like some like the sales at the end of the month sometimes they get like build like before or after the month and it doesn't get caught there. So I know my accountant was pretty adamant about like yeah just do it manually like sure it's not 100% correct like your sales and the expenses but the biggest thing that she was about was for the expenses.
(3:02:59) So like all the expenses you pay GST, right? And then sales tax report. Okay. Yeah. You get like those six or seven invoices or however many you get a month. You just tally them up. Yeah. Great. And then the uh like the actual sales tax collected. I I don't use like the summary report, the yearly summary. like I go in the actual sales tax invoices, you know, the spreadsheet you could download of like every transaction and that GST collected number is like a little bit higher because that spreadsheet shows it's like live with
(3:03:36) all your transactions. The actual like yearly whatever the monthly or yearly summary is going to be a little bit off because it's going off like the deferred transactions as well. Uhhuh. So a little I might have misspoken there. I was talking about the the GST on your expenses. So I think you're talking about like the GST you you collect, but I'm talking about the GST you pay, right? And then technically like for GST you would pay like you need like an invoice.
(3:04:07) You need like a document stating that. So the only way to do it is from the invoices, but the invoice amount, so the total amount doesn't match up to what it says like on the the monthly summary. It's always off, right? And so that that's why she's adamant about like yeah you have to go through like every invoice and tally up the the GST just in case of an audit like there's kind of like a paper trail there.
(3:04:32) But I don't know seeing like all this like everyone has different like operations of how they do the bookkeeping and the accounting like seems pretty wishy-washy for me like um like there's not a cor probably is a correct way but there's not like a defined way of doing it. Each accountant does it slightly differently. So, as long as you're doing like something there. Yeah.
(3:04:57) Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Then I'd be I'd be happy with it. Yeah. Yeah. With the sales tax on the like expenses, the GST paid on fees and stuff. Yeah. Like I go through all the like you're saying, you go through the invoices that Amazon sends you like once a month, right? And you just add those up manually. Yeah. And then I, you know, subtract it like whatever credit or debit, whatever one it is to like the Amazon fee, chart of accounts and stuff.
(3:05:22) Like I have one for seller fees and one for like fulfillment and then advertising. Yeah. And then for I think you said you did a little differently with the GST collected, but I just go off the monthly summary and then just copy and paste it when I do the the journal entry. Yeah, I go off of um I go on my tax document library and then there's like the Yeah, tax document library and then the combined sales tax report.
(3:05:50) That's like including your deferred transactions. So that's going to be a little bit higher than the summary, but I I would prefer to do it like that because, you know, if the CRA ever looks at it, they're like going to want the one that says you owe them more money rather than less. So yeah, it's only like you know maybe like 5% higher but I mean that's you know that's the way I feel safest doing it.
(3:06:20) But this is also like my first proper year doing Amazon. So this is my first time uh filing like taxes for real. Like I filed last year but I didn't make that much that it didn't really matter. Mhm. You know, that's not going to be fun though. Paying that bill. Well, we got to do it. I know. See why Jordan has outsourced all of this.
(3:06:44) I [ __ ] hate accounting. Yeah. But now that I'm like, it's kind of like impressive how much you could learn though just watching some YouTube videos and trial and error. They're like, "Oh, okay." Like, if someone was paying me 50 bucks an hour for this, it wouldn't be too bad, I guess. But That was always one thing that I always dreaded doing.
(3:07:08) And like I said, like whenever I had to file GST, PST returns, it was always like last minute. I would wait like as as long as I could before I had to file it. Same with my personal business filings. Like I just procrastinate because I [ __ ] hate that [ __ ] so much. I was able to do it and figure it out, but just did not like it.
(3:07:30) And and do you know for like business tax? So like I'm filing tomorrow. Is that payment due April 30th? Like it has to be basically sent right away or cuz I I read that like self-employed people get till June 15th or something but also like it has to be filed before April or like paid before April 30th because like CRA website's confusing, right? So doesn't seem super.
(3:07:56) All right. We have until I think it's June June 15th or June 30th to file, but when does it have to be paid? I want to Yeah, it's like I almost said it has to be paid by April 30th, but I'm like, how do you pay it if you haven't filed? Like say if you file it before June 15th, it's like how are you going to pay it by April 30th? So, a lot of people will just pay like a lump sum or you will technically incur interest.
(3:08:26) Um, and I like the CRA's interest rate is like I want to say it's like one or two% month. Yeah, something like that after you file, right? If you file late though, then it's like a pretty big penalty I think. Right. But I've also found that so like you you can just pay like what we've done before is just pay like what we figured it was going to be and then um overestimate it if you don't want to have to potentially pay interest.
(3:08:57) And then if you overpaid, then you get the overpayment back. Yeah, that makes sense. Um, but what was I going to say? I mean, I'm paying it like ASAP and I just want that out of the way, but yeah, I don't remember. I was going to say something. I don't remember what I was going to say. Oh, yeah. Um, but I've also like, so when I first started, I wasn't aware of those requirements.
(3:09:28) And so I would have been in a position where I didn't pay on time. Uh, but I find that if you actually talk to the CRA and you're not a [ __ ] to them, um, often you can get somebody that is relatively lenient and just tell you that, you know, it's not a big deal. You don't have to pay any interest. Yeah. Yeah. So, okay.
(3:09:50) So since I'm get you're like you're 100% Canada, right? Correct. Canada. Canada. So when you're doing GST for example, your uh GST returns, are you generally like getting money back or are you paying money? I want to say we're always paying money. Okay. Yeah. I'm wondering because I owe money, but that's because um I did a lot of like US importing this year and the sales tax.
(3:10:15) Like you're only paying like 5% to import if you're a business. So, I'm definitely owing money, but I was just wondering in the case of like when you're receiving money back, like with audits and stuff, because last year I actually [ __ ] uh I received like $1,100 back or something and they [ __ ] GST audited me.
(3:10:39) Like, it was it was crazy. I'm like, Fred CR, are you serious? And then that was a pain in the ass. And then they're like, "Oh, your invoices don't have GST numbers on them and stuff. Uh, we can't do that." But then I've talked to them enough and then they're like, they still gave me my money, but they're like, "Oh, just make sure next time you do X and Y, not for is a freaking pain in the ass." Yeah.
(3:11:01) I'm almost positive we've never had a GST refund ever. I think what happened though was I made a mistake where my initial return was like I filed for like 700 but then I realized I made a mistake and I'm like, "Oh [ __ ] I'm actually owed $400 extra." So my accountant amended it and then I think that's what triggered the audit because they're like, "Oh, you're amending it.
(3:11:26) You're clearly not organized." Like something like that, you know, set a sent a red flag. Yeah. like any anytime you attempt to make changes or file for like a unusual refund or whatever all those can cause flags and trigger those types of things to happen. Um but and like when you mention about like the GST and the invoices like that is also like wishy-washy like when it comes to like people doing their own systems because like I've been told by so many different people even inside the CRA that sometimes it has to have it. Sometimes
(3:11:57) it's like oh it's it's not that big of a deal. We'll still accept it. And yeah, it's like there's I don't know if there's like a set law that says like it has to have like a GST number on it because I've also been told by my accountant previously it's like you can claim basically anything for business that's reasonable.
(3:12:15) You don't even technically need an invoice as long as you have a record of transaction. Like a bank statement is technically record of transaction and you can still claim that. But whether or not you're going to have a [ __ ] argument with the CRA is another story. Yeah. The guy was pretty chill. Um, what I did was cuz I already sent the invoices, they asked for like your top 10 biggest invoices basically.
(3:12:38) And for me it was all OA orders. Some of them like a couple of them had the GST HST number like Canadian Tire and stuff. Um, but there were like some really small sites that didn't. So, what I did was like I messaged and called them and just asked for the GST and HST number and I wrote them down and I gave the CRA that and he's like, "Oh, technically it's supposed to like there it's supposed to be on the invoice, so like you're technically not allowed to do this, but he kind of just allowed it.
(3:13:07) " Um, but I'm I'm guessing you can maybe ask the company for like a revised invoice as well with the GST and HST number on there. Or like, dude, if you're really freaking good at Photoshop or something, I don't know what kind of trouble you're going to run into doing that though. But like that's the thing though, like especially like even if you're buying from like a smaller company.
(3:13:27) Well, I guess they wouldn't charge you GST then, but like smaller companies. Well, they did. Yeah. Like I'm just saying like for smaller companies like if they're very very small, they're not even technically um Well, no, I guess on every sale they have to charge GST. No, that's fair. I'm just trying to think. I'm just trying to think of different scenarios.
(3:13:45) Tech. Yeah, they'd have to charge GST regardless. Yeah, but that was annoying. But the thing is they also asked for like your top 10 biggest invoices. I guess they asked for like a a breakdown of like I sent them like my QuickBooks my inventory asset account and I just sorted it from like the the highest value to the lowest and I like showed basically like the top 10 or whatever.
(3:14:12) But it's not like they asked to log into your QuickBooks. You could kind of like nitpick an invoices with an GST and HST number on it maybe like if you're willing to go in that gray area a bit. But I'm just saying I'm this is not financial advice. No, like like they don't really dig deeper into it. They're like, "Oh, send your top 10 biggest invoices.
(3:14:36) " And then also they wanted the um like the sales tax collected um spreadsheet. That's where I downloaded the spreadsheet, like the marketplace sales tax collected, whatever it's called. And then they ask for your 10 biggest orders as well. Right. They're just basically wanting to ensure that you're actually in business.
(3:14:58) Yeah. Well, this time I owe money, so hopefully they they're cool with that. Yeah. Like I've I'm quite certain we've never ever gotten a GST refund. I'm always [ __ ] paying [ __ ] for GST every [ __ ] year. Okay. because I heard some people that like are getting them, but I'm like I feel like when you're a certain size, you're almost always going to be paying money.
(3:15:26) Well, those would be sellers that are selling primarily in the US because like the way that the way that it works in Canada is like say we have an item that we buy for $50 and say like you're in Ontario, right? Yeah. So, it would be HST for you, right? Yeah. Like 13%. So, but I believe the process is similar.
(3:15:45) So, like with my GST versus your HST. So for ease of use, let's just say say for example GST is going to be 10% which it's not. Here it's 5%. But we buy it for $50, our GST is $5. We sell it for 100, the GST that we collect is $10. We owe the CRA the difference. So we owe the CRA five bucks. Where whereas if we're selling in the US, we're not collecting any GST, right? Yeah.
(3:16:08) Exactly. And we're just claiming the the refunded amount. So those sellers that are getting refunds would be primarily making sales in the United States marketplace. That seems like a freaking nightmare with like trying to get those refunds. I feel like the CRA is going to give you trouble. I don't think it'd be like that bad.
(3:16:26) Like you're going to be more prone to get audited, but also like Yeah. Um it's not horrible. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Like if you just have your like your books in order, you're not intentionally trying to fudge things, like you're going to be fine. It's going to be it's going to be stressful, but it's going to be absolutely fine.
(3:16:47) And like just because like even if you like make an error in your bookkeeping, as long as like somebody doesn't see like you're intentionally trying to cook your books. Yeah. It's not like you're going to get in a [ __ ] [ __ ] ton of [ __ ] ton of trouble. It's just going to be like, "Oh, this needs to be corrected and amended." Mhm. That's it.
(3:17:04) What about you? Did you do your taxes yet? Me? Yeah. Yeah. I couldn't tell you if I counted as you're at that point. It's a good point to be at. I guess whatever he has done, he has done. I just have to pay the [ __ ] bill. It's kind of exciting though. Like in a way, yeah, it sucks paying taxes, but like at least I'm making enough money to pay taxes in a way.
(3:17:34) Like, you know, if you look at it like that. Yeah. Like like the business is is growing, right? So 100%. But now like once you start scaling at a certain point then we have to start looking at ways that we can hopefully reduce our tax liability because like you don't you you don't want to cheat taxes. You don't want to try and [ __ ] skip on taxes but you want to try and reduce legally that tax liability as much as you possibly can because you can keep a lot of extra money in your pocket if you do.
(3:17:58) So there's only so much there's only so much that we can legally do in Canada, but we want to try and take advantage of it as much as we can. Like putting any [ __ ] reasonable expense in the [ __ ] business name because that helps reduce our tax liability. Yeah. Car repairs, all that stuff. Yeah. Like internet and stuff.
(3:18:19) I have to look into that. Like I'm guessing if I'm like writing off internet, it would probably be have to like be charged to the corp account, right? Like like if I'm like paying personal, can I still write off like a portion of that? Yeah. Anything that you use for your business, it would be like a proportional percentage, right? Yeah.
(3:18:39) So like even like with um like you you pay rent and you oper you you operate in your house. So then technically you would like measure the space that you actively use and that would be the proportional amount that you would claim. Same with all the additional expenses that come with your rent like your your utilities if you have tenant insurance or whatever the [ __ ] else.
(3:18:58) I don't know if I don't know if ten insurance would apply because that's going to be strictly personal. I don't think it would cover your business expenses but you get the point. Have like rent, car stuff, cell phone, internet. Yeah. And like technically supposed to be like proportional for how much business you used to use it for.
