In this episode of the 'What's Sold' podcast, Matt and Brandon return from spring break with light-hearted discussions about weather and seasons before diving into valuable reselling insights. They talk about their personal experiences with climate differences and transitioning into practical reselling advice for those affected by economic uncertainties. Matt shares strategies on finding valuable items at thrift stores and what kinds of products may yield the best returns, particularly focusing on small items like vinyl records, cassette tapes, and neckties. The hosts highlight the importance of checking one's own belongings for hidden value, using examples such as a potentially valuable Tiffany necklace found in storage. In addition, Matt talks about a recent acquisition—an antique 1938 guitar—and dissects the process and value of reselling such unique items. The show concludes with 'What Sold' segment that details various sold items, including vintage pins, cufflinks, and antique wallets, providing real-world examples of the discussed strategies.
00:00 Introduction and Spring Break Optimism 01:20 Seasons and Weather Anecdotes 02:05 Lawn Care Memories 03:21 Tiffany Necklace Discovery 08:21 Bowling League Night Fun 09:12 Market Uncertainty and Reseller Impact 15:26 Reselling Tips and Strategies 26:03 Inherited KitchenAid Mixers 26:55 Cassette Tape Nostalgia 28:11 The Story of Sugar Man 29:49 Finding Value in Unexpected Places 31:04 The Market for Used Sports Equipment 34:17 The Bicycle Boom 35:21 Flipping Instruments for Profit 37:38 What Sold: Musical Instruments 42:51 Vintage Pins and Cufflinks 46:14 Identifying and Selling Antiques 53:38 Wrapping Up and Final Thoughts The What Sold Podcast Subreddit #vintageguitar #gibsonguitars #sellingguitarsonebay #ebayauctions #vintagejewelry #vintagemedia #cassettetapes #vinyl #1936olympics #buyingguitarsonebay #sellingonebay #vintage #whatsoldpodcast #rustythereseller #whatsold #reselling #ebaystore #thewhatsoldpodcastRusty the reseller:
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Welcome back to the What Sold podcast.
This is your weekly doseof aftermarket insanity.
We're here to bring it to you.
Matt and I have been talkinga lot about the world as it's
happening in front of us.
Some would say crumbling.
Not everywhere.
I would say bumbling.
I would say bumbling.
I'm not sure I would say crumbling.
(00:58):
'cause I'm not quite surewhat's going on at this point.
But we're coming back off of springbreak and there's optimism in the world.
There's, my daughter's very excited.
There's seven weeks left of school.
Then the summer months are upon uswhere we just frolic and barbecue and
toast marshmallows all summer long.
Wasn't I say I'll be speaking, doingcartwheels and a meadow flowers.
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That's what I'll be doing.
So I grew up in a placewhere there were no seasons.
You had summer and you had cold.
Some rain.
No, no, no.
There's no cold.
Matt.
It would be like if it got below 50 ever.
It was like what?, where did you grow?
Oh, you're in California, right?
It's Northern California.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
They're like, oh no, there'swe're, something's happening.
It's below 50 degrees.
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I told you, I, when my wife and Ifirst met, she'd always say, what's
the weather gonna be like today?
And I'd look at her and be like.
It was like, it was yesterdayand the day before that.
And the day before that.
Yeah.
Do you know how it wasyesterday exactly like that?
Yeah.
I didn't know in a heavy coat.
I owned a ski jacket.
Mm-hmm.
That was it.
I didn't own a, I never ever used it.
I obviously had raincoats 'causeit rains out there, but it
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doesn't usually get that cold.
Definitely gets hot.
Yeah.
But it's a dry heat man.
It's a dry heat.
So anyway, one thing that I loveabout living in Western North
Carolina or just anywhere wherethere are four Seasons is that.
I just love the demarcation points.
I was telling you, I, I was out mowingmy yard and doing the spring weeding.
Mm-hmm.
Getting ready for the summer to come.
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So you prepare those of you that are inplaces where this happens to you, you know
what it's like, you gotta go out there.
You gotta make sure that the putdown new mulch or, spread the seed
for the weeds and all the differentthings that go on with that.
Which I don't like to do.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I wish I didn't have to do it,but it is a reality in fact.
We never mowed a lawn when Iwas a kid growing up 'cause
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we lived out in the country.
Mm-hmm.
But I did get a job mowing,a dentist office lawn.
And my dad was so we, we just didn'tmow that she gave me a push mower.
Yeah.
Those old school push mowers, you meanthe ones that, not like a mowed one.
The blades that rotate when you push it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You had to sharpen periodicallybecause it was so painfully hard to do.
Yeah.
That was my workout.
That was what I did.
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But other than that, itjust didn't mow a lot lawn.
When I moved to Louisville, Kentucky,my first F lawn ever, I did go out
and buy myself a one of those fancyelectric lawnmowers and I still have it.
It's quite nice.
Nice actually to sharpen the blades,all the things that I, did you get that
from Tiffany and Company as well, likethe bed for your daughter or, oh, yeah.
You know what's really funny about that?
I did not get the mower from Tiffany,but it's interesting that you asked the
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question about Tiffany because we'vetalked ad nauseum on this show about.
Things that you find in boxes that arearound your house or other people's house?
Yeah, so my wife says to me, Hey, I wasgoing through some boxes up in the attic.
She was going through some personal stuffand kind of trying to organize things.
Okay.
Because as we bought thevery, very expensive bed.
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Very too expensive.
One could stay two.
Yeah.
I did have to go out and spend another$30 on the hardware to make it work.
I did get it together.
I felt quite proud of myselfwhen the bed went up and nice.
It has not collapsed to the floor.
There have been no injuries or deathdue to this bed, so we're doing
pretty good, but my wife says to.
I was going through a box and I foundthis necklace that an old sh So my
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boss, my wife was a, when we first met,she was actually a nanny to the stars.
I'm not even making this up.
Wow.
She was like a nanny to thesedifferent rock stars, and it was
just a niche that she, I didn't know.
Yeah, I know.
It's crazy.
So she was the nanny for Metallica wasone of the people she was a nanny for?
No.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
So she, so one of her, so she wouldwork in nannies in the Bay Area.
It's like they're everybody's rich.
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So someone bought her a necklacethat she never wore and she looked
at it and she goes, oh it's Tiffany.
So I was like, wait a second.
Boom.
You ought to ask Matt Brock about that.
She says, I alreadytexted, oh, Flo, his wife.
Oh really?
So if, can you see it Matt?
Look at that.
There it is.
Yeah.
It looks like a sterling silver necklace.
It's not.
I think it's gold.
Oh, is it gold?
It's gold.
It looks silver to me,but oh man, it's gold.
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That looks fantastic.
And she looked it up.
And the value, yeah, who knows?
We need to have , one rusty,the reseller, take a look.
Hey, going take it outside,scratch it a little bit.
So she said, oh, I think it'sworth like seven or $800.
And I'm like, oh, yeah.
Oh, okay.
We need to sell that immediately.
She's like, , I wanna save itfor our daughter and maybe I'll
give it to her at her wedding.
I'm like.
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She's never gonna wear that.
Let's sell it.
Let's do like what?
Yeah, let's do what Matt Brockdoes and don't hang on to stuff.
Yeah, sell it.
So this will exactly, actually come to youat some point for you to take a look at.
Wonderful.
And if anybody in the audienceis looking and knows what
this is, I can get it today.
I can come by today.
That's true.
You just let me know.
We can take care of that right today.
So if you're in the audience and youknow what that is and what it's worth.
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So then she went on eBay and she's like.
It's not selling for as much oneBay and I don't know anything about
it, but I do know that it is gold.
Okay.
And it is Tiffany, so I'm assumingit probably has some value.
Absolutely.
It has some value.
That's exciting.
Yeah.
To just randomly come across a Tiffanynecklace is just hanging out in a
box, hanging out in your closet.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think, my wife'snot a huge jewelry person.
She clearly cared a lot about it.
No, and she's not a big jewelry person.
In general every once in a while.
Okay.
But in general, she's more ofan active outdoorsy type person.
Yeah.
So it doesn't surpriseme that it would show up.
I think neither her nor my daughterare all that worried about jewelry.
It, I always find sure piecesthat are laying around the house,
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I'm like, Hey, whose is this?
They just take it off and drop it there.
So we will, it's not even apocryphal.
It's a real story.
For those of you that are outthere looking through your family's
closets or drawers, remember, younever know what treasures you're
gonna find if you're out looking.
Yeah, that was a funstory this week, dude.
That's a really fun story and listenersout there, if you ever take the advice
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of going and finding things that youdon't care about at your house and
you decide to sell them, if you comeacross something really special.
Either personally that you forgotyou had, didn't know you had
or something really valuable.
Email us and tell us a story.
Send us a picture or something.
Yeah, like we can tell you that's,I, those are really cool stories.
To me, that's just as neat or asexciting as going out and finding
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something that, that has value that aperson didn't research or didn't know.
It's the same kind of thing, andwe obviously, the story is also for
those people that are doing this asa full-time job or a side hustle.
It's just another little reminder thatyou just don't know what you'll find.
You just.
Gotta keep your head on a swiveland be on the lookout for treasures.
'cause they're out therethey're everywhere.
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It's just, most people don'tknow, they either think they're
worth too much or too little.
I find that it's in the, it's somewherein the middle of those two things.
Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
And in my experience, more often than not,they think it's not worth hardly anything.
More often when I'm working with.
Things that people have, they're typicallysurprised at how much they sell for.
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They had no idea.
And if a person thinks it's toovaluable, then I just show 'em.
I don't tell 'em.
I'm like this is what they're selling foris you don't have to take my word for it.
Just look.
Yeah.
And then they're like oh man, Ithought it was gonna be a million.
I thought I had justdiscovered a treasure chest.
So that was a fun story that she broughtto, she's like, oh, look at this.
And it is hilarious thatshe immediately texted Flo.
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I was like, why don't you just text Matt?
And she's like, oh no,I'm afraid of that guy.
She was in the middle of, she wasin the middle of dressing up a hot
dog and pouring some nacho cheeseat the snack bar, at the bowling
alley when she got the call.
So she was excited.
She accidentally got nachocheese all over her smock.
You know what I'd expectNothing less of flow with the.
Was it League Night last night?
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Is that what was going on?
Rusty and Flo down at League Night?
Yeah.
Oh, definitely.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's always busy on League night.
Yeah.
I gotta imagine when you twogo to League Night that you
have your own monogram shirts.
You go there.
Oh, monogram.
Monogram.
Bowling balls.
Oh yeah.
Monogram shoes.
A certain type of powder thatI put on my fingers before
I I always air dry the ball.
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Sure.
On the air dryer before you use it.
Like that king pin, that is a,yeah, that's the secret move
right there is air drying.
Oh, yeah.
Air drying the bowling ball.
I told you, I, I love the idea of bowling,but I have these massive meat paws.
I'd have to get my own ball.
I'd have to get it drilledso it could fit my hand.
Otherwise, bowling is never as fun for me.
I always ends up hurting my fingers.
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Let us transition withour fancy music into Yeah.
The next portion of whatwe're gonna talk about today.
So you and I have been talking alot e everyone has been talking
a lot about what's going on.
Mm-hmm.
In terms of the markets, and it'sjust every day it's something new.
Every day it's something different.
You don't know from oneday to the next if the.
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Who's taring whom and what's gonna happen.
And it's just such high levelstuff, but it is gonna trickle
down and it's gonna affect us.
And I do think that it's gonnahave a massive effect on the
secondary reseller market.
We talked about that, so we wanted todive a little bit deeper into, if you're
doing this, what can you do to prepare fornot knowing for sure what's gonna happen,
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but what can you do to, in a sense,prepare for that rainy day that's coming?
And, we might be not fully past, butpartially past the time when you probably
should have already been prepared.
But if not, it's not like Covid dayswhere we are shutting our houses
and can't interact with peopleand that was a different animal.
But I agree with you.
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I think that this already is andcontinue to affect the resell of your
market, but in two different ways.
So for those peopleunfortunately, like myself.
That sell things that are notnecessary everyday items, I think
you're likely gonna find a dip inboth the number of sales and also what
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you can what you're gonna earn from.
Those people are gonna buy less andthey're gonna want to pay less for them.
However, the secondary market for saygood quality clothing or jackets or.
Gear for doing activities like sportsequipment and things like that.
Oh yeah.
I didn't even think about that.
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And toothbrushes and gloves andsunglasses and all these things
that most people use either dailyor at some time during the year.
