INSIDE THE SHOP - SPOTLIGHT #2: NICECOMPS Episode 55

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I really enjoyed this conversation with Charity from Nicecomps. Her and her husband and dogs live in Austin Texas and she tells about how she got started and her goals and other projects and people. It’s a very informative interview. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Hey there, charity. How's it going? Amazing. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. Okay, I've got I'm so excited to talk to you. I've got to just say some things before we get going, though, okay. Um, for my audience listeners here. I love you. I gotta tell, I gotta tell you guys, I love charity. The first time I went into her room, I was like just bowled away by your style and just your pizzazz and your energy and your fun and your hair and your clothes and your earrings and like all of it. And I was just like, oh, people, I can vibe with this. Like I was just like I was sucked in from the moment I went in. And I just think that everybody who is listening to this right now needs to follow charity with um nice comps. And so, anyways, we're gonna get going. Go ahead um and and give me the basics, your name, where you live, give me all that, and then we'll get going.

SPEAKER_03 1:35

Well, thank you for that insanely amazing introduction. Holy smokes!

SPEAKER_00 1:41

Girl, like I hope I live up to it. Literally, I am like so um upfront honest. Like, I just that's just the way I roll. Um, maybe sometimes a little bit too honest, you know. Um, but the thing is, I am the kind of person, like, if you have a bite of cheesecake, you know, like if you have a good piece of cheesecake, some people want to eat it all for themselves, not me. I'm like, I want to share. I want other people to try the cheesecake. Yeah. And that's why I'm doing these shows, you know, just to kind of let other people know about great sellers out there and great shops and, you know, also sellers to learn from other people who are doing what's good and what's right. And so you are a perfect living example of that. So, yes, anyways, you're welcome. Go for it.

SPEAKER_03 2:27

I love that. Thank you. And I hope people do get something kind of out of this. Like I'm really super passionate about helping other people, and I just want everyone to win. Yeah. Um, and so yeah, anything that anyone can get out of it is a huge blessing. So, my name is Charity. Um, I am out of the South Austin, Texas area. I am a mom, I am a dog mom, I am a wifey. I always say I'm a punk rock pirate. I'm really into concerts and nerdy stuff. Yeah, my whole house is like punk rock posters and uh Star Wars. I fall asleep to Star Trek every night. So I really love anything in that kind of nerdy realm. I'm a gamer girl. We're I'm also an empty nester. So this has been awesome to kind of I actually learned a lot of my reselling from my son, which is really cool. Um yeah. So I mean how old are how old is D? Yeah, so he's he's 30 now, which is blows me away because what were you like 12 when you had him? Why no? I don't understand how he's 30 and I'm 29. It's just this week seriously, like no, he really is.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

Yeah, you're freaking me out. How old are you? Yeah, I'm 48. No, you are not. Yeah, I am.

SPEAKER_03 3:39

No, I know nobody ever believes that, but I truly am.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

Yeah, that'd be seven. I'm about to lose my mind. Y'all, she looks like she's like 38, 35, maybe, 35, 30. Well, that's good. Maybe if I dye my hair, you know, a bright color, people think I'm 10 years younger than what I well, it's a healthy dose of like ADHD neurospiciness.

SPEAKER_03 4:03

Um, I I'm just a really busy person, and I think that's helped me to kind of keep my youth. My back doesn't always feel like it, but you know, my spirit does.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

So you just have the one kid?

SPEAKER_03 4:15

I do. Yeah, I just have the one. He's kind of a miracle baby. So I'm really lucky I had him when I did. I wasn't really supposed to be able to have kids. And so he's been a huge blessing. And now I've got, you know, the two little dogs, Jack and Sally, they're my babies now.

SPEAKER_00 4:28

And what are they? What kind of dogs do you have?

SPEAKER_03 4:31

Yeah, so they're nightmares, is what they are. No, they're amazing. They're two rescue dogs. Uh, they're like a chihuahua mix with that and some tear in them. Uh, and they run my life and they're in charge of this entire household.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

Oh, I got you. I get that. Yeah, I got that same thing going on. Yeah. Um, all right. Well, very cool. And you're in South Austin, which is that the weird part, or is like, tell me, because we used to, did you know we used to live in Austin? Um, yeah, we um lived on Lake Travis on a houseboat and a house really close to there, and then I worked at the Oasis, and then we moved into town at 183 at McNeil. Do you know where that is?

SPEAKER_03 5:13

I don't, you know, we've only been here in Texas for a couple years, and we're south. We're actually in a little town south of Austin. Okay. Oh, we say South Austin just because it's just easier for people to like kind of get that idea of where we're at. So we do truck into Austin, you know, for concerts and stuff like that, but we haven't done like too much exploring. Gotcha, gosh.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Yeah, but you like it, right? Oh, I love it. Yeah, yeah, I love it.

SPEAKER_03 5:36

We moved here from Washington State, and uh the issue I was having in Washington was it was just the rain. I mean, the day that we moved here, I think it had rained like 300 days in a row. Oh, wow. And we yeah, we were just done. Yeah, I just I can't I can't handle that.

SPEAKER_00 5:52

So well, that's good. All right, so I'm in Texas, you're in Texas. We could actually, I keep thinking that one of these days I want to have a big Texas party and just get all S Texas. There are so many Texas. It's yeah, it's awesome. It's it's really great. It would be a hell of a party. I mean, I just I think all we would really have to do is like, you know, have a great hotel and you know, a great area and just bring people in. I don't know. I that'd be fun. Yeah, that'd be super fun. Okay, well, very cool. So, all right, you are in a different, oh gosh, I don't even know how to. You are different than a lot of other sellers on whatnot. And one of the reasons that you were different is because you do not just sell on whatnot. So I first of all want to like ask you the questions about your whatnot, but then we somehow gotta transfer over to all like what your week looks like and how you do this and how you manage, because you were not just spinning the whatnot plates, you were also selling on what other platforms.

SPEAKER_03 6:57

Yeah, so we also sell on eBay, Poshmark, Depop, and Mercari, which and locally through Facebook Marketplace.

SPEAKER_00 7:05

Girl, honestly, when you say that, it just makes me honestly go, oh my gosh, like the Chester Cheetah shake your head thing. I just feel overwhelmed with that because like for me, just keeping up with whatnot is enough. So I can't actually imagine having five different things. That's five, right? Five different things. I at least. I mean, I'm just a really busy person.

SPEAKER_03 7:29

I've got a podcast that I'm starting as well. Oh, really? Like, I just I don't sleep. And so for me, my life is just wow, full of all of this. So and I don't have little kids, you know, anymore. So I'm not dealing with that. I know a lot of resellers that that is, you know, that's harder when you've got little ones that you're taking care of.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

Absolutely, absolutely. Well, okay, so let's just start with like what's a normal week look like for you with rotating all these plates and doing all that you're doing. Not sleeping is probably a good thing. I I actually didn't, I used to not sleep very well, but now I take drugs. So I you know, I sleep pretty good. Not not like over the counter, I mean, like, you know, uh healthy, organic type stuff. Anyways, I sleep good for the most part. I get at least six hours of sleep a night. So I guess if you how much out how much are you sleeping? You're not getting that? I mean, no, probably not. So how much on an average night, how much do you sleep? Do you think? I don't know, maybe about four hours. Wow, yeah. Trump sleeps four hours, he says too. He gets a lot done too, I guess. But okay, so you're doing shows late at night because you're up or you're packing. Tell me your whole day. Give it to me.