(3:19:14) So like technically if you use your cell phone for 50%. You're technically supposed to be able to approve that and then that's what you're Yeah. that's the part of the expense that you can use towards your taxes technically. Technically. Yeah. For me. Yeah. I know. Um Oh, go ahead. So I was just say like our account they just give us like a little sheet to fill out at the end of the year and they just say like kind of like home expense sheet and they just say like hey what are your expenses like rent or utilities or mortgage whatever
(3:19:45) it is and then you just write down like percentage of home and then they do the calculations. Uh they kind of figure that out for us. Nice. And like for me yeah I guess sorry. Oh no go ahead. Yeah, I'm wondering like how you'd calculate the percentage of the house for like my scenario because I have roommates, right? Like we live in a house and you know I have my room I prep in the living room like probably 80% of the living room is for prep and then I work in my room.
(3:20:21) It's like is it how much of my living space or like of the total house basically because like my roommates have rooms, right? There's the basement and stuff. I'm assuming that would like count as part of the the living space, right? Like the total house. You just do your square footage of your room, divide that by your total living space from what I understand. Yeah.
(3:20:43) But like my total Yeah. total living space would be like, you know, my roommates's bedrooms and [ __ ] as well. Like the total house space. Uh, if you have roommates, then that would be different because you're both sharing rent, right? Yeah. So, then that I'm not sure of. Maybe Jordan can actually chime in on course cuz for that one, I think you might have to split it.
(3:21:11) I I would imagine you would utilize like you would calculate your your personal living space and then any common space you have access to. So you're basically counting your square footage minus like your roommates's rooms or their exclusive space. Exactly. That Yeah. Yeah. That Yeah. And then you're doing whatever percent of that is business divided by your living space as in like your area and your common spaces.
(3:21:38) Yeah, makes sense. I mean, I'll ask my accountant like what's safe, you know, like what's the safe amount? Whatever saves you more money, bro. They can't they're not going to come check you, right? Like for this thing. My rent's so small, too. Like my since I live with my roommates, it's not like I'm paying like a three grand rent or two grand rent.
(3:21:56) Like my rent is pretty low. So even writing off like the entire thing would probably still be safe. You know, if they want to come in your house, they need to search warrant. So go [ __ ] them. Yeah. Yeah. Like that's Yeah. You're not going to they're not going to go really hard on that unless you do something pretty egregious like you have if you have like you know a 3,000T house and you're saying like you know 2500 square foot of it.
(3:22:21) I'm doing Amazon operations, right? But yeah, like things like that you can you can easily say you're using a couple rooms for your business. Like literally my whole bedroom 50 like 50% of my bedroom have to shift the boxes next to me, my computer and like 80% of the living room. You you would just say your entire room.
(3:22:40) You wouldn't have to like uh allocate part of the room. Yeah. You would just say your this whatever square foot of your bedroom is as your office or I mean all I do in here is work and literally sleep. So yeah, write that [ __ ] off. Yeah. And then yeah, the living room and like the hallway basically like when you're sending shimments out which is basically like 80% of the main floor.
(3:23:05) And then there's the basement which is just like a shared living space. Yeah. Like if you want to you can get super [ __ ] technical with it. Like yeah this hallway I walk up and down this much for my business. So I'm going to use this hallway for this amount. But like you don't have to go that that hard. Yeah.
(3:23:22) They don't allocate resources for that in CRA. Like they don't it won't go into that deep. Yeah. It's probably like at least 50% realistically. Yeah. Like I've I found like you can use like a reasonable estimate, you'll be fine. Yeah. Okay. Because Yeah. All that all that matters that every like extra thousand dollars you can write off at the end of the year that [ __ ] adds up.
(3:23:52) It helps reduce your tax liability for sure. Yeah. And yeah, like for me personally, like my cell phone is paid by my corporation. It's in my corporation name. My internet bill is paid by my corporation. And according to my accountant, that's fine because I use it primarily for work. Technically, like if the CRA came and like ask questions about it, they may say like, "Well, do you use this personally?" And then we might have like an argument about that and they say, "Well, use it [ __ ] 25% personally or whatever." And that like we might I
(3:24:24) might reasonably have to adjust something if that's the case. But I also pay my accountant target with the CRA for me on my behalf. So he Yeah. better not lose. But yeah, like stuff like that. Like as an example, like say if a CRA had a problem with it and I got audited and they said that no, this is not right.
(3:24:48) You have to change it. Then I just basically have to amend things based on the the new amounts that they say that I have to do. And makes sense. You know, adjusting my phone bill from 100% to 75% is not going to massively change my tax bill. Yeah. Mr. Beck, how's it going? Are you still Door Dashing? Yo, what's up? No, I'm done for the night.
(3:25:19) How much did we make today? Uh, 60. Not bad. Nice. And how long? Uh, 3 hours. It's not bad at all. I'm going um right now I'm drafting up a schedule with chat GPT. Going to figure out what I want to do, when I want to do it. I'm going to fit like a gym window in there. Uh yeah, figuring out your life. That's That's nice. Yeah, for real.
(3:25:49) Have you been consistent with the Door Dashing since you started? Um yeah, I'd say so. Um, for me it's all about scheduling and um figuring out what's best. Like tonight I was going to go another hour, but it got dark and I don't really want to dash at in the dark to be honest. Um, I also just can't see that well at night. So fair. Um, yeah.
(3:26:18) So I'm just going to I'm going to dash from like I don't know 4 to 8 or something like that. Yep. Cool. Are you going to like slip in like Uber Eats and Instacart in there as well? My area doesn't have Uber Eats or Instacart. Oh [ __ ] So I wish, but um yeah, so I'm pretty much just Door Dashing and uh Yeah, pretty much it.
(3:26:47) Fair. That's fair. I've been um super super liquidating my shitty inventory. It's been super nice. And so does that have to do with you adjusting your reperic strategy or you just reviewing that inventory and deciding that it's time to get rid of it? Yeah, I totally redid my strategy. Um I now realize what you said what you said about the AI was just like totally accurate. Um, it wasn't.
(3:27:18) What did I say about the AI? Uh, you said the AI was just kind of like lack lackluster. Um, and I I switched it to like manual. It's definitely like reactive more so than proactive. So that's not real AI. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so I switched to more of like a aggressive pricing strategy. Okay, cool. So yeah, it's been going good. Beauty. Good to hear.
(3:27:45) And you've been actively utilizing the restock monitors in the server. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's been good. Um, am I able to use like a custom I know you can custom link some websites, but am I able to add websites? Probably not, right? Not any that are not supported, but like so a lot of websites though like they are there's a lot of websites that are Shopify sites and we would support any Shopify site.
(3:28:15) If it's not Shopify and it's not in the list then it wouldn't we wouldn't be supported but you can always suggest for us to add new ones. Okay, cool. Yeah. And then obviously like if it has enough demand then we'll see if we can get it added. Sweet. Yeah. How's the chats today? I didn't expect you guys to be in here so late. All these chats normally go for like four, five, six hours.
(3:28:42) Really? That's crazy. Yeah, people come and go. Talk about anything and everything. Yeah, I was listening to you guys talk about um looping factor meals earlier. I was like, that sounds lit. Have you joined our utility server yet? No. How do I do that? You go into the top getting started category. Okay, there's a channel called utility server.
(3:29:08) You click you click on that link. You join it and then you tell me when you join it because you I am joined. You won't see anything when you first join and then Jordan gives you access and then you see the things that we have in the utility server. So the ones that have the green dots next to them, those are things that are active that are live right now.
(3:29:29) And so if you look under for example uh food, we have things like chef's plate, good food factor, etc. So these are I know you're in the US so these are geared for Canada but the exact same process the exact same process applies to the US. Gotcha. So you can get chef plate, HelloFresh, etc. for very very cheap and you can loop it over and over and over again.
(3:29:51) And how do you loop it over and over? You just use multiple codes. Yeah. And so like you'll use virtual credit cards. Uh so the US will have different virtual credit cards than we have. I don't think you have like things like COO down there, but I imagine you can use like privacy or any other virtual credit card and then you just find new codes and then you just have to check your address.
(3:30:14) Uh once you do it multiple times, you have to get more and more creative like using like the secondary address line, maybe using like sweet numbers, etc. Maybe slightly adjusting your zip code. Uh but but yeah, you just do that over and over again. And even when you slightly adjust your address, like say like your address is like one 123 fake street.
(3:30:32) If a 1123 doesn't exist in your city, you can put 1123 and that looks like a viable mistake. So 99 99% of the time it'll still come to your house, right? Crazy. Yeah. And where where are they supplying these codes? So, we supply codes specifically for Canada, but if you want to find codes, you can literally Google uh like HelloFresh or Factor codes and then you can look in the Reddit the subreddits for like factor 75 or HelloFresh.
(3:31:07) Sort by newest and then just look for codes and just try to find the ones that have the biggest discounts. Sweet. And then when you get a box, often you will get a box that has more codes in it for more free boxes that you're supposed to share with your friends and you just rinse and repeat and use those for yourself.
(3:31:25) That's insane. Yeah, cuz I've actually I think I might have some of these laying around. Yeah. From uh from having them before, but they were so expensive I had to cancel. It was ridiculous. Yeah. So, you just you just follow the instructions where you you get it for like nine bucks or in the US it might even be free and then you just get your delivery you schedule uh you schedule out your next deliveries for later so that you don't get charged or you deactivate your virtual credit card and then after your food ships you
(3:31:55) just cancel your subscription and then just make a new account and rinse and repeat. Crazy. Yeah. Because they're not like a bad service. It's just kind of over my price range to be honest. Yeah. And so you can get them for basically free and then that can cover quite a large expense because groceries are expensive.
(3:32:14) Yeah, groceries are nuts. Mhm. Uh and then Yeah. Go ahead. No, what were you going to say? Oh, I was just going to talk about something else you guys talked about was like the uh like concert AI idea. I thought that was pretty cool. We have a lot of uh entrepreneurs and business builders in here, so we often talk about different business ideas.
(3:32:38) Yeah. No, it's super cool. I thought I was listening to a podcast, dude. That's It's very soothing in here. Just just hanging out. Oh yeah, we touched up on a lot of different things. Oh yeah. A couple weeks ago, me and Cold Chillin went deep into [ __ ] talking about uh uh Islam, religion, religion, death.
(3:33:03) Is there a god? This wasn't even this wasn't even like this was just like a random call that we had. What? It wasn't It wasn't like a scheduled session like this, was it? No, I think I think it was a ticket call, wasn't it, that got cancelled? Yeah. So, Chokei didn't show up and then you just popped in and then we started having the conversation.
(3:33:21) Bro, that went on for like 5 hours. So, I was surprised it went for that long. Yeah, I'm very open-minded. I just like talk about theories and everything all the time. Well, I'm not religious at all and Colchillan is very uh very religious, very uh into his faith. Uh and yeah, we just had a very very deep conversation. I made sure that he knew his [ __ ] Yeah. Yeah.
(3:33:46) Do you do you have do you think about uh what we talked about since then? A little bit. I've been super busy these last couple weeks. There were a couple things that I found that I wanted to send you, but I didn't save them, unfortunately. But yes, I've thought about it a little bit. That's good. Any questions that come up? Not yet.
(3:34:04) When I have them, I'll send them your way. Sounds good. Yeah, you made me think a lot, too. You know, I had to a a lot of uh theological questions that I normally didn't really think too much about because it was already kind of ingrained in me, right? because I already have the premise of belief. So, it was a it was a good session to kind of explore how someone else might look at it.
(3:34:32) 100%. Um, off topic, I just wanted to mention this back when you're in the utility server as well. Um, there is a section there called review free review freebies. There is a section there for us products. So, you can Oh, yeah. You're going to be cooking with those. You can get products for free.
(3:34:53) Completely for free. And commission. They'll pay you to buy it. Some of them give you extra commission on top. Yes. Really? Oh, yeah. I would start with those, honestly, man. Just get the free stuff. You can like Yeah, if you get those, you can flip those like locally on eBay and make a good amount of money. That's funny.
(3:35:14) Yeah, there's there like the quant the quality or like even just the diversity of products that they provide for us is not even comparable to what we get. Like you guys get so much more. So you could honestly make so much money off of just that alone. Pickle ball paddles, dude. All kinds of [ __ ] They're [ __ ] office chairs and beds and [ __ ] pressure washers and all multitude of [ __ ] Damn.
(3:35:47) And so and and so this is like affiliate stuff like you get it and then you review it kind of. So there's a section there that tells you how it works. And so the way that this works is the the freebie providers that we have in there, they are agency owners. They're not the ones actually providing the products. They're relaying these products on behalf of sellers.
(3:36:10) And so the sellers are usually Chinese brands or people wanting to launch private label products. So like they're all like stuff you'll get basically from China, but these are things that are all over Amazon and they still sell a [ __ ] ton. They're not going to typically be any like name brand that you're familiar with.
(3:36:26) Uh they are wanting to skirt Amazon's system and get reviews so that they can get ranked, etc. So what they're doing is 100% against Amazon's terms of service, but they're taking that risk as a seller. As a buyer, doesn't really matter. Uh Amazon is much more lenient with buyers. Um but you obviously need to be aware of the actual process that's happening.
(3:36:46) And so what is happening is uh the agency providers are providing these products. You will then purchase the product. You will send the freebie provider the information. So, you send them a screenshot of your purchase with the order number and then you'll give them your PayPal address. And then what will happen is you get the product, you leave a fivestar review.
