also I am 55 yrs old now working harder than I ever did in my life for less money and I love every second of it :) planning to do this for 20 more years if I can
It’s like watching the news… 😔 They lead off with the top story then go into a bunch of job jab then 10 mins in you get a little bit more then you finally get to the meat of the story.. The one thing you can guarantee is that Dave will say the word golf club at least a few times during each video 😉
Since Mercari can identify the listing to ban you, why don’t they create a warning during the listing process so you can catch the mistake before the ban?
@@joytoyouandme4593 When you try to list certain items on eBay, you get a warning in red at the top and it stops you from submitting the listing. Usually obviously illegal items... but also items banned for political reasons (Aunt Jemima items, certain Dr Seuss books, other politically incorrect nonsense.)
I have a guy that test my electronics, game console, etc. He picks up a tub full and cleans them, tests, and writes a information note for each item. He works at his own pace I pay him per item he tests. $10 per console, $1.50 controller, etc.
Hello Dave. I have a full time shipper. I have one lister that works 3 days a week and I list everyday. I work 12 hours everyday as well. You need plenty of inventory for this. I sell on average 30-40 items per day. I also have a brick and mortar store that I only employee 2 persons at. My store is opened mainly for my weekly auction pickups. There is a lot of competition for good merch. You seem to be doing really good. Congrats on becoming a full time seller. There is only so much time in the day so to scale up you have to employee help that you trust 100 %
A good rule of thumb is if your business is healthy, you should be able to alot at least 10% of gross sales to grow the business. Whether that be helper or actual employee. I am up to 4 part time helpers now and there are weeks where i work less than 10hrs and other weeks I work 30.
Dave, you're talking about going from a sole proprietor operation to having a fulltime employee with a middle step of only a very occasional part time employee who is a relative. I think that's too big a leap and would think about a transition to an unrelated part-time (15 hours a week) college student first with very specific written duties. To keep it legal, I'd hire the person as a contract employee by allowing him/her to choose their own hours as long as the total is the number you want. IMO you need a detail person for shipping and cross listing first and then maybe add duties according to the person's abilities. I'd have the employee read the prohibited items list for each site and make a list for each as one of their first tasks. You could also have them make up a time sheet form to keep their hours on. I think it will be a challenge to work in the same area where the employee will overhear your broadcasts and perhaps tempt you to waste work time with too many questions. Is it possible for them to work in a nearby room for part of their hours? I think it's definitely possible for the right employee to pay for themselves and more, but you have to establish what you want them to do and review frequently whether the goal is being met. You could measure progress by how many additional new listings you're able to do or how many fewer hours you're able to work for instance. Good luck.
I think when the time is right, and you could afford a part time or full-time employee you should hire someone, absolutely. You enjoy sourcing and do a great job at it, but listing may not be your favorite. If you hire someone you would hopefully make more money have more time for your yourself. I am so happy about Mercari. Good for you Dave, I was rooting for you. 🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩
Glad to hear it worked out for you. Having someone help you here and there is a good thing. I sometimes work a bit in the morning and then have coffee with a friend and then I'm back to it. Nice sales
your goal should be to get out of the garage and get into a small warehouse,than start buying pallets full of merchandise that's when you'll start making serious money..
If you enjoy Dave's blog good, if you don't have nothing good to say, just swipe on buy. I've been watching Dave for a few years now & yes he jumps from one thing to another, but don't we all? As I'm the same but get there inthe end. On the plus side you're also getting lots of information as he chats away. He also gives you an insight in his name ADHDAVE! Love his content as always mx
I removed all my Vera Bradley items after seeing they are banned/restricted on Ebay's Vero list. I now have numerous Vera Bradley Items sitting in my death pile. I removed over 800 items out of 958 items out of my store seeing all the name brands on Ebay's restricted Vero list. I won't take a chance of being banned or sued. 24 yrs and sick of this!!! Aren't you scared of getting a lifetime bad from Ebay? I watch a lot of the resellers on You Tube and they seem fearless in listing all the restricted items on Ebay's Vero List. I don't get it at all. Perhaps the big time sellers have some kind of a reassurance/protection that Ebay won't give them Vero strikes or ban them. Like the videos and wish you good luck!
