EP.7 Adirondack Liquidators (Andy is a lonely clown)

Andy talks with a very special person to his collecting life... only where's Ben???

Episode Transcript

(00:27):
Hey guys, it's Andy, and welcomeback to the Collection Obsession
Podcast. I'm Ben less tonight, as one
might say, Ben's got really busylife going on, but however,
we'll discuss that with Ben in the near future.

(00:47):
So tonight I've got a guest thathas approached this whole
collecting world a little different than a lot of us have
when it comes to the reselling side of it.
So let's take a listen. I have spoke about the clowns

(01:07):
that I collect many times in thepast on different episodes and
what not streams. But today I have the person that
I got my very first clown item off of.
Now notice I said item there, and not figurine, not glass of

(01:28):
any sort. I got a painting, but it's not a
painting. I suppose it's a yarn, something
sort of picture of a clown on anorange background.
And I got that from Richard of Adirondack Liquidators.

(01:52):
Hello. Hello.
How are you, Richard? Doing good.
How about you, Andy? I'm doing all right.
I lost my place of what I was thinking there for a second.
I don't know if you noticed it, but I did.
That's. All right.
So Richard, out of Rod and Deck Liquidators, you have expanded
beyond the reselling. Yes, we have.

(02:15):
We're now on YouTube. That's awesome.
Yes, we're on boxing storage units.
We're going to do some shipping videos, little bit of
everything. And I can say that they're good
videos because they're real. They're, you know, it's not some
staged bullshit that you see sometimes on YouTube, you know
what I mean? Like, that's just real.

(02:37):
Richard, wife, child. Like, it's awesome.
I love it. Exactly.
It's not staged. You're getting actual footage
and you're actually seeing what's in the unit.
It's not set up whatsoever. Yeah.
So you said of the units and that is a whole point to it.
You are buying and selling thesestorage units that you come

(03:03):
across. The first video you put up, you
had a little bit of a trip for that one, huh?
Absolutely. We drove all the way to what was
it, Fort Payne, AL. Wow.
And you're in the Adirondacks inNew York, which you know, it
says it in the name. Right.
We're as far northeast as you can go in the state of New York.

(03:26):
Yeah, You know, before we get into it real quick, I just
realized that the other day. My boss goes there for a week
every year to the Adirondack area, and he goes hiking and he
goes like canoeing and stuff. He's a crazy outdoor guy.
But I never realized that's likethe same place that you are.

(03:50):
Yes, yeah, he got around extra big.
There's a lot of hunting and fishing.
Yeah, he loves it up there. He keeps saying that one day
he's just going to move there, but I'm like, well, we need a
job here, so you can't really dothat on us, but hey, whatever.
If that's what would make him happy, that'd be awesome, you

(04:10):
know, Right. We have great hiking around
here, but it's not anything in sane.
Or, you know, there's nothing towrite home about, I suppose.
Yeah, it's just a good view here, like Saranac lakes,
beautiful up here, especially inthe fall.
Yeah. So why don't you tell me a
little bit about your selling, you sell and what not under the

(04:36):
name of Adirondack Liquidators. So you before you started
selling, did you have a personalcollection at all?
Honestly, I really didn't have any collection whatsoever.
It all started when I started selling about probably six years
ago now. Wow, yeah, that and that's a

(04:59):
whole new story here because normally it's these people are
buying because they want to collect and then they end up
reselling because they buy too much that they collected.
Right. See me I I started selling
online because, you know, COVID and I lost my job and I needed

(05:20):
to make money somehow. We had a Charlie on the way and
we had to supplement our income and I started selling online and
never looked back. Yeah, that's awesome.
And it is your full time job. You're you're everything.
And. That's very respectable that you
can do that and like just even get away with that in life

(05:42):
anymore because it's so hard to get around and get through.
I suppose just normally I know I'm paycheck to paycheck and
that sucks because I, you know, I sell too, but.
It is, it is very difficult. It it, it definitely is.
It takes a lot of work, a lot ofhard work and dedication.

(06:04):
I work a lot of hours. I'm up at the butt crack of
dawn. Why Everybody else is still
sleeping and I go to bed. Why, you know, everybody's
already sleeping when I go to bed.
So I get like a few hours of sleep.
Yeah, yeah. So I can say because I am a
buyer from you that you're a great seller, man.
You. I love getting shit from you

(06:25):
because I know it's going to be what you say it is.
Thank you I. Appreciate that.
Yeah, of course. I mean, I appreciate every time
I get something from you, which I just got some new clown stuff
from you. I'm very excited about that.
That's funny. Yeah, well, hey, you know what?
You really ruined my life with these clowns.

