INSIDE THE SHOP: SNAPSHOTS #3 Episode 60

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Snapshots episode- where I scroll through live shows and share my straightforward thoughts on what I’m seeing — the good things sellers are doing, the things that could be better, and the little details that can make a show stronger.

Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:29

Hey there guys. I hope everybody is doing really well. Um we are gonna go. Oh, I didn't mean to hit the button yet. We are gonna do some uh of the inside the shop snapshots. And snapshots is where I just scroll through live shows and I share my straightforward thoughts on what I'm seeing. Uh the good sellers, I mention what they're doing and how I like it and what's going on, and some people that are you know struggling maybe here and there. I say what they should fix or whatever, and uh it's just uh sometimes you guys really love these shows, so I'm I'm gonna do it. Um the reason I decided to do it this morning, I'm just gonna try to find her, um, is because I just bought from her. I went into a show, and where am I? Hold on. I just purchased from a girl, and we're gonna go into her room. And um, her she's new, and um the re before I even click on her and I get distracted, I'm gonna tell you um, she had everything laid up really good. Um, she had all types of items. I think she's in either estate sales or vintage. I'm not sure, we'll look. Um, but she had mugs and she had glasses and um plates, like lots of kitchenware, and then she had um brass and lamps and uh ashtrays. Um, she had what else did she have? Uh pictures, picture frames, uh, a lot of mugs, a lot of mugs. She had a lot of mugs. Anyways, she displayed it pretty well. She had a vintage hutch that actually had a mirror in it, so you could see her face talking in the mirror. And I actually have always liked that setup where you can at least see somewhat of the person's face if you're panning out on the stuff. Um, there's a girl, I think her name's Jovi or something. She sells jewelry and she always lays out a ton of jewelry on the table, and there's a mirror at the end, and that way you get to see all of the jewelry, and it looks like even more, and then um you get to see a picture of her. And I just I really like that setup. I always have because then you're I feel like you're getting the best of both worlds. Um, but anyways, so that's honestly why I stopped at this one shop I'm about to talk about. Uh, the girl is new, and I realized that real soon, but I'm gonna tell you what she was doing wrong. Um, and I told her in the show, and I I sent her a message. She I thought she was a regular old-time seller because she was bundling. And um, as a seller, when you bundle after you've got to 1k, it makes sense because now instead of spending 30 cents per transaction, I'm maybe putting six or eight items together and only getting charged that 30 cent transaction one time instead of six or eight times. You get the point. And so she was bundling, and I was like, I'll take advantage of bundling. That way it saves her money, it saves me time. It works out great. At the time, there was only five of us in the show. So I thought, okay, it's early in the morning, there's five of us in the show. Well, as people saw that she was bundling for me, they were like, you need to split that up. You can't bundle, which of course any seller can bundle for anybody that that's not against the rules. And if they wanted to bid on the bundle, they could have as well. I mean, she wasn't saying you can't bid. Um, so I got my bundles of things, and then, you know, people kept saying, Oh, you can't send more than five pounds in a flat rate box. Guys, that's not true. I swear. You can send more than five pounds, especially when you're doing a shipping profile. Um, and in priority across the board, it's 70 pounds for a box. You don't believe me, you can go look it up, but I I won't get into that. You can go look at other episodes. But um, anyways, so there was all these people coming in and saying things, and then the number grew. It went up to nine and it stuck stayed there for a bit. Then it went up to 12, and I was like, Yay, she's doing good. Then it went up to 15, and then she got she got a raid, and I was like, Yay! Um, and this is where I figured out, you know, somewhere in there that she was a newbie, and I told her, you need to stop bundling because she only has like, I don't know, 239 items or something. Guys, if you're new, do not bundle. Oh my gosh, your your goal is to get to 1K. If you have not heard uh the series, it's called the 1K success series. Go listen to that. I I just keep going, uh, and her thing, and I don't understand the shipping on this either. She was in South Carolina, and I am baffled by what just happened on the shipping. I had bought several things from her and it made sense. Okay, this is$11, this is nine dollars, whatever. It all made sense. Then she went and ran one dish and it was saying it was$17. And I was like, why is it$17 for me? And then somebody else said it's nine dollars for me. And I get dependent on where you're located, depends on what the shipping is. But all of a sudden, that shipping went up huge for me. I've been buying on here for uh two years, and I just was like, what? And she told me in her last show that people were getting upset because the shipping was so gosh darn high, and so I don't I don't know. That was just very weird and bizarre. It just seemed it was one thing, it was a pound, and it was 17 bucks. Plus, I already had all my other items, so do do do do, you know. I don't know what that was, but anyways, um, okay, so I'm gonna tell you who it is, and we're gonna go into her room real quick. Her name is vintage underscore circus underscore by underscore heather. Not a big fan of the underscores when you have that many. Um, but I I like the fact that