All plans proceedures and processes need to be tight before hiring and scaling in my opinion. If an employee isnt trained properly you can easily lose your accounts like you just found out. I know several resellers have hired and most find out that with the increase in listings etc you have to cash flow increase in inventory and expense of employee for several months before it cash flows positive.
As long as you're willing to train, manage, oversee and learn to trust someone and the work they do so stuff like this knife incident doesn't happen again, then hiring someone can be beneficial.
@@SamMathiasArt whatever… look at all his videos. He’s always recording even before “proper grooming” because to keep feeding 3 monetized UA-cam channels, is a full-time content creation/editing job… from the moment you get your to you lay your head… bc that’s where the really money is coming from. To fit it all in, they start recording even before basic grooming happens. Just glad UA-cam doesn’t have smell-o-vision yet! Lol 😂
Lol good for him honestly, if I could be making money content creating I'd be doing it too and it's clearly working, if you say he's not grooming then I'm a full on dirty gremlin 😂 good for him putting providing for his fam first i see no issues lol
So...I worked for a guy where I researched listed and shipped out all of his items while he ran a store front...I worked mon thru Friday 8-5 and he paid me under the table 400 a week now this was 8 years ago so costs weren't as high so it was good for me....he had a storage container full of items I would drive to fill up my car pull them clean them research pricing take pics and sale them....
Even though Mickey is going off to college. If he knows all your log in info could he still not crosslist at his own pace from college for extra money since he already knows what to do? I'm only asking because I had a helper a while back I gave her my log in info with specific instructions as to what to do and because she was family I obviously trusted that she would only access what was necessary. I had her to shoot me a text before logging in and when logging out and it helped tremendously.
Happy that Mercari reinstated you. Hopefully they read your email and saw your video where you explained what happened and realized it was an honest mistake. I just followed you on Dibdit - how can I follow Kevin & Carey and any of the others there that I may be following? BTW - how's your stash of Jax holding out? On sale for $2.49/bag until Sunday 😂
It's helpful that you mention how many hours you put in. There seems to be an unrealistic image of reselling out there that thinks because there are fun and exciting aspects, it's somehow easy. There are a lot of moving pieces and I imagine so many more when you're a content creator. In order to scale, employees are probably going to be a necessity. Then you can focus on the parts you're most equipped to handle/enjoy and still have enough time to spend with family doing other things.
When you were reinstated, did mercari also reinstate the 500 you said you had in your account? And, yes, very lucky you were reinstated. Mercari isn't known to go back on bans often.
Maybe something like Kat has. Someone to help with shipping/photos? Kat finalizes the listings, not sure you'd want someone to do your listings right off the bat.
Set up a code you include with eBay listings that can't be cross listing and cost listing app should tell you that item can't be listed it should know all the rules with AI and look out for you why can't Mikey cross list from school if he wants to
If I was you I would have systems in place that you follow first to prevent the knife situation from happening again. Then when you get that under control then hire someone, or if you do hire someone don't give them tasks that can get your accounts banned. Like cleaning items or building listings that you proof read. I have owned a retail store since 2011 and the hardest thing is getting other people to do things how you want them done, so I built systems and then train the people to follow them to a T.
Kat worked her store up to hiring employees. She took time to train them carefully, putting in the prices herself st the end. After several years of that, she is having a lot of fun doing the sourcing and being where she is today.
Don’t employ, outsource someone very detail oriented. You focus on sourcing & sales, let others do listings, inventory, shipping. It would 10x you very soon!
Don't list a slingshot on mercury either its a very bad weapon I got reprimanded for that lol my kids played with slingshots all their lives just keep it in mind so you don't get in trouble for it if you ever have any .