I think people that focus on thosethings are gonna, are going to be the
ones that get the advantage from thisbecause when people get uncertain.
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And they get afraid andthey don't know what to do.
They start, they, they enact thisself-preservation sort of thing.
And one of those is peoplewill sometimes hoard things.
Sometimes people will, theyoftentimes change their spending
habits, so they spend less whenthey feel like they have less, or
they do have less, they spend less.
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Not on an individual level,but generally speaking.
And when the economy's doing well andpeople have more money, I. Then they're
spending more and they're putting moreof that money back in the economy.
So I'm curious to see all thisplays out from a lot that I've read.
It sounds like the administrationthat's making some of these moves
are hopeful that it will trigger somebenefits to the economy at least.
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Not necessarily in the shortterm, but in the long term.
So we'll see.
I don't know if that will happenwhen the sentiment is so low.
Fear is high and people stopspending money and putting that
money back into the economy.
I don't quite understand how theeconomy is going to get better if people
are not spending and they're afraid.
And who knows what happenswhen this administration leaves
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and the next one comes in.
Because historically, if it's theopposite party, then they're gonna try
to undo, and it seems like things of thisnature require time to really play out.
As the architects intend.
So again, I don't want to getdown a really deep political hole.
But all that to say, I thinkthe facts are there are tariffs.
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The facts are we have just come off ofa couple of weeks of really turbulent
drops primarily in the stock market.
So people's 4 0 1 ones and their nesteggs and their investments are not so hot.
Generally speaking, when will.
Now you've got some people who are retiredthinking, do I need to go back to work?
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Am I gonna need to get a part-time job?
Oh, yeah.
And for those people out there whoare thinking that, or let's say
you, you have a bunch of things thatyou don't use or you don't need.
Maybe you've inherited stuff from a familymember and it's still all in the house.
Like the house hasn'tsold, it's still there.
Or maybe you.
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Have a storage unit or two, either ofyour own things or things that came in.
And it's fine.
You don't mind paying to store it,but you haven't gone in long time.
It just sits there.
And two things.
If you can get some of that stuff outand sell it, you will start earning
some income you didn't have before.
And if you can move stuff outof that, then you know you're
gonna save on cost because you'repaying for that storage unit.
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And so I think in these times,people are gonna be thinking
both about how do I save money?
And how do I spend less andalso how do I cut costs?
And I think those are, I'mthinking the same thing.
This is a third person you I'mreally speaking about myself, but
I think other people are also.
And so I think, today, I mean fromyour perspective, Brandon, what
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do you think the main questionsfrom people out there are?
Maybe not full-time sellers, butthe majority of people who are
interested in it or part-time.
What questions do you think that they'reasking themselves right now about
what should they, because people wantto do when there's a problem, right?
They want to fix it, they want totry to solve it, and a lot of these
things feel outside of our control.
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So maybe the catalysts for theissue, we can't control on a
personal level, but how do we adapt?
So there's a couple of things thatstrike me right away and may, maybe
it's wrong, but I don't do knowyou've said this, and so I'm just.
That during Covid, a lot of peopleentered the reselling business a lot.
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When the economy is down, a lot ofpeople jump into this because it's a
fairly easy way to make some money.
Doing what you're already doing or usingwhat you already have, you need no qual,
there are no qualification requirements.
No educational requirements, no, none ofthat geographical requirements, nothing.
If you have a, if you have access to acomputer in the internet, you can do this.
Or even if not if you go hangup a sign somewhere and if you
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sell your own things or thingsyou like, that costs nothing too.
I guess the only thing about sellingthings that have value if you don't have
'em already, is you're gonna have to findthem and pay for them in the first place.
So that's something to consider.
But yeah.
And I think about the other questionsis I would think that people would
be asking, number one, where can Isource stuff if I wanna start selling?
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Mm-hmm.
And number two is, whatshould I be sourcing?
So a lot a, I'm assuming that a lotof people that just jump into this, do
everything that you said not to do inthe beginning, and that's just normal.
You don't know what you don't know.
Mm-hmm.
I imagine people will start like,oh, there's a piece of furniture
for sale and I think that's areally good deal or this or that.
And you've said all along, Hey, smalleris better because if you gotta ship
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it, it's less expensive to ship.
Mm-hmm.
So I imagine there's a lot of thinkingaround if you're just getting into
this or if you're already into it,what should you be shifting your focus,
or what should you be focusing on interms of items that you wanna sell?
So let's talk about that like selling,what to look for, and then we can
maybe talk briefly if we have timeabout cost cutting measures or perhaps
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that's a totally different episode.
As far as the items themselves, thereare some categories, and I can make a
little list that we can add with theother platforms that we put this on.
But going to thrift stores whichis the easiest thing to do because
a lot of communities have them,they're open year round, usually.
They, there are categories of things thatoftentimes I see that are very low cost.
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So clothing, shoes, neck ties, sunglasses,any kind of musical media, cassette
tapes, VHS tapes, vinyl records.
These are all things thatyou can find value in.
That will usually cost $5 or less.
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Now, some of the t-shirts or some ofthe clothing, depending on the brand,
if they price things based on brand,could be higher than that, but it doesn't
necessarily mean it wouldn't be a goodbuy because the value may be higher.
For example, if you find some really cool,authentic nineties, eighties, or nineties
rock band t-shirts, if you find anysort of rap hip hop or like metal music
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on cassette tapes or on vinyl records.
Some really old jazz or really old soulmusic on vinyl records or 40 fives.
I would look at those neck ties,sunglasses, stuff like that are usually
a buck or two neck ties, a buck or two.
And it doesn't, as obviouslyyou want them to operate
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correctly and be of good quality.
If they're damaged, that's, that maybe a pass, but it doesn't take long to
flip through all the neck times, turnit over and see what the brand is.
'cause if you might find, here's a Chanel.
Or a Gucci necktie, or one of these reallysought after brands, you're gonna spend a
dollar and you're gonna sell it for 200.
Really?
So wait, who's buying?
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It's such an interesting thing becauseso many people, so it used to be
everyone who went to work in a whitecollar world would wear a neck tie.
Everyone.
Yeah.
My first, 10 years as a teacher, Ihad to wear a tie every single day.
But people aren't wearingthem as much anymore.
So who are the people thatare purchasing these neckties?
Resellers really People, people, peoplebuy neckties to still wear because
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I don't know if you've been out toa depart like a department store
recently, but neckties are expensive.
Yeah.
And if you're like me, you mighthave a reason to wear a suit.
Once or twice a year, right?
And you may not even wear the same tie.
So let's say once a year, do I reallywanna spend 30 or 40 bucks on a tie
that I'm essentially never gonna wear?
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If I can find good quality onesfor a dollar, get outta here.
Of course I'm gonna do that.
And so people are still buyingthose belts is another thing.
You can find really good.
High quality belts, reversible belts.
Belts that sometimes have sterling silver.
Hardware on them or buckles,they don't even know.
And this is why you can find them becausethe way that thrift stores like Goodwill
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and a lot of these work, especiallylocal ones, that maybe half or more
of their staff are just volunteers.
They are, if they're given muchguidance, the guidance that they're
given is usually in the back room whenthey're sorting things, they have this
little piece of paper or somethingand it gives the pricing for them.
It shows you where to sort them.
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And then the person who's pulling out thesort of things to price them is looking
up at this guide and it says, belts 1 99.
Neckties one, 99 centsor Vinyl records 2 99.
Now they don't have the arrownext to the vinyl records.
It says, unless it's an original sunrecord of Elvis on this particular.
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They're not telling you thethings that are super valuable.
You need to look out for.
Nope.
Belts are this price.
Sunglasses are this price.
It doesn't matter if they're Guccisunglasses 'cause they just drop 'em in
unless they happen to know brands andthey're paying super close attention
and then they're gonna want to takethe time to go up and ask the manager,
should we really price this higher?
Most people don't care.
As a worker, they care that they'regonna make X amount of dollars an hour
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doing the work that they're told to do.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
My point is, they're not in themarket of getting the best possible
value for everything in the.
They are getting a high volume ofdeliveries and donations, and so
they need to sell a high volume,they need to get it out as fast
as possible that they get it in.
The only way they can do thatis to have competitive prices,
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so they price things low.
And that is and you can be armed withknowledge of brands and stuff like that,
and knowing the way that they operate,that there can be some deals to be made
and money to be made on this stuff.
I would suggest this, whatever of thosethat piques your interest the most.
If it's vinyl records, if it'st-shirts, what you want to do is get
on and look up most valuable t-shirtbrands or most valuable vinyl record
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genre or most valuable cassette tapes.
Go to eBay and look up.
Then go to sold items andlook at the highest sold item.
You're gonna come across a lotof large, lots of like, here's
a thousand cassette tape.
Somebody spent, four grand on it,but you're gonna scroll down and
you're eventually gonna find one.
Someone spent $1,100 on one cassette tape.
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Really?
Why?
Yeah, because it's like theoriginal Nirvana, it's Nirvana's
whatever that their first album.
I can't remember.
That was like Teen Spirit.
Yeah.
Maybe that, that, that's Nevermindthe one or the one nevermind.
Or the one with the, nevermind.
Nevermind.
It's nevermind.
Yeah.
And the one with the baby in the pool.
Right?
You know that iconic.
So make a list and thenjust go in with that.
It's on your phone, it's on paper.
And just spend a week going to differentplaces and you're focusing on one category
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and you're learning as you're doing it.
You're gonna come across brandsyou've never heard of before.
You.
Polo is not gonna be a like really asought after brand unless it's made prior
to this date or this particular t-shirt.
T-shirts that seem to have singlestitching on them are selling for more.
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Why is that?
Because they weren't massproduced like they are today.
That also helps you to date them, etcetera, and you're gonna learn so much
information in a small amount of time and.
Instead of knowing five brandsto look for, you're gonna
know 25 brands to look for.
And every time you learn about something,you are better and better prepared to
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find something that you can make money on.
Now again, this takes time.
I don't know how much listener timethat you have to devote to this.
Mm-hmm.
And time is money.
So I wouldn't leave a payingjob to do this right now hoping
that you'll make money on it.
But I, what I would do is startdoing it when you have spare time.
Start to get your feet wet, make alittle bit of money, learn about one
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category, move on to another one.
Good side hustle.
Yeah it's hard to learn about a lotof different categories at once.
I was forced to do that because of the waythat I entered this particular profession.
But you don't have to be that wayyou can learn a lot about one thing,
and maybe that's the thing that youstick with if it's readily available.
Let me tell you people, if anybody'sout there and finds a, an eight track
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of Gordon Lightfoot or Harry Chapin.
I'm just telling you, there's oneguy here that's very interested in
that purchase, so I'm willing to pay.
Yeah.
In fact, right here, I got recently,this is a I got a Van Halen.
Nice.
A cassette tape right here?
It's like a little baby and Oh, not baby.
It's like a small chair, type chair.
Yeah.
Smoking a cigarette with acouple of packs of cigarettes
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sitting on the table in front.
Sure.
And that this is 19, say side 1, 19 84.
You got me right there already,Panama, yeah, that's right.
That came out and I remember when thatalbum came out 'cause I didn't like it.
But yeah, that thing's probably only gonnasell for between 10, 12, $14 at the most.
But if I bought that for nine, 9 cents,you're getting 10 times your cost, right?
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And the shipping is cheap.
Shipping is gonna cost you $4 orless, and you're gonna pass that.
Calculated shipping, meaning fromwhatever zip code they're buying
from automatically, eBay willcalculate it and charge them that
price so it doesn't cost you.
Oh.
So there I would start even beforespending money though, go get in your
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closet because if you're like Brandon,you're gonna come across a solid
gold Tiffany and company necklace.
Yeah.
And you're gonna go sellthat and make a lot of money.
And even if you're not,you don't have that.
Instead you just have a bunch of.
Eighties and nineties basketball cardsyou haven't looked at in 20 years.
You might have a KobeBryant rookie card in there.
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You forgot that was even in there.
You never went back to looklike there can be high values.
I mean we, you know what would be fun?
It just came to my mind.
It would be fun to do either onepodcast or a series of podcasts
where we talk about values of items.
But the way that we talk aboutthem is based on where in your
house they would be found.
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So like we can have onepodcast on the kitchen.
What are things that you may havein your kitchen that you didn't know
have a lot of value just at home?
Oh, what a great idea.
I'm gonna write that down or in thegarage, the garage or in the bathroom.
Because I could give you a list ofprobably 10 things, if not more, per
room in your house right now to look for.
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And those same items.
