edzwoo United States. Aug 07 2011 16:22. Posts 5911
To the east side,
To a deluxe apartment in the skyyyyyy
Well okay it's not on the east side and it's also not an apartment. But we moved into a new house about 3 miles east of campus/where we lived. I'm living with my roommates from last year, Jason and Teng (Jas0n and Acckerman).
Business updates: around May, eBay came out with a new policy that actually hurt us (sell thru rate must be 30% or higher or ban), so we went on a little downswing for a month. Since then though we've increased our inventory and totally maxed out our apartment, as well as filtered out a lot of our bad products. So now we're back to the same monthly sales as we had originally back in April.
Probably the most exciting thing though is we had a lot of capital just sitting in our bank account because we couldn't stock more things in our 3BR apartment. Now that we have this house we're going to buy a ton of products and try and make the business fly.
Anyway, I snagged a bunch of pics of our new place. You can see our house, a glimpse of our business, and my room.
Here's the house we're in!
Our backyard.
The den upon entering the house, leads into the living room.
Living room.
Yes, that is a Herman Miller Embody being used as a dining stool. Both chairs are Jason's but he's going to bring them up when his desk arrives.
This is the dining room. You're doing it wrong.
The garage- aka our processing facility.
This is actually the master bedroom, but it's so big that we're just using it as a living room since we have 3 equal sized bedrooms anyway. It's split into two parts.
Part two of master bedroom. We're planning on putting workout equipment here.
Jacuzzi in the master bathroom. Nice touch.
My setup! Not using my second monitor for now, though I might not set it up anytime soon since I mainly used it for poker.
Jason and I bought new mattresses. It's amazing how nicer it is than crappy campus furnished beds.
Anyway that's all for this blog. GL LP, hopefully poker comes back to the US soon so I can donk around with you guys again.
It's like a grindhouse but for business hustling, keep ballin. What the hell is a 30% sell through?
I have learned from poker that being at the table is not a grind, the grind is living and poker is how I pass the time
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edzwoo United States. Aug 07 2011 16:54. Posts 5911
You used to be able to list unlimited duplicate auctions on eBay, which eBay recently saw as problematic because search was being clogged by Hong Kong sellers mass listing the same product over and over again clogging search. They implemented a policy that now forces the seller to sell at least 30% of their total duplicate auctions, otherwise you get a policy violation which can lead to getting your account suspended and banned.
The idea of fixing search is good, but the way they implemented it is totally unfair to sellers, esp since they gave no email warning about this policy change and we actually found out when we got a violation. It would make more sense if they did something like filter the buyers search results rather than just ban sellers and pick a number (30%) that can heavily vary between markets.
There's a lot of ways it hurt us but that's the basic idea.
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Spicy United States. Aug 07 2011 16:55. Posts 1027
that is a pretty retarded and random number to choose, I guess it makes their life easy without having to breakdown and work out what each business segment needs/can have. Glad you guys got around the hiccup. Now if only Partypoker would make some sort of ruling on HU tables lol
Also, I am in need of a new quality chair, you guys seem to have a variety, any chance you can pm your/Jason's thoughts on them?
I have learned from poker that being at the table is not a grind, the grind is living and poker is how I pass the time
Czech Republic. Aug 07 2011 17:51. Posts 8915
