May 16, 2025; General Hangout & Q&A

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh4Wdp9uGYk

Summary

Work-Life Balance and Remote Work 🏢 The participant discusses the government's mandate requiring office presence three days a week, which they find unnecessary given their productivity while working from home. 📈 There's skepticism about the true motivations behind the office mandate, suggesting it's more about landlords' interests than employee well-being.

E-commerce and Logistics 📦 The group discusses managing shipments and their logistics, highlighting the importance of inventory flow and efficient preparation. 📊 They mention strategies for handling shipments, such as compiling shipments to avoid overflow and addressing space issues in their living quarters.

Challenges of Overhead and Space Management 🏡 Participants share their experiences with cramped living situations due to inventory, with humorous remarks about tripping hazards and space management. 💨 Suggestions for improving workspace include investing in better equipment, like tall tables and mats, to increase productivity and comfort.

Community and Collaboration in E-commerce 👥 The importance of collaboration and support among peers in handling workloads and challenges in e-commerce is emphasized, enhancing productivity. 🎯 The value of camaraderie in maintaining focus and competing in friendly ways while working on the same tasks is acknowledged.

Understanding Market Dynamics in Collectibles 💰 Discussion about the Pokémon market illustrates the volatility of prices and the potential benefits of holding certain collectibles for future value. 🚀 Participants suggest strategies for buying exclusive collectibles, emphasizing market awareness and timing in acquisitions.

Using AI and Automation in Business 🤖 The conversation shifts to how AI can enhance efficiency in advertising, sourcing, and logistics, showcasing its growing role in business operations. 🛠️ Ideas for utilizing AI tools for procurement and inventory management are shared, reflecting a forward-thinking approach to tech integration.

Mentorship and Community Learning 📚 The potential benefits of building a community around a product or venture are recognized, with emphasis on learning from experienced peers. 🤝 Personal anecdotes about unexpected lessons from community interactions highlight the value of shared knowledge and collaborations.

Importance of Proper Guidance in E-commerce 📝 The necessity for mentorship based on credible experience in the e-commerce space is addressed, stressing the issue of misinformation from gurus. 📉 A participant shares a cautionary story about an investment in a course that lacked actionable insights, emphasizing the need for genuine guidance.

Exploration of New Business Ideas 🔍 Participants express interest in starting their brands, particularly in the health and wellness sector, showcasing a desire for innovation and entrepreneurship. 💡 Discussion about using social media and SEO to grow brand visibility and create community engagement is highlighted as a strategic approach.

Diverse Experiences with Healthcare and Nutrition 🍏 Concerns about the quality and integrity of food and healthcare systems in Canada reflect a deep-rooted skepticism about mainstream practices. 🧪 Mention of the emerging trends in holistic health and the growing interest in natural products hints at broader societal shifts toward wellness.

Final Notes on Adaptability and Change 🔄 The group concludes with reflections on the need for adaptability in the face of changing marketplaces and regulations. 🗣️ Overall, the importance of community support, effective information sharing, and adaptive strategies in business success are central themes.

Actionable Summary: Embrace Remote Work Flexibility: Leverage the option to work from home and manage time efficiently without rigid mandates. Collaborate and Seek Support: Build a network for sharing workload and insights to enhance productivity and morale. Explore AI Tools: Implement AI solutions for logistics, inventory, and procurement to streamline operations and save time. Invest in Community Building: Create a community around your business or product for support, feedback, and growth opportunities. Search for Reliable Mentorship: Prioritize finding credible mentors with real experience in the field to avoid misinformation. Adapt to Market Changes: Stay aware of market dynamics and be prepared to pivot your business strategies as needed. Nurture Health-Wellness Interests: Consider the emerging trends in health and wellness for potential new business ventures.

These insights stress the importance of community, adaptability, and strategic thinking in navigating the complexities of e-commerce and personal business growth.

Timestamped Summary

[00:00-02:45] The discussion begins with conversations about work-from-home arrangements and office mandates, highlighting frustrations with redundant office culture practices. The conversation shifts to the speaker's satellite office based in Ottawa and their experiences with working remotely and managing a side business.

[02:45-05:30] They discuss shipping logistics, challenges with inventory, and the need to send out shipments promptly to maintain efficient inventory flow. The speaker emphasizes the importance of shipping and space management in a small living environment when running a side business.

[05:30-08:00] Comfort in working conditions is mentioned, alongside the effects of the heat on productivity. They share thoughts on creating an ideal workspace, including the use of taller tables and standing mats to ease physical strain during preparation tasks.

[08:00-10:10] They talk about the dynamics of working with roommates and the differences in productivity when collaborating compared to doing tasks alone. The conversation highlights the benefits of having colleagues for motivation and efficiency.

[10:10-12:30] The importance of shared personalities and creating a more enjoyable environment while completing tasks is discussed. The impact of gaming and personal interests is mentioned with regards to distractions during work hours.

[12:30-14:45] The topic shifts to product drops, rarity in collectibles and profit strategies related to the Pokémon market, where speculative purchasing and future value considerations are discussed. They mention potential dips in collectible values based on retail availability.

[14:45-18:25] The conversation then delves into the processes of labeling, polybagging, and managing shipments according to industry standards, specifically for consumer products. It transitions to discussing compliance with UPC regulations and how to effectively manage inventory for different product types.

[18:25-20:45] They explore the nuances of packaging regulations when shipping items in bulk, addressing challenges related to preventing items from being damaged or lost in transit.

[20:45-23:30] The discussions turn to pricing strategy, competitive market analysis, and considerations for evaluating product profitability. They highlight the role of collaboration and community in supporting each other's ventures and ideas.

[23:30-25:00] The conversation wraps up with reflections on the challenges faced during collaboration in various sectors, emphasizing the importance of clear communication and shared goals in driving success in joint projects.

Video Transcript

2025 05 16 17 11 03 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh4Wdp9uGYk

Transcript:

(00:00) But I'm trying to trying to find a workar around for that. How often do you have to go into the office? Well, technically I'm supposed to be going in three days a week. Um or 40 uh 60% a month. So I can like frontload or backload it, right? Like Yeah. And so when you're when you're working from home, you're just building your own business then? Yeah.

(00:26) Doing other stuff on the side. even even when I'm in the office too cuz the thing is is that um my office is actually based out of Ottawa so I'm working at a satellite office so essentially I just like go in there to book a cubicle just to sit in um and like there's really not much yeah it's it's really stupid it's a really stupid mandate they had but essentially it's just like uh go go to go to book a cubicle to work on teams like same thing at home you know but it's just like they want quote unquote have this workplace culture, but that's all BS. The reason

(01:01) is is because a lot of the the landlords, the the building renters, they can't uh essentially they were they were in trouble, right? Because if there's not there's not much use for office and uh the government was downsizing their office use, so they kind of lobbyed hard to get the workers back in. Of course. So stupid.

(01:27) Yeah, it's government. That's your industry, man. Yeah, narc. Hopefully not for too long. It's a I'm a fed boy. I'm a fed. I think a narc is short for narcotic anyways. Yeah, I know. You're all the same to us. Yeah. And Nar is supposed to be a nardics ancotics officer, but it's uh just a general use term. Nick, how's it going? Uh, I'm doing all right. What about you? Not too bad.

(02:06) Not too bad. Doing any shipments today? Yeah, I just UPS just came. I just shipped it out. [ __ ] they love to take their time, but at least they came. So, beauty. My roommate's been sick, so I had to do this one on my own. But yeah, you should hopefully be able to help me with the other [ __ ] on the weekend. Yeah.

(02:30) And get it out by like Monday, Tuesday. You have more penning shipments for the weekend as well, like things to ship in. Like we have stuff to prep. Basically, you don't try to condense everything into like singular shipments. Generally we do, but like the a bunch of [ __ ] came in like while I was working on this shipment basically. Gotcha.

(02:53) Fair enough. And like I was kind of crunched on time this week's been a bit crazy. So I just had to do what I could with the time I had basically. Yeah. I'd rather get send out like, you know, 400 units I sent out today. I'd rather send that out instead of like compiling it to next week, you know? Of course.

(03:15) Inventory flow because I think after Sorry, go ahead. I was just gonna say inventory flow is very important. Exactly. And I'm like there's a lot of [ __ ] in the house that like we actually running out of space. It was like a tripping hazard. So, we had to get some [ __ ] out. Are you going to uh make it a goal this year to move out of the living room? I mean, that would be that would be [ __ ] awesome.

(03:39) Um, but we'll see like how much volume we can pump out of this living room. I don't know. Like I don't know what our like cap will be basically. You'd be surprised because I heard like I remember Fred was doing like 200k out of his kitchen or some [ __ ] you know, like Oh yeah. You'd be surprised what you can fit in a small space.

(03:59) Like it's pain in the ass, but you just have to like stack things and get creative with how you do things, right? Yeah. And also, um you know, the reason things got a bit crammed this week is because my roommates's been sick, right? So like we would have probably got most of the [ __ ] sent out, but Right.

(04:14) with him being sick, not able to prep as much and as fast. I I was kind of lazy on the uh the prepping, too. [ __ ] hot in here, too. It's We don't have a central AC, so where like in the living room, we don't have a portable one either, so we're just like [ __ ] working in the heat. You got to invest in that for your employees. Yeah, for sure. For sure.

(04:38) The only thing is like my other roommates and [ __ ] are running their own. So, it's I don't even know if there's any other available circuits to run an AC on, right? Unless I like unplug mine and then route the one in the main room to that one, but I'm not using it. That would probably be the ideal plan.

(04:57) In our warehouse, there's like really no good spots. Like, it's not very viable for us to install a portable air conditioner at all. So we have like it's a super well insulated building too. So like when it's when it's hot usually like it doesn't get hot in there right away, but once we start moving around like it can cook up in there very quickly and retains a lot of heat.

(05:20) So I I have these like big like I don't know I think they're like 20-in DeWalt fans that we run in there often. They're loud as [ __ ] but they definitely help and like we try to like circulate the air like and like open the door a little bit. But yeah, it can get pretty toasty in there. Yeah. But honestly, it doesn't bother me too much. I'm like weird.

(05:37) I like sweating because like that shower afterwards is like the best feeling ever when you're done prepping and you take a shower. Oh my god. Makes you feel productive. Yeah. Honestly. Yeah. And I think my roommate's like used to working in the heat cuz he works in like an auto factory.

(05:56) So he's used to being like in the [ __ ] hazmat suits like just scrubbing the the pits and stuff like Yeah. Yeah, for sure. As long as it doesn't bother you guys and you're not like if it doesn't impact your productivity, then you're fine. If it gets really bad, I told him I'll buy an AC for us. You told what? So like I told him if it gets really bad, I'll buy an AC for both of us. Yeah.

(06:21) I mean, it's going to be a business expense, right? Exactly. Eventually, I would imagine like you'll probably eventually start looking at like little processes that can help and like that can really make like a big difference. So, like quite a while ago, I invested in taller tables because when we were prepping uh like like besides like one of my friends who was like shorter, we'd basically have to like slouch over the the tables and like that really impacts you after a while.

(06:50) So, got taller tables, got mats you can stand on, like those types of things make a big difference for sure. Yeah. Yeah. I think the mats would be a good idea. Oh, yeah. Like when we label stuff, we'll sit down a lot of the time, like when we're actually polyagging stuff. Like when we're like unloading and obviously like weighing and stuff, we have to be standing.

(07:12) When we're putting the stuff on the table, we're standing. But then when like say we have like 100 units on the table or 50 units that need to be polybagged, we'll like sit down to bag them and then once they're bagged, we'll like get up and put them in the boxes and stuff. I mean that works.

(07:27) I guess we get like little seating ras. Yeah, that works. But like do you find like that impacts like production like productivity? How many units you Not really at all to be honest. Just from like my from my perspective, I would just assume that it would. Yeah, it's probably because we don't really have like, you know, you probably have a ton of long tables lined up where you could kind of have like a conveyor belt system, right? We don't really have enough space for that for sure.

(07:56) So, we'll kind of have like a box aside. We'll bag all the items like on the table and then we'll just like throw them all into the box at once basically, which is like already on the scale on the side. Gotcha. Yeah. Got to do what we, you know, got to make do with what we have basically. Of course. I mean, it's working. I'm happy.

(08:15) So, I'm doing the shipment on my own. I'm like, "Holy [ __ ] I absolutely like appreciate having my roommate help me even more now." Yep. I'm like, "Oh my god." Even if like you're doing it together, like it makes like a big difference, right? Oh, big difference. And like, you know, you don't like I feel like I'm focused for longer.

(08:34) It's almost like friendly competition. You have to keep pace with them, right? You're and you're talking, you're keeping each other company and stuff. So, 100%. And that makes things go by a whole lot quicker versus like if you're just sitt there just like wallowing like oh [ __ ] this [ __ ] this shit's taking too long. Yeah.

(08:51) Like in your head you're like dude I'm so [ __ ] bored, you know? Like oh [ __ ] [ __ ] Like what do I do? 100% 100%. And then like I get a not notification on Discord. [ __ ] Pokemon Cube popped. I'm like running upstairs. I'm like got to go to my PC. I'll be back. You know like distractions. Yeah. I mean it was worth it.

(09:10) Like yesterday, I maybe missed like an hour of prep or so, but you know, I with the Gym Shark drop and like the Pokemon super premium I got, like I probably secured like a grand profit or something, right? So, right. Absolutely worth it. I wanted to mention um with those super premium collections, so like it seems like they're relatively limited.

(09:31) Like it wouldn't surprise me if Costco ends up getting those because sometimes they get products like that and if they do like we'll definitely see like short-term dips, but those if you're I would do one of two things with those. I would either sell those like right away or I would hold off for like 6 to 12 months.

(09:49) That's what my buddy said. He's like really into um the Pokemon market as well. Well, like I wouldn't call him my buddy, but it's like someone that I talk to at the gym basically. He goes to like all the Pokemon events where they like trade singular cards and stuff and he said, "Yeah, like those I expect to go up a lot in the future.

(10:08) Like if you're not in a rush to sell them, I'd hold on to them." Yeah, they're they're such they're such a good collectible, right? So, like they'd be similar to like the uh like the Charizard white boxes, like the the Charizard, I think they were called, like the Charizard Premium Collections that that Costco had or even like the the 151 super premium collections that Costco had.

(10:29) Like those have increased massively. And these ones are even potentially even better because of like that little that little pouch in them, right? Yeah. Yeah. I got mine from Pokemon Center. That's pretty cool. Uh Ron, you said, "What are your process when polybagging multiacks?" It really depends on what kind of units we're doing.

(10:52) So like if we're just doing like a a two pack for example, um we'll depending on what type of units that they are, like so if we have poly bags that are very very tight for the products, it's very simplistic. like we'll have all of our units out and then we'll bag every single every single multiack or every single bundle and then we'll close every single bundle and then we'll label every single bundle.

(11:14) So if one single person is doing it that's the process. If multiple people are doing it, one person will be bagging and then pass it off to the next person who will then be closing it and then labeling it. So if the we have multiple different processes. So like I say if um say it's like a shampoo conditioner and they fit super snugly in the bag and we don't have to worry about them moving.

(11:33) They just go in a regular poly bag, close, good to go. If there's any potential that they could move and expose the barcode, we our process used to be a mix of two things. We'd either determine that we'd put it in the bag and then tape it so they don't move or we'd cover the the interior UPC's and then and then bag it.

(11:52) Uh, but now since we've been using like the UPC blocking bags for I don't know like [ __ ] probably a year and a half, two years now, if there's any potential that that will happen, we just use the UPC blocking bags and do the same process. Yeah, I feel like those would be good for like really like the larger multiacks like the four, five packs and stuff. For sure.

(12:12) I feel like that would save a lot of time. Two packs, I mean it would still save time, but like they're a bit pricey, aren't they? They are certainly more expensive. like let me pull up my sheet here. But um Mike and Mike and his brother in the server here, they were discussing potentially reproducing some themselves.

(12:36) So hopefully eventually that they do because then we could have them locally and they'd be a lot cheaper. True. That'd be good. And I imagine since these have been produced, um I I like supporting uh John because he's a small business, but it is expensive, especially bringing [ __ ] over the border now.

(12:54) Um so I mean if we can get a better option locally, it wouldn't surprise me like if other places start reproducing them in the relative short term. I haven't really looked into it. It wouldn't surprise me if they already are. But yeah, if we compare like standard prices for like say like a a 9 by12 standard poly bags if we're looking from I love supplies they're 15 cents per uh and then if we're looking for the UPC blocking bags are 22 cents per.

(13:15) So it's not like super different in price. Yeah. But if you're comparing them to like ones that you're getting off Amazon, they're going to be quite significantly different in pricing. Yeah. I get like just once off Amazon, they're probably like I don't know 10 cents per something. Yeah. Yeah, maybe even less like 8 cents.

(13:34) Ron, so you say why cover the barcode? You would have FNQ on the poly bag. So it depends like so if there's potential that the product can move in the bag and expose the barcode, then we would need to have some solution for that. If like it says it's it's like say a backtoback uh two pack multiack in a bag and they're not going to move or only one UPC is exposed and it can't move in that bag, then yeah, we'd throw the UPC on the exterior of the bag.

(13:59) But if there's potential that they could shift, then we want to ensure that they're going to be covered regardless. I tried convincing John from My Love Supplies when he was uh mocking up the UPC blocking bags to just make them thick enough so that you can't scan through them, but he just couldn't guarantee that that would work because there were some bags that we would get like that were just like a little bit thicker than normal and you couldn't actually physically scan through those.

(14:28) But he said it's too hard to do that consistently because then they still be completely transparent, but you couldn't scan through them and they would technically be UPC blocking it. Yeah, makes sense. I just, you know, old school, we just have a couple extra rolls of blank labels on the table and we just cover them all up and then bag them, right? And throw the labels on top.

(14:52) So, we have these things and like again it may not be viable with your process right now, but it's something like to kind of get the brain juices flowing. They're like they're like label holders that uh we mount on the wall in front of the packing station. And so, we we can we can load up like depending on the size like four or five different types of labels.

(15:11) So, we'll have like the the standard UPC labels. We'll have box labels on there. We have uh ready to ship labels. And then we also have like the clear circle labels in case we need to like re quote unquote reseal a box. Right. Uh so, we have those guys. And like just having that in there just it's very minor, but it helps with like having to like fiddle around and like find like the [ __ ] label roll, pull it off, etc. Right.

(15:32) Right. So, if you ever like have space and stuff like um little things like that can really make a pretty impactful difference. Yeah, that happens where like we'll start prepping and we're like, "Wait, where the [ __ ] a Sharpie?" You know, like where do we put the box cutter? And like we're like scavenging for it. Once we find it, it's fine.

(15:50) But yeah, it's annoying like starting off where you're like, "Shit, where are the small bags, right? Where are the medium bags?" Like they're [ __ ] unorganized sometimes. So yeah, if you have like certain places and processes for everything and ensure that's always there, it definitely does help for sure.

(16:07) Yeah, that's going to be like our next step. Definitely organize things and make them, you know, like always put things in the spot they're meant to go, basically. 100%. Every so often my dad uses our facilities for for prep and like whenever I go in there if he doesn't like say if like our tape machines run out of tape or he moves things somewhere where it's not supposed to go.

(16:27) I'm like what the [ __ ] are you doing? Put it back where it's supposed to go. Like if does your dad prep all his units or you prep them for him? Uh my brother has been primarily doing most of his units for now. Yeah, he he did his own for a very very long time. I certainly would not do his, but yeah, he's been having my brother do his for quite a while. Oh, true. Yeah.

(16:49) Does he at least pay your brother or your brother does it out of He loves his dad? Oh, no. He He pays him for sure. Okay. Okay. No, no, we're we're nice. We're not that nice. It's like [ __ ] making money. He can pay [Laughter] people. Beck, how's it going? Yo, what up? What's going on? Nothing. Just chilling. Cool. Cool. Being chilling.

(17:23) Chilling. Smoking some bud. Watching the game. Hell yeah. The game is on soon though, man. Which game? The Leafs game. Hockey game. No, I just said that cuz that's a quote from Scary Movie. Okay. Ah, honestly, I've never seen those movies. So, ah, the original one's so good. The first first three so [ __ ] hilarious.

(17:50) You should make that you should make that your mission. If you're doing things, watch them on the side this weekend. That's That's the thing. Like, I'm lacking content to watch while I'm doing [ __ ] And I'm like, I need something that I could like watch or listen to, but it that's not too distracting that it like ruins my focus.

(18:06) Like, I'm like, "Oh, this is really [ __ ] good." when I stop sourcing, you know, just like I need Yeah, I need content. If you're like prepping, like throwing like like the TV Oh, I guess music podcast, but like throwing like some like classic movies or something. Yeah, that's a good idea. Audio books as well.

(18:22) Get a Audible subscription. Yeah, I got to do that. Some like most audio books are pretty like yeah you can just listen to them while you're doing stuff but like some things like if you get like super into them that are super interesting it's like makes it a little bit harder to focus on something else. Yeah, that's why like I need [ __ ] to watch but things that like aren't too too good.

(18:50) Well, like uh podcast then. Yeah, exactly. Like any podcasts you guys recommend? Depends what genre. Like do you want something business related? AI business. Yeah. Uh there's my personal Amazon related podcast too, but Amazon I at least the Amazon ones that I have heard they're kind of generic like they're they're all the same thing.

(19:17) If you listen to like one or two, you listen to them all. And I guess while prepping you're like I don't want to listen to bore Amazon [ __ ] while doing Amazon work, you know? Well, if it was if it was like worthwhile then I would. But it's Yeah, there's not much out there. Can't go Can't go wrong with Joe Rogan.

(19:34) That's true. So So many episodes and so diverse of people. That's true. Like Lex Freedman. Oh my god. You trying to sleep? True. I mean, bro, that guy that guy's like that guy is uh that guy is definitely uh on an arc or something, man. That guy's just like he was just put up there and the dude is the most boring person, dry person on the planet.

(20:01) And yet there's some interesting conversations, dude. Like who the who the [ __ ] can say that to interview Putin? Like [ __ ] Yeah. Yeah. He needs the interviewees, right? He doesn't really need he's on his own. No one's going to listen to him. So he needs he basically runs because of the people he interviews.

(20:20) I mean, I think you can get anyone and have a conversation with Putin and it'll be interesting. Well, I mean like the same thing could probably be said for like Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan is a little bit more entertaining, but like if it was just like him sitting there talking, it'd probably get stale relatively.

(20:34) Well, people pay millions to go to his uh he gets millions just for his comedy shows. So, his his comedy honestly is not that great. I've never listened to it but or watched it, but apparently it is. So, you know, it's okay. It's not like fantastic. Like he's definitely nurtured a lot of comedians and he's done a lot for the comedy space, but like in my opinion his comedy is kind of like mid.

(20:59) Like I definitely prefer like Joey Diaz or somebody like that. Like Joey Diaz is [ __ ] hilarious. Joey Diaz is amazing. Yeah. Who? Wait, who were you guys just talking about? Who's mid? Joe Rogan's comedy. Oh yeah. I think he's his comedyy's meh, but he's a great interviewer, right? Great podcast host. Yeah, he asked he asked like good questions.

(21:18) I think Lex Freeden is way too I don't know. I mean, he's just boring. He's just dry. Yeah, he's he's hella dry. But like Yeah. In terms of other podcasts, there's My First Million. There's Yeah, I've I've seen Diary of a CEO. Yeah, I've seen those. Yeah, [ __ ] like that, I guess. What's that guy's name? Like Chris Williamson or whatever.

(21:39) That one. Yeah, he's he's good. There was one that like if you're into like um true crime, I want to find it, but there was one that was released like probably two three years ago that like they they explore cases like they explored like a case of a dude who was arrested for like a triple homicide in the States and then he ended up being not guilty and like that's like really interesting.

(22:01) What the [ __ ] was it called? Um yeah, [ __ ] like that's cool. I'm not going to remember what the [ __ ] it's called, am I? uh podcast triple murder not guilty. It was like a hardware store. He was like an African-American dude. What the [ __ ] was it? And like the the the prosecutor like they [ __ ] they redided the trial like multiple times.

(22:36) Sometimes he was found not guilty. Other times he was found guilty. What the [ __ ] was that? What the [ __ ] was that case called? Oh, damn. I just saw Med's uh post in success. He caught nine of the super premium or eight of the super premium boxes. That's crazy. I got to get there, man. Just get a bot and start botting. Yeah.

(23:04) No, I got to I got to dabble into that. And then also like Pokemon Center just being able to abuse like multiple checkouts manually. Would you use residential proxies for that? Like cuz I'm not monitoring. It's just for checkouts. Yeah. So like I don't know enough about proxies. I got to watch the uh that's something I got to watch the [ __ ] bot um interview you did.

(23:29) So yeah, like residentials, they they're they charge you based on usage, right? So So you don't typically want to like monitor 24/7 with those, but you can set up tasks so like things change. And like with PO with Pokemon Center, Stellar only uh opens the module when a potential drop is happening. True.

(23:51) But I'm talking about just like, you know, when the queue pops up, I open like six internet browsers all under each proxy and I just do them manually basically. Yeah, in those cases you want to use residentials for sure. Okay, I'm going to look into that. Yep. How much is it for like 10 residential proxies, like 20 bucks a month or something? Uh, it's it's based on data.