SPEAKER_03 8:46

Um, yeah, well, you know, Mondays is usually we're on a Monday right now, and Mondays are usually kind of my like admin day. So I get up in the morning, I do a reseller support show on whatnot every Monday at 10 a.m. Central, and we just kind of go over like basically whatever the the chat needs. Like, do we have new sellers in here? Do we have seasoned sellers? And then I talk about stuff beyond just whatnot too. So I'm talking about helping people with eBay and everything else. And then we also do, I do a lot of education on like materials and clothing and just things that I've learned and trying to kind of gift and pass that knowledge forward. So I do that on Mondays, and then after that, um, you know, it's bills and groceries and all the boring stuff that you kind of need to get. I I feel like if you can set yourself up on Mondays, it it sets a tone for the whole week. So we really try to hammer out as much as we can on Mondays, like what I would think of as like the boring admin stuff that I hate. Um, so we do a lot of that kind of stuff. And then of course, I'm getting my I have a rule that I don't go to bed without getting 10 listings up on my platforms, um, outside of whatnot. I have to get 10 for the day.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

So wait, we we did, we've talked obviously before this conversation, but for the listeners, you're cross-posting using another app, right?

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Yeah, so I use a platform called Nifty in IFTY. And what it allows me to do is it allows me to take my photos and then upload that into Nifty. Nifty then AI generates my listings for me. I go in and I change the title, I change the description. Um, I have keywords from a master keywords list that I made because I understand uh I used to do marketing and stuff, so I understand how search engine optimization and AI work together to be able to match listings up with people, especially through like um, you know, Google searches. And so I get my keywords in there, I tweak the price a little bit, and then I just publish those. I'm pretty quick at it now.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

I don't use these, but for you guys who don't know, just so if you've never heard of this, what she's saying is she puts it into nifty and then it pushes it to all those other places. So when she says she's cross, she's you know, listing, she's not going to Poshmark in listing 10 and then to what not in listing 10. She's doing it one time and then it pushes it to all the different locations that she's got set up.

SPEAKER_03 11:02

Exactly. Yeah. If you guys, if you guys use if if you don't have nifty, you can use the code NICECOMPS, all one word, N-I-C-E-C-O-MPS. It'll get you a seven-day free trial and then 15% off your first month. That's what I did. I used another reseller's code originally, and it allowed me to try it. And then once I tried it, I was like, oh my gosh, why would I not do this?

SPEAKER_00 11:21

Right, right. It just seems like I did another one and I am not thinking of the name right now. Like it's not coming to my head. I just don't know. One of those senior moments. Um, but I did it for like two months and I hated it, charity. I yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I understand that. And it might have been just that app was frustrating, but I hated the the listings. I just it's it's hard. All the listings can be very hard, but I do know, at least I believe, that doing the listings gets you more money than if you just well, yeah, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 11:55

I mean, you're you're you're selling in multiple locations, yeah. And I know that Niha, the the gal that actually created um nifty, is working really, really hard right now to get the uh background key coding in order to be able to have your stuff be posted onto whatnot. So you could also have all the stuff like automatically imported into whatnot so everything would be in your buy it now that is normally on your you know eBay or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Well, and I know there's some other cross listers out there that do that already, bring it into whatnot.

SPEAKER_03 12:26

Yeah, there is, and I've tried them. Um, I just don't promote them because they're not as good as nifty.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

Yeah, I'm with you, and I'm I'm okay not listing what you know which one I'm thinking of because I can't think of it right now. But yeah, um it wasn't it wasn't good, it was a pain in the butt. I just didn't like it. I I hate the admin stuff, man. If I could just make a living from talking and showing stuff and that's it, and somebody did all my shipping for me, I'd be done because the listing does take time. Um, I right now in my room, I have a light box up and I've got a like I've got huge, huge amounts of inventory to do that with. And I'm like, uh, you know, so it's yeah, no, that's impressive. I hear that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

I'm racing through my listings these days and racing through my photos just so I can get back to my whatnot life because I prefer doing that. You know, the whole rest of the week after Monday is just shows and it's just packed full of all of the stuff that goes along with doing whatnot. And then I'm just basically doing eBay and stuff just because that's still where the bulk of art income comes from. But I mean, if if that clicked on a dime, I would never list on eBay again. Right.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

I mean, that's well, your goal is to be on whatnot 100%, isn't it? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. Um, and I think a lot of people, because you know, that's how I started off was cross-listing, and then I was over at Poshmark, and now I'm at Whatnot and I've been here two years. Um, how long have you been on Whatnot?

SPEAKER_03 13:58

So I knew you were gonna ask me this question, and I looked it up to see because I had gotten a personal invite to and to join Whatnot back in like 2023, and I can't remember exactly how I got it, but I wound up getting it from like the Whatnot administration or something. I think because of the social media presence that that I have. And I think that because of that, I didn't really think it was anything big. I did sign up for it at that time, obviously got accepted immediately. I went in and watched a couple shows and I hated it. It was all like people trying, yeah, it's people like trying to sell football cards and all this. And I thought to myself, yeah, I'm like, how does this work for me? And I was really new to reselling at that time too. So I was a new reseller, my mom had just passed, I had her aided a couple discs in my back. I was just in a weird place. And so I watched a couple shows and then I deleted the app and I didn't even give it another thought. And then I wound up kind of seeing some of my whatnot or some of my friends in the reselling community, like my TikTok friends, I started seeing that they were doing whatnot. So I saw like I Can Hustle All Day and Arizona Pickin' and Kway and House of Coop, and I was watching them and I'm like, wait, they're doing whatnot. At the same time, I had gotten an invite uh for Jamble. So Jamble had reached out to me, and again, I think it was the same.

SPEAKER_00 15:16

I don't even know what that is.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

And last yeah, yeah, so it's gone now. It's gone now, but it was it was exactly it was exactly like whatnot. Okay, but they didn't, they were unable to use um, you couldn't use Android, and so it cut out 50% of people.

SPEAKER_00 15:30

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:32

And so I that's where I started. My first couple of live auctions actually were over on Jamble, and so when Jamble didn't really work, I just like, well, I'll try Whatnot and give it a try. And then my first show, I so I signed up for Whatnot in March of 2023, and I didn't have my first show until January 7th of 2025.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

Wait, wait, so two years, two years, yeah, and I forgot about how much it's changed. Think about that though. Like, oh yeah, unbelievable amounts from 23 to 25. I mean, totally huge, totally different, totally different. Even honestly, I've been telling people even in the last two months, it has, I mean, I have seen huge growth and huge, more. I mean, like on like two two and a half months, it has been balls to the walls. Did you know that they're selling steaks on here now? Like that you can eat, like you can buy literal steaks on I love it. That's like I mean, and then there's live fish. Did you know that? All right, nope, but I'm in I'm into it. Plants the size of that go up to your shoulders. I mean, like ridiculous, ridiculous amounts of stuff. And um, I I keep saying I don't think we have a skateboard category, but other than that, I think we we have it all, and it's just gonna keep growing and expanding. So it's definitely a but you know, I think it's good for you to explain and just let's take some moment here. Explain why you want well, how long have you been on eBay?

