This guy is the boss everyone dislikes at work. Micro manages his employees and puts them in terrible working conditions. I’d hate to be crammed in a tiny basement for “work”. Imagine putting up a fuss over your employee taking 4 extra seconds to check the condition of an item. Not to mention he needs to redo Spencer’s training process if he still doesn’t know how to hold a disc. Good lord.
Also does the employee benefit if they increase efficiency and add revenue to the bottom line? If not what is the incentive. Also, if they increase the volume processed but those items don't sell then did doing it 4 seconds faster actually create additional revenue.
Gotta love Caleb playing Corporate CEO. The guy goes into his office every night and watches Ted Talks and reads leadership books. He really thinks he's Steve Jobs ripping people off on Amazon from his basement. He learns a few buzz words every night and then descends into his basement to enlighten his minions. On a side note, I wouldn't want people walking in and out of my house on a daily basis to punch a clock. Dude is greedy beyond belief.
If I would be his wife I would move out. First of all not only that he would be there 24/7 (would be annoying) but all his work mates too and every corner full of his boxes and games.
I remember in one video he was saying how he is happy where he is and doesn't want to grow into this super big business, yet he's barking his employees (which he met from church btw) to save 4 seconds so HE can make more money. When is enough money, enough to these people?
By having his business and his office in his home he can put his house payment as a business Expanse on his taxes. My friend does it by putting a company Bumper sticker on his car he writes off car insurance , car payment, and gas and car maintenance
Thats a special kind of a-hole boss who works out of his home, doing meetings on "go faster to make me an extra 170 bucks every year". Dude ..you work out of your basement, that should be the most relaxed job ever, but nope...still has to eff it up lol
He doesn’t even make 170. That’s just the total price of the items listed per year. Doesn’t mean they will sell and even if they did, he’d probably only make an extra 30k off of it and that’s me guessing
He is so shortsighted and is only focusing on the money. Of course he will be able to list and sell things faster if he cuts down on the inspection time, but he will start noticing his profits going down when he gets a bunch of returns because he or his employees just assumed a disc will work to save 4 seconds. Any long term successful business needs to have a good reputation and trust from its customers, Caleb appears to be willing to sacrifice these for the all mighty dollar. I definitely agree with you regarding setting up his own website, it is not a great long term strategy to rely so heavily on another companies platform to run your business, he should be looking to go down the DK Oldies route if he wants this thing to last.
He lost me with those „This is how XY store operates“ videos. I don‘t care how someone runs a video game store in some town I will never visit. He should bring back the game hunting.
Its just weird like a diddy party how all these resellers click. Chase, phoenix, jrpglife, retroprick, list goes. Instead of passing celebs, they're passing profits. Also, caleb doesnt know wtf stress is.
ahhh yeah its obvious they are all in it together and they all suck each others digital/social cawcks. People try to claim they arent in it together but they all edit and do each others videos...with retro rick probably being the king dog they all have to bow down too.
1:49 the dude lives in a 5,300 square foot, 5 bed 4 bath home with a zestimate of $1,050,000. With just two of them living in this home there’s absolutely 0 sacrifice.
Excellent, now that you have millions of dollars, you can retire or do even more damage to the game market. And since you’re greedy, well I guess gamers are screwed lol
You gotta check out the newest Phoenix Resale video. He left in a part where the poor guy he interviews admits to tax evasion 😂😂. He didn’t even know he was being filmed I think as he wasn’t looking anywhere near the camera.
if he wants to run a major drop shipping service to Amazon from his basement then by all means he will. But if he’s trying to get 5 million in sales, he’s gonna run out of space. He’ll either have to hire more workers to clear out inventory faster or use up more rooms in his house. Lol
@ It’s a form of drop shipping. You’re referring to the poor man’s version of drop shipping. He’s a middle man for Amazon warehouses, not shipping to the customer directly.
My friend has the biggest retro game business in Maryland and he resurfaces every retro disc based game even ps3 games sometimes, luckily you can run a tank over a ps4 game! No need for a resurfacing
Predicting massive growth in a market that is in continual decline is not a great business plan. The used video game market gets worse every single year and will dry up really quick the minute either Sony or Microsoft has large enough balls to put out a console with no disc drive. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo did it first since they don't compete against the other two.
@@gregb2134 Yep, and if they make the drive an absolute separate purchase with every version of the PS6 then that will mean almost no one will buy the drive. And then the generation after that won't have a disc drive at all.