(3:37:07) After the review goes live, which takes a couple days, you then send that review, a screenshot to the provider. They relay that information to the seller. The seller then sends you a full refund for the product via PayPal. So, you're getting the product and your money back. And they're scring Amazon system. They are getting a review and they're getting better ranked on Amazon.
(3:37:25) eventually they can make more sales. Gotcha. And you can just get chatbt to write your reviews. All you do is just That's what I do. I just I literally just copy paste a link in chatbt and I say, "Hey, can you just write me your product review on this?" And then yeah, just copy paste that in. That's crazy. So obviously with the products, um, when you get a product, you typically just want to wait a couple days at least before you leave a review.
(3:37:52) if you're doing it always like immediately after you get it eventually like Amazon will say like hey like we're not gonna let you leave reviews anymore because it seems fishy. Um but you just wait a couple days and then yeah you leave a review and it's it's no risk because like so technically a seller could not refund you.
(3:38:09) Okay, that's always a possibility but everything that sold is fulfilled by Amazon. So if for some reason you you don't get a refund, you can literally just send it back and you get your money back. So it's literally no risk as long as you return it within the return window. And it's very very rare that uh issues like that will ever happen. It can happen.
(3:38:25) I've only seen it happen only ever once. Um but as long as you're on top of things, it's very straightforward. That's crazy. Yeah. And so how do how does taxes work? If I wanted to like sling this on eBay, it would just be free cogs. Yeah. Your cost goods would be nothing minus whatever if you if they don't cover taxes or if they don't cover PayPal fees. Yeah.
(3:38:53) Wow. That's insane. Yeah. Cuz like I I have this like hunch where I want to start eBay, but I don't really know um how to supply it without like cutting into my Amazon. So, this would be like a really good way. Yeah. Yeah. So, a lot of these things can sell on eBay, but like where these really shine as well is just selling locally.
(3:39:16) So, like something that normally sells on Amazon for like 80 bucks, you can just put up on [ __ ] Facebook, sell locally for 40, 50 bucks. And if it has a if if it has a decent demand, which you can tell on Amazon if those items have decent demand because you can see how much they sell per month, you can gauge how quickly they're probably going to sell locally.
(3:39:33) That's ridiculous. That's such a life hack, dude. and and not not not financial advice, but if you sell things for cash or we just put it in our pocket and don't talk about it, right? Yeah, exactly. Um, so you guys have this all automated like who who posts the new review products and stuff? These are all Chinese agency owners.
(3:39:53) Oh, that's who's posting it, correct? In Discord. That's crazy. So, you would DM him Discord and be like, "Hey, here's this. I bought this. Here's the review." Yeah. You I like like say like there's a guy named like Thomas Shelby. say you want these uh sunglasses that he has. I take a screenshot like, "Yo, I'll take these for the US.
(3:40:11) " And then he'll tell you if they're still available. Sometimes like they only have so many. So like if you're late, you're not going to get them, but the US has so many products, you're probably not going to have that problem. He will send you the link to get it. You send them a screenshot of your order number. And then when you get it, wait a couple days, leave a review.
(3:40:27) Review will take a couple days to go live. When it does, send screenshot. And then typically within like a week or two, the seller will send you the refund via PayPal. Nice. And like is there ever I mean ever is a crazy word, but are there like there's not many issues with this? Like it's pretty consistent. It's very consistent.
(3:40:48) The only issue that we had was I was talking about this earlier when we're talking about freebies is one of our members got like it was like some weird karaoke machine and um the obviously the the agency the freebie provider they contacted the seller and said you know that this is completed you need to refund them and then he didn't really follow up and then he uh didn't return it in time and then the return window was closed so he didn't get refunded and the seller never refunded him.
(3:41:18) So, like that's kind of on him for not returning it. But I was like, "Okay, uh, leave it with me." I was having a shitty day that day. So, I was like kind of like, "Fuck this person." So, I actually ordered the same product myself. And I'm not Do not do this. You should not do this. But, it was a Chinese seller. So, I was like kind of like, "Fuck you." I I I ordered it.
(3:41:37) They got the product sent back to them damaged two units. So, do not do this yourself. I'm telling you what I did. Do Do not do it yourself. And return fraud. No, I I wasn't fraud in anything. I sent the product back, but it was damaged. Yeah. Yeah. Um and then they got a negative feedback and it was like a few days after that and all of a sudden our member got refunded.
(3:42:00) Yeah. Oh, that's wild. Don't don't do that. You shouldn't do that. But I was just kind of like, [ __ ] this dude. That's insane, dude. Jordan, the the the freaking Punisher reseller. Well, I'll see if I I'm pretty sure my review is still live. Let me pull it up here. What did I say? I'll see if I can access in my account here.
(3:42:31) I specifically said something in my like it was like a seller feedback. It wasn't on product reviews. Seller feedback saying that this person is buying fake reviews. That's crazy. Yeah. Well, just don't [ __ ] try and shaft people if you're trying to work the system, right? Yeah. But yeah, like don't don't do that if that if anything happens.
(3:42:54) Just just return it. But it's al like you shouldn't really ever have to return anything because it's it is very very consistent that you get refunded. Yeah, I've never had issues. I mean, one I did kind of, they just took too long in uh sending the refund, but they eventually sent it cuz I was like, "Yo, just tell them that if they don't send it, I'm just going to leave a bad review.
(3:43:18) I'm going to change my review to a bad review." And they're like, "Okay, yeah, we'll send it back. We'll send you the money." But yeah, I've I've bought over, you know, thousands of thousands of dollars worth of this stuff for free. So, that's crazy. Yeah. And I'm planning sometime this year. I want to do it sooner than later, but I said I'm going to do a challenge where inside of a oneweek period, I'm going to only use information in the server outside of Amazon and attempt to profit $10,000 in a week.
(3:43:49) And I'm going to be heavily utilizing the freebies for that. So, I'm already actively buying them and getting them. So, I'm going to stack them up. Uh, and then I'm just going to try and blow them all out quickly and then stack that with some additional like eBay flips and ticket flips and things like that. Yeah, that's crazy, dude.
(3:44:07) There's so much like I want to learn about ticket flips and botting and all that [ __ ] bro. Just attend the daily sessions or I mean the the meetings that we have and you'll just learn by listening. just go through the channels. Like there's Jordan put up a lot of guides, so I would go through those first. Yeah, I need to read through everything.
(3:44:32) There's a lot of stuff in here, man. It might take me a year, but you get the hang of it. Yeah, I'm I'm pretty Discord savvy. I've made servers myself and stuff, so I'm not too worried, but um it's kind of a capital thing for me. I need just need to get my capital up. But with free review products, dude, who gives a [ __ ] That's the way.
(3:44:56) Why am I door dashing? Yeah, you should still dash at the same time, but stack it with I know. I know. Just funny. Definitely have your credit build up so you can apply for uh higher limit credit cards in the future. Yeah, my initial problem was uh starting this whole Amazon resale journey as a sole proprietorship and um my credit's just so [ __ ] now because I've carried a balance and but hey, live and you learn.
(3:45:28) I plan to get an LLC card and then I'll just grow. I don't know. We'll get there. Yeah, if you if you pay before your statement posts, then your credit you can increase your credit score quicker. Yeah, I need to do that. That and if you hold uh like if you if you have uh I guess different you don't have like any loans or anything like that, right? So, you want to pay those off too because it'll affect your credit score.
(3:45:55) Yeah. Like my my car is paid off. I don't have a house. Uh, it's just it's literally credit and utilizing a lot of it for this initial business. Like if you get stuck, I don't know if you looked into a balance transfer. Yeah, I actually just got invited to one. I was going to call my bank. Um, I just got invited like yesterday, so I'm going to see. I'm going to look into that.
(3:46:18) Yeah, that could save you some time on paying back. Yeah, with balance transfers, just always make sure you know exactly what the terms are because like the you almost always it's going to be less than what you're paying right now. Uh but a balance transfer will have like you're going to pay X% on the transfer amount and then X% per month or it's going to be or like your X% APR or it's going to be like 12 months zero APR, whatever, right? But you have to pay like whatever percent the transfer fee. Yeah, you're going to
(3:46:49) it's usually around like 2 to 3% 3 and a half% but that's the transfer fee. But you want to get to zero APR uh 12 month. Yeah, I think they were offering me 6%. I don't know if I could talk them down. I That's pretty high. I wouldn't Yeah, I wouldn't get that. That's too high. Yeah, there's there's credit cards that you can u I'm pretty sure you can find online that will tell you uh the current rates and they're going to be a lot lower than that.
(3:47:21) Is that the 6% transfer fee or is that the monthly APR? That's the APR. I don't Yeah, assuming they transfer fee, but um that might be how they balance it out. Maybe there's no transfer fee. I don't know. Even then like there's there's cards like I mean this I'm talking about Canada right now like US has a lot more options.
(3:47:43) So you said you're in the US right? Yeah. Yeah. So I mean here there's there's 0% APR transfer balance transfers for 12 months and it's like 3 and a half%ish or so like that. Yeah. You'll have to look into that. I'm excited getting the getting the money up, getting good uh good communities like this one. We'll be chilling. Well, like a lot of it just has really comes down to with yourself staying extremely consistent.
(3:48:20) Yeah, exactly. If you you you can say you want to do all this and have all really good aspirations, that's fine. But if you're not staying massively consistent, that's not going to help. Yeah, I think a schedule is going to help me a lot. Um I have this like I was in the military and I didn't necessarily like it that much.
(3:48:44) Uh so I have this like you know a schedule will keep me consistent but then I have this like proc not procrastination but like revenge uh I don't know re revenge against like something that holds me accountable if that makes sense. I don't know. It's weird. It's a mental thing but so I'm constantly fighting like you know too strict of a schedule with just having a schedule in general.
(3:49:13) It's an issue of mine. The thing that I've always found that helps the most is quit worrying about [ __ ] and just go to work. Just do it. Yeah. Just do it%. Just don't worry about all the other external [ __ ] and just just work 100%. Just get to work no matter what. No matter if you feel like [ __ ] or whatever, just go to work. Yeah.
(3:49:38) And even if you don't necessarily know what you're doing, just do something that you figure that will help you without like distracting yourself on external [ __ ] And it's like I think in your and we had the discussion like your main thing would be like revenue producing. So it's like if I'm doing something I'm like thinking about like oh should I do this? Should I extend my social profile? Should I make a website? Whatever. [ __ ] all that.
(3:50:00) Just going to go to work and make some money. So whether I'm getting money I'm getting [ __ ] freebie [ __ ] I'm doing door dashing. whatever. That's what I'm going to do until I'm in a much better place. Yeah. Something you brought to my attention was that um you were you were like what uh how is the prep center worth it? And you're like don't don't acknowledge the time.
(3:50:25) Don't acknowledge uh you know the the back pain that you're not going to have. Acknowledge the actual like money that you're going to make from it. Yeah. Yeah, cuz like early on you have more time than money. So like you're as shitty as it sounds, your time is not necessarily worth that much.
(3:50:44) So you you want to assuming that you have the time, try to save and earn as much money as you possibly can. Yeah. Um this is kind of off topic, but my my friend's parents have gotten pretty wealthy these last few years. They're getting older. Um, and they've gotten into um like sports ticket flipping. I don't know if you guys do that in here. Yep.
(3:51:09) Where they like buy a annual pass and then they sell the individual tickets or something. Yep. Um Yeah, that shit's crazy. We literally in our ticket call that we have with Chokei, who's our ticket broker, he talked about that quite extensively, buying season tickets and flipping them. Yeah, it's so cool.
(3:51:25) I I just can't wait to have like the capital to do everything I want to do. But it takes hard work. And just keep in mind though too, like it's one thing to be able to do that when you're like say like retired or you don't have anything else going on. If you have a lot of other stuff going on, it's always like you can't just do things blindly.
(3:51:43) You still need to understand how to do it and learn it. Otherwise, that's when you're going to get into bad business adventures and lose money. So yeah, you can't just, you know, go and become a ticket season holder and just expect that you're going to drop 10 grand on season tickets and be able to make a profit no matter what.
(3:52:00) Doesn't always work like that. You need to still understand the sport, understand the demand, understand how to sell, etc. And all that takes time, right? Yeah. And experience, right? Experience. So, it's it's always nice that you have aspirations to do all these things, and you should certainly try out a bunch of stuff when you have uh some time and some money to figure out what you want to do.
(3:52:23) Uh but don't get like the ADD symptoms where it's like, "Oh, I want to do this. I want to do this. I want to do this. I want to do this." Because then you're just going to stretch yourself way too thin. Yeah. Shiny object. Yeah. A lot of the people I started with on Amazon have shiny object and they've moved on.
(3:52:38) and and that's fine if they find something that's working for them, but like if they want to build something long-term sustainable that can scale, you're more likely to do that if you stick with something for an ungodly amount of time. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Because like once like say if you're wanting to focus on Amazon which not everybody does but say you do and you do it and you do it consistently day in day out five six seven 10 years it's going to be very hard after that point to not be good and not build a real
(3:53:12) business. Um I'm going to repeat the story because I know you've never heard it but I talk a lot about my dad with Amazon. Okay. Uh my dad is I think he's like 60 67 66 somewhere around there. What year was he born? 50 58. So 2025 minus 1958. So yeah he's 67. Uh he retired I think it was like last year and he was somebody like he worked at a meat plant in my city.
