Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Friday 12-20-2024

Episode Date: December 20, 2024

Ebay was Such a Drama Battle this morning.

Good morning everyone. It is 6 o'clock, 1220. Five more days until Christmas, so it's coming there. I think the deadline for all the shipping is just about over now. So yesterday I did lots of stuff testing my 600XL Atari series. 1200 I did. Some of them work, some of them don't. Actually, they all kind of work. The 800s, I had two issues with 800s. Two different issues, actually.

One, the cartridge didn't recognize a cartridge. And the other one's not... Does recognize a cartridge, but then it doesn't go to a basic like it's supposed to. So, I'm going to list all that stuff today in some some form or fashion What else do we do yesterday? Oh, I spent a lot of time after With my zippy chat GPT going through I'm trying to learn how to do

well first I'm trying to learn how CPU and zeros and ones work. The very basics of computing. So I started there asking about that. And then I got all the way down to learning all about different ways that energy can be manipulated to be used as a computer. And it got really interesting. All different sorts of energy sources, because all computing is, electronics in general, is just a manipulation of electricity.

However, there's other energies that you can manipulate, including quantum computers, which uses molecules and stuff like that. But there's more. There's lots more different sorts of energies that can be manipulated and are kind of in the early stages to be used for electronics and computing.

So I've had a really good, long conversation. I may make a little segment of it later today. Computing. So I had a really good long conversation. I may make a little segment of it later today. It's long. It's maybe about an hour. It would probably be about an hour. But it was really fascinating to learn. And I can learn anything I want.

All on my own. I don't have to go to school or do anything like that. that uh real excitement for the this next chapter of my life and just in electronics in general of what i can do to learn because basically like i said i've said it a few times i'm just like at 56 i'm just like this huge sponge uh my mind is wide open and all I want to do is learn stuff I didn't know before and all the new fun stuff that's coming so and as long as you have your mind you're pretty good at least that's what I figured out took me to mid 40s to so to be clean sober on a good steady medication and then uh just everything i just want to learn so that's my fun stuff this morning all right let's um let's um look i'm not quite a

yet this morning almost up but a little like i said literally just get out of bed and then i also the charges beat the Broncos. Thursday night football. Scientists achieve collective quantum behavior in macro sonic oscillators. So the more I click on things

about quantum computing, the more I get more pop-ups for it, which is cool. Because I like it it's really fun more drone settings government knows something about desktops oh I found a cool computer to run my windows 98 per square picture of an atomic nuclear made of quarks and gallons new superman looks weird the quantum computer i mean like i always say that about all these um

dc and marvel comics how many times are we gonna redo the same stories it just seems like we're it's time for some new characters. Or something. Batman. All those. Superman's got another one. Soon we'll have another Spider-Man. I think we can kind of put those on the shelf now and say I think that's enough. But that's my own opinion on there. So let's see. I don't see anything it's popping up at all this morning for a

news from overnight the actually I saw the the trailer for the Karate Kid legends it's actually pretty cool I don't know how he's crossing him over like that but it's pretty neat I'm really a big fan of that whole idea of taking an old character from an 80s when they were young and turning them into a series when they're older that worked out really well cobra kai is really fun i've only watched a little of it i'm a huge fan the first few episodes i was like wow this is really smart idea and it worked I don't know how he did for six seasons but I liked it and then I just stopped watching stuff

so I think I just heard my pump go off for the first time so we're well into December sump pump that is got many videos of me with my sump pumps downstairs and I just upgraded to a newer sump pump just recently over the end of the summer and I just heard it go off which is shocking because normally the water in my basement it stays there's it's always in there it's below the basement not on the basement below it a certain level in the sump pump hole um but normally it starts to rise uh early november and then the sump pump runs all the time. This year, because we had a drought here in Rhode Island. A pretty severe drought, actually.

My sump pump's been dry. Not dry, but it's been low. But I just heard it go off. Where I'm sitting in my room, I can hear the sump pump. And I added another thing so it doesn't clunk once it's done. Which I didn't hear it clunk. So I put another newer pump in. Sump pump.

My second one. The one that was in there had been there for two years. More of a preventative thing. And so I just heard it go off. And I didn't hear the clunking thing. So because I have to have a sump pump in my basement. Or I would have a pool down there. I actually have two sump pumps.

The second one is on the other side of the basement. All the way to the far end in the back. As a backup. So. Now I need to go down. I've been checking the water level.'m going down there but i haven't heard the pump go off until just now and then once i get into the season which is probably starting now late uh that pump will run 10 20 times a day keeps the water way way down lol i'll show them

i'll show another a little quick video later maybe Maybe today. So, Etsy, nothing. Nothing going on on Etsy. Had a couple sales. Someone's favorite, Wayne. Great, exactly what I needed. I got good feedback from Etsy, so that's always nice. Favorite, I got lots of fun stuff on Etsy. It's going to take a while.