Are at thrift stores and yard salesand estate sales every day of the week.
So they're out there.
People stuff that you wouldthink should be trashed.
Usually it's stuff that'sreally outta style or you didn't
realize people used much anymore.
Mm. And they still are used even if it's.
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There are items like, what's that?
That mixer, that big giantindustrial mixer that cost like $400.
KitchenAid mixer.
KitchenAid mixers.
When my dad passed away, he had,he gave us a KitchenAid mixer.
We already had one, so we mm-hmm.
End up having two KitchenAid mixers.
That's the kind of thing that.
Someone would pro I, if somebodywould, to come to me and said, Hey,
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I'll give you 25 bucks for that.
I'd be like, yeah, sure, yeah, but youshould check because some of the earlier
ones, especially if there's still goodcondition, they don't necessarily make
ones in the same colors or even the samestyle today as they did 20, 30 years ago.
Certain colors are like discontinuedand maybe that whatever that teal color
or that soft baby blue color matchesthe decor in their kitchen better.
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Like a big red one, it just stands out.
It's like a stop sign.
So sometimes people will paymore for that kind of stuff.
And generally speaking, vintage antiquethings of high quality and are in good
condition are typically more sought after.
I was thinking aboutyour cassette tape thing.
So I grew up in the age ofcassette tapes and I had this
big box, it was like a suitcase.
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It was huge.
And it was, it had little holdersfor cassette tapes and I had,
okay, I don't know, four or 500cassettes that I had bought in there.
Over the years.
Some of 'em, I'm sure camefrom the what was that?
The club that you sent the,you pay a penny for the oh.
Whatever that was called.
Those don't I imagine those probablydon't sell for as much because they
actually had the actual cassettecase itself, the liner notes, yeah.
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Was, had the name of the,whatever the club was, I can't
remember what it was called.
Now, on the contrary, it couldmake it even more valuable really,
because people may wanna collectjust ones from different artists.
That are from that.
Let's say again, Nirvana, nevermindcassette tape, that they still bring
really high values, but how manywere made just by that company in
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that particular case, not as many.
So now it's rarer.
It's less likely thatsomebody might have it.
So it can go both ways sometimes.
Interesting.
Yeah.
I guess it just matters on doingyour research and trying to find the
right target audience, which again,is why eBay can be so great because
it's just such a broad market.
Yeah, what it, those tapes might be superpopular in, let's say, Morocco right now.
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Maybe the Moroccan teenagersare just like all over it.
Have you, you've heard the story of.
What do they call him?
Sugar man.
The guy who was he was like a Bob Dylanstyle contemporary around the same time,
but he was essentially not known at all.
And the record company that he recordedwith, I think got the majority,
if not all, the rice, his music.
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And during a lot of the turbulent times inSouth Africa, this particular album became
absorbed as a national anthem for thepeople and it was wildly popular there.
And they were selling tons andtons of this album specifically
to South Africa and in Europe.
And for years, like 20,like decades went by.
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And this particularartist whose music was.
It was like bigger thanElvis in that area.
He had no idea anyoneever listened to anymore.
No one even knew where hewas, what he was doing.
And they tracked himdown and they found him.
Oh, I think I remember this story.
So there's a documentary about it.
It's called a ser I think a Searchingfor Sugarman or something like that.
It's, if you don't know thestory, it's super fascinating.
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That is a perfect example of how somethingcan be out there, incredibly valuable
and popular to a certain people groupor a particular region of the world.
Because you don't live there,you have no idea unless you're
specifically researching for that.
So you're saying that David Hasselhoffrecord, collection that I have
might go big in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Are you saying I might be ableto make some money from that?
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That is absolutely not what I'm saying,
but it could be.
I'm not saying in Germany,dude, they love that guy.
In Germany.
I'm like, I don't get it.
But.
Absolutely.
Hey, David Ossoff.
He could rock it.
I guess the point I guess I, I'm makingis don't look at something that either
you have or is in a store and basedon your own preferences, ah, decide
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it's not worth it because it takes alot of different PE people, types of
people to make the world go round.
And it's very true thatyour trash is someone else's
treasure, or at least could be.
So it's worth, I could give youcountless examples of things I pulled
out of lots of things that I bought.
My initial thought when I looked at itis there's no way that's worth more than
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a buck or two, and I'm trying to decideis it even worth driving to the donation
place or should I just walk a few stepsoutside and put it in the trash can?
Oh, I look it up and I'm,oh, this saucer and teacup.
Our online for $1,400 and two weeks laterI've sold it for a thousand dollars.
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Something I would'vejust assumed throw away.
That is a real story ofsomething that happened to me.
So do not look at it and saythat the, that's so ugly.
The person that made it should becom, put in jail, just look it up.
It takes a moment and yeah, maybe you dothat 50 times, but when that 51st time
you do it and you get a huge payday,you're gonna be really glad you did.
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So that makes perfect sense.
Before we segue into what sold, 'causeI am very excited about, one of the
items you're gonna talk to us abouttoday is I was, when you brought
up about used sports equipment.
And or like hiking gear and stuff, welive in the mountains, lots of hiking.
And I think about REI,people return stuff to REI.
There's the REI what do they call it?
The garage sale.
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And then there's different, like storeslike that will have used equipment.
Is it worth absolutely.
Going to those stores tolook for value or not?
Absolutely.
It is.
And also stores like Ross and
essentially haven't been worn.
Whatever department store that they wereat, they had a stock that didn't sell,
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or they're getting a new line, or they'recompletely getting rid of that brand, and
then they sell 'em at a highly discountedprice to these retailers who do basically
the same thing I do, it's just thatthey have a higher volume and they're
buying directly from the manufacturers.
Mm-hmm.
Which, by the way, resellerscan do that as well.
I just choose not tobecause I sell antiques.
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Right.
They, and so you can get dis goodquality things at discounted prices.
And the reason I said look for thingslike sports equipment and outdoor
gear is that in the same way that ithappened during covid people are stuck
at home or they're worried about money.
They're spending less, they still want tohave recreation in some way, of course.
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And so people, there was ahuge influx of people buying
personal home workout equipment.
Psych, like bike like Peloton.
If Covid hadn't happened, I don'teven know if Peloton would've
made it another year or two.
And they that spiked.
Now they've not been doing as wellsince, because, for this, maybe the same
reasons that they struggled initially,but people had to stay at home.
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They still wanted to exercise.
So how do I do that?
I gotta invest some money.
It's cheaper than a year subscription tothe Y that I can't even go to right now.
So I might as well get this.
The same thing's gonna happen now peopleare going to say, okay, we've gotta cut.
All like our entertainmentbudget needs to go down to zero,
but I still want recreation.
Like recreation is a part of life.
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It's some of the, it'swhat makes life enjoyable.
Mm-hmm.
And or to de-stress from themany stresses of life and work.
And also it's spring or it's startingto be spring, we're gonna have the
next six months of decent weather.
In a lot of areas of the country, it'sprime for people to get out and do things.
So bicycle
climbing gear.
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Shoes, golf clubs, tennis rackets,pickleball equipment, all of those
things are going to start selling.
Because people are gonna recognizethat it's, it can, we can do these
fun recreational things and I onlyhave to put a small amount of money
into it, and I, and even with that,they're not gonna buy a new thing.
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They're gonna buy a used thing, so.
And if you have some of the thingsat your house and you're thinking I
have this really nice bike, but thenlast year I fell and hurt my knee and
it just hasn't felt the same since.
And I just haven't had, ithasn't been a priority, so I
haven't messed with selling it.
Maybe now is the time to bring thatnice bicycle down and that carbon
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fiber $3,000 bike and sell it becausesomebody is looking for one to start
riding in the next week or two.
And during covid speaking ofbikes, during covid, it was
almost impossible to find a bike.
Everybody was buying bikes.
Yeah.
And so there was a, there is a massiveglut out there of bikes that people bought
that they're probably not riding now.
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So you could probably, I rememberI had a Schwinn Varsity Cruiser.
It was a great bike.
Nice.
I paid $50 for it at some swap.
Is it 10 speed?
It was a 10 speed, yep.
Yeah.
And it was oh actually, I'm sorry.
It was a fixie that I hadturned back into a 10 speed.
Oh, nice.
That I actually fixed it andmade it into a 10 speed again.
Mm-hmm.
And the crazy part is when I soldit, 'cause I had bought another bike.
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It's this Swin varsity during Covid thatI paid $50 for, probably put another
$50 in to get it thing sold for $300.
So I made $200 on this thingthat I rode for two years.
Yeah.
So my point being is that's verytrue, like keeping an eye out for
the trends of what's hot and what'snot and buying the what's not.
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There's a massive glut of used bikesout there, so maybe keep an eye on bike.
I know it's harder to shipbikes, but Absolutely.
Listen, when I started off beforeI did this full time, the two
things that I bought and sold wereinstruments, which I still do, right?
And bicycles.
I was buying bikes that were made in theseventies and eighties, sometimes in the
sixties, but I knew all of the betterbrands of Trek and some of these, European
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ones like eo and I knew the certain.
Types of steel thatwere stronger or better.
And by the way, these bikesfrom the seventies, eighties,
they are, they're rock solid.
Like they hold up right?
For decades if you, you do themaintenance on them maintenance,
like anything, it would be likethe caliper brake pads, right?
The the tires themselves and all that.
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But I would buy these things for40, 50 bucks that were beat up
and I would do the following.
If not like one or two ofthese, if not all of them, I
would replace the brake pads.
They're not that expensive.
I'd go out to a thrift store or I wouldgo to a local used bike place and I would
buy a replacement seat that wasn't torn,but it's used only cost me 10 bucks.
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And I would buy that tape that youused on the handles of tennis rackets.
Right.
To rewrap them or, and I would takeoff the wrapping on the handlebars
and I would rewrap it, so looking,and I would just kinda wipe it down.
I would, I was, every couple ofweeks I was buying one for 50,
60 bucks and I was turning aroundselling it for 200, 250 bucks.
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Yeah.
It's crazy.
And this is fif, thisis 10 to 15 years ago.
You can still do that today becausenew bikes are crazy expensive.
Yeah.
And if you're just wanting to ride aroundthe neighborhood, your budget may be $300.
You're gonna be forced tolook at these types of bikes.
But knowing that, knowing whatyou as a buyer is are wanting.
You can go find a $50 bike and do that.
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And once you do it and you likethe ride, hey, go buy some more.
Fix them up and sell 'em.
Or maybe you just continueto upgrade yours by doing a
little bit of work each time.
And that's what I did withinstruments for a long time.
I'd pay a hundred bucks, sell it for 200.
Now I have 200 bucks.
I buy $200 guitar, sell itfor 400, and I have $400.
And before long I got $4,000 I can finallybuy that Gibson or that Martin I wanted.
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Hmm.
And it just took some time and somework, but it was also fun along the way.
Man, that's another huge data dump.
I love that.
So those of you that are listeningout there going take, get out your
notepad and start writing stuff down.
Alright, let's segue though intowhat sold in Musical Instruments is
a good segue because we are gonna betalking about an instrument today.
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I will.
And since you, that was the segue.
This is actually notsomething that I've sold yet.
I just got it yesterday.
But I probably will sell, and thenI will tell you some things I sold.
I'll just spend a moment on this.
So on the last episode I talkedabout a couple of guitars that I
had, and I'm gonna back up so thatthose who are watching can see this.
But it is a, again, a dark.
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Tobacco burst, smaller body,kinda a medium-sized body guitar.
The guitar brand is called RecordingKing and it says Carson Robinson on
the Headstock and then Model K. Sothis is a really intriguing instrument.
I looked up the serial number and it'sfrom 1938, so it's a late thirties guitar.
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It's a mahogany backinside and a spruce top.
Right now, if you're watching, youcan see that I have removed the bridge
from it and the saddle, and I havetaped with painters tape around that.
I'll explain why I did that in justa moment, but I bought this on eBay.
It was not branded in the title, itjust said old acoustic guitar as is.
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And because of my, I alreadyhad knowledge about this guitar.
I bid on it and I bought it.
Had a pretty good price.
I think I, I spent about athousand dollars on it, which, is
still a good amount of money, butlemme explain why I bought it.
Recording King is the brand that'son this, and it is who you know.
It's sold.
It was sold by this company recordingKing, but this particular guitar was
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actually made by Gibson, the Gibsoncompany in their Kalamazoo, Michigan
plant, right alongside all of thesimilar Gibson branded instruments.
And instruments that were caughthad Kalamazoo on their headstock.
Kalamazoo was in reference to the cityand the factory that it was made in.
