of these live QAs is to help you guys with everything concerning e-commerce, dropshipping, and everything in the middle. The point here is to help from dropshippers to dropshippers to help you guys in every step of the way, whether you just got started, or even if you have gotten started, you're making some sales, you want to learn how to make more and how to scale your business successfully. That is what we're all about. And with AutoDS Automation, it makes so much easier. But that's not the point of this live. The point of this live is for you guys to ask your questions. Let me help you guys out. I have over five years of dropshipping experience, and I'm still doing it to this day. And that's pretty much it. That's what this live is all about. And before we begin, I would like to show you guys some new things that have been happening, some new things that have been going around in the AutoDS system and not just. So let's begin by talking about what we have coming up in just, I think, about a week from now, which is Christmas and New Year. So I hope that you guys prepared your dropshipping stores for New Year's and Christmas. If you haven't done so yet, right now one week before is probably not the best time because you won't be able to deliver your products on time for Christmas. But for that, you can always use the e-commerce calendar that we have created. It's absolutely free no matter what selling channel you're selling on, what tools you're using. You should use the e-commerce calendar that we have, which will help you guys understand what holidays are coming up next, so you won't miss the next one. So if you miss Christmas, that's a big no-no, but never mind. There are so much more holidays to come, and you can always grab next year. So if you use the e-commerce calendar, you'll always know what holidays are coming up, what special events we have coming up. Guys, by the way, can someone just leave me a quick message on the chat, let me know that you guys can hear me, that the audio is working, that there's no problems, because I've had previous lives where I pretty much talked to myself for a few minutes. So just let me know in the chat that everything is okay, and I will continue talking where I left off. So the e-commerce calendar, you guys need this to understand exactly what holidays are coming up, and not just what holidays are coming up, but also, of course, when they're coming, but also how to prepare your stores for that specific holiday, so you guys can rake in more sales. And again, it's absolutely free, just search for autoDS e-commerce calendar, or head to autoDS.com, and you'll have access to the e-commerce calendar from the bar up top. Okay, so let's begin with the questions that you guys are starting to ask in the chat, working fine. Thank you, Apparel Jamstore. So let's begin a little bit with what you guys are asking in the live chat, since I can see that it's already moving two minutes into the live. So let's begin, and then I will also head to our Facebook community group, where I saw that people are also asking questions before the live. You know what, maybe I'll start from there. Let me just open up that page and see what question you guys asked. And for now, so besides the e-commerce calendar that we have coming up, which is really important, not coming up, but that you guys should be using to know what holidays are coming up, which is really important, there are many new features that came out recently, like the product research feature. I don't know if you guys check that out yet. So we have a new product feature, product research feature integrated into the system. So you guys will have absolutely no problem finding great trending products from there, and we're adding so many best selling products to that database. Right now, we're using suppliers like Amazon and Aliexpress, but soon guys, soon you're also going to have private suppliers. So you guys can start dropshipping from private suppliers. And if you're dropshipping on marketplaces like eBay, eBay makes it a little bit hard for retail dropshippers to begin their new dropshipping accounts with all these temporary suspensions. And, you know, they need all these verifications and they want to get to know you and all of that. So that's making a lot of people's lives harder. And well, the solution for that is one, you can work with wholesale dropshipping suppliers, which is what we'll have soon on the AutoDS system, on the product research feature that we just added to AutoDS. You can also now start using Aquiline tracking conversions. So if anyone has a flagged eBay account and you're not getting impressions, you're not getting much impressions in sales, you can now use Aquiline tracking conversions. And what this does is it takes the zip code that you guys have inside your eBay listing. And once your order has been shipped and there's tracking information, then AutoDS, the fulfilled by AutoDS service will automatically or can automatically convert any tracking number that you get to Aquiline from Amazon to Aquiline tracking numbers. So what this means is all of your tracking information, the products will be shipped out from the zip code that you guys have inside your listings, which means you are not breaching eBay's item