Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Thursday 6/19/2025

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

The Common eBay Selling Anomaly. Get you the Best I have but then have to take a Lower Offer. Are there any Stores where you go to the Discount Section to find the Best Hand-Picked Items? I also have a second try it before you buy it Return. My Cost Round Trip for Nothing. Yuk.

Good morning everyone. It is now 6, I mean 727 so it's a little bit late this morning. I've been staying up late watching my new favorite series I've been watching. It's called The Head. It's on Macs. It's set in Antarctica. Our science team, it's really fun. It's actually got three seasons. So it's great to watch a series that's been around for a while so you get to see a whole bunch of seasons, not just one. So it's good. It's great to watch a series that it's been around for a while So you get to see a whole bunch of seasons not just one So it's pretty cool. I'm really into that and then I'm watching the foundation on Apple TV I finished the silo that was really awesome. I highly suggest that and June prophecy. I finished that too That was only six episodes. I like the better than the actual movies. It's really fun. I hope there's another season for that

So yesterday we did a little bit. Oh we did sake of Genesis looked at the 1631 I found one 2.3 board for the 1631 That somebody wants the Yamaha chip, but the board itself doesn't work it's missing the reset button but he still may want that chip so we'll see if he still wants it and then I tested the other 1601's I had I saw a couple good ones a couple of them with a high definition one the original ones we did

that and then what else did we do I'm not I'm not sure, I can't remember but I'll figure it out. But those were a couple things I did yesterday. Let's see what's going on this morning here. The doom and gloom is getting worse out there, but I like what I do about that. I did come across a cool, uh, puppet. It's a big, it's a very big furry thing. It's pretty awesome. We're gonna do some videos with this a cool puppet. It's a big furry thing. It's pretty awesome. I'm going to do some videos with this big giant puppet I've come across.

Above my workbench is a rail system. A storage rail. I've been using it to run wires and stuff. It's pretty hokey, but it works. Right now my puppet is hung above the rail. It's huge I can't really idea what kind of puppet it is but it's just a big furry puppet but big and I also have my little wizard guy up there hanging up there too so

maybe we'll do some sort of a stop motion with this big puppet that's what I'm thinking maybe today we'll see something different try to mix it up do some fun stuff News is about the same About getting worse Dex movies already in the movie so second Death Stranding movies already in the development so Death Stranding 824 which is a company production company they did like Civil War which I know it finished watching yet I am oh another Elon line must rocket blow up boy I want to go to Mars. I'm gonna volunteer myself to go to Mars at some point But I'm not gonna go on a rocket float. They keep exploding. I

Want to at least make it there and die there? so so yeah, so a 24 is Going to have to two death stranding movies. I think one's already in the works. It's pretty cool. It's almost like a movie when you play it. Basically you're in a movie pretty much. Hopefully the second one's like that. Oh and we're gonna do a countdown. I think we're on five days to go now. But I don't know if that includes my 48 hours in

advanced or not because I bought the deluxe version. So we're gonna... and I'm gonna get up for that too we're gonna get up to live stream I never done that for I never know 10-day countdown either so pretty fun try to mix it up do some weird things alright so let's try it see nothing going on at sea again he's something I don't want to get rid of it. But if it starts costing me more than it's worth, then I have to kind of think about it. But we'll see. Maybe I'll try to get some more stuff up.

I get a lot of people favor stuff. So it's just a matter of getting people to, so that's why I gotta keep going. And see some people even show it in their cart now. I didn't know that before. That's something new. I can see actually show it in their cart now. I didn't know that before. That's something new. I can see, actually, it's in their cart. So that's cool. So let's go on to Parshmark.

What did it just say about doing awakenings? Oh, I haven't gone into Parshmark.. Oh there we go. Now we're in. We're at 955 followers. I don't see anything about something sold. I have to go over to offers and then an offer that shows you my sales order activities or not nothing there All right, so let's go to RSS feed this morning And then we had a major Local not local over the New England verdict yesterday, okay, I'm not gonna Say either way what I think about that.

That's like, so that's interesting. Ended up being a very televised around the country. Is what it is, I guess. All right, so we had one download yesterday, 640 all time, 83. Toronto, Ashburn, Lindale, awesome. Manhattan Beach and Dallas, very exciting. Let's see if it says show all cities. Let's see if there's cities too.