(3:53:46) Very entry- level job. Never earned a lot of I think when he retired, he was making like mid20s some dollars an hour. So like basically [ __ ] all. Uh and like for reference, our minimum wage here in Satuna, I think it's like around like I think it's closing on 15 bucks or just hit 15 bucks. So it's like barely [ __ ] all. Uh he worked there forever.
(3:54:07) I think he was there for like 30 35 years. And he started selling on Amazon about like sixish months after I did. So, I started I started looking at books October 2018. I sent in my first shipment end of November 2018. And so, he wanted me to show him how to find books. And so, he started with books.
(3:54:31) I got into use video games, consoles, and video games. So, he started doing that, finding them on Facebook. And I've said this before, but my dad is kind of half [ __ ] Uh, he's not like super intelligent. Uh, hardly knows how to use a computer. um even today and he has just stuck with Amazon consistently. Like he barely knows what he's doing.
(3:54:56) He's one of the reasons why I started the leadless company that I have because he couldn't find products. So I figured I could just offer a service and help him do it because like I tried to teach him ways to source even use like TA manual sourcing from stocking. He could not do it for the life of him. And so today, he is very consistent.
(3:55:15) He goes on my lead list every single day. He buys products. Uh sometimes he replenishes products, sometimes not because it's hard for him to keep track of his inventory, but he's just ungodly consistent. And I haven't checked his sales myself for a while, but I know like many many months ago when I asked him where he was at, he was actively selling around $50,000 Canadian per month.
(3:55:39) And he barely knows what the [ __ ] he's doing. He has like a he has he has like an inventory turn rate of like [ __ ] three which is not good. Yeah. Right. Because I love your dad. Yeah. Like he just started like using a repricer. I don't know like maybe like six months ago. Is he in the Discord? Yeah. Yes, he is actually. But he doesn't know how to use it.
(3:56:02) That's hilarious. Um, so yeah, like he never even used a repricer a for a long time. Uh, he constantly makes mistakes. Uh, not that long ago, we got a notification of a Lego set that was discounted on one of our dealbots and it was I think it was priced like $10 and I seen it as soon as it popped up and it was like a long retired Lego set.
(3:56:29) I knew he had that so I opened it as soon as I seen it and I like I just figured it was his and he [ __ ] up. So, I opened it up. It was his Lego set. He priced at $10. It should have been priced at like 300. Uh, so I I immediately called him. I was like, "Fix your [ __ ] price. You [ __ ] up. What the [ __ ] are you doing?" And in that time, one of our other members seen that notification and bought it. So, he lost that Lego set.
(3:56:52) I was like, "Oh, hilarious. You [ __ ] guy." And like I mean he's been selling on Amazon for like uh six years at this point, but he's just like he just has like he just has ungodly consistence. That's why he's able to like sell a fairly decent amount every single every single month, right? Yeah. All about consistency. Yeah.
(3:57:16) And like for All right. What's up? Are any of you guys trying to buy the Switch on Costco right now? You should. I'm trying. It's not working. I just hopped in here hoping someone would have like a solution or maybe they were getting through, but sorry, I don't want to cut you off. I hear you're mentoring someone.
(3:57:35) No, that's okay. We're just talking. Uh, you're not able to add the Switch to console with Mario Kart World to your cart. No, it's getting in the cart and then I'm getting to check out and then it'll just load for like a minute and then it'll say, "Oops, can't find this page." My page just getting bogged down right now.
(3:57:53) Are are are you on uh after is that after place order or before? Uh it's when I hit place order. Yeah, I'm still stuck on that, too. Okay, cool. It probably just has too much traffic at the moment. Oh, goodness. Costco's going to be the prime place to get it. Um I don't it's hard to say where the market's going to be with this guy.
(3:58:12) Uh I don't imagine they're going to have enough for demand because like it is a very very hype console. Uh, but a Costco is the place if I can get it because if it does dip, it'll be super easy to return. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I was like, you know, order order now, think later because I know I can just return it. 100%.
(3:58:31) Costco, Walmart, Amazon, all those places will be fine, but Costco is obviously the best for that. Yeah, it's always nice. And I'm pretty sure you can return it in person, too. Oh, probably. Yeah, I think I've taken online orders back. Pretty surprised it's coming out right now. Like I thought this was going to be consistent with the drop uh I think tomorrow.
(3:58:55) Costco does what Costco does. Sells [ __ ] Blooming Waters. We're way under MSRP. I'm trying to get a guy from Costco into our group. Uh he works in the back though in the warehouse. But that's what we [ __ ] need. Somebody in the warehouse. They have access to numbers that the front staff doesn't have. Yeah.
(3:59:13) Yeah, I'm trying to get him in. He's He was really interested actually. I was uh talking to him a couple of times. Yeah. He's like he's like I I I'm going to join soon, but he's like he has some other business stuff that he's working on, but he's like he's going to join pretty soon.
(3:59:29) Tell me if he can find me stock numbers Canada wide for anything that I want. He can get a probably a free membership. I'll message him right now because I'm pretty sure the warehousing employees can get stocks all over Canada whereas the front employees can only get for their region. Um, I want to be able to see stock numbers whenever I need for all of Canada.
(4:00:02) So to order from Costco online, you need a Costco membership, right? Yeah, you do. Yeah, I got to buy one and I don't even have one. So, I did for Blooming Waters. I bought my whole family a Costco membership each. Yeah, back coming back to what we're mentioning, it's just pure grit and consistency can take you very far. Like so with my dad's scenario, for most people when you've been selling for that long, like you would be a lot further along than he would be.
(4:00:36) Like $50,000 a month is very impressive. Uh but for somebody that's been doing it as long as he has, it's not as impressive once you actually understand how Amazon works. Um but for somebody that literally hardly knows how to use a computer, it's extremely impressive and just shows you like how just pure consistency how far it can take you. Yeah.
(4:00:56) Yeah. That's super good. Did you buy any of those little Wayne tickets this morning, Jordan? I did not. I was preoccupied today. We had a bunch of [ __ ] bot problems that I had to sort out. That's why I didn't get in the Pokemon queue this morning. Oh [ __ ] Yeah. Oh my god. I saw the Pokemon Q once like way after it happened.
(4:01:20) It's like I just put my phone away at work. I'm like, man. Uhhuh. After I seen that, I was like, "Oh shit." And then when I when I looked at the queue, I checked my position. It said like 700,000. Oh [ __ ] I was like, "Yeah, I'm not getting through." I swear I always miss the Pokemon Q. You got to got Yeah, I ate today on that. I'm happy.
(4:01:47) Yeah, I saw everyone posting about it. I felt so jealous. Especially the prismatics. Those go so hard. Yeah, I know. Pokemon Center exclusive. [ __ ] And it's not a pre-order either, right? So, they should ship like really soon. Yeah. They'll probably ship immediately. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz like what's mark what's mark on those guys? Like 400 bucks right now.
(4:02:09) Yeah. The Pokemon center ones are always going crazy. You're allowed to buy two as well. I'm surprised they didn't limit it to one. I noticed after because I just spy it and then I notice after I'm like, "Oh [ __ ] it says limited." So, I just placed another order after that and it went through.
(4:02:27) So, pre Pokemon Hype there were no limits on these things. Once Pokemon Hype like once they started introducing the queue and this Pokemon hype got out of hand, that's when they started reducing like all products down to limited two. Yeah, I thought uh Pokemon Center was usually one like I I was in the Death of Rivals one or am I tripping? Was Destin Rivals one? I only got one.
(4:02:50) Maybe I didn't realize that it was two and I just [ __ ] myself. But it might have it might have been I don't recall. It might have been one, but I know most products are two. I'm pretty sure like the 151 bundles that just restock were two as well. It might be It might just be restocks then. Maybe. I don't recall. QRS.
(4:03:30) And so, Daniel, how have things been going? Um, they've been decent. I checked Amazon today and I've been making some sales. So, we've been making progress. Yeah. Like some things I found in here, a couple things I found by myself. So, it's more like further along than I was last time we talked about it. It's another step closer to quitting the 9 to5.
(4:03:55) Yeah, I kind of like figured out a plan for now and I think it's going to be uh work my job until maybe November, December at the latest and then going on vacation and then once I come back probably try to go all in on, you know, finding my own income outside of work. Mhm. Yeah, do it.
(4:04:17) Once you take the jump, once you take the jump, it'll kind of light a fire under your ass and you know, you should be able to make it work. Like that's what happened with me. So at that at that point becomes a little bit sink sinker swim, right? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. It's kind of like I think about how much work I do in eight hours at my job now and I'm like man if I put in that much work into like you know providing my own income through reselling or Amazon or whatever feel like it would be pretty easy. It can be as long as you hold
(4:04:50) yourself accountable because it's very easy to fall in the trap of like oh I can do that tomorrow or whatever. I'm really push it off right when you're not being told that you have to do this. Yeah, I could see that as well, 100%. So, it's it's sometimes good to put like a false expectation in your head.
(4:05:10) It's like that I have to do this, right? Like I've said this before. It's like, well, like I literally have to do this or I'm going to [ __ ] die. Yeah, I get what you're saying. Like making yourself do it. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. I don't know. I guess we'll see. I I have one friend who graduated from engineering, I don't know, like a year or two ago. He's unemployed.
(4:05:31) He like tried reselling for a little bit. He's trying to do his own business now. And he seems like the perfect example of like, you know, they can't get themselves to do [ __ ] alone. Like they don't have the fear of being fired and he just seems to be like [ __ ] around too much. And that's kind of that's kind of most people, right? That's why most people are just not business owners.
(4:05:53) That's why most people stay employees and that's fine. But if you if you want if you want that for yourself, you have to be willing to not do that. I just, you know, I can't imagine sitting in an office job for the next 30, 40 years. Like I I can't imagine it. It's crazy to me. And it's like I work for a good company, like worldwide huge company.
(4:06:14) Like I have all these good things going with it. It's like probably one of the best jobs I could have got out of school. But it's I'm still just like not happy with it. So, is it because you're somebody that can't be happy with things or is it because that kind of job is soul sucking? Uh, I'd say it's more leaning towards the soul sucking part.
(4:06:36) It's like, you know, it's not bad pay. I get to work from home. I get to be outside in the summers. Um, my co-workers are all right. I don't know. It's just it's just not enough, right? It just feels like there's so much more to life than sitting at an office staring at a computer for 8 hours a day working for someone else.
(4:06:56) Like it's different if it's working for myself and I'm like making all the money, but like you know I know how much clients get charged for like my time at my job and it is an insane amount. Like it is [ __ ] crazy. So just knowing that I'm like making other people so much money just working for them kind of like irks me.
(4:07:15) And it's like why can't I do that for myself? Why can't I, you know, put that time into making that income myself and not having to make someone else rich? I guess definitely. You just have to consider though that instead of sitting in front of a computer for somebody else for eight hours, you might need to sit in front of a computer for yourself for 14, 15, 16 hours and potentially even make less money.
(4:07:38) But less money probably in the short term, even like maybe medium term. But it's like, you know, it's it's a different feeling when I'm like selling something. I see the money come into my account rather than just work 8 hours a day. I don't know. I guess it's like, you know, it's reliable income, but it's just a shitty feeling.
(4:07:58) Like I I just couldn't I know I couldn't do for the next 20, 30 years. I just can't imagine it. Like I've even asked my parents like how how'd you do that? How is that even possible? And they don't really have much to say about it. And I don't even understand that. like how can you do that for so long? But you think about like what is it like 90% of the population are employed by other people? So that's how most of that's how most of the world works, dude.
(4:08:26) It's just hard to accept, right? It's like my brain doesn't work that way. It's like I just can't imagine doing that. Dude, I uh I was thinking about that like last night. Uh, I I was getting Tik Toks on my phone of a bunch of Amazon employees and like, can you imagine like working in the warehouse when you could just sell on Amazon and potentially make more money? Like, I'm like, this is crazy.
(4:08:52) I think a lot of it is just people don't really have the drive to figure it out themselves. Like, they don't want to learn. They don't want to like take the risk. They don't want to like buy products and move them. Like, they just rather, you know, go to a job. That's their income. They're fine with that. do the commute, do whatever you got to do to like get your paycheck and that's it.
(4:09:13) A lot of it a lot of it is comfortability for sure. A lot of it is self-doubt. They don't think something could could work. Um, a lot of it is laziness. All kinds of things, right? I would say like I would say the vast majority of the population are extremely lazy. even if they don't look like extremely lazy. Yeah, you're right.
(4:09:38) Definitely can agree with that. And like if you really like start like looking into where other people are working and like what they're doing and how they do their job, you can really start to identify those things. Like there's people in every single industry that are like quoteunquote professionals.
(4:09:55) It's just like you're [ __ ] [ __ ] at your job. And like everywhere you look, whether it's doctors, lawyers, people that are just doing service [ __ ] sales reps, whatever the case may be, you're gonna find [ __ ] people everywhere. It's like, how do these many people exist in these positions? But it's because a good chunk of the population is like that.
(4:10:13) Yeah, you're definitely right. I don't know. It's sad reality to see. I just Maybe that'll be me one day. Maybe I will be working a 9 to5, but you know, it's like I'll at least give it a shot to not do that. Yeah, you have to at least try. That's what I'm kind of like, you know, well, you're conditioned that to think that way in school anyways, right? The whole education system is kind of built on the employee mindset.