location policy, which means you guys can now unflag your accounts, just contact eBay, let them know that you are shipping from the right item, from the right item location, you're not breaching the item location policy, which is what flagged your accounts in the first place, they're represented as well, check it and you will get your store unflagged. So that's another thing that we have going on recently. So we talked about the product research feature, we've got the best items to sell there. Let's start with the questions, because soon I will get to the point where I won't be able to answer all your guys questions. But in all my lives, I do answer all your guys questions, start asking in the chat, even though you already did, I'm going to start addressing all of you guys soon. Okay, so let me share my screen and let's begin with your guys questions. Okay, by the way guys, if you guys are asking questions that a technical question about the AutoDS platform like I don't know a feature that's not working or a bug that you guys have going on, leave that for the technical support, you can open up a ticket, you can start a live chat and get help from there. I cannot help you guys with technical things inside the system, but I can help you guys get on the right track on your drop shipping journey and start making more sales and profit. Okay, so let's see the comments that we have. Let's see all of them. Okay, can you explain more about Facebook marketplace and how it can be paid when, how, how we can be paid when, when we have orders? And the importance is that when we are in Israel, how to sell on USA Facebook marketplace, must we change the address or make a new one, must be clear before starting in Facebook marketplace? Okay, Haba, that's a great question. Let's get to the answer here. So in order to drop ships successfully on the Facebook marketplace, you have to have a few requirements up front, which one of them is you need to be a US citizen living inside the United States, or if you want to do it behind the curtains, you can just know someone from the United States.  Um, that, that is because after you make $500 in sales on the Facebook marketplace, I don't need to share a screen while I'm explaining this to you guys. So that's because once you make $500 in sales on the Facebook marketplace, what happens is Facebook will ask for a social security number identification and so forth, and they want to make sure that you live in the United States. Now, if you don't have, if you don't have, if you cannot send the identification and all of that, then eBay will stop, you know, paying out for your orders after the $500 threshold. So that's one thing that you have to have going on. The second thing is that your Facebook account needs to be from a US IP address. So if you live in Israel or anywhere else outside the United States, and you're not using a US IP address to connect to Facebook, then your Facebook profile will not have the shipping options when you are creating a listing on the Facebook marketplace. And if you don't have the shipping options, then Facebook won't be able to show it to all 50 states, 90 states, which means you'll make less traffic, less impressions and less sales on your Facebook marketplace account. And dropshipping won't be so much really, you know, worth it on the Facebook marketplace. So those are the prerequisites. And let me share a little bit more if you want to know what other requirements you need for the Facebook marketplace.  Thought I had it open, maybe I closed it. Yeah, I think I have it open already here. Yeah, here we go. Okay, so here's our blog. And what you want to do here is search for Facebook requirements. Here we go. The requirements to dropship on the Facebook marketplace. So go inside this blog article, guys. If you don't know our blog articles, if you guys don't know about our YouTube channel, this is the time right now to subscribe to our YouTube channel to always stay updated because this is what we're doing to help you guys and so much more.  We have the content department working around the clock, popping out these articles for you guys with so much value. And once again, everything is done from dropshippers with experience for you guys. So everything is the right amount of info, the right amount of value, everything that you guys really need to get started. So here we have the requirements to dropship on the Facebook marketplace. The first one, you are a citizenship because you want to pass that $500 benchmark that I just talked about. Can non-US citizens dropship on Facebook? What's the starting budget which is about $100, $200 just to fulfill your first few orders? But yeah, now we're getting out of context. So make sure to go through our blog page and read what we have there. Okay, I'll stop. Actually, I'll keep sharing because we got more questions. Let's get to it. I hope I didn't close it. I think I did. Nope, there it is. Okay, if some Aqueline tracking numbers are not available, the player site is delivered. The item is not there. Once again, that's technical. So just leave an open ticket for our support. But I'm glad that you're using Aqueline tracking numbers. Michelle, that's technical support. Reach our chat. Until now, I cannot use AutoDS. Exactly, the