The cool thing if you get Mikey to work with you (full time) is that you will learn good stuff to pick and if at any point, you need to let him go or something like that he can utilize everything you taught him and be a picker as well
So, I own a coin shop in NC. I also sell on eBay and mercari. I've also thought about paying someone to list and ship. From what I understand, what's fair is $2 per post and $1 per ship. That person could easily earn $10 an hour under the table or more. The only big thing is that they'd have to understand that it's more of a part-time job. On your end, you'd have to make sure that you have the inventory to sustain a part-time employee.
for me its the opposite I had to fire all my family who tried to help - but the issue is with me :) But I only do 60k CDN gross so far talk to the Aussie Flipper (Matt) as you know him well he hired help and has it worked out
I removed all my Vera Bradley items after seeing they are banned/restricted on Ebay's Vero list. I now have numerous Vera Bradley Items sitting in my death pile. I removed over 800 items out of 958 items out of my store seeing all the name brands on Ebay's restricted Vero list. I won't take a chance of being banned or sued. 24 yrs and sick of this!!! Aren't you scared of getting a lifetime bad from Ebay? I watch a lot of the resellers on You Tube and they seem fearless in listing all the restricted items on Ebay's Vero List. I don't get it at all. Perhaps the big time sellers have some kind of a reassurance/protection that Ebay won't give them Vero strikes or ban them. Like the videos and wish you good luck!
The account was reinstated 6:40
Jesus christ thank you. He takes so long to get to the point
also I am 55 yrs old now working harder than I ever did in my life for less money and I love every second of it :) planning to do this for 20 more years if I can
It’s like watching the news… 😔 They lead off with the top story then go into a bunch of
job jab then 10 mins in you get a little bit more then you finally get to the meat of the story..
The one thing you can guarantee is that Dave will say the word golf club at least a few times during each video 😉
Since Mercari can identify the listing to ban you, why don’t they create a warning during the listing process so you can catch the mistake before the ban?
You sound too logical and make too much sense.
Mercari chooses chaos lol
Ebay doesn’t have this in place either. Not sure why, they would save everyone time and headaches.
@@joytoyouandme4593 When you try to list certain items on eBay, you get a warning in red at the top and it stops you from submitting the listing. Usually obviously illegal items... but also items banned for political reasons (Aunt Jemima items, certain Dr Seuss books, other politically incorrect nonsense.)
As somebody who manages a lot of employees. The dream of being a full-time reseller would include not having anybody to manage. 😂
I have a guy that test my electronics, game console, etc. He picks up a tub full and cleans them, tests, and writes a information note for each item. He works at his own pace I pay him per item he tests. $10 per console, $1.50 controller, etc.
Hello Dave. I have a full time shipper. I have one lister that works 3 days a week and I list everyday. I work 12 hours everyday as well. You need plenty of inventory for this. I sell on average 30-40 items per day. I also have a brick and mortar store that I only employee 2 persons at. My store is opened mainly for my weekly auction pickups. There is a lot of competition for good merch. You seem to be doing really good. Congrats on becoming a full time seller. There is only so much time in the day so to scale up you have to employee help that you trust 100 %
Dave you are so funny I look forward to your videos....
A good rule of thumb is if your business is healthy, you should be able to alot at least 10% of gross sales to grow the business. Whether that be helper or actual employee. I am up to 4 part time helpers now and there are weeks where i work less than 10hrs and other weeks I work 30.
Sounds like fun to have family outing at pool etc. Loretta Van Pelt 😊😊
Dave, you're talking about going from a sole proprietor operation to having a fulltime employee with a middle step of only a very occasional part time employee who is a relative. I think that's too big a leap and would think about a transition to an unrelated part-time (15 hours a week) college student first with very specific written duties. To keep it legal, I'd hire the person as a contract employee by allowing him/her to choose their own hours as long as the total is the number you want.
