Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Sunday 12-15-2024

Episode Date: December 15, 2024

Good Day to Get more items listed on eBay.

Good morning everyone. It's a little bit earlier for me this morning. 4.43 on a Sunday morning 12.15. Alright, we're halfway through the month already. Christmas will be here before you know it. We really don't usually get any kind of Christmas presents or anything like that. I just got a new stove for my mother. So I was just setting that up yesterday. And she usually gets me some socks or underwear or something like that for Christmas. Just pretty much me and her and my dogs and my brother. Maybe once in a while he comes around.

So very small family. But still fun. We just did our Christmas pictures there up on my youtube pretty fun those will come out really good again the santa looks like a real santa if there was such a thing it's pretty cool and then there's also a video that i actually promoted a short that shows us actually getting our photo taken first time i ever did that. So my really fun Christmas gifts this year already So let's um, see what the day is gonna bring Yesterday I spent a lot of time working on listing

Some computer stuff. I'm gonna really keep going in that direction Because my gaming parts are not really selling much these days so I'm gonna mix it up throw some computer stuff up vintage I did some I got some more to do on my Texas instrument the TI-99 some more stuff for compact no not compact for Commodore 64 i got some more boards to test i didn't get a chance to test any of those boards i'm going to test those today i did test all my ti's yesterday they all actually all worked even though the outer frame looks yucky but i cleaned up one just had one that has uh some sort of video issue on the motherboard. All the rest of them, they all worked. And I have a game that I didn't know I had.

So I was able to test the cartridge slot and those all worked. So that's cool. So I'm going to get a working motherboard set up today. Then we'll do some more outer shells and other fun stuff. I want to kind of get all that done. And then I'll go on to something. Oh, Atari next thing I'm gonna go on to I got a couple of Atari 400s and a 600 mother and some other peripherals and stuff to go through yet lots of stuff always have stuff so i'm just trying to mix it up trying to open up new things to uh sell other than gaming parts and i threw up some uh

i had um a few cameras digital cameras i don't know worth a little bit but they're all parts cameras and then i'm gonna throw lots of other stuff up as we go along here all right so let's check out the news this morning I'm really interested in this whole drone thing I had weird dreams about drones last night everything we know about the mysterious drone spotted over the East Coast so still going on that drone thing and then I said something about a ship. Iran has a ship somewhere. So. I cannot see that being a good thing. This whole drone thing.

Drone settings shut down runways at New York airport. Russians new stealth bomber. Yeah, I think we're all doomed anyway. That's my own opinion. Let's see. Everything we know about the mysterious drones on the East Coast. Let's read that for a second. Eventually something's going to come out of this.

It's probably not going to be a good thing. Sea drones are another thing. Cities in Eastern Europe. Some of the spec drones have been flying over military bases and airports. The APC said it's still investigating. It doesn't believe they post a threat. Yeah, but it doesn't post a threat. Initially, they don't post a threat, but what's going to happen long term? This has gone too far i should just be knocking them down or at least some sort of a jamming system to jam them out of the sky we need some sort of a

a plane that can uh pick them out of the sky somehow i don't know some sort of a tracking beam or something i don't know it's a little futuristic but it's kind of what you need you can't shoot them down but maybe you can scoop them out of the ground out of the air but they do move around fast though so i'm trying to like pick a fly out of the air pretty much but that's the concept you kind of kind of have to go for when you have to get a drone that's faster than that than that drone and be able to pick it out of the air. Something like that. That's what we're going to have to do because obviously now you can see the drones are becoming not only a nuisance,

but they're also becoming some sort of a threat, even though they said it's not a threat. So therefore, you need to come up with some solution to... And I think Space Force, because we do have a Space Force now, like an Air Force and an Army. We have a Space Force. They should be in charge of the space above, even though we're not quite into space. But drones are still considered way up there. So Space Force should have some sort of a way to track these unidentified drones. It should be there.

It should go to that military. They should be doing something sooner than later. The longer we wait, the longer it's going to get. A bigger problem. Alright, so let's skip drones. I did a little short thing on drones yesterday. Ooh, another Etsy.

Maybe another Etsy sale. Yay. So my Etsy. Maybe another Etsy sale. Yay. So, my Etsy. I invested in that. I reached to reopen my Etsy. Let's see if I got a sale or if it's just a silly thing. Oh, I had a sale. Yay.

Oh, and now I'm up to $36 and I sold an Etsy. I'm trying to make that oh i sold a um a light sixer not light sixer front round uh atari 2600 front top cover so i reopened etsy uh about three or two or two weeks ago and fixed up a little bit I still got work to do on it but I got some sales and therefore I'm selling stop selling a few things it's very exciting so it gives me three sales now on Etsy which is a help on Monday if it, any day... Etsy usually deposits every day for... If you have $25 or more in your account. I obviously don't.