extension doesn't work. That's technical. Again, use the chat. Since moving to B2, I've had so many problems week after week. Eisen Thomsen, that is exactly why we have the chat support and the tickets. You can use the chat support to get chat one-on-one. But in this case, I would prefer opening a ticket so you will have a clear history log of everything that happened and everything that's been done to help you and until you finally get your solution. I see that you have a few problems here. So just reach out to them. By the way, guys, I don't know if you guys know this, but I am also a customer in AutoDS, just like anyone else. If I have a problem, I open a ticket. And I do that purposely. No one knows that it's me. No one from the health department knows that it's me. And that's because I really want to see how everything works from the bottom to the top. And it's working pretty well. Of course, there's bugs now and then. Of course, things won't be perfect and won't work every now and then. But overall, I've been in AutoDS for over four years now. And I'm a pretty happy customer. Nothing can be so perfect, but it is automated. The support works, the automated orders works, the tracking numbers, the conversions, the automatic updating, the automatic returns, the simple import processes, your drafts. Everything around the system is really working pretty well. So when you have bugs, when you have things like that, I don't need to share my screen once again. So when you have bugs and things like that, don't lose faith. Just reach out to our support. They will help you. There is no such thing as not getting an answer and no such thing as not getting a solution. Okay, so I think that's pretty much it from Facebook. So let's head over to the live chat and continue answering questions there. Okay, so let's see what questions we have. Hey, hi, Jam's daughter. Hi. That's me. That's my message. Sorry, guys. I'm just moving one by one. I'm not reading the message before I show it to you guys. I'm going over all of your messages. I just bought this program a couple of days ago. What's the best way to gain the necessary knowledge to get started? Welcome budget productions. First of all, it depends what selling channel you want to drop ship on. If you're not sure, if you don't know where you want to drop ship on, what suppliers you want to use, then you really have to start from the beginning.  If you go to our playlists, I think I clicked on the cover photo for by accident. Yeah. So if you just click on playlists on our YouTube channel, once again, youtube.com slash auto DS, then here you can find a subject that's interesting for you to get started. For example, if you want to start on Shopify, then you have the Shopify, let's see where it is. Not the platform videos. We have the auto DS Shopify course. If you want to take it more step by step one by one, we also have Shopify dropshipping, by the way. This is every video that has to do with Shopify dropshipping. We've got 40 videos over there. So if you want to start with Shopify, you can see some random videos over there just to get your head around the whole concept. And if it's interesting for you then head to auto DS.com slash courses. And this is absolutely free guys. I'm not trying to market anything. I'm not trying to sell you guys anything, all free information. Do with it as you wish. So here you have a free Shopify course. There are 35 lessons here. I recorded them one by one and I went step by step on how to create a successful and converting Shopify store going over everything, product research, audience research, connecting and setting up your Shopify store. Everything that goes in between marketing your Shopify store using Facebook ads, everything here once again is absolutely free. You can start taking these lessons right after watching this live and see if Shopify is fit for you. You don't have to actually do everything that I'm talking about in these lessons. Just watch them, see if it's good for you and if it is, you can take the course again and start implementing these steps and start building your Shopify store. But that's if you want to start with Shopify. If you want to start with the Facebook marketplace then what I would suggest to do is search in our videos. You can also once again go to the Facebook marketplace. Or is it Facebook? We've got a live case study where I showed you guys, I think there's about 10 days of lessons there where I showed you guys day by day how my Facebook marketplace drop shipping account worked, what I did from day one, how I connected everything, how I find product, what products to sell, where I got those products from, where I bought them. I also showed you guys what products sold on my Facebook account and there is no blurring. Everything is 100% transparent in that live case study just to help you guys get started. We also have Autodesk tutorials for Facebook marketplace if you're having some trouble. And then you've got the playlists for Facebook marketplace dropshipping. So here you've got a lot of videos, even if your account is on hold what you need to do. You've got an interview where I interviewed Patrick, a very successful Facebook marketplace dropshipper, how to use the software, what beginner mistakes