(24:11) So like it starts at like 1 gigabyt 2 gigabytes of data and you can generate unlimited. So you can generate like proxies or Yeah. Yeah. Unlimited proxies. Yeah. Okay. Cool. But monitoring like a page for like a short period of time like Pokemon Center, it doesn't cost a whole lot. But if you're doing if you're doing it 24/7 consistently, then it it it adds up quickly. Yeah. Like I'll look into that.

(24:34) But just for now, like the when Pokemon Center puts up a queue basically because it's so like it's been so easy to check out manually. I'm like most of the [ __ ] if you get in the queue in time like you could check out many many times if you had a like you know enough IP addresses to go around. So yeah.

(24:53) So with that I would either use I I don't know for sure. I assume that it will work but Firefox multicontainer like the container browser. Um it it should work. Uh one that will for sure work would be incognition and incognition I believe you can get 10 profiles for free. I remember there was also a software I used to use back in my Runescape days.

(25:14) Um, yeah, because you had to like basically a lot of the time run every Runescape account on a different proxy and there was a program I used called Proxifier and you could essentially load as many proxies as you want into it and you could choose which application runs through which proxy, right? So you're like, "Oh, I want this one Runescape client.

(25:36) " You could just make like 10, you know, desktop desk desktop icons all in the same app basically, right? So, but like it really all separately. It really it really comes down to like how good the softwares are at eliminating like your fingerprints and the websites of how good they are at tracking it. Makes sense.

(25:59) So, like some sites um they only really track like IPs and then like addresses emails, etc. Uh other sites, if we're looking at something like that I've been trying to dig into deeper recently, Uber Eats, Uber Eats tracks fingerprints rank. So like you can change IP address like on like the same browser or like a container and they'll still fingerprint your browser because you still have like some history there.

(26:19) I see. So you'd say you said for Pokemon Center incognition would be my best bet. Incognition should work for like 100%. Uh I I I'm going to try multicontainers myself. I assume it would work for multiont. I'm sure it would work. Multiontainers work. Multi containers works for ticket master. So, it should work for Pokemon Center.

(26:42) I'm assuming it works because I'll like load up P Pokemon Center on my main IP and then I'll like check out and blah blah blah get banned and then I would connect to my tether and open up on the same browser and I would still get through basically. So, I'm assuming multi container would work. Yeah, it it should. Yeah, for now at least. Yeah.

(27:05) And it's like it's easy. Pokemon's hot. It's like if I could abuse it while I can, that would be cool. Yeah, you might as well. And for relatively limited cost. Yeah, for sure. Do you bought Jordan? Not really, but I'm getting into it more because I want to run more accomp with Vin or Q. So like if he's running certain bots for a drop, like say he's running like Cyber Soul or Valor, I would want to run the opposite and then also like run like Alpine so that we have more potential and like if one bot fails then other

(27:40) bots are still going to kick in. So yeah, that's a whole other world. So TLDDR right now, not really, but I will be in the very very near future very heavy. That's like Have you have you done it before? Like is it something you've done before? Cuz you sound pretty knowledgeable on it. I've done I've done some limited stuff with like stellar, but that's about it.

(28:06) I just I know I know a lot about a lot of different things. My bad. I thought you said Nick for some reason. He may have. I heard Jordan. Oh, I heard like Nick, have you bought it before? You seem knowledgeable. I'm like, no, I bought a Runescape account. But that's you and [ __ ] Runescape. Anything like any way you can make money in that game, I've done it basically.

(28:33) Hilarious. Scamming 12-year-olds. Not scamming though. They go they they enter the duels on their own valition. I'm not tricking them. They're just stupid. That's all. Trimming people's armor. [Laughter] Well, I wasn't scamming. It was just taking revenge of the system. That's all.

(28:57) When I was a kid, I 100% did a lot of uh quote unquote trust trades with people. So [ __ ] stupid. Yeah. So [ __ ] stupid. I remember I got scammed back in the day when I played when I was like 10 years old and I just went to the basement to my parents just crying like someone just took my armor. That's crazy. you know, like what the [ __ ] is this idiot talking about? I had a a group of friends like we're all like in like the same neighborhood and we'd all play that [ __ ] game and then like a couple of us would have like access to each other's accounts and one dude

(29:34) [ __ ] uh stole some [ __ ] off my account and I was [ __ ] pissed and I was like super vengeful even as a kid. So like I had access to his account so he like took like a few things off my account. I changed his password and [ __ ] completely cleaned him out. Like [ __ ] you buddy. Yeah. Yeah. The good old days. Yep.

(29:59) That's when you go into like a basement and drop tray things over. Yeah. So, okay. So, you [ __ ] I played it when I was a kid. Yeah. Yeah. When uh I think it was when Runescape 2 first came out, like Okay. like 2004 or whatever it was. 2003. That's when I played. Okay. I was heavy into it, too. pretty much everyone was anybody that was cool.

(30:25) Runescape um taught me all about business. Runescape's what like basically taught me that I wanted wanted to be an entrepreneur. Yeah. If you did it like that, if you did it like when you're young and you got scammed, you like as ironic as it sounds, you can actually learn a lot about like, oh, people are [ __ ] I need to watch. Yeah.

(30:48) Yeah. And it's just like when you invest enough time in anything, if you're like business savvy, you'll figure out ways to make money from that thing. As long as there's a market, 100%. When uh Right. Like I'm sure you do that. You ever drive past places and you see like a freaking little shop, you're like, I wonder how much money this shop makes.

(31:09) I wonder how much money that that place makes. You know, like how all the [ __ ] is this place in business? What the [ __ ] all the [ __ ] time. This place sells rocks. How the [ __ ] are they in business? You know, those are the ones that are so sustainable. The the the businesses that aren't sexy. That's true. It's like sitting here looking at your house, it's like, "Oh, there's a [ __ ] business on like making walls, right? For real." Oh, yeah.

(31:35) There's a lot of random stuff out there. Everywhere you look, everywhere in your life, there's a business behind it. Absolutely. Absolutely everything. like, "Oh, I'm the electrical cord guy. I sell electrical cords and I made a [ __ ] hundred million dollars in all that." Yep. Um, when I was probably, I don't know, 12, 13, I would have been like grade seven, eight, I got heavy into SOCOM on PlayStation 2.

(32:05) Okay. Um, so this is like I think Call of Duty existed, but this is before like Call of Duty was like super popular. Yeah. Yeah, that was the OG. I've played it too. Yeah. And so played it long enough where like got really good at it and I started a clan and we got bored. So we started like glitching and like hacking the game and we'd make like ISO copies of discs and people figure out how to like code things.

(32:30) So like all a sudden you can jump 50 ft in the air, have automatic sniper and [ __ ] So, we'd mod our PlayStations and like have the the disc running and then like after like the load screen boots, we take it out and then we put in the code disc and we can load we can load the codes that way and get online that way.

(32:44) Have uh made like a lag switch and [ __ ] like that. And yeah, yeah, started like a whole whole glitching clan around this [ __ ] and it's [ __ ] hilarious because like some of the guy like one dude he ended up making like this software to run codes directly instead of having to make discs and he ended up ended up going to work for Code Breaker.

(33:00) some guys ended up um like ended up being like I guess they'd be considered developers or Q&A guys for the company that ran SOCOM to like test and patch glitches. And yeah, it was very very very interesting. That's the only thing I did was I would burn movies and like music and sell them. Oh, that's amateur.

(33:25) Oh, I mean it's good money. A large audience. good money. Have I ever told you about my uncle that was like super into pirating? No. So my uncle's like heavy like heavy heavy into pirating and he had a printer where he would actually like reproduce the the cover art of DVDs and like also like the actual the label on the DVD too.

(33:47) So make I know your uncle, bro. I used to buy I used to buy video games from a dude that did that. Oh, that's crazy. So he like tried to make it like look like real, right? And like his first iterations uh looked pretty shitty cuz he had a shitty printer, but like improved over time. And yeah, like he he got in some big trouble.

(34:05) Like he got arrested and he like was facing some pretty heavy fines cuz he went pretty hard for a while. Wow. He got arrested for that. That's crazy. Those are federal those are federal crimes. No, I have never talked to him about like what exactly happened. Like I he didn't spend any time in prison, but like he did get arrested. I I don't know if he I don't know what kind of fines he got, but I mean actually no, those wouldn't be federal.

(34:31) Um yeah, actually no, those piracy I don't think it is certain I think actually no in America it is cuz I remember I would get these um these official notices like from the from the government and well it was it wasn't really from the government. It was like from the media company, the companies that created the media, but they did have the government seal on it. Yeah.

(34:54) And they would say cease and desist if you don't. First it scared the [ __ ] out of me. But then after that after that I was like a just they're just scare tactics. They can't do anything about it. Like [ __ ] you guys. I'm a minor. Come at me. Yeah. Well, they would go after my parents because my parents got the notice.

(35:13) Oh, cuz on their [ __ ] internet, I suppose. Yeah. That's hilarious. Yeah, I was like from It's funny because like from being in Socom, like I started a clan, but everybody that was in there, I always told them that I was older than what I was. I was like [ __ ] 12. I said I was like 16 or 17. Well, apparently not at that time.

(35:36) Like I had a deep enough voice at that time. Everybody believed me. Oh, okay. You went through puberty. Okay. I guess so. And like everybody that was in there was like older. like most were like out of high school like 17, 18, 19 plus and like a lot of like very like computer programmers, people doing weird [ __ ] doing shady [ __ ] So like I learned from those guys how to [ __ ] uh torrent things, how to [ __ ] script discs, make ISO copies.

(36:02) I learned all that from those guys and that's how I got into like learning how to use Demonoid in the Pirate Bay and all that [ __ ] Uh Demonoid, I remember had a subscription for those guys. They used to be hard to get into. Well, Demonoid was free. Yeah, like you had you had to get you get invite and it used to be good and I'm pretty sure now like you still need an invite to get access, but I checked out like Oh, they still have it? Yeah, it it still exists.

(36:25) I checked out like a year ago and like almost nothing's on that [ __ ] site anymore. You find everything. Yeah, that was the site. But now you don't really need to download any movies or TV shows at all. You can just get it online. Yeah. Yeah. Streaming. Yeah. I got to I got to go, guys. Talk to you later. Bye-bye.

(36:45) All right, let's go. Let's see it. But it's it's unfortunate because it doesn't feel as dangerous anymore. There's plenty of dangerous things you can be doing. You can be in the drug game, you make a lot of money, but it's like it's like it's like it felt like you're doing something like dangerous. It's like, haha, I'm [ __ ] these companies.

(37:06) And it would take like a day or two to download an entire movie. But yeah, I used to download like for artists like entire discoraphies at once. It would take like a [ __ ] week. Like all of Metallica, it's like I got everything. Got stuff you can't even find on anywhere else. So, Mr. back. What have you been have going on this week? Um, let me see.

(37:51) I've done a whole lot. Um, where do I start, dude? I've sourced a ton. What's a ton? The weed he's smoking, man. He sounds baked. No. Whatever I say is going to be chump change. No, no, it's it's fine. Don't Don't feel like you have to like compare, bro. No one's No one's measuring anything here. Yeah. I'm just I'm just curious.

(38:28) Uh measure your success against what you did yesterday. Nobody here is going to [ __ ] on you for like because like you think that you did like little compared to somebody else. That's not what we do. Yeah. I know. I'm just trying to think of uh like I said, I don't really count my hours. Um I'd say like maybe six 10 hours of sourcing.

(38:52) Is it crazy? And have you been ordering a lot this past week? Yeah. And how many new as have you added to your catalog? Uh, well, I've replaced. So, let's see. I kind of started over like a week ago, so I maybe added like 25. That's good. Yeah. And you said you're doing a lot of FBM. Yeah. A lot of FBM. Yeah. Yeah.

(39:21) See, with you being in the US, like it's a lot different than us here. FBM is it's possible in Canada, but just not nearly as viable as it is in the US. Our shipping costs here are way too [ __ ] expensive. That's pretty crazy. Have you been having decent success with FBM? Yeah. Yeah.

(39:46) Um I've kind of just been taking the leads that are really close FBA and then I'm like, "Fuck it. I'll just send it to my house and then I just sell it FBM." Okay. Okay. Um or or like I like to go clear out Walmart. It's been fun. Beauty. Yeah. And you've been clearing out the shitty asens that you had prior as well. Oh yeah. My catalog's very clean.

(40:16) Uh like the the actual inventory itself. Yeah. It's selling pretty good. Good. Some of it's just going to take a long time. There's also like I I was at risk. My account was at risk yesterday because some [ __ ] uh was like not compliant with Canada's listings. I'm like I'm not even selling my Canada. It's kind of ridiculous.

(40:38) Did you have like the I don't think it's called NARF anymore, but did you have that enabled? No, I have that off. But I don't know why. Um yeah, it's like you're you're at risk. And then I had to like go in and submit compliance and acknowledge it in Canada's marketplace. I'm like, I'm not even selling here. H interesting. Weird.

(41:03) One of many Amazon's lovely glitches and [ __ ] that they deal with. Yeah. I'm like, this probably means nothing, but it's like if I like got my account restricted, it probably wouldn't even help me. Yeah. Like you always want to deal with it just in case. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we have a we're we have a lot of restrictions on our products here.

(41:28) Yeah, it's like literally like apparently I had like 11 uh from like my whole time selling and they've just been piling up with complant compliance issues. Mhm. Like dude, what the hell? You can't sell anything in Canada. Uh you we can sell things but we have to make sure everything's within compliance.

(41:48) So, a lot of different items have to have bilingual packaging. If it's like a a supplement or like a consumable, a lot of those have to be registered with Health Canada. Uh toys for kids under 12 have to have certain documentation and be tested. All kinds of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. That just means Canada's safe, dude. Yeah.

(42:13) But some of the restrictions are [ __ ] really stupid. Yeah. I mean, you say Canada's safe, but then like a lot of Canada has restrictions on things like uh gravity knives, for example. So, like um which I mean some states do as well, but like we can't carry things that you can like flick open with your wrist for a knife. It's like how is that any different from carrying just a regular [ __ ] pocket knife? Stupid. Yeah.

(42:39) What the hell? So stupid. Gravity knife. Isn't that every knife? Oh, tech technically if you loosen the screw enough you can flip it open. Yeah, it's [ __ ] so stupid. And you can't carry things like you can't carry things after like a certain length. And we have a lot of really dumb laws, but most places do. Yeah. We can't uh protect ourselves in our homes if somebody attempts to break in.

(43:13) Yeah. Right. Yep. Um, let's see. I did like I did a ton of returns from that gated [ __ ] last week. Uh, I've just been like I'm kind of been realizing that like literally mistakes are inevitable and uh you just got to not get down about them. Well, 100%. like mistakes will happen like within your control, but then there's also like the restrictions and stuff that will happen on Amazon's end that you can't control.

(43:49) So, it's just on how you deal with them. Like it's shitty, but like the nice thing with this business is like unless you get your account completely restricted, you're going to still always have the asset of the inventory. So, as long as you attempt to move it, return it, etc., you can still get most of the time the vast majority of your money back out of products even if they completely like implode.

(44:12) Mhm. But you have to be act you have to action them and try to get rid of them before things sit around expire, etc. Yeah. So, it's kind of it's kind of like like I've been having issues every day since then and I'm just like taking it like you know what, [ __ ] it. Whatever. I'm not going to let it ruin my day.

(44:34) We're just going to keep rolling. It's crazy. Well, yeah. And if there's like categories that are impacting you more than others, like say you're having a shitty time with supplements, it's like, "Okay, cool. Then I'm just going to stay away from those for a long while until the air clears. Just adjust accordingly." I don't know.

(44:56) Um I mean, you probably have experience on this, but [ __ ] is so random with um with FBA and how fast it sells. Uh, like I could I could list something FBA and I haven't even shipped it off yet. It's like sitting behind me like ready to go tomorrow and it'll start selling. But [ __ ] will like be checked in, received or or FC transfer and it it's not even like I'm not even getting buy box. It's so weird.

(45:30) Well, there's so many different potential variables that can happen. So, like a lot of stuff like with the Head Start program like you mentioned, if you're selling it so quickly, um it's because Amazon is either pre preferring you because of the potential delivery dates that are available for customers or potentially price competitiveness.

(45:51) Whereas with other listings, like say if you're super price competitive, already received, sometimes your stuff isn't being transferred to another warehouse, so it may not be received as quickly. A lot of the time your inventory is not as close to the customer as somebody else is. Sometimes if somebody's been on a listing for a super long time, they're just going to by default get more buy box share than what you are.

(46:10) Um all all kinds of things, right? So like I don't know for the US, but I know like with Canada specifically, a big factor that has been like this for like a long time is how much inventory you actually have available total because by default that's going to give you better inventory placement throughout the country.

(46:28) So, like if you came on a listing for example and you had six units in stock and for Canada like say um your inventory got sent to a a warehouse in Toronto for example and I came on the same listing and I had 36 48 60 units in stock by default Amazon's probably going to split up a lot more of my inventory throughout the rest of our provinces and I'm going to have more opportunity to be closer to those customers have a quicker fulfillment so I'm probably going to get more buy box share than what you are by default.

(46:55) [Music] Yeah. So, it's just like it's just so like whatever Amazon needs basically. Well, yeah. They're always going to favor the customer experience over everything, right? So, usually it's fulfillment time and then often it's also price competitiveness. And so, like if you just can't stock that many units, you just simply have to wait.

(47:22) And then sometimes like and unless you increase your units, you'll never get buy box share or very very little. Um some all of a sudden out of nowhere you'll sell all your units in one day because the people that were wanting to buy your units just so happen to be your inventory happen to be closer to them. So yeah, you just have to adjust your strategies for the inventory accordingly.

(47:42) So like the ones that are selling good, those are the ones I'm going to keep replenishing. The ones that are not, I'm going to sell out. probably stop selling those guys and probably find different inventory. Rinse and repeat. Yeah, I feel like I have a pretty good standard. Like it like when the [ __ ] eventually checks in, it sells.

(48:02) Uh I just like some [ __ ] sells immediately in my house. Some just takes like months to actually fully check in and then it starts moving. It's like so weird. Yep. It's all all part of the game, man. Yeah. And then you just have to take your actual stats, figure out on average how much you're selling per month for that inventory, and then decide whether or not that inventory is worth to replenish or not.

(48:30) [Music] Yeah. Jafar, how's it going? Good. Good. How are you? Not too bad. Not too bad. How was your week? It was good. Just work. You accomplish a lot. Uh, still trying to figure out systems, but doing what I can. What kind of systems are you working on? Uh, content creation and delegating specific Amazon tasks. Um, that's pretty much it.

(49:12) Cool. Cool. for your Yeah. Remember that Oh, sorry. Go ahead. I was telling you about that listing I was telling you about yesterday. Yep. That got removed. Yep. It came back today. So, did you The funny thing is nothing changed on the listing. Did you already remove your inventory? I didn't.

(49:34) I was like, let me just wait and see what happens just in case. somebody like somebody somebody uploaded something on the back end for Amazon and like they might have fudged it but I mean at least you have an opportunity to sell your [ __ ] So yeah I mean I don't know if that was me or not cuz I did you know change the detail pictures and I told them that it didn't have this ingredient that they were saying is like a medical ingredient and all that.

(49:57) So I don't know maybe um maybe I should take the credit but is that the reason why I got removed? I thought it was for bilingual packaging. So, it was the first reason was that it had um they were saying they were claiming it had this specific ingredient that's not it's a medicated product. It's under like the what's it called? The medication and drug act or something like that.

(50:23) And uh that was what they're saying and they they wrote the ingredient and I checked and that product I have it here doesn't have the ingredient whatsoever. I checked online all over and they were saying this product doesn't contain it. So I emailed them and I told them this product doesn't contain a you know so this claim that you guys are saying is false and I gave them proof and that's when they were like okay that the second thing they wanted me to do was you know change the detail page English French bilingual and all that and then they were going to

(50:50) proceed with the case. So that's when I asked you about it and then I didn't do anything after that. I didn't reply to them or anything and then it just came back. Huh interesting. But the initial reason was for the uh not having that for it having that specific medical ingredient which it didn't have anyway.

(51:10) So yeah, those guys typically are easy appeals like for those if it actually doesn't have that ingredient if you get like a hazmat review on a on a unit like it happens often where like something that contains batteries will get flagged as hazmat and you just submit like a hazmat exemption request.

(51:26) Those guys typically get appealed very very easily. Um the ones that tend to what's that? Yeah, I've been getting a lot of uh compliance. Uh what are they about? They're like it's like liquid dyes and this kind of thing. Mhm. And Amazon is saying they require some sort of documentation and they're not like the compliancy, which to be honest, I never know what to do about them.

(51:52) I have like five right now. It all depends on the product and what they're asking for. consumer chemicals and containers, all four of them. So, that one's a new one. So, that one I'm still looking into. Um, I should once I start getting with some I should have some answers. Uh, those ones I've only been seeing recently.

(52:15) Yeah, I started getting them all of a sudden. So, maybe I should just liquid the I have a couple brands and two of each, two products of each from those brands have gotten it so far. So, but like it all depends. So, like what will happen is like typically so like Anthony had shared some documentation requests out there that they're asking for.

(52:35) So, typically speaking like they're requiring compliance based on Canadian laws, right? And so, it's either that the inventory should be under that Canadian law and if it should be and we order from Canadian suppliers then we should be able to get that documentation. Um, if if uh if it should be under that law and we didn't order from Canadian suppliers, then that documentation probably will not be available and we'll have to liquidate.

(53:03) If it shouldn't be under that that law, that regulation, then we should be able to submit an appeal with proper documentation and we should be able to appeal it. Yeah, these are both from like Canadian proper distributors. So, so then it should either have proper documentation and we should be able to obtain that or It shouldn't be under that that subsection of law and we should be able to appeal it.

(53:28) Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. I'll have to look into it further. So, it's probably I don't know if it's going to be as easy as getting like uh MPN documentations from Health Canada if there are databases like that that exist. Maybe depending on the documentation that they're asking for. If not, then that documentation should technically be available if you have a distributor from them or from the brand directly.

(53:54) Yeah. Yeah. I never asked yet, so I have to look into it. Yeah. With um I'm curious with your content creation, what are you trying to accomplish with like your online presence, content creation, etc.? uh pretty much starting like uh well I actually already did start like a mentorship thing and um yeah just trying to create content about it and technically I wanted to grow the personal brand that was kind of like the biggest thing cuz everyone says if you have a personal brand you know you can do you have so many options and all this that's what

(54:31) the new uh the new thing is growing a personal brand so I'm just trying to do that as much as I can and then go from there are you doing all the content creation yourself? Yeah, right now all of it. Um, do you find like you have time to do it or is it cutting into other ventures? Uh, to be honest, like I just got burnt out more so than anything.

(55:01) coming up with ideas, actually doing it and then like when you're not able to get it done right and then you just kind of wasting a lot of time and then all that and then I don't do other things and then it just feels like, you know, that entire day was wasted and that kind of thing. But I don't have a system either.

(55:16) So I just kind of wake up and I'm like I need to post something. So I just try to think of something that day, try to script something and then try to post it as well. And then next thing you know, it's pretty much end of day and all I did was just look at my Amazon seller account and that's it for the business. And then Yeah.

(55:33) So, I I'm curious about that because um I'm not sure if you've seen, but I mentioned uh earlier this week or last week, I literally just hired a social media dude, like a VA from the Philippines just for content creation, social media, because I Yeah, I'm not a social media person whatsoever. I'm not sure if you can tell.

(55:53) Uh, but I don't I don't really post on social media. Uh, I don't create [ __ ] I'm not a creator and I don't have I don't have the time to. So, I want like I want more exposure for the businesses that we have. So, I hired a guy um I found him on online jobs.ph and Mhm. he had very limited video editing experience, but he seemed like he had promise.

(56:17) He primarily can like create graphics and stuff and he like he actually like I sent him a video that um we had on our socials and I just said like if you can kind of like copy the style and he recreated it without any actual like editing software within like an hour and sent it to me. So, I'm like, "Yeah, I'll give him a try.

(56:36) " And I think like he still needs to like adjust some styles and some things that he's doing, but I'm more or less giving him like free range. Like, here's like ideas of like content. Here's how we can produce content. Here's how we can get ideas. And um he started with me this past Monday and over this the course of this week and again he has very very limited video editing experience so he's still learning.

(57:00) He produced I think 28 different pieces of content. So like graphics, videos, etc. And this is like limited limited experience. So is it like faceless just uh graphics and that kind of thing? I've seen some of the stuff you've had on Instagram, but it's just like faceless content, right? Graphics and videos and stuff.

(57:21) So like with yourself if you want like with your face obviously you'd have to reproduce like clips and whatnot but you can also have somebody else like either feed you ideas, edit it, etc. Yeah. And now like I'm not sure if you've looked into it. You can like you can sit down with like an AI like 11 Labs.

(57:41) You can talk to it and film yourself for like an hour doing different scripts and stuff and it can reproduce you exactly in a video and it looks like does that. Yeah. It looks like you're talking and it looks like you. Yeah, I've seen those. It looks pretty crazy. Yeah. And like some of them like some look kind of shitty, but some look like like you couldn't Some you couldn't tell.