SPEAKER_03 17:06

So we dabbled in eBay back in like 2023. Um, so when my mom passed, I had all of her stuff and I didn't really know what to do with it. And at that time, my son had been going to Goodwill and getting stuff and he was flipping it on eBay. He bought like a headlight for$20 and sold it for like$400 or something obscene like that. And I was like, wait, what? And he was like, Yeah, that's what you should do with Grammy's stuff. And so he actually showed me how to even get an item up on eBay. And so that's kind of how I started out was just getting my mom's stuff up there. And then I started going garage sailing and realized that being a treasure pirate and digging through old dusty boxes does something inside of my soul that I can't explain. And I'm like, I have to do this all the time. And at the time, I was I still had a marketing job. So I was doing um marketing for a company. I worked with companies that had a hard time getting their products out into the pro uh marketplace just because of what their products were. And so I was still doing that at the time. And then at, you know, AI started coming along and kind of swallowed up my job and reselling selling in my lap at that same time. And I just kind of started running with it. And I didn't think I'd ever do live selling. I wasn't even on TikTok yet.

SPEAKER_00 18:22

I didn't think I'd ever do videos or anything. So it was roughly three years ago that you started on eBay then. Three years ago. Yeah, about three years, super part-time, super, super part-time though. Right. But now you're successful in all these different places. Tell the listeners why you want to go from all of that and cross-listing and doing all this and taking all the pictures and everything, and you want to come to whatnot 100% of the time. Tell us why.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

Yeah, that's a good question. Well, I have really severe ADHD. I'm also like incredibly neurosci and I have dyslexia. And so when I sit down to type listings, I it's it takes me a while. I'm I'm slow. I have to look at my fingers. Um, it's it's not easy for me to do those things. And so sitting down in one place and holding still for something is really difficult. So when I get to do whatnot, all of those things that have been a deficit for me my whole life, teachers telling me to be quiet, you know, why can't she sit still? All of those things, it's actually turned out to be a blessing. So being on whatnot, I feel, yeah, I feel like I'm in this space where all of these things that all my life have been this challenge, challenges are now celebrated. Right. And it's like the first time of my life I've ever been in that situation. And so I just want to do it full time. It allows me to go to more storage units and be a pirate. It allows me to go to more garage sales. I can get more stuff from thrift stores. I mean, I love the hunt. The hunt for me is like, I mean, it's what it is, right? Anyone that's listening to this knows what I'm talking about. That hunt, the more, the more I can sell on whatnot, the faster I can go, the more hunting I can do, the more piracy I can perform. And so that's why I want to switch away from the static listings. Sure, can I make more on a shirt selling it on on eBay and I can make, you know,$60 on it or something, and I only make$6 on whatnot. Yeah, but you know what? I don't have to take the pictures, I don't have to list it, I don't have to do the comps, I don't have to deal with the offers, and I don't have to have it sit in inventory and take up space in my house.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

All of that. Hey, let's talk about this too. I I have a friend, she's pretty high up on eBay. Um, in fact, she's got awards from eBay, like she's so high up, she's done so good. And um, she has come to me recently and she has told me that eBay has changed their like policies and this and that and this and that, and it's becoming such a pain to sell over there. She's been doing it for like five years, and she's like, it's bad. She's like, she called me back in January. I haven't done it with her yet. She's like, Can I just bring it all over to your house and you can have a whatnot show with me and we can maybe move me in transition? Because she says eBay has just become a pain in her butt.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

It's a lot, and it seems like, and and the other apps are the same way. I mean, there's constant issues, you know, eBay just bought out Depop, so that's gonna be interesting.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

Oh, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_03 21:22

You know, yeah, and so that just happened recently. So the fees and and your boosting and all the stuff that you do on Deepop, that's gonna change. eBay's constantly figuring out additional ways to charge you. So the amount of fees that eBay takes is pretty hefty. Now, what is with whatnot, what does it look like for me? After all of my promotion, promoting and all of the fees and everything they charge me. We're also in Texas, so we have an additional obvious charge on everything. We have a weird tax here. Um, it winds up being around 22%, which is pretty pretty steep. Now, whatnot isn't a whole let la whole less. When you start factoring in your giveaways and shipping and all that, shipping overages and stuff. Right.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

Yeah, I had a one dollar Christmas show. I had a one dollar Christmas show. And girl, I mean, when it was all sudden, it was like at the end of it, it was like five, but it was it was awful. It was just yeah, I I mean, uh, what I should have made, and then I did the free ship 921 shipping, and then you know, the extras because the boxes are weird and all that plus, but what really killed me was that 30 cents. Per transaction on this 30 cents that I don't have a problem with anything else, but I feel like when you get to a certain level, that that number should go down. And I it might for the people who are, I think, in fact, it does go down like two points, doesn't it? Once you get your I think it does go down for the premiere shops. For the premiere shops, I think it goes down to 20. I was I was surprised. It wasn't anything big. I think it's only like two points. I'd have to look into that. But yeah, I feel like eBay just, I just keep hearing terrible stuff about people sending stuff back, more complaints, more red tape, more polish.

SPEAKER_03 23:07

Yeah, I mean, you you have issues anywhere you go. And you and with whatnot, you know, yes, you're gonna deal with those fees, and sometimes you don't have a good show. But here's the thing you get it done and it's quick and easy and fast, and it's painless, and you ship it and it's gone and it's done. And you're not storing it, and you're not revisiting it, and you're not dusting it, and you're not changing your listings and all those things because time is money, right? Right. And so for me, I'd rather have it sounds crazy, but I'd almost rather have a not as successful whatnot show and make less than sit on all this stuff of hoping it sells on a static site somewhere and having it just take up space in my house.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

Well, and I mean, I think that's a huge thing for whatnot as a whole, is that if you are in a small place, you have a little hovel apartment or whatever, you can grab some shirts or some jewelry or whatever in the side of your room, sell it. You know, there's a lady I follow, um, Paula's Avon. She sells jewelry. Well, she sold jewelry. Now she sells crystals, but she's in a mobile home, you know, like she does it right there. And I think if you're doing small items, you can keep it contained. But when you're doing big items and lots of stuff, so like right there, tell me about that because I think you're selling in multiple categories, which you and I have talked about this. I don't think it's as great to do that as a seller. You kind of need to stay in your own lane. But I've been in 15 categories since I started on whatnot. And now I'm really trying to hone in to like two, um, either vintage or estate sale or something like that. Um, that's kind of where I'm at right now. But tell us like what categories you're in, what you're selling, how often you're on, that stuff.