(06:48):
I just brought home some more from this unit I got.
Oh man, yeah, you're hurting me here.
So yeah. That that picture, what would
you say it is really? Oh, it's, I believe it's a
needle point if I remember correctly.
OK. Because yeah, I guess that is I,
I just feel like it's so much different than any other needle

(07:11):
points. It, it is.
It's a massive one. It was.
It was a big picture. Yeah.
And it's definitely different. It's content is one-of-a-kind.
I've seen a lot of needle points, and only that one have I
seen as a clown. Yeah.
Yeah, did you know that the designs from the mosaic eggs

(07:32):
came from Needlepoint Designs? Honestly, no I did not.
Yeah, I came across that and I was like, wow, that's
interesting. Also, Faberge is the company
name. It's not like the item which I
always thought it was a Faberge mosaic egg, right?
But it's not. And I I my mind was blown when I

(07:54):
realized that Fabrege was the guy's last name.
Right, because a lot of people assume it's the age.
Yeah, I feel like some people will even use that as like a
term Fabrege. Right, right.
I mean that has that has nothingto do with anything.
But you said needlepoint and it just popped in my head again,

(08:16):
that's how this works with me onthis podcast is I'm just all
over the place because my mind goes and goes and goes, you
know, it's I can understand. That yes, I can definitely
understand that 100%. Yeah.
And, you know, I've not said your name on the podcast, but

(08:37):
I've mentioned things that are referencing you so many Times
Now. We talked about shipping one day
and I had brought up, you know, your little secret of taping
stuff in. So there's no movement.
And how that is the best shipping I've ever got.

(08:58):
Right. And well, when we first started
shipping, me and my wife Nicole,we, you know, we watched a video
on shipping and they were using a method of putting a box inside
of a box and it just seemed likea lot of extra work, so it
seems. Like extra weight too?
Right. So we tried to come up with a
method to, you know, make it notmove.

(09:20):
And we figured if everything wastaped together and then there
was a layer of cushion in between the box and the item
that you could pretty much kick it down the road.
And yeah, yeah, you know, I evensampled it and want, you know,
we wrapped the package. I threw it across the room and
kicked it a little bit just to make sure it wouldn't break.
And we've used that method ever since.
Yeah, I mean, and not even just that trick, but also it's

(09:46):
wrapped so well, yes. And I know that's I need to give
some credit here to Nicole because you 2 are an awesome
team and it's awesome to watch you guys work together on shows.
I mean, even just you talking toher about different items that
you have that you're trying to put up, you know, that is

(10:09):
awesome to me. Like that's true teamwork.
It definitely is, yeah. I couldn't do it without her,
that's for sure. And then, you know, everyone
loves Charlie. Charlie's our little man.
Yeah, he, he's going to be a great little seller.
He already, you know, he has hislittle table and he loves to be
involved. Yeah, I have numerous things
from Charlie, so let let's talk about how this YouTube idea came

(10:36):
up. Well, I'm basically I'm trying
to grow my business. I'm sick of my business being in
my living room and I'm trying toexpand to the next level
basically. So I figured maybe I could gain
some followers that would increase sales and and, you
know, expand my business. So is the thought a brick and

(10:58):
mortar? Not really a brick and mortar
because I'm going to keep it online.
It's just I need a place to do my lives, to be more organized
to do my shipping from so I can actually maybe employ somebody
because it's really hard to employ someone in your house
when your house is loaded full of shit as.
It is, yeah. And so more like a studio space

(11:19):
or a warehouse. Yeah, like a little warehouse
with a pick and pack area. Which I man, you guys got so
much. I have a lot of stuff, but you
have so much stuff that, you know, I'm so scatterbrained that
I would probably just sit in thefetal position and give up.

(11:41):
I mean, because I, I have enoughalready and I'm overwhelmed by
the stuff sometimes because I'm like, where am I going to put
this piece? Because I don't have room.
I guess I'll just put it on the floor over here, you know?
Yo, I mean, I can totally understand.
I mean, sometimes we'll walk into our living room and my wife
will be like coming in to have dinner and she goes to set to

(12:02):
drink down and there's no place to set it.
So, you know, what do you do? Well, you sell and then you sell
some more and. Then, right.
So definitely trying to get it out of my house, you know?
Yeah. So do you remember the first

(12:23):
item you sold? I do actually.
So it's going to sound crazy, but so my wife's father, you
know, throughout COVID, he, he told us he's like, yo, you guys
should just sell online. There's people on eBay selling
Lysol for like $100 a bottle. I'm like, there's no way I said
that it, it can't be true, you know, so, and it's crazy story.

(12:45):
My local pharmacy, you know, we,we lived in the mountains.
There was Lysol on the shelves everywhere where other places it
wasn't, you know, so I was like,you know, I'm not going to sell
it for $100. There was a bottle.
I'll put it up for 50, you know,cut everybody's throat, you
know, sell like 6 bottles of that stuff.
And from there I just, you know,it took off and I, the first lot

(13:08):
of glass we sold was imperial carnival glass.
It was a pink imperial carnival glass.
Oh. Man, that's awesome.
Yeah, we bought a big lot of it and you know, we were selling on
eBay and Macari at the time. So what led into glass?
Honestly, I just what LED in theglass?

