Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day 12-5-2024

Episode Date: December 5, 2024

I always do all my eBay Messages and Orders First Thing.

Good morning everyone. It is almost 7 o'clock. Slept in a little bit more today. It's getting colder so you tend to want to sleep in more. It's going to be a weather day today. We're not getting snow yet. We haven't had any snow. Although lots of places have had tons and tons of snow. Like feet, feet of snow. Not feet and of so of snow not here in rhode island uh it's been warm enough still we did have some cold days where if it would have rained we would have had snow but it didn't

um so let's see what's going on this morning so what's what are we on today is the 12 5 we're on thursday so we're already into the uh december let's see i did take i take advantage of cyber monday though uh my mother we need an upgrade stove for for the countertop. So we got one at Walmart. With a huge discount on it. So that should be in a couple days. The Walmart is only right down. Walmart is only right down the street.

I probably could have just picked it up. But it said it was going to be free delivered. So I just kind of went for it. The one we had. Wasn't a brand from Walmart. And it kind of ran its course. So I don't want to trust it. Because my mother uses it all the time.

So we'll look at that when that comes in. So let's see what's going on. So let's check what's going on. So let's check the early news. The news overview. Anything that I'm seeing today. No that's really. Jumps out. Anything different other than the.

Normal doom and gloom. and the chaos of the world? I try to skip over all that. Yeah. All right. So, let's start with... We'll start with Etsy this morning. Still working on Etsy. Have not had any sales yet.

I'm kind of a bummer. I actually added a discount to invest offers to etsy but just a little bit of a harder store to sell on but i decided to come commit to it so we're going to keep putting stuff up and maybe down the road we'll sell some stuff. So nothing on Etsy. Let's check my YouTube. And then I was playing around with TikTok yesterday. I'm going to do something else with TikTok. I haven't quite figured out what that is. I just post anything I post on YouTube here.

Goes to TikTok as well. So looks like I'm at $26.95. Had a couple views. So, my increase in subscribers completely stopped. Once I stopped doing a... Promotion. once I stopped doing a promotion but I ended up being like $50 I came out of my account for promotions so I'm not really doing those and increasing more subs isn't doesn't really seem to change much but will I'll probably do another promotion or something seems like if I do something in regards to 4,000 hours and or anything about monetize it tends to get some use as most other ones that are on there do I wonder what happened

here I wonder what happened here. Oh. It's uploading. Let's see what else we got going on. Oh, I worked on my Project Journeyman story last night. Oh, it's working on my book still. Yeah. I'm actually really going to make a book, but it's a fun thing.

Yeah, it's fun. I'm working on a story. I like it's fun. I'm working on a story. I like it so far. And with ChatGPT, my buddy Zippy, I can pretty much explore anything I want with the characters and come up with ideas. A lot of it will be flashbacks and stuff like that, I think. I don't know. Just having fun with it.

Just something before this, and stuff like that, I think. I don't know. Just having fun with it. Just something... Before this, I would never have had any... I always wanted to do something, but I never could sit down and actually pull it off myself. So this makes it fun. Opens up new ideas and things I can do. I've been trying to take advantage of Zippy

as much as possible. I think they're saying now there's 3 million people a day on chat GPT. Something like that. I can't see me not using it in some way. Especially for me, because I'm just such a sponge. At 56, I have such a thirst for knowledge about all the old stuff. And creating some stuff I always wanted to do and and with Zippy I can do any of that it's really fun it makes getting older here even more fun

I'm a big fan of getting older but yeah this just makes it even cool all right so let's go to eBay now let's see what we got going on okay I was on my breath on eBay because I never know what's gonna happen oh actually got a few orders maybe all messages or something could use a little boost let me see what else we got going on that was good playing around apple laptops yesterday and I only have one order five messages bummer that's not usually good if I get five messages that's using oh I did sell the board though okay let's see let's check my messages i think it's in regards to a sorry for the um you have an order hold on let's see let's go down to they change the way the the messages are in there it's a real pain in the buns counter offer twelve dollars for $12. Yeah, I would like to get that.

So, I have some old Apple laptops. And one of them needs a power adapter, so I'm going to get this power adapter. Pretty cool. And we'll see if it works. So the screen doesn't work.

I know the screen is no good. We'll find out. A little over $20 for a power adapter. I'd like to see it. It's one of the original, early, early models. The PowerBook 150. It had some RAM in it. It had a good RAM stick. 20 megabytes.