I don’t think he’d switch to only selling on his own website because of the massive audience/ reach that Amazon provides him with. Everyone knows about Amazon, but only a “small” amount of people into gaming or reselling know about Phoenix.
That’s wild. Ngl as something like this it should be a slower pace but efficiency is important for any job. As u know I work at a grocery store bakery. Speed isn’t it but having efficiency is all! But it’s a fast pace job bc u have to get all the breads out, make cookies and other things that require to be baked in the oven. This right here. Shouldn’t be rushed or even be a stressful thing. I understand there’s a lot of games to go through and cleaning them but it shouldn’t be a stressful thing. It should be something that u enjoy but getting things done at the same time.
@ I agree! Like who wants to go to work at 8:30. At my work we have like 5 people but it’s still not enough for us to get everything done. We still need help. Caleb needs to get help bc stressing isn’t it
Dude definitely googled everything that is on that white board and was like “ya this will make me look smart, better film it” Also if his 2 employees don’t have any ownership interest in the business, they are wasting their time. He can’t be paying them more than $15 an hour
whether its phoenix resale or catrp, i can never understand why people listen to them about business. they are just like any other ebay seller who discovered other platforms to sell items. the worst part is they create these videos reiterating the same garbage terms they created acting like they are better than other resellers
Would be interested to get your thoughts on the JRPGLife youtube channel. I think they are, for the most part, passionate collectors but I've seen them trying to buy from families at garage sales for dirt cheap...
I like them, I met Dan at a convention back in July. Their content is super chill. I've heard that their really old stuff was sometimes slimy which I may need to look at sometime but as far as their new stuff goes, I dig it.
The meeting was literally Caleb playing boss. He wants his employees to send the scratched discs out and worry about returns later. He doesn’t lose out on the returns Amazon takes care of the money side and he gets the game back. The returns will of course pile up and the next meeting will be addressing the number of returns. He is making work for himself and also content. Win win
@ I only saw what you posted I’m sure there’s another 20 minutes of nonsense productivity tips and efficiency standards. I just can’t shake the feeling he made this video to get people talking. The content is so ridiculous even for Caleb
@steviefreakinc of course man but with daylight savings time it messes everything up. I wanna go to bed early like 7 or 8, my kids wanna go to sleep at 6. Even with a nap, I still will go to bed early
Resellers are getting a bad name for a reason. Take that Phoenix reseller, for example, who’s acting all silly while bragging about his $2 million in sales and posting pics of multiple copies of the same expensive game on social media. If video games are the new cocaine, it wouldn’t be shocking to see the mafia or cartels jumping into the reselling game. Don’t be surprised if they come knocking on his door.
I really do believe that the big three “Phoenix, Chase and Rick” are solely responsible for Wii Sports, Pokemon games and GameCube games being as much as they are.
Brooo, when you said no lie ... when you said if I had a basement, my thought went i would turn it into an entertaining room with a big screen a stripper pole and awesome sound system cause quality and boom you came and said I would get a projector I was like yessss ...broooo if I get to meet you 1st round is on me 🍻
He makes it sound like he is some sort of business mogul because he paid $1000 for some business on the internet. Dude is a joke and adds nothing of value to the world.
Ngl when I met him, he was cool, but seemed like his ego was really weighing on him. I have my doubts about him but I will say he’s a genuine guy in person!😊
I would genuinely hate life if I had to do what he does in his daily routine. Imagine having to be so fake and performative, he oozes slime like a used car salesman. Just my thoughts, to each their own.
Lmao Steve, I wake up at 6am every day & im at work by 7. Waking up at 8am is sleeping in! Edit: But I'm also a late night person 😅 I'll be up till 1am playing video games some nights but typically goto bed around 11
Hope gamers are waking up to stop buying from these dorky greedy resellers for we can afford our hobby again. Steve i have a feeling you changed a lot of gamers minds on resellers and hope the peeps that watch you share your videos to spread the message to more gamers for we can shut these losers down or at oeast their high prices.
The amount of times he says he’s stressed is ridiculous. He has two of the most cushy jobs out there. Likely doesn’t spend more than 40 hours per work across his resale and UA-cam career. Plus his wife is a lawyer. Could not have it any better for a reseller really 🤦♂️
@@steviefreakincI’d have to disagree. He has someone to manage his business, workers to process stuff, and he has an editor to edit videos. Not saying he doesn’t have to work, but he doesn’t have to work near as long or hard as most people, he can go at his own pace.