it's a circus and it says her name and it says vintage. She's got it all there. Vintage circle by Heather. Um, maybe Heather's vintage circle, I don't know. I think would be better because she wouldn't have so many underscores. Um, numbers and underscores make it difficult for the people to find you again. I'm just gonna say. Okay, we're gonna click on her and we're gonna go to her room and check her out. Um, let's see. Okay, it's she's got an adorable setup. She obviously used um AI and has an adorable little setup. Her back screen is like a circus tent, and then she's got a little ringmaster lady there. And here's what it says it says vintage treasurer hunter, always searching for vintage and antique items to bring to my show, like a three-ring circus. There is always a variety of different styles and items. I love mid-century modern style, but we'll collect items from Rusty Crusty Farmhouse, Granny Cottage, Art Deco, and more. Join me for fun show and of memories and unique finds. I think she did good. Um, being a previous teacher and principal, I I'm kind of wanting to um edit to that a little bit, but that's okay. That's just anyways. I'm gonna bookmark. She's doing something that I tell you guys to always do. This is she's but she's going on every day, and I I hope that this is her only job and she's not, you know, whatever. But she was doing her show where today was Wednesday and she put hump day, three dollar starts. I get that all day, every day. I get that you want to have, you know, three dollar starts or five dollar start shows. And if you want to do that, that's totally fine. But then you're limited to what she had. And her her selection was pretty limited on what was three dollars. It wasn't like she had hundreds and hundreds of pieces. I, or at least that I saw, I think it was more like 50 pieces or 70 pieces, and that's fine as long as they're banger pieces, you know. Um, I think it's better because here here's what she's got. And I I I could totally see that this girl's working hard. I totally think you guys should go check out her show. She had hump day, three dollar starts. Tomorrow she's got thrifty Thursdays, five dollar or below starts. Then on Friday, she's coming on every morning at 6 a.m. Every single day, 6 a.m. And and if you guys have the time and you're not working and this is for your full-time gig, then yes, do it every day, fine. Um, otherwise, I tell you, especially if you're a woman, go listen to my episode on women um and also an episode on goals. Those are two episodes I tell you to check on. If you hear my little dog snoring next to me, that's Bentley, guys. Anyways, um, some people have bookmarked these. I'm gonna bookmark a couple just to see. Um, and then she's got some that don't have any bookmarks that make me wonder what she's got over here. So here we go. Uh, to right now she's got seven people in there. Tomorrow she's got two bookmarks. One of them's mine. That's five dollars starts. Then uh she has something called 20 and 20. It's a Friday morning clear out. So I guess she's gonna go on for 20 minutes and sell 20 items. I hate those shows. You guys know my thoughts on that. I am not I'm not beating around the bush. Anything that is under like an hour, I just I think it's too hard. I think there's not enough time for the buyers, there's not enough time for the sellers. It just seems like what are we doing? I mean, no, I mean, if you go to any store, they're open from eight to five. No store goes, we're gonna open for 20 minutes, we're gonna open for five minutes. The way I look at it is this is your shop, this is your store. If you're not gonna be open for at least an hour, don't open. Um, but that's that that's just my opinion. You guys can do what you want to do. Raid trains are a different thing. I've got an upcoming raid show train um that I definitely think you guys should go bookmark. It's Texas versus Oklahoma. I'm Texas, we're gonna kick butt. At least that's my my hope and my goal. Um, but we're really excited about that. Uh, it's called Red River uh raid train. So you guys go bookmark that under Carrie Kennedy, K-A-R-R-I, Kennedy K-E-N-N-E-D-Y. Anyways, so she is she's doing this girl, and I don't have her name. Wait, her name is um, what do we say? Heather. Heather is doing a lot of things very, very well. She's being consistent, she's got good pictures, she's changing up the theme of her show. Like three-day dollar starts, five dollars starts. Um, like I said, I don't like the 20 and 20, but whatever. Then the next day on Monday, she doesn't do anything Saturday and Sunday. Monday, she's back, and it says Monday morning unpacking. I'm not sure exactly what that is. Maybe she's unpacking new items that she got over the weekend, I'm guessing. And then she's got this all on repeat. She's got at least six, eight pictures of every one. And I'm telling you guys, that's how I have it. It just works. It works really well. I'm gonna read you a couple of her reviews just really quick. Um, top seller, new and on the rise. Thank you for very quick and very safe shipping. We'll definitely purchase from you again. Um, somebody else said awesome shop and seller, very happy with my purchases. Everything arrives fast and perfect, uh, packaged perfect. Um, here's another one. This is one of the sweetest sellers ever. She has amazing items at great prices, and she packages each one of them with care. She even wrote me notes and sent me an amazing Gibby. I am overjoyed, and I can't wait to share her shop uh and her shows in the future. There's not enough stars to adequately express how pleased I am. That's some girl named Christy Do 100. Wow, Christy, good uh review. Anyways, okay, so we're gonna go into her show. I've talked a lot about her, but I was also talking about my experience, the things she's doing good. So hopefully you got that. She's got nine people in here. Let's go.