Just in the negative on Etsy. I'm actually negative on everything these days. Alright, so let's go to my RSS feed. 1rss.com 1rss.com So I'd like to see my...

This gets uploaded to my RSS feed once I'm done done today so we'll go to that but first i like to see any overnight activity i get to see the downloads i only had three so total total uh since i started this i've had a 153 downloads that's pretty exciting i had one day when i was really peaked out but now it's kind of crashed and burned a little bit Some new dots soo lots lots of dots in India. That's pretty cool something new on in Africa So it gives you the list and gives you a map of dots to show you where where it's coming from so it's very exciting yeah so i had three three to four different places from india so that's

exciting welcome india france and um united states canada pretty exciting all right so that just keep plugging away. This is something I will do every day in the morning. Because I'm up. So it's just kind of fun to... Get you an idea of what's going on. Because it is gaming related. Because it's about my gaming parts and things I sell.

And questions. Damage control. All that. And then I try to do the gaming system in the afternoon and i haven't really been doing anything at night right now but maybe i'll try to get back to that i was doing stories but all right so we're gonna go from there to youtube again this is my little process in the mornings therefore that's why it's called Groundhog Day because it kind of repeats although the actual stuff I end up doing is different therefore makes a

little bit different all right so let's check my YouTube I'm at 5,370 subs. So we've gone up some more. My Santa photo is the one I promoted. And I keep promoting it. And it's getting like 5k views. However, as always. My estimate revenue is $33.22. So in one whole day of all views.

30 seconds of viewing time some things are viewed for 40 50 so I haven't got any revenue at all so the whole concept of you see if I have any messages I often talk about it it's just a little disappointing that I was counting on some sort of a revenue generator here but still i'm gonna do another video it's been since i can't remember i marked the day when i first became monetized i was so excited i was like oh cool now i make some extra money on the side and it's been a good two months and i still have not gotten uh and i mean i was only at 1800 subs so the amount of subs has nothing to do with

monetizing and they actually have to watch stuff so my atari i got 925 views so i can't use some use on stuff I just just doesn't it's not long enough but we just keep plugging away I got lots of stuff to do today on YouTube too so so now the drum roll to my eBay I sold or a big board yesterday which I really needed which is the Jiffy Jiffy Doss compact no it's Jiffy Doss Commodore 128 motherboard it had Jiffy Doss on it some sort of a mod on it that worked I've had two of those boards and and One didn't work. I sold that really fast and the second one I just sold for a little bit because it's there I

don't see one before and someone with Commodore on the on its title purchased it. So I gotta get that list packed and shipped out today. Let's see what we got going on here. So let's see what we got going on here so let's see what we see here all right so go to my messages again this is all the stuff i do when i first get up my shop opens as soon as i get out of bed let's see why is your price here uh so somebody return request another return request

another return now we're at seems like two returns now uh bummer snuggle it missing parts of pieces it's not complete it should have come full complete what's this guy talking about I don't know what he's talking about I don't know what he's talking about I don't know what he is. Oh this guy just cost me an hour. Not missing anything.

What's he talking about? Oh, that knucklehead. That was that guy I talked to the other day about his lens assembly. Let's see. Metal container. What is going on? Lens. Yes. lens Pictured in detail This ended up being one of those

I wish I would have never sold to the seller Buyer time with no issue yeah I don't understand that so I'll have to return the guy and return it anyway probably gave me back his broken one so whatever I'm sure I'll get a negative feedback I believe I contacted you about this before so oh wow oh I just had one of those too yeah I did just have one of those so it's the modern warfare 2 tf-41 yeah I did just have one I sold as a set so I do not have any more I had a full black set set up so I do not have any more. And I couldn't find a front plate so I gave the guy an upgrade with the modern warfare 2 TF-141 shell.

This has got some numbers and colors and all kinds of stuff on it. So I do not have any more. So I won't have any more. That just happened to be happening. I had one left. Oh, I can't believe that guy with the silly, um, two dollars. Alright, so two bucks. Awesome. That's pretty awesome. two dollars alright so two bucks awesome

so now this guy from Canada so now he's gonna cost so this is a deal when I get something I got a price pretty high but i probably go down a little bit on it it's for the commodore 64 top cover the case the shell uh and this guy from canada keeps messaging me about it and says why is your price why is your half... Why is your half shell's price... It is what it is.

I price... As I want. Hard to find items are more expensive. Then, if you see it complete lower than by that. It is what it is. I have prices I want see he's from Canada so he wants it really low so therefore I

can compensate for the extra shipping costs of going to Canada and that's it so guy was nothing so let's see if this guy replies back it's not gonna deal with another return I saw it now I have two returns bummer and the eBay change the message and it's really, really difficult to understand what's going on with these messages. It's the worst thing they've done. They're always doing something, which is fine. Let's see.... Then I wrote, I was not selling a complete drive. I'm back to this guy with the... My main folder on the listing is exactly how I ship.