IMO you need a detail person for shipping and cross listing first and then maybe add duties according to the person's abilities. I'd have the employee read the prohibited items list for each site and make a list for each as one of their first tasks. You could also have them make up a time sheet form to keep their hours on.
I think it will be a challenge to work in the same area where the employee will overhear your broadcasts and perhaps tempt you to waste work time with too many questions. Is it possible for them to work in a nearby room for part of their hours? I think it's definitely possible for the right employee to pay for themselves and more, but you have to establish what you want them to do and review frequently whether the goal is being met. You could measure progress by how many additional new listings you're able to do or how many fewer hours you're able to work for instance.
Good luck.
Totally agree!
Glad you got reinstated!!!! 👍👌👊💪
I'm so glad Mercari reinstated you! You work hard and try so hard to do things right!!!
I think when the time is right, and you could afford a part time or full-time employee you should hire someone, absolutely. You enjoy sourcing and do a great job at it, but listing may not be your favorite. If you hire someone you would hopefully make more money have more time for your yourself. I am so happy about Mercari. Good for you Dave, I was rooting for you. 🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩
Glad to hear it worked out for you. Having someone help you here and there is a good thing. I sometimes work a bit in the morning and then have coffee with a friend and then I'm back to it. Nice sales
Retired and doing this for fun and loving every minute! Love your content. I try to go to Webster once a month hope to meet you there some day!
No more arms dealing on Mercari
Another awesome video Dave. Sorry for all the haters you gotta deal with.
your goal should be to get out of the garage and get into a small warehouse,than start buying pallets full of merchandise that's when you'll start making serious money..
Glad to hear gpood news. 😘
If you enjoy Dave's blog good, if you don't have nothing good to say, just swipe on buy. I've been watching Dave for a few years now & yes he jumps from one thing to another, but don't we all? As I'm the same but get there inthe end. On the plus side you're also getting lots of information as he chats away. He also gives you an insight in his name ADHDAVE! Love his content as always mx
I think you need a photographer to take pictures you post. They do daily shipping and cross listing.
I would like to follow all your auctions please
I removed all my Vera Bradley items after seeing they are banned/restricted on Ebay's Vero list. I now have numerous Vera Bradley Items sitting in my death pile. I removed over 800 items out of 958 items out of my store seeing all the name brands on Ebay's restricted Vero list. I won't take a chance of being banned or sued. 24 yrs and sick of this!!! Aren't you scared of getting a lifetime bad from Ebay? I watch a lot of the resellers on You Tube and they seem fearless in listing all the restricted items on Ebay's Vero List. I don't get it at all. Perhaps the big time sellers have some kind of a reassurance/protection that Ebay won't give them Vero strikes or ban them. Like the videos and wish you good luck!
All plans proceedures and processes need to be tight before hiring and scaling in my opinion. If an employee isnt trained properly you can easily lose your accounts like you just found out. I know several resellers have hired and most find out that with the increase in listings etc you have to cash flow increase in inventory and expense of employee for several months before it cash flows positive.
Thank you so much for all your videos Dave they’re super entertaining and really help me get through my long commutes.
As long as you're willing to train, manage, oversee and learn to trust someone and the work they do so stuff like this knife incident doesn't happen again, then hiring someone can be beneficial.
Yay got your account back.
LOL. 😅 Hair looks cool don’t stress!!
Agree
Just be nice if he showered before turning on record?
Or if he does…grab a comb/brush first?
@@johnd4371 what? Are you trolling lol he said he used gel
@@SamMathiasArt whatever… look at all his videos. He’s always recording even before “proper grooming” because to keep feeding 3 monetized UA-cam channels, is a full-time content creation/editing job… from the moment you get your to you lay your head… bc that’s where the really money is coming from. To fit it all in, they start recording even before basic grooming happens. Just glad UA-cam doesn’t have smell-o-vision yet! Lol 😂
Lol good for him honestly, if I could be making money content creating I'd be doing it too and it's clearly working, if you say he's not grooming then I'm a full on dirty gremlin 😂 good for him putting providing for his fam first i see no issues lol
Are you going to do anymore whatnot shows from your storage unit?