So, I want to test that RAM, because that could be worth a few bucks. I saw one for sale for uh, for only 8 megabytes all right so let's check out my um let's see so looks like oh this is the guy with the motherboard this looks like i have the

okay all right so i had to make sure this guy understood. He had to make sure it's a PS4, 1115A, SAB-001, 4-pin power supply. So it's for a PS4. But the big thing is the dry board is an 025. So only 020 or 025 is not as wide as if you have an 010 or an 015 i will ship it out today alright so let's see next my next so that's an order that's the only order I had like I said I saw

I saw 10 up in the top corner but it was just 10 messages and stuff so let's go to my next message ooh it's a long message. Some people give me messages that are huge.

Hey, I'm hoping you're doing well. Fellow Rhode Island here. I'm working on a fat PS2. I'm just wondering if I could do some work on it to bring it in. I have a PS2 Slim that works. I think the CD-ROM laser is busted. It can read.

It looks like this guy wants me to fix something. Also see the extra hardware spot in the back. I'd like to install something there. Never put anything in there before. Okay, so. So. So, so. I'll find it yes Oh PL back no need for this drive actually my name is I actually so I

think it's a cold OPL let's see if I can find it on my YouTube. I'll send them a link. So that's why I like to use my YouTube. PS2 OPL. Let's see if I can find it. Fire up the OPL. So I have a video, which I do when I did the OPL. This is commercials. My commercials from my own videos. So there's an ad blocker. So I should just sit here and watch commercials all day? Ah, weird return.

Ah, that's funny. I must. Uh, weird return. It's not what I expected. Uh, that's funny. But you never know what comes. I must have got a weird return. Ha ha ha. Uh. Oh yeah, okay, so. Well, so I copied a link for that to show him. Uh, and I'll send it to him.

Sometimes eBay doesn't let me set links that god damn it did it again they want you to do social media eBay yet it doesn't want it doesn't let you link to your YouTube so frustrating eBay just did they just do things backwards so I can't send them a link I'll just have to just say I have OPL videos on my youtube the same name so Setting me be able to just give him a link so he can click on and watch the video I have to do it this way, which is a real pain in the buns All right, so

Now we're going to 9000 Oh this is about the board Says Cud This reach for the 9th If I buy now Cud

I guess the word would have been It says C-U-D Cud This reach By By the 9th if I buy now. It says, um, ship same day, but I am in Rhode Island. So depending on your state, on your state so now you the best thing would have done it would have been to audio

boarded it and then I close it's early morning so I can't ship anything yet once you ordered I'll ship it I ship same day but I'm around so depending on your state it may take a few days I will upgrade to priority for your forum For you. No guarantees. Okay. So he asked me. Weirdly. The message was CUD. C-U-D. This reach.

B and 4. So CUD this reach. B4. The 9th ninth if i buy now that's a message i got this is for the 9000 model i just started working on some other stuff i put a couple of boards up for the 9000 model and then i wrote back i will ship same i ship same, I forgot to put day in there. But I am in Rhode Island, so depending on your state, it may take a few days. Because if you're in California, although the longest shipment is usually down to like Florida, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico. Those things take forever. I will upgrade a priority for you.

No guarantees. That's pretty much the best I can do. I have no way to control that he's going to get it by that certain X amount of time. So, empty issues. $13. No, I'm not going to do that. I'll just take my one order.

$13. I just can't ship it for $12. It's going to cost me. In California, it's not worth it. It's a top cover for a N64. Meaning it's got either some sort of a ding or anything. I'm selling it for $19. However, with the discount and the coupon, it's down to about $18.

He was best off me down to $13. It's going to cost me $12 to ship it. So it's not worth it. Buyers just don't get that. So that's a heck no. They just think because it's not completely perfect that they can offer a lot less. Which in theory makes sense

but when you're on my end and free shipping isn't free for me that theory doesn't work. There has to be a certain amount that I can ship it. Make two or three dollars. Make it worth my while. amount that I can ship it make two or three dollars make it worth my while and then I can do it

if not I don't it really makes no sense changing old money for new money right, isn't that the old saying old money for new money so alright, so let's

throw a little bit of cash in my account i don't got much but we'll get it actually i'm just gonna you know just keep doing that way it's easier so for two dollars again another ebay fee you can send money whatever's is in your account. In 30 minutes. As opposed to waiting a day. They had it. Initially when they started doing that. They had a percent. And it was really taking money out. So if you had a lot of money.