But Kalamazoo instruments were, insome cases, exact replicas of the
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same guitars they were selling thatjust had Gibson on the Headstock.
So the point is they're madewith high quality woods and
components, thereby a very wellrespected and sought after brand.
And.
Until the last maybe decade or two,you could get them at hugely like
grossly, ridiculously low prices incomparison to buying the same guitar.
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But just says Gibson on it becauseat that time before the internet
people, not a lot of people knew.
Gibson made somewhere around guitarsfor maybe 15 to 20 other manufacturers,
and they have different names on theheadstock, but they are Gibson made
instruments and they're made by thesame people at the same standards.
So this guitar, when I bought it,the reason I got it for such a good
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price was that I could see in thepictures that the bridge was lifting.
So this particular guitar is.
Like most acoustic guitars you'veseen, it has a bridge that's glued
down onto the top of the instrument.
Due to the string tension, sometimesthe way that it was braced this
is a ladder bracing rather than xbracing, which would have been better.
It slowly over time lifts up thatbridge up because it's being pulled
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by the tension of the strings and.
Sometimes that bridge will detach,and that's a problem because if it
gets like that too much, then itcould just completely rip it off of
the guitar and cause major damage.
So seeing that, I knewrepair needed to happen.
So I've taped it off.
I'm going to first sand underneathlightly to get the old hardened
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glue residue off of the wood withvarying gr grades of sandpaper.
I'm gonna do the same on theunderside of the bridge, which is
made out of Brazilian Rose Wood.
That's valuable because they stoppedselling instruments with Brazilian
rosewood right around 19 68, 19 69,because they were just destroying
the rainforests to get them.
Sure.
And so they stopped.
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They stopped allowing that.
This guitar from this era, the thirties,a lot of instruments were made.
It's considered one of thegreatest tonewoods ever,
and it's also quite durable.
So I'd love to keep that bridge if I can.
I don't know, I might haveto put a new one on it.
So I'm gonna do some work restringthis and see what it sounds like.
It's very possible that willsound similar to two or three
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other Gibson guitars that I have.
I have one that is a 1931 L one flat top guitar.
I was surprised to find that,that it looks very similar.
It's exactly the same body shape as it.
And this is made in 38 just seven yearsafter the other one I have was made.
So same era, same people.
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So I'm excited about it.
I'll let you know what it lookslike and sounds like afterwards.
But to give you an idea I paida thousand dollars for this.
If I were to go and have a luthier, Iuse do the work, it would probably be
somewhere in the three to $400 range.
So I'd be about 14, 13, $1,400 in on it.
If I do the work myself,it will cost me nothing.
It'll just take time.
But when this instrumentis, which is still in.
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When it's I fixed it, it'll beabout a 25 to $2,800 guitar.
Wow.
So I'll be able to double mymoney on that if I choose to.
Or you could just play it and enjoy it.
Oh in the meantime, I certainly will.
Nice.
All right.
Some things that I sold here, thisone right here is just a little pin
back or a little pin that you wouldjust put, on your shirt or a vest, or.
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I won't even dare to try to pronounce it.
Oh, yes, I will.
Oly
spiel Garish Partin Chen Garish, PartinKin, one of my favorite places on earth.
So though all those people that, thatare just like hand over their face right
now with my horrible pronunciation.
It says 1936 and what this is.
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Is a pen commemorating a winter Olympics.
'cause it has the Olympics ringon it superimposed over this snowy
capped mountain and it's from 1936.
So it's a vintage piece.
This sold for $55, sothat's a pretty good sale.
Wow.
It's a great sale.
Now, I didn't personally buy this.
I sold this on consignment, butthis is the kind of thing that you.
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A lot of the time at thrift stores or playantique stores up by the cash register,
they'll just have these little basketsor a little basket of things in different
booths, and they're like, you just,25 cents a piece or 50 cents a piece.
If you find these little pin backs.
It's not as common for people to bewearing this type of thing anymore.
And so since it's outta style,people aren't as interested in it.
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But there are collectors forthings in this category, so
you should make yourself aware.
And there's also one other thing.
The history teacher comes out, ah,1936 was also the year of the Berlin
Olympics, the Jesse Owens Olympics.
And so there, there was a lotgoing on in the world right then.
Yeah.
By the way, Garmisch-Partenkirchen is oneof the greatest towns in Southern Germany.
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Oh.
It's like a stone's throw fromAustria and it's just in the Alps.
It's just, it used to be anRR base for the military.
Kidding.
It's a great place to visit.
Kidding.
But if somebody was a collectorof that specific time period,
that could be very valuable.
Yeah, absolutely.
And this, again, this is one of thosethings that if you're going through
stuff, old stuff that you were.
You inherited and maybe you pull somejewelry, a couple pocket knives, or
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a watch or something outta this box,and what's left is three or four of
these little pin backs, and you just,I know this happens all the time.
People are like, eh, that stuff, no one'sgonna want that in the trash can, right?
It happens all the time.
And you might have throwna hundred, 150 bucks out.
Those pins might have been worth more thanyour pocket knives and your watch that
you just pulled out, you don't know right?
So do your research on everything.
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Another thing I sold is this, talkabout another thing that aren't
as commonly used today as inyesteryear, are a pair of cuff links.
These are the type of thing, again, youcould find for a buck, two bucks, but
if you turn 'em over and you look atthem, by the way, they're like a mostly
a gold tone, except for on the very topit's more of a silver and it's etched.
Its very art deco design.
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Belays is I guess thebrand, but it says 14 karat.
So these are some kind of basic alloymetal, but the top part that's white
is actually 14 karat white gold.
So there's gold content on this.
This pair and another pairsold for $50 each, so they
were bought by the same person.
So two little pairs of cup linksin five minutes, a hundred bucks.
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Wow.
And these only cost acouple of dollars each.
So that's a really good a price to get.
The next one's really cool.
And this is an interesting piece notbecause of what it is itself, although it
is interesting, but because it representssomething that happens to me from time
to time, which is finding things that Idon't, it's very difficult to determine
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if it is original and what the value is.
So what I'm holding up is this littleplay figure that looks like a sarcophagus.
It has these, what appear to beEgyptian hieroglyphic I guess
characters carved into the top of it.
And at the top you've got the traditional,person's kind of face with that hair
that comes down to the size and thenthe goatee thing that comes down or the
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beard and it's made of clay, it made,it has been dropped at some point and
broken in a couple pieces and glued back.
It's got a prettyinteresting patina on it.
Dark in some places, like in others.
It's been rubbed, so it's notbeen taken very good care of.
It's difficult to tell when youlook this up and others like it.
Is this an original, is this an artifact,a treasure, or is this something that was
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sold at say, a museum gift shop to mimic arelic that they have in their collection?
That kind thing for tourists.
Since I had a very difficult timedetermining its value, I just
assumed maybe it is the real thing,and so I put it up for a high price
to see if somebody's gonna bite.
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I had multiple people email meand say, just so you know, that is
like a knickknack travel well thingthat you would buy for tourists.
That's like a tourist favor athing that you would buy when
you went overseas and stuff.
After multiple people said that,and then I went and looked and did
a little bit more of a deeper dive.
I confirmed that, so Isignificantly lowered the price.
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This sold for $65.
It is still vintage, it's stillinteresting as a little tchotchke
or something that you could put ina conversation piece, but it's cool.
I have a few other things here.
One looks like it's aMex of Mexican origin.
Another one may be Egyptianorigin that I still don't know.
If they are original or just really goodfacsimile, because anymore people can
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make things artistically that look verymuch like the real thing and in some cases
with the exact same materials, and youwould need an expert with very expensive
equipment and things to determine.
So I may bring some of those up.
We'll, we could do a show where it'slike a, what is this show where I'm
asking you to tell me what it is?
Oh my gosh.
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That'd be great.
I got all sorts of good showideas today in a lot of cases.
I know what it is.
I just don't know.
It's is this treasure ortrash, ooh, trash or treasure.
Trash or treasure.
I've got a billfold here and, oh,that's pretty, it's lovely looking.
It's a longer kind of single fold wallet.
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It has this really beautifula gold filigree look.
Patched around the edges, and thena little symbol in the center.
When you open it up very clean.
It's like a re more ofa reddish brown color.
This is an antique Europeanbillfold on the inside.
It's very clean, butthis is made let's see.
Trying to remember it.
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I think that it says it on here someplace.
The type of leather, it's like hide.
It's not ostrich, but it'snot your typical leather.
It's like a finer, softer leather,like deer or something like that.
So it's thinner, but it's inreally good shape, and this is
like an 1880s to 1900 wallet.
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I had this thing.
It's super cool.
I know that if I tried to use itmyself, it would just start to
disintegrate because even thoughit's in good condition, I mean it,
it's been around for a long time.
Mm-hmm.
I've had this for probably.
Two to three years and it hasn't sold.
And I've taken it down, put itup, taking it down, put it up.
Finally sold and only sold for $32.
Now, I didn't pay a lot for this.
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This came in a lot.
I've long since made my money back.
But to be honest with you, I justthink it's a really high quality, neat
antique, and I was just disappointedthat it didn't sell for more.
But if you have it out to thepublic for three years and you
lower the price a. It just isn'tas valuable as you want it to be.
That happens sometimes.
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Your mistake was, do youremember a guy named Tele Vallis?
The actor?
Tele Savalas.
I don't recognize by the name,but so he was a famous actor.
Some of our audience will know who he was.
He did it.
Very famous car commercial.
I don't remember the, Ithink it was the Elder.
I don't even know what itwas the car was, but he said.
He had this kind of axis.
He goes, this is made with onlythe finest Corinthian leather.
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Yes, he'd be rubbing the seat andthat's where your mistake was.
You should have said it was madefor the finest Corinthian leather
Corinthian the finest Corinthian leather.
Yeah.
A picture of me like rubbing iton the side of my face with just
like a look of joy in ecstasy.
Oh, people would've bought that right up.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
Listen.
I can still, it's all marketing.
It's all branding, man.
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It is all marketing.
It's all ball bearing these days.
Alright, you have anything elsefor us or should we call it a day?
One more little thing.
Okay, I'll show this.
Most of it is in the little baggy here.
I pulled out one or two pieces tohold up to show individually, but
what I'm holding are antique Victorianmid 18, mid to late 18 hundreds.
Bar pins bros, and round pins andbros. The thing that made this
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particular lot that I curated themost interesting is that they are all
authentic original pins, but all ofthem incorporate enamel paint onto them.
So half of them are madeoutta sterling silver.
The other half are just goldtone alloys, but they all have
various design designs and colors.
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Some of them incorporate somesemi-precious gemstones or pearls,
and they're just for a collector that.
There are collectors that justcollect pens and broaches,
Victorian era with enamel on them.
I know that's a very specificniche, but I threw this up.
The funny thing about this lot, which soldfor $200, is that I had it on auction for
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seven days with a starting bid of 140.
So whoever bought this could have boughtit yesterday for $140, but it didn't sell.
So I.
It sold within 30 minutes.
So was it that buyer just wasn't around?
Maybe is it that they don't like buyingon auction 'cause they don't wanna wait?
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Maybe.
I don't know.
But that happens a lot.
And most of the time when I haveauctions, I don't do two back-to-back
auctions on the same item.
I stagger it.
Auction, buy it now.
Doesn't sell lower the price.
Auction doesn't sell.
Raise the price, put it on, buy it now.
I don't know why, but that workssometimes because by it now it, it works
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on people's emotions and if people getexcited about a thing and in that moment
emotion, they have that emotion, they willimpulsively in some cases buy something.
And that's just the way thatthe market works sometimes.
I had two lots.
That one was enamel, anotherone had just rhinestones.
Same type of thing.
They both sold to thesame person for $199 each.
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So it was like I had these two cuff links.
Sale a hundred bucks.
These two bags sell for 200 each,so in about a 15, 15 minute period
of time, that's $500 that came in.
Nice.
That feels good.
Like before I've even finishedfulfillment in the morning, if
I've already brought in $500.
I'm not sweating it.
You're rolling in High cotton baby.
You're rolling in high cotton.
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Hey.
So today I thought, wow, howare we gonna fill up the time?
We, this is our single longestepisode we've ever done.
I feel like it's just youand I we're filibustering.
I know.
We're like what's his name?
What's the guy's name?
Yeah.
He beat Strong Thurman's previousrecord Cory Booker, something like that.
17 hours.
Yeah, I beat it.
So we, I think we've just.
We've just filibustered our own show.
He only beat us.