SPEAKER_03 24:51

So we're in the everything category because we do storage units. So we're at kind of at the mercy of what we're getting in these units. You know, when you do a storage auction, you can kind of see a little bit of what you're gonna get and you get a vibe or an idea kind of what's in the unit. But at the end of the end of the day, you just don't really know. So, like this unit that we just got done clearing out, it wound up being 90s and Y2K uh kids' toys and and clothes. Yeah, I can't do it. Like 80% of it, yeah. And a lot of new attacks. So it's like right now, my category is miscellaneous storage unit stuff, um, girls' kids' clothes, books, and toys. That's kind of the category I'm in right now. Now, when we get another storage unit, which we'll probably have in the next like week or so, that's gonna change. Well, no, I can't really decide a category if I have to use one.

SPEAKER_00 25:46

Are you gonna stick with? I mean, honestly, I think for you, if you're gonna continue to actually do storage units, you should just stay there because everything you're saying, like how I was, can come out of a storage unit. I mean, books come out of a storage unit, Y2K, toys, every everything can come out of a storage unit. So why wouldn't you just stick into that category and stay there? Right.

SPEAKER_03 26:11

And of course, when I do the show, I don't label it as storage unit, um, unless I'm doing the miscellaneous shows. When I do, like if I've got, you know, 200 little girls' clothes size 10 to 20, then that's what the show is gonna be. You know, I'm gonna label it as that. Yeah, but if I had to pick a category, if you said charity in a magical world, you get to pick exactly what you find. My dream would be to open up a storage unit and have nothing but vintage clothing. Oh, I would it would be the best day of my life.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

And it would be, I mean, I would think that I had died and gone to heaven at that point. You know, charity. There's a girl on Whatnot, and I cannot tell you her name. I wish I could. I can't find her, I can't remember her name, but she is gorgeous, she's got blonde hair, and she sells only vintage clothes. Do you know who I'm talking about? I I might, I think I made. Is she kind of like has like a 50s vibe? Yes, and she's extremely intelligent, well prepared, everything's cleaned, everything's organized. She describes immaculately every single thing from the collars to the waist, like the material. She is really amazing, but she hasn't come through my feet again, and I don't know her name. And that's why I tell people write down who you like. Write it down screenshot.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

Yeah, I screenshot when I come across someone I really like because I've had that happen to me where I've gone tried to go back. I'm really into men's vintage clothing. So I'm really into like t-shirts, old skatewear, old um like band stuff. I really love that kind of stuff. So whenever I find anyone that does that, of course, because those are the categories I love, I follow them. And then I also try to get into their shows and add some value because I really believe that this is a business of networking and not net wishing, and being able to like get in with other people that are like-minded with the stuff you sell, you're gonna wind up absorbing that audience as well, and you guys are gonna be able to grow together.

SPEAKER_00 28:08

So I'm going right now as I'm talking to you. I'm pulling you up. Nice comps, and you have 5.6. Oh, well, that's interesting. Uh, 5.6,000 followers under one day shipping like me. High five girl. Um, uh we both have five stars. You have 794 reviews, and it says you've sold only, which is shocking to me, because I know you're killing it, 3.8. Uh, you're at like almost 4,000 items, which is good because you've only been on here since when? How many months has it been?

SPEAKER_03 28:47

So we've been on for a little over a year, but I've done so I've done 174 shows now. 100 of those shows has been reseller support shows, thrifting shows, live garage ceiling, or adding value to the community. Those other 74 shows have been actual auction shows.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

That's crazy. See, you see, I am glad I'm doing the podcast instead of the talk shows. Honestly, just because people can go and find it again. Um, now you know what I mean? It's like so easy for somebody to go, I'm having trouble with bundling shipping, and then me say, Oh, here you go. Because I I do consulting and I can just send them the episode, you know, like okay, I'm gonna help you with this, this, and this. Yeah, go listen to this, this, and that, you know, and it it's it stays, it's everlast, you know.

SPEAKER_03 29:38

It's nice to have those. Yeah, we've got uh we always stream into YouTube, and then we just recently started streaming into our Facebook as well for nice comps. And so that way we can tell people, hey, you get a question about this.

SPEAKER_00 29:49

Wait, you have a YouTube channel? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:52

We have a we have a pretty big size YouTube. So we have a YouTube, um, we have TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook, and that's all just nice comps. One word.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

Wow, I did not know. See now I have um TikTok, but I have not posted one thing because I'm still not I'm not sure about that. And then I know I could put the podcast on YouTube without me being seen, but I haven't done that yet. So maybe I need to talk to you about that in the future because I know I know that I should do it. In fact, some girl just last night, she was like, Um, I don't have an Apple phone. Where do I find you? And I'm like, Do you have Spotify? She had Spotify. I was like, that's it. But had she not had Spotify, my next thing would should have been probably, you know, YouTube. So I I probably need to get over there and do that. But well, yeah, get it, get it, give me a follow. I'll follow you back. Yeah, yeah. Um, I will definitely go in there. We might have to have a uh private conversation about that in the future. But okay, so let me ask you this. Your husband is helping you with this, right?

SPEAKER_03 30:57

Yeah, so so Justin, aka Mr. Nice Comps. Um, aka Justin. He is uh, you know, he's like the I I couldn't do this without him at the level I think that we're doing this. I don't I don't believe that I could be doing all of these other platforms as well as social media stuff. I do a lot of social media um videos and stuff like that. I'm also starting this podcast I'm doing.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

Wait, wait, I just do what podcast?

SPEAKER_03 31:25

So it has nothing to do with reselling. Um I I'm starting a podcast up and I just started it recently. It's called um, oh my gosh, I'm on the spot now of scrapbooks for my son. And the how what came about was so we're going through the garage and trying to make space for more storage units. And I have all these tubs and boxes of the stuff that was my mom's before she passed. And my mom had had some strokes. We actually caregifed for her for a few years before she passed full-time. And so, um, you know, I I tried to ask her about the stuff that was in these boxes, but because of the stroke, she couldn't remember. And so there's just a lot of like really lost memories and and times there. And so I just don't want my son to lose those out when we go someday because life is short. Um, you know, we just recently lost old chef new Trix, who is one of our huge supporters in the community, and just seeing how easily life can be taken. I wanted to create something where I scrapbook um and show the scrapbook, and then also I'm recording these memories that go along with it. It has nothing to do with reselling, but that's cool. Um, but it's my it's kind of my passion project that I'm doing because I need something outside of reselling.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Yeah, that's totally up your um creativity, Alley. For sure, for sure. Um, that's awesome. Well, I'm excited for you. Yeah, I think that I, you know, I don't see or talk to Justin, but I'm like, I think for the level of what you're doing, you know, telling the people who are listening, I really feel like this is because you have a partner, you know. You know, I agree, I agree.

SPEAKER_03 32:59

And I think that people that don't have that partner, um, you know, look at finding someone in your community that needs some extra income. Um, I know a couple other um sellers who have, you know, their kids, they've hired their kids or they've hired their kids' friends to come in and help them with shipping and stuff like that, because he does all of our shipping. So, you know, I mean, we're selling at least 10 to 15 items a day on platforms, and then we're selling about a hundred items in our shows. We do five shows in a week. You know, I mean, he's shipping thousands of items.

SPEAKER_00 33:27

So you're doing, you know, you're doing five, you're doing right now, you're doing five whatnot shows a week.

SPEAKER_03 33:33

Yeah. So we're doing, we usually do um around four auction shows, three to four depending on the week. And then we do the reseller support show on Monday mornings.