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We. Were able to obtain it easily.
It was right there. Plus we like we, we roused eBay
to see, you know, prices of, of things that were selling things
that are interesting to us. OK, you know, it was appealing.
Were you like already dabbling with antique and things like
that or? Honestly, we weren't really

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messing with antiques or anything at all to be honest
with you. I was working at a Pizza Hut.
I. That's really interesting, man.
Like because it seems like normally people transition
through another something, you know, and that's really
interesting that you just kind of went.

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I guess I was always a hustler, you know, I told you I had my
good times and my bad times in life and I just took my, my
street mentality and applied it to something good so I, you
know, could do better in life. Yeah, you made yourself a life.
Period. Right.
I don't want to work a nine to five and I don't want to answer
to the man, so I would rather answer to myself and that's what

(14:37):
I've created. Yeah, I get that.
I mean myself, I really don't mind going to work, but I also
work a job that is something I'minterested in.
I mean, that makes a big difference.
Yeah, I mean, I there's plenty of days I wake up and I'm like,
I don't even want to go in, but I'm sure, I'm sure there's days

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you wake up and you go. I don't even want to sell.
Right. And then that's what I'm saying.
And then it's at my house. So it's kind of hard to get away
from. Yeah, that, that is why I'm
looking to expand my business, you know, and I'm really hoping
that this YouTube thing takes off so I can monetize my
channel, make some extra cash there.
And I want to actually move out of New York eventually to where

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it's warmer and the storage units are more plentiful.
Yeah, yeah, I know someone down in Virginia Beach and he's
getting storage units all the time and they're like crazy
things because he's right down there by NASA.
Right. And that's what makes a
difference really. When you're buying storage

(15:45):
lockers, you have to see, you know the area you're buying them
in because it really makes a bigdifference of the contents.
OK. I think that's actually kind of
borderline. What I was going to ask you next
is when you buy a storage unit, how do you go into that and
decide like, all right, I'm going to do this one.

(16:06):
Well, well, I guess we buy storage units in person and
online, but we buy mostly onlinebecause, you know, we, there's
not a lot being sold locally. So I look for collectibles.
I just look for signs of that the people cared for their
items, how it's packaged, what the box may say, you know, any

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hints to what may be in the? Unit OK, see.
And how well it's tooken care ofif somebody has all the stuff
thrown in a big heat pile on the, you know, in the center of
the locker. Yeah, you know it.
Makes a big difference I'm sure.I mean, I won't pay a lot for
that. It doesn't look like they cared
for their stuff, but that doesn't always necessarily mean
anything either. Yeah, that's true.

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That's very true. I've never actually bought
anything like that, like a unit or anything.
And so you get to see them first.
Well, you don't get to go into the locker.
So when we buy them online, they'll be like, you know,
pictures. If, if it's like locker Fox or
any of those storage unit sites that sell lockers, you'll see

(17:12):
pictures and you'll be able to see.
And it's even if you go in person, you don't get to look
through the locker. You're they open the locker and
you, you know, can't go past that.
Yeah, threshold, at least you'renot supposed.
To. I won't.
I won't lie to you. I didn't even know there were
sites for doing that. Oh yeah, there's multiple
different sites. Yeah, I mean, for the longest

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time you were one of the only people I bought off of, right?
And I've got some of my favoritepieces from you as well.
Well, I, you know, we, we striveto keep our customers happy and
we want a return customer and wewant a happy customer.
Yeah, and I mean, people do really love your shows because

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it's just a hangout. You know, I consider you a
friend because of just buying off of you.
You know, we've never met in person, but that's I consider
you a friend. I consider you a friend as well.
And I appreciate that because you do really make it a a good
home like vibe. And I know that you want to get

(18:19):
out of the home, but it's still you're very kind and accepting.
I try to be, I mean, I don't, I would just want people to be,
you know, accepting of me and accept my family.
And you know, that's, that's thekind of environment we want,
friendly family, friendly environment.
So you didn't start out collecting Richard?

(18:42):
Well, I mean, I can't say that because I've collected my whole
life, like I've collected sportscards and stuff like that.
Just not really antiques. OK, So what is your collection
looking like? Now what?
What do you have? Now I have antiques, I have
artwork, I have vases, I have the Cantors, Fenton, Levials.