SPEAKER_05 12:04

Um, to his daughter's chagrin because she grimaces every time he says things, and she's like, That's not how you say it. And it it he had to he had to Americanize because if he didn't, nobody could understand what he was saying. But people people always say to him, I just love your accent. And they say to me, You're not from around here, are you?

SPEAKER_06 12:26

So she's telling stories and she's laughing and talking about accents. And uh somebody named Wilton Pedel is talking to her.

SPEAKER_05 12:36

I'm being featured on a podcast. Oh my gosh, Kerry, thank you so much. You're like the best. You are the best. I appreciate you so much. I don't know what I deserved for you to walk into my show today, but it must have been something really, really good. You did. You yeah, it's it's quaint there. Thank you for that. Follow, Mega.

SPEAKER_06 13:00

Anyways, guys, she's talking to somebody right now, and they're talking about England and languages and whatever. She's panning around, she's showing her shelves, she's got a lot of stuff in there. Um, she's doing a really good job. Okay, so I've already talked enough about her. Um, we are gonna move on to the next person, but once again, go check out Heather. It's vintage underscore circus underscore buy underscore Heather. Go check her out. Oh, somebody's asking for cat items. Oh, you guys, I gotta stop buying cats. I I honestly I don't know. Okay, we're moving to the next person. Um this is somebody I just clicked in. It's A-U-N-T-Gim J-E-M. She's doing something that I absolutely hate, but she's doing some things I love. Um, the one thing that I really think she needs to do is she's showing her ceiling fan. And I always tell you guys, move the camera down or fix it right where you're not seeing a ceiling fan. Um, but she's showing a really pretty dish, a glass dish. Um, I I sold one last night that I'm regretting. I ran it for a dollar. It was my first item, and it was an egg dish with olives. And I'm like, oh, I shouldn't have sold that. This girl, Aunt Jim, has beautiful items. She has 40 items listed, and I love her paint color behind her on her wall. It's this really pretty, deep, dark um turquoise green. It's it's gorgeous. And um, I think that that really adds the mood to it, whatever paint color you have or whatever. She's picking up her items. She's running. Oh, that's the other thing. Heather in the last show, she was running everything for 30 minutes. And I was like, Heather, you gotta get down to 15 seconds. 15 seconds, Heather. Um, but, anyways, uh, I did a couple accidentally last night, and it just drove me nuts. I hate 30 seconds. Um, but okay, so that's Aunt Jim. I'm not gonna spend a lot of time here. She's selling vintage, she's got five stars, two days shipping. Um, let me see. She's got, yeah, a thousand reviews, and she sold 4.3 items. Okay, we're gonna go to somebody else. Um, we're gonna skip that. We're gonna skip that. Um, let me see what else. I think I have two stoves. Let me get out here real quick. We're gonna go into a different category. We are gonna go to home and garden category. All home and garden. We're in the home and garden category. Um, here we go. We are at one dollar, one dollar, one dollar.

SPEAKER_03 15:37

Here we go. Five seconds on the pot, you guys.

SPEAKER_06 15:39

Here we go. You can tell which show this is.

SPEAKER_03 15:45

Come on.

SPEAKER_06 15:45

Okay, this is Sentine Calm. S-C-E-N-T-I-N-G com. Right now.

SPEAKER_03 15:52

She's selling uh two, one, and dermouth. Perfume, not perfume. Give me that. All right. Do you guys want to see it one more time? Let me know. One more time. Do you guys want to see it one more time?

SPEAKER_06 16:03

Three-day shipping. Wow. I don't know why they have three-day shipping. That's pretty bad. Okay, the blue, the blue, the blue, the blue, the blue.

SPEAKER_03 16:10

All right, again, you guys, it does retail for$195. Okay, it's oil-based tuna sacks. Let's go. It's our most popular one.

SPEAKER_06 16:17

She's holding up perfume bottles. Honestly, I've never I think I bought perfume once on this app, and it was five seconds on my clock. A bad choice. I'll just say that. I do not buy my perfume here. I'm not saying you should. I just so I'm just letting you know I'm going through. So it's called scenting s-d-e-n-t-in-g.com. There's no chit chat and getting to know people. She is just holding it up, showing, saying bid up, listen to her for a minute, and then we'll move to the next person.

SPEAKER_03 16:49

Yes, we got it. Yes, Carlos. Here we go. So it has your herbapura, it has your coconut, bergamot, valencio, orange, amber cycling, and sandswood musk vanilla. We're gonna kickstart this off at one dollar, you guys. It does retail for$195. It's my all-time favorite. I will die on this hill about this perfume. Five seconds. Here we go. A dollar starting bid. Five seconds on the clock. Let's go. Let's go, chat. Let's go. Where are my green lovers at? I know we're a society too. Let's go, chat, bid this one up because this is my all-time favorite. It's the best of the best of the best. I don't care what anybody says. Five seconds. Five seconds. I'll die on this hill about this parfume. It's amazing. You smell delicious. You smell luxurious. When people smell you, they're gonna be like, hello, where did you come from? Where are the millions? You know, four, three, two, all right, two seconds, three, two, one.

SPEAKER_06 17:30

So I think she said it sold retails for 195 at least. That's what they say. A lot of the time, and I'm not saying it's this girl, but I've heard people say things that are it's this price, and I go look it up and it's not anywhere near it. So I would just say, as a buyer, beware, go check out what the actual prices are because they could be quote, confused or quote misleading or quote, just honestly not being truthful, you know. Um, they're they're not telling the truth, but that just sold for$25, something that she sells, says retails for$195. So I guess that's a good deal. I guess you could check it out if you like perfume. It's she's talking 100 miles a minute. I know I can do the same thing in my shows. It's very impressive because you have to have a level of energy and vavoom to go, go, go, go, go. And that is what this girl is doing it. As far as a seller, she's doing what sellers, I mean, in this category for sure, are supposed to be doing like showing the product, talking about the product. She obviously has notes, she's smiling, she's going quick. You know, there's 47 people in that room, and she hasn't stopped selling. So that's good. That's really good. Okay, let's go to another show. Okay, we are at a plant show now. This is okay, interesting. This is interesting. I don't even know her full name because I can't. Okay, here. Wow. Her name is so big and so long that uh you can't get she can't get it all on there. So I would definitely suggest about not doing that when you have such a long name. It can't even show the whole thing. Um, I had to click in. It says Eve gave Adam a mushroom. That's the name of the show. She sold 7,000 items. It says, Hello, I'm Eve. I'm a plant mom turn dealer here to give great customer service and affordable, healthy plants. She talks about local delivery, she took talks about TikTok, blah, blah, blah. She says she's not, I am not responsible. Capital letters, really big capital letters. I am not responsible for the plant once it is shipped. Please contact whatnot. Customer support for damages or loss, leaf loss, andor browning is normal during during shipping. Any other issues, feel free to reach out to me. Wow. Okay, so she's got um 4.9 review and 2,000 reviews. It's Eve E V E gave Adam a mushroom. And uh, let's check out her shop real quick. It's uh she's got uh only three items in her shop listed, which I always say put 30 to 40 so people can see what you got. She's got a beautiful setup in the background, lots and lots of pretty plants, and people are bidding up big time on these things. Wow, wow, I'm watching this. It's a brandy six, and it's at 26 bucks right now. I personally know I can get that plant for like 10 bucks. So I think, wow, wow, it's$30. I hope you guys can hear her. She's listening to like rap music or something. It's early for rap music. It's 7 15 in the morning. So she's she's just showing the plant up front, which I think is good because that's what you're buying. Um, but instead of her being behind it and showing her face, she's off to the side. So I have yet to see her. Anyways, okay, Eve gave Adam a mushroom. You guys can go check her out. She's got 60 people in that room. So if you want some live plants, let's see what she's running this one for. I'm just curious. She's running them for a dollar, and I think that's why she's doing so well. Because she, yeah, she's got 63 people in the room running it for a dollar. They're going up, they are going up. It's it's$10 right now. Let's see.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

This is for a thanks about it.