If we can only put in a 20 hours foranother 16, oh, he did 25, 25 hours.
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We just need to do another 24 hours.
We do it all.
If we just stayed on here untilthis time tomorrow and then a
little bit longer, we would win.
All right, listen,we're not gonna do that.
He was standing up aswell that entire time.
Oh my gosh.
Crazy.
I'm sitting in my seat,guys in good shape.
That is all the time we have.
We appreciate you guys listening.
Remember to follow, like, and subscribe.
All that fun stuff.
Any last words, Matt?
Make 'em quick, buddy.
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You know what?
If you want to make a start thisweek, come up with something
that you are interested in.
Find out the five to 10 biggest brands orthings about that hype that sell for the
most, and then start with one category.
Learn about that and see how you like it.
That's great advice.
All right, everybody.
Have a great week.
We'll be back with abrand new show next week.
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Take care.
Welcome back to the What Sold podcast.
This is your weekly doseof aftermarket insanity.
We're here to bring it to you.
Matt and I have been talkinga lot about the world as it's
happening in front of us.
Some would say crumbling.
Not everywhere.
I would say bumbling.
I would say bumbling.
I'm not sure I would say crumbling.
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'cause I'm not quite surewhat's going on at this point.
But we're coming back off of springbreak and there's optimism in the world.
There's, my daughter's very excited.
There's seven weeks left of school.
Then the summer months are upon uswhere we just frolic and barbecue and
toast marshmallows all summer long.
Wasn't I say I'll be speaking, doingcartwheels and a meadow flowers.
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That's what I'll be doing.
So I grew up in a placewhere there were no seasons.
You had summer and you had cold.
Some rain.
No, no, no.
There's no cold.
Matt.
It would be like if it got below 50 ever.
It was like what?, where did you grow?
Oh, you're in California, right?
It's Northern California.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
They're like, oh no, there'swe're, something's happening.
It's below 50 degrees.
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I told you, I, when my wife and Ifirst met, she'd always say, what's
the weather gonna be like today?
And I'd look at her and be like.
It was like, it was yesterdayand the day before that.
And the day before that.
Yeah.
Do you know how it wasyesterday exactly like that?
Yeah.
I didn't know in a heavy coat.
I owned a ski jacket.
Mm-hmm.
That was it.
I didn't own a, I never ever used it.
I obviously had raincoats 'causeit rains out there, but it
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doesn't usually get that cold.
Definitely gets hot.
Yeah.
But it's a dry heat man.
It's a dry heat.
So anyway, one thing that I loveabout living in Western North
Carolina or just anywhere wherethere are four Seasons is that.
I just love the demarcation points.
I was telling you, I, I was out mowingmy yard and doing the spring weeding.
Mm-hmm.
Getting ready for the summer to come.
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So you prepare those of you that are inplaces where this happens to you, you know
what it's like, you gotta go out there.
You gotta make sure that the putdown new mulch or, spread the seed
for the weeds and all the differentthings that go on with that.
Which I don't like to do.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I wish I didn't have to do it,but it is a reality in fact.
We never mowed a lawn when Iwas a kid growing up 'cause
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we lived out in the country.
Mm-hmm.
But I did get a job mowing,a dentist office lawn.
And my dad was so we, we just didn'tmow that she gave me a push mower.
Yeah.
Those old school push mowers, you meanthe ones that, not like a mowed one.
The blades that rotate when you push it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You had to sharpen periodicallybecause it was so painfully hard to do.
Yeah.
That was my workout.
That was what I did.
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But other than that, itjust didn't mow a lot lawn.
When I moved to Louisville, Kentucky,my first F lawn ever, I did go out
and buy myself a one of those fancyelectric lawnmowers and I still have it.
It's quite nice.
Nice actually to sharpen the blades,all the things that I, did you get that
from Tiffany and Company as well, likethe bed for your daughter or, oh, yeah.
You know what's really funny about that?
I did not get the mower from Tiffany,but it's interesting that you asked the
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question about Tiffany because we'vetalked ad nauseum on this show about.
Things that you find in boxes that arearound your house or other people's house?
Yeah, so my wife says to me, Hey, I wasgoing through some boxes up in the attic.
She was going through some personal stuffand kind of trying to organize things.
Okay.
Because as we bought thevery, very expensive bed.
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Very too expensive.
One could stay two.
Yeah.
I did have to go out and spend another$30 on the hardware to make it work.
I did get it together.
I felt quite proud of myselfwhen the bed went up and nice.
It has not collapsed to the floor.
There have been no injuries or deathdue to this bed, so we're doing
pretty good, but my wife says to.
I was going through a box and I foundthis necklace that an old sh So my
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boss, my wife was a, when we first met,she was actually a nanny to the stars.
I'm not even making this up.
Wow.
She was like a nanny to thesedifferent rock stars, and it was
just a niche that she, I didn't know.
Yeah, I know.
It's crazy.
So she was the nanny for Metallica wasone of the people she was a nanny for?
No.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
So she, so one of her, so she wouldwork in nannies in the Bay Area.
It's like they're everybody's rich.
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So someone bought her a necklacethat she never wore and she looked
at it and she goes, oh it's Tiffany.
So I was like, wait a second.
Boom.
You ought to ask Matt Brock about that.
She says, I alreadytexted, oh, Flo, his wife.
Oh really?
So if, can you see it Matt?
Look at that.
There it is.
Yeah.
It looks like a sterling silver necklace.
It's not.
I think it's gold.
Oh, is it gold?
It's gold.
It looks silver to me,but oh man, it's gold.
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That looks fantastic.
And she looked it up.
And the value, yeah, who knows?
We need to have , one rusty,the reseller, take a look.
Hey, going take it outside,scratch it a little bit.
So she said, oh, I think it'sworth like seven or $800.
And I'm like, oh, yeah.
Oh, okay.
We need to sell that immediately.
She's like, , I wanna save itfor our daughter and maybe I'll
give it to her at her wedding.
I'm like.
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She's never gonna wear that.
Let's sell it.
Let's do like what?
Yeah, let's do what Matt Brockdoes and don't hang on to stuff.
Yeah, sell it.
So this will exactly, actually come to youat some point for you to take a look at.
Wonderful.
And if anybody in the audienceis looking and knows what
this is, I can get it today.
I can come by today.
That's true.
You just let me know.
We can take care of that right today.
So if you're in the audience and youknow what that is and what it's worth.
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So then she went on eBay and she's like.
It's not selling for as much oneBay and I don't know anything about
it, but I do know that it is gold.
Okay.
And it is Tiffany, so I'm assumingit probably has some value.
Absolutely.
It has some value.
That's exciting.
Yeah.
To just randomly come across a Tiffanynecklace is just hanging out in a
box, hanging out in your closet.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think, my wife'snot a huge jewelry person.
She clearly cared a lot about it.
No, and she's not a big jewelry person.
In general every once in a while.
Okay.
But in general, she's more ofan active outdoorsy type person.
Yeah.
So it doesn't surpriseme that it would show up.
I think neither her nor my daughterare all that worried about jewelry.
It, I always find sure piecesthat are laying around the house,
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I'm like, Hey, whose is this?
They just take it off and drop it there.
So we will, it's not even apocryphal.
It's a real story.
For those of you that are outthere looking through your family's
closets or drawers, remember, younever know what treasures you're
gonna find if you're out looking.
Yeah, that was a funstory this week, dude.
That's a really fun story and listenersout there, if you ever take the advice
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of going and finding things that youdon't care about at your house and
you decide to sell them, if you comeacross something really special.
Either personally that you forgotyou had, didn't know you had
or something really valuable.
Email us and tell us a story.
Send us a picture or something.
Yeah, like we can tell you that's,I, those are really cool stories.
To me, that's just as neat or asexciting as going out and finding
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something that, that has value that aperson didn't research or didn't know.
It's the same kind of thing, andwe obviously, the story is also for
those people that are doing this asa full-time job or a side hustle.
It's just another little reminder thatyou just don't know what you'll find.
You just.
Gotta keep your head on a swiveland be on the lookout for treasures.
'cause they're out therethey're everywhere.
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It's just, most people don'tknow, they either think they're
worth too much or too little.
I find that it's in the, it's somewherein the middle of those two things.
Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
And in my experience, more often than not,they think it's not worth hardly anything.
More often when I'm working with.
Things that people have, they're typicallysurprised at how much they sell for.
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They had no idea.
And if a person thinks it's toovaluable, then I just show 'em.
I don't tell 'em.
I'm like this is what they're selling foris you don't have to take my word for it.
Just look.
Yeah.
And then they're like oh man, Ithought it was gonna be a million.
I thought I had justdiscovered a treasure chest.
So that was a fun story that she broughtto, she's like, oh, look at this.
And it is hilarious thatshe immediately texted Flo.
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I was like, why don't you just text Matt?
And she's like, oh no,I'm afraid of that guy.
She was in the middle of, she wasin the middle of dressing up a hot
dog and pouring some nacho cheeseat the snack bar, at the bowling
alley when she got the call.
So she was excited.
She accidentally got nachocheese all over her smock.
You know what I'd expectNothing less of flow with the.
Was it League Night last night?
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Is that what was going on?
Rusty and Flo down at League Night?
Yeah.
Oh, definitely.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's always busy on League night.
Yeah.
I gotta imagine when you twogo to League Night that you
have your own monogram shirts.
You go there.
Oh, monogram.
Monogram.
Bowling balls.
Oh yeah.
Monogram shoes.
A certain type of powder thatI put on my fingers before
I I always air dry the ball.
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Sure.
On the air dryer before you use it.
Like that king pin, that is a,yeah, that's the secret move
right there is air drying.
Oh, yeah.
Air drying the bowling ball.
I told you, I, I love the idea of bowling,but I have these massive meat paws.
I'd have to get my own ball.
I'd have to get it drilledso it could fit my hand.
Otherwise, bowling is never as fun for me.
I always ends up hurting my fingers.
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Let us transition withour fancy music into Yeah.
The next portion of whatwe're gonna talk about today.
So you and I have been talking alot e everyone has been talking
a lot about what's going on.
Mm-hmm.
In terms of the markets, and it'sjust every day it's something new.
Every day it's something different.
You don't know from oneday to the next if the.
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Who's taring whom and what's gonna happen.
And it's just such high levelstuff, but it is gonna trickle
down and it's gonna affect us.
And I do think that it's gonnahave a massive effect on the
secondary reseller market.
We talked about that, so we wanted todive a little bit deeper into, if you're
doing this, what can you do to prepare fornot knowing for sure what's gonna happen,
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but what can you do to, in a sense,prepare for that rainy day that's coming?
And, we might be not fully past, butpartially past the time when you probably
should have already been prepared.
But if not, it's not like Covid dayswhere we are shutting our houses
and can't interact with peopleand that was a different animal.
But I agree with you.
(10:08):
I think that this already is andcontinue to affect the resell of your
market, but in two different ways.
So for those peopleunfortunately, like myself.
That sell things that are notnecessary everyday items, I think
you're likely gonna find a dip inboth the number of sales and also what
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you can what you're gonna earn from.
Those people are gonna buy less andthey're gonna want to pay less for them.
However, the secondary market for saygood quality clothing or jackets or.
Gear for doing activities like sportsequipment and things like that.
Oh yeah.
I didn't even think about that.
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And toothbrushes and gloves andsunglasses and all these things
that most people use either dailyor at some time during the year.
I think people that focus on thosethings are gonna, are going to be the
ones that get the advantage from thisbecause when people get uncertain.
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And they get afraid andthey don't know what to do.
They start, they, they enact thisself-preservation sort of thing.
And one of those is peoplewill sometimes hoard things.
Sometimes people will, theyoftentimes change their spending
habits, so they spend less whenthey feel like they have less, or
they do have less, they spend less.
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Not on an individual level,but generally speaking.
And when the economy's doing well andpeople have more money, I. Then they're
spending more and they're putting moreof that money back in the economy.
So I'm curious to see all thisplays out from a lot that I've read.
It sounds like the administrationthat's making some of these moves
are hopeful that it will trigger somebenefits to the economy at least.
(11:57):
Not necessarily in the shortterm, but in the long term.
So we'll see.
I don't know if that will happenwhen the sentiment is so low.
Fear is high and people stopspending money and putting that
money back into the economy.
I don't quite understand how theeconomy is going to get better if people
are not spending and they're afraid.
And who knows what happenswhen this administration leaves
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and the next one comes in.
Because historically, if it's theopposite party, then they're gonna try
to undo, and it seems like things of thisnature require time to really play out.