He is rushing straight into burnout. You're right he needs to build his own website but he needs to learn how to market himself so that he can direct traffic there. You can buy advertising but He built up a great following on UA-cam but he doesn't know how to channel that into financial success. He will need to conquer his fear & jump back into interaction with his followers. The one up app was an unnecessary expense. There are many that need to learn from trial and error instead of truly listening to advice & putting it into practice. He lacks a true goal or destination with his reselling business. The money won't bring you really happiness.
I’d say he overpaid for the app but the app has become useful for him as far as sourcing goes. The thing about it though is all of the resellers that sell to him could make their own Amazon accounts and skip him altogether and make way more money.
he'll just beg his fans once his gaming stuff starts failing or sliding back, he'll milk his fans for money with some new gimmick just like his buddy retro rick does gambling schemes for retro games to rake in the cash. or selling mystery boxes on what not
Heccccckkkin’ Steve! I used to be into video game collecting…until I dove headfirst in the Warhammer 40k world, now, there is no going back. 🤣 it’s always interesting seeing what people collect in the video game world now…they buy the weirdest shit for SOOOOOO much money these days.
He loses Amazon he loses everything…that’s what’s crazy to me. All eggs in one basket. One Up…. Yea I told him for months that was a stupid name and idea and should’ve been nothing but a Quick Flips app. He wasted so much money when all he ever needed was an app to flip games. He isn’t the smartest person…we’ve known that for a while
I wanna see him flip items for potential profit and use the potential profit to buy and flip items for potential profit so he can collect games that he will sell later after he makes a video series again,
do you think when phoenix is talking about taking a dump or getting randy with his GF he does all these hand gestures and vocal inflection changes describing stuff and pauses?? "yeah i went to take a $#@%, "pause", sitting down motion, and i felt this paiiiinnnn, like a fullness ::gestures to stomach:: pauses, and when I finally went ::motioning hand forward and back:: I felt a great sigh of relief" and takes him like 20 seconds to say one sentence cause of all his social gimmicks.
Bro spent a billion dollars to hire someone to make an app just like Price charting (no one mentions you can buy and sell games on there) except you can only sell to him and can't buy anything, he got scammed lol.
@@steviefreakincI bet that is phoenix’s exact word when it’s brought up. “Funny” + “but I do offer a 5% employee discount on my games (Nintendo games not included)”
@@steviefreakinc Exactly. I am serious. I think resellers are some of the lowliest people around. And Caleb resells resellers to Amazon’s reselling outfit. Not sure it goes any lower than that.
Yeah I’m thinking it’s probably not much better than normal careers. And he’s not necessarily working 40 hours but he is sort of stuck around the house
The other problem is he is drying out ebay and driving prices towards what people can sell on the buy list. Say 50% of the things that get shipped to him go to ebay, that is a million of inventory not hitting ebay annually. Now anything on ebay can get sniped if you can get it for whatever the cost + tax is less than his buy list…
I think quick flips is awful as well. Interesting name. But I think it will discourage many people from selling to him, because they actively are aware that he's flipping what they sell for way more then he pays 🤔
Does it blow anyone else’s mind that he gets THAT MUCH stuff sent to him? All those people just supplying him with inventory. Like, he’s become even more of a gloried middle man. Who are these people? Do they suck as much as I think they do?
@ Oh I know what he’s doing and I think he’s a P.O.S. because of it. Him, Chase, the whole lot of them. I’ve had two local retro shops close in the past 5 years. Both of them told me that did it because “of online competition”.
Also, why he’s harping so much on being efficient is he wants them to the most work within a smallest amount of time…someone call labor laws…this is sad, to his workers, don’t subject yourself to this
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i bet he charges employees for bathroom and water breaks
lol yeah next meeting he will calculate how much money is lost in a year because his employees shit too long
lol I see people do that in restroom to text someone in the bathroom.i was working,talking
My boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I shit on company time 🎶
@ exactly haha
Have you seen that “behind the scenes” video he made on maximizing efficiency? It seriously is my living hell the shit he was saying to his employees.
This guy is the boss everyone dislikes at work. Micro manages his employees and puts them in terrible working conditions. I’d hate to be crammed in a tiny basement for “work”. Imagine putting up a fuss over your employee taking 4 extra seconds to check the condition of an item. Not to mention he needs to redo Spencer’s training process if he still doesn’t know how to hold a disc. Good lord.
His workers need to work somewhere else honestly
They are all from his church. Religion strikes again.