How they ship all the time with no issues. Nothing is missing. It is a complete lens assembly. It's so hard to sell gaming parts. Somebody out there that wants to know. On a daily basis to grind. So that ended up just being a nightmare.

The guy just ended up returning it. And I'm sure out of it I'll probably get bad feedback from it. But. What am I going to do do it's a lens assembly you just you take yours out when you put that one in it's pretty it's for an xbox 360 um the 1439 you can actually use in a 1538 too uh has four torque screws you undo them you take the you take the lens assembly off and then you put the you swap it out with a newer one or one that's working And you put this full squeeze back on and you're done. So I don't know what his nonsense is all about All right, so I sold it

So now I'm down to my orders. I have two orders first one is a cpu for the original 01 through 05 xbox so we sold that oh i gotta print out the other two things too from yesterday all right so that's that that's a couple bucks i sold lots of those so i had a couple of the GPUs for those the heatsink sets but I sold those so I don't know I don't know I don't know

I'm not collated I only had two ores, but I had a decent ore yesterday so that helped me out. And then I'm going to list some more. Oh, all that Atari stuff I've been playing around with. I've got to get some of that going. Alright. Oh, then I sold another spindle for the Nintendo Game gamecube and then i had a guy yesterday who just bought a spindle and then messaged me that it didn't fix his issue and i try to explain as i say in the listing uh spindles are not usually not the issue it's always the laser board but buyers don't listen to me or don't take my heed of the details so so far he hasn't returned

it but i'm sure that'll probably get returned and lots of times buyers will say i shipped a defective spindle no i didn't ship a spindle the laser board doesn't work correctly therefore it never reads the game and so it has to read the game on the nintendo gamecube first and then the laser board would tell the spindle to spin so that the game can then go ahead and play but if something's wrong with the laser board it never signals that spindle to spin. Therefore, nothing ever spins. Or, it could be the lens that's not reading correctly through the laser board. Or it could be both. It's literally a nightmare to sell.

As is every other gaming part, pretty much. But, you would think. So I try to detail that you've got to you've got to adjust your pot but even then it can still be the lens uh laser board so i got that message yesterday a 9-1-1 message well actually he was pretty cool about it oh let's see if oh this guy here from canada uh is what it is. Good luck. free shipping is not free for me after all these just this piece of this guy also this guy replied back let's read it so jerky i know have jerky

style says also why i have make an offer and you can't count an offer well because his offers were twelve dollars okay so it is what it is you think you you're having gold me know what I have jerk style seller good luck with you buy people with lower half a few of fire between high prices hilarious watch of I me knows what I got no low ballers I'm right on target. Oh, silly. After all, fees... Just... Just shipping cost... Is... $15.

My cost out of door. Door. your offers were lower than me actually the cost Me actually. The cost. The cost. I would.

Have had. To. Pay you. To ship it it I cannot comp I cannot I cannot compensate lower offers for your extra international shipping costs. I cannot compensate lower offers. so this is just kind of a frustration thing this morning but his offers were like uh ten dollars twelve dollars so it says your offer was lower than the cost i would have had to pay you to ship it I cannot compensate low offers for your extra international fees yeah I accept your free shipping costs. I have to pay to ship it. I have to pay to ship it, knucklehead. This because buyers need different things.

So this is just more of a frustration. Kind of like I said, I sell different things. I sell a part. I sell a part. because buyers need different things. And that's about it for that. at some point I bought this complete complete C64

so money was up fronted fronted money was up fronted to purchase it This means... This means... Not only do I need to cover shipping costs eBay fees packing and shipping supplies

for this sale but I need for this sale but I need to recover money spent initially all all this also at some point i bought this complete n64 so money so money so money was so money was upfronted to purchase it. This means not only do I not only do I

this means not only do I need to cover my shipping shipping costs eBay fees packing shipping sales, packing shipping supplies for the sale, but I need to recover money spent initially.

After all that, I also have to offer it as a listing. As a listing. So, many hours. So much time.

Effort. Is spent. much time effort is spent detailing this is harder to find harder harder to find so it is priced more it's priced more and then i'll do it finally okay and we'll do one more thing and we don't snuggle it also at some point I bought this complete c64 so money was up front and to purchase it This means not only do I need to cover the shipping costs ebay fees packing and shipping supplies for this sale But I also need to cover money spent Initially, I also have to I also have to offer as a listing so many much times effort spent detailing the listing.