SPEAKER_00 33:41

So how long are you on when you're doing these shows?

SPEAKER_03 33:45

So the reseller support is usually an hour to an hour and a half, sometimes two hours, depending if we're doing like a thrift haul along with it. And then the shows that we do are actual auction shows usually run anywhere between like two to four hours. It just depends. If people are buying, I'm staying on. I think we did a show until like 1215 or something the other night. Um, we started it at like eight.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:07

But people were buying. So it's like if the people are there, I'm not closing.

SPEAKER_00 34:10

I used to be there with you, Charity. I I used to be that girl. I've had on Poshmark, I had a uh I had an 11 hour and and 30 but 11 hour and 20 minute show. And over here, I had an eight-hour and 30-minute show on whatnot. That's wild. And I'll tell you, I'm not doing them anymore, and I'm limiting myself partially because my assistant Sarah, I pay her 20 bucks an hour, and she's got a life too. So you know, you can't do it forever. Um, number one, one is that. Number two is you have to realize that every time you go on, whatever you sell, you gotta pack that. And you gotta ship it. Yeah. I mean, I just honestly, I got done with packing stuff today at four o'clock, and I had the help of Sarah here and there. She had to go off to get her, you know, physical therapy and then come back. And and I had my kid helping, but we had so much. One girl had so much stuff, dude. It was like we were put, she had like six huge boxes, and we're talking 16 by 16 by 16. It was insane. And I just I get to the point where now we're making a deal that after three hours, we're looking in the hall. If it's slow, we might keep going. But the the the speed at which we're selling and how the volume depends on how much you're shipping. So the fact that you don't have to deal with that, man, I would love to have somebody. It's it's a huge it's a huge blessing.

SPEAKER_03 35:38

And Justin's really good about so when I do the shows, and for anyone that's seen our shows, they know this. I'll say, like, is this too big? I'll show him an item. And in because we do 921 max shipping shows. So we try to live in that kind of flat rate space. And so if we can't fit it in a flat rate and we're gonna have to like do one huge box or unbundle, unbundle, unbundle, unbundle. Um, Justin will usually say, like, and like that's a no, and I just know to put that up on eBay or sell it locally. Um, or he'll get to the point where he'll say, Okay, I think we're maxed at our shipping. When what that means is he's maxed at knowing how much he can get out. Because it, you know, um, so House of Coop, I'm sure everybody knows them. They're really good friends of ours. And when we chatted with them months and months and months ago when we were first starting whatnot, one of my questions I asked Jacob was, How long is this going to take me to ship this stuff? Right. And and it's true what they said. He said, he told me as long as it takes them to do the show is about how long it takes them to ship. So if they do a four-hour show, it takes four hours to ship, and that's true.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

Well, it takes us longer. It really does. I think it's because of what we're shipping. Like, you know, and I've said this before, but like if you're selling something like coins or marbles or jewelry or whatever, it's easy peasy, man. It's so easy. But when you're selling these random big items and stuff, I mean, we had a last night, our show. I was gonna get off after three hours, but people kept buying, and I was trying to get rid of all my Christmas stuff. It was a Christmas in March show, and we were on four and a half hours and we spent like six hours packing. Yeah, it was yeah, that's a lot, a lot of delicates to do that. It's a pain in the ass.

SPEAKER_03 37:19

That's why that's why I love doing clothes. I mean, we do hard goods, obviously, because the storage units, I mean, you're gonna get what you need. But when we when I go to do a clothes show, I'm so excited because I just know I'm gonna see my husband at some point that day because um he's not gonna be out in the shipping room. So our garage is our shipping room. We call Justin the shipping gnome, and he'll just live out there. Like it'll be 11:30 at night. And I'm like, Are you, you know, are you coming in? Are we going to bed? And he's like, I haven't even done eBay yet, so I gotta get to that, you know.

SPEAKER_00 37:46

Does he he we both do this, but he doesn't have another job. This is a full-time job.

SPEAKER_03 37:53

Yeah, yeah. This is us our full, yeah, we're completely full-time.

SPEAKER_00 37:55

And how long has it been that both of you haven't had like I hate to say it, but quote, regular job, like outside of the house for you?

SPEAKER_03 38:04

You know, I think it's been, I guess it's been about a year, maybe a little less than a year. Um, uh my job was already gone. Mine had gotten swallowed up. Um, and then the company that he was working for, they're selling the company. And so it basically just went into like a stasis selling, you know, minimal, no workers, really, just computer. And you we, man, we we went back and forth 150 times trying to decide if we wanted him to get like a regular job again. But the truth is, in order for this to scale to where I want this to scale to and where I know this can scale to, yeah, I don't believe it would be possible for me to do it myself unless I completely got rid of eBay, completely got rid of all my passion projects. Because again, we're still sourcing, we're looking for things constantly to get, we're buying items in bulk, so we're driving places to get it.

SPEAKER_00 38:59

Just listening to it sounds exhausting. I mean, it's a lot, it's a grind, it's a grind, you know.

SPEAKER_03 39:05

And and I I don't think there's anything wrong with just doing this part-time. I think a lot of times people feel like, oh, they have to go full time. And it's like there's I have friends that do a couple shows a month and they make a little extra money and it's fun, and that's all that they're looking for. We're on the other side of it where I want to turn this into a hundred thousand dollar a year business. I'm not gonna do that unless I'm willing to grind, and I'm willing to grind.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

Well, and I think, I mean, that's one of the reasons you're happy you're on this podcast, is because uh you're coming from so you've got so much different uh experience and such a different story from so many other people who are like, oh, I'm just gonna do this as a little part-time thing, and oh, it's just a hobby or whatever. So I wanted to show you know people that yes, you can do it. You can start and just keep plugging away, keep coming in, bringing it and working and like you said, doing the grind. So, okay, um, we've I'm double checking my messages here. So we've talked about, okay, I did not get this because I we skipped it somewhere on the questions. Um it says, what what kind of um vibe do you think it your show has? Tell tell them about what you know what I insanity. Yeah, tell them, tell them.

SPEAKER_03 40:24

So I am loud and crazy, and my hair is always a different color, and I've covered in tattoos, and I've got giant plugs in my ears. I mean, I am I'm a punk rock girl, right? So sometimes we do costumes, we do a lot of costumes for fun. We have a treasure chest, we call a booty box where we get all of our, you know, giveaway stuff out of. We have like a whole pirate thing when people come into the the show. Um, you know, they buy something for the first time, you know, that we have this whole like yard, welcome to the nice cops, creepy scurvy dog pirate, pirate flags in the chat, and we make a big deal about it. I really believe in including the chat, the people that are there into our show as much as possible. I mean, all these people that come in on such a regular basis, I could rattle you a thousand right now. Logan and Coley and just one more chapter are incredible mods. I like just one more chapter. Cindy and Gladys. I mean, there's a million, you, there's so many people that have become our friends and our community. So I really try to involve them in the show. I make them a part of the show. Like it's not me that's on stage.

