Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Monday 1-27-2025

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

If you Can not find that special Part needed Upfront invest in a complete unit. Take What you want than resell the rest to make your money back or even a Profit. Basic eBay 101.

Good morning everyone. It is now 6.35. I slept in a little bit this morning. I didn't want to get out of bed. I was kind of up but I wasn't. I'm still nice and comfortable. I didn't feel like getting out. So, we'll check the scores. I watched a little of the Washington game. I'm pretty feeling both my teams lost, but we'll see. Either way, it'll be a fun Super Bowl. Check that in a minute. So yesterday I did some one-on-one live.

Did my life in a double shave, so I did a couple of fun things for my YouTube, other than gaming. And then I did my one-on-one with my silly hat on, which was my Mario hat, which is pretty cool.

And then I spent the rest of the day listing some stuff, which I gotta continue to do that. I gotta get some more stuff listed on eBay. And then unfortunately, later on, well, not fortunately,

but I started playing some more Forspoken. Is it Forspoken? And it was really good in the beginning, but now I don't like it. Now, as soon as you get into the fantasy land, you have to just fight things. And I'm already having to fight a dragon, and I can't beat it. And I'm like, eh, now this isn't fun anymore. There's, like, no interaction with anything.

I thought I was going to go on to, like, all kinds kinds of usually you go to the village and you talk to people and you do all stuff like that but there's nobody around and I was like, oh no, this got stupid. I'm not digging it so I may not play it anymore. Luckily I didn't buy it so now I'm glad I didn't because it was really fun when I was interacting with everybody

in New York but as soon as I got to the Fantasyland, now it's terrible. Now I'm like, and I can't really jump right. That aggravates me. You have to push one button and then lift at the same time. I don't know, push a button and a knob and she goes straight instead of up.

And the dragon, there's no way to beat the dragon. I can't do it. Usually a game, if I get to a point like that I'm just like, eh. And then I usually will never play it again so that was kind of disappointing okay so let's see what happened let's see the results are in for me i have no idea until it looks like the chiefs oh yeah the chiefs and yeah it's exactly what you expect

chiefs beat the bills again because you can never get over that hump that's terrible but that's cool for Chiefs I want to see them do a three-peat so Eagles beat up on the Commanders later on looks like Commanders look like they're doing alright

but I was like oh no this might be getting away so I went to bed and it did get away 55-23 Tom Brady gets some more slack I was listening for a little while I'm not a big fan of him at all.

I think as most people are not as an accommodator. He sounded a little bit better than the last time I heard him. So I was watching. He was doing the Eagles game. So that's it. That's the possible

but we expected Chiefs Eagles Chiefs they're they're on a roll there's no reason why they couldn't do a three-peat Tom Brady's contract

explained how much he's supposed to have a long contract but then they're talking about him not staying around for too long who knows

I'm not really a big fan of his let's check the But then they're talking about him not staying around for too long. Who knows? I'm not really a big fan of it. Let's check the under fire for comment during Eagles-Commanders game. All right. So let's see what else we got going on in the world. So, of course, I had dreams all night of wondering what the results for the Super Bowl are going to be for the Super Bowl. And that's about what I expected. 29-32.

Bills just could not get to that hump, huh? All the Bills mafia goes home disappointed again. They're great as a playoffs team, but Chiefs are just it. They're just a big dog. And unless it was at Buffalo, that was their only hope. Interesting. Alright, so let's go on to my morning and see what we got going on here.

Um, Etsy. Ooh, maybe an order on Etsy. I'm getting some little bit of orders here. Just small ones. I'm not making a bit of orders here. Just small ones. I'm not making a million. But if it's something I'll take it. Put a lot of work in Etsy. They rebuild it.

So it's a little board. For the Japan. Sega Saturn. I sell those a lot. The beige one. The 3220 board. I've got one around somewhere. So that's cool.

So we'll get that out. That's my first order. So it gives me a few orders from Etsy this week. Which is really cool. It's starting to come around. I was getting nervous that I was going to have no luck with Etsy. But I had to kind of hang in there for a little while. But I think we're on our way.