But on Mondays, they're supposed to put... Even if you have like $3, they should deposit it. So... So I'm excited that I'm getting... I'm going to get more stuff on Etsy today. they should deposit So So I'm excited that I'm getting I'm gonna get more stuff on Etsy today, that's what I'm gonna do too. I have a migration program through three Colts is the name of the website and then through three Colts is another

App that they have that migrates from eBay to Etsy however uh app that they have that migrates from ebay to etsy however uh it's a different completely different kind of thing so i have to do one at a time because i have to add wheat so i can't just migrate a lot of stuff you can buy or pay for a service to do it for you but etsy's are only 20 years or older stuff. And eBay I have all kinds of stuff. So although the Three Colts brought everything from eBay into its app so that I can migrate to Etsy. I have to do it one at a time. And I can't do everything.

I'm only just doing a few stuff. I want to get my Etsy store up to about 300 at some point. That's my goal cool so that's my first Sunday morning order so let's see let's go back to my Etsy what happened here oh I hit the wrong button let's go back to that for a second so if I had three sales on Etsy let's see that would give me after all the shipping and hold on let's see what that comes out to

don't mess up finances alright so after all is said and done marketing $90. Wow. Well, I'm negative $79. Well, I'm really negative $79.

I'm not marketing $90. Yeah, I'm just getting wrecked. It's really not cost effective there. I'm going to have to change Etsy. I don't know why the marketing is so much so I'm using a marketing $90 $90 for one pattern Etsy ads Etsy ads pattern description so that's negative I'm close to being positive there it's tough these days really hard all right so we're gonna go to ebay today go right to ebay a couple sales let's see

see i put a lot of things up however I'm getting really low offers on it. Let's see. A special offer. $26. $26. Oh no. I thought that was an offer. $11.50. Yeah, that's fine. So I often get offers that have change involved. So it's kind of frustrating when you can't even sell for $12 I tested for me started yeah no it's not I disagree with you he talks about testing, testing, testing. It's the laser board. I'll accept it. But it's groaning, not spinning.

I can see the laser. I'm trying to spin. Huh? How many is that? So, yeah. So, if I have something for $12, I get people that best offer $11.50. It's frustrating getting a um change offer but just kind of how it is now it's kind of a bummer all right let's see what we got going on here like it's something that could give me a little help but no so put a little bit in there today

okay so every time you withdraw instantly it's $2 off so yet another fee that comes off I like to share all this just so you'll know of all the money that comes out from what you sell there's really no way that I can

sell otherwise eBay is number one we used to be good right now I'm getting really negatives on that one so we must figure I gotta pull some promotions off of that because I'm gonna have to take out some stuff because I just I'm just not gonna have the pattern and a few other things for a while. That's another X amount of money. So I've got interest in buyers in just about everything that I have listed. All the new stuff I've listed.

I've got lots of interested buyers. I can't get anybody to buy anything. I just need like a few big, you know, a couple hundred dollar sales and I'll be cool for a while but it's not happening so all right so let's print out the orders on my ebay this morning i have two orders besides that well actually i'll have three orders GPU, so original Xbox 0105 GPU heatsink. Other than the 1.0, the GPU heatsink is not a fan. So you can take the fan out of the 1.0 and throw a GPU regular heatsink in there and then quiet your Xbox right down, if you have that 1.0.

The 1.1 doesn't have a fan. So I sell those about whenever I get them. I sold my second one, so that's that. So we'll skip that out. I only had the two. I don't think I have any more. I found a couple.

There's certain things you know that it will sell pretty quick and only for a few bucks though you know we're talking $15 after I ship it that makes six bucks so but you have to have to offer stuff like that just to get some business on your your site I get plenty of views and and watchers and all that good stuff just don't get a lot of sales and I again I have discounts and coupons oh and the next second thing second thing is the Sega Dreamcast the model 2 has the little on off switch has that plastic GD rom and on that plastic GD rom is that switch that's removable so I sold one of those I got a couple more of those too I'll have to find that later I got a few of those

for the GD-ROM it's only on the model 2 remember the 0 the model 1 VA1 I mean VA0 which is 5 volt then VA1 which is 3.3 volt and those are both metal GD ROMs and then the last model the VA2 is the plastic black plastic and it has

that switch so anything that's, I'll sell it separate. Because everyone always needs something separate. Alright, so we'll get that one. And then we'll... So it's only 5 o'clock in the morning but I go to bed early I go to bed at 5 I need to have at least 12 hours more like 14 hours of sleep

pretty much I use a medicine called Remeron which is a I call it the magic pill puts me right to sleep i have all kinds of fun crazy dreams with it so rimaron is uh i used to use trazodone but that used to give you a bad hangover the next morning it wasn't as as plus a rimaron also gives you a little extra

makes you feel good when you get up. So I'm always up feeling good. So that helps me sleep. It's my sleeping. I've been taking that for a long time now. Really helps me out. Keeps the mental stability. I use that and I take that and I take Prozac. Two times a day. So it's basically between those two.