(58:03) Well, actually I tried to do that. So I have a a Shopify brand as well. I I told you about it actually way back. Yep. Um and then you were saying that you don't really have much experience in terms of like starting your own brand and Shopify and that kind of thing. But uh I launched it like three two three weeks ago.

(58:23) Done like $15,600 in sales so far, which is pretty cool. Shopify is a whole different world. So um it just like I just got some ads done on Upwork and uh it's like a 2x rorowaz. So it's not it's not that's not bad. But uh and then I was looking at like cuz I don't really know anybody who could do ads for me and I'm not going to do them myself.

(58:45) And I was trying to like there's a tool called creatify.io or something and uh basically you give it the script you give it some pictures of your product and then you choose the woman or man that you want doing it and where the background is and all that and then they pretty much rec that gets recreated with an AI person. And uh the videos actually, you know, showing people doing it was cool, but then when I actually did it, it looked absolutely horrible.

(59:12) So, I just left that right away off so much easier probably just hiring someone getting them to record and doing that versus dealing with the AI. But some some are better than others and like some of it that really depends on like how you prompt it and whatever. But like even like product images itself, like even inside of something like you consider a relatively basic uh AI like chat GPT can make like pretty decent like just like still graphics of products. I tried.

(59:41) It just comes out trashed. I'm not going to lie. Um I don't know. Send me a send me a picture of one of your products and I'll see if I can produce something and show you how I did it. Yeah, I've tried multiple times. Which which models have you tried for your pictures? Um which one do I use? Let me see. I have the I have the it's 40 and I have the paid version.

(1:00:05) So, I'm paying 30 bucks a month because GPT isn't like the best for uh pictures and video and uh media content. There's other models out there that are better. Yeah, I've heard people use specifically looking for images. Yeah, images. Uh I mean videos I feel like they're not I feel like AI is not going to be good enough.

(1:00:29) I feel like it's so much better to just hire a UGC person, let them record, and that's going to be the most authentic thing you'll find. I feel like AI is not going to compete with that. Yeah, but images you could definitely compete with like professional photography and all that for sure. I don't know. Some of the videos, I don't know if you've seen people make commercials.

(1:00:46) Some of them are pretty wild. Some of them they look they look they are wild but it just seems like there's no way like I'm going to be able to get that done unless I'm process like cuz they use different uh different tools. So like they'll have a script. So they'll have so what they'll do is the process is generally like this.

(1:01:04) They'll create they'll get a picture first. Well they'll create a prompt for a picture and then they'll have multiple pictures. So then they'll use those pictures to input into a video content AI generator and then it'll use those pictures as like framework to build the uh the actual video. Yeah. But it's a it's a definitely it's a step process, not something you just hit prompt, hey, I want this and then it will spit it out.

(1:01:27) Yeah, that's what I did to make sense. So like this site, I don't know if you heard of uh Ideog is pretty cool. I haven't used it too much. I just tested it and the images that come out pretty good here. I'll I'll link it. Ideogram. Yeah, look at it. I know one. What's that? Um that really popular one. Imagination L.

(1:01:54) No. Uh it's a very popular picture one. There's Mid Journey. Is that what you're talking about? Mid. Yeah, that's Yeah, Mid Journey was probably like the first really good one. And then there's stable diffusion. Uh, but Mid Journey, uh, Mid Journey was really good when it first came out.

(1:02:14) I haven't used it since, but I'm sure it's really good now, too. But yeah, like if you use the right tools, you'd be surprised what some things can accomplish. Like in the last week, I've basically become a senior level developer coding. And I don't even know how I don't even know how to [ __ ] code. Power of cursor, man. I've been telling you to get on it.

(1:02:36) Yeah, it's wild. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. If someone actually if you keep up with it and you actually teach yourself how to use it and watch videos, it's actually like insane. 100%. Have you seen those um action figures that people were making on social media? People Wow, that went and they were getting them to uh generate into a video where they walk out.

(1:02:59) I didn't see the videos, but Oh, yeah. They basically they so they'll get a product or like or those action figures. They'll make it and then they'll actually animate it. So like they actually walk out of the box. Wow. No, actually I think I have seen one. I just didn't realize that was the That was like a month ago.

(1:03:20) Yeah. Yeah. What about the uh the Pokemon prices for the new u prismatic for the SP? I just got a Yeah, I just got an SPC. You guess what my price was? What' you pay? 300 bucks. 108 bucks. That's good. Where'd you get it? It was a pre-order price from a distributor for the store. Um, I tried to get more, but they only allocated one piece.

(1:03:49) And then we got got like one piece of couple of the other things. I didn't even get um for Destiny Rivals. I only got one booster box. I tried to order it. But this time, I went crazy on the pre-orders. I went like 144. I placed like a $26,000 order. I mean, if it works, it works. You know, I'll have to pay that back, too.

(1:04:09) But they're probably only going to give like 10% of that. So, yeah. So, like are you pretty are you really familiar with how like Pokemon distribution typically works? I mean, I understand that's allocation based. I'm not sure exactly if it's based on like what you previously ordered or how much you order per year, that kind of thing.

(1:04:31) For most distributors, that's definitely how it works. So, like for the people that run like Pokemon businesses if you want like higher allocations of stuff, especially like in bubbles and hypes like this, you have to order a lot of other stuff throughout the year and maybe stuff that you may not necessarily like are super popular like random [ __ ] tins and stuff that maybe people don't want.

(1:04:50) And the people that order more of those get more allocations of stuff like the prismatic, like the descent rivals, etc. Really? 100%. Cuz I have a Yeah. What about like what if you buy other stuff like Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, um One Piece and all that or is it strictly P? It usually depends on the distributor.

(1:05:10) Uh but typically speaking, they're going to allocate more Pokemon to you if you help them out more with Pokemon throughout the year. Yeah, I mean the these distributors are kind of going crazy, too. I'm not going to lie. Hobbiesville is cheaper than all distributors right now. Hobbiesville is [ __ ] taxing out the ass.

(1:05:37) But yeah, a lot of distributors are charging closer to market now just because of like how big of a hole it is. Not even closer than like I've ordered close to 10K worth of Pokemon product last month for the store. All of it was from 41 games in Hobbiesville. And I looked at every single distributor that I have versus their pricing.

(1:05:56) And I was buying like Stellar Crown for two. It was 285 from the distributor. I was getting it for $ 260 from Hobbiesville or 401. And that was the case for pretty much every single booster box I ordered. It was usually $ 20 to $30 more expensive. So I was like, and plus you have to pay shipping. These guys, you can do $10,000 order, they charge shipping.

(1:06:15) Hobby 41, it's like over 200 bucks free shipping, right? So, it's like it's it's insane. It's just uh I thought there were distributors, but apparently not. Well, the Pokemon market is so such a bubble right now. And there's so much That's insane. They're so like they're so underprinted for what's in demand right now that everybody's having issues.

(1:06:38) Yeah. I have a guy, a reseller who sells me some. He has he has the new surprise boxes. He's looking for $85. I'm like, man, if you look at it, like the pre-order price is like 30 bucks. I think it was like $29.99 on Pokemon Center or something like that. Somewhere around there. If you're wanting to order in bulk, why aren't you posting in our marketplace? We got guys in here that sometimes can get dozens or hundreds of units or something.

(1:07:05) But where in uh just like in in market? Yeah, in the general section in marketplace. Just post what you're looking for and what you're willing to pay and in bulk. like what there's we have a we have a guy uh I IQ posted that he has 10 10,000 151 pack booster packs for sale 10,000 holy didn't realize that marketplace oh okay I see Pokemon for sale yeah and like what's his price he he's he's charging close to market but if you're going to order more he's going to charge less obviously yeah blooming waters Uh, he's doing 152. I was getting that

(1:07:47) for 150, which was still kind of crazy, but um, yeah, 151 poster collection 40. Yeah, it's not bad. Mini 10, five. Well, you can see like uh like a month or so ago, Med posted that he had 212 units of the prismatic blister packs, right? So, if you're looking for bulk purchasing, always post there because then people will that are buying a lot that are bought and stuff, they can probably give you Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man.

(1:08:16) I didn't actually I never looked at this marketplace, so I didn't know about it. But or you buy if you buy a lot of Pokemon and start [ __ ] learning how to bot, dude. Yeah, I know a guy who has like half a million Pokemon cards. And he was telling me all these insane tips and tricks that he has like eBay bidding and he's buying these.

(1:08:38) He buys a lot of haku, too. And he's like buying them way below even like distributor pricing. and he's like, "Oh, I know how to make money and all this and but it's a whole skill as well." So, it's pretty crazy. Well, with eBay, so like how have you really just like explored our Discord or just kind of like really very surface level? Uh, so I pretty much when I hop on I go straight to uh general chat, Amazon chat, and then a little bit of AI nowadays.

(1:09:09) That's about it. So, um, well, number one, then Argo is the best watch. So, number one is you can learn if if you're buying Pokemon, you can learn how to use like an auto check bot like say like Stellar pretty easily and it's not very expensive. So, Stellar, we have a pricing for $35 US a month. And you can have it you can have it watch products like say like on Amazon or Walmart and then if it detects them they're in stock it'll buy them for you automatically.

(1:09:42) That's and there's like a price point that you put in or yeah max you can have like a a maximum price for sure. Oh, so like for example like uh Ethan Med, he just posted in the success chat that he got um eight of the uh Prismatic uh super premium collections from Walmart and he would have got them for their MSRP which I think was like 212.

(1:10:04) So still expensive but less than market and he just checked No, that's still really good. Yeah, he checked out eight of them in one go. Oh wow. And so utilizing bots and they're actually like you have to you have to take the time to learn how to use them, but they're not super complicated if you're any bit like technical, right? You don't even like you don't even need to like really know how to do a whole lot.

(1:10:26) They provide in-depth guides on how to set [ __ ] up properly and they're relatively inexpensive to use. Um yeah, number two is so you mentioned like a guy finding [ __ ] on eBay. So, there's lots of tools there's lots of tools that are out there that track eBay where you can put in like say a a certain keyword and a maximum price and then it will ping you when those things pop up on eBay, right? Uh a lot of tools that are out there that exist, they they're relatively delayed.

(1:10:54) So, like you'll you'll get pinged like a minute to 5 minutes to 10 minutes after they've been posted. And so, like there's there's it's still good, but you can still miss a lot. Um, I've recently I've recently put a feeler out there in the server about um asking people if they're interested for a bot in the server that will do that for eBay, for Facebook, for Kijiji.

(1:11:18) And so I think we've seen enough interest where I think it might be worth it. And so with with the way that ours will work is it'll ping you within literal seconds of a product going live within your requirements. So whether you see whether you want to watch stuff on eBay, on Facebook, Kijiji, etc. You can set a keyword, your max price, and then for like Facebook, like your area, like Toronto, and if it detects that within your price, it'll ping you within seconds of a product going live.

(1:11:42) Oh. Mhm. Yeah. I've never taken the time to learn these tools, but it's probably definitely worth if you're buying stuff like especially for your store or in volume or just to resell in general. Yeah. It can Yeah, it can be. No, 100% quite beneficial if you're willing to spend the time to learn how to use them.

(1:12:01) Yeah. But yeah, like we have a we have a group buy in our utility server. I don't even know if you've joined that, but in our group buy for utility server for Stellar, normally Stellar costs I think it's 199 US every 3 months. We we have a pricing for $35 a month US. Utility server.

(1:12:26) Um are you What's that under? Let me see if you're in our utility server. You are. So, it's it's a separate server. It has like a little toolbox. So, it's Arcane Utility Server. Oh, Arcane Utility Server. Yeah. And so, there's a section there if you look under uh group buys and partnerships, there's one that says uh Stellar AIO. Yeah.

(1:12:48) You can click on like the 30% off plan and that one's $35 US a month. But don't buy it unless you're actually going to use it or are willing to willing to willing to learn how. Mhm. Yeah, dude. The more you know, there's a general chat in here as well. Yeah. Just to disc just to discuss things about like what's happening in here. Yeah.

(1:13:19) But you can get like we have we have a partnership now with Good Life. You can get discounted Goodl Life fitness membership. We have [ __ ] ways you can get cheaper free food and freebies off of Amazon and [ __ ] like that. Yeah, not bad. You can probably utilize what we offer a little bit more if you if you look into it a little bit. Yeah.

(1:13:54) And you say like you're using sellerwatch like we also have a bot that can do the same for keep a product finder for you if you ever do any searches on keep a product finder. Yeah I was reading the chat I think when you guys were doing the talking about it. Mhm. Hey Jordan, you hear me properly? Yep. Yeah. Talking about this teleot.

(1:14:13) Um could it be can it be used to like um say purchase multiple um items from Walmart? It certainly can. Okay. Well, definitely something I have to look into. Yes. So, it can be it can be used like it's primarily used for like hype drops, but you can definitely use it for like arbitrage, especially for stuff that like tends to sell out quickly because it can monitor Walmart for like a restock of like a [ __ ] a veno product that's super popular or Celtic salt when it's super popular, which Walmart didn't have, but it can do that. And then when

(1:14:51) it detects those, it can it can place back to backtoback orders for you. For sure. That's what it's that's what it's designed to do. Oh, that's definitely something I cannot change to 100%. Thank you for that. Um, and you say we have to do this you have to learn it on your own, right? Well, we we we can definitely help you like uh we have Vin Q in the server who can provide you support.

(1:15:21) Uh I'm not as as adept with it as um as he is, but I am learning as well. So, I can help you in any capacity that I can. And then Stellar also has pretty decent support in their server. Uh you can open up tickets and ask them and they have relatively in-depth guides on how to use things. Okay. Okay. Thanks everybody. Yeah, of of course like there is a learning curve like you still have to like learn how to do it.

(1:15:44) It's not just straight plugandplay and you have super good success. It takes a little bit of learning but it's not very complicated. I would say a good one. Yeah, I'm really I'm really the the only thing that piqu my interest was um the placing backtoback orders on repeat for sure. Um so there's something I don't want to say I don't want to say for sure it's going to come to fruition.

(1:16:16) Uh but Brah in the server uh he's done a little bit of coding for different bots for us. I sent him something that's very interesting. So, it's essentially like a it's almost like an autoch checkout tool that operates inside your browser. So, it is possible that if he can make it work for Walmart and for Amazon Canada that you might be able to autocheck out products directly in your browser without having to pay for a bot.

(1:16:41) It'll be an extension that we give to members if we can make it work. and it won't be as good as something like Stellar and it has to run locally and you won't be able to run multiple profiles, but it'll essentially act as a bot inside your browser so that it can autoche things for you. So, I I think it'll work quite well for Walmart.

(1:17:07) I can't say for sure if and when we'll be introducing that, but if he can get it sorted or if I can figure it out, then we certainly will be. The tool already exists. I sent him a copy of one that already exists for the US. It's just adjusting it for Canada. Oh, that's nice. Mhm. That's really good. Yeah.

(1:17:31) Then it would just be an extension that you just run locally and you can use for free. Uh, Jafar, have you have you used our private restock monitors at all? Private restock monitors? Nope. So, you said you order from like 401 games, Hobbiesville, stuff like that, right? Yeah. So, a lot of those sites operate on Shopify and so like have you seen like our restock monitors in the server at all? like the public ones that we have.

(1:18:09) Um feel like I have but I can't remember. So like so like near the top in the important category there's like a main channel called flip restocks. Okay. Oh yeah. So these Oh yeah. So like we're monitoring like a [ __ ] ton of products that have resale value and when they restock they notify that channel like basically within seconds. Okay.

(1:18:32) So you have the ability to also do that privately with our bot. So like any websites that our bot supports, which is Walmart, Amazon, London Drugs, GameStop, any Shopify site, hundreds and hundreds of different sites, uh you can interact with the bot privately, tell it what products to monitor, and then when those products restock, it'll send you a DM and tell you within literal seconds of a product restocking.

(1:18:55) So, like say if you want to buy, say if you want to, if you're looking for like 401 games to restock something, you can add that and then the moment that they restock, it'll ping you. Yeah, I'm seeing here Journey Together was restocked on Amazon for $49.95, which is a really good price. Uh, was that the which one was that? The Journey Together booster bundle.

(1:19:19) Oh, yeah. Yeah, 100%. It restocks. It restocks quite often. And it's at 83 now. But so yeah, man. If like these these are tools that you can that you can utilize. So use them. The SPC it was at 243 on Hobbiesville restock which is 243. They're going for 400 right now. So So that one now it's 330. That one actually pulled through.

(1:19:46) When you see sometimes with Shopify sites sometimes if they have US pricing enabled it'll show you the US price. So with Hobbiesville, that was actually USD. That's why it doesn't say Canadian in front of it. Oh, okay. So when Hobbiesville when it detected the restock, it was actually USD.

(1:20:04) Uh so it would have been like the $400, whatever the [ __ ] that they are now. Um but yeah, like I think it was Yes, yesterday we caught a uh a product loading from a website called Trinity Hobby for the SPCs. They stocked uh five units and I pinged them in our flip restocks or our flip alert channel. And how much were they? Uh where's my order confirmation? They were 200 bucks each for the SPCs.

(1:20:32) Oh wow. Yeah, you got five of them. I took two of them. I sent the rest to the flip alert channel. Oh, missed it. So, if you're pay if you're paying attention to some of these things, you can you can make some money, dude. Oh, you got a Pokemon call. So, if I press interested. There we go. Oh, okay. You're doing a Pokemon call. Yeah.

(1:20:55) Talk about the state state of the market and invested. Yeah. Yeah. That's Yeah, I've been getting more uh since it's been like super hyped and everything, I've gotten a lot more into it. Only cuz customers, oh, like the black bolt and the white flare. that those are the ones that re pre-ordered like $26,000 worth.

(1:21:16) So you might be disappointed. You might be disappointed. There was an article that was released today that stores are getting [ __ ] nothing for allocation. Yeah, that's what we we got zero of some of like the some of them we got zero. So one one and like 00. So and be before you join the call.

(1:21:36) So like we actively monitor Pokemon Center for when their queue pops up. So that we like that's usually an indication when drops are going to be happening, right? And so before you join the call, uh we're talking about with Nick about not even having to bot Pokemon Center, which you can. You can bot Pokemon Center, but you can also just set up multiple profiles on like a a browser that has individual containers.

(1:21:59) And then when a drop is happening, you can join the queue on all of them. And Pokemon Center is relatively easy to check out manually. So you can get unit like when the Blackbolt and White Flare first released, we were quite easily able to get the Pokemon Center ATBS. Oh, so getting like if you spend some time and chat with us, you can learn how to do things even even without bots.

(1:22:26) You can do it pretty easily manually. Yeah, I have to do that. You're missing out, dude. I was watching some I was reading some Reddits about the SPCs and people like were talking about how someone posted a picture and someone wrote this is the closest I'm going to get to a SPC. This picture right here.

(1:22:47) So pretty crazy. Um but yeah, like Walmart stocked them a couple days ago. We we pinged everybody when Walmart stocked them. Um and they're going to most likely be stocking Destin soon. Uh, all the Destin Rivals products are already loaded in their back end. We already have links for them.

(1:23:07) So, at any time they're going to be stocking the ETBs, the booster bundles, etc. Uh, Dustin Rivals isn't as profitable right now as SPCs, but there's still profit to be made, especially at MSRP. Oh, yeah, sure. Let me see what I got allocated for that. Probably not a lot. Yeah, it's definitely not a lot. Oh, it's either one or zero.

(1:23:30) So, it's one of the two. Yeah. So, when when Walmart releases the ETBs, uh they're going to be 10192. Um the ETBs, the the flare, the black and white. That's Destin Rivals. Oh, Destin Rivals. Let me see. 103. Yeah, I got allocated one piece for $63. That's a really good [ __ ] price. But you only got one. My margins are my margins are I got one booster box for 185 and I got one booster bundle for 31.

(1:24:07) Zero blisters, zero arrival battle decks. What else did they confirm? And then one piece of Charizard EX special collection. 27 bucks. So take it. It's good, but just almost [ __ ] no allocation. Yeah, I mean I went crazy on I was I did 7250 60 I did 60 ETBs. It's $82 for the the Black Bolt um and the white flare.

(1:24:36) So I just went all out. I mean granted if that's they work that way then I'm probably not going to get anything. But I got five Destin rivals packs of the sleeved sleeve packs 575. Not bad. Um see what up. So, I can probably assume what distributor you use. Uh, but there was a major distributor that Magic literally just stopped doing business with, a North American distributor, Alliance Game distributors.

(1:25:07) So, a lot of other distributors are going to start getting more allocation of Magic cards here shortly as well. Oh, for Magic. Yeah, I just placed a like a $2,200 order for like a whole bunch of Magic sets. Yeah. So, Alliance Game Distributors, they were a distributor of Magic for a very, very long time, like 25 plus years, and Magic literally just cut them off.

(1:25:30) Really? Mhm. I heard uh what was it? One of these distributors, one of them was trying to buy out one of these major forgot what it was, but they were trying to buy out Universal. They were trying to buy out this major, was it a brand or distributor or something? I can't remember. I was talking to a guy actually from um he's he's friends with uh the owner of 401 games.

(1:26:02) Um apparently the owner of 401 games is some Korean guy. I don't know if you've heard okay or if you know anything about it but uh this guy is Korean. And so he's telling me like, "Oh, I remember when 41 games started downtown Toronto." And he was in his the 41 games owner was like in high school at the time. And this guy was like, you know, 10 years older, but he said he remembers when he started doing like the Magic He used to do like Magic Club gatherings, like the games and all that, the TCG game.

(1:26:29) And um yeah, slowly he apparently he got his name out from Magic and then he blew up and all that. So I told him call him up and tell him to get some allocation. He said he doesn't pick up with my calls anymore. So yeah, you're probably going to be you're probably going to be uh hardressed to get a better price from any stores cuz they can sell it no problem.

(1:26:50) Exactly. If you talk to them when the [ __ ] bubble bursts and they have extra stock, yeah, they'll probably be open to to dealing with you, but not during the [ __ ] bubble. Well, all the distributors are not allowing anyone else any new accounts till the end of the year minimum. So, right, let's see.

(1:27:08) Like, is trying to get their hand once the bubble for Pokemon pops, which it probably won't until like next year is Pokemon's 30th. So, we'll probably still see all this hype up until and into the 30th. After that though, I can very well see the market going back into a bare market. Okay. I didn't realize 30th was the next Okay, that's pretty that's good to know.

(1:27:31) Yeah. So, these are things that we're going to be talking about in the Pokemon call. Um, I I know a lot about a lot of different things, enough to be dangerous, and so we're going to be talking we're going to be talking about the state of the market, investing, where I feel things will go, etc. Because like we've seen a mixed bag of things recently, but Pokemon is still very very hyped.

(1:27:49) Uh, but like say like Journey Together, for example, Journey Together was not a very super profitable set on the first release. It was and then after uh it wasn't it was still profitable, but it wasn't crazy. But we've seen it was crazy. We've seen very very good success with 151 with Prismatic and we're probably going to see the same with Destin Rivals and we're probably going to see the same with Black and White, especially with the recent allocation with Black and White saying that it's going to be the same as like Prismatic.

(1:28:16) H man, I wish I got What do you think about French French editions? I think they have their place, but they're not nearly as viable as English or Japanese cuz I didn't pre-order any. And like if I did, I probably could have gotten some pieces. So maybe I could just flip whatever.

(1:28:35) Obviously they're not going to give me that much or maybe they would because French maybe isn't as it's definitely not as popular, but So some other languages have picked up steam a little bit like Spanish and stuff, but like they are certainly harder to move, especially like if you're trying to sell them locally.

(1:28:52) If you're not in [ __ ] Quebec, you might have a problem. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's true. We have a lot of guys in Quebec in the server. If they have stores, you might be able to you might be able to order them and see if they want to take them off your hands. That might be that might be a possibility. Yeah, it'd be a really good price. Mhm.

(1:29:10) Cuz you can order them for a certain price, up charge them a little bit, and give them a deal and sell them. Yeah. Yeah. I got hardgated on a brand from the US the last week on Amazon Canada. US. I sent in 12 boxes to Stallion and then right the next morning I got an email saying you're no longer allowed to sell for breeze and then I was done.

(1:29:40) Unfortunately that [ __ ] happens. Yeah. What are you doing with what are you doing with the units inside of the US? Um, so it was literally they were dropped off at the logistics center. They didn't get sent yet. So I called them up as quick. It was like Stalin was going crazy like super backlogged and everything.

(1:30:02) But they informed me that they're still here and then I picked them up. Now I'm just going to sell them somewhere else. But even stuff, luckily they didn't go even stuff like that. Like if you have a bulk amount, post them in that marketplace cuz somebody might be able to sell them. We have some people in here that have US LLC's that can get around some restrictions.

(1:30:21) We got a couple guys in here from the US, so that might be an option for you to offload them in bulk. Mhm. Yeah. We've had a we've had a couple guys post in the marketplace stuff that they got restricted on and other people were bought them off of them. Yeah, that's that's good. How is uh how is Amazon overall for yourself right now? Uh it's pretty good.

(1:30:55) I mean, yeah, have I got some products that really boosted my sales. Um but then those products were also a little bit unless they were pretty much you could say medicated product. So they were a little bit risky. Now they're gone and my sales dropped and now I'm trying to get those sales back up. What's uh what what are your goals for this year? The goal is 100k months.