(19:06):
We have a large collection of things.
I mean, and it's broad. Do you have any like that is a
specific one that you're like, I'm never going to get rid of
that. Well.
Because I could say for a fact there was something that you had
showed when you were showing some things in your collection

(19:27):
that I then bought off of you one time and that.
What was that the? The stand up horse ashtray
holder. Oh, and you know why I sold
that? Because I upgraded.
Oh, so I, I got a better stand up ashtray.
So, but I mean, I have a stupid lamp that's worth about 5 grand

(19:48):
now we bought for probably I'd say $0.50 that, you know, it's
to be active. So I probably wouldn't sell
that. That's one thing.
I mean, most of my collection, my and my wife's plan is, you
know, to try when we're too old to really.
Keep doing this. We're gonna try to, you know,
use our collection to just kick back because we don't really

(20:09):
have a retirement plan as of now.
Yeah, I, I mean, I have my personal stuff, excuse me, and I
plan on giving it to my kids just because that's something
that they can make money off of no matter what.
Right. And we have stuff like that as
well. Yeah, so you want to talk about

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the Pink Lady house real quick? Sure.
So the pink lady, I mean that isan antique.
Well, it's a Victorian style house.
It was in Richmond, Richmond, Vermont, and the lady that owned
its name was Margot and it was a21 room Victorian style house

(20:53):
with cathedral ceilings. And she had turned it into like
an antique shop 50 years ago that had turned into a antique
boarding shop. So this place was like literally
filled with anything and everything and you basically had
to swim through it. And it took us two years to help

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her partially clean out the contents.
She sold the building. All the contents are gone now.
But in two years with 15 foot trucks, we still couldn't me and
Nicole clean the whole place out.
That's wild. Right.
And we cleaned a lot of it. I mean, I still have inventory

(21:34):
from two years ago, a whole storage locker full of it from
the Pink Lady. That's yeah.
And there is a video of the place and it looks like a crazy
hoarder house, right? And that's it would like that's
insane to me that like she was selling stuff, you know what I
mean? Because like, it is literally

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stacked floor to ceiling in someplaces.
Yes. Well, Margo was actually, she
used to design clothes for Searsand Roebuck and she was like the
head designer of of Sears and Roebuck back in the day.
And you know, she literally had been collecting that stuff for
over 50 years. She still has two antique shops

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open in Vermont. Wow, that's crazy.
Yes. Yeah, so tell me about the
journeys on the YouTube channel that you have posted so far and
maybe give us a little tease of what's to come.
Well, so our first, not our first unit, but our first

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YouTube unit was the one in Alabama.
You know, we took it and made itinto like a little family trip.
We brought Charlie to the aquarium and we ended up buying
it 2 units instead of 1. Why we're down there?
Only regret I have is not buyingthe other two units that were
there. What is to come so me and we're

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looking for more units right now.
We I would tease you with the upcoming units we just bought.
We bought 3 units, but like I said, you have to be really
careful because we were bidding on high bid was the site and we
bought 3 storage lockers and come to find out the storage
lockers were staged. So I was pretty upset.

(23:23):
You know when you're in the storage locker business, you
don't want to buy something thatis somebody's consigning.
You know, what it was is the thepeople that own the lockers
allowed some one of their consignors to fill the locker
with whatever they want. And then they presented it as a
storage unit that was left behind.
Well, the employee that worked there, you know, what happened

(23:45):
was we went to pick the unit up and stuff had been moved around.
So I went in there and I asked, you know, what's going on?
Why is everything moved? And they're like, oh, it's only
the employees go in there. And it was because they, the
consignor wanted better picturesbecause he didn't think the
locker was presented right. And that's when, you know, I
found out that it was all staged.
So. I was upset, you know, two of

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the three lockers were nothing but trash.
And you know, when you're in this business, you don't want
that. You want your looking for the
gold and all the treasures and you know when it's staged
there's no gold and there's no treasures.
I mean, that to me seems like there could be really bad legal
repercussions from that. Like it?
That's very confusing to me. And I thought so too.

(24:27):
And I guess that it's legal, youknow, so I started doing a
deeper dive my wife actually didinto these locker sites that are
selling online storage lockers. And if you read the fine print,
there are some of them that say that they, you know, stage
lockers, it's right in their contract.
That's in. But there are, but there are

(24:49):
some that do not do that. And it'll say we do not stage
lockers right on their web page,you know?
So if I learned something new, luckily, we didn't pay very much
for the three lockers. But lesson learned, yeah.
But that's still money spent. That's the problem in my mind.
Well, you're, you're right aboutthat.
I mean it was $300.00 for the lockers, another $100 for the

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whole U-Haul full of garbage, plus another $150.00 for EU Haul
truck. To move it all, not.
To mention my time where I couldbe selling other.
Things, you know, you're responsible to get that stuff
that's just junk out of there and that's really messed up.
Right, so we're currently looking for some more lockers,
but we're gonna do some more videos.

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We're gonna do we have upcoming we're gonna do a dollar books.
We have a lot of antique books and vintage books.
We're gonna do a YouTube video on those and we're gonna do a
show on whatnot for dollar starts.
And we're we are gonna have let me think what else we got lamps.
We're gonna do a show on lamps. Yeah, you may be addicted to

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those too. I know and we have so many of
those. We bought what's called the Lamp
Room from the Pink Lady and it was literally one of those
Victorian style rooms filled. With lamps, that's I, I don't
know. See, I had told you before I
wouldn't know where to start. Well, I mean, I didn't really

(26:13):
know where to start. It was crazy, Andy.
It was, it was crazy. You know, obviously when we
first started going there, it was like, you know, it was crazy
because you could go there everysingle week and just pick a
layer off the top and it was like the stuff just never
stopped coming. And she was adding to it on top
of it every week. She was continuing to add to it.