(4:10:42) Yes, that's also true. You're right. Go to school, get a job, get married, and die. Well, school is very school is very much was structured for like the industrial revolution to be able to punch a clock and work in a factory, right? That's how that's how it was originally manufactured. Well, apparently it was based on like a Bellarusian prison system like the the bell, the lockers, the you know going to different periods.
(4:11:13) Uh yeah, so the modern school system is very much new. Yeah, people in general not taught to be self-sufficient, to question the norm, to think outside the box in any capacity. I just don't get it. Like, there's even people I work with that I think are like like I think they're really intelligent. Like, I can easily say they're smarter than me.
(4:11:42) They are more efficient than me. Like, you know, they do everything better than me. They've obviously worked there for like many many more years than me, but it's like I don't know. I see those people and I'm like how are they not like figuring this out? Like my one coworker, he's worked at my job for 10 years. Like he's like such a smart guy.
(4:11:56) Um and he accidentally resold Taylor Swift tickets when it was going crazy. I think he made like 1.5K. And this was an accident. like he bought the tickets for his friend group and then a couple of them dropped out and they all just decided to cancel and he tried to resell them and some company bought it off of him and he made 1.
(4:12:18) 5k in profit and like even that didn't like you know like spark anything in his head he's just like oh cool you think about it's like how does that make [ __ ] click it's like oh [ __ ] I made that much money doing [ __ ] nothing yeah like just clicking some buttons on a computer like I don't The only thing I can think is maybe he uh doesn't believe it's like a common thing you can do. It's just a oneoff.
(4:12:44) He got lucky and then that's it. But I don't know. Like how does that not make something click in your head? It's like, oh, I just made 1.5k doing essentially nothing. And you see that you see that everywhere you for for everything. Like people don't understand like that's why arbitrage opportunities all across the world exist. Mhm.
(4:13:06) That's true. Um I had somebody, this was back in I think it was like October, November, and we had a live session uh and I was talking about it and I was semi-serious. We had a call like this. Uh one of my friends told me about uh this Taylor Swift giveaway that was happening where it was like I think it was like a radio station or it might have been like Rogers.
(4:13:26) They were doing like a weekly giveaway for a set of two Taylor Swift tickets and all you had to do was like comment on their Facebook post and they they did it for like I don't know I think it was like [ __ ] like two or three months and they gave away I think it was a set of two tickets every single every single week.
(4:13:42) It might even been longer than that and I looked at some of the posts and like it had a decent amount of comments but it was like four or 5,000. So I was like it's not even that much. So I was like immed like she told me about this and I was like immediately like oh can't make a [ __ ] bot to comment on these [ __ ] things like generate Facebook accounts make these [ __ ] comments increase my success by so much and I was calculating I was like oh if if I can win the tickets like 50% of the time I can make this much money. So I was like cool I'm
(4:14:09) getting ready to [ __ ] drop like $50,000 on a bot. And she's like why the [ __ ] are you thinking about it that way? It's like do you do you not see this opportunity? Yeah, that's funny. That's what my girlfriend says. Every time I comment on something that like she might think I'm going to buy to resell, she'll like make a joke like, "Are you buying it to resell? Are you buying it to flip it?" I'm like, "Oh man, it comes off like that.
(4:14:32) " Like I just sound like a dirty scalper or something. But it feels like it's so ingrained in my mind now. Like wherever I go, I'm like, "Why is this so cheap? I could probably sell this on eBay." But like 100%. But like like finding opportunities like that is that that's what makes people entrepreneurs because like it may be like scalping but like for that Taylor Swift scenario it's like I could stand to make a couple hundred,000 in a month if I can make this work and with like reasonable expectations.
(4:14:59) I was like I kind of want to [ __ ] do this. Yeah. I don't blame you, right? It's like most people would work so many hours to make that money, right? You you could do it in a couple days maybe. It's like I'm going to find a developer. We're going to pay him a [ __ ] ton of money. [ __ ] He's going to stay up for like, I don't know, 84 hours straight.
(4:15:17) We're going to get the [ __ ] done and we're going to [ __ ] profit a [ __ ] ton of money. Yeah, pretty much. I don't know, man. I just don't see how other people don't like like people are just okay with it. I just don't get it. It's comfortable in complacency. It's dangerous. But like, you know, I'd rather take the risk and fail than sit in a [ __ ] office job and want to blow my brains out for eight hours a day for the next 20 years.
(4:15:47) Comfort and complacency is a [ __ ] man. It's dangerous. I just don't get it. It just doesn't make sense. But I know what you mean. Yeah. Comfortability, you know, they need their paycheck. I work with like a lot of people that are like in their like 30s and 40s, too. So, they have like a significant other, maybe a mortgage, [ __ ] all that [ __ ] Like, you know, they have actual real bills to pay. Mhm.
(4:16:06) So they can't really take the risk that I can right now. One of probably like I would say like he was like my absolute best friend when I first started with Amazon. I was and like started like getting proof of concept like these things are working. I was like I was accounting him all the time. I was like come do this [ __ ] with me.
(4:16:21) Like this would be [ __ ] fun. Like I'm doing it by myself and I'm having a good time. Just imagine if we did it together. And like I was all the time like just come [ __ ] do the [ __ ] with I mean, I probably had him for like a year and like after like expanding from books into video games and then into like arbitrage and getting into wholesale and like slowly growing, I'm like, "Come [ __ ] do this [ __ ] with me all the [ __ ] time." He's like, "Ah.
(4:16:41) " Question like, "I don't think so." And then, you know, like probably like a year, two years later when it's actually like grown into something real and I'm making like actually decent money. He's like, "Well, like you think like maybe we can like start like talking about this stuff?" I was like, "Dude, like I want you to come do this with me like how long ago? build it with me now that like I have like value in this company.
(4:17:01) I can't just like hand over half to you now. Yeah, man. Literally the same thing on a smaller scale with me and my friend. Like the exact same thing. It's like, you know, I would be like either paying for the groups or I'd be like renting the bots and setting it up and learning it or whatever and he'd be seeing the money I'm making and the things I'm selling and then he'd be like, "Well, let me like, you know, send me this stuff. Like, let me know.
(4:17:25) How do I do this?" like, "Man, I was trying to get you in on this like a year or two ago and you were like halfassing it, barely doing anything, and I'm giving you all these profitable leads on like anything." And he just really didn't care that much or pick it up that much. And now it's like he's coming back.
(4:17:41) And he's like, "Well, help me like teach me this stuff." Like, man, it's [ __ ] annoying. Like, I think it would be super fun. Like Stephan in here, he works with one of his friends. He has a business partner so he can he can give his own experience of course but like I think it'd be [ __ ] fun like sitting sitting in two offices be like yo we can [ __ ] stand to make $1,000 [ __ ] selling this [ __ ] shampoo.
(4:18:04) This is super exciting. Yeah, pretty much. That is uh honestly how my days go. Like sometimes I'll have to not go into the warehouse because my business partner runs like the more the operations the warehouse and then I run more of the purchasing. And like if I'm in there too long, we'll just start like rambling about like other business ideas.
(4:18:26) But then like when I'm at home, I'm going to be like, "Okay, I just have to like source right now. Let me just get this done." Or I'll start like talking about like literally what Jordan said. Like damn, there's like this product and like we're able to make like this much off like a hat and it's like how is this even like it's crazy? We got to buy more and then like you forecast and you talk about like what we're going to do in the future.
(4:18:52) So there's definitely uh a lot of benefits there. And then also kind of hearing like similar stories. Uh my business partner is like basically my best friend. But I think an important thing of like different the the difference of like someone being a really good friend and someone being like a good business partner is just like sharing the same values and goals.
(4:19:10) So you can always like shoot the [ __ ] with like friends, right? but you won't always have like the exact same like uh views on life uh and kind of what you want. So, it's kind of like cheesy or cliche, but it's kind of like like finding a wife, finding a partner. It's like basically the same thing.
(4:19:29) And then we get into a partnership like you know uh right like a partnership agreement that might be somewhat similar to like right a freedom right like hoping it lasts forever. So that's um that's how I found success with that. Yeah. I've heard that like analogy before of like a business partner, you're essentially like marrying them or like in a long-term relationship with them.
(4:19:55) You have to make sure you guys have similar values and like you know aren't out to like get each other or anything like that. For sure. Oh yeah. With with me and him like I've known him for decades now. I've known him since I was like in grade seven. And um we've always said like if we were gay we'd probably be lovers, right? So like we work very good together and we always have difference of opinions for some things, but like it's not like never had like stupid fights, never not talked to one another, and it's a very synergistic relationship. And I was
(4:20:34) like, "Fuck, this would be like so much fun." And then he just like one of those people that just like gets too comfortable in what he's doing, right? I'm like, "Fuck, man." Like, and like like I know that we can work super good together. I know like he would be like super good work ethic, very good at what he does.
(4:20:52) I would say like he's very like similar to like my dad in the aspect of like technology, like doesn't really know how to like use technology super well, but like we can still make this [ __ ] work, dude. Like you have super good work ethic with what you do and I have no doubt like we can make this work. Uh, but yeah, just somebody that just gets too too comfortable in what they're doing.
(4:21:08) And like I I get it, but I was like, [ __ ] like we could have could had such a good time. Yeah, I would say good thing. Good thing now I have a I always have a good excuse for uh writing off me and entertainment. So I was got I always got a business partner to have meetings with. So, 100%. It's always those darn meetings, you know.
(4:21:39) But yeah, like as as uh as as I was growing and scaling, uh there was often times where we I'd have a very very large shipment and I would just recruit friends or family to come help me. And there was multiple times where my friend Dylan who was talking about he would come to the warehouse and help us prep and pack.
(4:21:57) And yeah, like it would make the it would make the day go by so much quicker cuz just talking, shooting [ __ ] talking about ideas, whatever. And that's how the [ __ ] business stemmed of like my side business of my if you didn't know, my sex toy business started when we were working working with my nephew.
(4:22:14) And my nephew was like, oh, like he was talking about like all these ideas. This was like peak COVID. Um doesn't doesn't know what to do with his life. And then we started talking about businesses and we started like throwing like random ideas out and like just read an article about like sex toy businesses popping off.
(4:22:29) I'm like, "Well, why don't you just do something like that?" He's like, "I wouldn't do something like that." And Dylan's like, "Well, [ __ ] I would." And then we just started talking about it and started crafting a business plan. Yeah. Like that shit's fun. It's exciting. Yeah. Damn. So, who tested products? Ha.
(4:22:50) Have you never been in one of these calls when I talked about this, Nick? No. No. I do uh remember you mentioning it, but I don't know what kind of sex toys we're talking about. Oh, like anything and everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everything. Awesome. Weird bondage things, big life-siz silicone dolls, everything. I love it. Yeah. Hey, you sell what people buy, man.
(4:23:15) Yes, we do. Yes, we do. But yeah, it started off as like a it started off as like a joke for my nephew, but it's like why don't you try something like this? And kind of like joking and he's like ew like I wouldn't do that. And then it's just like we started talking about I was like well I would do that and it's like yeah there's probably demand for it and it's like Dylan Dylan's kind of freaky so he might know something about it.
(4:23:36) So it's like let's start talking about it. You're like what do you enjoy? What do you think people would buy? So yeah, we actually made a bit we actually made a business off of that. And like it's not a big business. It's still live today. We still make sales today. Uh we don't do anything with it. We can. We haven't. Um but it still revenues an okay amount every single month.
(4:24:03) [Music] Yeah. We we Oh, go ahead. for for a business like that, what would kind of be like the endg game for you guys? Because I know like the ultimate goal like for like a brand or a business would be like to hopefully like sell it at a later time. But I'm not sure how investors would look at like this type of industry.
(4:24:28) But I guess kind of in general when you are starting like those type of um uh ventures, are you like planning to sell or you just planning to kind of like make extra cash with that? it was more so just as like a just kind of a fun side project. So there was no actual real big vision in mind and kind of do it and see see what see where we can take it.
(4:24:53) Um but like and I understand like the the taboo and stuff around that. I 100% get it. Uh but there are actual real businesses that revenue a [ __ ] ton of money in those industries and that have huge valuations. If you look at businesses like Pink Cherry, for example, or Adam and Eve, they're worth [ __ ] hundreds of millions of dollars.
(4:25:12) Um, so yeah, we kind of just did it just kind of for shits and just to see and just to try. We didn't do it, we didn't go into it with any actual endgame. Uhhuh. Gotcha. Is that like something you would want in the future like be able to sell it or is it just purely I think that would be an ideal thing to work towards for sure.
(4:25:39) Um, but I'm also somebody that, and some people say like I'm full of [ __ ] but I do it all the time. That I build businesses for the sake of building businesses because I enjoy business. I don't really care about the money in any aspect of any of my business. If I if I did, we wouldn't have this community today.
(4:25:57) This doesn't This community spends way more [ __ ] time than it's worth. So I I do business because I simply enjoy business and building. When something gets even if it's like super powerful and it gets like boring to me or too easy, I immediately stop spending time on it and go want to explore other options and start building something else.
