I've been selling on eBay for over 20 years, dabbling in crypto since 2015, doing SEO and Content Marketing since the early 2000's, and within the last 8 years have become a father... After recently having my work cut back severely due to COVID-19, I've decided to try and use what I've learned over the years to make money for myself. This includes affiliate marketing, SEO, social media management, eBay sales, crypto and more. This channel will follow my successes and failures in real-time as I try to make a few bucks on the side while being a stay at home dad.
I'll probably do another update this week as they have been running for 300 days now. So keep an eye out for that video this week. I did just post another video about how to get $30 worth of bitcoin for free each month though!
Yes. There is a bot call moon bot. That is long term bot with wide range with 500 grids. I got more than 100% return from nearly one year. I think your grid count is very low. So, I think you should try that moon bot. ❤
@@ushanmadhuranga5947 I saw that bot on there, but didn't want to add more cash or stop any bots at the time. I did just make some moves, so we'll give the moon bot a shot. Thanks for the heads up.
So the bots that I used in this video were literally just the default settings. I didn't change anything and just let them go. I have a few other bots running recently where I've asked AI models what the best settings would be, and those are not doing so well lol. I plan to make another video soon to update on how those 2 BTC bots are doing now that its been over 250 days, but right now the DCA one is doing better overall. Both are still profitable over time, but the DCA one us up about 11% right now where as the grid one is up about 5%. This dip is fine though because the grid one just keeps trading, and I keep taking the profit and dumping it into other BTC DCA bots that I have setup. I actually setup a bunch of them at different price points just so that even if one DCA bot gets below the trading threshold, I have others that are still trading. But I'll put this all in an upcoming video. Thanks for the sub, sorry for the lack of updates recently, summer was busy with the kids being home lol. Let me know if you have any other questions and I'll try to answer them the best I can.
@@type2mediaThanks for the reply. I'll be looking forward to your next video. If you could share some parameters of the bots that would be great, because the default settings are 8 or 15 safety orders and in the video it seems like there are 10. I was planning to start a huge DCA bot in the next bear market, from around 50K all the way down to 20K, 25 steps and increasing amount the lower price gets. Take profit at 9999% so only to accumulate BTC. Anyway, as is said. Looking forward to your next video. Greetings from the Netherlands 👍🏻
@@ivojanssen6651 I just posted a new video (you inspired me to get another put out) near the end of it I kind of talk through my parameters of the DCA bots and Grid bots so you can see those. The vid is processing now, but it should be good to go shortly. As for the original bot I setup though the parameters are as follows: Price Scale 1.00% | Safety Orders 8 | Volume Scale 1.5 | Take Profit Ratio 1.00% - hope that helps.
@@ivojanssen6651 haha, no reason to spend time on fancy editing when just trying to get information across in a simple way. So I can just setup the camera, talk to it for 10 minutes and then merge it with my screen recording and be done.
Gotta make sure they reach their destination in the same condition. I hate when things get ruined in shipping so I do my best to ensure it doesn’t happen.
What's a good, but cheaply priced cellphone for the Helium Mobile service? I wanted to check out this Helium Mobile service so I bought a Blu G73 from Amazon for $99.95 plus tax. It's got 128mb ram. It s unlocked and the Helium Mobile pSim slotted in perfectly. I'm mining daily Helium Mobile cryptos just leaving the house and finding up to maximum 40 Hexes.
I honestly didn't even know CED's were a thing until last year when I picked up a collection. Did anyone actually own these things when they first came out?
ugh, I wish I knew. From my basic understanding of the whole thing is that they filed bankruptcy and restructured the company to free up funds, and whatever they could free up they paid back to their creditors (those of us with money in the earn program). Since this money wasn't enough to make everyone whole, people had to vote on the plan to approve it. It got approved and we got back what we got back... it's a little annoying now though since FTX was a similar-ish situation and their people are going to be made 100% whole again, but I dont believe those were people in an "earn" program, so it's a little different. If you held coins in the custody wallet on Celsius you got 100% of your money returned... or at least that's my understanding. Either way, the whole thing is a giant cluster f----
Have you ever walked out of a movie in the theater before? I can only recall 2 that I've actually walked out of before they were over - Powder and Van Helsing. A movie has to be really bad for me to spend money and walk out...
been selling for 20+ years.... have yet to get a single negative feedback yet... I'm not selling items that are caked in dirt, they are video games. If they are cartridges and the pins are extremely dirty, they get cleaned... disc games are rarely dirty. If consoles are super dirty they get a wipe down, but nothing I sell is that dirty to begin with.