SPEAKER_06 21:37

I have definitely bought some plants on this app. Um, some of my purchases I was really happy with, some not so happy. I've never bought from her. She's got 58 people in the room, and this one plant is at$13,$13. I think that's a really good deal for that. Whoa, that was a hell of a deal for that plant. Anyways, I do know my plants. Okay, um, I she's calling that a Peru. Anyways, okay, I'm gonna get out of plants for a second. Let's see what else we got. Oh, we got okay, we're gonna check on this. This is a premiere shop. It's called Kathy's Closet. She's got 87 people in there. It says TJ Maxx Home Good Palette Pools. Let's go check her out. Oh, wow, that's not what I expected to land on. Oh, I I was in here earlier. I saw this. Um, she she is whispering the whole time, which I thought. was really interesting. Listen to this. I don't know if it's a voice issue or her kids are asleep or what, but I thought that was interesting that it sounds like she's whispering. Um she's showing a kids. She's she's selling stuff for a dollar. She's got 77 people in there. And when I said I didn't expect that it there's not really a fancy setup or anything. It's um a white room, white painted room, bright lights, and then she which is good the bright lights because you can see this really well. Right now she's selling ultra bright full page magnifiers and they're going for four or five bucks a piece. She's got a bunch of bins purple, red, blue, different color bins all stacked up behind her and she's just grabbing items out of them. She's obviously buying in bulk and selling this stuff. It's a hot mix of all kinds of stuff in the home category right now. I don't even know what the hell that was it was something with fabric. It might have been a dog thing or something. Now she's got uh eyelash stuff going for three dollars or maybe she was selling things for three dollars. Hold on let me see yeah three dollars sorry not one dollar um three dollars unless let's check out her profile we're gonna check out her profile she has 33.3 thousand followers she has sold 1610 items dude these premiere shops it's crazy I don't know how long she's been on here but damn it says proud to be a family business with a passion for saving money daily live deals see how much you can save in the closet she's on Instagram and TikTok she's got target cbs walgreens and more right now she's doing TJ Maxx and home goods she's doing three to five dollar starts she says she does giveaways bundles new items daily premiere seller she's in woundsocket rhode island so you guys can go check her out she's just killing it I mean killing it you know I mean I I I've looked at getting into bundles and doing something like this quite honestly it's not my thing but I think I mean it's obviously working financially for her I think there's more to all of this I'm gonna stop it turn it down a bit I think there's a lot more to being on whatnot than just making money and I I want to stop for a second here because the other day I did post that I did my 13 hour show I sold uh a hundred well I sent off like a hundred and ten hundred and twelve boxes um I spent a thousand dollars in shipping I did free shipping one dollar starts for the most part if somebody sells something in my shop I pulled that out as well um and then what else was I gonna say oh I can't remember oh it was 323 items 323 items in 110 boxes so it was a big show and I posted that and then somebody came in to flex and say oh well I I make that much money in two hours you know and blah blah blah well it depends on what category you're in it depends on if you're talking to people it depends if you're like that one girl selling the perfume and all you're doing is holding up the item talking about it real quick and run run run and it's all about volume personally for me and everybody can believe differently like hello we're all different we can all have different opinions styles ways to do it I don't want to ever do that. I mean I I think 15 seconds to 10 seconds is good. I don't think I ever want to be a five second seller I don't think I would ever want to just hold up the item not talk about it not describe it I love getting to know my customers and having those relationships and seeing different people come in last night I was like oh Wright's here oh Addy's here oh you know Tina's here or Campbell's here or you know whoever's in the show I I I know them I see them they're my regular customers I enjoy that part of whatnot I enjoy the community and getting to know people somebody might not give a you know give a damn about getting to know people and might not want to do that and just is here for the money and no problem there you can do that too I mean everybody potato potato you do you do you you do what you want to do personally I'm not a fan of that you know um so I don't think I would want to do what she's doing and honestly I think mentally personally mentally I think that the girl that I just talked about I I don't know her name I just I skipped out of it um I think she's got a really hard job maybe the reason she's whispering oh it's Kathy's closet um I think maybe the one of the reasons she's whispering is she's doing this every morning and she's kicking ass. She's got palette polls TJ Maxx home goods it says tons of new inventory bargains big bargains and deals she's obviously making money if she's a premier seller. If you're a premier seller you know you're you're making over$150,000 a year minimum minimum I think it's actually let me think yeah I'm not gonna get into all that right now okay guys we're gonna go to this other seller right here we're still we're in holiday decor now I'm going into holiday decor I'm gonna click on this because it's a cute picture with a bunch of ornaments I'm following them now I follow everybody I go into let me turn up the volume and tell you about this person. Wow she's got a bunch of vintage Christmas ornaments random polls including shiny brights ones from Poland uh Poland and I can't read the rest of her okay it says vintage Christmas ornaments including shiny brights poland unsilvered paper cap Italy Germany West Germany it goes on and on and on it says all sales are finals final we try to call out any flaws um she's got five stars ships in less than one day which kudos to anybody who ships in less than one day I do that too mine's in less than one day when I see people who sell in three days or five days I'm like what is wrong no that's that's not good. Yeah these look kind of these are very old which she's showing right now but they're still bidding up pretty blue nine dollars somebody's winning this really old this one's definitely got some marks on it but they're still buying it for nine bucks for this pretty beat up ornament but it is vintage one now and she's facing um does anybody like she's got a ruler there which is really really good because she can measure everything she's got a wooden ruler and she's got her hands close to the camera. The camera's really tight in on item and it looks really good. She's got 49 people in the room let's read her show notes it's basically the same thing I was telling you she's talking about what she has. She doesn't talk about where she is or what state she's in I think that that's always a good thing to do. She's got one of those little knee bender elfs it's so cute.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

So cute it's going for 15 bucks in Japan he does not have his eye but he is made in Japan.