Nope, just those, pretty awesome. Last 14 days, last 7 days. So my last 7 days are pretty cool. Ashdale and Lindo are always there for me and I really appreciate that. It's pretty awesome. Hope you guys are going to my YouTube page and checking out all the stuff I do every day. I'm gonna do some really fun with that furry thing. I haven't quite figured it out yet. It just came to me yesterday I found a couple more my Yodas to a little mandaloni and you know you would as I so I got a nice cool

collection of that going a couple I got a couple more small little guys I found a real little guy over at the pet store it's a dog thing but it's still Yoda so it's a baby Yoda sounds pretty cool Keep keep growing that collection so if you look watch the videos you'll notice in the background You'll see that more and more those little you look at I find them I get them No matter what they are just because it's cool All right, so let's go to YouTube So I would not want to live in anywhere near where the SpaceX keeps blowing up brackets that sounds like no fun and it says it's not affecting any

of the area it's pretty scary stuff there all right so we are at let's look at a few different things here so I did my models one and two yesterday, Genesis. I had 16, I mean 13 views. Again, we've gone a month with no promoting, which is I cannot afford another penny on promotions. We're holding steady at the 46,000. 573, I think this is what I had yesterday. But remember we had 655 at peak so we've gone down some but we're kind of holding steady a little bit my view hours are 159.3 K watch hours are 743 and then my revenue one ticked up just a little bit maybe not quite a dollar but $36.27 that's why I'm going I have no comments what else did we do yesterday

so today we'll do all six days ago so I did my video I turned it into a short into a quick three-minute video we'll do the five days to go and it's gonna happen in the middle of the night 12 o'clock at night so I'll have to set my alarm and get up like a half hour early so we'll figure it out it'll be fun extra tubular for my buddy rocket has 4.6 K views that's pretty awesome and then after that death stranding to flash 15 seconds so I break them up into flash 15 seconds because it's an option of to do only 15 seconds. So I break them up into flash 15 seconds because it's an option to do only 15 seconds and then I do a quick three minute on a long video and then just a one minute as a short. One thing I never liked about the YouTube short is the fact that it's chopped on the other side,

which I don't like that at all. If I put the same one minute on TikTok it's the other side, which I don't like that at all if you if I put the same one minute on tik-tok It's the full video. So it's kind of a pain. I don't like that chop thing All right, so let's go to eBay So Let's see we've had a few sales on eBay so I actually still have them going on I was looking through some little things I got boxes of little stuff like Manuals and stuff like that for old systems So those are worth money a few bucks here and there so another positive feedback. Let's see we got here

We're at ten thousand nine hundred eighteen Alt-time feedbacks remember I had 8 neutral and 7 negative. That's the most I've ever had. But in that 12-month period I've also had 1,700 positive. So positive way outweigh the negatives. And some of the negatives I have here lately were just brutal. brutal and some very deceptive buyers PS1 arrived as described installed just fine this door it's all the disk door yeah remember that okay everything else is positive and good that's what we try to do let's see return request I returned request rats so it's my return. I just noticed that. And we know that everyone knows I hate returns.

I try not to use the word hate, but... This is the last data. Uh... Buyers returning an item. Let's see. It's a set of screws, Torx, C return. So you bought a set of screws Torx see return so you bought a set of screws for me change my mind and now I'm gonna return them back that's such a

pain so the purchase was under $12 so it cost me five at least five dollars each way so it's ten bucks I'm gonna lose on the set of screws because you changed your mind. Don't return it, resell it, or just keep it as a spare. And plus with all the effort of getting that set of screws, I had to go find them. It was in a certain little bin of screws just for the original Xbox. So this is two things now that have got returned. And of course I always complain about returns because I have to take them, but I can still

complain about them because I have to take them but I can still complain about them because I don't like them and thanks for the video picture and video I appreciate it so this was the yesterday I did a Nintendo GameCube the guy wanted to know if I had a good set of metal for the Nintendo GameCube. Please put them aside for me. I didn't see one listed, but hopefully I can call it motherboard 2. These are, so you're talking about metal oxidation, so these are from 2001. Every place outside air does that. I was lucky lucky to put this set together. Most have some. Especially the front port metal. I never expect them this clean on those. These are from 2011.