Under his logic, why not just not inspect the disc at all. Saves even more seconds. What an idiot.
@ Have you seen Caleb talk very much? He’s not that bright a dude. Even by his own admission, he’s kinda simple.
In Borats voice, "Hes king of the basement, king of the basement".
Lol
Sad to see the basement go from a sweet game spot to a just another factory line
Yeah the problem for me is he has the furnished basement and gave it up
That 4 second disc check is fkn wild. What a cowboy.
lol much like the Cowboys, I’m certain they won’t be able to manage the clock. Unless they get those speed chess clocks haha
If I was in that pep talk I'd just roll my eyes and tell him if the successful way I've been doing things doesn't satisfy him, find someone else.
He came off like a Dictator basically saying you guys shouldn’t take your time, you’re costing me money
Lmfaaaaooo- Steve you keep us grounded. Thank you
My pleasure!
Also does the employee benefit if they increase efficiency and add revenue to the bottom line? If not what is the incentive. Also, if they increase the volume processed but those items don't sell then did doing it 4 seconds faster actually create additional revenue.
You’re seeing the flaws in the plan lol
I’d like to add that he sold 2.4 million in product before any expenses , he didn’t net that much, or bring that home as income.
Yes!
I would lose my shit if I was in that "meeting"
It had to have been a moment for those employees lol
Happy New Years Steve ! Keep the videos coming in 2025
Happy New Year!
this dude thinks selling video games is fucking calculus😂😂😂
Lmao
Gotta love Caleb playing Corporate CEO. The guy goes into his office every night and watches Ted Talks and reads leadership books. He really thinks he's Steve Jobs ripping people off on Amazon from his basement. He learns a few buzz words every night and then descends into his basement to enlighten his minions. On a side note, I wouldn't want people walking in and out of my house on a daily basis to punch a clock. Dude is greedy beyond belief.
The sub count really got to his head
If I would be his wife I would move out. First of all not only that he would be there 24/7 (would be annoying) but all his work mates too and every corner full of his boxes and games.
@@susanna8612 Yeah me too. I don't like being around people all of the time lol
Never stop being you. ❤
Thanks G
New vid that’s what I like. Probably seen almost all your vids since I found you. I listen while I work my shift.
I appreciate that bud!
I remember in one video he was saying how he is happy where he is and doesn't want to grow into this super big business, yet he's barking his employees (which he met from church btw) to save 4 seconds so HE can make more money. When is enough money, enough to these people?
There is no such thing as enough I’m afraid. The greed is real
Phoenix's greed is killing his channel. It's amazing to watch happen in real time.
Yep. His new video is doing so poorly
By having his business and his office in his home he can put his house payment as a business Expanse on his taxes. My friend does it by putting a company Bumper sticker on his car he writes off car insurance , car payment, and gas and car maintenance
I give him 2 years at best
He's taking the Mr Krabs joke too seriously.
He’s really dedicated to the bit
Thats a special kind of a-hole boss who works out of his home, doing meetings on "go faster to make me an extra 170 bucks every year". Dude ..you work out of your basement, that should be the most relaxed job ever, but nope...still has to eff it up lol
He doesn’t even make 170. That’s just the total price of the items listed per year. Doesn’t mean they will sell and even if they did, he’d probably only make an extra 30k off of it and that’s me guessing
He is so shortsighted and is only focusing on the money. Of course he will be able to list and sell things faster if he cuts down on the inspection time, but he will start noticing his profits going down when he gets a bunch of returns because he or his employees just assumed a disc will work to save 4 seconds. Any long term successful business needs to have a good reputation and trust from its customers, Caleb appears to be willing to sacrifice these for the all mighty dollar. I definitely agree with you regarding setting up his own website, it is not a great long term strategy to rely so heavily on another companies platform to run your business, he should be looking to go down the DK Oldies route if he wants this thing to last.
I give his business two more years before it collapses and he moves on to another pyramid scheme
I wouldn't be surprised if he starts losing subscribers, cause his old stuff was what brought people in.
I think we’re already seeing that in his views
He lost me with those „This is how XY store operates“ videos. I don‘t care how someone runs a video game store in some town I will never visit. He should bring back the game hunting.
@ he won’t because he can’t. He has to dedicate all of his time to the basement now.
I Had A game room in a basement Before & it flooded one day.destoyed soo much.... For him that would SUCK!
“Dudes looking pretty fucked” hahahahah love the way you are man!