SPEAKER_06 29:51

Made in Japan oh I recognize somebody thriftist is in there I see you I have a whole it's up to 19 bucks for this little knee hugger elf 19 bucks woo Mary Ann 50 got it. Mary Ann thank you Mary Ann appreciate she's doing a good job it's called R Finds O-U-R-F-I-N-D-S is who we're we're talking about right now. And um I don't it says hog creek thrifting antique mall but this is made in Chelsea Hog Creek Antique Mall it doesn't say where it is I I kind of wish it would say that from the the mouth of the indent it's always good to know where what state people are in so that you can go oh shipping's gonna be less because they're in Texas or wherever she is killing it. I mean she's making nine to fifteen dollars per ornament now they are beautiful vintage ornaments but she is doing a really good job i i definitely think you guys if you like vintage ornaments you should totally come over here okay let's turn this down let's see where else we can go today um we might get out of okay we've done plants we've done pulls we've done uh let's see where what else we got i'm i'm I'm still in the ooh ooh okay this is uh a raid train it's called battle of the decades texas wildflowers texas t-e-x a s wild w i l d flowers f l o w e r s no um anything else in there no underscores or anything she's cracking up she's laughing her butt off she i'm guessing she's at least 60 and um she's holding up a book really fun okay she's Texas so I gotta like her okay she's in the Battle of the Decades which what a fun thing it's got Franklin's hidden treasures my time to fly um K Bougie Blessed Jojo Junkin it's got a bunch of people in it um she's selling Grimm's fairy tales for 12 bucks but yeah at least she's got 16 people in here she's got five stars one day shipping she's just made it she's got 1000 sales and 100 1100 sales let's listen to her for a second at least it wasn't thank you old at least it wasn't something horrible okay because sometimes I never know what's gonna come out of my mouth as you can tell so she's cracking up oh lord help me okay um let me see let me see if I can tell you who we rate into so give me a minute and let's she's got amazing I'm turning this down she's got amazing pictures I she's done what I really think people should do which is get a light box I can guarantee you that she has a light box and she's taking pictures with a light box. You can tell somebody who's taking pictures with a light box and somebody who hasn't some of hers are in the light box and some of them aren't she's got some really good stuff. She's got left in figurines she's got India glass candle dishes I mean um candy dishes she's got brass and copper and glass and ceramic and she's got 90 items listed and all of them are good. Like I am wow I'm amazed with this lady she's got paper weights okay well I can run it dolls yeah this girl knows what she's doing she is going to be a success on whatnot she's just done a hell of a job curating and getting these items now she's older so I some of these might have been hers. She's in her kitchen she's wearing like almost like a Moo Moo kind of dress I don't know from the back it looks like a Moo Moo dress it might be a full dress. Oh here it is yeah she's kind of got one of those big dresses on and she's got beautiful stuff behind her. She's in her kitchen I hate the ceiling fan if you hear this your ceiling fan is up there running above your head change the camera move move the camera up so we're not seeing seeing the ceiling fan I will say that to my dying days guys the dang ceiling fan just drives me nuts. Um all right let's let's go to a different oh what's this oh that's bad they got 4.4 stars how do you get 4.4 this is outdoor water expert 4.4 they've got two days shipping and he's selling water bottles I'm not gonna spend time on this I I try I'm just gonna keep going ooh what is this hold on nope you okay I'm not even gonna tell you who it is but the reason I'm not gonna stop is the camera there's only me and that person in there you can hear him making all this noise in the back there's it's a there's a picture and nothing else there's only four items in the shop it's just bad. I mean this there this is so yeah 16 items sold good luck on whatnot yeah no you can't nobody's gonna come in because it's just a and it's echoey this this person I'm not gonna say who it is they are not gonna do good here not going to do good oh here's a new girl okay her name is Beth B-E-T-H-C 1433 I should have told you guys to get pieces of paper so you could write these people things down first no call out um I'm buying this should I buy this I don't know let's see what else she's got she's only got four people in the room five stars one less than one day review she sold 51 items I'm gonna tell her I'm featuring her little bibby I'm featuring you on my podcast I'm going to you are the lucky winner she's doing a giveaway okay guys she's she's new and I'm featuring her so thousands of people are gonna see her she's I don't know if this is the vintage category or home or what let me add that real quick you guys hydrate grab a zip of that coffee she is cute y'all