(4:26:19) I just I like the I like the game and fun of it. I that's interesting. I don't give a [ __ ] about you have I've never really given a [ __ ] about anything happen to us or something or like like is that like something that's common or is it more just like what you because I feel like a lot of people may run into that when they get up there.
(4:26:41) They're just like it's not really there's no point in like making the money. It's just about like what you're actually doing. I think I've always kind of ever since I started business, I've always kind of had that same thought in almost any I would say in any business I've done, I've never done it specifically for the money ever.
(4:27:06) Even with like say like general reselling, right? Like you may say that's like purely for the money. I do it purely for the excitement. It's like it's it's fun to be able to buy something and be able to [ __ ] sell it for 10x the [ __ ] price that you buy it for or go go go thrifting and find a deal. Like I a couple months ago I posted about like having [ __ ] tons of stock in the warehouse that I've never posted on eBay.
(4:27:27) I just buy it just it just sits there because uh I don't even care about making the money. It just I enjoy the the excitement of doing it. Right. Like I went on this thrifting trip uh like two two weeks ago. Um and I did it specifically for like the gold team section that we have in the server where I'm going to be buying stuff that I identify as profitable and sell it directly back to members of gold team for the exact same price that I buy it for so that they can uh they can take it and they can sell it for money because I want to help
(4:28:04) somebody else build business. But I also just enjoy treasure hunting. I don't even really care about reselling it for money. So I I took my brother paid him for an entire day and we went out with thrifting just for that. Nice. I feel like that like indirectly makes you money. Like sure like you're not like sourcing or something or building other things, but you're still like building this community and like indirectly adding to it. So 100% it does for sure.
(4:28:36) And like when you operate on the philosophy of where you're willing to help more help people out without any expectation of anything in return by default it's going to help you. That's just how the world works. Um and I understand that. I'm not naive to that. But I don't I still don't do it for the money. [Music] I said something the other day when uh I think it was a couple weeks ago.
(4:29:12) I think it was when Nick got a restock that I was trying to get and I said I should have just [ __ ] uh kept this community completely private to myself with all the tools, not given anybody else. It'd be way more profitable. It was a poster, right? Yeah. It might have been that uh it might have been the the Dead and Co poster.
(4:29:32) Yeah. Like [ __ ] If I just real [ __ ] to myself, I just make way more money. Yeah. I think that come I think that kind of comes down to the aspect of like why I've never advertised uh this community. why I've never advertised a leadless business that I have. I literally talk to people and then I say I put it out that I have this if you want it. If not, cool.
(4:30:12) It's definitely better than the other ones I've been in. The other ones are a little crazy. How so? Um just like like the crowd is a lot younger. People are more like vulgar. People aren't like willing to help. People are more just like almost there to like flex. like they got a pair of shoes or they got like a lot of something on a restock.
(4:30:37) It's like, "Oh, how'd you do that?" "Oh, go [ __ ] yourself. I just made 100 thousand or not 100,000. I just made like$1,000 off this, right?" Um just I don't know. Yeah. More like I guess like EOS is what it seemed like. Just I don't know. Seems like much more like friendly and like chill rather than the other ones I've been in. Well, yeah.
(4:31:00) and you'll actively see like myself and then the other staff members um granted like the the two full-time staff members that we have in here like they're VAS from the Philippines which doesn't apply to them but I'll actively call out things that have like limited stock and other people will get it and I won't be able to get it because I've been calling for somebody else and I do that with that expectation that that's going to happen. Yeah, definitely.
(4:31:21) Yeah. Somebody I don't even remember what it was. Somebody asked me the other day when I pinged something if I got any and I was like, "No, I [ __ ] I was sending somebody else the links. I couldn't get it to add to my [ __ ] cart." I think it was polka dots. I think that's what it was. Oh man, I cannot [ __ ] get those.
(4:31:41) It doesn't matter how hard I try. I just can't [ __ ] get them. I think I would have got them if I didn't try to order two last time. Like probably. Yeah. I don't know what I was so quick on it and I was like, "Oh, I'm finally going to get it." And then I tried to order two. really good hunt. They absolutely flew.
(4:31:56) Yeah, those are crazy. Just some crappy little fake Pokemon cards. Like, but yeah, there's these other ones. Uh, what are they called? They're called Po Poke Poke Gao, I believe it's called. Poke How do you spell Poke? Are you talking about the ones off Timu or these different ones? No, these are these are different ones.
(4:32:17) These are like handmade from like somebody in like I say it's like Taiwan or something. Pokey Oh, I have no idea. Poke. What the [ __ ] is it called? Pokey. Spell it. Poke. Hold on. I'll find it. But yeah, these guy he makes like they're actually like art cards. Like so like they they're really cool art. They're not like derpy [ __ ] And um they're not as known as polka dots, but this is something that we've been monitoring.
(4:32:45) And um let me find it here. I think I saved a link somewhere. Uh, where did I put the link? Here we go. What are these called? So, the website is called Art Yao. R A R T Y- Uh, and yeah, they're they're poke poke poke gaku. P O K A I G A K U. some weird like [ __ ] Oh, these are actually cool as [ __ ] Yeah, they're super cool.
(4:33:24) And so these uh he puts out these every every so often. And if you look up those Poke Gaku, like they don't sell nearly as much as uh Poke, but he al he also doesn't make as many. You look up that name with a booster box, the last sold is $827. Wow. On eBay. Yeah. Yeah. The art is pretty cool and I completely get it and get the appeal.
(4:33:50) Yeah. So, these are things that we're actively looking into and monitoring as well to find [ __ ] like this because this is stuff that like nobody else knows about. So, the next time these restock, we will know. We'll be making a call about it. And I'm pretty sure like the booster boxes that he sells are like I want to say like they're around $100 if I recall.
(4:34:20) What exactly are the price? Wow, that is crazy profit. Yeah, like they're not it's really good profit. I don't I don't think they're that expensive. What were they again? I don't remember to log in here. Let me Instagram you son of a [ __ ] But yeah, being uh having employees that are in here full-time, we're able to explore and find things like this, which I think are really cool. Mhm. Poke Poke Gaku.
(4:35:00) I've never seen that. That's actually sweet. Yeah. I kind of hate how much I like them. It's like I'd be worried to buy them and I'd be like, can I keep it? Can I just not sell it? Can I open it? Yeah, like they're they're actual art, right? Uh does it say how much they were? How much were these guys? Retail price Yeah, I don't I don't know how much they were, but yeah, I'm pretty sure they weren't that expensive. Yeah.
(4:36:06) Um, for some people I just got a message from uh my nephew. He got charged for one of the Pokemon ETBs. It would have been through Vins or Q Montreal's acco. He hasn't got an email for it yet. So, if you were signed up for that ACCO, you might have gotten more at ETBs. Has anybody here signed up for the Pokemon form that he put out? Yeah, I'm in. Yeah. Check your bank statement.
(4:36:33) to see if you got charged by Pokemon Center cuz you might have not gotten the email. You might have got it. Oh [ __ ] I think I sent him the card that was maxed out. He still has Oh [ __ ] Yeah, I did. What are you doing, bro? You shouldn't be carrying balances like that. Yeah, I know. I know. I shouldn't.
(4:37:01) You better not be paying noise. But I max I max it out. No, I maxed it out early. That's why I had it maxed out early. I usually do all like my payments on the Friday. So yeah, slipping. Yeah, high ticket high ticket items. Yeah, you're missing out. It's all right. Get the next one. Nick, were you signed up for his form, too? like Q Montreal's.
(4:37:34) Yeah, the general Pokemon one. Yeah. Yeah, I signed up to basically like everything he puts out. Check Check. He got me a couple of Sorry. Check to see if you got charged more than the the two that you were expecting for Pokemon Center today cuz you might have got an extra a couple extra ETBs you weren't expecting. I wish.
(4:37:53) But no, I I would have got Oh, wait. What? Oh, no. No, it Dude, I saw a Pokemon charge, but it was from the 15. A [ __ ] [ __ ] It was for the um the the 151 booster packs or whatever. Fair enough. Yeah, I got those too. I got excited for a second. [ __ ] Is anyone getting through on Costco? I've been trying for this entire call and I've locked in.
(4:38:24) No, I've been trying on and off. No luck. The regular bundle is sold out. That's what it shows on Costco. But this one, it just doesn't go through. It should be It should be in 15 minutes. I think Walmart is releasing, I believe. Oh, what? What? I'll post it here. Hold on. One second here. 12 a.m. ET. Oh, [ __ ] You're right. I I read that it's 12:00 p.m.
(4:38:53) Like the GameStop one. Some are going to be 12 p.m. tomorrow, but some are releasing at 12 a.m. EST. So, yeah, it should be Walmart. So, what are you thinking? Just full send on every retailer. Uh, depends on how much capital you have. Like with ordering from like Walmart and Amazon, they're not going to charge you till dispatch.
(4:39:14) So, you're relatively safe and unless it's a pre-order, then if it doesn't sell, then they just uh cancel it. I called my local GameStop. were like, "Yeah, there's going to be a Q system that line up." So, I'm like, "Nah, screw that." So, I'll grab the links here and we'll post them in the channel.
(4:39:38) So, we grab Well, we have Best Buy and Walmart. I think Walmart is It said at 12:01 uh a.m. Uh they're going to have the pre-orders up. Not sure why is going to have it. Normally Nester would be working or Jong, but he's sick today, so I have to cover this while we're in the call. And then yeah, we'll still watch Amazon. Let me double check.
(4:40:24) I'm pretty sure we have all these guys loaded in our restocks. Let me double check here. Did we load these guys to live in 15 minutes? Okay. Um, yeah. What What are they selling for like eBay? So, right now, what kind of ROI are we talking right now? the Mario bundles. I think they're about a,000 bucks and the retail on them is 700, I believe. Uh, let's find out here.
(4:40:55) Nintendo Switch 2. So, yeah, the Mario bundle last sold was 920. Before that, 920. Uh, 8.84,01. So, probably like say conservatively like around 900 bucks. And then let's add up what our fees and whatnot are going to be. So around 900. Our retail price for the bundle is 700. Is it 700? Yeah. Walmart. 700.
(4:41:30) So if it's selling for 900, expected profit will be about 80 bucks. If it's selling for a,000, okay, it'll be about close closer like 200. I see. I see. But I fully expect that these will probably sell in pretty heavy volume as well. Yeah. Yeah. And like with every other Nintendo release, um they've never they said for this one they're going to produce to demand, but historically they never have and I doubt they're going to this time.
(4:42:06) And there's a lot of hype around the Switch 2. So, I would expect that everybody will sell out. Um, can't say for sure, but if we're ordering from like Walmart or Amazon, it's literally no risk. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. The no risk. Does Walmart allow online returns? Because in the past, I've tried and like they said, I have to bring it into store.
(4:42:37) Or is it item dependent? I believe it's item dependent because you can definitely return some things on Walmart. I have quite a lot. Yeah. Uh so there's GameStop, there's Walmart, there's Amazon. So let me load these couple guys here. So they're dropping at midnight. Yes. So I mean I'll stay on and try. We could all try together. Walmart.
(4:43:14) Walmart added forward forward. So, switch have to do some admin tasks here. One second. And back to flips. Those guys are loaded. Uh, Amazon is loaded. Cool, cool, cool, cool. And GameStop is loaded. Do we have links for Best Buy? I don't think yet. I think we are cool. [Music] All righty. I think we're
(4:44:40) golden. If it's anything like the last console drop, you could probably flip these locally at a better ROI. Most likely. Definitely. That's true. Yeah. No, like probably for the same price, but no eBay fees, right? Yeah, man. The consoles last time, uh, they were printed. Nice. PS PS5s, Xboxes, mainly PS5s. Yeah, usually I haven't been messing with stuff this expensive, but I'm going to try it, too, cuz why not? As long as you return it if it's not selling right, you're fine.
(4:45:20) Yeah, I think locally will probably be the best play here. Oh, do you know when they're shipping? Oh god. I mean, I feel like it kind of depends on the retailer, but they'll probably ship pretty fast. Yeah. Uh, they don't switch. They don't ship until June. Why? Really? I thought they came out way before that.
(4:45:40) So, it have to be pre-order. Yeah. This is the the pre-sale. So, like if you're ordering from Walmart, you won't get charged until it's dispatched. So, Walmart, Amazon, um you're not going to get charged with dispatch. Best Buy, uh Game GameStop, I believe with their pre-sales, you're going to have to leave a deposit. Yeah, they said you're going to do a $2 deposit.
(4:46:07) But they said the the pre-orders that you go for in store, you're going to get those quicker than the ones that ship online. We probably get them on release day and then the other ones will release day. Yep. I'm just putting some info out here. So, there's two of them, right? The
(4:47:18) regular and the Mario one. You recommend going for the Mario one? The Mario bundle will probably do better overall. Yes. Well, there will cash back activate for this or it it won't cuz it's like Walmart cashback usually doesn't work for video games, right? I don't know if this is I'm not sure.
(4:47:37) Activate it just in case. Yeah, why not? Did you buy a lot of those um football cards? Me? Yeah. I got 50. Nice. Holy [ __ ] They were in stock [ __ ] forever. I bought like five of them. I'm like, I don't know how many I should buy. They're in stock forever and they shouldn't have been. They sold out [ __ ] immediately in the US.