I'm going to add some more stuff. But it's time consuming to do it. It's through a migration app called Cart2Cart. It brings all my Evays over to Cart2Cart. And then I have to pull one by one listings over to etsy because i have to hand pick the ones i want to do it's gonna be 20 years or older so it's not a simple migration of all of them or i would probably have done it and it's different it's not one for one uh the etsy is different so i have to uh change stuff stuff before i'm per listing as i migrate in order to do it it's got to get motivated but maybe this week

i'm gonna definitely get motivated to do it god i want to get some more i want to put some vintage computing on Etsy. Everything I have there is well over 20 years, so I'm not worried about that stuff. I got some bigger stuff. All right, so that's Etsy, one order. Cool, so let me see. Maybe I'll get a little. Usually they do, Etsy does automatic bank transfers daily.

And then if you only have a little bit of money, sometimes I only have a few bucks in my account. Then I, so I get a few dollars. So that should transfer. That'll really help me out. And I, as I always say, I live order by order. Oh, let's look at my RSS feed here next gen gaming is here unreal engine 5 they're already talking ps6 in 2027 so they're gonna ps5 is gonna have a short run i think the pro is his last uh did your effort and then that's it um at least i think so i mean it could could uh it could be another earn but you never know i had a pro for a little bit not too long like one day

it was cool i just it was too big. And I. I needed to trade it out. So. I like my pro. I mean my. I was slimmed down. Big fan. And maybe at some point.

I'll get the disc drive. I really don't need it. So. Not rushing out to find it. Okay. So where am I. My RSS feed. This morning. Let's see if any analysis.

Any uploads? I had three. Three uploads since yesterday, so that's cool. If I get a couple each day, that's very exciting. Another one from Melbourne. I can never tell where these three that were exactly from last night.

It just gives me a list of where they've been downloaded. So, that's pretty exciting i'm at 174 i'll be today will be 175 for my podcast since i started doing them i want to say about a month ago so all right so let's check out YouTube. So I put up, and I also, I also put up, oh, two live feeds, and I did a one-on-one, and I promoted it. Not that I can afford to promote another one. I promoted probably $200 worth of stuff this week.

But let's see where we're at. Let's see if it helped at all. Let's see where we're at here. Oh yeah. I got some action going on here. We're at 14,442 subscribers. Oh my goodness. My revenue went down again to $31. My. Oh my goodness. My revenue went down again.

To $31.93. I'm sure I'm seeing. Lots of views. And all kinds of stuff. Untested. Panasonic. Oh the special made untested. Powerboard.

For the Nintendo. Well it's actually a Panasonic Q. SL-GC10. the special power board in there I mean special motherboard it looks exactly the same except for the back end so it looks like we had some views on that nice video keep it up that's cool I like when someone says that thank you so some people like these videos I do videos for my listings on

eBay but they're also I also put them as a short because they're at 60 seconds anyway and lots of people like them and all this is just to show us a specific part and then I put that list that that's short is actually my eBay video for the listing

and then I can also put the link on my YouTube here so I'm sure I like finding your survival hustle got a little action there So it's pretty cool We continue to climb we had a new milestone Which is the 14,000 subscribers? Yesterday I did NEC the PC fx That was fun going through all the cartridges and stuff So now I'm at 7.6k videos so I'm just plucking away at my videos here I'll always keep doing them so at some point within I'd say not even half a year I'll have 10,000 easy many of

them are shorts though so and but a lot of them are longer ones most of them are at least 20 minutes including my podcasts most videos I do are well over 20 minutes and then I do long ones sometimes I've had the live feed on for, I did one for like 8 hours

just on my desk vertical by the phone and I try to keep doing stuff during that whole time, which I did. Most of the time I'm doing stuff. So there's not much free air time. A little bit here and there. I may have to walk away or do something with my dogs or my mother or something.

But most of the time I'm just concentrating on doing something. And then I'll keep a live feed up. But at the end of the day, I have $31.93. So go figure. Alright so we'll go on eBay. Let's see if that listing. I listed that listing. For that motherboard yesterday.

And I put it a little bit higher. For a motherboard. And that's the GameCube. Let's see if we had any action for that. Alright. So. It just could not be. It's the GameCube. Let's see if we have any action for that. All right. So, PFCU highlight. It just could not be, though. Josh Alba for a limit loss.