there it is right there this girl is gonna make it I can tell you right now I found it y'all okay um I'm featuring you on my podcast right now why not what not oh wow okay thank this is my fourth show you guys I've bet oh it's her first fourth show she's Beth she's in Florida she's running a handful of stickers on her giveaway she is cute she's got blonde hair she's gotta be in a net well she's wait she's in it looks like a garage or something actually it looks like a basement but I don't think they have basements in Florida do they maybe they do we don't here in Texas because of the ground being too hard you can't dig bait you know but man this girl has a ton of amazing stuff I honestly want to get off the show and go shopping she's got 37 items listed um she's got really cute stuff I am going to pre-bid on stuff should I pre-bid on stuff I don't know I've already bought stuff today guys um oh wow she's got a brass weapon set wow I don't know what my kids would want that for sure um she's priced she's priced good she's got the some three dollar starts but she's also got fifteen dollar starts I always tell you guys that's what you should do have some you know some smaller starts you know two three dollars one dollar if you're willing to try it and then price according to what you're willing to do you know um she's got a really cute somebody should go do this it's a recycled art uh trinket shelf that she has she because she's Florida she's got everything from seahorses to seagulls to sea life shadow boxes birds turkeys I mean she's got a lot a shell a vintage shell cat oh be still my heart oh be still my heart oh my gosh y'all you know I have an affinity for cats right anyways um yeah this girl's doing a really good job I would definitely tell her that she needs to add a buy it now um section I'm gonna message the show to her and tell her um we're around the I guess I maybe 39 minute mark but she definitely should add a buy it now category and put some one two three dollar starts in there in case anybody wants to help her get to her 1k for example if I was going in to buy something she's got a cute um little gummy bear piggy bank that's brass that she's holding up right now so for example if I went in and got that and then she had I don't know some Starburst candies for a dollar I would help her by getting some candy from her she could do bookmarks stickers you guys can listen to my giveaway show one thing that I got recently was these adorable wooden metal I mean um magnets wooden magnets and they say names on them. I'm gonna have them in my upcoming raid train. They are so cute. This girl is gonna do good. I think she might be in the wrong category though let's figure this out let's go view her I think she's let's see where is she is she in the vintage category no she's in the wrong damn category that is why she's yeah she needs to move categories this is something I tell you guys about but she is definitely specialty with beachy boho curios is what she said here's what it says it says I love yard sale estate sale thrift shop and curb boutique I love sourcing vintage and beachy boho decor lots of great treasures for the perfected collected and timeless look and feel I'm gonna just say I'm gonna let her listen to this but I think um number one she needs to add the buy it now number two she needs to add more shows she only has three she has a vintage playing card show coming up in vintage decor oh well see she's got her next two shows are vintage decor this show she's in right now is home decor I can almost guarantee you that if she was over in vintage today instead of home decor she would be doing better. I'm gonna bookmark her upcoming shows and yeah she's gonna do good she sold um 51 items she is adorable y'all y'all gotta go find this girl her name's Beth C's gotta change her name too you guys know how I feel about the numbers uh it's hard for people to remember your numbers sweetheart and C people would remember Beth but to remember Beth C is gonna be harder for them and definitely remember 1433 is going to be even harder. So um her name is Beth C 1433. It's hard to change your name guys all your packages have to be delivered they all you have to sit on your hands for like a week and a half before you get the okay and everybody can prove that they've got their items you they've rated you and all that before they will let you change your name. So if you're a new seller and you're listening to this change your name before you even get on make it something memorable make it something that um people are going to be able to to kind of keep up with I I know um just weird names come up like uh and they're really easy to remember ones there was a girl on um I think she's on Poshmark she was called white asparagus I was like what are white asparagus I didn't know but I remembered her name taco cat lady's on here because she likes tacos and cats it's easy to remember everybody remembers taco cat so you can pick just a color an animal a name a place whatever and come up with something you know um I'm gonna let you listen to her for a second because I really want to promote her.