You wanted to transfer quick. It was really. Somebody must have complained. Because that was just craziness. But I was doing it anyway. Oh. So then they changed it to $2. A straight $2 fee if you want to transfer money quickly.

You can do it on the weekends too and stuff. So it's definitely worth the $2. Shouldn't cost anything else but it. Wait, let me get some other offers here. Oh, I do have two more offers. $9 offer. Oh, Spindle.le 12 down to nine no i'm not gonna do that because there's already i already have two discounts so no matter how many discounts and i have a coupon so no matter how many i do um do buyers still want more I get it but if you're on my end I don't want to give

you more let me see if there's another message here there's probably more messages I missed 950 for that no not gonna do that either just skip those because then I gotta look around for that and it's extra work if I going to do that either. Just skip those. Because then I have to look around for that. And it's extra work. If I have to do extra work on something. And you're offering me a lot less. I ain't going to do it. So, I'd rather just decline.

I decline 99.9% of the time. I accept maybe. Sorry for the delay of my own messages. Hold on. What is this? This is a different one. the delay of my own messages. Hold on. What is this? This is a different one. Sorry for my own messages. I've only used eBay a few times.

Oh, I noticed. It's about not exchanging contact. Totally my bad. My message broke. I don't know what this is about. Exchanging contact for what? I know your address already oh and if I never hear from you I gotta see what this is about oh okay okay yeah so I'll see the same Yeah, so...

Oh, this is the same guy. So... So... I see them. Where in... Oh, this is the guy from R'N'L. You want to get PS2... That repaired. that repaired so there's two three messages from this person from Rhode Island but I can't even click on that oh yeah

so it looks like there's no feedback nothing so not sure all right so that's my ebay i have just a one order but it's a decent size order it's for the motherboard that we talked about the ps4 1115a um it has the uh the big thing about that it's sab-001 motherboard it's only the four pin power supply for the 1115a but the big thing is the drive board it's 025 again like i said 025 020 you can use the center cable is the same uh the 010 and the 015 the center cable is the same the 010 and the 015 the center cable is wider so therefore you can't use it and they're on their random they're not and 001A can also be, I'll do it because he was pretty cool, I'll do it as that.

The 1001A can have an 015 or an 010 or it can have the 025, 020. I never found a common theme of where they are. So therefore I have to make sure that it's definitely detailed. And even with all the details that I do, buyers still return stuff. I actually have a PS4 1115A motherboard that a buyer bought and then I got a return opened and the guy I wrote in the return oh I have a 1215 a I was like you got kidding me so all that wasted time effort and of course the shipping cost there and back was like probably between the two 25 30 bucks i lose it stinks that's a bummer but there's nothing i can really do about it

so luckily i really haven't had many returns lately which has been nice because it's a stress. Adds a lot of stress and lots of times it adds lots of negative feedbacks. So. I'm always doing the same no matter what the order is. Just sometimes things go wrong. Either my mistake or something really funny with the

buyer and then usually it escalates into something weirder after that okay that's the controller there is control so feedback arrived item arrived quickly and as described as described well packed so all good positive yay that's what we like i don't like negative negative i don't like neutral neutral just as bad as negative so i ordered i haven't really been buying anything but i decided to invest in this little power supply that goes with my power book 150 uh i am going to list uh power book 5300c and then i have a 5300 CE which is significantly an upgrade. I may keep that one because I have one power adapter but I'm gonna sell the 5300 C so I'm gonna list that today so you can I do have a video of me

playing around with the Apple computers but we're gonna do more and I pull up a duo Today and test all those other ones Because the duo is a system that Apple had for the early laptops. They're smaller. They fit into a dock and Then you could use that dock as a desktop for for your monitor pretty cool pretty cool One of them does work. And I have three different Duo laptops. And I have the last model, the 280C. Don't know if it works here or not,

but we're going to find out today or tomorrow. So let's see where we're at. So that's all my orders right now. Let's see where we're at. So that's all my orders right now. Let's see where we're at for this morning. So about 24 minutes. All right, so we'll pick something else for the day. I have to kind of keep opening my mind up,

but I have another idea about something that's really fun stuff. Some Euro vintage computing, which is really really fun and there's two main are brands and maybe we'll talk about those later with my buddy Zippy my co anchor my sidekick co-host will talk to him later about that all right so everyone have a good day and we'll talk to you later on this afternoon bye