(26:35):
She had a room, Andy, with nothing but clothes.
I swear to God, the cathedral ceiling is a good 15 feet high.
I could stand on the pile of clothes and touch the ceiling.
Oh my God, that's it. Fucking insane.
Yo, it was crazy. I dug a hole to the bottom of
that shit to see what was underneath it.
It was all toys. I was underneath all this shit,
swimming around. It was crazy.

(26:57):
God damn. Yeah, that's crazy.
Like, I just can't even wrap my head around it.
And I've watched some of the video, you know, like that they
have, and I just couldn't even wrap my mind around it.
Like for one, how do you collector gather that much stuff you
know? Well, from what I was told, I've
talked to a few people in that in that area and that know the

(27:20):
lady and they basically said when they would go to an auction
and they would see her and her business partner there, they
would just leave because she would buy the whole auction and
it didn't really matter. That's crazy.
Now, she didn't live in the house, did she?
No. She didn't live in the house,
so. A Victorian house that like is

(27:41):
just filled with stuff and that's all it is.
That's absolutely mind blowing. It was mind blowing to me too.
You know, because we have those big houses here in my town
because we are where oil was first successfully drilled.
So like we had that oil money, you know, But like they're all

(28:01):
really nice up cap houses and stuff and like I could not
imagine one of those filled withstuff.
Right. Well, I never thought it would
be empty, to be honest with you.She had a date it had to be
emptied by and I was like, there's no way.
And she pulled it off and I guess they're turning it into an
Airbnb, supposedly. Oh, that's pretty cool.

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Yeah, we're going to go stay there.
It'll be fun. Yeah.
But as far as what's to come on YouTube, we're going to do lots
of estate sales, lots of yard sales, flea markets and storage
units all summer long. Yeah, it's getting that time.
Yard sales should be starting topop up.
And we're, we're gonna have a one, we're gonna do our town
wide yard sale here and do a $1.00 yard sale with all kinds

(28:44):
of stuff. That's awesome.
That'll be up as some content. Do you sell locally much?
I used to that's, you know, before I started selling live on
Whatnot, I was selling live on Facebook and I used to do all
local pickups. You know, it was just local.
I would sell on Facebook and we'd go to a meet.
The problem with that is, is a lot of times, you know, people

(29:06):
don't show up. So you sell a bunch of stuff,
you go to meet these people and you know, half of them show up.
Now you're lugging all this stuff back to your home or your
business and it's it's just a pain.
You know, it's really crappy if you're depending on that money.
You know, some, some people are on Facebook.
They're just doing it because they have it and they're trying

(29:26):
to like, just clear some room. Right.
But like that's I, I don't mess with Facebook Marketplace very
much, but the few things I have got, they were good items, but
it just, it was very awkward meeting the people.
Right, Yeah. You know, I do sell a couple

(29:46):
things locally, but I try to getrid of anything bigger that we
can't ship locally. We we use a local auction hall
here too sometimes. So do you guys go to the
auctions at all to like buy? Or I used to go to that auction
and buy, but a lot of times the stuff just is it goes way too
expensive at that place so to toresell it just doesn't make

(30:09):
sense. I notice how if I, I don't know
if this is actually happening ornot, but I feel like there's so
many people getting into like the antique and the vintage
anymore that everyone is trying to buy.
So people are just like, well, I'm going to charge more for it.

(30:30):
Well, I, I'm and see in my experience as a seller, what I
see is that everybody and their brother is trying to sell.
And it's really made the market,in my opinion, watered down
because to be honest with you, it's dropped the prices of, of
things that I sell because thereare so many people competing to

(30:54):
sell their items. It's really devalued the market
in my opinion. Yeah.
I mean, that does make sense. But I suppose what I mean is I
see a lot of younger kids that are getting involved.
Yeah, yeah. There is, and that's what I mean
by everybody wants to sell now. Well, yeah, because they think
that's, they think they can do what you do, but they're not

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good enough to do that. I mean, I don't mean that in a
mean way, but like. I I appreciate the compliment.
Yeah, I mean, I really do. I put a lot of work and time
into it. So, I mean, a lot of people
can't do what I do. There are definitely some people
that can. It just it depends on what you
want to do. You know how dedicated you are
to whatever it is you're trying to do.
Yeah, I mean, and I when I sell,I sell obviously different stuff

(31:41):
because I have the wrestling stuff as well.
But I I don't even just have glass or anything.
I have so much of just random everything.
I I know you're feeling because now that I've been selling
storage units, I have some random everything is right.