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You guys the detail in this is just freaking crazy. Good morning guys thanks for joining me it's just freaking crazy. Um we kind of seem to think it's a mahogany wood because we do have a lot of mahogany trees down here and I did find this here but look at the aging I'm gonna message you okay sounds good uh there we go so if you're interested in this one you guys I'm gonna start running this now I did force this here in um the keys she lives in the keys I travel up and down the keys and into other states to find all right I'm hoping you guys can hear her see how big this is she's got her tape measure that would be like$50 at home goods. Exactly um guys this is$50 it's a hand carved wooden herring for 18 bucks I have this in my flea market booth and oh she has a flea market booth that makes sense I just I kind of hit it back in the back because I didn't want to sell it but I need to downsize I need to read the love. So I'm gonna run this one at 18 you guys uh for 15 seconds.

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Again it's a hand carved um wooden heron or crane I'm not sure which one it is supposed to be lots of detail um she's describing really good she's showing it uh all right thank you guys for okay nobody bought it but there's only four of us in here I swear if she was in vintage right now she'd have at least 20 people in the room and people would be buying from her in a heartbeat she's got to move categories because she's got some really good stuff. Y'all go follow her. Um which one wow you never know what you're gonna find on whatnot I'm gonna tell you where we are now this is a girl who is selling handmade loofahs you can make them you can grow loofahs I don't know if you guys know that um but she's got loofah seeds and she's selling buy 25 loofah seeds and get 25 for free so buy one get one free wow that's a hell of a deal it's IH C A R T works so I H cartworks less than one day shipping five stars let's look at her uh profile it says nothing she doesn't have anything listed it doesn't say anything she definitely Needs to add profile information. Um, she sold 161 items, she's got 371 followers, and she's just selling, she's in the plants and gardens section, and she's just selling loofah seeds, loofah seeds. It's crazy, guys. If you spend time on these apps, you are gonna find stuff and you're like, what? She's only got two people in there, me and her. Um, I think she could do better on her setup. She's got a box and then loofah seeds. She's got a bunch of papers everywhere around. Um, I think she could take a little bit more pride in showing what she's got because they look beautiful. The loofahs that she's got look gorgeous. Um, she's an attractive woman with glasses and she's taking care of herself. I just think she's got to get rid of the cardboard box. Um, I can't let me see. Let me go back. Hold on. She's got 19 things in her shop. Um she's a Christian. It says God in the waiting. Um, she's got loofahs, okra. It's uh it looks mostly like she's selling seeds. Um, maybe a few Christian things. But I definitely think she needs to put more lights in the room, get rid of the box, and show the stuff and don't hide the other part of your face. Right now, I can only see the top part of her face because she's behind the sign. So show your whole face on the screen if you're you're gonna be there, guys. She kind of looks like um right now, the way um remember in uh the Tim the Tool Man, what was that show where his his neighbor across the street, uh across the fence, always you could see the top of his face? That's what's going on right now. So she could do better if she would follow my advice, turn on some lights, fix it up a bit, and show her whole face, and maybe sell some more items. Okay, we are in a jewelry place, and I'm gonna try to get off here soon. I've been on for 50 minutes. You guys let me know in the comments. You can always leave comments on all the shows if you like these shows or not. I get to see my graphics, you know, the this many hundred people saw listen to this podcast, this many hundred people listen to this podcast. I get to see the numbers with like this whole chart and all this, but I usually wait like a week to go back and look at it and see kind of where it's at. The last time I did this, you guys liked these show episodes. So I'm gonna decide am I gonna keep doing these or not? You know, I know some of you are driving, I know some of you are delivering mail, I know some of you are getting your kids to sleep listening to me because you're regulars and you listen. Um, so I think it's fun. Okay, I'm at Willa's Pritties. It's W-I-L-L-A-S Pretties, P-R-E-T-T-Y-S. And she's got jewelry. Um, her show notes, thank goodness. Oh, she's in a raid train. It's a raid train. Did not know that. Let me click on it. It's called No Joke, These Earrings, Raid Train. So they're all earrings, and it's uh Let the Aaron, let at L E T underscore the underscore Aaron, E-E-R-I-N, and Shy Laurel. S-H-Y-L-A-U-R-E-L. Let the Aaron and Shy Laurel. I am not gonna go back and get all these people's names that I've talked about and put them hashtag in my deal. It's just gonna take me too long and I'm doing too much today. I've got to get all my orders out for last night. I've got 20 boxes to get out. So, anyways, this is Will's Pritties. She um ships in one day, she's got five-star reviews, she sold 3,000 items basically. Her profile, she doesn't have her profile listed. What's up with you guys not doing your filling out your profiles? There's nothing there. Uh, she's got she's got a giveaway, uh, 19 entries and 27 people in the shop. She's only got eight things listed. I definitely think you should have more things listed, especially for a raid train. Um, she needs to definitely work on her camera and her pictures. Only two out of, no, only three pictures out of seven are good. The other ones are kind of grainy and fuzzy and hard to see. So the first three pictures are good. The last five are not so good. Um, she's showing everything very good. These are antique screwback earrings that are cameos. She's trying to sell them for three bucks. And even with 29 people in the room, nobody got them. But that's because I think that those twist tie earrings that are so old that they wore back in like the 40s and 50s, those are not the easiest. People aren't used to those anymore. We like the other kinds for the most part, or clip-ons if you don't have your ears pierced. Let's listen to her for a second.

SPEAKER_02 49:20

Okay, they are 925. They do say it. You're gonna have to believe me, but they are here. PA! PA, there's a couple PAs. These are running, these are 925 poops, running for three dollars, you guys. Yeah, these are sterling, and look at these.

SPEAKER_06 49:34

So, this is a big long raid train today. It ends with trash panda treasures at 9 p.m.

SPEAKER_02 49:41

But yeah, these are sterling, you guys. Sterling.

SPEAKER_06 49:43

Okay, she's doing 925 sterling and it's going for five bucks right now. And there you go. So, you guys go check her out. I just followed her. It's Willa's Pretties. Okay, let me see if there's anything else in my feed that I want to feature, just real quick, because I had gone off. Okay, guys, this is one of my favorite sellers on the app. I've loved her for like, I don't know, a year and a half or something. Her name is um, I'm gonna click on her. This is a crazy inspired by gemstones. If you've ever been to my show and she's come in, I've always talked about her. She is upfront and just honest and just she's bold like me, guys. She just says what's on her mind. She is older and she doesn't seem like it. I can't remember how old she is. I think she's pushy and 70, but she looks like she's 60 and she acts like she's 45. So um, she sells jewelry. It's I-n-s-p-i-r-e-d by gemstones, inspired by gemstones. And she's running jewelry, charms, and stuff for two dollars a piece. She's got 23 people in here. She sells uh five-star review, 1,800 reviews, uh, one day shipping, and she sold 17,000 almost. On her profile, it says, I'm gonna read it while she's not talking. She it says, My passion for fashion and hair throughout my career led me to jewelry making in 2018. Now, whatnot will give me the opportunity to not only showcase gently loved and reimagined pieces, but also show my own inspired gem jewelry. I love going to certain shows, but because I do not make jewelry, I don't go to those shows, but I go in at the end of the show and see what she did. Um, so she'll do live jewelry making shows and she'll sell jewelry-making pieces if you're a jewelry maker. She has fabulous stuff, and then she'll she'll do one show where she's making it and then she'll sell it in an upcoming show. And then she's constantly on here. I think she she's on at all times. Let me go see what let me go see what upcoming shows she has. Um here, listen to her for a second.

SPEAKER_00 52:09

Because you can get more info out of the laptop than you can out of your phone or your tablet. So I'll have to go in and check.