As the architects intend.
So again, I don't want to getdown a really deep political hole.
But all that to say, I thinkthe facts are there are tariffs.
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The facts are we have just come off ofa couple of weeks of really turbulent
drops primarily in the stock market.
So people's 4 0 1 ones and their nesteggs and their investments are not so hot.
Generally speaking, when will.
Now you've got some people who are retiredthinking, do I need to go back to work?
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Am I gonna need to get a part-time job?
Oh, yeah.
And for those people out there whoare thinking that, or let's say
you, you have a bunch of things thatyou don't use or you don't need.
Maybe you've inherited stuff from a familymember and it's still all in the house.
Like the house hasn'tsold, it's still there.
Or maybe you.
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Have a storage unit or two, either ofyour own things or things that came in.
And it's fine.
You don't mind paying to store it,but you haven't gone in long time.
It just sits there.
And two things.
If you can get some of that stuff outand sell it, you will start earning
some income you didn't have before.
And if you can move stuff outof that, then you know you're
gonna save on cost because you'repaying for that storage unit.
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And so I think in these times,people are gonna be thinking
both about how do I save money?
And how do I spend less andalso how do I cut costs?
And I think those are, I'mthinking the same thing.
This is a third person you I'mreally speaking about myself, but
I think other people are also.
And so I think, today, I mean fromyour perspective, Brandon, what
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do you think the main questionsfrom people out there are?
Maybe not full-time sellers, butthe majority of people who are
interested in it or part-time.
What questions do you think that they'reasking themselves right now about
what should they, because people wantto do when there's a problem, right?
They want to fix it, they want totry to solve it, and a lot of these
things feel outside of our control.
(14:28):
So maybe the catalysts for theissue, we can't control on a
personal level, but how do we adapt?
So there's a couple of things thatstrike me right away and may, maybe
it's wrong, but I don't do knowyou've said this, and so I'm just.
That during Covid, a lot of peopleentered the reselling business a lot.
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When the economy is down, a lot ofpeople jump into this because it's a
fairly easy way to make some money.
Doing what you're already doing or usingwhat you already have, you need no qual,
there are no qualification requirements.
No educational requirements, no, none ofthat geographical requirements, nothing.
If you have a, if you have access to acomputer in the internet, you can do this.
Or even if not if you go hangup a sign somewhere and if you
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sell your own things or thingsyou like, that costs nothing too.
I guess the only thing about sellingthings that have value if you don't have
'em already, is you're gonna have to findthem and pay for them in the first place.
So that's something to consider.
But yeah.
And I think about the other questionsis I would think that people would
be asking, number one, where can Isource stuff if I wanna start selling?
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Mm-hmm.
And number two is, whatshould I be sourcing?
So a lot a, I'm assuming that a lotof people that just jump into this, do
everything that you said not to do inthe beginning, and that's just normal.
You don't know what you don't know.
Mm-hmm.
I imagine people will start like,oh, there's a piece of furniture
for sale and I think that's areally good deal or this or that.
And you've said all along, Hey, smalleris better because if you gotta ship
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it, it's less expensive to ship.
Mm-hmm.
So I imagine there's a lot of thinkingaround if you're just getting into
this or if you're already into it,what should you be shifting your focus,
or what should you be focusing on interms of items that you wanna sell?
So let's talk about that like selling,what to look for, and then we can
maybe talk briefly if we have timeabout cost cutting measures or perhaps
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that's a totally different episode.
As far as the items themselves, thereare some categories, and I can make a
little list that we can add with theother platforms that we put this on.
But going to thrift stores whichis the easiest thing to do because
a lot of communities have them,they're open year round, usually.
They, there are categories of things thatoftentimes I see that are very low cost.
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So clothing, shoes, neck ties, sunglasses,any kind of musical media, cassette
tapes, VHS tapes, vinyl records.
These are all things thatyou can find value in.
That will usually cost $5 or less.
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Now, some of the t-shirts or some ofthe clothing, depending on the brand,
if they price things based on brand,could be higher than that, but it doesn't
necessarily mean it wouldn't be a goodbuy because the value may be higher.
For example, if you find some really cool,authentic nineties, eighties, or nineties
rock band t-shirts, if you find anysort of rap hip hop or like metal music
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on cassette tapes or on vinyl records.
Some really old jazz or really old soulmusic on vinyl records or 40 fives.
I would look at those neck ties,sunglasses, stuff like that are usually
a buck or two neck ties, a buck or two.
And it doesn't, as obviouslyyou want them to operate
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correctly and be of good quality.
If they're damaged, that's, that maybe a pass, but it doesn't take long to
flip through all the neck times, turnit over and see what the brand is.
'cause if you might find, here's a Chanel.
Or a Gucci necktie, or one of these reallysought after brands, you're gonna spend a
dollar and you're gonna sell it for 200.
Really?
So wait, who's buying?
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It's such an interesting thing becauseso many people, so it used to be
everyone who went to work in a whitecollar world would wear a neck tie.
Everyone.
Yeah.
My first, 10 years as a teacher, Ihad to wear a tie every single day.
But people aren't wearingthem as much anymore.
So who are the people thatare purchasing these neckties?
Resellers really People, people, peoplebuy neckties to still wear because
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I don't know if you've been out toa depart like a department store
recently, but neckties are expensive.
Yeah.
And if you're like me, you mighthave a reason to wear a suit.
Once or twice a year, right?
And you may not even wear the same tie.
So let's say once a year, do I reallywanna spend 30 or 40 bucks on a tie
that I'm essentially never gonna wear?
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If I can find good quality onesfor a dollar, get outta here.
Of course I'm gonna do that.
And so people are still buyingthose belts is another thing.
You can find really good.
High quality belts, reversible belts.
Belts that sometimes have sterling silver.
Hardware on them or buckles,they don't even know.
And this is why you can find them becausethe way that thrift stores like Goodwill
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and a lot of these work, especiallylocal ones, that maybe half or more
of their staff are just volunteers.
They are, if they're given muchguidance, the guidance that they're
given is usually in the back room whenthey're sorting things, they have this
little piece of paper or somethingand it gives the pricing for them.
It shows you where to sort them.
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And then the person who's pulling out thesort of things to price them is looking
up at this guide and it says, belts 1 99.
Neckties one, 99 centsor Vinyl records 2 99.
Now they don't have the arrownext to the vinyl records.
It says, unless it's an original sunrecord of Elvis on this particular.
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They're not telling you thethings that are super valuable.
You need to look out for.
Nope.
Belts are this price.
Sunglasses are this price.
It doesn't matter if they're Guccisunglasses 'cause they just drop 'em in
unless they happen to know brands andthey're paying super close attention
and then they're gonna want to takethe time to go up and ask the manager,
should we really price this higher?
Most people don't care.
As a worker, they care that they'regonna make X amount of dollars an hour
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doing the work that they're told to do.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
My point is, they're not in themarket of getting the best possible
value for everything in the.
They are getting a high volume ofdeliveries and donations, and so
they need to sell a high volume,they need to get it out as fast
as possible that they get it in.
The only way they can do thatis to have competitive prices,
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so they price things low.
And that is and you can be armed withknowledge of brands and stuff like that,
and knowing the way that they operate,that there can be some deals to be made
and money to be made on this stuff.
I would suggest this, whatever of thosethat piques your interest the most.
If it's vinyl records, if it'st-shirts, what you want to do is get
on and look up most valuable t-shirtbrands or most valuable vinyl record
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genre or most valuable cassette tapes.
Go to eBay and look up.
Then go to sold items andlook at the highest sold item.
You're gonna come across a lotof large, lots of like, here's
a thousand cassette tape.
Somebody spent, four grand on it,but you're gonna scroll down and
you're eventually gonna find one.
Someone spent $1,100 on one cassette tape.
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Really?
Why?
Yeah, because it's like theoriginal Nirvana, it's Nirvana's
whatever that their first album.
I can't remember.
That was like Teen Spirit.
Yeah.
Maybe that, that, that's Nevermindthe one or the one nevermind.
Or the one with the, nevermind.
Nevermind.
It's nevermind.
Yeah.
And the one with the baby in the pool.
Right?
You know that iconic.
So make a list and thenjust go in with that.
It's on your phone, it's on paper.
And just spend a week going to differentplaces and you're focusing on one category
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and you're learning as you're doing it.
You're gonna come across brandsyou've never heard of before.
You.
Polo is not gonna be a like really asought after brand unless it's made prior
to this date or this particular t-shirt.
T-shirts that seem to have singlestitching on them are selling for more.
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Why is that?
Because they weren't massproduced like they are today.
That also helps you to date them, etcetera, and you're gonna learn so much
information in a small amount of time and.
Instead of knowing five brandsto look for, you're gonna
know 25 brands to look for.
And every time you learn about something,you are better and better prepared to
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find something that you can make money on.
Now again, this takes time.
I don't know how much listener timethat you have to devote to this.
Mm-hmm.
And time is money.
So I wouldn't leave a payingjob to do this right now hoping
that you'll make money on it.
But I, what I would do is startdoing it when you have spare time.
Start to get your feet wet, make alittle bit of money, learn about one
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category, move on to another one.
Good side hustle.
Yeah it's hard to learn about a lotof different categories at once.
I was forced to do that because of the waythat I entered this particular profession.
But you don't have to be that wayyou can learn a lot about one thing,
and maybe that's the thing that youstick with if it's readily available.
Let me tell you people, if anybody'sout there and finds a, an eight track
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of Gordon Lightfoot or Harry Chapin.
I'm just telling you, there's oneguy here that's very interested in
that purchase, so I'm willing to pay.
Yeah.
In fact, right here, I got recently,this is a I got a Van Halen.
Nice.
A cassette tape right here?
It's like a little baby and Oh, not baby.
It's like a small chair, type chair.
Yeah.
Smoking a cigarette with acouple of packs of cigarettes
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sitting on the table in front.
Sure.
And that this is 19, say side 1, 19 84.
You got me right there already,Panama, yeah, that's right.
That came out and I remember when thatalbum came out 'cause I didn't like it.
But yeah, that thing's probably only gonnasell for between 10, 12, $14 at the most.
But if I bought that for nine, 9 cents,you're getting 10 times your cost, right?
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And the shipping is cheap.
Shipping is gonna cost you $4 orless, and you're gonna pass that.
Calculated shipping, meaning fromwhatever zip code they're buying
from automatically, eBay willcalculate it and charge them that
price so it doesn't cost you.
Oh.
So there I would start even beforespending money though, go get in your
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closet because if you're like Brandon,you're gonna come across a solid
gold Tiffany and company necklace.
Yeah.
And you're gonna go sellthat and make a lot of money.
And even if you're not,you don't have that.
Instead you just have a bunch of.
Eighties and nineties basketball cardsyou haven't looked at in 20 years.
You might have a KobeBryant rookie card in there.
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You forgot that was even in there.
You never went back to looklike there can be high values.
I mean we, you know what would be fun?
It just came to my mind.
It would be fun to do either onepodcast or a series of podcasts
where we talk about values of items.
But the way that we talk aboutthem is based on where in your
house they would be found.
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So like we can have onepodcast on the kitchen.
What are things that you may havein your kitchen that you didn't know
have a lot of value just at home?
Oh, what a great idea.
I'm gonna write that down or in thegarage, the garage or in the bathroom.
Because I could give you a list ofprobably 10 things, if not more, per
room in your house right now to look for.
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And those same items.
Are at thrift stores and yard salesand estate sales every day of the week.
So they're out there.
People stuff that you wouldthink should be trashed.
Usually it's stuff that'sreally outta style or you didn't
realize people used much anymore.
Mm. And they still are used even if it's.
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There are items like, what's that?
That mixer, that big giantindustrial mixer that cost like $400.
KitchenAid mixer.
KitchenAid mixers.
When my dad passed away, he had,he gave us a KitchenAid mixer.
We already had one, so we mm-hmm.
End up having two KitchenAid mixers.
That's the kind of thing that.
Someone would pro I, if somebodywould, to come to me and said, Hey,
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I'll give you 25 bucks for that.
I'd be like, yeah, sure, yeah, but youshould check because some of the earlier
ones, especially if there's still goodcondition, they don't necessarily make
ones in the same colors or even the samestyle today as they did 20, 30 years ago.
Certain colors are like discontinuedand maybe that whatever that teal color
or that soft baby blue color matchesthe decor in their kitchen better.
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Like a big red one, it just stands out.
It's like a stop sign.
So sometimes people will paymore for that kind of stuff.
