Archive for July, 2006
The Purchase
My 49th two foot long receipt signed, the outside Consultant hired to liquidate 4 Radio Shack’s in my area and I crashed together our beer bottles in my kitchen and saluted each other for 4 days worth of “give and take”.
That evening the “Wifey Poo” glanced over at me for no reason and stated simply, you can’t do anything half way can you”? “Nope, I replied, “I can’t”. If I had a quicker wit I’d have shot back, “If it’s any consolation I love you with all, not half my heart”.
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Yesterdays Shoreline
With right eye pressed tightly against telescoped eyepiece I peer back upon the horizon from which I started. Alas, there’s not a hint of familiar shoreline to bring relief.
Alone and venturing into uncharted waters, I wonder if reaching my destination can ever surpass the indescribable feeling of just being on the journey, on the adventure I’ve so desperately sought all these years.
If tomorrow the sea should decide to open up its depths and swallow my ship of discovery, these dead bones will rest easy knowing at least I shoved off from yesterday’s shoreline.
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Eyes Exposed To Our Light
Lives are best lived fearlessly casting intense light on our personal world of influence. As the intensity of our light and influence grows allowing our “inside” to shine “outside” demands we take hold of our pruning shears.
If we don’t, the ends of our branches of influence become weak and vulnerable. Healthy growth first matures in the trunk of our tree of life where little outside recognition is noticed.
I’ve spent the last four days working with a third party liquidator helping to close four (4) Radio Shacks here in the Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan areas. What began as a small purchase proposal ended as a large liquidation acquisition.
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Walking On Eggshells
Spent 8 hours at Radio Shack consummating my first liquidation purchase. As INXS declares in my last blog entry only “time” will tell whether I did good or not.
Outside the boundaries of the practicality of the purchase are untold treasures chests full of gained experience and future relationships.
To say I’m walking on eggshells is an understatement but there’s no time like the present to start learning. It was a large purchase and I’ll have much more to say about it but I’m busy doing inventory and organizing this purchase for maximum profit. It’s a big job, just the kind I like!
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Wheeling and Dealing
The last 24 hours was interesting. I did my first bid proposal on merchandise being liquidated at a few Radio Shacks in my area. There was a “store closing” sign out in front of one of the Radio Shacks with 50 - 70% off signs posted in the window so I went in and asked if I could take some notes. It was morning and the Store Clerks said fine and showed me around the store. I asked a ton of questions and before I knew it I was talking on the phone with the “Liquidation Consultant” hired to handle the liquidation of 4 Radio Shacks in the Southern Michigan and South Bend areas.
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Thoughts on eBay Feedback
To date I’ve maintained a 100 percent eBay feedback rating with 132 positive feed-backs from 111 eBay members.
Getting a negative eBay feedback scares me to death, at least at this point in my eBay adventure. From where I’m standing it seems like a negative feedback would be quite devastating to my eBay reputation, which is crucial to my eBay business in these embryonic stages. I didn’t have to receive straight “A’s” in Calculus, which I didn’t, to figure out that 1 negative in 20 positives dramatically pulls down your eBay feedback percentage more than 1 negative in 200. My 111 positive feedback points and 100 percent feedback rating is extremely vulnerable to one negative feedback. And if I received one negative, a second would be a death nail in my coffin. If this sounds like negative thinking, IT IS!
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Out On The Town
I got my butt into a few stores today and talked with Store Managers about selling their overstocked items. It went well. My goal wasn’t to purchase today but to get my face out into the public and make friends, which I did.
The first place I went was a large tool and automotive store with all kinds of different products for sale. It was a nice day here in South Bend and in front of the store there were many items being sold at a clearance price. I probably looked like a Sales Rep as I was dressed up pretty good and was snooping around for quite awhile outside.
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