I just can't. I just can't do it. Players play off loss to Patrick Holmes and the Chiefs. It's just... It would have been fun to see them actually get the next level just can't do it so let's see if any action here I see five things pop up up in the top right corner good evening I want to cancel the order okay I will do that okay but I want to cancel an order so I have one order and that's one less order now so see cancellation it was a ps1 the 9001 back cover that it's different than the other ones because it

doesn't have the that extra port off the back so ordered by mistake so I mean he ordered the wrong one so we'll cancel that for him let's go to I have a couple orders maybe yeah three orders and let's see the feedback looks like I got a couple more feedback's been really good I just try to keep doing what I do

in each order I try to keep doing what I do. In each order, I try to give everything I have for each and every order. Rhymed very quickly and I subscribed a great deal. Helped in a pinch for my heatsink for the original Xbox. I'm checking my feedback here. Fast shipping, great packing, awesome price. Cool. All the metal for the bottom black case and all the metal oh yeah that's right that's what he wanted really quickly i got it out as soon as i could get it out

for him that's what i normally do anyway but once in a while a buyer will ask how fast it's going to get shipped i'm like well i think it was it was a holiday last week so i was was like, oh, I can't do it until the following day. Oh, it was Martin Luther King Day last week. Ooh, so we had something. Sold something of value, so we'll check that out right now. That can really help me out. End of the month, things going on here, so.

I have to do that. Okay. Let's see what we sold. Something bigger. Which is what I needed. I needed a big hit for some time. I've been trying to do some bigger items. Waiting shipping.

Let's see what we got here. I have a feeling I know what it is. But we'll see. It's exactly what I think it is. Something sold big. Oh, I sold two. No, it's not exactly what I thought it was. This guy bought two.

Of my. Atari 600 XL motherboards one had a left side screen uh it works each one of them worked uh but the other one had um not fully tested had some sort of a different chip to it but it worked and then the other one worked but the left side screen was it he bought both of them so that's awesome see again all anything vintage computing has really really helped me out uh i'm trying to go more towards that i got lots of other stuff not tons of stuff but not as much stuff as i ever had for gaming but i invested in a lot of so this technically you could say an Atari 600 XL that's what these are, motherboards could be considered gaming

or vintage computing because it's actually both so that's awesome so that's two orders out so we're going to get a shipping label I can ship those together and I have a Wii balance board box a big long box

that I saved for just this occasion. So, I'm going to say, let's see, three pounds. California. I don't think it's actually three, probably two. This shouldn't be that heavy. I'll hold the three or four alright

so we'll get those shipped out and it'll go in that big long box I have oh we're gonna add we're going to add We're going to add A signature and liability on those Yeah Add a little bit more to that

Alright, so we'll print those out And then the second one I mark as shipped and then I add the tracking from this one to that one so that way it shows that both are shipping together with the same tracking number that's how you do that

if you have multiple orders from the same buyer you always want to ship it together because A, it saves you shipping costs. And it's just more economical to do it that way. And plus they get it all at the same time, especially two motherboards. So it's all the way in California. Not too bad.

So we're going to mark that as shipped. I mean I could just sit here and do videos on just how to sell on eBay all day long. I've only been doing it for a long time. So I'm kind of good at it. I'm not great at it. But I do alright. Mark it as shipped. So we mark that as shipped.

Buy another bottom case. Black bottom case. Japan label. Ooh. I have to find one of those later. We'll figure that out. Alright, so let's so I mark the second order. Again, it's two orders going to the same guy. Two different boards.

The first order gets to the shipping label and I add extra shipping weight no one's gonna be two not just one and then I have to click on the the shit I do to UPS to get the tracking number I can copy it but I can only do it going to there and then I go back to my second listing and there's an add tracking

and then I just paste it I do everything copy paste I can fly around doing copy paste and I use a trackball so as fast as I possibly can do stuff when it comes to listings Paste. I can fly around doing copy paste. And I use a trackball. So. As fast as I possibly can do stuff. When it comes to listings. And.

I can do it. Pretty much. Alright. So now both of his orders. Show. The same tracking number. Although they ordered them separate. But it's for the same.

Same buyer. So that's pretty exciting. I can use that. Thank you very much. A couple other orders orders I had and a few Etsy orders so that's awesome and then my last order is oh and that guy cancelled an order but that's not didn't show up as an order anyway but so then we're going to do this one. This is a Nintendo GameCube

the bottom black case. Just the case itself. But I had it as the Japan label. You can just take the label off and put it in US. They're exactly the same. That's not really a big deal. I just have to find one now with the Japan

normally I have to pull the Japan off and put the US but we'll find one I am buried right now but I got the I can go dig them out but yeah so it's shipping 13 ounces now it was almost seven Wow. It's really going up. This is only Ground Advantage. $6.84 for 13 ounces. But it's going to Utah for me and Rhode Island. It's as high as it can go. And this used to be the price

of what Priority used to be. If I go Priority, it goes up to $10. My used to be but if i go priority then it goes up to like i think it was ten dollars so my profit margin has significantly decreased uh as is shipping costs keep going up really haven't raised prices at all but i stopped doing coupons and discounts on my really small orders because i'm only making like a dollar or two at the end of it. So it's just not worth it.