So the back ports oxidation. No way I can get rid of oxidation. 1325. Oh, see this is, oh, it can't be that same guy. Oh, you gotta be kidding me. So, now I'm going to turn on this guy a little bit. someone asks for a special item, the last thing I would do is take less for it. that makes absolute ab- I've done this before but ab- absolutely, absolutely no sense. Sense. I will pass I will pass People So if you want to contact me directly and ask for a specific thing and make sure everything is perfect Make sure I do the video well that's the video in the pictures

I do that as my own thing But me putting together and then you're going to and then and then and he's also in a whole why oh my goodness me You're in Hawaii. Are you kidding me? Kidding me? I ship from Rhode Island. Most time the shipping the overall cost is more another discount, another discount on top of a percent off. I do not understand when buyers do this.

Do this Oops, I don't want to caps though. I don't understand When Buyers do this You're in Hawaii It's all metal so I'm definitely not doing it. No, not at all. Just the game. This is about the Atari 5200 last Starfighter. Not at all, just the game as pictured and detailed.

These are super hard to find. Find. The last Starfighter, I had two games. I haven't had a high price, but I already sold one of them. I took a lower offer, of course I will. just got to start high right and then you work your way down so the guy in Hawaii that's just craziness and he also me oh the last thing is oh so I have to put last just frustrates me.

Do all this, try to do all the work for somebody and then you send me a lower offer. I have, I mean, I have best offers, I understand that. But if you're, if you're contacting of someone and you're asking for all the extra stuff and then you expect them to take a lower offer, I don't know of any store you can go to. Maybe somebody in a store where there's a discount section and in that in that discount section of a store are The best items hand-picked does anybody know that where there's a store like that

Apparently I have that store It's pretty I saw I sold one item yesterday super Nintendo power supply So best box best offers. I'll always have them. I don't necessarily have to take them. Especially late, as of last year I've done, now I do sales of some time. So all my low items, I do 8% off, I'm doing 8% off right now this week,

for anything $23 and less. And then buyers wanna put through another best best offer on top of that down to even even lower right how low should I need to go I have to make at least three dollars per order or why am I doing it right so this guy here with the it's it's a set of Gamecube metal so all that metal on a box is about 16 ounces. I'm gonna ship to Hawaii. It's gonna cost me eight dollars to get it there And that's a ground advantage I have since completely Been priced out of priority shipping. I don't use it anymore at all Everything is ground advantage and those prices are what priority used to be

So the only difference is I can do ground advantage for any weight as before used to be called first class And those are up to 16 ounces so To get his medal to him. I'm gonna have to ship it At 16 ounces. I know it's gonna be it's gonna tick up because it's from Rhode Island, Hawaii It's gonna take up to $8.24. Plus the cost of eBay fees is probably going to be about $13 for me to ship it to him. And he had it for $13.25, so that means I would make $0.25.

And that's a heck no. I don't even want to do it at the discounted price, but I put it up there so I have to. But yeah, so those are just things that are just, I call them the anomalies on eBay. It's just some reason people think that I can just ship all this stuff for free. I would like to add shipping costs on everything, but it's just easier to do shipping costs free. I'm not going to have time to sit back and change each one of the shipping costs. So free, and I just, I really haven't raised my prices much at all in the last year, and

everything around me has just gone skyrocket. I've actually started doing more discounts and stuff, but I have to make a few dollars so if you have something that's if I'm selling something it's $50 or a good example is the I have one more of the last of the starfighter 15 5200 game I think I had it for 90 something the discount knocked it down to 70 something someone offered me 65 and then I so that I took that that's different I have places to go down low, but not when I'm that is something that's $13 or $16 and you're not gonna down to $13 and it cost me $13 to get it to you, right?

So that's the dilemma the pickle I'm always in. Alright, so we had one order so a little fun So I try to make this podcast also into the daily selling of stuff how it goes and the The battle And because I have all any and a lot of the selling on eBay or anything like that, any selling, is human nature. When I see best offers, of course I, as a buyer, I do best offers. But no, I would never best offer.

I don't think as many people have best offers on items that are below $16 that I know of. All right, so let's see there. All right, so that's about it this morning. A little bit of drama. Nothing too special. But just try to keep it real. I'm very real, honest, and as I always say, selling gaming parts over the years has hardened my soul, as you can tell.

People say I'm angry. I'm not really angry, it just gets frustrating sometimes. But this is my place to vent, so that's why I use it. And we'll talk about it later on maybe, some more. All right, so you guys have a good day. We're going into a really hot stretch here, so we'll talk about that as well. All right, I'll talk to you guys later, bye.