(1:31:28) Okay, that's the I got up to like 90 90. Now I'm back down to around 70. You can see the dramatic drop. But uh yeah, I think I can get there. I just got to do I just got to focus more on sourcing. I've outsourced the prepping and all that to my brother. So, he's going to be doing a lot of that, actually creating shipments, too.

(1:31:52) I was spending a lot of time prepping and creating shipments. But now I got him on that. So, good. Good. Hopefully by the end of the year. And then so get to 100K. Besides your brother, it's just you in the business. Yeah, pretty much. No. It's uh it's all wholesale, too. I used to do a little bit of OA. Um I still do a little bit, but it's mostly, you know, using I had a VA in the past, but I dropped her end of last year.

(1:32:26) So, just wasn't worthwhile for you. To be honest, if you look at the like how much I paid her versus my estimated potential profits made, it was. But, uh I don't know. I just dropped her. Fair enough. Just stop doing as much. So, I mean, VAS can be useful in wholesale, but that's only if you're consistently attempting to open up new cataloges or extract more value out of your current cataloges, right? Yeah.

(1:32:59) I feel like the Canadian market though, it's kind of like cataloges aren't that big. You can kind of spend a day or two. you can pretty much find out everything that a you know a supplier has. I heard in the US there's like some of these distributors have like thousands of pages of catalog. I've never had that in Canada. I have multiple Canadian distributors that have tens of thousands of SKs.

(1:33:20) It takes a while to go through really. I mean I guess I guess skew wise you could say that but I kind of just try to do it in a brand way. So I look at a brand. So these some of them will have like let's say 100 brands. So I just use Smart Scout um filter with the brand figure out what's actually selling from that brand with and then look at supplier see if they have it.

(1:33:47) And then a lot of times like from smart scale you'll see the brand there's only maybe maybe 10 products that are actually making you know good revenue and then it'll drop down to like $1,000 you know in revenue in the month for that product that uh product and then you know go down. There'll be like maybe 78 products that are doing above 3 $4,000 in revenue.

(1:34:09) So then I'll kind of just So that's how I do it. Okay. And then I'm able to kind of so I don't so that way I don't have to look through the entire suppliers, you know, because out of the maybe like out of one brand there's like 70 different products or 100 different products. Most of them obviously aren't going to be profitable.

(1:34:24) And if I don't see it in the Smart Scout filtered brand product list, then I just move on, right? I don't know if that's the best way, but I'm assuming that's the best way. I I wouldn't say like there's any single one best way because people have all different types of processes, right? Um with with your products that you buy, like do you set yourself like some type of requirements on like minimum profits, ROI, profit per month, things like that? Yeah, it's usually 30% or 35% um $3 profit the average and then profit per month is something I've been looking

(1:35:08) into cuz I know some people do like Cory Gam does like $300 profit. Typically I feel like $100 profit like if you have 10 of those that's $1,000 right there in profit that you could add. So I feel like but I don't really look at it too deep. So, I just look at, you know, the number of sellers.

(1:35:26) If it's selling like if I if I can sell, you know, 10 of them or 15 of them or 20 of them in a month, then I'm good. I'll get it. Okay. But or if I need to fulfill like that distributor's requirements, then I'll, you know, maybe add some of those products. And if not, then I know I have some good products and my capital has been met, then I won't leave them.

(1:35:48) But, um, just a quick sidetrack cuz you mentioned it. What's your opinion on Cory Gatam? I mean, I know for a fact he's he's more of like someone who enjoys the I would say what like the mentorship side and being a teacher more so than an Amazon seller. That's definitely the case based off what I've seen.

(1:36:16) He also I mean he does like what $4 million a year. He does it less than 10%, probably does it around like 7 8%. So, he's only making a few, you know, not much in terms of the actual profit in his business. And I know he's definitely making a lot more on his uh mentorship and information course side. Have you ever seen his his Amazon storefront? I know he sells a lot in the tools and home tools and automotive category.

(1:36:43) I haven't seen his storefront. I can send you his storefront. Right now he has 25 activations. What's his monthly? Uh I don't mind taking a look at it. Uh so I mean like he might put up those numbers. Maybe he did. Uh his feedback ratings aren't that bad, but uh I it wouldn't surprise me if his sales have dropped recently.

(1:37:13) But that that is a storefront. And if you want proof, if you want proof, then this is the proof that connects. Oh, yeah. Rocket. Yeah. Hey, if if he get gated in Janette, he's false. That's all I know. What's that, Ron? I'm saying if he's gated in Gillette, if he get Yeah. If he gets gated in Gillette, he would have been [ __ ] I don't know if he sells Gillette anymore, though, so he might have got gated in it.

(1:37:41) Well, he only two pages of product. He was he was very heavy in Gillette and he doesn't have any Gillette now. So he might be [ __ ] He might have got [ __ ] with that. But yeah, he was like so so I I have no problem with people giving information and stuff, but I just the problem that I have is when people try to teach somebody else and charge them for it when they don't have a ton of experience.

(1:38:06) So, like I believe when he mentioned the numbers that he had were legit because like he seemed to share things, but when he was telling people on like how to do things, it's like it irked me so much because he was like so non-diversified. He was like super heavy in Gillette and obviously now and he has nothing in Gillette in his catalog and that's probably when his sales dropped off and I haven't I haven't looked at his social medias but I guarantee you he probably hasn't shared recent uh sales screenshots recently because his sales probably

(1:38:30) dropped off a lot and so who hasn't? He was teaching he was teaching things that are not good to teach people because he it's always good to diversify on Amazon. He was very much so like oh you can find one supplier change your life and you only have to order their products and you're good to go.

(1:38:48) That's [ __ ] Which are you busting? Just came back. Cory Ganam. Oh okay. Yeah. He was hard on that. He was like go deep on your only one supply. I push 50,000 RPOS with my, you know, one supplier of product and all this. Oh, that's how they sell you the dream, right? Because if they make it simple and easy, all you just need is one shot.

(1:39:10) Same with, you know, the gamblers. All you need is just one good hand or just one roll. Single single suppliers can make you a lot of money, 100%. But if you're only focused on one supplier, if something happens, which clearly it did with him because he don't have no more Gillette, you get [ __ ] right? Oh, because he's making money off courses, right? So, he's estimated monthly revenue is 91K right now.

(1:39:33) I don't know how I don't know how accurate Smart Scout is, but yeah. Yeah, I've seen it's not like if I look at mine, it's saying like 30 40, but I'm actually like 70 80. So, it's not really with like why is he what is he what why does he like cuz he like if someone wanted to quick look at like brand rocket he shares brand rocket as his like um uh what's it his like web page in terms of like going brand direct with you know brands and all that.

(1:40:06) So he shows that website publicly and same with his business name is CKG which is Cory Ganam Enterprises. So why does he openly not really disclose or anything or try to hide it? He either doesn't care or he's a little [ __ ] Interesting. Uh but yeah, like so I don't know like people give like people have their experiences.

(1:40:35) What's that? I have more ratings than him, right? And so that probably tells you what you need to know. Wow, that's pretty crazy. I'm not going to lie. I never expected this from Cory Ganon. Expect that from most of the gurus that you see online. What do you think about uh I mean, what do you think about flips for Miles and War Warner? You want their storefronts? I can send you theirs, too.

(1:41:00) Miles doesn't sell anything. Miles has a completely inactive store. No way. Miles hasn't sold for like two plus years. Oh my. Actually, I remember there was um there's one of his students, some chick uh with the base was wearing a baseball cap. Oh, [ __ ] Sam. She got she got roasted so hard she [ __ ] Yeah, I was going to say I was going to say that uh you know he he has a lot of his students that end up doing their own thing with their courses.

(1:41:31) And then I I I didn't like there wasn't much Amazon stuff coming on my timeline except for her. And then when I saw her pop up, she's like releasing a course and then when she released a course, she would like in the comments everyone would just jump on her like crazy. It was I think she even deleted the link for her course after she went silent.

(1:41:52) What [ __ ] what what guru you want to storefront for? I got them all. You want Chris Grant? I got Chris Grant. Oh, this is that 17o guy. Is that the guy on Twitter? Yeah. And I I put quotations around seven figure for a reason. Oh wow. This is Wait, Chris Grant. What about So what about him? So Chris Grant So thing with Chris Grant, okay, so he never boasts numbers.

(1:42:21) He never says that he does X amount, whatever. Uh, and he's admitted that. Okay, so Chris Grant I don't necessarily have a problem with, but he Chris Grant, he has specifically said he doesn't sell a whole lot, but Chris Grant does have a lot of good products in his storefront. Like he knows how to [ __ ] source when he does.

(1:42:40) I know because we stalk him for the [ __ ] US, but yeah, he's not he's not a he's not a big seller. Wait, how much longer is this call going to go on for? Uh, we're typically here anywhere from a couple hours to five, six. Depends how deep you want to get in the conversation. I want to get pretty deep, but I got to we back in like No, we got we got deep into the spiritual stuff last time.

(1:43:05) Was it last month or Coach Chill was trying to convert me to be a Muslim? I got to go pray right now. So that's why I got to I just came from We'll be right back. Okay. Funny. Did you see the uh Wait, who was it that was asking about the images and the AI gen? It was Jafar who just left. Oh, okay.

(1:43:35) Yeah, I posted the links in the in the chat. I don't know if you're familiar with these. You probably heard of Runway though. I actually have not really. Oh, that surprised me cuz this is the one they used to make those crazy commercials. I have not. So, I'll be This is like the main one. Um one of the top ones for video generation. I just I use I just I just sent Jafar like a [ __ ] like a dozen links of guru storefront.

(1:44:07) Yeah. Um, what I hate about it, the feedback, um, I know persons that are doing like [ __ ] on and their feedback are not uh, what can I say are not like 5k or five figure feedback and they they don't have to be and like feedback is a relatively obscure number, but it can give you an okay insight on how many units somebody's actually selling.

(1:44:32) It can be it can it can certainly be skewed because feedback percentage isn't set, but it's fairly typical. Most people have about anywhere from a half percent all the way up to 4% feedback uh based on units sold. That's almost always within that range. Uh sometimes it can be delayed for sure. So it's like somebody just has inc ramped up their storefront a [ __ ] ton and their feedback hasn't caught up yet, but it almost always does eventually, right? And it's not a perfect figure, but it can give you a good indication on how many units

(1:45:03) somebody is selling. A rough idea at least. It's not perfect, but I give you a rough idea. I sent him uh Miles Warner, Seven Figure, Seyo, David Kim, Chris Grant, Dylan Sawyer, KT Hustles, Mike Sebin, Cynthia Galando. I got them all. I I think we're making more money just um actually promoting to new sellers than anything else.

(1:45:47) The vast the vast majority 100%. And like there's not anything necessarily wrong with that. That's fine. The issue is is when people are trying to sell information that or front themselves doing certain things when when they're not. So like they they lie about what they do, which is very very wrong. They run courses for years after they don't sell themselves anymore.

(1:46:15) So, they have completely outdated information, which is wrong. And then they give people [ __ ] advice. And that [ __ ] advice can really impact their life. It can [ __ ] set them back financially. It can make them go bankrupt in some situations. And that's that's [ __ ] Hey, have you heard of um Financial Audit, the show? I have. Caleb Hammer.

(1:46:37) Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got you got you got the guru. You you can be the guru on it. Have them show me their [ __ ] P&L and bank statements. Oh my god, that's crazy. Let's sit down with KT Hustles and let's see how much his store actually makes. Oh, but it's it's wild. I just recently got into uh some of the clips are popping up my feed from that guy.

(1:47:02) It's just wild how irresponsible people are with their finances in in in the West and or I guess in America primarily, but I'm sure it's the same in Canada. I mean, I get it. Like a lot of people have issues with finances. Like, okay, that's one thing. And like that's that's that's okay, but like some people that like interviews are so [ __ ] [ __ ] It's like they they refuse to like like to crazy. Yeah.

(1:47:28) Yeah. That's the thing I've noticed uh as as I've been growing older, the people like uh younger than me, they just like I mean just just physically look like children, but they also act like kids even though they're like you know 24 22 23 like the 22 23 year old they look like 16 year olds. It's just I think even even if it's a combination physically and mentally just immature and they're putting something in the water and the milk 100%.

(1:47:56) Well, yeah, it is the water. It's the milk. It's the It's the blue light. You know, there's a lot of uh I don't know if you're not really into health Twitter, but there's a lot of um physicians and you know, cutting edge research into how our the light that we consume daily, just like physical light, you know, like uh not physical, but like just light in general from our screens um from um uh our actual lighting in our house.

(1:48:27) It's affecting our hormone levels, our melanin, uh, melatonin production, or essentially like our entire biological process, and it can lead to just a myriad of different, uh, illnesses and conditions, 100%. And they're saying like, you know, they looked into a treatment of um, you know, comparing back in the day how people were, how they spent time outside in the sun and then they found with different wavelengths the sun the sun gives that you can't really find artificially.

(1:49:00) It is extremely beneficial for your health. Oh, definitely. There's a reason why like there's a whole subculture of people that are like um taking things back to like our ancient ways, right? Yeah. I mean, that's the thing I noticed when I'm in the office. It's like in the cubicle on all the the the white light and there like you feel exhausted even though you don't really do much.

(1:49:22) Like I've noticed that when I'm at home, I don't really get feel tired. Uh you know, just from sitting at a desk cuz I I don't have uh I have like um I don't have the what do you call it? Blue lights at my house. So, I have natural sunlight coming into my room usually, right? And u I change my bulbs and everything.

(1:49:42) So, but yeah, it's it's just it's just crazy like how different I feel physically just from the different environment even though I'm doing the exact same thing. Yeah. I used to work in like big big corporate Canada uh [ __ ] fluorescent lighting all day and I used to get pretty shitty headaches and ever since I stopped doing that, I don't get those headaches anymore.

(1:50:07) Like I got pretty shitty migraines or sitting in offices. I was like I'm not doing I'm not doing anything that should should make this happen. But I I guarantee you was just like the shitty fluorescent lighting I was sitting under all day and the food. I have a doctor uh friend who's a doctor. He's a physician.

(1:50:22) He works at a hospital and he's telling me like the cases he's getting of younger people with all these different diseases that normally you find in seniors. He's like, you know, he's been having many people with colctal cancer, cancer, um, all these different, uh, illnesses that normally, he's like, I would only see them in, you know, 50 plus and they're getting it when they're like 30. Mhm.

(1:50:48) So, yeah, it's he's like, it's definitely the food. He's like, the food here is poison essentially. He's like, you know, he had patients where they were, you know, like gluten intolerant here, but then when they went to Europe and they had food there, they were able to actually eat the bread over there. So, Oh, 100%.

(1:51:07) It's just the just the process that they implement here with the food. When I was in cheaper, when I was in Italy, you could eat like a [ __ ] ton of pasta or like a whole [ __ ] you know, personal pizza. And it's like you did that here, you feel like trash. You there, it's like you feel fine. Well, that and you don't even really need to eat much to feel full.

(1:51:24) Like if you look at the portion size difference, it's just insane. Yeah, but you you can go to Italy and like we had like a quote unquote light lunch, which is a whole entire [ __ ] personal pizza. It was like probably like a 10 11 inch pizza and a [ __ ] pint of beer. It's like that's a light lunch. And it's like I I'm not carrying this with me.

(1:51:41) So, I'm eating it. It's like Yeah. I was full. Very very very full. But I didn't feel like [ __ ] either. Yeah, there's shrinkflation and there's quality inflation. Like it's just even even for fast food. Like for example, I used to eat Burger King, the fish fillets uh in the States. I No, no, no. Back then they were so good.

(1:52:04) Like they were they they weren't like what they are now. Obviously, I don't eat it now, but they were actually like they use a different fish. First of all, I don't know if how it was in the other states, but at least in uh in Washington, uh the one that we used to go to and and a couple of the ones we go to, it was just a completely different quality.

(1:52:24) And then a couple years later, they just come they changed it up and then it was just gross. We stopped eating it. It's like slime and we walked around like it was apparently they changed the fish that they use and they changed pretty much everything about it, the entire recipe. So, what's your food take on um Subway? Subway.

(1:52:45) I mean, there's a lot of there's a lot of shady stuff coming out of Subway. Yeah, there's a lot of investigations that happened. Yeah. Like even even like No, like their meats weren't fully meat. Like they had other fillers in their meats. Their chicken for example, there was a whole controversy about how their chicken was even really 100% chicken. Yep.

(1:53:04) And the thing is like these companies, these large companies, these large fast food chains, most of them they they cut costs, right? So they'll find a way to cut it um using cheap fillers or whatever, what have you, right? So to get the same product out there, quote unquote same product, but with uh cheaper ingredients because obviously at the end of the day, they're trying to appease their shareholders and make money, right? Oh, for sure.

(1:53:31) But and when you get to that scale, that's like the only thing that they're they worry about. Uh but yeah, like if you look at something like say like Subway, like I've definitely seen like over I I hardly ever eat Subway. Uh but like when I used to get Subway like [ __ ] 10 years ago, it was pretty okay. It like it wasn't amazing, but it was it tasted okay. It wasn't like horrible.

(1:53:52) It was very consistent. Uh very reasonably priced. And when I get Subway now, like it it it's definitely is not the same and it's way overpriced for No, it's not. It's not. They're there. There's I mean, like just look at the food coloring, guys. Like recently, Canada, I think they started labeling um whenever any food has like a food coloring in it, like red 40 or yellow 50, whatever it's called.

(1:54:18) They actually put a warning that says this uh can lead to ADHD in children. Right. Right. Yeah. But before they didn't. So, and all the cereals had the dyes. And I mean you can kind of see it now. Everyone's like a lap is like an iPad kid nowadays, right? Even though adults are like that. So, a lot of a lot of those dyes are restricted in Canada.

(1:54:37) Like they don't a lot of them don't exist here. Yeah. But they still have them. I've still I've actually uh I've seen food with them here. So, Mhm. Yeah. But yeah, I've seen juices have them. But yeah, if you compare something like um like for example like Subway to like Firehouse Subs, which Firehouse Subs is a franchise and their subs are kind of expensive, but when you compare it to like Subways nowadays, like they're not that much different.

(1:55:03) And like Firehouse Subs are so they taste so much better than Subway. Like ballparks away. Yeah. Well, I'm sure like it really is just like um I think it depends on the scale of things. I'm I don't I'm not familiar with Firehouse Subs or I I don't think we have them here or I'm not really sure, but they're definitely a lot smaller than Subway.

(1:55:25) I mean, Subway, I think, had more restaurants in McDonald's at some point. Oh, 100%. Like Kafur House, I imagine like they're still pretty small. Like, I don't think they have that many locations, but it's like so much better. And like I can just I guarantee you over the next decade they're just going to get worse. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.

(1:55:46) Yeah, I don't I don't really go to fast foods anymore. I don't think I've ever It's been a long time. So, too. And like another doctor that I know of also a friend of ours. He he's a gastroenterenterologist and he was basically some of his patients he actually that were unable to resolve their gut issues cuz a lot of them he's like you know there's so much more food intolerances nowadays, right? That there weren't before.

(1:56:12) Not just food allergies but like intolerance. So, not not like an allergic reaction, but they just can't eat it, otherwise they get like the runs. Um, and he was saying like, yeah, he would recommend now that for these people to go live in other countries for like 6 months, eat the food there, and then essentially rebuild their gut flora cuz over here, you're not going to get that.

(1:56:37) For sure. And then you also mix that with how um how inactive people are here, too. that even makes it 100% worse. Like I mean there's countries there's other places like for example like where I come from like it's pretty people are kind of inactive there but they don't have the same incidence of these type of chronic diseases and illnesses that are found here.

(1:57:03) So yeah, and then and then you know there's also the thing with the co shots and how I don't know if in your friend circle or family circle you've seen these kind of um you know young deaths which with people that died suddenly without pre-existing conditions but you know we've seen an uptick in our community like people under 40 just randomly dying to a heart attack or stroke when they had no uh pre-existing conditions or any uh family history of it. I didn't see that.

(1:57:37) But also a lot of people that are around me are very skeptical and never got it to begin with. Yeah. Okay. I guess that's why. Yeah. Unfortunately, I had to, but I did a detox of it. But like, yeah, I had to cuz of work. But yeah, that's why it's time to leave the uh got to stand on got to stand on Got to stand on principles, bro. Like, [ __ ] it.

(1:58:02) At the time I didn't have I didn't have a choice. Just do it anyway. [ __ ] it. I'm moving back in with mom and dad. Well, I'm already with mom and dad. There you go. Here, bro. And there you There you go. You're fine. Standard principal. Well, I have to look after mom and dad, so that's why I had to take it. H I [ __ ] co like at least I think at least three times from what I know.

(1:58:26) I never got it. I was I was pretty like taking all the supplements and uh I didn't really wear a mask or anything like that cuz I kind of figured you know this this stuff doesn't make sense these guidelines that they're pushing like oh you can't have a you know social distancing but you know you stand up in line right next to each other or when you go on the plane when I was traveling I travel quite a bit during that time and they're like oh you know wear a mask social distance and then they sit you right next to another dude and then you

(1:58:54) take your mask off to eat and like whoa what the hell Oh, it's like you just pretty much undid every sort of uh preventative so-called preventative measure that you implemented. Yeah, I know. I didn't do any of that [ __ ] It's like you guys are [ __ ] [ __ ] Yeah, it was stupid. I go to a store and they have a big [ __ ] uh plastic plate, plexiglass plate in front of you and it's like, okay, then I skirt over to the side and put my face directly in your path to give you the money.

(1:59:18) It's like [ __ ] off. No, dude. Not even you. I There were actually people over here cuz people here are more health consscious in BC. We had people here that were literally wearing full hazmat suits walking around. I'm not even kidding. Full hazmat suits, bro. Top to bottom, full overalls, whites, uh whites, or even yellows.

(1:59:37) I even seen the yellow ones that you see in the movies. And dude, I even saw a dude with a bubble around his head. See, that's that that that's an argu that's a good argument that bullying has to still exist in our society. Yeah. Well, I mean, I think Well, that's a government thing, right? Because you can't like you can't really do it's it's too much government oversight.

(1:59:57) That's the problem. Yeah. But you [ __ ] you bully people and tell them that they're being [ __ ] and stop doing quit it. The problem is the government's pushing this stuff down. So it's like now uh the governments and all these companies are doing it. So pretty much you become the pariah.

(2:00:12) There's no one you don't really have that base to bully anyone with because everyone's doing it. That's That's when you start a new uh uh That's when you start a new IRA and you just take care of it entirely. Oh, that's crazy. You got to have principles, man. You got to have principles. Yeah, of course. Yeah.

(2:00:38) I mean, I I think it's time to It's time to move. It's getting there. It's time to to go to Dubai or something. Yeah. just move somewhere [ __ ] small fishing town in Asia somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. I mean the thing the interesting thing is a lot of the Asian countries they are becoming wildly more developed and I would argue some of them are more developed than Canada for sure.

(2:01:04) Like I I know u one of our one of my um my cousin's husband he he's Canadian. He was like born and raised in Canada, but then he went to China for business uh early on. Like he he dropped out of school uh dropped out of university and then he started doing he went to do business there. Like he stayed there for like 15 years and like he learned language and everything and then he started a business online business and he c he came back cuz he wanted uh to get my cousin um citizenship right in Canada.

(2:01:36) And so he would stay here and he's like I can't stand living here. This place is so third world. He's like, when I go to China, everything is so advanced. Like here, everything here, it just reminds me of like I'm in a dump. And yeah, he's like, it's just it's just a different world. Like the level of development, opportunities, everything.

(2:01:57) He's like, it's just uh what what Canada, you know, what it used to be, it's no longer there anymore. Yeah, I can start to see that. But China also has way too much [ __ ] government control, too. Yeah. I mean, yeah, but the but that's the thing with the government control. They're able to do so much so quickly. Like over here, it'll take them like 10 years to build like a road.

(2:02:16) I'm I'm too opinionated to go somewhere that has that much government control. I'd [ __ ] I would get disappeared. Well, I mean it it really depends. Like if you don't have an issue with the way that things work, then you don't really have anything to say about it, right? Oh, if yeah, I'm very like libertarian when it comes to that.

(2:02:36) So, I'm going to have issues. Like I if you think about it, most of the like at least throughout history up until recently, the greatest empires and civilizations were kind of authoritarian, the longest lasting ones at least. Right. Well, yeah. like they they can get more done, but it's not necessarily like they they're big glorious empires and can accomplish all kinds of [ __ ] but it's not necessarily good for the citizens, right? I mean, there were many that were good for the citizens.

(2:03:08) Ah, to a point. I I would argue if you're being told what to do, it's not super great for the citizens. Well, I think that's the thing. I think people need to be told what to do. There's a lot of idiots out there, right? not not just idiots but people that aren't capable of uh thinking for themselves or being in that position to uh to do it.

(2:03:28) Although I agree I unless unless you are a minor or have mental incapacities actually like like mentally challenged even if you are absolutely [ __ ] I still believe you should have the full capacity to make your own decisions and not be told what to do make your own choices and deal with your own consequences.