Love the hair!!
Love your videos Dave
Thanks Bro - my birthday was on Wednesday. Went to Shady Maple for my free birthday meal.
Cool Hair Bro!
So...I worked for a guy where I researched listed and shipped out all of his items while he ran a store front...I worked mon thru Friday 8-5 and he paid me under the table 400 a week now this was 8 years ago so costs weren't as high so it was good for me....he had a storage container full of items I would drive to fill up my car pull them clean them research pricing take pics and sale them....
I only sell on Mercari. I think if you used UPS or FedEx you would sell more on there up to 3lbs is 7.99 3lbs to 5lbs is 8.99
Even though Mickey is going off to college. If he knows all your log in info could he still not crosslist at his own pace from college for extra money since he already knows what to do? I'm only asking because I had a helper a while back I gave her my log in info with specific instructions as to what to do and because she was family I obviously trusted that she would only access what was necessary. I had her to shoot me a text before logging in and when logging out and it helped tremendously.
If you are not happy stop watching
He is normal
Happy that Mercari reinstated you. Hopefully they read your email and saw your video where you explained what happened and realized it was an honest mistake. I just followed you on Dibdit - how can I follow Kevin & Carey and any of the others there that I may be following? BTW - how's your stash of Jax holding out? On sale for $2.49/bag until Sunday 😂
Josh and Haley have an employee. Maybe he can give you some insights.
It's helpful that you mention how many hours you put in. There seems to be an unrealistic image of reselling out there that thinks because there are fun and exciting aspects, it's somehow easy. There are a lot of moving pieces and I imagine so many more when you're a content creator.
In order to scale, employees are probably going to be a necessity. Then you can focus on the parts you're most equipped to handle/enjoy and still have enough time to spend with family doing other things.
Glad to hear the ban was lifted, good luck.
#Mercari @Mercari 👍🌝
Dave here back in the grrodge!
I've heard shipping is relatively easy to hire someone to do. Like Cary does.
Glad you got your account back 🙂
I think Tina is right, it looks like a diaper bag😮 hey Dave which app do I use to follow up on dibdit ?
I’m so happy you’re back on mercari 😊
How long before he’s banned again?
When you were reinstated, did mercari also reinstate the 500 you said you had in your account? And, yes, very lucky you were reinstated. Mercari isn't known to go back on bans often.
If you figure out what to pay someone else, let me know. 😂 I am also trying to figure this out as well
Maybe something like Kat has. Someone to help with shipping/photos? Kat finalizes the listings, not sure you'd want someone to do your listings right off the bat.
I am trying to… idk… get the nerve to quit my 9-5 job…
I wouldn't hire someone as an employee but maybe an independent contractor. That way you don't have to pay taxes on them
Your hair looks fine Paige
The real dream..... you felt like Commonwealth Picker having employees!!!!
So, do you take separate photos for your Mercari listings or use a photo resizer since photos imported from eBay don’t fit on Mercari?
If you get your house paid off you won't have to work as hard and make as much money.
True
Whats up with the hair Dave??
Looks like there should be away for vendo to stop listing items that are not allowed on the different places
I was thinking the same thing, like Vendo won’t list things on a platform if against their rules!
Concentrate on paying off your house just like you said in a video two or three years ago.
Set up a code you include with eBay listings that can't be cross listing and cost listing app should tell you that item can't be listed it should know all the rules with AI and look out for you why can't Mikey cross list from school if he wants to
Did you sell the artisan bear?
I’d consider hiring a helper, only if I had another revenue producing position or job. Freeing up your time could help boost your UA-cam income?