SPEAKER_00 41:25

And I think that's that's I think that's huge too. And I I can't tell you how many episodes I've had where I'm like, guys, this is a selling platform, but it is also a community platform. We are about community and relationships and making friends. And I I have friends now that are actual friends. I tell people that I have get got at my birthday, I got more messages and more cards and you know, little gifts in the mail from my whatnot people than I did my whole freaking family.

SPEAKER_03 41:57

No, totally. I we I get migraines, right? And one of our um friends now that just originally started as a follower, Dizzy, she sent me like a care package of like natural stuff to help me with that. Like, I mean, the amount of like gifts and cards and like I mean, it's insane. But that is what this is all about. This is a community and we're better together. And the second you look at it as you're just getting up to sell stuff to other people is the minute your business will just completely fail.

SPEAKER_00 42:26

Well, and I don't even think it's the it's it's like the bonus, baby. You know, like why would you not plug into an awesome community of support and help and advice and suggestions? Why would you not do that? Like, I can't even like wrap my head around people doing eBay anymore and sitting there plugging it in and sending out what's really boring. I'm like, I just like why in the world would you do that? And I get if you're like a really, really shy person and you're not like us, obviously, um, not wanting to be behind the camera and everything. But even then, you could do something where you're just showing your hands, you don't have to be so loud like charity and me. I agree.

SPEAKER_03 43:09

Some of my favorite shows, some of my favorite shows to go into are people that are just calm and chill, and it's slow paced, and I'm just hanging out with them because that's not who I am. And so getting going into those is like calming. I mean, I stayed up until like four o'clock in the morning a few weeks ago, buying some stuff from um a new a new person, and I loved her. We just hung out, she pulled stuff out of a garbage bag. The people that were in there decided if they wanted it or not, and we just moved on. And it was such a wonderful, um, I think it was unclaimed vault that that was. It was such a wonderful, chill little experience. So you don't have to be me. Right, right. Exactly. Don't be me.

SPEAKER_00 43:49

Trust me, no, and I don't I I tell everybody, be out of the way. Everybody just needs to be whoever they are. That's really what it is. Be out and uh show your own integrity on who you are. Don't try to just you hit the nail on the head. Yep, exactly. Um okay, the other last questions as we gotta wrap it up here. Uh let me get to it. What has been your most memorable moment on whatnot so far?

SPEAKER_03 44:14

You know, I don't even think it was something I sold. So Justin and I had our anniversary coming up, and everybody knows we have been working really, really, really hard to create the income that we need to to not have any other jobs, right? We're only A year into this. And like I said, the majority of that has been doing these reseller support shows and trying to help people and stuff like that. So we wanted to go out for our anniversary and we were just really strapped because I mean, we're we're reinvesting a lot of the money that we're making into buying more stuff. And so because of that, there just isn't any extra. And we had people start tipping us, and it just makes me teary even thinking about it. We had all these people putting tips in so that we could go have a big anniversary. And I didn't ask for it. This was just something that the community came up with and everyone in the chat came up with. And we ended up getting over$200 in tips from a show. I love it like that. Oh my gosh. We were able to go out and have a wonderful dinner and have a beautiful romantic night. And it was just one of the greatest things I've ever had happen. And it wasn't even that we were selling something, it was just the community showing up and yeah. I mean, that that to me has been the that was the best thing that's ever happened to me on this.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

That's awesome. That's I I love hearing those stories. I heard recently the other day somebody had something like 700 people in their show and they went and raided a girl with like 10 people in her room. Oh she just I love those stories. I mean, it's like Hallmark commercials or something, uh, you know, back in the day. Anyways, very, very sweet. Awesome. I love that. Okay. What is something that happened in a show that you didn't expect or that you learned from some advice that maybe you like early on or maybe even recently something happened and you went, oh gosh, I should do it this way instead?

SPEAKER_03 46:15

You know, I think it came to me not going quick enough. You know, everyone likes my stories, and I love telling stories, and I'm a storyteller, and I'm a talker, and I'm animated. Um, but I realized that that also was kicking the nude buyers out. Um, and so the people that love me and love sticking around, they're there for the stories and they love it and they'll buy stuff in between. But all those new buyers were coming in and out. And so we were only averaging about two new buyers a show. Well, I can't rely on the people that are always coming to always be buying stuff because what if I don't have anything that they're interested in, right? Right, right. And and then the bids aren't going up and stuff like that. And so I decided to kind of cut my timer back to set up my my setup a little bit different. So now my rule is everything has to be in arm's reach. Number one. Number two, I like to keep giveaways going on pretty much the entire time. A giveaway costs be on average$1.10 for the item and 73 cents to ship it. So it's what are what are you sending?

SPEAKER_00 47:16

What are your giveaways?

SPEAKER_03 47:17

We do face masks, we do um uh magnets like flat magnets, I do friendship bracelets, seed packets, um, sticker sheets, um, all sorts of anything you can get that's kind of flat, right? And anyone's welcome to come into our shows and see what we give away. Take my ideas, run with them. You know, I want to help you.

SPEAKER_00 47:40

I like the magnet thing. I haven't done magnets.

SPEAKER_03 47:42

Yeah, great little fun little magnets, and yeah, yeah. So now everything's just right next to me. And so I'm able to go quicker and faster. I'm not over-explaining the items as much as I was because I love educating, I love teaching. Um, but I realized I was trying to teach people that aren't resellers, thinking in my head, oh, all these people are resellers. Well, they're not, and so they're buyers, and so now I think we got um in this last show that we had, we had 19 new buyers and 10 reoccurring, which meant we had um so almost 30 people, and it was like the majority of it was new people. And I think it's because I'm going quick, yeah, and so that is what I have learned is the quicker I can go, the better off we're gonna be, and the more new buyers we're gonna get. And I I have to thank the community for watching other people's and seeing okay, that's that's what's going on. That's what they're doing that I'm not doing because that's what I'm supposed to be doing watching and auditing.

SPEAKER_00 48:38

The faster you go, the more volume you're gonna sell. Last night when I was doing my one dollar starts in the Christmas show, I was doing 10 seconds, not even 15 seconds. Yeah, we do 10 with with five second ups now. Yeah, yeah. And it was it was damn. My little assistant was working up a sweat, and I was just like, go, go, go. I was happy.

SPEAKER_03 48:57

She's getting that$20 an hour worth.

SPEAKER_00 48:59

She's working hard to get them. I already feel like I owe that girl a raise at this point because she really is. I hear you. I'm staying there in front of the camera. I hand her the item, she runs and puts it in whoever's box and gets the boxes figured out and all that. And then last night when she was doing it, she was even like if there was a half a second extra, whatever, she was adding more inventory to the shelves behind me. So not only was she taking the merchandise, she was bringing it in. And I was like, damn, she's as good as two people right now, you know, regularly. I love it.

SPEAKER_03 49:34

I know Justin's lost like 10 pounds, and we've decided we think it's because he literally is shipping, he's running around shipping for like 12 hours a day now.

SPEAKER_00 49:42

Yeah, and he's like, he's like, he's like, who needs dieting when you could just work out when you're what nodding? Okay, so okay, so what is one thing that you learned the hard way when you started? Um, what do you think?