(2:03:46) I've always always Yeah. I mean, I think but there's always a point to that, too. Like, for example, you can't really do anything you want to over here, right? You can't really commit treason, right? Even if it's free speech, even if you know, if the government is doing something wrong, look what they do to people that commit so quote unquote treason, right? Even though technically like if they leak something that, you know, it supports the people, but you know, it's against the government, right? And I and I'm 100% against that. So, like obviously

(2:04:12) there should also be laws, but in my view, as I've mentioned to you before, as long as you do something like if you want to harm yourself in any way, if you want to take drugs, if you want to kill yourself, if you want to go do meth, 100% go do it. As soon as it involves somebody else, and we had this conversation before, and we're not going to go down this [ __ ] rabbit hole, but um as long as you're not doing something to somebody else directly, I I believe it should be completely within your right to do so. That's kind of a that's

(2:04:39) a liberal principle, either. Yeah, makes sense. I mean, if you're living here, I could care less about drugs than I'm doing myself. I could care I don't I have no indication that I want to kill myself, but I believe you should have the right and freedom to do so if you want to. Yeah.

(2:04:54) But the issue comes with influencing others, right? That's the main problem with that because that assumes that there's no influence being done. So if everyone suddenly for example wants to go into the route of assisted suicide because now you know living is too hard you know everything is too expensive and I mean they do that here in Canada right and I if becomes a trend everyone start doing it then you kind of ruin society right same thing with the birth rates right like if birth rates are declining u you know and it and it kind of follows that social

(2:05:23) dynamic where if one person's doing it everyone else starts doing it too right if many people do it then it becomes a trend and and then becomes the norm. Well, that's also part of being an adult and making your own choices, right? Yeah. So, influences are always going to be there, but you should be able to be exposed to ideas and you should be able to make whatever decision you want to make. If it's a kid, no, definitely not.

(2:05:44) Kids should be influenced by basically anything else but their parents. But they will be. That's the problem though. Sorry, I just thought you guys um I totally understand Jordan viewpoint, but I want um I'm not really looking at who we talking, but could you expound on why you um view your point that way? Like really expound if you don't mind for me or for cold children? Cold children.

(2:06:15) I want I really want No, I want to understand his his viewpoint as to why she believes that people needs to be told what to do or some people. Well, I really really I'm very curious like you do you want to give me an example of what uh what type of control you're talking about? Um China versus the US like in terms of what though? Like for instance, as you know I in US you can basically you you want your you have your own free will right though like you can't commit treason you can't really for example now there's a bill that's coming out that you can't speak

(2:06:55) about countries and they'll get prosecuted for it or get kicked out even if you have a green card. Yeah. But but for instance in in UK if you make a post about something police can show show you know and not. Yeah. So would you uh well in terms of uh Yeah. I mean that is that is extreme like the crime I mean I mean the the penalty for the crime I would say is extreme.

(2:07:29) Yeah. But it also depends like what they're trying to preserve, right? If they're preserving something faulty, that's the main that's that's my main contestion. If they're preserving something faulty, like critiquing uh like a government policy that, you know, it's not really founded in any evidence or any basis, then yeah, I wouldn't u you know, say that should be punished because not all laws are just that's my thing.

(2:07:56) If it's something if you're upholding justice, then you have to kind of take away control for some people. But okay, a counterargument. So okay, cool. But if there is forms of like dictatorships or authoritarians like past or like some countries have um and you you argue that those can make countries greater or they can they can progress quicker which they 100% they could but when they have laws like that then the control is almost solely in the government and then even if they do pass laws that are unjust the population the general public doesn't have any grounds

(2:08:30) to stand on. And if an unjust law is passed, it's going to be passed regardless and you can't do anything about it. Yeah. But that's the thing over here too, right? Um like a lot of that are passed, they're not really just I mean just the tax system, I got to tell you, like as a person who works for the government, right? Uh just the tax system is is unjust.

(2:08:51) Like it it pretty much favors um the people who are really poor and and the people who are really rich and it just dunks on the middle class, right? Taxation is theft. I agree. Yeah. So, so like you know it's it's unjust. Just the base of it unjust. So enforcing something unjust, I don't agree with that. But if we have governments that control people like like you mentioned, then those things will happen and they will never change and we can't.

(2:09:17) But then what what society has no control or has given free reign? Like you have to give an example of where you've seen that happen and it's you know so no society has full free reign but you could argue that democracy has more more chance and more well I'm not against democracy like a certain type of democracy I'm not against that like I'm I'm I'm in favor of a meritocracy based democracy for sure like I would I would personally argue that even though it has its flaws like every society does that the United States is probably the best

(2:09:48) example of what the ideal society could potentially be. It has flaws 100%. But it has a lot more freedoms than almost anywhere else in the world. Yeah. But there's many things that again you can't do there, right? Like you can't u you know criticize certain governments for example, right? Like you're not going to jail for criticizing a government.

(2:10:14) You are you literally they literally detain people for criticizing a foreign government. Uh, show me show me that Israel 100% 100% that. Yeah, they have. They they literally uh what do you call it? Um, uh took take a took a green card holder and they put him in jail using special provisions for national security reasons because he critique uh he led a protest that was critiquing Israel.

(2:10:36) Is that going to happen to United States citizen? He's a green card holder. there. Yeah. Green card and green card like you basically get the same privileges as a citizen with a green card except with the like voting. So, and they're not really and they're looking to revoke his green card status. So, like once they start on that end, then it's a slippery slope because if you get precedent to that, then you can go even further.

(2:11:02) I agree that shouldn't happen at all. And if it is, that shouldn't happen. Yeah. Same here. Same here. Well, if I invite you in my house and I say, "Okay, you can stay here." And then afterwards, you a year or two you start disrespecting me. I'm like, "Motherfucker, get out." No, but that's not his that's not the house. That's I says clearly that they're disrespecting a different country, right? And so again, what you're saying is essentially what I'm saying too.

(2:11:24) So if you allow someone into your house, you have to follow the rules. So again, that's the same that's the same principle, right? You not you don't have control. You don't have free speech in that sense. If the rules are that you can't say certain things. Yeah. For certain countries, every country can have his own laws.

(2:11:37) But we're arguing why certain things are better in some countries versus others. Yes. Yeah. And then and there's and like I said, there's a lot of issues um you know in certain countries. For example, if you look at different ideologies that are being pushed, you know, a certain a certain I guess consequence of that quote unquote uh free uh freedom of speech is that, you know, they're allowed to push different agendas without your consent or even without your right to refuse it.

(2:12:08) Even here in Canada, right? Like for example, in the government, they push these agendas on you. Even if you disagree with it, if you disagree with it, they'll fire you, right? Or if you're against it, they'll fire you. And same thing in um you know schools. Look I I know teachers that stopped teaching because they didn't want to teach the stuff in school because they were forced to. Right.

(2:12:27) And that's part of government policy. But morally is it correct? No it's not right. And and I would say that in Canada like we have more freedoms than some other countries but we still are very restricted. We don't necessarily have free speech here like they do in the US. It's not the same. Yeah. The thing is even in the US you don't really technically have free speech.

(2:12:47) For example, if you look at the sens censorship of these large media corporations, you can say they're private, but the problem is then is that these companies directly work with the government and other governments to censor speech. So they're essentially limiting your speech um on a platform that is pretty much, you know, the only way to get your word out, right? So that is an issue too.

(2:13:09) Like a lot of people get deplatformed for what they want to say. But that that that's changing that's changing a lot. But I how in what direction? Ever since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, it's been changing a lot because but even people on Twitter are getting shadowbanned. Not as much. And they're not getting completely still happening. No, that's the thing.

(2:13:26) But not they're not getting completely deplatformed. But yes, there's an argument there that they're a private company. They can do what they want, which to a sense I agree because it's their own company. Uh, but there like those things that once were are changing a lot because I can be a very opinionated [ __ ] and I've been muted consistently on places like Instagram.

(2:13:46) It doesn't happen to me anymore ever. So, it depends what you talk about though. That's the thing. I've been talking about the same [ __ ] I know. But I'm Yeah, those policies change as the times change, right? But certain things you're still not allowed to talk about, right? But I also think it's very different.

(2:14:01) Like I understand like these are like public your social companies, but I still believe that as part of a democracy that company should be allowed to do what they want because they're a company, right? If the government didn't own that business, then there's no reason why a company can't restrict what their users do.

(2:14:22) But that's the issue like the government has back doors into these companies and we know for a fact they do the files. And and if like if that's what a company wants to do, I should believe that they should be free to do so. Like that's that's up to them, right? But then essentially the government is using private companies as a way to censor speech.

(2:14:39) So it is government involvement indirectly. But when you're when we say censoring speech, like that means that I I can't go into like a town square and say the most absurd [ __ ] conspir and be arrested, which I can do that in the United States. You can't you do get arrested though for certain things you say if I'm not inciting violence.

(2:15:04) Yeah, you still get arrested when how I mean just look at the protests that are happening uh for Palestine against Israel. Like the literally the cases that I mentioned, they're arresting university students just for protesting. I've never seen a single US citizen get arrested for free speech unless they're inciting violence or causing Yeah, but they're not.

(2:15:22) That's that's the thing because what that's the that's the thing about inciting violence and how the definition can change. If they say like for example if they say free Palestine or they say from the river to the according to them saying from the river to the sea Palestine will be free is inciting violence.

(2:15:37) So they can't tell you what your words mean even though you clearly it doesn't mean that. So if that has happened it shouldn't number one but two I would like to actually see the cases that it has happened. If it has, then I'll 100% believe that it has. But I've never seen a an actual case with Oh, there's plenty of cases. Plenty of cases.

(2:15:56) Yeah, I I do feel that government does I can definitely send you I can definitely send it to you. Like there's definitely cases. I stand on I stand on um a company can do what they want to do because it's their their company or their platform and I'll depict things to um a person going out and um expressing their view in public I if they're a citizen of that country but I don't think anything's going to happen in United States anyway but if the if you're on a green card or a student visa Well, if they have grounds in which to

(2:16:37) like we don't want you here, it's not it might not be right, but um that's how I see it cuz I I I can circle back to what I'm saying. If my kid cuss me out, I cannot ch my house, but if I invite someone in, invite someone in, I can say, "Hey, get out." And that's how I look at it. Yeah.

(2:17:00) And like the way that I see things is like businesses and people should be able to take things as far as they want as long as it's within their personal rights and freedoms. I'm not saying countries do this because there's still restrictions. So like for example like a restaurant in the United States because like the way that I view free personal freedoms is a restaurant if they want to they should be able to offer smoking in their restaurant because that'd be their choice.

(2:17:25) If you don't like it, don't go there. that that's not a freedom that doesn't exist anymore because laws been passed that that change that that shouldn't be because a business and a person should be able to make their own choices and then if you want I agree with that. How they want their business is theirs. Yeah. Yeah. And if you want to support it, you can.

(2:17:39) If if you don't want to, then you don't have to. And like I I would say the same thing goes for like providing uh access to people that are disabled or all kinds of different things, right? Because if if a business wants to do that and they want those customers, they're going to they're going to do things that are going to be accessible for those customers.

(2:17:59) If they don't, then that should be 100% up to them. But yeah, like obviously every society has things that are flawed because every like like for for example like restaurants that doesn't exist in the United States anymore which that is technically considered a restriction on your freedom. Well, that is just my viewpoint. I wanted to see like some someone viewpoint on certain things, right? So, like I was totally interested in in learning something.

(2:18:48) Yeah. And it's it's always nice to see other people's views and why they why they believe the things that they believe and be able to have these conversations without getting offended and [ __ ] calling people names and [ __ ] because we're all adults here. Well, adults, you know, a lot of adults that you see, they have those issues.

(2:19:08) That's why there's all these problems in the world because they can't uh accept another viewpoint. Yeah. A a politics. A couple of weeks ago, it might have been last month, Ron, me, me and Cole Chillin talked about spirituality and religion for probably like four or five hours straight. He was telling me why why he believes certain things for being a Muslim and the process in which I would give him a a thing as to like kind of like throw a a a wheelhouse into why he believes it and he would explain himself and then

(2:19:41) we'd go down that path and yeah, it was very interesting. It was a very interesting conversation. I guess I missed something. I learned a lot and I made it's a logical it's a logical conclusion I would say I learned a lot and I made sure that he really believes what he believes in. Hey guys. Hey good. How are you guys? Good.

(2:20:09) How about yourself? Chilling? Good. Good. Can't complain. Just busy with moving my warehouses right now in the middle of that. But yeah, I'm navigating Trump setups. You're having what? Sorry, I'm saying just moving my warehouses right now in between the move and also navigating uh the Trump uh tabs that he has put in place for Chinese items.

(2:20:34) So yeah. Yeah, [ __ ] up for me. Like I I dropped like 10 package like 5 days worth of shipment eight business days before the second May deadline and they still have like seven boxes left and they said sorry we sorry we messed up. I was like yeah but I now I have to pay like 70% duties and I'm making loss on the items that I bought actually.

(2:21:02) Oh [ __ ] Did anything ever happen with that potential section three that you thought you were going to be having? Oh, I mean no communication from Amazon, nothing on my account, but so my.com payouts have been really low because there has not been a lot of inventory. One in prospect got cancelled and then I got hit with a $500 worth of refund.

(2:21:24) So I I don't see anything coming available for payment right now. But uh I could see like whatever $1,300 $400 whatever is the amount right now to be transferred to me on 22nd 25th of May which doesn't happen usually when you have a section three all all the amount is in reserve and you use it you show zers as payout so I'm not sure what what happened there right so it might have just been something weird that was happening on there and you might not actually have gotten triggered then which is good yeah yeah I think some

(2:21:55) some board acted crazy and they they kind of did think but as I I just hope it doesn't come through because like for before the tariffs were in place I was buying same stuff from like 10 different retailers so if they come up and ask me for invoices it's going to be a hell of a challenge right yeah be pain in the ass but you can still do it yeah yeah yeah I mean there's no shady stuff involved so yeah so Uh yeah, sorry. Go ahead.

(2:22:30) Oh, no. Go ahead. I'm saying the my my retailer error order got flagged and they wanted me to do ID verification because they hardly see someone ordering three of the same items, right? So yeah, got that resolved and probably the order should be on its way next week. Yeah. Um so Jafar, we were talking about some other things before you uh before you left for momentarily there.

(2:22:57) Did you want Did you want to continue that? Yeah. I think we were talking about uh you converting to Islam or something. No, don't [ __ ] go down that rabbit hole. Bro, we sent we gave him the message, man. Now he's he's he's on the hook for it. Yeah. I'm saying I'm saying cold chill and try to [ __ ] condemn me to hell. Oh, no.

(2:23:21) No, no. We had this conversation. It's your choice now. No, I saw the you sent me all the storefronts. Some pretty interesting stuff. I like to ask you actually about um flips for miles and fields of profit, right? Mhm. Um so flips for miles, you have his store from What about Fields of Profit? Warner, I sent it to you, too.

(2:23:47) Which one is that guy? Is he the the one with the man bun? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I sent you that one. Uh I don't think uh I see Chris Grant, Dylan Sar, Sadi, KT, Mike, Cynthia. So the one that is Warner, that one is Golden Rings, Trave the one that ends in threeh7. IH7. Yo, speaking of gurus, uh you know, uh you know Sam FBA, did you have her storefront? I don't think I have hers.

(2:24:21) Ah, that would have been interesting to see. So what happened with her? You guys were talking about she got roasted and all that. She would get crazy roasted. Well, like she she was like coming out with a chorus and yeah, she just got [ __ ] roasted on social media hard. Then she just disappeared.

(2:24:35) You know what? Cuz like when she was posting all of her stuff would come up on my feed even though I don't really follow her or anything like that. And then I would see comments like you when she would post her her like her revenue. I would see comments like, "Yo, when's the course coming out? When's the course coming out?" And then I I don't know what changed but like a month like two three months later maybe you know people just got tired of being scammed by the gurus.

(2:24:57) All the comments start started being negative. I think though I I want to say I I can't be 100% but I think somebody found her storefront and just seen that she was just selling Nike socks. Oh yeah yeah yeah. I think yeah I think I know what you're talking about. I think I saw that too. And maybe that's why maybe that's why she started getting hate. Yeah.

(2:25:15) I think that's where all the [ __ ] came from. It's like you're going to you're going to show people how to [ __ ] sell socks. It's like [ __ ] off. That's insane, man. I can't believe people actually going like to that length just completely faking numbers cuz well the thing the crazy thing is is like the amount of volume that she was doing and then she was only doing it with like herself and I think her husband it just didn't make sense to how much she was pushing out from her house.

(2:25:40) I don't I don't think I don't think it was crazy. Like I don't think it was unreasonable. I don't know. Yeah. Like what's his uh one of our guys in here who's doing like 200k and he does it all himself. Yeah, that's Fred. Yeah, she was doing a lot more than 200k. She was doing like uh 3 400 500k I think.

(2:26:01) Well, Fred and his wife were doing [ __ ] hard in his house. Yeah, but she was saying that she only worked like a few hours a day. She wasn't doing like 24 like you know eight hours. I think Fred said he works like eight hours with his wife or his his girlfriend or his wife. Well, yeah, Fred was working full-time and then [ __ ] coming home and working on his business until he went to sleep.

(2:26:25) So, what's the uh what's the analysis on these two guys? Is it pretty to me it's pretty much just they give everything away. They have all this, they have all the students cuz obviously they have their own softwares now seller and pin box them. So the more people that succeed and are staying with Amazon and selling on Amazon, the more people use their subscription services, right? So So that's where they're moving and like so with those two guys specifically, like I don't have a major issue with those two until recently with Miles. So like from what I can see, I

(2:26:54) believe Warner still sells on Amazon. Uh the thing with Miles is he doesn't and I don't believe he has for like [ __ ] like one two plus years. And the issue that I have with that is he's still charging people for courses and training people and he has outdated information. And I've talked to somebody recently that took his course and said the exact same thing.

(2:27:14) Gave him $3,000 US and said that a lot of the information that they had didn't make sense or was completely outdated. That's where the issue lies. Yeah. Yeah, I had both of them. What's that? Abdul I don't know if he's going to say anything. What were you saying? Jafar, I was by the way. You know that's actually Gafar.

(2:27:38) I figured I might as well tell you. Gafar. Gafar. Yeah. Okay. Jafar is the the villain in Lion King. No, no, wait. No, not not Lion King. No, she was Was it Lion King or was it um Aladdin? Aladdin. Aladdin. Aladdin. Yeah. Score and Jafari. I mix it too. Yeah. Cuz usually people say that and they're like, "Oh, cat it was like Aladdin.

(2:28:00) " But I'm like, "No, it's not." But I got as well before, so Well, good to know. Thank you for correcting me. But I was going to say, uh, what was I going to say? Um, yeah, I had Mike Sean. I had his course uh back in the days 2022 2022. Um cuz he was like a a pretty big well what I thought was pretty big Canadian seller at that time.

(2:28:28) And uh I don't think that course was I don't think he's that big dude. Yeah. At the time I was like I was I was completely new to us. I was still like it was really cool but that course was so bad. Like it didn't have any actual information. Right. It was just like Yeah. It was like the most like there was literally nothing to it that actually it was just like he had like these it was completely outdated that's for sure.

(2:28:56) Completely outdated and uh it was just like yeah I remember it was it was really bad but but he seems to be doing like pretty well now. I think he's in some sort of like other agency info group and they they have like hundreds and hundreds of people on live calls where they do all this stuff.

(2:29:15) So, and again, like I mean all all power to them, but my issue with people is when they're not being forthcoming and transparent and they're selling people an idea where they don't even [ __ ] have the experience themselves, right? That's that's when I have an issue. Mike Se, but he seems to be doing 1,000 plus orders, which not too bad.

(2:29:36) I don't know how I don't know what he's claiming these days, but let me see what smart skill says. If you're only selling a,000 orders a month, you don't have any business charging somebody for coaching. You think so? [ __ ] [ __ ] no. We sent out like what 6,500 units last week. [ __ ] off.

(2:29:56) Just on a,000 words a [ __ ] month. I don't [ __ ] So, something happened with me when I when I joined this group. So before that I was following a lot of Canadian influencers and people who used to think they were doing good amount of money and then I was on this call with with I think it was it was one of the first few calls of this group with me and Ron and Stefan and I believe it was also the guy um I completely can't forget his I completely forgot his name he's based off of Kitchener though so they were all like four million five million and I was like I don't see these

(2:30:29) guys doing this much amount on social media. So yeah, I I completely second Jordan. I believe like whoever is doing good amount of money on Amazon, they are not interested in selling their time and course. So my question to this is okay, someone who's doing let's just say 1,000 plus orders per month.

(2:30:51) So you guys don't believe they're allowed to teach someone to get to 100 or 500 or let's just say 1,000 units a month? No. So like it's it's not being not allowed. So like people can do whatever they want. 100% power to them. And there can certainly be value in somebody that's like say at like a a lower to mid tier scale teaching somebody else.

(2:31:15) The issue is when somebody is charging other people substantial amounts of money to do something when they hardly know how to do it themselves. Like people So I guess it comes down well that that's one thing because like so like for example um for miles for example. Okay. So he charges people $3,000 US for like a group course and I talked to somebody recently that took his course and got completely set on the entirely wrong path.

(2:31:45) They went into debt because of it. They didn't have the support that they needed and they were completely [ __ ] lost in their in what they were doing. And it was just it was becoming like a black hole for them. And I talked to this person for I don't know an hour, hour and a half. I just talked to them just because I just hopped on a call. I didn't charge them.

(2:32:04) I just I just wanted to talk to this person because I liked what the things that they were talking about. And we started talking about it. And all of a sudden, just from that one conversation, now all of a sudden they're on a completely different path to completely change their Amazon business and actually make money instead of being in the red every single month.

(2:32:19) And it's like there's no reason why you should be able to pay somebody $3,000 and be in that situation. They should be basically holding your hand through the entire process. So what are your thoughts on people who don't take action when things are free? Those people can go kick rocks. They don't value something. So that's that's 100% a thing definitely and that's 100% a thing even if even if people pay for courses 100% that's 100% a thing but the thing is a lot of people that sell courses and mentorships they also don't provide the right guidance for people like so there

(2:32:54) there's also but it's also like how we talk about everyone is adults here and I mean most people I'm assuming who are buying these are like you know they're over 18 99% of the time so wouldn't consider them like, you know, make their own decisions. So, if someone is if someone is watching something and they're like, I'm not going to do my due diligence and actually look into this person, make sure this is all legit before, you know, I actually give this person my money, which and if it's a suspense sus um substantial amount, then you definitely

(2:33:28) need to, which it's crazy. and these people don't, which is people don't even talk to these people or ever know anything about them and they're giving the money and then they get scammed, which I'm always like, why are you doing that? Like, you should actually have trust in who you're about to give 2, three, $4,000 to.

(2:33:46) And that's like, it's you should have known better. There's people there's a lot of people out here who are going to try to take advantage of you and try to use you. It's up to you to actually make sure you're not. And there's always going to be those people no matter what, even if we're never going to have a perfect planet, right? So, you know what I mean? That's what I uh that's one thing I I I agree.

(2:34:04) I agree that sane adults should be able to make that decision. Uh but I also agree that the people that are selling [ __ ] there. There's a flip side with that. You have to be able to deal with the consequences of whatever you're doing. So, the person that's buying that information and getting scammed, they're going to be having a consequence of losing their money.

(2:34:22) And the person giving that information, they're going to have the consequence of being [ __ ] [ __ ] on and roasted and called the [ __ ] out, right? Yeah. Yeah. And ideally, in a certain in a certain aspect, if it's if it's bad enough, uh, a lot of people, they they they tote that line where it's not quite legal, but it's very gray.

(2:34:43) But I if it's if it's bad enough, then they should also deal with the consequence of being arrested and having fines. I 100% agree that that should be the case if they're actually some of them. if they're actually scamming people. Yeah, exactly. Some of them are actually I know um I heard about someone his brother big Amazon seller his brother had a course on like copyrightiting or something and he posted a screenshot on Twitter of his Stripe account and he forgot to blur out the actual person that was the actual

(2:35:13) person he took it from and it turned out to be like a huge only fans model this dude. Holy [ __ ] Wow, that's crazy. And that dude, that dude has like 1.5 million followers or something. So, it's a big guy. Only fans guy, right? And this guy to throw it out. He got absolutely It was um I don't know, Jordan, do you know Jeff? Jeff who? Jeff Fun.

(2:35:38) Um what's his name? Jeffrey Fun. Yeah, he he posted that or his brother posted that. his brother posted that absolutely been hardcore on the sponsors ads as well. Like he has no followers, no views. [ __ ] hilarious. And we used to be friends actually, Jeff and I, we used to be pretty good. We used to be really good friends.

(2:35:58) He actually reached out to me and he was like, "Yeah, I'm just networking with people and all this." So we were like, "Chill." And he would tell me like, "Yo, he's doing like 400k, 500k." And I was like, "That's insane." Like I thought I was insane doing 50k per month and this guy's out here doing like and he's only like a couple years older than me.

(2:36:15) I was like 500k and uh I mean I think he is doing those numbers. Um but then he decided he went to he went to course bro and now apparently he's doing some shady stuff. So I know a couple people who have been inside. I was talking to a guy just this week actually who was inside. He's like yo he's absolute garbage and I told him like I need more help and Jeff was like no no no you have to I only do paid calls now so pay me another thousand then we'll talk and all this and I was like that's not good.