(4:48:02) And we had this conversation earlier before he popped in here. So, the guy the guy that we just um got into the server, Yes. he is actively buying those for what what is it? $50 US a piece. Oh, [ __ ] Okay. And if you have more than 40, he's paying more. Okay. Like the market is still looking very good on eBay and there are obviously casual options as well, but they I didn't know you had that much confidence in it.
(4:48:34) Oh, bro. Or these dude, the people that are cashing them out, what are they doing with them just like selling them individually themselves or do they have like a [ __ ] other bulk buyer that they're just flipping to? Like there'll probably be a variety. So like some people are going to be selling to like streamers, people that do rip and ships, uh selling selling locally.
(4:48:54) They may have a habit or hobby that they rip them themselves. Uh but generally speaking, they're going to certainly be reselling them whether it's shipping overseas or uh they're just going to be taking the different selling like locally in card shops, whatever the case may be, right? It's like for example, the guy that does the Scotty Cameron golf clubs, he buys them, he pays, you know, thousand plus bucks on top of retail and then he ships them to buyers that he has overseas and he makes a profit as well. Yeah, that's
(4:49:25) awesome. It's crazy. So many ways to make money in this game. 100%. And the other just got to get really good at one thing. Do you know the Do you know the original quote for the the jack of all trades? Like jack of all trades, master of none, but [ __ ] What was it? but it better than none or something like that.
(4:49:57) So yeah, a lot of people think a lot of people think it's jack of all trades, master of none, and that's it, right? So they think it's like kind of like a negative connotation. The real quote is, "A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one." Ah, yeah, that was it. So they took it out of context. Yeah.
(4:50:15) Hey. Um, but the other guy that we introduced in here, uh, Gary, he's actively buying sneakers in the US. And for most of the sneaker releases, he's actually paying above expected stockout payout. So, he'll typically pay what the expected stockout payout is plus $10 to $20 on top. Where do these people like sell their stuff? I've always been curious.
(4:50:42) A lot of them will have stores, sell to stores, sell on consignment, ship overseas, things like that. I I always figured it' be something like overseas, but that makes sense. Yeah. Like um if you were in the call with Nolan from uh Dispatch, he was mentioning that somebody sent him I think it was like $100,000 worth of Pokemon cards from one of the restocks and they shipped he shipped them all overseas for them. That's crazy.
(4:51:07) I think that was at probably at the beginning of the call. I might have missed that. That's wild. Very much so. Three minutes. Watch them just [ __ ] sell it instantly. That's what I'm thinking. It probably will sell out instantly. It's I think it's going to be tough to [ __ ] but we'll see.
(4:51:45) If you're on it in time, I don't think it should be that bad. Are you guys just going to buy one or put backtoback orders if you can? It'll probably be a limit of one. I'll probably try back to back if we can. Yeah, Walmart always lets me do back toback. They never stop. Oh, yeah. You You always place back toback, but they just have a limited one, but you can place back toback orders without issue almost always.
(4:52:04) Yeah, like if it stays in stock for long enough, basically. Yeah, like with those optic cards, like the stock or the limit was two, but you can easily place back toback orders. Yeah, I know. I did [ __ ] 25 of them or it was originally five to begin with. I think I did like 20 orders total because then they reduced it to two very quickly.
(4:52:50) All the silent people are refreshing. [Music] 45 seconds. Refresh hard. It's lagging for you. I just have a seconds timer. I got Costco trying to check out. I got the tabs refreshing on Walmart. Oh [ __ ] I just got hit with a bot from Walmart. Son of a [ __ ] Press and hold. Oh [ __ ] Let me in, you [ __ ] Oh, don't [ __ ] me.
(4:53:23) Oh yeah, mine's [ __ ] Oh, you Yeah, dude. I had that for like three days and I couldn't do anything. Yeah. Oh my [ __ ] god. It's not letting me back in. Son of a [ __ ] Incognito. It usually works for me. Open that guy up. I barely even refreshed. Oh, you asked me. Oh, you [ __ ] [ __ ] Wait, it still says stop.
(4:53:50) Yeah, I don't want to keep refreshing too fast. Yeah, because you see it's stuck up. I can't get back in. You have time. It doesn't even say it's stock. So in a rush. Son of a [ __ ] It's not even let me on [ __ ] incognito. Oh, let me let me in. Let's sign me out of my account. What? Which website are you trying? Oh [ __ ] dude.
(4:54:15) Me, too. Are they in Are they in stock? I can't see. Let's see. Were you able to add the card? I I can't even see. I can't even log into my account. Yeah, I can't. Did you guys try on your mobile? No, I'll try it now. I keep getting the your password is incorrect even. Yeah, I got I've been locked out of my account.
(4:54:49) Oh, [ __ ] How do I cut in? Lock them. No, it still says out of stock. It said EST. Yes. Oh [ __ ] Apparently the queue is up. See, it should be going live anytime. Oh, yeah. I'm getting the press and hold. Oh, no. Not this [ __ ] It just never works for me either. I was able to No, it never works. I was able to get on my phone.
(4:55:39) It's working on my phone, but we'll see if this stays working. Yeah, still out of stock on my screen. I have to refresh very slowly. Can't even find it on my phone. [ __ ] How'd you get the link on the phone? Uh, I just went into the link I posted in in the Discord channel. Oh, bro, I'm in the app. I'm on the browser. Oh, okay.
(4:56:45) Welcome back, Ethan. It's up. It's up. It's up. Good. Yourself? Pretty good. Going for these switches. That's what we're trying. Yeah. Everybody's got [ __ ] locked out of stock for you, too. Yeah, I'm I carded. Stellar's carding, too. Oh, shut it up really quick. I guess this is my task force. Who are you thinking? What do you have going on in the background there, Ethan? All right, sorry.
(4:57:25) I'll mute up. Sounds like you're watching some weird stuff. No way. I think my bad. My girlfriend's watching SWAT in the background. Yeah, it logs me out every time, too. Yeah, I think my account's like I hate on Walmart. You hit it. Damn. With manual or the bot? Yeah, manual. I'm carting on the bot, but it's it's uh not checking. Oh, yeah.
(4:57:55) I'm getting pressing old [ __ ] It's done. Damn. It let you sign into your account, though. It did. And then it automatically kicked me out again after I refreshed. Yeah, my account is [ __ ] dude. Something Yeah, sure on both of them. Keep trying because we very well could see stocks come back. Yeah, if Best Buy Best Buy is supposed to be 12 p.m.
(4:58:35) Okay. And then Amazon will be like anytime like we don't know. It'll just be whenever. Let's see. And did you cop the um the Mario version or the regular version? I got the regular version. Okay. Hey, Jordan for the Mario ones. Maybe. What's up? So, the guy who I told you works at Costco, he's asking how often would you need the the stocks? Anytime I ask is anytime I ask, it's not going to be like it's super super common, but give me like a rough estimate so I can tell them.
(4:59:30) Uh well, one can can he get stock estim like can he get the stock counts all over Canada? Yeah, I think he can. I did message him that he just asked me like how often you want it. So not not just for his region like all of Canada. All right, let me confirm with him. world bundle. Oh, should be available. Oh, [ __ ] I mean, I pre-ordered, but I'm out of my account, so I have to log into a different Walmart account for it to work.
(5:00:12) Continue to check out. I was able to check one out. I'm Oh, in the process as well. Oh [ __ ] It says out of stock I think. [ __ ] [Music] On my end. It is showing still available Mario one Mario bundle. I'm in my account but it's just [ __ ] giving me the infinite loading loop. Well, it's loading, but I'm [ __ ] in the place order screen.
(5:00:57) Infinitely loading now. Oh, no. I'm in the same spot as you. [ __ ] I thought I got it. Oh, I clicked place order. No. Out of stock. [ __ ] Keep trying. It'll come back. Just keep spamming place order or uh leave it in your cart. Oh, no. Now it kicks me out. Yeah. So, see if you can get back into your cart because if it's still in your cart, um, see when it re see when it comes back in stock and then try check it out. It's still in my cart.
(5:01:25) Oh, you [ __ ] I got the [ __ ] press and hold on my phone, too. All right. Oh, it's sitting in my cart. I don't want to refresh too often, man. It's going to screw me over. I got I got back. I did the restock monitor. I got back in on my phone somehow. It let me back in, but not on my PC. Yeah, I did.
(5:02:03) I uh signed up for the restock monitor. So, if I see it get the ping, then I'll refresh and see. Right now, with uh how the website is bogged down and like how much it's going to be coming back in and out, it'll probably restock and not hit the restock monitor by the time out of stock. Oh, press and hold, man. I was doing so good. [ __ ] excited.
(5:02:50) But yeah, Cultural, if he asks, I would say like say on average a stock a stock count once a week. If we have a release that's happening like that's actively going, like say a a new Pokemon release, probably at least once a day. All right, sounds good. And that's for like the entire Canada, all of Canada, not just one region.
(5:03:22) Gotcha. It's funny that you mentioned that cuz I was specifically looking for somebody in the back that can do that. Yeah. I mean, and he's interested in reselling, so he doesn't really know much about reselling, so he's just very new to it. It's completely fine. If you want to bring a benefit in here, then we have a place for you.
(5:04:02) And like like Ali Ali was mentioning earlier, uh I don't know if Costco has the same thing as grab one of those handhelds and just steal it from work so you always have access. Well, he can't well he can't get it. Uh he doesn't get like back door access cuz like when you know the Pokemon drops are happening, he lined up with me so they don't get they don't get uh Yeah.
(5:04:20) And the employees don't get it. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Ethan, how many have you got? I still one. I'm carding a stellar, but nothing will check out. Yeah, I haven't seen a stock back up yet. It looks like from the stellar checkout logs that people are hitting pretty hard with it. It looks like you hit some stuff in the US today.
(5:04:57) Yeah, I caught that uh EV pouch. I got um 24 of them, but 12 of them got cancelled uh from Walmart. Yeah, from Walmart US. Nice. And so, are you planning on keeping those inside the US and selling them or sending them to somebody that's just going to cash you out in bulk? Um, I'll probably just hold them all at dispatch until I get some more Pokemon and then just send it all to someone, get cashed out. Mhm.
(5:05:25) I think it might make more sense then um to just have everything put into one shipment and ship to one person instead of paying the fees to have everything shipped out individually. Yeah, for sure. I'll price it all out though and see see what makes the most sense, I guess. And it just all depends on where you figure the market is going to go.
(5:05:42) Like they've been talking about like a quote unquote prismatic restock forever, right? Or a reprint and like it seems like, you know, today with the ETBs, like this is their reprint that goes out of stock pretty quick. Yeah. This is crazy. If this is the the massive reprint to ruin all scalpers they're talking about.
(5:06:00) They've been talking about that for so long. Even if they do like a like a relatively large reprint, I don't think it's going to impact the market slightly. The demand is too high. I'm I'm praying for a big Destin rivals restock. If we get some more Destin rivals like Pokemon Center ETBs, that'd be crazy.
(5:06:20) It'll be tough to see like if we're going to have more ETBs like cuz their print cycle is so long. Like I suppose it happened with Prismatic, so we never know. I wouldn't probably expect it for a few months, but yeah, they've they've they've had some good they had quite a few restocks today, so we never know. Yeah, it seems like Walmart US 2 is getting stock like every Wednesday for some sort of profitable release.
(5:06:43) Like it's either sports cards or Pokemon. Mhm. I think it's in stock from one. Yeah, my shit's cooked. I can't get around the Please go through. Go through. Come on, [ __ ] Like, I'm just getting the I guess so many people are trying to check out. It's just infinitely loading. Place order. Yep.
(5:07:14) [ __ ] out of stock, you mofo. Gross. Does it still say in stock? Because yeah, it didn't let me check out. Said is only 10 left. Looks like she's in stock from what I can see. I'm just getting out of stock. [Music] So, you've been taking advantage of some of the group buys, Ethan? Yeah, definitely. I I decided not to renew live.
(5:07:57) Like I had a Live Pine before that I was using for Walmart. Mhm. I decided to pass on that and with the changes to tickets, I just picked up a subnet from Proxy Haven. Okay. And I was hoping to to really scale up tickets and then the the clean ISPs I'll use to monitor on on Walmart now. Definitely. And then yeah, I picked up Heiha.
(5:08:20) That's my first time running it was today. I kind of got it set up a little bit last week, but first kind of real time running it was today and and that that went pretty well. I'm hoping they're I I was sleeping for a Pokémon Center, so I didn't get to go for that, but it looks like they didn't perform too well anyway.
(5:08:36) So, they're going to get everything figured out, hoping the next Pokemon Center drop goes good. That's kind of the goal. And man, I know you mentioned Refract. I'll see what the Refract pricing is like. I don't know if it'll make sense to have both hea and refract, but it seems like refract is killing it right now on US sites, too.
(5:08:54) Mhm. I just heard back I just heard back from Keep today. They said that they're they didn't give me a uh an overview of what they're going to offer, but what they said, let me read the email. Uh I want to let you know that we're work they're we're moving forward with the idea of offering something special for your community.
(5:09:13) We're currently working through the logistics to make sure you'll have a unique link or landing page that reflects the bonus we want to offer. So, I don't know if they're going to be offering the group something or if they're going to offer me a bonus. If they offer me a bonus, then I'll just like whoever signs up will get half of whatever the bonus is.