Its just weird like a diddy party how all these resellers click. Chase, phoenix, jrpglife, retroprick, list goes. Instead of passing celebs, they're passing profits.
Also, caleb doesnt know wtf stress is.
ahhh yeah its obvious they are all in it together and they all suck each others digital/social cawcks. People try to claim they arent in it together but they all edit and do each others videos...with retro rick probably being the king dog they all have to bow down too.
They’ve created an ecosystem of resellers and now they take turns cameo-ing in videos and regurgitating the same topics
@@steviefreakinc its a circus at this point why would anyone want to "be like" these people is beyond me
“No incentives. Maybe a pizza party” 😂
lol that’s a hard maybe
1:49 the dude lives in a 5,300 square foot, 5 bed 4 bath home with a zestimate of $1,050,000. With just two of them living in this home there’s absolutely 0 sacrifice.
My only question knowing this now is why 😂
20:00 Imagine how slow things would go if he *gasp* tested the game befire shipping it out.
Lol
Ah Mike. I’ve been using his google doc to keep track of my purchases. He’s a nice guy
That Google Doc is the game changer. I like that I can just check that instead of asking what he has
Reseller here: I’ve saved millions of dollars per year by never blinking. I created a Clockwork Orange apparatus for all my employees.
Excellent, now that you have millions of dollars, you can retire or do even more damage to the game market. And since you’re greedy, well I guess gamers are screwed lol
You gotta check out the newest Phoenix Resale video. He left in a part where the poor guy he interviews admits to tax evasion 😂😂. He didn’t even know he was being filmed I think as he wasn’t looking anywhere near the camera.
I saw that!
I wanna see the day that Phoenix resuck actually gets a real job instead of hyper inflating the video market.
Phoenix Resale sucks but Chase and Philly Flipper are way worse in terms of lowballing and ripping people off.
Agreed
Chases last few videos I called them out on hoarding games and driving up prices and man do they have a bunch of simps protecting them
@jonnybegood8181 i did the same for Forest Resells and he called me a "little boy" in the comments lol
@ sounds about right honestly
“Worked there 12 years ago. 8 GB of ram back then was a big deal” 😂 So damn true.
lol yep!
Employee: I work my ass off and Caleb sells a couple more copies of Wii Sports. I don’t see a dime. So where’s my motivation?
Pizza party 😂
Nice..office space😅😂
Here we go
One more time lol
“The energy that your bringing to the basement” LOL 😂
Lmao
Beat me too it. I was surprised Steve didn’t laugh at that in the vid
@ especially with that ridiculous music in the background
@ I was probably thinking of the next thing I wanted to say in the moment
The ol spankareno
It’s a better name than Spanky
Watching this while in the hospital
Damn bee what you in the hospital for?
@ infection
@ hope you feel better bud!
@@steviefreakinc thanks
Running out of his basement instead of paying some commercial landlord to rent a space is an absolute win.
if he wants to run a major drop shipping service to Amazon from his basement then by all means he will. But if he’s trying to get 5 million in sales, he’s gonna run out of space. He’ll either have to hire more workers to clear out inventory faster or use up more rooms in his house. Lol
@@steviefreakinc You don't run out of space when drop shipping cause you never take things into inventory. What he's doing isn't drop shipping.
@ It’s a form of drop shipping. You’re referring to the poor man’s version of drop shipping. He’s a middle man for Amazon warehouses, not shipping to the customer directly.
he actually just proved its cheaper to hire an extra person just to inspect discs, so they can list more lol
prime heckin' content....
Thank you sir
My friend has the biggest retro game business in Maryland and he resurfaces every retro disc based game even ps3 games sometimes, luckily you can run a tank over a ps4 game! No need for a resurfacing
I love how we finally made discs durable as hell and then mostly abandoned the format lol.
Predicting massive growth in a market that is in continual decline is not a great business plan. The used video game market gets worse every single year and will dry up really quick the minute either Sony or Microsoft has large enough balls to put out a console with no disc drive. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo did it first since they don't compete against the other two.
Yep and he’s projecting his increase in sales but that’s not guaranteed to sell
Sony did it with the PS5 Pro.
@@gregb2134 Yep, and if they make the drive an absolute separate purchase with every version of the PS6 then that will mean almost no one will buy the drive. And then the generation after that won't have a disc drive at all.
I don’t think he’d switch to only selling on his own website because of the massive audience/ reach that Amazon provides him with. Everyone knows about Amazon, but only a “small” amount of people into gaming or reselling know about Phoenix.