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It's like we this locker from Alabama had so much like old new
stock. I mean, there was a lot of good
stuff in there. We found it.
Transformers, new in the box, brand new cameras, all the like.
I said this locker hadn't been opened in like 1520 years.
Yeah. So I I can, I can look around

(32:27):
and see so many items I've got from you right now actually,
because I have them everywhere. I bet I've shipped a lot.
I still have your lamp, Andy. I still have that that hobnail
stand up lamp that's like 6 feettall.
It's still packed in the box that got sent back to me.

(32:48):
We'll. Still, we'll figure that out one
day. Isn't that crazy?
That is, I I'd still sitting there in the box to wait.
Yeah. And that's that's kind of one of
the reasons that with the shipping that we had talked
about before on a show that I had brought up you because, you
know, not only are you great at shipping, but like I had

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mentioned having problems with my USPS post office itself.
And like man, you and I have talked so many times about how
shitty it is and that the what not has this strict USPS license

(33:33):
or whatever you want to call it like a.
Contract. Yeah, I couldn't think of the
word I wanted to use, but whatever.
But yeah, we've talked about that so many times and I know
you guys had shipping issues at one point getting stuff, didn't
you? Well we were, we bought
something on high bid and it wasonly 5 hours away from here and

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it was 2 items. They were vases like medium size
and they wanted $154.00 to ship the vases 5 hours away in the
same state. That's.
Absolutely insane. Right.
So I actually had the items destroyed.
Well, whether they destroyed them or not I don't know, but
that's what I chose to do. I was like, there's no way I'm
paying $150.00 to ship this shit.

(34:19):
It's not even worth that. Yeah, yeah, that's insanity.
But hey, they just are trying toup that money so that they when
you know, they don't care about the little man or the man that's
doing, they just care about themselves.
They don't even really care about doing their job that well
because to be honest with you, Ihave a couple packages now that

(34:42):
have been shipped out since likeyou know, 3 weeks ago and the
and they don't deliver them and they don't even scan them in.
It makes it look like the sellers never dropped off the
package, but that's not the case.
They pick them up from my house,you know, so it's just laziness
on some of their parts. They don't do their job.
And they, they don't mess up. That's messed up for the people

(35:05):
that are doing online selling. I mean, you're dependent on that
and they don't give a shit aboutit.
Which, you know, like we should be able to choose a different
shipping method. Right, because guess what, if
then package, if the, if the person that bought that stuff
from me never receives the package, it's only fair that

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they, they, you know, they request a refund.
But what happened to the package?
Why wasn't it never scanned intothe post office?
You know exactly. So the seller's out because
there's nothing the seller can do, because if they don't scan
that package in, it makes it seem like it was never dropped
off. Yeah.
So beyond what? Not what you I know you sell
other places, but do you still do the eBay?

(35:50):
Do you still do any others? No eBay we still we don't
actively post on other sites. I have stuff posted for, you
know, stuff that's been posted for before I start like, you
know, we we occasionally post items, but I still have stuff
that's been posted for years that hasn't sell that just sit

(36:11):
there, you know, and I just don't feel like dealing with it.
But we don't really post new items on any other platform.
But whatnot is really our primary, primary selling.
That's what I. Love about whatnot though, is
that instead of being like eBay where you're sitting and just
posting and then it just is going to be there and that's it.

(36:32):
Like, it's a quick, it's a fast,and I love the competitive when
people get into bidding more, you know?
Right. And that's why I will probably
never go back to just posting items.
Even through the down times and the slow times on whatnot, I
stick with it because I like thefast pace.
I don't want to sit here and have to post item after item.

(36:52):
I just want to move stuff, sell stuff, you know?
Yeah, I just feel like there's not enough growth in posting
items online. I'll think my business can grow
as big as I want it to if I stuck to that platform of just
posting items. With growing, are you planning
on doing more as far as the YouTube, are you going to go

(37:16):
beyond just your selling? Are you going to do anything
else with it? Well, I haven't decided yet.
I know it's going to right now, the channel we're going to do,
it's going to pertain to selling.
There'll be some family stuff intermixed in with it.
But Charlie watches YouTube a lot and he's like, I want a
YouTube channel. So who knows, maybe one day, you

(37:37):
know, if we get this one kicked off, we'll do something with
Charlie. Yeah, Eleanor is addicted to
YouTube and she does the same thing.
And she'll make videos with her phone that she, like, will sit
there and hey guys, you know, it's.
Right. Charlie does it now because I
mean, he watches YouTube. He watches other little kids

(37:57):
doing videos on YouTube so you know it interests them.
But you know, some, there's somepeople that will say like it's
bad for kids and stuff, but that's how the world is going
these days. So you have to go with it or
they're going to be left behind and that's not fair to them.
Well, I'm not so sure that it's bad.
I mean, it is bad if you're not supervising your kid that's four

(38:18):
years old and you're allowing him to be online and be
exploited. I mean, yes, that's bad.
But with the proper supervision,I think that it is actually
helping the kid. And I think, you know, children
need that nowadays. How else are they going to get
along in society if they don't learn these basic things?
Yeah, it's the same thing as with like the tablets or phones