(5:09:33) Yeah, that sounds great. It'll be great if they can offer something. Um, it looks like Stellar is working right now for anyone that have it. I just hit a few. By the way, if you have it running, you guys manage to check out any more manually? I've gotten two total. I really I could get to the last screen, but it just keeps saying one item in your cart is no longer available.
(5:10:11) Yeah, I'm on the same page as you. Don't worry. Oh no, we're having trouble with your request. That's not a good thing.
(5:11:40) Um, I'm not sure if you got a discounted pricing or if it's even available, but for the proxy provider that you mentioned, Ethan, if you want to see if we can get group pricing, just let me know. Yeah, for sure. That that'd be great. I'll I'll send you the provider. I just asked Chokei.
(5:11:58) I forgot to ask in the call. So, I shot him a DM after and he had a code that he said he gets nothing out of, but he has some sort of discount code for them. So, I just use that and that that works. Yeah. If you like whenever you come across things like that, if you want to see if we can just shoot it my way and I wall see. Yeah, for sure.
(5:12:17) As soon as we're done this uh release, I'll send you the provider name. Definitely. Do you know anything about botting Walmart US too? Like I've been talking to some people and it seems like the the cancel rate is pretty high. I don't know if it's related to my accounts cuz they're new accounts or the address cuz I'm using a dispatch address, but it seems like it's a little more complicated than Walmart Canada.
(5:12:40) Unfortunately, I know very very little when it comes to botting right now. Yeah, I'm going to have to ask um QM I can't remember his name. our acco guy that's having the the call if if he knows anything. Yeah, for sure. He should have some insights. Definitely. Yeah, I don't know if it's best to buy some Walmart accounts their age with some history on them or try to build them up myself, but yeah, I got like instant cancelled right away.
(5:13:08) Yeah, it's interesting because Canada, we don't experience that at all. If they have the stock, it goes through. Yeah, some some of these Pokemon I've had some pretty high cancellation rates for Canada, but some of them are like 100% and then I've had a couple of them where I've had like 80% cancels. Crazy.
(5:13:24) I found like in general if they have the stock it goes through. So I've found like generally speaking the only cancels that I see is when they're running out of stock. Yeah. Sometimes I feel like they have to be overselling. Like you can you can see the stock numbers like up from the Discord bot and they'll say there's 200 and then it doesn't make sense.
(5:13:56) I got my first ban on Keepa yesterday. What? Yeah, you could get banned. Yeah, if you have multiple people using an account. Oh, that's sad. Yeah, I have [ __ ] eight Keepa accounts. I got [ __ ] banned on one of my account. Oh my god. Yeah, because we're having issues like I'm trying like one of my accounts uh payment didn't go through and I'm trying all these [ __ ] cards and it's not working and I have no idea why.
(5:14:26) So, one of my VAS I gave access to a different account and as I was actively using it and so every you know [ __ ] like 20 minutes or so I have to like log in with a new OTP annoying as [ __ ] and then after like couple hours get the notification. Oh, you've been suspended for 24 hours. So, this continues and we'll permanently cancel your services. [ __ ] off.
(5:14:50) It's like on the the keep account that I pay extra for too that I have extra API access that I'm paying like I don't know. I think it's like €190 a month or some [ __ ] like that. Mhm. It's like seriously you're going to cancel it on a account that I pay for like multiple subscriptions. Yeah, that's lame. Yeah, I think it's saying out of stock now.
(5:15:20) I think Walmart's just [ __ ] on my computer. Press and hold will not go away. It's locking me out completely. Did you try on your phone? Yeah, my phone's working, but you know, it's just a bit slower. Yeah, mine's not doing that, but it's just consistently saying out of stock when I try to place the order. Yeah. Are you buying some switches with us, Beck? He's not even here.
(5:16:21) find that talk to myself. Got to get that Door Dash money and then buy a switch with those profits and start from there. Come up. That's the one I want. Are you still trying for more Jordan? I've been trying, but I've been seeing out of stock. Yeah. I'm not going to go that hard on switches.
(5:17:16) Like I think three or four is more than enough. Yeah, I'd be happy if I could get one right now. Wait, Walmart lets you order more than one. You can place Well, you have to get multiple. Okay. I don't know if they're going to cancel on me. I doubt that they will, but I had Walmart cancel on me, but I think it's probably because it was out of stock, though.
(5:17:38) But it took them like a week after my order went through to cancel. When I did a lot of OA, like there was lots of items that I'd order from uh Walmart and like hundreds, 200s, like multiple backto-back orders and it was rare that we ever had a cancellation. Do you ever end up buying those um swatch watches the moon phase. The pink ones.
(5:18:17) I can't I don't have any swatch stores in my city. Oh, bro, those things aren't moving at all. No, no, locally I'm probably I'll make like 50 bucks if I sell them locally, which is better than nothing. But pink, not not as good as the blue ones were doing. Those went up like double MSRP. I would have thought that just because of how bold the penguins are that they would have had a good chance.
(5:18:48) Yeah. I mean, the dudes that messaged me, they're like, "Oh, I'm getting it for my girlfriend." But apparently Yeah, I could I There's not much demand for it. I could see that. But it's like a messy color, right? Yeah. Like same same shade of pink. It looks like I I was when I was in the store, there was a couple that came from all the way from Washington State.
(5:19:13) And they got they booked a hotel just so they could get at the morning off. Oh yeah. And there was nobody else in line. It was just me. It was just them and me at at the store. They're like, "Yeah, it sold out in Washington State." So they they crossed the border and and got a hotel for the watch.
(5:19:36) That's a little aggressive for a watch. Yeah. I was like I I kind of got hyped then. Okay, maybe I'll come back in again tomorrow cuz they had um I saw them open their drawer. They had a bunch and they're they're like it's just one per person per day and then you can get more if you have tomorrow or the next day. But yeah. Yeah, Rolexes are another crazy one.
(5:19:58) My buddy just buys Rolexes for That's a different story. Yeah. And basically like you know you have to get on a waiting list. You tell them what kind of watch you want and stuff and if they get one in like stock that they want to sell to you, they'll call you. But he said he just bought a 50K one recently and like literally as you walk out of the store, you could flip it for 70k like right away if you wanted to. That's wild.
(5:20:25) Yeah, I've heard Yeah, I know. I know Rolexes went crazy hard in the last few years. I've heard though that like Rolex manufacturing is being increased and it's not as hard to get Rolexes as it once was. Yeah. Nobody could find them in stores. And yeah, I guess maybe it just depends on certain models cuz he was like waiting for over a year for this one.
(5:20:50) So maybe certain models are a lot easier to get. But yeah, like I I know it was getting even popular on social media. People were talking about how they couldn't find in stores. This was like a year ago or two. Yeah, but that shit's not in my budget. Yeah, not yet. And then you go up to That's another freaking crazy industry though.
(5:21:31) like the jewelry industry. So, as I get our guys train more and more our full-time employees, we're going to be slowly diving deeper into more industries to find more consistent information. So, just wait. Let's go, dude. I'm already freaking happy with just like the eBay flips, Pokemon, and like posters and, you know, PlayStation [ __ ] Oh, we have a whole list of things that we're going to start start tackling.
(5:22:04) We just have to do it little by little. Like that Pokemon Center drop, you know, like basically sat there for like 30 minutes to get through the queue and you secure like $600 in 30 minutes. Oh, they're back in stock. If you guys are wondering, yeah, if NFTTS were cooking as they were when I was back in, like I would make calls and man, that was like printing money.
(5:22:40) But it's two GG and it's kind of dead now. What? What is NFTTS? But like, oh yeah, like I knew people literally that were that made millions overnight. Yeah. Like a 16-year-old. He ended up buying a bunch of uh something I called, but he held on to it. Whereas we sold it off quick for profit. He held on to it for a week.
(5:23:05) And basically what initially cost you like per NFT, which was like I don't know, maybe like 20 bucks per NFT ended up being around like 16,000. But yeah, there's all lots of different ways to make money. Yeah. I guess with those industries like it's hard to maintain that, you know, like Yeah, cuz those are you can't really match it. Yeah.
(5:23:38) Like it's not really sustainable long term. No, it's not even a good skill to acquire. Like you don't you can't really do much with it. It's not that transferable. Yeah, I guess if you make like 20 mil and then you want to retire. Okay. Sure. Yeah. Like I I know three people that retired off of it. Yeah. But they live in like one dude's in Indonesia and Bali and the other's like uh I think he's in Lebanon.
(5:24:08) Yeah. Yeah. So they made like a million like a couple million. They're like we're done. Yeah. Yeah. There was this guy I used to play Runescape with and like he would, you know, sell gold in Runescape for crypto and like he just got into he made a [ __ ] ton from Runescape, sold all the gold for crypto at like the right time.
(5:24:35) He just bought the right coins at the right time. Basically, they pump the [ __ ] out up and yeah, he's known for like making 100 million or something. Oh, yeah. Insane. And what did he sell for millions? Oh, he bought like a bunch of [ __ ] coins basically. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He probably made like one or two million from Runescape and then he selling gold. Selling gold. Yeah.
(5:25:01) Oh, it's a actually like a [ __ ] another crazy market, dude. my account on Runescape. I had those party hats and the Santa hats. Yeah. And I didn't log in for the longest time and I found out that account got deleted because they just uh due to inactivity. Yeah. I don't even know. I don't even want to know how much that stuff is worth.
(5:25:26) Blue party high was like 10 grand at one point. That's it. Yeah. Even now? Yeah. like it went down a lot because the party hats are in the old Runescape version, Runescape 3. And now that like the gold the economy is [ __ ] in that game and basically like most of the players play old school Runescape which is like the new servers the Jagex released.
(5:25:53) So Runescape 3, which is where all the party hats and stuff run, is basically dead. Interesting. Yeah. But yeah, that was that's what got me into business selling rinsky gold. I used to have like a website where we'd flip gold and stuff was making like you know few grand a month doing that or something when I was like 18 years old.
(5:26:23) And then there was staking which was like gambling, right? You could duel people for their gold. And basically, if you're really good at it, you could like get basically get 55 to 60% odds on every stake you do. So, it's like you're the casino basically. And people just do that and make a [ __ ] ton of money.
(5:26:49) It's kind of just like playing a ton of hands of blackjack where the odds eventually flip in your favor if you're the um you're the dealer. Interesting. You're made to be a DJ and entrepreneur. Yeah. Honestly, the only reason I stopped doing it is because Jagex removed it of the from the game because they got a lawsuit for underage gambling.
(5:27:11) Otherwise, I'd probably still be doing it. Like, they got basically forced by the UK government to remove it from the game because underage gamblers were like losing their life savings and stuff and their college funds. too many stories of that. And then there was like a really niche group of people that would just take advantage of that system, right? And make a ton of money.
(5:27:34) And there are some people that, you know, made some decent money like me and stuff. Like I was able to provide for myself and stuff, but then there are the people that were just like insanely lucky that made millions. I've heard even people today that are into like botting that game can still make a very consistent amount of money.
(5:27:57) Yeah. Yeah. I I've dabbled in it too, but yeah, there's people with crazy bot farms. You definitely need script. I remember seeing this is a long time ago, probably like 10 years ago, but I remember seeing news on how in China some of these prison guards, they had their prisoners playing WoW to farm for Dude, in Venezuela it was so bad that basically like so I used to sell Runescape accounts too and like a lot of the things you know like you like in in the Amazon worlds your VAS are from the Philippines. Well basically in Runescape
(5:28:35) like your VAS were either from like India, Pakistan or Venezuela. And the Venezuela, like the Venezuelan economy was so bad that people would literally teach like their grandmas and their moms and stuff to farm. That's that's that's terrible, man. That's sad. Yeah. But it's like the literally the people farming gold were making more money than doctors and Yeah.
(5:28:58) Yeah. I know. I mean, it's just it's just sad the reality that they're they're living in and that to do something so ridiculous as that they earn more money than people that actually contribute to society. Yeah. And like teaching their moms how to like boss basically like kill bosses that require skill. And I've seen some of them.
(5:29:15) I'm like, damn, they're actually pretty good. There was this uh NFT game. So, what happens is like you buy the NFT and then depending on what NFT you get, you can use that as your in-game avatar and you get special perks for it. It was like it was called a pirate game or something like that. I don't know the exact details, but a guy I was uh in the server with uh that I am in currently.
(5:29:41) Actually, I don't really dabble on NFTs, but he's still in there. He actually hired some people to play the game for him. And so, you would earn tokens, right? And with those tokens, you could actually there would be essentially crypto tokens and you could sell those and transfer them to USD. And he made like $250,000 just by playing the game early.
(5:30:06) Yeah. And hiring people to to do this to do that uh farming or whatever it was. And the game I mean looks pretty decent. Let me see what it was called. But that's probably not that profitable now. Yeah. You also know uh the gambling site stake.com that's like sp like Drake sponsors it or they sponsor Drake and [ __ ] like one of the biggest gambling sites there actually one of like the co-founders of it was Runescape Staker pretty sure and that's why like also it has the name stake.
(5:30:46) com which Oh yeah the game was called Pirate Nation. Pirate Nation's ever heard of it. All righty, boys. I think I'm going to have to call it. Yeah, I'm not hitting any of these. I got to go to sleep. I got to do my taxes in the morning. That's something fun to look forward to. Yeah. Maybe you guys