Hair comment: because you didnt ask, get a quiff- style that bad boy- would suit you. 😊
If I was you I would have systems in place that you follow first to prevent the knife situation from happening again. Then when you get that under control then hire someone, or if you do hire someone don't give them tasks that can get your accounts banned. Like cleaning items or building listings that you proof read. I have owned a retail store since 2011 and the hardest thing is getting other people to do things how you want them done, so I built systems and then train the people to follow them to a T.
Hey Oh!!!
😂😂😂 you are funny. I love watching 👀 your videos
I tried to sell vitamins on Mercari and they took them off so don't put any vitamins or meds on Mercari!
Ikr I tried allergy medicine new in box and nope 😢
Some people sold "vitamines" which boost your mind to a new Level. They also Sold this sh** as bath additive
Tina and me are two country music fans
Luke Coombs has a uk tribute act
Let the hair grow out!
Look at Kat and her employees
Kat worked her store up to hiring employees. She took time to train them carefully, putting in the prices herself st the end. After several years of that, she is having a lot of fun doing the sourcing and being where she is today.
Yay!!! 🙏🏼👍
Stop talking .....shop more
We miss that
Love you
Emilio!!!!!!
You just need to put subscribers only on the live
For some reason I can’t find the link to dibdit
I'm trying to find ADHDave on Mercari. Public profiles have numbers not names, where I can find the profile?
Ask you son to scale your business 😊 of course after school and activities he has
The link don't work I tried signing up. The link is for iPhone I have a android
Don’t employ, outsource someone very detail oriented. You focus on sourcing & sales, let others do listings, inventory, shipping. It would 10x you very soon!
Hairy Tornado hired a person to help them out. Ask him.
Don't hire an employee. Put your family to work. It's a great learning and growing experience for your kids.
Don't list a slingshot on mercury either its a very bad weapon I got reprimanded for that lol my kids played with slingshots all their lives just keep it in mind so you don't get in trouble for it if you ever have any .
You are at work... You work from home... Why do people think your hair needs to look perfect? 🙄
The cool thing if you get Mikey to work with you (full time) is that you will learn good stuff to pick and if at any point, you need to let him go or something like that he can utilize everything you taught him and be a picker as well
So, I own a coin shop in NC. I also sell on eBay and mercari. I've also thought about paying someone to list and ship. From what I understand, what's fair is $2 per post and $1 per ship. That person could easily earn $10 an hour under the table or more.
The only big thing is that they'd have to understand that it's more of a part-time job. On your end, you'd have to make sure that you have the inventory to sustain a part-time employee.
why under the table? If you pay them legally it is a business expense and nothing to worry about with the law.
It seems $2 to list is low if you expect them to do everything; clean, test, photos, research for pricing and descriptions, etc.
Mecari must have watched your video! You make too much money for them...to let you go....
for me its the opposite I had to fire all my family who tried to help - but the issue is with me :)
But I only do 60k CDN gross so far
talk to the Aussie Flipper (Matt) as you know him well he hired help and has it worked out
I wish you would get to the point , instead of dragging from thing to another
He’s maddening
Agreeeeeeeed
That’s the fun of watching ADHD Dave. You get used to it.
Don’t like what he does don’t watch
If you don't appreciate nothing but running around like a chicken with its head off
THEN YOUR ON THE WRONG CHANNEL LMAO
I removed all my Vera Bradley items after seeing they are banned/restricted on Ebay's Vero list. I now have numerous Vera Bradley Items sitting in my death pile. I removed over 800 items out of 958 items out of my store seeing all the name brands on Ebay's restricted Vero list. I won't take a chance of being banned or sued. 24 yrs and sick of this!!! Aren't you scared of getting a lifetime bad from Ebay? I watch a lot of the resellers on You Tube and they seem fearless in listing all the restricted items on Ebay's Vero List. I don't get it at all. Perhaps the big time sellers have some kind of a reassurance/protection that Ebay won't give them Vero strikes or ban them. Like the videos and wish you good luck!