(2:36:43) So, I know somebody that was paid paid him for some of his coaching and I made sure that they [ __ ] got their money back because that that Yeah. What's his name? Uh um brah. He was in it. Yeah. And I I I [ __ ] hounded him to get his [ __ ] money back cuz he said this isn't worth it. Really? From where? From Jeffrey Fr.

(2:37:05) Oh, I've never even heard of this guy. So, he's a guy that I [ __ ] on on Twitter. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no. When that was happening, Jeff and I were like friends and I was like the little Indian guy. What's What's that wrong? Is he the little um white Korean guy? Yeah. Oh, I happened a way way back. Well, he he was he wanted to sell me something but was like, "No, I'm just here to network.

(2:37:32) I really not going to buy anything buy anything from you." Never heard back from him. So, yeah, he like YouTube channel. He he got super concerned. He got super concerned because like he he like tried beaking something and then I just [ __ ] gave it right back to him and then he got super concerned I was going to expose his storefront to everybody and so he was messaging me like apologizing and he even came into like our Oh yeah.

(2:37:55) And then he even came into our public discord. He was telling me like I was like yo what's going to happen if you store like I don't give a [ __ ] bro whatever do it. I don't care if he does it and all this. Let me find his message. What's what's his name on Discord? I still have his [ __ ] messages. Um, hold on, let me find I've been here. Jeff was a cool guy.

(2:38:15) Like, he was helping me out and all this and I don't know what happened. I guess he uh he he didn't he stopped messaging me completely and then from there it just uh legit. So, let me see if I can find the messages here. I keep [ __ ] But he's still doing I keep [ __ ] receipts. I he's not doing numbers though. Yeah.

(2:38:38) When when he started saw his number, I was like, "Whoa, good." And um then he started like his YouTube when he was like have like 14 followers or something. And I was like, "Let me reach out just to network." And he was just trying to sell me something. I was like, "No, dude. I'm not going to buy it. I'm really not going to buy it.

(2:39:00) " So I I 100% believe he's selling some volume and like you can tell it from his account, okay, based on like even like his feedback rating. Okay. So, yes, he is selling a large amount. But I have some skepticism on potentially the numbers that he's putting up and if they are just for for show because if you look at a lot of the items that he sells, like they sell thousands of units per month, but they're extremely cheap items.

(2:39:24) They're extremely cheap items like $7 and less. Okay? And if he's sending those over the border from Canada, it's going to be extremely tough to make money on something that you're selling for $7 where your [ __ ] expected payout is like $150, right? Yeah. So, I can't say if that's for sure, but I would say that there may be a mix of things in there just to boost up numbers to sell more courses, which a lot of people do.

(2:39:51) I mean, he was doing that before the courses, right? Um cuz I was talking to him before he had his he had his new his new pageal page and um he was telling me like he was 17% net margins. I was like this guy's doing like 50 60k per month profit you know that was but and that's probably I can tell you that especially if he's sending things over the border and incuring those additional costs and selling things for the price that he's selling them for that's probably not the case.

(2:40:24) average cost for a fee comes up around 1 CAD and that's like excluding your uh duties and terrors and whatever is coming into place right now. But yeah, that's your prep and crossber shipping fee and then you pay on uh on top of that Amazon and board fee. So you like anything below $10 doesn't make sense if you're even going to get a dollar.

(2:40:45) Like we're looking at one item here. I'm looking at one item right here that he's selling for $4.98. So you take $4.98, you minus Amazon referral fee of.75, you minus the FBA fee of $2.38. That means that before anything else, before shipping, before product cost, anything take over the border, your expected payout is $185.

(2:41:04) So you're telling me that he's spending 60 cents on those units and not incurring any cost to bring over the border or shipping expenses or factoring in returns? I I don't think so. Yeah, maybe maybe he had it planned out. I don't know. So like like things like that I have a problem with. I don't I don't care if people sell information and I mean even even the things that Jeff does, I mean he's going to do it regardless.

(2:41:32) But if I see some somebody doing shady [ __ ] I'm going to tell them to go [ __ ] themselves. Yeah. Even if you look at um uh who who are those guys? um the the big wholesale guys in the US like Amazon list the common sense distributor that their uh Facebook account their Amazon account if you look into this a lot of products don't make sense like you cannot get them that cheap you're competing with Amazon so you're just building out numbers um like I think 30 or 40% of their catalog would be a highly profitable but the rest of it is just

(2:42:08) breaking even at best and there it's just there to get the numbers just to get the orange bars And a lot of it potentially is that case. I know in cases like doing the amount of volume that they're doing, they can get significantly less shipping costs of course because they're sending their own trucks, but yeah, some of the stuff it still might even be very unlikely to make a profit.

(2:42:30) Yeah, I don't remember. But yeah, I think they were selling um a pack of two of some Colgate or some Equif some some sort of a toothpaste for like $5.99 in US. So after taking out Amazon fee and everything even before like inbound shipping you you were you were left with like $2.

(2:42:52) So but they did they did like um decrease the revenue by like 20% or something and like go from doing 70 million to 50 million but higher margin. So, they're probably like also, you know, liquidating. And they did technically, they made a whole video about it where they were like, "Okay, we're going to go from we're going to lose $20 million this year, but we're going to increase profits.

(2:43:12) " So, they're cleaning it up. Or if they were just doing trying to get to 100K, $100 million mark and promote just like, you know, numbers, then I don't see why they would want to do that and actually lower the revenue. And I'm, you know, they made a whole video on it and everything. So, you know what? Uh yeah, they're I mean their target market is really different because I I I met I met um Sebastian and the guy at AMC United and and decent guys, but but the thing is that they they cater to a lot of large Amazon sellers who understand the

(2:43:40) business and like anyone they want more revenue. They want to optimize their pro processes a lot better than what they are doing right now. And that's where they come into play. So they're charging like $5,000 $10,000 a year for their courses. So the the the the value in their video is that they are telling people oh we are not after the orange bars we are just here to make our business profitable.

(2:44:02) But if you still if you go on onto their storefront, you will see them replenishing a lot of items that that that are that I mean if if if you if you are buying wholesale, you know, a lot of your FMCG products are not a lot cheaper. A lot of brand name products uh than what you can buy on Walmart. Like it would be 20 38 cents difference and and it doesn't make sense.

(2:44:27) So like that's true. It always depends, right? So from everything that I've seen I and I again I haven't taken their course and I never will. I believe that they are more legit compared to a lot of other people. Um with some of with some of with some of the things that they do um I could see them be able to negotiate a lot lower prices than what you would typically expect if they have the volume to do so which they probably do.

(2:44:55) So they they might be able to get things quite substantially cheaper than you or you or I, right? Um so there could still be room for profit in places where you may not always expect it, but there could there could certainly still be an element of products there that are just there to to boost up the numbers. You never know.

(2:45:13) It's hard to say. Yeah, that's true. What about uh 1000 as he seems like a actually he's getting a little weirder and weirder now. He went to Miami and doing all these like interesting things. But I don't know enough I don't know enough about him. I've only just like briefly seen a few things that he's put online.

(2:45:36) He's trying to get more and more on YouTube as well. So yeah legit. And like I said like people selling information, providing content. I have absolutely no problems with that. It's a matter of when people are bullshitting and providing like outdated, incorrect information and potentially [ __ ] up somebody's life from doing so. 100%. Oh, he has his Oh, wow.

(2:45:57) If you'll go to 10,000 Asian Instagram, you he his main store. Oh, he has So, he has two stores. His main store is at 18.5 million year to date. So, in 2024. And uh he has a seller feedback showing as well. 1.76,000 seller feedback. And then store number two is at 2.6 million uh for 2024 with a 216 seller feedback.

(2:46:24) I don't know why he's showing his feedback, but eBay half a million. Uh Walmart 300K. No, Dan is legit. I ain't going to lie with anybody. He's legit. Like real. Yeah. I mean, I've seen his videos. He seems like a pretty standup guy. I'm a part of his course. That's that's the way I know where ECGA. Yeah, I am. I How much is it? Um five 5,000 USD.

(2:46:58) Yeah. Oh man. Is it worth it? Yeah. Yeah. I made about my money so I ain't going to At first I do. You have to put in the work. That's how I look at it. But yeah, I mean my question is more so was there was there $5,000 USD worth of information in there or was it more so you put in the work and that could have happened with YouTube content.

(2:47:26) I'm not anything but um he actually come every single week and he's more like Jordan to be honest I would say. Okay. So he actually comes in every week. Um they do a lot. They really do a lot. So I So you're telling me Ron I should be charging you five grand? Yeah. Uh, you are the cheapest of the lord.

(2:48:00) What's that, Abdullah? I'm saying you are the cheapest of the lord. Well, you I mean I don't do this to [ __ ] make money. I don't I don't make money in this server. I've I've been I've been vocal about that. Whenever we have more people in here, we introduce more [ __ ] I don't [ __ ] do this to make money. Yeah. I mean to be honest like this is the only server that I have seen which provides like way more value than than what you pay to be honest like even even if you spend like a week on Philip alert you would get your money back like not even your money back like two 300% ROI

(2:48:36) on your monthly subscription. Well, just just from the price errors alone man made the annual back in in half a day. Well, like that's like that's the goal. Like I'm not I I like I know some people don't believe me, but I like the process of building a business. That's what I care. I don't give a [ __ ] about money.

(2:48:59) I've never have in any of my businesses, but like this particular like this is a nice little side project. I like community. I like building a business and I want to see how far we can take this [ __ ] So as soon as we get more subscriptions and it's stable, I start spending more money. So you see like all a sudden we start making more money.

(2:49:16) We introduce more tools. We make more money. I introduce a full-time VA. We We make more money. We have a second full-time VA. It keeps it keeps [ __ ] going and it's going to keep going like that. That's awesome. Like I I don't I don't remember how many leads I've purchased like the limited time drops and I've made an insane amount of money on those.

(2:49:37) Well, yeah. And we're going to keep doing that. Like we're talking about even before you popped in here. Like I put out a feeler about like a bot to track like newly listed products on eBay, Facebook, Kijiji right when they hit and I I had that idea like probably like last year, two years ago and we didn't have a lot of interest for people in the server.

(2:49:56) But I reput that out because somebody mentioned it and it seemed like we had more interest in it. So now I'm I'm probably going to spend the money to get that that tool developed, right? And that's going to that's going to cost hundreds of dollars per month on me so that everybody in the server can utilize that because it's going to bring a [ __ ] ton of additional value. Yeah.

(2:50:15) And also like uh so someone uh referred this tool to me swap or something. I don't I don't recall the name. It was a funny name, but yeah, it it it does exactly the same like it tracks KG, Craigslist, um Facebook Marketplace, and a couple of eBay, and you just search up keywords and they and they would kind of uh send you the notification as soon as they find a new listing that meets the criteria.

(2:50:39) And they and it's it's pretty expensive like just to run like five searches uh on instant speed, you look at paying around like 100 to 120 USD a month. I was like, "No, I don't use Facebook Marketplace that much. It's It doesn't make sense for me." Was it called Swoopa? Yeah. Yeah. Something. Yeah. Yeah. So, ours ours is going to work better than Swoopa. It's going to be quicker.

(2:51:01) You're going to have more functionality and it's going to be included in the [ __ ] server. That's awesome. That's awesome, man. Like that that's that's what I'm trying to do is just like I have some big visions for this for this place. I've talked to some people about it, but like eventually and like it's going to I don't even know if it's ever going to come to fruition.

(2:51:22) If it does, I really want it to and I'm going to try to and if it does, it's going to be a [ __ ] pain in the ass. But like the way that I see this place is to be like an absolute hub to almost do anything that you ever want for a business. So, I have professionals in here like mortgage brokers, like realtors to talk about like uh the how the marketplace is looking in certain real estate all throughout Canada and potentially North America.

(2:51:46) And I've even talked to people about like if we get to the point eventually where it's like, oh, we can have like a group, a council of people and start like our own VC, right? Venture capital fund. I don't know. I don't know how how viable that would be, but how [ __ ] cool would it be if somebody came into this community with the expectation with the expectation that they're going to learn how to like make a couple bucks flipping [ __ ] on eBay.

(2:52:08) And it's like all of a sudden six months down the road they're getting a capital injection into their [ __ ] business. And all of a sudden within a year they're selling like hundreds of thousands, multi-millions of dollars of [ __ ] of product whether on eBay, Amazon or other businesses or investing in like in commercial property with other members.

(2:52:24) And like it just happened and I I use this word uh because it's involves my name. It just happened serendipitously, right? I I think that I think that'd be cool as [ __ ] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, honestly, uh you know what? uh probably haven't told you that but when I joined this group that then exactly that was a time when I started to scale up and then like touch what I have been scaling up constantly like this year around we would be touching on our both accounts around $2.

(2:52:54) 5 million in revenue uh with around like 15 to 16% in net profit and this is like and when I when I joined this group I was I was at around like probably 500k per year and I was I was having really bad margins. I was doing like 10% in net profit. So you guys I mean the whole community helped me scale and there's a reason like whatever I can I just keep on coming and and trying to answer as much as I can whatever I know but this community is is amazing like no no one likes to get keep information and that's the best part.

(2:53:28) Yeah. Like like for the lack of better words and I apologize for strong language but people in here are not [ __ ] uh we share information and we help each other. Yeah. Yeah. I mean we me and Mizi were talking privately and I just gave out my contact for um for my trucking company because that's that's my unique proposition right now.

(2:53:48) They could take across what whatever I want and they don't need our country of origin on the packaging and whatever [ __ ] the set is enforcing right now. And I was like man let's give these guys some business and let's keep on sending these products across the border. 100%. But yeah, so then when we when we see things like like this, so I I don't remember who it was.

(2:54:22) Somebody had somebody had told me that they were thinking about starting some type of course selling information. I it might have been Anthony Mancini. Um he was he was like I I believe he has done that before but he's like after seeing like what happens in here he's like I he's like I can't offer the same type of [ __ ] that you guys do for the same price.

(2:54:42) I was like yeah that's the whole point. Yeah. Yeah. I mean uh you know you know I I made my sister sister subscribe to your US to USC [ __ ] because I mean she she she was kind of into into a very specific niche that got cated in US right now. So she was she was struggling a lot. I was like, you know what? I don't trust anyone but Jordan on the lead sheets.

(2:55:04) So whenever the position open up, you can just go and sign up for that. And she's really happy with the leads by the way. Well, and I appreciate that. And see like things like that. So like when you look at like that that form of my business. So obviously that's a business. I am in a sense selling information.

(2:55:20) I'm selling leads which there's very mixed opinions about Amazon leads. Cool. I I 100% understand that. Has anybody in here? Have I ever contacted you directly and be like, "Hey, come buy our leads list." [ __ ] never. I have pe I have people like I I started a [ __ ] community. You come find you not He tells you, "Stop shilling it." Yeah.

(2:55:37) Like I I tell people not to [ __ ] talk about it because if you want it, you're going to get it. I don't give a [ __ ] if you do. Uh and then I have people that do it. They trust me. They they like what they have and then they they tell other people about it. That's that's that's a beautiful thing. and and like because before I I was um a part of your member lead sheet, I was I was I kind of uh experimented with I think four or five different providers and a lot of them were recommended by a lot of respected people in this space. But like

(2:56:12) out of 10 leads, two or three would be great. But the rest seven of those you would never want to sell them. how you were paying for like two almost twice the price that you charge for three leads a day and then those would get 10 because they they they kind of say that it's not going to more than 15 people but I have I had my doubts or maybe it was member sharing um or something I don't know but as soon as a lead sheet got in and after a couple of after a couple of weeks you would see the sellers spike go from six sellers to 45

(2:56:44) 50 sellers and the price would come down like Nothing, right? And so like with like with ones that we have, like obviously you still have to trust me that there's not so many people in and everything, but anybody that gives me their Discord username and wants to be in those individual chats in our our main Canadian server, they get added into those chats.

(2:57:04) So not everybody has a Discord account, but you can look at those and the the the members that are in every single chat, you can see. And there's never more than 20. It's it's always less than 20. So you can tell pretty easily. Yeah. And also like the irony is your leads are mostly sold out, theirs are not. So that tells you a lot.

(2:57:25) Like they are not stopping the subscriptions. Yeah, bro. Jordan Ninja just like [ __ ] with seconds. They're like gone. Not not all of them, but some of them like Ron was saying, some of them sell out pretty quickly. Sometimes when we release spots, they go pretty quickly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, I I usually kind of take take my email break from

(2:57:51) like 7:00 p.m. to to 7:00 a.m. in the morning, and that's when mostly the opening email comes out. And by the time I I kind of try to get myself into gold one or go two again, it's sold out. So, I have never had with that. But yeah, like again, like I I yeah, I'm going to send emails out to people that are a part of my email list. That's just a business.

(2:58:13) But I'm never I'm never going to tell people like, "Hey, come buy this [ __ ] Hey, come check this [ __ ] out." If you want it, cool. If not cool. I'm trying to build businesses. And like I don't even really care about like the aspect of like obviously our lead lists are profitable, but I don't really I don't really care that much about it.

(2:58:33) And that's why like that's probably one of the main reasons why we were able to build because it's very it was very very slow to start off with because I started in December 2021 I believe it took me a very very long time to build it to where it is today and we've had many many months like especially when we're starting that we were unprofitable and so just because of the aspect of I knew where it could go and me not caring if it makes money that's the only reason why it still exists today and that's the the only reason why I'm able to support

(2:59:04) the the amount of VAS that we have and give them a [ __ ] a nice sustainable living, right? Which that gives me more joy than almost anything else. And also like because you you have another business that's profitable and you can f it out of that, right? That's the thing like again brings me back to the discussion you were having.

(2:59:22) A lot of gurus or the course sellers don't have a sustainable business and their sustainable business is selling courses. So like that's the thing like they they would never they could never take out the profitability element from the course selling right and see like another thing is and like I I know I mentioned this before but like a quote unquote course is something that I'm working on that's going to be included in Arcane.

(2:59:47) Okay, so it's it's for Amazon but it's a complete basic knowledge base of what I know for Amazon and a full walkthrough of absolutely everything for Amazon. Okay. But it's not going to cost other people any any additional money. But like it it's taken me a long time to put it together because it's a lot of [ __ ] information.

(3:00:05) But like I have everything covered where it's like it starts from Amazon basics. So how to open up your account, how to analyze a full Amazon page, talks an entire thing talking about the buy box, entire thing talking about Keepa, uh going into different business models. And it's going to have a section where it's like a full video of me talking like this is all the information that I know along with full summaries and about what it's what it's talking about.

(3:00:27) And that's just going to be in here for somebody like if if they want places if they need somewhere to find that information. And there's even like sections in there about like when you first started, make sure you turn off coingled inventory, which people don't [ __ ] talk about that. Talk an entire breakdown of the Amazon seller fees.

(3:00:44) I go into Amazon and talk about what referral fees are, what the category fees are, why they're like this, how to calculate them. Uh because like this is all very important information to know, right? And this is like ideally when we have something like this, no course seller is ever going to be able to replicate that because they they can't produce this kind of information for that cheap because I'm not I'm not I'm not [ __ ] charging anything else for it.

(3:01:08) It's just going to be in here. Yeah. Oh, so com reminds me of something like when I first started selling on Amazon. So, obviously I didn't turn on the or turn off the coingle inventory option or whatever that was. So, I was there was something I got from Marshalls. I believe it was a Spider-Man toy or something of that sort.

(3:01:28) So, it was a Spider-Man riding a bike or something. So, uh I got a customer message when it got sold that uh the listing said it's Spider-Man, but it's not. It's a horseman. And I was like, really? can you send me a picture? And she did. And apparently Amazon sent someone's else's inventory to her. And just for my just for me not being flagged by Amazon, I had to refund her the entire amount.

(3:01:52) And when I was starting out, I had like,000 bucks and I refunded her $40 and I was at 960. I was like, "What the [ __ ] just happened?" Yeah. Like those are those are important things to know that nobody talks about, right? and and you and you don't know about it until those things happen. And a lot of people don't never know about it, period.

(3:02:18) So, what do you think about uh Nick Melani? Uh, from what I've seen, I don't I I I don't I don't have high opinions about him. What about his mom and pop arbitrage? I mom and pop I haven't looked into him enough to give a full opinion. Just the videos that I've seen it just seems very base level generic just whatever right I I don't know if he boasts anything about what he does or if he says he does this or this or this.

(3:02:54) I haven't looked into it enough but I definitely I have reservations about the info that I have seen. Yeah, true. I mean u ask you have sorry go ahead you guys I was cutting you off. Oh yeah no I was just uh kind of adding it on to that that when he first started off I was I was I guess I saw one of his Tik Tok videos someone asked him about a supplier for Saravi in Canada and he quotes a couple of suppliers in Canada.

(3:03:21) I don't remember but yeah most of them were like hostess clubs and the third one I had never heard of them so I searched that and turns out they are based in Chicago. No, that guy that guy I I wouldn't trust him. Yes. I was going to ask, hey, Jordan, have you ever dealt with like buying B stock auctions? I have not. No.

(3:03:47) I have like uh do you have like are you are you looking to sell on Amazon or some eBay or something else? It would most likely be like eBay. Yeah, I mean um I have you deal with Costco auctions? Yeah. Um so with BTO the the the thing is that BTO uh based on your Canadian um Canadian registration or Canadian business they won't allow you to bid for a lot of uh lots or a lot of suppliers because BTO acts like a like like an agent.

(3:04:19) So basically Bto commission but Costco is directly selling it to you. So in that case what happens is that um Costco since they are they don't want to get into the hassle of putting in all the export documents and everything. So they don't want any Canadian sellers to bid on their lots. But what you can do is there's another website that is um but yeah still you can you can buy a lot of stuff from BTO u but there won't be any major retailers who would allow you to bid on their lots as a Canadian but there's another website that goes by the

(3:04:47) name of liquidation.com. So in that case liquid liquidation.com is the seller of on record. So they would accept a Canadian registration and you can bid on anything that they have on their website. And also locally we have another um we have a couple of options. We have got restock.ca.

(3:05:06) They also kind to tend to have good inventory sometimes uh for eBay flipping. And also there is one more uh yeah bargainshark.ca. Again a discount retailer but um you don't use them for Amazon. They don't have supply chain or anything of that sort. Yeah. No, this wouldn't be for Amazon. Yeah. But but they are pretty good for eBay. Yeah.

(3:05:25) Yeah. most likely eBay cuz I've seen some um like the stuff for BTO in the States for Costco and like other dick sporting goods and a couple other companies and they're just selling things essentially for like on the on the pennies for new items. So it's uh it's pretty crazy. So before like supply chain they came up big topic of discussion on Amazon and accounts being suspended.

(3:05:54) So back in 2020 during the covid days I used to buy a lot of brand new toys case back from liquidation.com get those imported to Canada. So I used to pay like 25% of retail landed here in Canada and I was selling I I used to hold them in my storage unit and would just send it all out in Q4 on Amazon and used to make like 300 400% ROI.

(3:06:18) It's just that more or less is not safe anymore. So I stay away from that. But yeah, it's just great for eBay if you can or the best the best thing would be because if if you if you don't want to get into the hassle of getting it across the border and probably a lot of eBay sales happen in the US. So, if you can find a local um a local person based out of US who can take care of your inventory, give you the entire video of what's coming in and what's what's in the pallet and then you can just create the listing and use them to fulfill and pay them probably a

(3:06:49) couple of bucks for every item that that would make more sense for you. If if that's something you can do there's nothing in Canada that like it's all in the states most of the good ones you're saying. Yeah, liquidation.com and bstock are are based in in US. Uh liquidationgroup.com has a better better I would say customer service and better reputation in the market. Bto tends to scam a lot.

(3:07:17) Uh they would they would sometimes for example rate their uh pallet as let's say a or b uh which means either it's brand new or b means that it's virgin customer like customer bought it and doesn't return it but never opened it. But a lot of inventory that you would receive would be in salvage condition.

(3:07:36) Uh I haven't seen that with the liquidation.com whatever they commit they deliver that. But again with with with this um the kind of model you always have the risk you don't know what you're betting on right so chilling a few things. Number one uh you can ask him. I don't know if he will, but if you talk to Robert Batbub, he I know I know he had a contact of somebody who took all like all of Costco's overstock for a certain region. Okay.

(3:08:05) So, essentially liquidation. Uh I don't know if he'd be willing to share that with you, but that could be an option. If you're not doing anything with Amazon, he very well may. Yeah, good to know. Uh no, it was just something I was exploring just to add on to the eBay stuff I'm already doing cuz Yeah. It's uh pretty simple in terms of, you know, not much regulations.

(3:08:29) Uh selling on eBay, right? eBay is like very free market. Do whatever you want. Yeah. As long as it's not legal, you're fine. Yeah. Yeah. Also, if you if if you want to store something that that I've recently found, and again, I haven't gotten a time to kind of get into it into great detail, but uh eBay to eBay flips are really profitable as well because sometimes sellers won't know the real value.

(3:08:54) They would probably just do it like 40 15 bucks for something that's going on average for like $50 in in the on eBay. Oh, interesting. So, yeah. So that's also something well and that's also one of the reasons behind that the bot I was talking about where we can scoop we can scoop up deals like that because I think that has a lot of potential like even from eBay to local eBay to back on eBay, Facebook to eBay, all those types of things.