(38:42):
or anything like that. Like that's just how it's going
in the world today. So if they don't do that, then
they're falling behind every other kid that is doing it and
learning. And, you know, we, I know that
you're a bit older than me, but there was this time that like we

(39:03):
had to learn technology and like, so we went from nothing to
learning it. And you know, there's still
those people that are going to be like, how in the hell does
this thing work? You know, but kids these days,
they have to. They literally have to.
They have to, absolutely. I mean, I'm still one of those

(39:24):
people. Like how the heck does this shit
work sometimes, you know? But they have to is right,
because everything is technologydriven right now.
Everything's AI, everything's electronic.
Yeah, I, you know, I just want to say I didn't even think to
warn you that sometimes I curse like a sailor because I don't
realize I'm doing it. Yeah.

(39:47):
Hey, that doesn't bother me. I'm saying, you know, I I try
not to, but it happens. What are you going to do?
Yeah, it's perfect. No, it's funny.
Sometimes I'll be talking to Benand he he won't swear because he
just doesn't really care to and like, I'll do it and then I'm
like, what the hell is he not doing this?

(40:08):
You know, like, and I'm like, amI some sort of like asshole or
what? I don't know.
I mean, I can understand that. I'm trying not to swear, but
hey, it happens. Like I said, part of life.
So is there anything else that you want to talk about, Anything
you want people to know about Adirondack, the liquidators?

(40:32):
This that we are a small family owned business and we are really
trying to you know, expand and get this YouTube kicked off.
So anybody, I appreciate anybodythat's could subscribe and like
our videos, we're going to buildsome great content and we're
going to bring it to you basically how it is.
We're not going to stage nothing.

(40:53):
It's going to be, you know, legit how what you see is what
you get. Yes, just like you're selling.
I mean you literally that is what it is.
And I think people like that more than they like the stage.
That's just me. I mean, sometimes it sucks you
get a locker full of garbage. But hey, people want to see the
truth, and buying storage lockers, I don't want anybody to

(41:15):
believe that, hey, buying storage lockers is all Peaches
and cream because that's not thecase.
So I want people to see what buying lockers really is, yeah.
It's it's not always, it's not storage wars at all.
It's not storage wars, and it's not always fun and it's not
always profitable. Yeah, I mean, and that I do

(41:35):
understand 100% there because people watch these shows.
I hear it all the time that people will say, I was watching
a American Pickers and and it's like, man, yeah, I'm sure that
they go out and find these things, but they are.
They also know they're going to find things.
Right. I mean, they have producers that

(41:55):
guarantee that. Right.
So it's Adirondack liquidators. Is that on YouTube whatnot?
It's. At well, yeah, it's at YouTube
and that's our name on Whatnot. And if YouTube, you have to have
the little at symbol in front ofit to find us.

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OK, and I don't know if you wantto even bring this up, but for
anyone that may have seen you inthe past might realize that the
name changed. Do you want to let them know?
Absolutely. So the reason we changed our
name is because we want everything to be cohesive.
And our name previously was Nicole Desavo, which is my

(42:41):
wife's name and she's no longer a Desavo, right.
So, and the reason it was on on her name to begin with was
because we needed an ID for Whatnot when if it was much
stricter when we first started selling on Whatnot, how long we
had it on there. We've been on Whatnot a little
over 2 years. And when we first started

(43:01):
selling on Whatnot, you had to basically show that you had an
online present selling present somewhere else and you had to
basically show your inventory tobe able to get approved to sell.
You had to go through an onboarding.
And now it's crazy. I had my son just to see sign up
in right here on his phone to sell and whatnot and within like

(43:24):
5 minutes he had an approved account so and he could sell on
whatnot. They don't do the onboarding
anymore. I didn't know.
That yeah, they don't I, I mean,I don't they.
He didn't have to go through no onboarding.
He was able to sell just like that.
Yeah, when I first signed up to sell on there, I had to do the
whole you sit there and watch the stupid video and it's like

(43:44):
I'm just trying to sell stuff onmy phone or whatever.
Like it's not that hard. Well, and see, when I first did
it, I had to actually do like a 30 minute Zoom call.
Really. Yeah.
And actually show, right. It was a bunch of people that
were in the same call and you know.
The only thing I took. Yeah, that's that's what mine
was too, I guess. Right.

(44:05):
But it was the one thing I took a class, right?
Right. I'm sorry.
The one thing I took, I said theone thing I took from that whole
class was persistence. And that's that's what's made us
successful so far on whatnot is the persistence.
You sure are persistent. There's times that I will see
you and then I'll have to go do something and then I'll come

(44:26):
back hours later and I'm like, you guys are still on like, wow.
Whatever it takes to pay the bills, man.
Yeah, I mean, that's, that's your hustle, you know, that's
the way that you have founded yourself.
Absolutely. I love my family and it gives me
the opportunity to spend time with my, you know, my kid and my

(44:47):
wife. Yeah, and that's, that's the
coolest thing with your shows especially is to see that you
guys, you know, your wife is usually cooking something and
everyone's always curious what? Right, she's cooking tonight.
Short ribs and. See, I'm just going to travel up
just for food. I'm on up.