I source from all over, thrift stores, garage sales, estate sales, local auctions, friends, etc. In most cases I don’t refurbish, if a console is dirty and easy to clean up, I’ll clean it, but I’m mainly more concerned with the games and consoles actually working, so if I have the ability to, I test everything before listing. If it’s not tested I will mention that in the description. I have a lot of consoles to test on, but not all of them, so some games get listed untested and I’ll accept returns if something doesn’t work.
I still believe that the Xbox 360 was the best console of that generation... I had that, plus a PS3, but there was just something about that Xbox 360 controller that set it apart from the Playstation. Which did you prefer?
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What was your favorite Wii game? While the Wii was innovative at the time, I felt like the game library was kind of lacking outside of some 1st party Nintendo games that took full advantage of the motion controllers.
Honestly that’s every Nintendo console/handheld after the GameCube. The Wii had nonstop 3rd party flops, the DS had a huge chunk of them WiiU was also plagued with it and even the switch had nothing but garbage mobile/cheap game ports until the AAA games started getting ported then the quality bumped up a bit but is still severely lacking. Doesn’t help that nintendo consoles just aren’t powerful or profitable enough for devs to actually make games with Nintendo console specifically in mind. It’s just not profitable at all.
@@Pendragon31 I have a few consoles listed in my store right now, Wii, N64, Game Boys, Wii-U. As for nintendo, I have an SNES and a Gamecube that I haven't listed yet as well, but hopefully will soon. You can check out the store here - type2.media
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Just set up my Bobcat 300. Correct me if I'm wrong but you are also mining rewards by using their cellular plan? Is that what the mobile mapping is? I have only been averaging 125 IOT/day with the bobcat 300
Yeah, I'm using their cellular plan to get MOBILE tokens as a reward for allowing them to use my location data, or "mapping" as they call it. That does way better than the Bobcat 300 at this time. Bobcat 300 can only mine IOT, and as you can see from my video around the 8:00 mark, I'm getting about the same as you in terms of IOT rewards daily. But, it barely uses any energy to run, and it's tucked away in an upstairs bedroom, so I don't see any reason not to just leave it on.
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The only thing you actually make is if they send you a check, you deposit it, and it clears... or do a direct deposit. If I did this or If I did or had I sold then... that doesn't count. Only the final transfer amount when you cash out for actual cash and deposit it in your bank. I mean, if in 1987 instead of buy a Macintosh SE for $3,500, I had put the money into Apple stock, I'd have $60,000,000 dollars today... instead of a Macintosh SE that only fetches maybe $100 on ebay. If... You're also not deducting the cost of electricity. Or the time you've spent thinking about this thing and creating charts, at say... $10/hr for your time. Labor costs will eat it all away, labor costs are any time the activity costs you, regardless if you're working hard or not... or just thinking about it. Guys on a construction site may not be shoveling dirt, just standing around thinking, but they still want to get paid. RU-vid, for example, I started 15 years ago with less than a few hundred dollars of PC equipment. Last year I upgraded and spent 2,500 on a legit video rig I built myself from parts sourced from ebay. Ok, so that's 3,000... but I can use it for other things. Not alot spent.... if I say I used the PC equipment for other things and I would of bought it anyway, then no money spent at all. In those 15 years of time, I haven't made a single penny on RU-vid. Not a dime. 500 videos taking 10 hours each to make and think about on average, times 10/hour, comes out to a $50,000 investment of labor. Add in $3,000 of PC hardware, for $53,000 spent in labor and costs, to get a Return of Investment of ZERO. Once you factor in the labor, it casts a different light on it... from that being just a fun side hobby, to that of a complete catastrophy as an investment of time and energy. So you got to factor in all the costs, including the hidden ones. Like your monthly cable bill, that your Helium rig needs. See, if you tried to scale this, and say set up a second miner at a profitable intersection in town... you'd have to rent the land, get an electric pole hook up, get a cable hook up, and pay for the land rental or taxes, electricity, and cable connection to the internet. Even if you're just renting a 1x1 foot plot of land enough to park a power pole... it's still... wildly unprofitable. If you wanted to expand out into your city... it's just impossible. Maybe if you had a ton of friends and finagled every single one of them to park one of your rigs on their window sill and mooch off their internet and electricity, the cost of the boxes alone... not to mention the labor to track and watch it all... make it... untenable. Building out a 5G network is even worse... those boxes cost $3,500 to $8,000 each
It’s pretty simple to cash out and deposit to your bank account though. I just don’t do it yet because I believe in the project and believe the price will go up.