And generally speaking, vintage antiquethings of high quality and are in good
condition are typically more sought after.
I was thinking aboutyour cassette tape thing.
So I grew up in the age ofcassette tapes and I had this
big box, it was like a suitcase.
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It was huge.
And it was, it had little holdersfor cassette tapes and I had,
okay, I don't know, four or 500cassettes that I had bought in there.
Over the years.
Some of 'em, I'm sure camefrom the what was that?
The club that you sent the,you pay a penny for the oh.
Whatever that was called.
Those don't I imagine those probablydon't sell for as much because they
actually had the actual cassettecase itself, the liner notes, yeah.
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Was, had the name of the,whatever the club was, I can't
remember what it was called.
Now, on the contrary, it couldmake it even more valuable really,
because people may wanna collectjust ones from different artists.
That are from that.
Let's say again, Nirvana, nevermindcassette tape, that they still bring
really high values, but how manywere made just by that company in
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that particular case, not as many.
So now it's rarer.
It's less likely thatsomebody might have it.
So it can go both ways sometimes.
Interesting.
Yeah.
I guess it just matters on doingyour research and trying to find the
right target audience, which again,is why eBay can be so great because
it's just such a broad market.
Yeah, what it, those tapes might be superpopular in, let's say, Morocco right now.
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Maybe the Moroccan teenagersare just like all over it.
Have you, you've heard the story of.
What do they call him?
Sugar man.
The guy who was he was like a Bob Dylanstyle contemporary around the same time,
but he was essentially not known at all.
And the record company that he recordedwith, I think got the majority,
if not all, the rice, his music.
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And during a lot of the turbulent times inSouth Africa, this particular album became
absorbed as a national anthem for thepeople and it was wildly popular there.
And they were selling tons andtons of this album specifically
to South Africa and in Europe.
And for years, like 20,like decades went by.
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And this particularartist whose music was.
It was like bigger thanElvis in that area.
He had no idea anyoneever listened to anymore.
No one even knew where hewas, what he was doing.
And they tracked himdown and they found him.
Oh, I think I remember this story.
So there's a documentary about it.
It's called a ser I think a Searchingfor Sugarman or something like that.
It's, if you don't know thestory, it's super fascinating.
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That is a perfect example of how somethingcan be out there, incredibly valuable
and popular to a certain people groupor a particular region of the world.
Because you don't live there,you have no idea unless you're
specifically researching for that.
So you're saying that David Hasselhoffrecord, collection that I have
might go big in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Are you saying I might be ableto make some money from that?
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That is absolutely not what I'm saying,
but it could be.
I'm not saying in Germany,dude, they love that guy.
In Germany.
I'm like, I don't get it.
But.
Absolutely.
Hey, David Ossoff.
He could rock it.
I guess the point I guess I, I'm makingis don't look at something that either
you have or is in a store and basedon your own preferences, ah, decide
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it's not worth it because it takes alot of different PE people, types of
people to make the world go round.
And it's very true thatyour trash is someone else's
treasure, or at least could be.
So it's worth, I could give youcountless examples of things I pulled
out of lots of things that I bought.
My initial thought when I looked at itis there's no way that's worth more than
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a buck or two, and I'm trying to decideis it even worth driving to the donation
place or should I just walk a few stepsoutside and put it in the trash can?
Oh, I look it up and I'm,oh, this saucer and teacup.
Our online for $1,400 and two weeks laterI've sold it for a thousand dollars.
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Something I would'vejust assumed throw away.
That is a real story ofsomething that happened to me.
So do not look at it and saythat the, that's so ugly.
The person that made it should becom, put in jail, just look it up.
It takes a moment and yeah, maybe you dothat 50 times, but when that 51st time
you do it and you get a huge payday,you're gonna be really glad you did.
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So that makes perfect sense.
Before we segue into what sold, 'causeI am very excited about, one of the
items you're gonna talk to us abouttoday is I was, when you brought
up about used sports equipment.
And or like hiking gear and stuff, welive in the mountains, lots of hiking.
And I think about REI,people return stuff to REI.
There's the REI what do they call it?
The garage sale.
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And then there's different, like storeslike that will have used equipment.
Is it worth absolutely.
Going to those stores tolook for value or not?
Absolutely.
It is.
And also stores like Ross and
essentially haven't been worn.
Whatever department store that they wereat, they had a stock that didn't sell,
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or they're getting a new line, or they'recompletely getting rid of that brand, and
then they sell 'em at a highly discountedprice to these retailers who do basically
the same thing I do, it's just thatthey have a higher volume and they're
buying directly from the manufacturers.
Mm-hmm.
Which, by the way, resellerscan do that as well.
I just choose not tobecause I sell antiques.
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Right.
They, and so you can get dis goodquality things at discounted prices.
And the reason I said look for thingslike sports equipment and outdoor
gear is that in the same way that ithappened during covid people are stuck
at home or they're worried about money.
They're spending less, they still want tohave recreation in some way, of course.
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And so people, there was ahuge influx of people buying
personal home workout equipment.
Psych, like bike like Peloton.
If Covid hadn't happened, I don'teven know if Peloton would've
made it another year or two.
And they that spiked.
Now they've not been doing as wellsince, because, for this, maybe the same
reasons that they struggled initially,but people had to stay at home.
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They still wanted to exercise.
So how do I do that?
I gotta invest some money.
It's cheaper than a year subscription tothe Y that I can't even go to right now.
So I might as well get this.
The same thing's gonna happen now peopleare going to say, okay, we've gotta cut.
All like our entertainmentbudget needs to go down to zero,
but I still want recreation.
Like recreation is a part of life.
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It's some of the, it'swhat makes life enjoyable.
Mm-hmm.
And or to de-stress from themany stresses of life and work.
And also it's spring or it's startingto be spring, we're gonna have the
next six months of decent weather.
In a lot of areas of the country, it'sprime for people to get out and do things.
So bicycle
climbing gear.
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Shoes, golf clubs, tennis rackets,pickleball equipment, all of those
things are going to start selling.
Because people are gonna recognizethat it's, it can, we can do these
fun recreational things and I onlyhave to put a small amount of money
into it, and I, and even with that,they're not gonna buy a new thing.
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They're gonna buy a used thing, so.
And if you have some of the thingsat your house and you're thinking I
have this really nice bike, but thenlast year I fell and hurt my knee and
it just hasn't felt the same since.
And I just haven't had, ithasn't been a priority, so I
haven't messed with selling it.
Maybe now is the time to bring thatnice bicycle down and that carbon
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fiber $3,000 bike and sell it becausesomebody is looking for one to start
riding in the next week or two.
And during covid speaking ofbikes, during covid, it was
almost impossible to find a bike.
Everybody was buying bikes.
Yeah.
And so there was a, there is a massiveglut out there of bikes that people bought
that they're probably not riding now.
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So you could probably, I rememberI had a Schwinn Varsity Cruiser.
It was a great bike.
Nice.
I paid $50 for it at some swap.
Is it 10 speed?
It was a 10 speed, yep.
Yeah.
And it was oh actually, I'm sorry.
It was a fixie that I hadturned back into a 10 speed.
Oh, nice.
That I actually fixed it andmade it into a 10 speed again.
Mm-hmm.
And the crazy part is when I soldit, 'cause I had bought another bike.
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It's this Swin varsity during Covid thatI paid $50 for, probably put another
$50 in to get it thing sold for $300.
So I made $200 on this thingthat I rode for two years.
Yeah.
So my point being is that's verytrue, like keeping an eye out for
the trends of what's hot and what'snot and buying the what's not.
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There's a massive glut of used bikesout there, so maybe keep an eye on bike.
I know it's harder to shipbikes, but Absolutely.
Listen, when I started off beforeI did this full time, the two
things that I bought and sold wereinstruments, which I still do, right?
And bicycles.
I was buying bikes that were made in theseventies and eighties, sometimes in the
sixties, but I knew all of the betterbrands of Trek and some of these, European
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ones like eo and I knew the certain.
Types of steel thatwere stronger or better.
And by the way, these bikesfrom the seventies, eighties,
they are, they're rock solid.
Like they hold up right?
For decades if you, you do themaintenance on them maintenance,
like anything, it would be likethe caliper brake pads, right?
The the tires themselves and all that.
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But I would buy these things for40, 50 bucks that were beat up
and I would do the following.
If not like one or two ofthese, if not all of them, I
would replace the brake pads.
They're not that expensive.
I'd go out to a thrift store or I wouldgo to a local used bike place and I would
buy a replacement seat that wasn't torn,but it's used only cost me 10 bucks.
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And I would buy that tape that youused on the handles of tennis rackets.
Right.
To rewrap them or, and I would takeoff the wrapping on the handlebars
and I would rewrap it, so looking,and I would just kinda wipe it down.
I would, I was, every couple ofweeks I was buying one for 50,
60 bucks and I was turning aroundselling it for 200, 250 bucks.
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Yeah.
It's crazy.
And this is fif, thisis 10 to 15 years ago.
You can still do that today becausenew bikes are crazy expensive.
Yeah.
And if you're just wanting to ride aroundthe neighborhood, your budget may be $300.
You're gonna be forced tolook at these types of bikes.
But knowing that, knowing whatyou as a buyer is are wanting.
You can go find a $50 bike and do that.
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And once you do it and you likethe ride, hey, go buy some more.
Fix them up and sell 'em.
Or maybe you just continueto upgrade yours by doing a
little bit of work each time.
And that's what I did withinstruments for a long time.
I'd pay a hundred bucks, sell it for 200.
Now I have 200 bucks.
I buy $200 guitar, sell itfor 400, and I have $400.
And before long I got $4,000 I can finallybuy that Gibson or that Martin I wanted.
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Hmm.
And it just took some time and somework, but it was also fun along the way.
Man, that's another huge data dump.
I love that.
So those of you that are listeningout there going take, get out your
notepad and start writing stuff down.
Alright, let's segue though intowhat sold in Musical Instruments is
a good segue because we are gonna betalking about an instrument today.
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I will.
And since you, that was the segue.
This is actually notsomething that I've sold yet.
I just got it yesterday.
But I probably will sell, and thenI will tell you some things I sold.
I'll just spend a moment on this.
So on the last episode I talkedabout a couple of guitars that I
had, and I'm gonna back up so thatthose who are watching can see this.
But it is a, again, a dark.
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Tobacco burst, smaller body,kinda a medium-sized body guitar.
The guitar brand is called RecordingKing and it says Carson Robinson on
the Headstock and then Model K. Sothis is a really intriguing instrument.
I looked up the serial number and it'sfrom 1938, so it's a late thirties guitar.
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It's a mahogany backinside and a spruce top.
Right now, if you're watching, youcan see that I have removed the bridge
from it and the saddle, and I havetaped with painters tape around that.
I'll explain why I did that in justa moment, but I bought this on eBay.
It was not branded in the title, itjust said old acoustic guitar as is.
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And because of my, I alreadyhad knowledge about this guitar.
I bid on it and I bought it.
Had a pretty good price.
I think I, I spent about athousand dollars on it, which, is
still a good amount of money, butlemme explain why I bought it.
Recording King is the brand that'son this, and it is who you know.
It's sold.
It was sold by this company recordingKing, but this particular guitar was
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actually made by Gibson, the Gibsoncompany in their Kalamazoo, Michigan
plant, right alongside all of thesimilar Gibson branded instruments.
And instruments that were caughthad Kalamazoo on their headstock.
Kalamazoo was in reference to the cityand the factory that it was made in.
But Kalamazoo instruments were, insome cases, exact replicas of the
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same guitars they were selling thatjust had Gibson on the Headstock.
So the point is they're madewith high quality woods and
components, thereby a very wellrespected and sought after brand.
And.
Until the last maybe decade or two,you could get them at hugely like
grossly, ridiculously low prices incomparison to buying the same guitar.
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But just says Gibson on it becauseat that time before the internet
people, not a lot of people knew.
Gibson made somewhere around guitarsfor maybe 15 to 20 other manufacturers,
and they have different names on theheadstock, but they are Gibson made
instruments and they're made by thesame people at the same standards.
So this guitar, when I bought it,the reason I got it for such a good
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price was that I could see in thepictures that the bridge was lifting.
So this particular guitar is.
Like most acoustic guitars you'veseen, it has a bridge that's glued
down onto the top of the instrument.
Due to the string tension, sometimesthe way that it was braced this
is a ladder bracing rather than xbracing, which would have been better.
It slowly over time lifts up thatbridge up because it's being pulled
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by the tension of the strings and.