SPEAKER_03 50:01

Oh man, that's a good question. I think that what I learned the hard way was to never do dollar starts. Oh, yeah. Um, yeah, never sell posters, learned that the hard way, lost$86. The length of it destroyed me on shipping. So we ended up negative$86 on a vintage poster show.

SPEAKER_00 50:23

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 50:24

Well, how like we talk my whole community, we joke about it all the time now.

SPEAKER_00 50:28

Oh no, not posters. Like, so how long is a poster? I mean, like when you read the colour.

SPEAKER_03 50:32

So or whatnot, really, yeah. You don't really want to go over like 22 inches is really when you start getting in trouble.

SPEAKER_00 50:39

But they're not over 22, or I guess so.

SPEAKER_03 50:41

Most posters are 23 inches, and that inch on every single order of the max shipping too.

SPEAKER_00 50:50

Oh, that's really good info. I'm glad I asked that question. So I so I do not, I will never do posters again unless they're folded into screens. I didn't know they were 23. I it never did.

SPEAKER_03 51:00

Yeah, most posters are 23 standards. So yeah, learned that one the hard time. And then the dollar starts. Um, I was given a bunch of fast fashion for free at one point, and we did dollar starts on that. It didn't cost me anything, and honestly, it's not my favorite thing to sell and probably not worth a ton. So I didn't mind doing that, but we do like two to three dollar starts now. So um, we do two dollar starts on anything we're getting from the storage unit because each of those items is really only costing us about 10 cents a piece. Um, and then we do three dollar starts on things that we pick up from our dollar day thrifting when we do dollar day thrifting, um, or just other random, you know, stuff that we get. We do the three dollars and that covers all those fees and helps us to at least make a little bit on each item because um we definitely we tried to do dollar starts for a long time and we just kept losing money.

SPEAKER_00 51:47

Well, I really said this time and time again, but you know how they have the tags, they have a one-dollar start tag, but they should have one for two dollars and three dollars. I really think that those should be tags. I just I don't understand how after all this time you can't tag it, you know, as a two dollar show. Because I think people would do that, you know, maybe they're willing to check that out. So that's good. That's good. Okay, so what is the best advice you can give somebody just starting on whatnot, preparing for their first show?

SPEAKER_03 52:22

I think going into the show and understanding shipping is really important. Um, you know, you've probably heard this a million times from people, but so there is a gal on whatnot that we just love to pieces. Her name is uh Pixie Dust Treasures, and she does she's a binder. I'm I'm I'm not kidding, she's got a binder that she goes through and really breaks down the shipping and breaks down everything, and she's a wonderful person to watch. It's P-I-X-I-E D-U-S T treasures, so Pixie Dust Treasures. Okay, and she does these all the time. So she does QA's, she does shipping shows. Great for new whatnot people. So go into this knowing your shipping, have everything at arm's reach, use your practice rehearsal mode. I still turn on my rehearsal mode before every show to make sure my setup looks good.

SPEAKER_00 53:12

You really? I've never done it. I have never not done it.

SPEAKER_03 53:16

I check my angles, I check my lighting, I check and make sure everything looks right. Oh, I found her.

SPEAKER_00 53:22

I'm following her, but I I don't I I just I went in here to look. Okay, she has a new seller QA night edition. Uh, it says, Oh gosh, hell no, I'm not going to something at 11:32 p.m. Uh, hell to the Yeah, she does them all over different times so that everybody can come in. Yeah, she's really great. Like she sells Disney and crystals and gems and storage units, and she's kind of all over the place too. Yep, agreed.

SPEAKER_03 53:50

And so finding those people, you know, that are in your wheelhouse, learning that, you know, and I think also the two things that really helped me in the beginning was acting like every single person that came into the room was a big deal. Acting like every every show there was a hundred people. There was not a hundred people, but I pretended like there was, and I asked so many probing questions into the chat. You know, what do you guys think about this? Now, this color pink looks pretty good to me, but I prefer like a darker pink. Are you guys into lighter pink or darker pink? I mean, you can make a question out of anything, and that helps to get the chat going. And and whatnot algorithms like to see your chat moving because that tells you tells whatnot algorithms that you have an engaged room and that people are interested in what you're doing, just like we asked, you know, people to you know share and copy. And then the the the last piece of advice as far as like prepping that I would say that it has been that was the best for me in the beginning was having a cheat sheet of topics. So, like remember to ask them to leave a heart in the chat so we can follow each other. Remember this, remember that. Mention the 921, lead them to your social media, like all of these things that I wanted to say, I had pinned up on this huge board in my room so that I didn't forget to do those things because you get going and you forget about it. And now I can I pretty much just have done so many shows, it just works itself naturally in. But have a sheet, don't be afraid to have a cheat sheet up in front of you that you can kind of look at.

SPEAKER_00 55:17

Yeah, I did an episode a long time ago. Um, it's called For the Shy People. And I said, You're you're not a shy person, neither am I. But I said, Shy people, you can have a list of jokes and questions and things to ask, and have these pieces of paper, get legal pads, do that. So if you're listening to this, guys, and you're either outgoing like charity and I, or you're shy, those cheat cheat lists are really, really good to have, I think. So I I totally agree. Um, and yeah, you guys, as far as shipping, I definitely think it's good to hear and talk to lots of different people, not just listen to one person. Like, don't just go and listen to one specific person because it's kind of like talking to your husband or something, right? He can say the same thing over and over and over again. Then your girlfriend can say it in a different way, in a different tone with different words, and you're gonna agree with that. You know what I'm saying? I totally agree. Like one of the people that different people, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:17

One of the people that we love so much, JT Entertains, he's a good friend of ours. And for some reason, the way that he's able to explain things just makes sense to me. I can hustle all day, which I mentioned earlier. That's another person. Where when they say something, it just makes sense to me. And so finding those people that you can follow, that is going to be your success story.

SPEAKER_00 56:36

Yeah, yeah. I think, and and the thing is, every you're there's so much information. I mean, I've done like 54 episodes. I'm interviewing newbies, I'm interviewing seasoned sellers, and everybody has, you know, information. Everybody has a different story, a different, you know, you're like, I learned not to do one dollar shipping. I still do it, you know, and I've done it since the beginning, you know. Yeah. Um, so what works for one person might not work for another, you know, and and I think that that's the beauty in this too. It's just like I don't change my hair color regularly, but you do, and it works for you. It's your personality, it's your brand. And I think that's awesome. I would I aspire to be as cool as you in the fact that you're spinning so many plates, especially on the social media. I feel like that's an area that I definitely want to do better in. I did um, I have Instagram, Carrie Kennedy71, and I know you have Instagram because you just followed me. I saw that. Thank you. Um but having that and getting more in the habit of doing that, I think that's definitely an area I I want to get better in. Okay, so as far as wrapping up, your biggest goals now are to be a you know, 100,000 plus seller, obviously, and to get off the other platforms. Those are your two big ones, right?