I don't know how familiar you are with tracking tools, but I'm not sure how to rate the bitcoin from which spike you profited. All collectible markets spiked as people recklessly spent their "free" government bread. All the ones I watch have dropped. I checked the bitcoin index as well. It too spiked during the same period, reaching a max in 2022, like every other market. What I see in crypto currently is a boost from the bad economy / inflation. People put their money into assets like gold and silver in bad times as a way of conserving its value while the dollar does its thing. I think crypto is the same way; however, there is no value of crypto beyond its nature as a currency to be exchanged. Gold and silver are valuable for more than their exchange, but also their utilitarian value. The crypto market is still young, but I see it as inflated by hype, so you have to judge when to sell. I think if it were to drop tremendously again as it did after the max in 2022, it would be just as fast. There's no product or real economy behind crypto.
I've been into crypto since about 2014-15 and I've followed many dips. So far the BTC market has followed the same 4 year pattern revolving around the BTC halvening (which is when the rewards for miners get cut in half). This is typically what has caused most of the spikes in the price. Yes, the stimulus checks didn't hurt things in 2020-2021, but there was also a halvening event. The current run is being pushed by the halvening (which is coming up in less than a month) as well as investment firms and wall street getting in on bitcoin with the approval of the ETFs. I've ridden the BTC wave for years now and have a decent understanding of the economics behind it (definitely not a pro at all of it though). I do think that this time might be a bit different though due to the influx of wall street money this time and the ETFs. I expect a pull back on the price at some point (maybe later this year), but I don't think it will be as drastic as it was in 2021-2022 and I think it will rebound quickly due to the ETFs this time around. Plus there is talk of ETH etfs and things like that. Either way though, I don't think it's ever going to drop down to the prices that I paid when we put this eBay sales money into it; I think we'll be alright on that.
@@WhatsOnMyShelf it's a buit-in mechanic of the bitcoin framework. It essentially limits the supply of bitcoin in circulation by cutting the mining rewards in half. It's setup to happen on a certain block on the bitcoin blockchain. So while it doesn't specifically happen every 4 years exactly, based on the mining rate of today, you can predict about when it will happen.
You can offer free shipping on heavy and small items by building in cost. If and sub-1lb items sell for $10 based on normal condition, you can estimate around $5 shipping plus 30 cent fixed transaction fee. The 13 oz to 1lb items can cost $6-7. You can get an estimate on shipping costs to various zip codes by going into past orders and selecting print another label then entering the data for a package. You are able to see cost for USPS, Fedex, UPS, etc.. The reason why free shipping is better is that shipping is viewed as a hidden cost and often a hinderance (even though most states tax online purchases). Additionally, discount codes apply to pre-shipping cost. That is if a person had a $5 coupon, went to buy an item that was priced at $3 + $2 shipping, the coupon would only discount $3. By building shipping cost into the price, the buyer gets the entire coupon value, which is a big incentive.
All my items have the cost of shipping built in, but it's more of just an average. I look at the recent sold comps and figure out exactly what they are selling for, with and without shipping, and price accordingly. I'm not too concerned about estimating shipping exactly because it evens out over time when I save on shipping by shipping closer. And I typically only ship USPS because it's right around the corner from my house and easy to make drop offs during the week. If I happen to be selling something a bit larger, I'll offer up other options for shipping (if I'm charging shipping as extra), but typically not.
gotta love eBay math... I was just going off what it said at the top of my order screen. The total they calculate includes taxes and stuff like that, so just adding up the sales themselves won't give the same number. When it's 3 items I guess I should do it manually, but when it's a lot of items, I'm just gonna read off what eBay tells me at the top of the order screen :P Good catch though!
It's a bit hard for me to make a video like that, that will work for everyone (it depends on what exchange you want to use). But the easiest way is probably just to send your MOBILE tokens from the Helium Mobile app, over to Coinbase, and then sell them there, and then send that money directly to your bank account. You can essentially do this with any exchange that supports fiat withdrawl and the Mobile token as well.
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