(3:09:20) You know like there's a whole community of VAS who do Amazon to eBay drop shipping. Yeah. Yeah, I know about that. I'm familiar with that. I've seen that a lot actually. Yeah. I mean, it's just it's crazy because Amazon keeps on banning your account. If you if you if you kind of start shipping to like a new address every every single day or maybe placing like 10 orders going to all different addresses, they will eventually ban your account and then you are also paying sales tax and everything. I tried experimenting that

(3:09:50) and I I I kind of hard I I lost a couple of bucks on four transactions. I was like, I'm out. I see a small subsection of people doing uh eBay to Amazon flips and not not selling stuff as used like finding like retail products. I was like you guys are [ __ ] stupid. Yeah. Yeah. You you better you better just kind of close your Amazon account um by yourself.

(3:10:14) I would rather wait for them to come and suspend you. Yeah. Like oh my god like these people have no idea what the [ __ ] they're doing. Yeah. There's this guy Steve Raiken or something. He has he has a good community. Yeah. You seen him? He has got a new software coming in. Yeah. Real plan catcher. Well, what is the software? I I know about Steve.

(3:10:33) I don't know about the software. Yeah. Yeah. So, so he has launched a new software which goes by the name of plan catcher. So, basically it's eBay to Amazon flipping software. I I kind of got a trial for that just for the fun of it. And it's it's a great piece of software. It's just not safe. Like maybe for some used things maybe, but for new products like [ __ ] no.

(3:10:56) No, no, no. And I mean with Amazon you don't know like because I mean after we had the discussion if we can flip used things on Amazon and if not so I I just went on seller forums and was trying to browse if people were asked for invoices for used items and turns out that they are because if in an if an inauthentic complaint comes up Amazon wants you to tell give them the invoice that either you brought it brand new or you brought it used from a reputed source right and they certainly would not accept an eBay invoice.

(3:11:29) Yeah, I mean it's Amazon. They can you know what? Once once I won an authenticity complaint with an invoice from resto.ca. Okay. And Amazon accepted their invoice and it had it it didn't mention the name of the item because it was a lot that I bought. So yeah, I mean you can always skirt by, but if you do it consistently, your luck's going to run out eventually.

(3:11:54) Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you want to throw a flavor of it, maybe a couple of items every month if you're doing let's say a thousand of unit a month, maybe you can, but not not something that you you would want to rely on 100%. The margins are crazy though, for sure. But yeah, like that like so with like an eBay bot, we can catch things like that, but also like just for having like that thought bringing it up, we can probably do something where it's like we we do Amazon to eBay, not eBay to Amazon, but Amazon to eBay because

(3:12:26) there's also probably some potential there as well. Yeah, there is um like especially um I've seen a lot of um Canadian Amazon sellers moving on to eBay and offering Canadian items on eBay. Um and there are a lot of I believe I saw this one seller today. He he he has like 99,000 ratings on eBay and he he just do does cross water flips.

(3:12:57) He would say sell le ketchup chips. He would sell Milwaukee tools. He would sell Ryobi tools. And he when I was going through his listing, it seemed like an Amazon catalog. Yep. Of of of a usual um casino to US seller. But yeah, that's that's he built his business on and he he's doing great volume on eBay. Yep. 100%.

(3:13:16) All different kinds of ways we can make money. The tariffs come in and destroy that business. uh you just have to pivot and adjust that's all. I mean honestly like a lot of things on on the on the US side you you can already see the price increased like the items that were going for like 20 they're now $25$26 the price has just passed on to the consumer and people are still buying it. Mhm.

(3:13:47) Yeah. Yeah. And like with eBay, like we obviously have options. Like we like it's it's on the customer and you're selling from inside Canada. Yeah. Your sales are going to decrease. Like that's kind of a given. But like we have options to buy things and keep them inside of the US, right? Yeah. So it's like we have we have ways to skirt it if we want to.

(3:14:09) Yeah. And and I I doubt like this whole section 3:1 for Chinese products would would play out very well in the future. It's it's either the section 321 goes away for everything or it stays up for everything. You you can I mean you cannot expect a Chinese seller to not say country of origin as Vietnam or Philippines and probably route their shipment through those countries.

(3:14:34) You just there's there's mass import fraud already happening dude. I've seen many examples of it already. I mean, I like I I won't name the product that I sell, but u on Amazon.com. Uh the last time I bought it, it said made in China. 3 months later, I ordered it says made in Vietnam.

(3:14:56) Now, I know the Can the company That's funny. I seen somebody post a screenshot on one of the uh Amazon Facebook groups and it was like a a conversation that they were having with a um a a freight broker and they were saying that here's one option that will cost you it was like $150,000 with tariffs or we can go with option two that's going to cost you $20,000.

(3:15:16) And so the the broker was just straight up just saying like we can either commit fraud or not commit fraud. Which one do you want? You know what? My my customs broker told me something very interesting. When you're doing formal entries, you always have the option not to label anything and just transfer those um inventory if you're registered in US as an importer and mark this that as inventory transfer.

(3:15:41) So basically what happens is that if I buy let's say product for 10 Canadian and the retail in the US is 25 USD. But if I'm not labeling or saying I'm going to sell sell it on Amazon or anything, I'm just saying I'm just transferring it from my Canadian warehouse to my US warehouse. It would it would go at 10 Canadian dollars value and that's completely legal.

(3:16:01) That seems a little gray, but he said they they do it all the time. I was like, "Sure." So all my section 3 to my shipments are going at cost right now. Interesting. Don't tell too many people that because that might be pretty great. Yeah. I mean, as long as you don't have Amazon labels on that, there's [ __ ] the custom officer can do because uh uh in the last couple of weeks, truck has been stopped uh two times.

(3:16:32) They have went through the inventory, there was no labels, nothing. And they were like, "Yeah, fine. Whatever the invoice is." Interesting. Interesting. Good to know. Yeah. Um, my custom broker has taught me a lot of stuff. Yeah. There's always like these little gray loopholes in every in every business, right? Yeah. Because Yeah. Once you start giving them volume, they they they come back to you and say, "You know what? You can save money here.

(3:16:57) You can save money here." Like, "Yeah, why not?" Um, but to somewhat circle back because I had this thought. Um, it was I think it was when we just started this group. We're just getting going, so I didn't even have a whole lot in here yet. Uh, some people may be familiar with Reezy Resells.

(3:17:20) So, he was like one of like my he was like one of the main reasons why I started selling on Amaz. So, I believe like a lot of the information that he had was always good. Um, he's like the core reason why I started. That's I found his videos and that's when I started flipping books. Um, so I think it was like not long after we started this group.

(3:17:37) I wanted to see like what his whole spiel group thing was that he was offering, his Reezy Ninjas thing. So I joined it. I think I think there was a trial. I don't think I had to pay when he was just like relaunching it. And they charge I think it was $100 US per month. And when I went inside of it, I was like, there was hardly anything happening in there.

(3:17:57) I was like, there's no way like this is worth like a hundred US dollars a month. And I messaged him and I expressed that to him like like I don't remember exactly what I said. I'll have to look through the messages. And then I was like, you know, like it just it doesn't feel worthwhile. And then he specifically said to me, he said, "Well, why would I offer more when I have a like a three $4,000 paid mentorship? That's where I offer that additional value.

(3:18:24) " I was like, "Man, like I thought I thought you were Oh, damn. He's cuz he's the one that Zo's posting on Twitter on Xeather that oh we don't gatekeep here and all this. I know when I see that when I seen that I was like what the [ __ ] man some people man that is just like don't get me wrong I believe he gives like a really a lot of really good information.

(3:18:46) Um but two is he doesn't sell on Amazon really himself anymore. I have his [ __ ] account. He doesn't sell uh he must be an eBay guy isn't he? He he used to be like super in Amazon like selling used books. Like that was his thing. That was his thing. Um and he has like a he has a fan. What's that? Where he had the the fans was from Home Hardware or something? Home Depot or something.

(3:19:09) Oh, the crazy the heaters. Yeah, the heaters. Yeah. So, and I believe he did that and like I believe he has certainly sold on Amazon. I don't believe he does really anymore. Uh, and I I believe he has given a lot of really good information in the past and I believe he's helped a lot of people get started, myself included.

(3:19:25) But then when I see [ __ ] like that, I'm like like really dude. I'm like, [ __ ] me. Yeah. I mean, the the only guy apparently who I mean who doesn't get keep up at least from what I think is Chris Grant even after taking his courses everything is available on his YouTube channel. It's just that it's not structured.

(3:19:50) Oh, really? His um his what do you call it? Um O08 challenge and all those other challenges, everything's on his YouTube. No, not not everything because like he gets other people to run those, right? Like he has Yeah, the wholesale challenge used to be run by Corey, but now he's he's minting money through his wholesale network, private community, and whatnot.

(3:20:12) [ __ ] So I I ran into him at AMC United and he he's charging 10,000 bucks a year for his community. I was like, man, what kind of value are you providing there? Crazy. So, and he want to get there. Yeah, he has like 100 members in that community. So, he's making 100K out of just running a community.

(3:20:33) And then they also do group buys on that. and a a person who who I kind of know because of my dad was also at AMZ United. He he he he runs a marketplace for wholesale customers. So he tells me that they also kind of keep a cut for themselves. So they they basically asked them to overinvoice what they have paid so for group buy. So so he's making out of that.

(3:20:56) Um and the Walmart challenge was done by someone else. But the O challenge is something that Chris does himself and all the all the information that he shares in that challenge is is structured because it's it's a kind of a live training going on every day for the for 14 days or whatever.

(3:21:13) But there's literally nothing that he tells you that's not available on his YouTube channel. Well, now all you all you really need to do is run an AI agent, scrape his YouTube, create a course out of it using Madness, and you're set. Yeah. I mean his his course is also really cheap like he charges like 297 USD and then you have access to his him and his classes uh for 2 weeks.

(3:21:39) So I mean that pays for itself um for especially for someone who who has just started or or maybe doesn't know how the keeper.com product finder features work and tactical arbitrage works. It's it's a gold mine. But um yeah um and and honestly like for me paying 300 bucks it still makes sense but I'm not paying $10,000 for a community.

(3:22:01) Man, you know what's crazy? When I was when I was in the crypto space, the NFT crypto space, there were groups that would charge you 20 E. So that is equivalent to about six I mean anywhere between 40,000 to like 70,000 USD to join. Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. And those were groups like they were elite. I mean, don't get me wrong, they had like legit, you know, Deca millionaires in there and uh like it was like a it was like a club networking slash um you know that kind of club.

(3:22:39) Um and they would have they would have these events like all over the world. Um and they they even had like actual artists like you know pretty well-known artists in it. But yeah, people pay money for these clubs. Um, and these groups, well, that's that's probably not even that high to be honest. Some of these there are situations where it might be worth it, right? And there might be there might be like some people just want the status.

(3:23:03) There might even be some groups where it's like it actually provides like value that exceeds what you're paying. Get it 100%. If that's the case, 100%. Then it's if if I can provide somebody with like $100,000 worth of value and charge them 40, 50 grand, that makes sense, right? And I and I'm a fan of that.

(3:23:21) Like that's how a lot of businesses operate like when they're successful. The problem come back to it is people [ __ ] charge. Yeah. I mean no names that are doing it. Yeah. They don't have any [ __ ] value. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I met this guy I mean we were we were having a smoke outside. So he he was an ex member of wholesale network that Cory runs.

(3:23:42) He was like that group is [ __ ] Like you like did you pay 10? So he was like no because last year when Cory was trying to kind of build his community and that guy was was a decent size seller. He he he sells like two three million a year. So Cory invited him uh just just to be in the group. So he was like when he asked me for money I was like man I'm [Laughter] out. Oh my god. That's crazy.

(3:24:14) um chilling because you mentioned it for AI scraping YouTube. Um I did with uh chat GPT deep research like like just probably like two weeks ago. I gave it a prompt and I said uh find the best info regarding Amazon to Amazon flips from this Twitter account and I gave him the solst stuff Twitter account.

(3:24:35) I said compile all this knowledge and make an in-depth blog post about getting started with 828 flips. It asked me some some follow-up stuff and it pulled a lot of [ __ ] really good information and like a structured [ __ ] post and kind of wild and from from his Twitter. Whoa. I mean, I've been using chat GPD only for finding HS codes for export, but you guys are kind of acing it, man.

(3:25:01) Oh, we're just scratching the surface. And I'm going to like the reason why I started the AI chat in here is because I want to expand like the group's knowledge base because like we're just scratching the [ __ ] surface. Oh yeah, we're not even not even the surface, man. We're not even looking at the surface yet, man.

(3:25:20) There's a lot this surface is so wide on AI like 100%. It is it is insane. So like here's like I'm going to share it. Here's like the share link for that post and it's wild. It's it's wild that it can do that. And like this is like chat is like super basic compared to like a lot of AIs, right? It's [ __ ] insane that I can do this. Yep.

(3:25:39) And so I sent a message to Saul and I was like I sent him that message. I was like are you cool if I make a blog post like this? Like I'm going to edit it a little bit and add a few things here and there. He's like yeah 100%. Like kind of insane. Yeah. I mean just at the pace that it's increasing at and um the value that you know that you can get from these AI tools it's insane like I mean just just from making GPT rappers or like LLM rappers people are making millions right and rappers essentially they just use

(3:26:13) the model like chat GPT and they just like uh make it something simple like oh you know we'll edit your you can edit your images or something like that or um you know you can identify birds by taking a picture at them and just using chat GPT to do it. So essentially they just have chat GPT running they'll charge your subscription fee for it and they'll make up the difference and they'll make they're making millions per month doing these things. Yeah, 100%.

(3:26:43) Those are just basic rappers. I mean that's just a basic basic level, right? Because people don't understand that you can just like do these things native yourself if you do it the right way. Yeah. Yeah. Or they just have like a good prompt setup, right? Or or a good um custom agent setup and then and that's something I'm going to start implementing here too is like prompt engineering and building a database of efficient prompts because there's there's proper ways to prompt AI, right? It's not just like Oh yeah. Have you

(3:27:11) seen have you seen the ones that um Google and Open AI and the other companies they've put out? Yes. Official some of them are quite rank. Um, I I haven't looked into it. Did you see that GitHub that I shared in that chat about the the AI leaks? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I saw I saw that. And so those show some of the prompts that they initiated to start that AI and like it's it's [ __ ] like 2,000 lines of like this is what kind of AI you are and this is what you do. Yeah. Right.

(3:27:43) So like that's that's kind of nuts. But I want to like build like a li a library of things that could be beneficial because there's good there's there's prompts that can get you [ __ ] results and prompts that can get you super super good results, right? Well, not even just prompts is there's also the chain of thought.

(3:27:57) There's also different ways to have your prompts run. Not just do one prompt at a time, but like combine them um you know, step by step. And there's different method uh there's different methods to it, too. So, it's um yeah, I I have I've I've saved a bunch of documents somewhere and I I have to go through them with regards to like prompt engineering and different results because I was doing a lit review uh for my work and essentially I just got AI to do it for me.

(3:28:26) Um and the problem was that uh you know there was a lot of um what's it called? Hallucinations, right? AI hallucination. Mhm. So even if you give it the documents and all the info, it would kind of make things up by getting the information from it pre-trained um you know what it was pre previously trained on. Yeah.

(3:28:49) But it's uh there's like acade there's a lot of academia on how to get that done because there's a lot of research that's being done using AI. So, uh, these these, uh, education organizations, they've come up with different solutions to, you know, combat that. So, look at that prompt that I put in the chat there. You you can't just expand it.

(3:29:08) You have to download it cuz it's that long. Yeah. This is for finding suppliers to sell on Amazon. This is the type of thing I'm talking about we were going to have in here. I think I don't know. I posted a while back, there was this one AI, I forgot which model it was, but they had they had something in there where, you know, it said um it it was it was pretty funny what was it was mentioned of like what they were asking the model to do like, oh, if you don't do this, you're going to die or something like that.

(3:29:41) I forgot what it was, but essentially it was just it was threatening the AI to give out a good result otherwise that it would um that the the developer would kill it. And that was their actual like official code or I their official form. So yeah, it's just wild like I don't know what they had they had in their uh in their actual document. So yeah.

(3:30:07) But yeah, like Abdul like for like I have essentially like no coding experience. I don't know how to code. I I know how to like look at a code and like tell you like, oh, okay, that's probably what that's probably what this function does. But I have no I have no coding experience. I I I couldn't write a [ __ ] program to save my life.

(3:30:26) I um I started with cursor AI, which is if you're not familiar with it, it can basically it's different AI is embedded into its software where it can edit the code for you. So you don't have to copy and paste. [ __ ] all it it it does the edits for you. Um it's saying Yeah. and I took it and we have a custom Chrome extension that I got built a couple years ago that is connected to our database of products so that like when my team sources products a little thing pops up if the products are in our database and it tells us if we used it

(3:30:56) in a leave list before where we used it from what the price was etc so that we're not reusing leads right and so I had built I had got this built um I don't know probably two three years ago probably if not more and We were having consistent issues with it lately where it's like um a lot of team members would like uh always get logged out and couldn't log back in whatever.

(3:31:21) Last night I took this I put the programming cursor and I said look at this tell me if there's issues. Here's the issues that we're having. Help me fix it. And it still took back and forth but it helped me fix all the issues. It told me how to go into my database upload these certain PHP files.

(3:31:38) change this PHP PP PHP file which I didn't even know these [ __ ] things existed in my database and now it works and we don't have problems with it anymore. It took it it took me about two hours like with everything all all the back and forth trying it out everything but I don't know how to [ __ ] code and it fixed my problem.

(3:31:55) I know. So the only experience I've had with coding and and I have zero coding experience. I'm a CPA so I I don't go close with computer codes. So um basically I have my own what I would say a toa crossber flips um database that that I I have get that I'm running on keepa and stuff. So in order to create kind of a history I didn't want to go into database and stuff.

(3:32:21) So I started using discord. So it's a private discord that only me and my team is part of and I started kind of telling uh chart GPD to write me a code to do this this this this and I had zero expectations. My wife is a software engineer. So I was like whatever it gives me I'll just forward it to her. I was like fix it please.

(3:32:40) So but it turns out when I pasted that code it had some issues. I went back to try GBP and it fixed those and it has been running for like last four or five months without any issues. I was like man this [ __ ] is crazy. And I was reading your like the AI chat with the cursor and everything. I have a couple of things that I had to do and I was uh kind of thinking of hiring a developer to do that but I think I'll just do it myself. It seems simple now.

(3:33:04) Like like yeah, you can do a lot with the cursor. Like like considering how it can take somebody with no experience and do that. Yeah. Like with any AI, it's crazy. Like obvious like there's still room for developers. Like developers can still do things and do things quicker and probably find some bugs quicker than what like AI by itself can do.

(3:33:22) But like utilizing these tools side by side with developers, nuts. Absolutely nuts. Like I think even if you if you have basic basic level programming like you know maybe just a couple months of just basic foundational knowledge you can go really far with it because then you know how the the structure and certain things work.

(3:33:47) So debugging it it's a lot quicker and even even if you don't have that you can use the LLM itself to help you debug and to provide the structure. So, it's for if you're building something complex, then you kind you need to have like um what's that thing like a PRD? It was like a product um what's that thing called? Um what's that? Product requisition document. Yeah.

(3:34:09) Yeah. Product requirements document. And then there's other other steps that you need that you give it full context into the kind of application that you're building for example. And then you can create a really good framework that that's functioning framework, right? Like you always have to start small.

(3:34:27) You have to kind of iterate on it. Like you can't really ask it to give you all the things at once. So it's not going to be like, you know, you'll do it in like 10 prompts or so. It will take you like maybe, you know, hundreds of prompts to get it uh to get it sorted. But at the end of the day, you're saving thousands if t if not tens of thousands of dollars even just from like the UI design, the user interface and design aspect.

(3:34:51) Like you can get a front end a really nice front end. Definitely because like uh one thing that I was been working on recently or like a month or two ago was like our Discord admin bot, right? because like we had one in here before that I paid a monthly fee for that a developer made paid monthly every single month and it seemed like relatively basic.

(3:35:13) And so when he when one of my cards uh expired and he canled the subscription on me without even [ __ ] really talking to me, that's what really pissed me off because like he disconnected a key component of our server like with the keyword pings and all that kind of [ __ ] And so I had I always had the thought that I'm going to recreate what he has in our in our own.

(3:35:34) And then I sat down like a couple months ago with chat GPT and I reproduced it myself. And that's just with Chat GBT and I made a [ __ ] 4,000 4,000 long line piece of code uh all all in one code block and ma remade the bot. And so is everything as like super super perfect? No. But I'm still like working on it slightly here and there.

(3:35:55) And then like a like when I first started with the free trial cursor, I put that bot in the cursor and I had it completely separated out. So instead of one 4,000 block, one 4,000 line block of code, now it's like structured like a like a proper code. And it it did that. And now with curse, I'm going to update it and improve it.

(3:36:12) And like considering I don't know how to code, it's nuts that it can do that. Yeah. Like now, you know, imagine you get a VA that knows how to code and is familiar with cursor. Yeah. I added something I mean um so I was I was preparing my export documents this this uh afternoon for the shipment going out next week to the US.

(3:36:36) So because of the entire China situation everything has to go through formal entries now. So I asked GP to give me HS codes for everything and turns out that the effective uh duty would still be around like 70% of your cost. So I asked HGPD I want to legally optimize the duty that I'm paying. So can you use alternative um HS scores which would result in reduced duty because again there are certain level of duties which you can reduce even the channel products and chat GPT went into deep research and in 5 minutes my duty effective duty

(3:37:12) percentage went from 70% to 46%. I was like [ __ ] I only pay like $24 a month for this [ __ ] Oh yeah, I got I got my duties down to um one of the items I shipped over um it was being charged like 3500 USD and I got it down to 1K. Yeah, I'm I was I was I was impressed. I was like man for this [ __ ] broker would have charged me at least five to 500 to 1,000 bucks this this thing for free and in less than 5 minutes and and it made sense.

(3:37:51) I went onto the H SDS website of the US government and kind of tried searching the codes and it's justifiable what it gave it what it gave to me. Psych. Yeah. And so what's wild is like a long time ago when Chachi Chat GBT first released, I had heard a story from somebody that had a dog that was ill and he took it to all these vets and they couldn't find out what was wrong with it.

(3:38:13) And his dog was effectively dying. And this was when Chach first released. So this is miles away from where it is today. He had no like he had he he thought his dog was going to die. And so then he fed all the symptoms and everything that the prior vets had said into chat GBPT and chat GBT in the first prompt told him what was wrong with the dog and that's what was wrong with it and he was able to uh cure his dog and his dog is no longer going to die. That's insane.

(3:38:41) Yeah. I mean it is it's it's crazy like I mean both one the incompetency of the professionals they took it to and two that you got an AI that can uh essentially do their job for them. Well some some of it some of it may be incompetencies for sure but some of it may just be like certain things that people are not seeing because they're not able to connect those dots or they have certain biases or whatever the case may be.

(3:39:08) Well, that's to incompetence, right? Like if you're not good enough at your job at diagnosing something, then you know, but you you could argue that in that case, you could argue that almost every single [ __ ] doctor is incompetent at some point because a lot of doctors that are in that field have probably misdiagnosed somebody at one point, right? Well, yeah.

(3:39:25) I mean, I I guess it it it depends on the degree of incompetence and the rate at which they're incompetence. Like I mean I mean just I mean just look in America the I think it's the number third highest cause of death is medical malpractice. So that that's just excessive right. I don't think any other country has it that high.

(3:39:45) So it's yeah I mean it depends right but like the like like humans are imperfect and we can also have extreme biases and we cannot see things have gaps in our knowledge base whatever typically like technically speaking an AI would not have any of those I would depending on what data I was trained with that is the main thing with AI it's the the data that you feed it that's where its bias this come from? I suppose because a lot because that that was a thing that you know back when machine learning I was I was into that uh like when it was getting really hot

(3:40:23) back in 2015 2016 we were talking about the ethics of it and how there were many instances of bias from these early AI models right rather we call them machine learning models at the time and so it was essentially based on the fact of the information that they fed to create those models in the first place, right? So like for example, you had biases in the image recognition models, right? Like for I mean there was a big scandal with Apple and how people of certain skin color or eye shape wouldn't get their face recognized when they wanted

(3:40:58) to open their screen, right? So that that was like you know one of the big ones that kind of pushed pushed that uh issue to the forefront. But there were many other cases in it too and in medical, right? So like incompetency, you know, the thing is with doctors in competency, what I mean is like they take the shortcut, the route, like they're like, "Oh, you know, you're sick.

(3:41:19) Here's here's a prescription, right? You know, they don't they don't really look to treat the underlying causes, just the symptoms." For sure. 100%. And I mean, I've even experienced that myself just seeing doctors and like obviously not at a scale where I was going to die, but I've had a doctor where I had bronchitis.

(3:41:37) She said, "Oh, just go home and drink some tea." like [ __ ] [ __ ] off. But yeah, like I don't know. No man, doctors are incompetent. Like the I've seen I've seen a lot of doctors there. I can say like they're incompetent in in Canada. They are for sure. I mean, we have the data to back that up too. So that that exists in every profession, though.

(3:42:01) No matter no matter what you Well, well, there's there's ser Well, I mean, there's different degrees of incompetence, right? There's one there's life-threatening, right? cuz especially with medicine, right? Um and and because when I say incompetence, it means that there are processes in place to deal with that.