SPEAKER_03 58:01

Yeah, yeah. My goals right now, like you said, are just to be completely off the other platforms. Uh right now, my first, so I like to do little goals and reach them. It's I'm like some, I'm really competitive, um, and I'm competitive with myself. And so if I can have a goal, I tend to not scroll as much. So the goal, the next goal that I'm trying to meet is to be able to sell our first goal, which we hit this last week, was to be able to sell a hundred items in every show consistently. We smashed that as a community. We all celebrated it on live. It was a huge moment for all of us to get to the point where we ran out of listings because I just do one weight listings. I do eight to eleven ounces for everything. And so we we ran out of listings for the first time ever. And that was such a huge moment. And so my next one is for that to happen with 200 items. Because if I can sell 200 items at a show and each of those items sell for even$3 a piece, and I'm doing five shows a week, that's$12,000 a month.

SPEAKER_00 58:56

Right.

SPEAKER_03 58:56

Right there. Obviously, there's fees and all that.

SPEAKER_00 58:59

Let's let's stop. I know we're over time for sure. Um, but real quick, you said even so you don't have one for like one to three ounces, four to seven. Nope. So when you have something real little, they just know that they're going to be charged extra for shipping.

SPEAKER_03 59:16

Yep, because how I advertise it is when you win two auction wins in any of our shows, you get free shipping for the whole rest of the evening. Because if they if they win an auction item and it's eight to eleven ounces, and then they win another auction item and it's eight to eleven ounces, that puts them over a pound. It puts them into that flat rate box, and then that's where we max out for people. So people never pay more than 921 in our shows. We eat a little bit of shipping here and there, yeah. Um, but it's worth it to me because I can just click run next, run next, run next, run next. I don't ever have to change anything during a show. And it keeps it all numbered for me because how we organize stuff is when something is one on an auction, it goes into a bag that has its number on it. And then that bag goes into a person's box. So, like for instance, if uh Logan wins an item, it and she wins item number four, it goes into the four bag, and then that goes into her box. And that way when Justin goes to ship, he double knows that that goes to Logan because the number's correct and it's in her box. And so being able to do the eight to eleven, I know a lot of other sellers are doing that now. And I think Kelsey's doing that. Um, I know there's a ton there, the majority of sellers I know of right now are doing that.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:28

And I the thing is, I've I've done this, I've done what you're talking about, but I always felt bad for the smaller ounces. Like if somebody can't, I always I still have my one to three and my four to seven. Do you see what I'm saying? And so I've never tried, I think that'd be fun for me to to try that.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:47

Yeah, we don't ever have any issues with it because I let everyone know hey, two auction wins, you get free shipping for the whole rest of the evening. And it also helps the people if I'm selling a purse and that purse is two and a half pounds, and they're only paying right six dollars or whatever to ship it, they're excited.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:05

Well, and I do I do 921 too. I love 921. I've got several episodes about 921 um because I believe in 921. And yes, you're right. You do eat a little bit, but uh it's a dog eat dog world, and there's some competition out there. And if you want it, why would somebody come to my show? I mean, it's not for my you know, winning looks and personality, but why would you come to my show if you can go right down the road and go to another show and get 921 chip? I mean, that's how I look at it, you know. Um, to be competitive, you pretty much have to do that. There's a guy to do there's a guy on here, I think his name's General Auction. I talked about him. He was supposed to message me back, he didn't. Um, but he said um that he um I'm looking at the time. We are over, we're gonna have to get off soon. But he said he was the first one to do free shipping and he did 100% free shipping. I went in his show, it was stressing me the heck out, charity. I was I was losing my ever loving mind because I know what it means to do 921. So when I saw him doing, you know, running stuff for a dollar with free shipping, I was like, what in the world? And he said he was the first one to do it and it's working for him. And I was just like, you know, goals, you know. I I don't have a goal like you to get to I've I've sold way more than 100 per show. I never thought of that as a milestone, but I think it's great to do it. Yeah. Um, I think it's awesome that now you want to get to 200. I think that's good too. To me, I've always tried to do the dollar amount in my head as like a goal. Like, I'm gonna try to make, you know, 500 tonight or 600 tonight or 800 tonight or what, you know, 2000 tonight, or whatever it is um based on what I have. But I do like that idea. I think that's fun.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:59

Well, yeah. And the thing about doing it by item versus dollar amount is because, you know, we uh we as as thrifters and sorcerers and resellers, we can get emotionally or financially attached to the items. Yeah. And when something doesn't sell for what we want it to, or we we remember a memory of when we got the item, that makes it really difficult if you don't get the amount you want. So we really focus on the number. How many can we sell? And then of course the money just follows.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:25

Yeah, well, and it's yeah, the money just follows. That's totally fine. Yeah, I get that.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:30

That's one part, anyways.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:31

Okay, well, we have definitely gone over. We were guys, I was gonna try to make this like 45 minutes to 50. I know we we tried. We're we're looking at the clock, but you have so much info more than most people, I think, just because we did talk about all your other selling and you told me about different people and blah, blah, blah. So hopefully this episode was informative for you guys. Charity, I am going to try to get a certificate for you. You will get it, and it will say that you are the second interview. And you will get that our 3D printer is going to make something, but I have yet to figure out what that is. And then hopefully I can continue to advertise for you. You can advertise for me. I scratch your back, you scratch my back, kind of thing. And guys, go check her out. I promise, you know, if you're the person who likes entertainment, charity has the entertainment. She has a comment about everything she holds up. And honestly, I'm never going to interview anybody who I haven't actually purchased from myself. Everybody I ever interview, that's part of the stat. I will make sure that I have bought from them, their orders came on time, it was packed well, everything. In fact, you know that picture frame that I got from you that I love so much. The metallic. I'm gonna sell it in an upcoming auction because I've cleaned it. Beautiful. It's very pretty. But um, I had a friend come over today and she's cleaning off my bookshelves and helping me edit. And yeah, she spent multiple hours on my big bookshelves. And uh, but anyway, she she ships stuff well. I I can stand by that. She's got great ratings. You guys go check her out. It's nice comps in I-C-E-C-O-M-P-S. And you're on YouTube, Instagram. Where else? Where did you say Facebook, TikTok, everywhere?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:24

I mean, watch out, world. We're we're coming for it. I want to get those wings. I want to get those premiere shop wings. I want to expand into a warehouse, I want to have a staging area, I want staff members, I want to employ people. Like I can foresee this as just becoming something so huge, and for us be being able to bless so many people, which is really what I want to do.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:44

Well, and I I can totally see it happening, girl. I I'm rooting for you. I I think yes, I and I think there's a lot of people like you on this app that are headed that direction too. I think it's just gonna keep blowing up and it's not stopping anytime soon. And and you know, every once in a while, some jerk will get on a Facebook group and he'll go, What not's dead? Nobody bought, you know, and I'm like, you are just a potster, you are crazy, trolling, trolling, trolling. And everybody, you know, I get they get like 150 comments like, you're crazy, blah, blah, blah. So the trolls, yes. Yeah. But, anyways, all right. Well, it was so good talking to you, Charity. I really enjoyed this. And um, you guys go bookmark her and we will. Talk to you guys later. And hey, you know, we're gonna have to talk outside of this because I gotta ask you about the YouTube stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:35

You got it. Thanks for having me on here, too. This has just been a ton of fun. And I just really appreciate you reaching out and giving me the opportunity to be on here with you.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:43

You bet, babe. All right. We'll see you soon. Talk to you later. Okay. Bye bye.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:48

Bye.