Most of his viewers are resellers so he knows that wouldn’t be a market for him
That’s wild. Ngl as something like this it should be a slower pace but efficiency is important for any job. As u know I work at a grocery store bakery. Speed isn’t it but having efficiency is all! But it’s a fast pace job bc u have to get all the breads out, make cookies and other things that require to be baked in the oven. This right here. Shouldn’t be rushed or even be a stressful thing. I understand there’s a lot of games to go through and cleaning them but it shouldn’t be a stressful thing. It should be something that u enjoy but getting things done at the same time.
He needs to hire more staff. But he’s trying to maximize productivity at the cost of comfort for his workers
@ I agree! Like who wants to go to work at 8:30. At my work we have like 5 people but it’s still not enough for us to get everything done. We still need help. Caleb needs to get help bc stressing isn’t it
@ I’m sure he does some stuff but maybe not consistently
Man if those guys have 8 hour shifts that’s crazy. If he ain’t hunting no more then that time is from just receiving items, wow. Regardless, lame.
He really should just hire another person to work faster.
Dude definitely googled everything that is on that white board and was like “ya this will make me look smart, better film it”
Also if his 2 employees don’t have any ownership interest in the business, they are wasting their time. He can’t be paying them more than $15 an hour
$15 is what I imagine they’re paid as well.
Probably pays them cash to skip on taxes...which means they are gonna owe back every year
@ yep they have to do 1099 form
whether its phoenix resale or catrp, i can never understand why people listen to them about business. they are just like any other ebay seller who discovered other platforms to sell items. the worst part is they create these videos reiterating the same garbage terms they created acting like they are better than other resellers
Yep, they’re selling the dream to people mostly. Thats bad for the non reseller collectors
Would be interested to get your thoughts on the JRPGLife youtube channel. I think they are, for the most part, passionate collectors but I've seen them trying to buy from families at garage sales for dirt cheap...
I like them, I met Dan at a convention back in July. Their content is super chill. I've heard that their really old stuff was sometimes slimy which I may need to look at sometime but as far as their new stuff goes, I dig it.
The meeting was literally Caleb playing boss. He wants his employees to send the scratched discs out and worry about returns later. He doesn’t lose out on the returns Amazon takes care of the money side and he gets the game back. The returns will of course pile up and the next meeting will be addressing the number of returns. He is making work for himself and also content. Win win
It’s the greed. If he was focused on quality over quantity he would be better off in the long run
@ I only saw what you posted I’m sure there’s another 20 minutes of nonsense productivity tips and efficiency standards. I just can’t shake the feeling he made this video to get people talking. The content is so ridiculous even for Caleb
Ok I just checked it out for myself and he’s dead serious.
@@bossman9424 I try to de-fluff their videos with mine lol
I gotta get up at 5am for work and get off at 230 then I have the rest of the day to do whatever, sounds like a winner to me
I’m sure you be taking a nap lol
@steviefreakinc of course man but with daylight savings time it messes everything up. I wanna go to bed early like 7 or 8, my kids wanna go to sleep at 6. Even with a nap, I still will go to bed early
@ damn
Great video 🎉
Thanks G!
What a business model Caleb has. I took a break and I’m back to uploading now
"Process of rebranding" literally just paste a helvetica font and give it an orange color.
Lol
Resellers are getting a bad name for a reason. Take that Phoenix reseller, for example, who’s acting all silly while bragging about his $2 million in sales and posting pics of multiple copies of the same expensive game on social media. If video games are the new cocaine, it wouldn’t be shocking to see the mafia or cartels jumping into the reselling game. Don’t be surprised if they come knocking on his door.
I really do believe that the big three “Phoenix, Chase and Rick” are solely responsible for Wii Sports, Pokemon games and GameCube games being as much as they are.
Brooo, when you said no lie ... when you said if I had a basement, my thought went i would turn it into an entertaining room with a big screen a stripper pole and awesome sound system cause quality and boom you came and said I would get a projector I was like yessss ...broooo if I get to meet you 1st round is on me 🍻
Great minds think alike my friend!
He’s become a post office
He makes it sound like he is some sort of business mogul because he paid $1000 for some business on the internet. Dude is a joke and adds nothing of value to the world.
He paid $1000 for a business?
@ meant to say some business class *** you can tell by all those catch/fake business phrases he is using.