Sometimes that bridge will detach,and that's a problem because if it
gets like that too much, then itcould just completely rip it off of
the guitar and cause major damage.
So seeing that, I knewrepair needed to happen.
So I've taped it off.
I'm going to first sand underneathlightly to get the old hardened
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glue residue off of the wood withvarying gr grades of sandpaper.
I'm gonna do the same on theunderside of the bridge, which is
made out of Brazilian Rose Wood.
That's valuable because they stoppedselling instruments with Brazilian
rosewood right around 19 68, 19 69,because they were just destroying
the rainforests to get them.
Sure.
And so they stopped.
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They stopped allowing that.
This guitar from this era, the thirties,a lot of instruments were made.
It's considered one of thegreatest tonewoods ever,
and it's also quite durable.
So I'd love to keep that bridge if I can.
I don't know, I might haveto put a new one on it.
So I'm gonna do some work restringthis and see what it sounds like.
It's very possible that willsound similar to two or three
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other Gibson guitars that I have.
I have one that is a 1931 L one flat top guitar.
I was surprised to find that,that it looks very similar.
It's exactly the same body shape as it.
And this is made in 38 just seven yearsafter the other one I have was made.
So same era, same people.
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So I'm excited about it.
I'll let you know what it lookslike and sounds like afterwards.
But to give you an idea I paida thousand dollars for this.
If I were to go and have a luthier, Iuse do the work, it would probably be
somewhere in the three to $400 range.
So I'd be about 14, 13, $1,400 in on it.
If I do the work myself,it will cost me nothing.
It'll just take time.
But when this instrumentis, which is still in.
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When it's I fixed it, it'll beabout a 25 to $2,800 guitar.
Wow.
So I'll be able to double mymoney on that if I choose to.
Or you could just play it and enjoy it.
Oh in the meantime, I certainly will.
Nice.
All right.
Some things that I sold here, thisone right here is just a little pin
back or a little pin that you wouldjust put, on your shirt or a vest, or.
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I won't even dare to try to pronounce it.
Oh, yes, I will.
Oly
spiel Garish Partin Chen Garish, PartinKin, one of my favorite places on earth.
So though all those people that, thatare just like hand over their face right
now with my horrible pronunciation.
It says 1936 and what this is.
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Is a pen commemorating a winter Olympics.
'cause it has the Olympics ringon it superimposed over this snowy
capped mountain and it's from 1936.
So it's a vintage piece.
This sold for $55, sothat's a pretty good sale.
Wow.
It's a great sale.
Now, I didn't personally buy this.
I sold this on consignment, butthis is the kind of thing that you.
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A lot of the time at thrift stores or playantique stores up by the cash register,
they'll just have these little basketsor a little basket of things in different
booths, and they're like, you just,25 cents a piece or 50 cents a piece.
If you find these little pin backs.
It's not as common for people to bewearing this type of thing anymore.
And so since it's outta style,people aren't as interested in it.
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But there are collectors forthings in this category, so
you should make yourself aware.
And there's also one other thing.
The history teacher comes out, ah,1936 was also the year of the Berlin
Olympics, the Jesse Owens Olympics.
And so there, there was a lotgoing on in the world right then.
Yeah.
By the way, Garmisch-Partenkirchen is oneof the greatest towns in Southern Germany.
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Oh.
It's like a stone's throw fromAustria and it's just in the Alps.
It's just, it used to be anRR base for the military.
Kidding.
It's a great place to visit.
Kidding.
But if somebody was a collectorof that specific time period,
that could be very valuable.
Yeah, absolutely.
And this, again, this is one of thosethings that if you're going through
stuff, old stuff that you were.
You inherited and maybe you pull somejewelry, a couple pocket knives, or
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a watch or something outta this box,and what's left is three or four of
these little pin backs, and you just,I know this happens all the time.
People are like, eh, that stuff, no one'sgonna want that in the trash can, right?
It happens all the time.
And you might have throwna hundred, 150 bucks out.
Those pins might have been worth more thanyour pocket knives and your watch that
you just pulled out, you don't know right?
So do your research on everything.
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Another thing I sold is this, talkabout another thing that aren't
as commonly used today as inyesteryear, are a pair of cuff links.
These are the type of thing, again, youcould find for a buck, two bucks, but
if you turn 'em over and you look atthem, by the way, they're like a mostly
a gold tone, except for on the very topit's more of a silver and it's etched.
Its very art deco design.
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Belays is I guess thebrand, but it says 14 karat.
So these are some kind of basic alloymetal, but the top part that's white
is actually 14 karat white gold.
So there's gold content on this.
This pair and another pairsold for $50 each, so they
were bought by the same person.
So two little pairs of cup linksin five minutes, a hundred bucks.
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Wow.
And these only cost acouple of dollars each.
So that's a really good a price to get.
The next one's really cool.
And this is an interesting piece notbecause of what it is itself, although it
is interesting, but because it representssomething that happens to me from time
to time, which is finding things that Idon't, it's very difficult to determine
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if it is original and what the value is.
So what I'm holding up is this littleplay figure that looks like a sarcophagus.
It has these, what appear to beEgyptian hieroglyphic I guess
characters carved into the top of it.
And at the top you've got the traditional,person's kind of face with that hair
that comes down to the size and thenthe goatee thing that comes down or the
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beard and it's made of clay, it made,it has been dropped at some point and
broken in a couple pieces and glued back.
It's got a prettyinteresting patina on it.
Dark in some places, like in others.
It's been rubbed, so it's notbeen taken very good care of.
It's difficult to tell when youlook this up and others like it.
Is this an original, is this an artifact,a treasure, or is this something that was
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sold at say, a museum gift shop to mimic arelic that they have in their collection?
That kind thing for tourists.
Since I had a very difficult timedetermining its value, I just
assumed maybe it is the real thing,and so I put it up for a high price
to see if somebody's gonna bite.
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I had multiple people email meand say, just so you know, that is
like a knickknack travel well thingthat you would buy for tourists.
That's like a tourist favor athing that you would buy when
you went overseas and stuff.
After multiple people said that,and then I went and looked and did
a little bit more of a deeper dive.
I confirmed that, so Isignificantly lowered the price.
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This sold for $65.
It is still vintage, it's stillinteresting as a little tchotchke
or something that you could put ina conversation piece, but it's cool.
I have a few other things here.
One looks like it's aMex of Mexican origin.
Another one may be Egyptianorigin that I still don't know.
If they are original or just really goodfacsimile, because anymore people can
(48:24):
make things artistically that look verymuch like the real thing and in some cases
with the exact same materials, and youwould need an expert with very expensive
equipment and things to determine.
So I may bring some of those up.
We'll, we could do a show where it'slike a, what is this show where I'm
asking you to tell me what it is?
Oh my gosh.
(48:44):
That'd be great.
I got all sorts of good showideas today in a lot of cases.
I know what it is.
I just don't know.
It's is this treasure ortrash, ooh, trash or treasure.
Trash or treasure.
I've got a billfold here and, oh,that's pretty, it's lovely looking.
It's a longer kind of single fold wallet.
(49:04):
It has this really beautifula gold filigree look.
Patched around the edges, and thena little symbol in the center.
When you open it up very clean.
It's like a re more ofa reddish brown color.
This is an antique Europeanbillfold on the inside.
It's very clean, butthis is made let's see.
Trying to remember it.
(49:24):
I think that it says it on here someplace.
The type of leather, it's like hide.
It's not ostrich, but it'snot your typical leather.
It's like a finer, softer leather,like deer or something like that.
So it's thinner, but it's inreally good shape, and this is
like an 1880s to 1900 wallet.
(49:45):
I had this thing.
It's super cool.
I know that if I tried to use itmyself, it would just start to
disintegrate because even thoughit's in good condition, I mean it,
it's been around for a long time.
Mm-hmm.
I've had this for probably.
Two to three years and it hasn't sold.
And I've taken it down, put itup, taking it down, put it up.
Finally sold and only sold for $32.
Now, I didn't pay a lot for this.
(50:06):
This came in a lot.
I've long since made my money back.
But to be honest with you, I justthink it's a really high quality, neat
antique, and I was just disappointedthat it didn't sell for more.
But if you have it out to thepublic for three years and you
lower the price a. It just isn'tas valuable as you want it to be.
That happens sometimes.
(50:26):
Your mistake was, do youremember a guy named Tele Vallis?
The actor?
Tele Savalas.
I don't recognize by the name,but so he was a famous actor.
Some of our audience will know who he was.
He did it.
Very famous car commercial.
I don't remember the, Ithink it was the Elder.
I don't even know what itwas the car was, but he said.
He had this kind of axis.
He goes, this is made with onlythe finest Corinthian leather.
(50:48):
Yes, he'd be rubbing the seat andthat's where your mistake was.
You should have said it was madefor the finest Corinthian leather
Corinthian the finest Corinthian leather.
Yeah.
A picture of me like rubbing iton the side of my face with just
like a look of joy in ecstasy.
Oh, people would've bought that right up.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
Listen.
I can still, it's all marketing.
It's all branding, man.
(51:08):
It is all marketing.
It's all ball bearing these days.
Alright, you have anything elsefor us or should we call it a day?
One more little thing.
Okay, I'll show this.
Most of it is in the little baggy here.
I pulled out one or two pieces tohold up to show individually, but
what I'm holding are antique Victorianmid 18, mid to late 18 hundreds.
Bar pins bros, and round pins andbros. The thing that made this
(51:33):
particular lot that I curated themost interesting is that they are all
authentic original pins, but all ofthem incorporate enamel paint onto them.
So half of them are madeoutta sterling silver.
The other half are just goldtone alloys, but they all have
various design designs and colors.
(51:55):
Some of them incorporate somesemi-precious gemstones or pearls,
and they're just for a collector that.
There are collectors that justcollect pens and broaches,
Victorian era with enamel on them.
I know that's a very specificniche, but I threw this up.
The funny thing about this lot, which soldfor $200, is that I had it on auction for
(52:18):
seven days with a starting bid of 140.
So whoever bought this could have boughtit yesterday for $140, but it didn't sell.
So I.
It sold within 30 minutes.
So was it that buyer just wasn't around?
Maybe is it that they don't like buyingon auction 'cause they don't wanna wait?
(52:40):
Maybe.
I don't know.
But that happens a lot.
And most of the time when I haveauctions, I don't do two back-to-back
auctions on the same item.
I stagger it.
Auction, buy it now.
Doesn't sell lower the price.
Auction doesn't sell.
Raise the price, put it on, buy it now.
I don't know why, but that workssometimes because by it now it, it works
(53:01):
on people's emotions and if people getexcited about a thing and in that moment
emotion, they have that emotion, they willimpulsively in some cases buy something.
And that's just the way thatthe market works sometimes.
I had two lots.
That one was enamel, anotherone had just rhinestones.
Same type of thing.
They both sold to thesame person for $199 each.
(53:21):
So it was like I had these two cuff links.
Sale a hundred bucks.
These two bags sell for 200 each,so in about a 15, 15 minute period
of time, that's $500 that came in.
Nice.
That feels good.
Like before I've even finishedfulfillment in the morning, if
I've already brought in $500.
I'm not sweating it.
You're rolling in High cotton baby.
You're rolling in high cotton.
(53:41):
Hey.
So today I thought, wow, howare we gonna fill up the time?
We, this is our single longestepisode we've ever done.
I feel like it's just youand I we're filibustering.
I know.
We're like what's his name?
What's the guy's name?
Yeah.
He beat Strong Thurman's previousrecord Cory Booker, something like that.
17 hours.
Yeah, I beat it.
So we, I think we've just.
We've just filibustered our own show.
He only beat us.
If we can only put in a 20 hours foranother 16, oh, he did 25, 25 hours.
(54:05):
We just need to do another 24 hours.
We do it all.
If we just stayed on here untilthis time tomorrow and then a
little bit longer, we would win.
All right, listen,we're not gonna do that.
He was standing up aswell that entire time.
Oh my gosh.
Crazy.
I'm sitting in my seat,guys in good shape.
That is all the time we have.
We appreciate you guys listening.
Remember to follow, like, and subscribe.
All that fun stuff.
Any last words, Matt?
Make 'em quick, buddy.
(54:26):
You know what?
If you want to make a start thisweek, come up with something
that you are interested in.
Find out the five to 10 biggest brands orthings about that hype that sell for the
most, and then start with one category.
Learn about that and see how you like it.
That's great advice.
All right, everybody.
Have a great week.
We'll be back with abrand new show next week.
(54:46):
Take care.
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