It keeps my mental stability really good actually and i got lots of stuff to do which helps plus i've also been clean and sober since 2011 which basically saved my life pretty much wasn't for that i wouldn't be here so the key for my life has always been since 2011 2011, besides sobriety, is the fact that I have stuff to do as soon as I wake up. Hence my home-based office here. So I'm not thinking, I don't really think about drinking or anything like that at all. I just think about what I gotta do once I get up. So that's a key for me

and then I add all these other fun things like YouTube and now I have my podcast here so I'm always got stuff going on from the minute I get up and then I'll go I just printed all my orders, not many but I got a couple and then we'll go on

to projects later on I go out doing my buddies too they're really important all my little guys my guinea pigs my hamsters my bird they give you that sense of caring uh then they depend on you 110 therefore you i'm always making sure they're good to go first thing in the morning i'll'll go out there and I'll get all their water, their things changed, their food. Get them all freshened up for the day. And I keep an eye on them all day. And then I get them ready and I clean everything for at night before I go to bed.

So routine is huge for me. Routine is very key. So I kind of stay with that routine. So they're part of my day. Okay. So eBay. We went to eBay first today. So let's go to my RSS feed.

I'd like to see what's going on. One thing I really can check on that is any sort of downloads i'd like to see where they're there's the stuff i put out there where it's going it's going somewhere which is fun it's not going significantly into too many places but uh let's see analysis um I had five downloads. So five downloads and we got some on the East Coast now. A couple East Coast states. Let's see what says cities. So most of the stuff I've been doing is just to get things going.

Hopefully things will at least take, not maybe take off, but at least keep being fun. All right. So we've had a few there. So downloads to date are 119. And Apple Podcasts is a little bit. I am signed up for that. I have a few couple across the country, across the world rather. Pretty fun. Appreciate

anybody that comes in. Okay, so we'll finish up with YouTube. That's my time today. Try to do about 20 minutes. Yeah, we're at 20 minutes, but I'll always go over 20 minutes. I try try to do about 20 minutes yeah we're at 20 minutes but i'll always go over 20 minutes i try to go under 20 minutes uh when i can usually i can keep myself keep doing stuff in the morning definitely have no problem go over 20 minutes all right so youtube let's see something I really really really counted on I just can't get it to

do what I was hoping it would do the effort's there though I mean the hours I just can't get it so I went up to I'm at 4,856 subs yet today I'm only at

$32.11 I think I made like 10 cents since yesterday yet I went up almost like 150 subs since yesterday so it just doesn't nothing pops it just seems like there's something missing

I don't know what it is. But the fact is, people come in and they just look for a few seconds and then they move on. Alex, the kid, loved that pack game. So let's see what the... Comment. I have one comment so far.

My comments have been okay. Yeah. This seems fun. This seems seems fun. This seems fun. Alex the Kid is preloaded on my Euro Sega Master 2. I never had it. I never played I never... played... until now.

Seems fun, I never played it until now. Uhhh... So that's one comment. So comments have been... not too many. And they've been pretty cool as long as the comments are fine I'm not gonna change them back to not having them just to regulate it and then this is something I don't like I'll just delete it pretty much all right so YouTube what else we look for youtube again we're at so in the last 28 days i've gone up to 2684 subs which is significantly a lot more than i had i remember when i was at 23 and it's really

only because i promoted therefore also putting me negative in my YouTube investment here. So I'm negative YouTube. I'm really negative on my eBay. I mean my Etsy rather. I didn't realize it was that much in the hole. I'm like oh crap. Net profit. I had $36 in sales. $90. Etsy ads. I'm going to have to cut it down. And just go down, I guess, regular Etsy. I'll give it another month. We'll see what happens.

If it stays that way, then I'm going to have to... I added Etsy Plus, which is like another $10. And then I added Etsy, and then I added Pattern, which is like a website, but I don't think I'm connected to it correctly so I may, that would be the first thing

that has to go actually I want to have a website but I really don't need one so my domains are not connected I don't think so we'll have to figure that out today

okay so we'll have to figure that out today okay so I'll just skip that for now all right so that's my morning I'm gonna go continue on with Commodore 64 some more Texas Instruments I found a disc for my TRS-80 Model 4. That's a whole other thing I've got to wait and hear back from the buyer. I've got to refund that $200. If the shipping cost doesn't cover it. These days, everything's negative, pretty much. But we'll just keep plugging along. That's what we're going to do.

That's what I always do anyway. All right, so I'll talk to you guys later. I'll figure out something to do for this afternoon. All right, I'll talk to you then. All right, bye.