Ngl when I met him, he was cool, but seemed like his ego was really weighing on him. I have my doubts about him but I will say he’s a genuine guy in person!😊
I’m sure he’s a nice fella but business wise he’s making mistakes
I would genuinely hate life if I had to do what he does in his daily routine.
Imagine having to be so fake and performative, he oozes slime like a used car salesman.
Just my thoughts, to each their own.
You can tell that he isn’t happy by how he speaks at the end
That is a sick basement not gonna lie 😂
It really is lol. People joke about me living in a basement but bro I would love to live in a fully furnished basement. 😂
😂😂
The casual thrash and bash that you make on phoenix resale never fails to make me laugh.
Thank you Ryan. I’m just doing my part for the gamers
I’m making a pizza while watching this.
Excellent!
Lmao Steve, I wake up at 6am every day & im at work by 7. Waking up at 8am is sleeping in!
Edit: But I'm also a late night person 😅 I'll be up till 1am playing video games some nights but typically goto bed around 11
lol I can’t work early in the morning. I’ve never been a morning person.
Hope gamers are waking up to stop buying from these dorky greedy resellers for we can afford our hobby again. Steve i have a feeling you changed a lot of gamers minds on resellers and hope the peeps that watch you share your videos to spread the message to more gamers for we can shut these losers down or at oeast their high prices.
I have gotten a lot of comments before from people telling me I opened their mind on things and honestly that makes me feel good. 😊
HECKIN4LIFE keep calling them out brother
The amount of times he says he’s stressed is ridiculous. He has two of the most cushy jobs out there. Likely doesn’t spend more than 40 hours per work across his resale and UA-cam career. Plus his wife is a lawyer. Could not have it any better for a reseller really 🤦♂️
His type of job requires him to work nonstop, even when he's off he's thinking about it. He doesn't know how to cut it off in his mind.
@@steviefreakincI’d have to disagree. He has someone to manage his business, workers to process stuff, and he has an editor to edit videos. Not saying he doesn’t have to work, but he doesn’t have to work near as long or hard as most people, he can go at his own pace.
@ I agree with you but he won’t go at his own pace because he has greed in his heart
He is rushing straight into burnout. You're right he needs to build his own website but he needs to learn how to market himself so that he can direct traffic there. You can buy advertising but He built up a great following on UA-cam but he doesn't know how to channel that into financial success. He will need to conquer his fear & jump back into interaction with his followers. The one up app was an unnecessary expense. There are many that need to learn from trial and error instead of truly listening to advice & putting it into practice. He lacks a true goal or destination with his reselling business. The money won't bring you really happiness.
I’d say he overpaid for the app but the app has become useful for him as far as sourcing goes. The thing about it though is all of the resellers that sell to him could make their own Amazon accounts and skip him altogether and make way more money.
he'll just beg his fans once his gaming stuff starts failing or sliding back, he'll milk his fans for money with some new gimmick just like his buddy retro rick does gambling schemes for retro games to rake in the cash. or selling mystery boxes on what not
Heccccckkkin’ Steve! I used to be into video game collecting…until I dove headfirst in the Warhammer 40k world, now, there is no going back. 🤣 it’s always interesting seeing what people collect in the video game world now…they buy the weirdest shit for SOOOOOO much money these days.
lol Warhammer is so awesome man but yeah, it would be difficult to invest in any other hobby when you’re spending a bunch in the 40K hobby
Thumbnail picture is clearly out of date since CALEB's forehead grew two inches since.
Dang! I’ll have to update it
he should do a tedtalk on how he charges more money for stuff he buys
lol he acts like he did something that’s groundbreaking
Reseller's...sigh, can't stand em.
I think a lot of them can’t stand each other either but it’s beneficial to play nice and have them in videos together
@steviefreakinc It's nice that you're making videos about them and calling them out.
@ I’m having fun doing it as well!
He loses Amazon he loses everything…that’s what’s crazy to me. All eggs in one basket.
One Up…. Yea I told him for months that was a stupid name and idea and should’ve been nothing but a Quick Flips app. He wasted so much money when all he ever needed was an app to flip games. He isn’t the smartest person…we’ve known that for a while
He really did lose a bunch of money on that crap and it never became an app. So it’s just a glorified version of his old buy list.
I was hoping this video would come lol. RIP 1-up
RIP
Imagine forcing him to go to a local retro game store and forcing him to spend all his profits on high priced gamecube games lol.