(45:10):
I'm up for dinner, Andy. It's only a, you know, 6 to 8
hour trip, whatever. I almost looked you up when we
were on the way back from Alabama because we came right
through there. Where did we go?
Horse horse ham. Horse ham.
We had to drop off a trailer forU-Haul, so to make an extra

(45:34):
$400.00, we picked up a U-Haul. Well, they call him AU Box.
We picked it up and I think it was Virginia, Virginia, and we
drove it to Pennsylvania and they paid us.
It ended up being $500 is what they paid us to do it.
So it was pretty cool. How the hell did you come across
something like that? Well, I don't know.

(45:54):
I rented the 26 foot U-Haul to load up, you know, and they
started sending me offers for they call it call it load share.
And I guess they move things forpeople and that's how they get
the, you know, your belongings from one place to the next.
They have people that rent U hauls, drive it from one place
to the next and they pay them. That's crazy, I'd never heard of

(46:16):
that that either. See, I'm learning things right
now. I never knew about it neither.
And I was like, yeah, sign me up.
Why not $500 to well, my wife was kind of like, I don't know,
it's a 26 foot truck with a 20 foot trailer and I've never
drove one of those things before, but we had we had fun.
Yeah, and you know, I, I said that, but like, I've learned a

(46:36):
lot of things from you, Richard.I bet I've learned.
I learned a lot of things from you and a lot of things from
everybody on Whatnot. Yeah, I love the community on
there, you know, and like, I love that I know there are going
to be certain people in certain shows.
Right. You can definitely turn on my
show and there's guaranteed to be at least 10 people that are

(47:01):
there every single show. Yeah, at at least.
Yeah, two of my favorite lamps came from you.
The first one I got just kind ofout of nowhere, and it was the
brown, well, tannish hanging lamp.
Oh yes, I remember. I I mean, I guess it's a
hurricane lamp technically, but it's a hanging.

(47:22):
Hanging Hurricane. Yeah.
And then also the blue one, which when I saw that was, I was
like, yeah, man, well, actually.And then the other two that are
my favorite are the actual hurricane lamps with the round
globe. Right.
And then I found the second one.Well, it's kind of it's it's
very, very, very similar. Yeah.

(47:43):
They're so close you can't tell the difference really.
Yeah. And I mean, I have them side by
side, right? So they I don't I don't need
that much light because they have, you know, the bottom light
and the top light top, but they're side by side anyways,
just for looks, right. They are actually my main that
in the blue hanging are my main lights in my living room.

(48:07):
Cool. Yeah, I, I also have just a
display case that has lights in it, but that's more to
illuminate the glass things thatare in it, which on top shelf
that's the main view is the Fenton I got from you.
The main view is the Fenton you got from me.
Cool. And that's another thing that's
so great about selling is I, I always wonder where our where

(48:31):
the things we sell end up. Who's really buying them?
You know, I wonder how many people that are famous that I've
sold to and you just don't know where the items that I've I've
sold, you've sold. Anybody sold that, you know
where they end up. It's always cool to find find
out where they do end up and seepictures of that because I have
numerous times seen, you know, pictures of different people's

(48:53):
collections with my stuff in it.Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Well, Richard, it's been a pleasure, man.
I'm, I can't thank you enough for this because this is
something that I wanted to do when I started.
This is talk to you. And I think that you were one of
the very first people I ever said, will you be on it?

(49:16):
Well, I, I am glad that you invited me and it was a pleasure
and I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to promote my
YouTube channel and thank you. And if you ever want me to be a
guest on your podcast again, I'dbe more than happy to do so.
Most definitely you are going tobe no matter what.
I you can say no if you want, but I'm not going to take no.

(49:40):
I enjoyed it, it was cool. So one last time, you want to
just shout out the name and where you can be found.
So we can be found on YouTube and our our username is
Adirondack Liquidators and we can also be found on YouTube at

(50:00):
Adirondack. Or did I say that twice?
I did it twice. Never mind Whatnot.
Sorry about that. Whatnot is Adirondack
Liquidators, that's our username, and YouTube is at
Adirondack Liquidators. Excellent.
All right, man, it's been great chatting with you and I know
that you are going to have a show tonight, so I'll let you

(50:21):
get to it. All right.
Thank you and I'll probably see you there.
All right, man, we'll see you. Have a good one.
Bye, Treasures high. If you haven't heard yet, well,
here it is. Adirondack Liquidators is now on
YouTube. Join Richard, his wife Nicole

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and of course the always full ofenergy future reseller, their
son Charlie as they take us withthem to get their first hand
book into the storage units and other places they source their
inventory for their whatnot shows.
That's Adirondack liquidators. Find it now on YouTube at.

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