(3:42:17) And it's not I'm not talking about mistakes. There's a mistake and there's incompetence here, right? There's a big difference between the two. One is unintentional, other one is due to uh your lack of knowledge, right? And I think that's the main issue. It's a lack of knowledge and relying on, you know, old information. 100%. I agree. Yeah.

(3:42:43) Doctors, man, in Canada, they suck. Objectively speaking, they suck. So why aren't you trying to be a doctor and try and change the world? I I used to be wanted to be a doctor. I I went to premed. Yeah. So you you you could be the change. It doesn't work like that. Unfortunately with Canada, the way the system is built up, it doesn't work that way.

(3:43:08) You can help the select people that that come to you. You can make a difference in your life. Yeah. There's some battles you just can't win. I'm a dirty dirty sculper. Yeah, I know. Uh but yeah, it's yeah, Canada's cooked for in terms of healthcare, but coming back coming back to it, I think we are very much so in a very interesting place right now with AI where it is and where it's going.

(3:43:47) And I think like if you're willing to adapt these things and really learn them properly, like so many people are scared that like this is going to like take over the world, replace everybody's job, etc. I could certainly see that aspect, but I believe more so if you learn how to utilize them properly in your job and don't get left behind, you you can be at the front of something that's going to absolutely change the face of humanity. Oh, yeah.

(3:44:14) It's it's going to I mean just just the education system changed so much because of AI right uh so yeah a a lot of things are going to are going to change especially like the front end you know the low the low barrier to entry positions admin stuff that you can essentially get an agent to replace you with it's it's going I think it's going to expand much past that.

(3:44:39) So, we're already seeing like a lot of those things 100%, but I think it's going to expand a lot past that. Well, well, the thing is things are slow on the uptake too cuz even though AI has been around uh for what is 5 years now, four years now. Um there I mean just looking at just you know things in general there hasn't been too much of a drastic change.

(3:45:04) I mean besides like the layoffs you see in tech right? um partly due to the economy and all that other stuff. But there hasn't really been too much of a drastic difference in our tangible world right now. Well, the capabilities that I've seen from like something like simplistic chat GPT from when I first started when I started with it to today, it's it's miles apart.

(3:45:22) But yeah, but most people don't even utilize it. That's the thing. I know. That's the crazy thing. So, it's not even at that stage yet. So, once it gets there, then we'll see more material change. I was We're still early. We're so early. I was talking to my brother the other day and he was wanting to put together a process for uh tracking reimbursements because he was trying to help my dad with track reimbursements on Amazon, right? And I said like and I mentioned this in the chat about like um making cases. So I was like showing him

(3:45:53) the process of like making cases and putting like grabbing FN SKs, how many units are like discrepancy and all this kind of [ __ ] And like we're literally sitting there. was like, "You know, I could probably just have [ __ ] Chachy BT make us a script to do this a lot quicker." And he's like, "Fuck off.

(3:46:08) " And like I put in what I wanted, couple prompts later had a running script to do exactly what we wanted, which would save a [ __ ] ton of time. He's like, "Holy [ __ ] shit." He's like, "I didn't know we could do that." Yeah. Most people don't know the capabilities of it or don't even use that at all. I mean, think about there's still a lot of boomers around, right? There's a lot of boomers and Gen X's and um Yeah.

(3:46:31) Yeah. like I don't know in insanity insan insanity like that that prompt that prompt that I put in that chat there use it on something for whoever in here that does wholesale kafar abdul use that on something that is not chat GPT so use it on claude use it on Gemini pro fill in your information see what kind of results you get it'll probably surprise you do do it do it on those models with deep research the uh question, but what's the difference between like TajT and Claude and Gemini and they're different companies,

(3:47:11) different models? They're both Okay. So, it's they're different companies. Yeah. And like they have different They're good at different things. They have different information and different structures. Yeah. So, their their data is trained differently. So, it's essentially their competitors. That's what it is. Okay. I see.

(3:47:28) And so like investors is selling the account that Jordan just shared in his group for $140 US. So that's where that's where I got it from. Yeah, I bought it from him. Oh, okay. Perfect. That's I was I was I was about to buy it when it was selling for 100, but then the price increased and I kind of said that you know what, I'll figure it out later.

(3:47:52) So that's where I bought it from. I'm going to be adjusting it and then it'll be available in here. Perfect. Yeah. No, I'm I'm going to use it. I'm going to use it. I'm I'm I'm I'm kind of getting big on AI these days. I mean, you know, it it kind of it's impressing me like with each with everything I'm I'm putting at it and it kind of exceeds my expectation every time.

(3:48:15) You said your wife was a software engineer, right? Does she does she use it at all in her work? Yeah. Yeah, I believe so because she she has like uh J GPD premium before I even bought it. So, I'm I'm pretty sure she's using it. I was curious to see how it's being implemented in the or Yeah. You know what? I'll have a chat with her and probably let you guys know.

(3:48:35) Tell tell her to use cursor. If she doesn't already, it'll change her [ __ ] life. But, Gafar, like so for for example, like with chat GBT, like you compare Chad GBT to Claude for when it comes to coding, miles apart. So much different. Claude is like even like chat GPT like 03 which is supposed to be like super good with coding you and I've I've done things with 03 and then I compared to Claude so different.

(3:49:03) Claude is so much better. Wow. Yeah. So what would you recommend um Claude or the Google one for what? For for these I mean uh Amazon research and everything of that sort. I haven't like supplier research. I haven't tested them all. Uh, so but I would probably say probably Gemini like the Google one. Oh, okay. Perfect. Yeah. But yeah, like even like utilizing cursor, you can switch between multiple different models.

(3:49:38) And so when I was running into a problem with something that I was doing with Claude 3.5 and we're having some back and forth and it just kept going in a circle, then I just switched briefly to Gemini 2.5, fix the issue. So it's like the AIS all have very very different capabilities and shine in different places. So what would be the best overall? Chat GBT is probably like the most diverse overall. Yeah.

(3:50:06) Yeah. Gemini is pretty good too. They're all they're all I mean you couldn't really go wrong with them if you got general stuff but uh you can try them. You can use a free version uh for each and see how their outputs are because it really depends on the task. Yeah. But yeah, quad is generally good for coding.

(3:50:33) Um plaude and um cursor are pretty much the gold standard being used uh you know as as a combo. And then Gemini, I heard recently with their updates with their new pro version has is apparently better. I haven't tried it yet, but uh yeah, like writing claude I believe is still good with writing and I think reasoning uh GPT might be ahead.

(3:50:59) I think their 01 model for logic and reasoning. So it really depends. There's there's websites that actually rank their scores for these different things. I think Analytics Vidia, I think it was called, they have and and other websites that actually track the different scores for uh for these different uh outputs or use cases.

(3:51:25) But yeah, there's so many different models and they all do like certain things so so much better than other ones like it's hard to keep track of. And like DeepSeek is really good for locally running on a low budget. If you have a graphics card on your computer, a decent one, you can run that locally for free. Yeah, I heard a life hack in case there's ever an apocalypse is make sure that you have a solar battery that you can charge your phone and install Deep Seek on it. The light model. Yeah.

(3:51:54) Well, here's the thing. You can even run I believe their their new one or was it Alibabas? I haven't tried Aliwabas, but one of those two. You can run their full model locally and it's really I mean like decent. It's like not as good like compare comparatively to the um other models, but for running it for free, you pretty pretty much like save a lot of money on it.

(3:52:23) But yeah, just because of like how much capability it has and like I don't know how how or if we're going to do it, but like I would like to expand like a knowledge base in here all around AI. Um I I can't say how or if or if when we'll have it. Have you tried Madness yet? I haven't. You need an invitation to get accepted. No, no, no.

(3:52:44) Not anymore. What? No, I think Didn't I mention that? I don't think so. You just said try Madness. Maybe I forgot. Yeah. Well, I think I said that people were selling the codes. They don't anymore cuz it's open now. Maybe I wasn't clear. Oh, no. You said you said it has open access. I didn't catch that. Okay. Yeah.

(3:53:03) No, I haven't tried it. They just It just came out uh open access a couple days ago. I have to try it, too. But and see, like I I want to [ __ ] dive so deep into these things because these are so interesting, but Z is like I have I don't have this much time to do this. I have so many other things I have to do.

(3:53:21) It's so depressing. Yeah, you have a lot more use cases for these different things than I do. I know. And I want I have to kind of think of something to use it for to see how good it is. And I want to use them because I know like a lot of these things will save time. But just like some of these things like I just can't spend the amount of time with it that I think I I should.

(3:53:41) Like that's why it took me so long to [ __ ] try cursor because I was like I'm not going to use this. I haven't GBT. It's like all a sudden I try I was like, "Oh yeah, this is going to save me so much money." So Jordan, I wanted to ask you off the call. It was great catching up with you guys. Talk to you guys soon. Bye.

(3:53:59) Have a good one. Bye. What were you saying? Sorry. So, I wanted to ask you about um if you've had any experience with private label andor what are your thoughts on it? Not Not really. Like, so I I've had thoughts a long time ago, even before I sold on Amazon, about private label. So I I scratched the very the very top surface on it, but I don't have any real experience with private label.

(3:54:27) I think private label can still be an extremely viable business model, but I think it's very very difficult to get right. Uh, but if you do get it right, there's a very large potential payoff. So you haven't attempted a private label brand or anything any product like that? I have not. No. Interesting.

(3:54:49) And I thought you just didn't really didn't uh tease you or cuz I know most people have and they're like, "Oh, didn't work out, which is why they're still doing the wholesale and all that." But I had like after I've actually like started with Amazon, I haven't really had any interest in doing so.

(3:55:07) Um just because I know of like the barriers that exist with private label, right? And I don't think I can invest the time and resources needed to make it viable. Really? Mhm. It's that difficult, huh? I think it can be like I think some people get lucky, but I think it can be. And like the private label of like a decade ago where you could just find something all get manufactured through like Alibaba or uh the other like major manufacturers that existed and slap your own label on it, you know, quoteunquote provide some extra value, make a bundle,

(3:55:38) whatever. that doesn't exist anymore because all these Chinese manufacturers are selling the products themselves. And so as soon as you manufacture a product, even if it even if it doesn't exist on Amazon right now, within a few months time, guaranteed it's going to. And they're going to be able to sell it for way cheaper than what you can because they're the ones that are making it for you.

(3:55:57) And it's going to be extremely hard to be competitive and you're not going to have anything that you can offer that's going to increase the value over what they can offer. So, you need something you need something relatively unique or it has to be North American made um or it has to be hard for them to reproduce and you have to do it before they do it.

(3:56:18) So, how are Kevin Pacman and Kevin Counzie selling a $7,000 Amazon PL course to the general public saying, you know, this is something that's so viable and so easy to get into and because they they sell you on the idea. They don't sell you on the actual quality of information like like with most gurus. So, it's interesting because I was in a call um with a group of Amazon sellers.

(3:56:48) It was just like a a public call that one of these gurus was one of these gurus was was hosting and a lady was in there and she had asked a question and her whole thing was she took a course about private label. I don't remember what what it was. And she was told between this private label course and this VA that she could hire that could help her run this business that they should buy these kitchen knives, brand it, sell it on Amazon, everything would be easy peasy.

(3:57:16) She invested $10,000 into it to get all the initial inventory, get everything set up, make the listings, all that kind of stuff. Sends it into Amazon, sells nothing, and completely baffled as to why because this course told her these are the exact steps you have to take and this is where it's where how you're going to make money. and three months later she has all this inventory and she hasn't sold a single unit.

(3:57:35) And I think that story that that lady experienced is more common uh than people actually lead on but people are embarrassed to share those experiences and stories with people so you never hear about it. Yeah. They just pack it up and move on. Yeah. Like I I've heard many cases where like I get in deep conversation with somebody one-on-one and it's like oh then then they tell me it's like oh you were right when you when you were [ __ ] on this person.

(3:57:59) I took their course when I first started and I was only selling for a month and I knew more than what they were telling me already, but I paid them for the course and that person has never publicly said anything because they don't like confrontation and they feel embarrassed about it and they are never going to tell anybody about that experience.

(3:58:18) Yeah, that makes sense. That happens a lot and that's one of the main thing that's one of the main reasons why some of these people can continue on for so long because people do people do not voice those opinions. Mhm. Yeah. To be honest, I really want to get into um the private label space whether that's private label on Amazon or like a brand through Shopify and you know using social media and all that.

(3:58:46) The only thing is I don't use to Tik Tok shop. I'm in Canada so I don't have but yeah the other thing is that's a hot thing right now. The other thing is I can't use like music and all that in my videos or anything like that. You can use halal beats. Never heard of halal. Yeah. Where are you halal beats? That's Yeah, there's only that's only one move.

(3:59:08) It doesn't I don't think it's going to No, there's um there's there's actually Muslim content creators that have created entire uh TV shows. You know Muhammad hijab? Yeah. He has a crazy He puts Yeah. You see his no music involved. I mean you could do that. You could do that. You get AI to do that for you. You pay someone. And I saw M do that.

(3:59:32) I was like yo that's insane. Yeah. is just I mean people have their opinion on whether that's actually allowed or not because it's similar to you know you're just replicating music at that point but you know I mean you could just have some um you can have drums though you can have that so you can have drums and vocals yeah but that's why I'm like you know I got to there's a lot there's a lot of content creators like they just have sound effects they don't have music like for example Alex Ramos.

(4:00:04) I don't think any of his videos has music in it or I I don't really hear it and his stuff goes viral. Yeah. No, it definitely does, but you don't notice it cuz it flows perfectly and all that. But yeah, a lot of them just use sound effects, too. Yeah. Most of them use sound effects. Yeah. I don't Yeah. But regardless, like with a business like a private label business, I think it can be viable.

(4:00:28) But you have to consider though that if you're starting a private label business and you want it to be successful, you're probably going to have to pour a decent amount of time and resources into it and probably so much so that it could potentially take away from your Amazon business. So, as long as you're willing to either sacrifice that or put some form of process in place for it to not take away from that business is going to be what's going to determine on whether or not it's viable for you.

(4:00:54) Yeah, I think North North American made that would be the way that way you're actually able to differentiate and not like you can have a premium product and even if Chinese suppliers do come in, it's not going to be the premium product and you can charge a higher price and everything and I think a lot I think a lot of it comes down to also like depending on the type of product but I believe in no matter what aspect you do I think it can help is and like a lot of furu Bruce like talk about this, but it's very I

(4:01:25) think it's very real is if you're able to build some form of community around that idea that can also help you greatly. That's exactly how I built this thing that we're in today and our leads list is I built a community around it. Um yeah, enthusiasts or well if they actually believe in what you're doing and your idea or whatever you're offering and like it doesn't have to be like something like it's like oh I don't think somebody would be super excited about handmade soap but there's people that are excited about handmade soap,

(4:01:51) right? And they want to come in. they want to talk to you about. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen that. That's where that's where people really hit it. The new thing is like making all natural products, no preserv new thing right now. But yeah, I believe if you're able to do that, like that also can really really help and boost a business.

(4:02:14) But it's it's a lot harder than than you may think. It takes it takes a lot of it takes a lot of a lot of effort. Oh, he just left. I thought you were just cutting off in the middle of my sentence. He's like, "Shoot, man. I got to do all this work now." I'm out. I'm out. It's too much. I just froze.

(4:02:32) I thought something happened to the chat. But yeah, like it it's it's it's not as simple as just like putting your name out there and building a community. Like it takes a lot of effort, but it's very very doable if you're willing to invest the time. Yeah. Or maybe just spend a lot of money on affiliates. That is that that's always an option, too.

(4:02:52) go to these small communities, content creators, and get them to show your product product if it aligns with them. That is you'll have to find actually well get a product that aligns with them first and then Yeah. So, there's I mean I already Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Um Jordan has you have my u my website link that I have that product.

(4:03:15) I like $15,000 worth of inventory. Um, I just started selling it now after having it since like January and I sold like 60 units, 70 units so far, but I got to liquidate that somehow. And then a lot of people just say you can use meta ads, you know, find a good product, use meta ads, sell, and then scale after that.

(4:03:38) You you can get some off of that, but it's not always just as simple as running ads and just making a million dollar business. people people have still like your product and you still have to still offer an experience to people. Yeah. Um have you have you talked to Bra about his Shopify business? Yeah, his watch van watch mods. Yeah.

(4:04:04) Yeah. Yeah. Um yeah, he we talked about like the meta ads and all that and um he's running them too, but I've given him a lot of I've given him a lot of tips to to implement that he says he's working on but he's been busy so he hasn't implemented them yet. Then I [ __ ] harass him all the time and say, "Why haven't you done this yet?" But I think if he does it, it'll it'll help him. It'll help his reach.

(4:04:25) Yeah. I mean, he's doing pretty well with it. Well, he was actually he said he had some really good months before. You want to mute yourself? Um, disconnect me or something. I can't My phone is freezing or something. I I can hear you. I I hear a bunch of stuff in the background. Hey, that's not fair. Disconnect me. I'm saying disconnect me.

(4:04:49) I My phone is freezing. Okay. Okay. Okay. Hold up. There we go. Yeah. Honestly, like feel like building a brand, ecom brand is like the biggest thing I've always wanted to do. So now it's like I'm learning a lot from this one. So I got to liquidate this 15k, you know, figure that out. Maybe learn how to run bad ads properly with this and then go from there.

(4:05:18) Do you know Saul? Saul? No. Like from Flip Alert Saul? Um, no. So, I'm going to send you his Discord. Talk to him. He He has built a brand, like his own brand that he sells on on Amazon and on Shopify. And just ask him if you can if if you can have a chat. He likes to talk business if you're serious about it.

(4:05:44) And you'll probably learn some good insights from him. And he's definitely he won't charge you, but you have to be serious about talking to him. Yeah, talk to him. I'm I'm for real. It very well might change it. It could potentially change your life. Yeah, I'll talk to him for sure. I mean, I've been I've been serious about it for a while.

(4:06:09) Just kind of Well, actually, I thought this brand would be the one. I'm not going to lie. And I think the potential is really there because I started selling units and I've had reorders from customers where this girl bought a three-pack bundle of it, the mix pack bundle cuz there's three flavors. And then two weeks later now she just bought $180 worth of it and it's threeack of all three of the flavors.

(4:06:35) So initially she had one of each of the flavors. Now she bought a three-pack of all three of the flavors. So it's like product is really good. The only problem is it's illegal. that wasn't the case, it would have been a big butt. Yeah. Oh, that's hilarious. But I heard that maybe what I can do is tip to the US, have it be US-based, and then I'm good. Yeah, for sure.

(4:07:06) So, Niagara Falls, cross border. Yeah. find logistics place that can uh house and trip your units for you. Exactly. Yeah. And then it's just US. But in that case, it's very lenient. There's just a couple guidelines you might have to follow in that same. Yeah. As long as it's legal in the US. It is. Yeah. It's uh legal.

(4:07:31) Well, if you search up cleanpuffs.com. Cleanpuffs. Puffs. Yeah. Yeah. The domain name is really good, too. Uh, I always bug cold chilling because he's also Muslim and then I call him a DJ. You guys are You guys are hilarious. What is this? What is this? Yo, are those vapes? They're not. They're technically vitamin bars, if you will. Bars.

(4:07:59) It's to quit vaping and smoking. Oh, okay. Well, what's that? Well, it's not illegal. Not legal. Oh yeah. I mean I gota I got to be registered with like NPN sell it as a you know research purposes only. Well what people do is they sell it as an aroma therapy diffuser. Okay. But honestly I don't want to be in like a sketchy area of business.

(4:08:27) So, I'd rather just, you know, like there's a I don't know if you guys heard of peptide uh treatments therapy, but those guys are raking in millions. All they do is they get their peptides from China. They put a nice package around it and then they sell it to people and they sell it for research purposes only, right? So they'll say not for human uh you know use but people obviously use it and they work really well.

(4:08:58) That's the thing. So like uh countries like Dubai, I mean in the UAE and then other clinics around the world some they actually offer those uh treatments and they'll charge you like 350 to $500 per injection whereas you can buy pretty much like a 3 month supply for that much from these guys and they're getting it for like pennies from China, right? So yeah, I mean there's that.

(4:09:25) And I was talking to somebody. They're like big uh I think they're close to eight figure sellers. Um they're from the GTA as well. Pretty good close friends in my the warehouse and all that. And they have some friends who are in the like the health space. So he was telling me that if you can get approved, if you can start like a brand, a health brand of some sort, you get approved by Health Canada, which apparently it's not as complicated as it seems, um then you're like good cuz you have a uh what do you call it? like a a barrier to

(4:09:55) entry now. And they have like a beef tallow or whatever that beef tallow, whatever it's called. It's been popping all over, I think. Um, but it's one of those tallow. Yeah. Like grass-fed tallow bomb for like your skin and whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Those are one of those Yeah, one of those brands. And they're doing and tallow and Yeah.

(4:10:19) One of those natural like premium skin brands. and they're doing like some crazy numbers and he was saying that's like a really good business. Um, and apparently there's ways to, you know, get yourself approved with Health Canada and be legit and also scale. So, I'm thinking something maybe along those lines, too.

(4:10:39) I mean, the peptide space, I'm actually like seriously considering that because there's a lot of u like these big uh influencers that talk about it and actually use it in the health space. Like I don't know if you heard of Andrew Hubberman. Oh yeah. Yeah. He uses peptides. You're supposed to making a [ __ ] fragrance brand, dude. No, I wasn't.

(4:11:02) That was your idea, man. I was never into that. You're passionate about it, man. Not that much. I know about it, but I'm not like uh I'm not like, oh, you know, I'm not not one of those like connoisseurs like, oh, I can tell this is this note, that note, this came from this tree and and this part of the woods, man. I don't not like that.

(4:11:21) I just like smelling good. But, uh, what's your what's your favorite fragrance? Uh, right now, I'd probably say, uh, Initio's Paragon. I don't know. Yeah, it's it's niche. Um I used I used I bought Club Di on Amazon two years ago. Oh, those are those are pretty good, too. The Aventus clones. Aventist clones.

(4:11:50) Yeah, that's my favorite. Yeah, I mean those EDP is good. Chill chill got uh Aventist Creed for free. Oh yeah. Yeah, got them for free. How? From stuff from stuff in the server, dude. Not in the server, man. That was and and the funny thing is is as soon as Jordan told me about how to get these, that was literally the first thing I searched up and I found that it was there's an error on it.

(4:12:13) I was like, "Yo, does this count as an error?" Or you're like, "Yeah, yeah, it is." Cool. That I bought it. Those bottles are crazy. Silver Mountain Water was like 500 bucks. Yeah. I mean, the Creed the Aventice that I got it was 100 mls. So, it was Yeah. 500 bucks from Amazon. That's why I only buy dupes. Yeah. You can get them for free, dude.

(4:12:32) Or you can get the legit ones for free. That's true. But apparently those businesses have insanely high margin. Oh yeah. Yeah. 100%. Like 80%. Yeah. Insane. But you need a Yeah. I'm not cuz the the main the main cost for them would probably be the bottle. The packaging in the bottle. Yeah. So the materials itself for the fragrance are really cheap.

(4:12:58) But yeah, if you haven't yet. So like I haven't started a quote unquote private label brand, but I have I have my own Shopify site. I've started multiple different companies. So like ads will certainly help you and they are certainly helpful. But building community also helps a lot. But also on top of that, which a lot of people don't do is SEO optimization for their website, which if you haven't done that, that can also help you greatly and be a very cheap investment.

(4:13:28) Yeah, I haven't done that. I was told that that's one good way to promote. So, yeah, there's lots of different like little things you can do to rank higher in Google and ensure that if somebody's searching for something that you're kind of number one outside of ads and that's SEO optimization.

(4:13:44) So, that's like ensuring that you have proper keywords on your website, trying to get back links from other places. Um, and then even starting like a blog, like a blog on your website. And so you can take something like your website, you can feed that into like chatbt deep research and you can say give me um you know x amount of ideas for SEO optimized blog posts for this brand, this website and then you can have it produce those blog post and like edit it, make it sound human, whatever and you paste that in the blog post and it could be

(4:14:10) likeformational things or like research or like this is why these are helpful or this is how you quit nicotine or whatever what all kinds of different [ __ ] and then that help that helps you rank a lot better and have you have more people find you organically. Oh, so it would be like a page on the website as like a blog blog. Yeah.

(4:14:30) If you have a Shopify site, you can just simply just add a new page, a blog very very easily. Yeah. Yeah, I've noticed a lot of websites they tend they started having that like they're having a blog around the product that they're selling and they'll talk about like either the benefits of it or how people use it, the different like use cases and case studies and sort of things like that, testimonials and like it doesn't always have to be specifically like for your product.

(4:14:56) It could just be like related around what what are people searching for your product, right? So like you can talk you can go into like websites like answer the public or quora and you can search keywords like uh quit smoking nicotine addiction those types of things and you can see questions people are actually asking you can take those questions feed that in the chat chatb like make me a blog post about this because then when people are searching for those questions on Google your website's going to pop up.

(4:15:22) Yeah that's so true. All right I'mma head out. It was nice chatting. Likewise, a good one. Yeah. But yeah, those are those are things that you can apply relatively easily and like they don't have to take a [ __ ] ton of effort. Mhm. Especially with charging.