Finally. And then what was the last thing I was going to say? Finally. This usually gets me in trouble. It's not a sale. The other guy will probably cause me trouble. So what was I going to say? Sorry. It's not a sale. The other guy will probably cause me trouble. Ah, so. What was I going to say?

There's one other thing. There was one other point that I was going to make. And I can't remember what it is now. Hold on. I forgot. Let's see what else. So this is just one of those little back and forth kind of things here. But.

Return request. Oh, I have to do the return request oh I see and oh I've got to do it I've got to was it was the provide just return it I never I won't just I'll just do ups understand what's going on with that but come from label oh I know what the last thing is I was gonna do for my message well 35 minutes lately I've been really uh chatting away here but this is what how my mornings go a lot of times I don't you never know when I wake up on

eBay what what's gonna happen let's just finish this up oh what was the last thing i was gonna say oh i know what it was oh you accepted it i know what i got i don't know i don't know this is finally your offer was so far off that no, so far off it was quickly and happily declined. counters as not to waste buyers or my time basic concept You make a offer. I do not like it so it gets declined. declined buyers get four tries to get it right finally your offer was so far off. So far off. It was quickly and happily declined. Happily declined. I never do counters as not to waste buyers or my time. Basic concept. You make an offer. I don't like it. so it gets declined buyers get four four your and then finally if you're messaging me why I did not take your offers then you should not be doing them if you're messaging me why I did not take your offers then you should not be doing that for me I would have took about but like 35 probably for it but that's it and then that's it finally your offer was so far off it was quickly and happily declined I never do counters and I was not to waste buyers on my time

basic concept you make an offer I don't like it gets declined but I always get four tries to get it right You're messing with me why I do not take your offers and you should not be doing them And that's that So that's this morning kind of a little blah this morning for eBay, but a Couple of sales, but I had a return of i don't know i just lend assembly just swap it out i don't know so i don't know what that's all about and then i had to deal with the uh the other guy but that's not a purchase that's just someone who wanted it

that he wanted me to ship sell them to him for uh lower than it would cost me to ship it. That ain't happening. Best offers in general are just really, really frustrating. I decline most of them because most of them are really far off from the actual price. But not all of them, though. I just took the offer. You're going to need it. Oh, good luck with your sale to just in I will now gave me another offer again oh there's a little fun thing this morning i don't know you're going to need it so he put uh good luck with your sale you're going to need i'll probably end up selling for like 30 bucks or something but it's really long and it um it's a commodore 64 exact top cover the problem with the commodore 64 is

it's very long so I have to put it in a even a longer box it's really awkward to try to find a box for it so therefore more reasons that I um sell it for more because it's more shipping and handling so so let's see what else we got here now this guy's doing something else now I got another offer oh now he's at 99 cents now he's just being funny now. It's awesome. It's awesome. Not like a pissed off buyer. Or not even a buyer. Just a browser. A window browser, I guess you could say.

So we're just going to get him out of my way by blocking him. So this is a definite blocker Because remember I didn't initiate this says you're now blocked so I'm gonna block you right now, buddy Copy You are gone I Don't have time for it's so hard to sell as it is to deal with eBay drama

and all that and all the negative stuff it's so hard block a buyer so I have a quite a list of blocked buyers now anybody that causes me any kind of problems

any sort of negative neutral feedback I'm just done I don't need it it's too hard to sell as it is and finally you're blocked. You're blocked. Move on. I am done. I've had enough of that nonsense. It's fun for a little bit, then it gets frustrating. I don't have enough of that nonsense. It's fun for a little bit.

Then it gets frustrating. I don't need it. So you'll never get anything from me. Okay, it all comes down to that he's from Canada. Therefore he wants to... At a very, very low price. Because the shipping for that to Canada would be like an extra 20 bucks so therefore wants to take the 20 bucks off my end which is not happening so I'm not compensating I have however over the years you've seen all the stuff that I've gotten internationally the amount of shipping costs

extra I've spent over the last five years for international purchases is just craziness that's why i'm on debt consolidation i'm trying to get out of that but so i've never had a buy uh an international seller uh have a compensate for me when i purchase something but if you want something yeah it's what you got to do so it is what it is all right so 45 minutes this morning guys wow so that's another day in the life of not such a good ebay morning actually at all but we'll um move on now because he'll be he'll be done so i don't have to worry about it. Alright, so later on today we're going to continue with the motherboard boot-ups.

We did all PS1 models yesterday. I'm not going to go to PS2. I'm going to switch over to Nintendo. Start out with NES. See how that all boots up. And then go to the Super Nintendo. Maybe he'll do those two tomorrow. Today. Later on.

Alright, so you guys have a good day. I'll try to shake off And then go to the Super Nintendo. Maybe. Do those two tomorrow. Today. Later on. Alright. So you guys have a good day. I'll try to shake off everything this morning. And move on. Alright. Bye.