And then I get people that do, I still have best offers. People will do, you know, $7 best offer. And I'm like, yeah, don't waste your time because I declined 99.9% of the time. Because it would cost me. $3 to ship that to you. And that ain't happening. So. That's the. So selling gaming parts.

Is kind of really hard now. Because you don't have a low end shipping way. Anymore. Like you used to. Again it's some things like I said I that item I sold for $13 it's costing me $7 just for the shipping cost and another $2 so that's what is that eight nine ten yeah it leaves me about three bucks so when I get a big order once in a while, it really helps me out,

because I can't really count on the little stuff, because I need lots of $3 orders, $3 that I make per order, and you're getting shipped right out, and it's a door-to-door service, I get it shipped out the same day, but buyers don't understand that free shipping isn't free for me, if I could relay that some way before on every listing, I would.

But I'm not going to do that. But I definitely would not add shipping costs. It would be easy to just blanket my whole thing for $5. That would really help out. And then not have free shipping. But then free shipping pops up better when people look for stuff. And it also is better for your account to have free shipping and returns, free returns, which I have both.

It helps your account. It gives you top-rated status if you do it that way. So it's good news, bad news. Things you kind of just learn. So you have to give some way, so I just kind of give that way. And just hope for some bigger orders here and there. But I do do $5 do-do.

I say do-do. I do also, I'll send 5% off on orders as an extra bonus. So shave some of my prices off some of my. Prices off. Some of the higher end things.

Because you always got to start higher. You can always go down. You can't go back up. And most times I do pretty good with. The bigger stuff. If it's hard to find. Obviously it's going to be more. Supply and demand.

Especially if I've gone out. and had to buy a lot. I bought like specific power supplies I couldn't find anywhere. I had to get them from like Australia at, you know, $100 for a power supply. So I do it all the time. So I will, if there's something, especially for gaming. I mean, not as much for gaming. Unless it's one of those really rare gaming systems. But I never really sold any parts off of those. Only the high-volume systems like Cubes and Dreamcast and all those.

But for computing, it's a whole different animal. I pretty much break down most of those. Hardly ever sell complete, although I have sold a couple of Tauris complete. But to find parts for those is almost impossible so if you see it it's really high price usually you'll buy it or I'll take a little bit off for an offer but again this one seems you're never gonna find them again unless you unless you invest up I call it you buy a whole system AC broken for probably much more

and then you take the part you need and then you just resell the rest of it and make your money back or profit. It's your basic eBay 101. Up front. I call it up front invest. That's what I do. I do that a lot.

Especially for vintage computing. If I want something and obviously no one's selling it as a part. I have to look around for a complete one that's broken. And then up front invest in it. And then down the road later on I will resell parts out and make my money back. That's kind of what I do. That's the best way to do it.

I never buy just one part. I don't. I sell one parts. But I don't one part. I don't. I sell one parts. But I don't buy them. I always up front invest. Most of the time. Like keyboards. Stuff like that I might look for.

Alright. So that's that for today. Bills did not. It's like rinse and repeat every year with the bills. It's just kind of gotten old now I'd rather see them just not be good anymore because they just can't same with the

all the Eagles made it back in good for them, I'm not an Eagles fan at all so we're all about the Chiefs now I won't sit and watch the game obviously, it's way past my bedtime I haven't watched a football game probably in 4 or 5 years since the last time the Patriots were in the Super Bowl. And even when Tom Brady went to that Super Bowl with Tampa, I didn't stand up for it.

I was like, eh, not the same. So, and they didn't win, so that's cool. All right, so let's call this a morning. Seven o'clock Alright Later on today I am on to Neo Geo We're going to start out with the cartridges They started out with cartridges

The SNK Neo Geos And then they went to CDs There was also a Neo Geo Pocket So they had little cartridges there too So we'll look at all that stuff later on today Alright you guys have a good afternoon I'll talk to you later, bye