SPEAKER_06 52:15

I was I was she is wonderful about keeping up with people's names and who people are. She's very, very good at customer service. Um, it does say, um, let's see, she's got 23 people in there right now. She's doing pendants and drilled agate slices. She's in the vintage and antique jewelry section. Tomorrow, she's doing just two dollar starts on everything. Um, it says happy Friday. Then on 4 6 at 5 a.m. What the hell are y'all? 5 a.m. She's doing another jewelry making show. So if you're into jewelry and that's your gig, she is somebody you should definitely follow. Her name, and once again, her shop name is Inspired by Gemstones. And she is lovely. I mean, she is just super sweet. She's got pendants and watches and cluster earrings and handcrafted jewelry. And I mean, she's got easily eight or ten um upcoming shows. So go follow her. Okay, I'm gonna do one more and get it up to the hour. Uh-huh. Oh, vintage. Oh, listen to this. How sweet is that? Vintage Circus just said I said, you know, my show is uh why not what not podcast? Here's my number. Let me know if you need anything. She already messaged me, and this is what good customer service looks like, guys. And community, you you message people, you check your inbox, you talk to people. It says, I can't express my gratitude strongly enough. Thank you so much for your help today and for all of your purchases. I really appreciate you. I'm looking forward to getting to know you. That's what I'm talking about, guys. It it does that didn't take too much time. And somebody, I get messages all the time, guys, because I tell you guys in my show, in my podcast, if you're doing a show, let me know and I will try to make it. So I'm gonna tell you who this person is because they messaged me, and we're gonna go. I'm gonna tell her what she needs to do, and I'm gonna tell you too. Her name is Ma M-A-A. Well, it's okay. This is hard because it's got two A's next to each other. Her name is Virginia, and it's Ma and Pa Treasures, M-A and A N D Pa P A Treasures, T-R-E-A-S-U-R-E-S, Ma and Pa Treasures. They look like they've been doing some shows on here. Uh, she says her first show, what did she say? Our first show is Thursday at 5 p.m. Come and join us, Ma and Pa's Treasures. And let's see, her profile, her first show. Okay, she only has the one show listed, guys. It says it's tomorrow at 4 p.m. She's got 80 bookmarks. Okay, let me just point out she didn't just pop on the on the app and go, oh, I'm gonna try and hope people show up. She knew what she was doing there. She walked around, she met people, she talked, she communicated, she probably bought a bunch of stuff. Here's what her profile says it says we enjoy being grandparents of two and spending as much time as we can with them, but we also enjoy flea marketing and thrifting, which in turn gets us out meeting great people. She's definitely she's made 145 of my mutual friends. She's got 486 followers and she's following 2,000 people. You gotta do that before you get have your first show. Because you guys who just get on and you have nobody there and no bookmarks and no advertising, that's why you have nobody in your show because nobody knew about your show. You should list it at least a week or two in advance, and then that way people can bookmark it and come. Now remember, a bookmarks doesn't mean that's gonna be there. Last night my show had 115 people bookmarked it. I kid you not, 115. But for whatever reason, and I'm guessing it's because a certain somebody was on the app in my same category, and they had all the people over there. Um, I only had an average of maybe 22 people in the room at a time, even though 115 people had bookmarked it. So think of it as an open house, you know, and that's really slow for me. I I will say that was a slow night last night, and I'm I'm looking at that. That's not a usual. I mean, yes, there was times it was more or there was less, but average I would say it was around 22. But they're selling antiques, collectible, and toys. It says storage unit and estate sale blowout, is where Ma and Pa's treasures are. I'm gonna just message them my number um and tell them that they can call me and tell them to bookmark some more shows and tell them they were featured on here. Okay, anyways, that's it, guys. I did a whole hour for you. Oh, message request. Hold on. This is um Wright on Time Treasures. Somebody said, can't wait to listen to the podcast. I don't know who that is. Her name's Deanna Wright, and let's just go look at her profile since she messaged me. I will follow her back. It says, um, she's got five-star reviews. She sold 185 items, one day ship. She says, hello from my attic, my garage, an overflowing office. I love vintage and shop therapy. I'm a realtor, equine specialist, equine psychotherapy world. Wow. She's a horse whisperer and she's a treasure hunter. Cat, dog, and mainly horse lover. My experience is in the resale world. I own a booth in a local resale shop. She's in the uh she's looking forward to growing in the whatnot community. Um, I'm gonna bookmark a couple of her shows. Oh, guys, she's doing something really good right here. She's doing a countdown to a thousand raid train. How smart is that? I don't know who's leading it, but it's called the countdown to a thousand sales. Oh, Franklin Hidden Treasures. You know, I messaged her once. She never messaged me back. So, you know, it's frustrating when I'm sitting here telling you guys good customer services like this. And when you message somebody, message them back. And that's somebody who did not message me back. But she's having a raid train. So um, I think that's good. Her helping other people. Um, hosted by Magnolia Honey Vintage Company. So she's got a couple raid trains by them as well. She's got a Christmas in July show. Nobody has bookmarked yet. I'll bookmark it. Um, but her name, once again, is right spelled W-R-I-G-H-T, then the word on, then time, then treasures. Right on time. Um, and yeah, so I bookmarked her and I'll let her know um that you were I talked about you on my podcast on my podcast at the end today. There, now she knows. Okay, there you go. Okay, um, all right, guys. I wanted to just let you know if you have any questions or comments or anything, I'm happy to get them. You can go to Carrie Kennedy on on uh well, you can find me on Facebook. Um, you can find me on Instagram, it's Carrie Kennedy71 there. Um, if you go into whatnot and you type in K-A-R-R-I Kennedy, my phone number is in the profile. You can message me. Like I said, I do check my messages, I do respond if I have message requests, any of that. If you're not even if I'm not following you and we're not friends, you can send me a request like I just did with uh write on time treasures. You guys, I am very easily got. You know, you could get me. Um, today I am going to pack uh a bunch of packages. I'm going to homeschool. I've got an appointment. I am go, go, go. But I think my next show is Thursday morning. Let me look that up real quick. I am going to be on. Oh my gosh, there's so many people on. Um, view profile. I'm trying to click on it. There it goes. Uh, I have 81 people bookmarked. Like I said, you never know how it's gonna be. It's tomorrow at 7:45 a.m. Please give me five stars and a rating uh that is a five-star rating and a good review. Um, if you guys have any questions, like I said, I'm out there to help you out. Um, this is just a fun show. It's not anything super, you know, informative today. Um, but I did talk about a few people if you guys want to go check them out. And uh yeah, have fun shopping and buying and selling on whatnot. And we will see you next time. Take care, guys.