I wanna see him flip items for potential profit and use the potential profit to buy and flip items for potential profit so he can collect games that he will sell later after he makes a video series again,
@ Like the gamecube one
@ yeah and mission switch
do you think when phoenix is talking about taking a dump or getting randy with his GF he does all these hand gestures and vocal inflection changes describing stuff and pauses??
"yeah i went to take a $#@%, "pause", sitting down motion, and i felt this paiiiinnnn, like a fullness ::gestures to stomach:: pauses, and when I finally went ::motioning hand forward and back:: I felt a great sigh of relief" and takes him like 20 seconds to say one sentence cause of all his social gimmicks.
Caleb goes in to every situation with the mindset that “This is a teachable moment” except he isn’t a teacher lol
need a retro wolf critique vid!
What he do?
Don't be fooled, people. All he did is go to GameStop school and is practicing that knowledge in his basement.
At least GameStop has rewards programs for customers lol
And GameStop probably pays their employees more lmfao
They still paying around 9 bucks an hour?
@ maybe lol
Looks like the bird is going down, just in time for Thanksgiving!
Haha I’m ready for Green Bean Casserole
yep the dark lord speaks phoneix resale
Painted his walls black but wonders why he’s depressed in the basement lol it’s cold and dark
Caleb has to be the biggest tool I've ever seen
Lol Dude is definitely disrespecting the potential that basement has
Amen brother!
Where can I buy from mike?
He’s in Kreesky’s discord. You can get the link on his UA-cam channel
@@steviefreakinc thank you so much
Hes tring to be chase after the right price but cuts too many corners
Funny how Chase surpassed him lol
Uses the basement as a tax write off
😂
Bro spent a billion dollars to hire someone to make an app just like Price charting (no one mentions you can buy and sell games on there) except you can only sell to him and can't buy anything, he got scammed lol.
lol and it’s not even an app yet
I'm keeping my video games that I buy
Good call man
Shiiiiiit I’m trying to figure out the employee benefits, what kind of health insurance is he providing
Funny!
@@steviefreakincI bet that is phoenix’s exact word when it’s brought up. “Funny” + “but I do offer a 5% employee discount on my games (Nintendo games not included)”
@ his discount if any is probably cost plus 10%
I wouldn’t sell my soul to Amazon to make a living. I’d rather clean toilets.
Cleaning toilets at least is helpful for someone lol
@@steviefreakinc Exactly. I am serious. I think resellers are some of the lowliest people around. And Caleb resells resellers to Amazon’s reselling outfit. Not sure it goes any lower than that.
@ Amazon ain’t the retro source for me either lol
$2M in sales on Amazon, but what about COGS and amazon fees. plus 2x employees. probably netted $90K
Exactly. Not to mention he’s not working anywhere near 40 hours a week.
Yeah I’m thinking it’s probably not much better than normal careers. And he’s not necessarily working 40 hours but he is sort of stuck around the house
The other problem is he is drying out ebay and driving prices towards what people can sell on the buy list. Say 50% of the things that get shipped to him go to ebay, that is a million of inventory not hitting ebay annually. Now anything on ebay can get sniped if you can get it for whatever the cost + tax is less than his buy list…
Exactly man he’s hurting the hobby all over
👀 This is gonna be a good one!
What up Steve! 🫡💯
What up!
I think quick flips is awful as well. Interesting name. But I think it will discourage many people from selling to him, because they actively are aware that he's flipping what they sell for way more then he pays 🤔
Ah shit here we go again
Same ish different day
if he makes 2. million.get some employees.
Those are just sales number. He probably makes after everything like 150k
Does it blow anyone else’s mind that he gets THAT MUCH stuff sent to him? All those people just supplying him with inventory. Like, he’s become even more of a gloried middle man.
Who are these people? Do they suck as much as I think they do?
Yeah he basically pays what they make on eBay so not only does he shrink eBay of retro games, he up charges out the ass on Amazon
@ Oh I know what he’s doing and I think he’s a P.O.S. because of it. Him, Chase, the whole lot of them.
I’ve had two local retro shops close in the past 5 years. Both of them told me that did it because “of online competition”.
Also, why he’s harping so much on being efficient is he wants them to the most work within a smallest amount of time…someone call labor laws…this is sad, to his workers, don’t subject yourself to this
He’s a comedian really. 😂
Couldn't he just tell all his sellers to put the dics in the reverse way? Or do giveaways for loyal sellers etc 😂 wtf is wrong with this guy
He’s too greedy for that lol