you want to avoid, how to start dropshipping the requirements to begin. I also talked about a few minutes ago. So that's if you want to start Facebook. And once again, if you're not the video watching type, that's absolutely fine. You can also simply head to our blog channel and search for where's our blog. Let's open it again. What you need to do is simply head to our blog channel and simply search for the word Facebook or Facebook marketplace. And then you'll see everything that we've got there. So here I'll search for Facebook marketplace. So once again, if you're not a reader, if you're not the viewing type, you don't want to watch videos, you'd rather read, then here you've got all kinds of things on Facebook marketplace top nine reasons why it works. The best suppliers to use for beginners, the requirements of dropship on the Facebook marketplace, which I talked about in this live, how to dropship on the Facebook marketplace, a full step by step guide. Amazon to know the best Facebook marketplace categories for dropshipping. So if you want to start on Facebook, you've got everything that you need. You want to start on Shopify, you've got everything that you need. And eBay, of course, we've got our mentorship program where Daniel, sorry, I don't need to say my screen now, where Daniel, our mentor teaches you guys, it's all one on one with a professional dropshipping mentor. Daniel is running many, many, he's our e-commerce manager. He's running many stores for us, not just from one marketplace to one supplier, but pretty much every marketplace that you guys can think of. We're dropping on Walmart and Amazon and so many other places, Wix, WooCommerce. I don't have everything on top of my head. So Daniel is also our eBay mentor. He's done so many things on eBay, unspending accounts, helping with product research and step by step, everything, everything that you need. This guy can help you. I have personal experience with him and he's a very smart guy. There's also an interview with me and him on our YouTube channel. So you guys can check that out too. So this guy can really help you get your eBay dropshipping business going. Another way to start eBay dropshipping to learn about it is once again, head to our blog page. We have so many articles on eBay, especially how to start. I remember the article's name, how to dropship on eBay, I think it was. Let's search for that. Here we go. How to dropship on eBay step by step beginner's guide. So this is where you want to start. If you want to start dropshipping on eBay, you can click, I'm not sharing my screen, sorry guys. So I can click on the post comment on the left side and here are the topics that we have here. You can click on something to get to it quickly, but mainly we're going through step by step everything that you need to do to start a successful eBay dropshipping business. And if this is too short for you, if you read everything and you really want to get started and you want more information, if you still feel like you're not, you don't have enough, then you can once again head to the courses page. Now this one isn't free, but it's worth so much because you're taking an eBay course and you can also sign up for the mentorship program here, this building converting eBay store for just $97 guys. You're making this profit in a day or two once your eBay store is up and running. And that's pretty much it. You've got the course, you've got the mentorship program, you've got our YouTube channel, you've got our blog page. So all of that is going to help you out. Start your eBay dropshipping business if you want eBay. So once again to address your question, I don't know what selling channel you want to sell on, but we have the solution for everything. And with AutoDS, you can simply use any one of our 25 supported suppliers to import products from any one of those suppliers really easily to those marketplaces and start selling really quickly where you can automate your prices, you can automate the stock so you don't have to worry about if your supplier runs out of stock or if the supplier starts changing the prices and you may lose money if you're doing things manually. Importing products, tens, hundreds, thousands in just a few seconds, automating your orders, scaling your business really easily. This is the way to go. I don't know if you know any personal dropshippers who are succeeding with their dropshipping business, but if you do, ask them if they're using automation tools and you'll see that there's no way to succeed without it. All right, so there's many questions. I'm going to start moving a little bit faster. I have an eBay account already set up for 100. Okay, so you just answered my question. So you want a dropship on eBay? Great. Okay, with 100% positive feedback, I want to do it right. I don't want to mess up positive feedback if possible. So yeah, positive feedback, you're on the right track. Customer service is what it's all about on eBay. So you want to take care of your customers because that's what eBay wants you to do. They don't care what you're selling.  They simply want to see that your customers are not angry. They're getting their products on time. The product is as described and they're overall satisfied with your service and with the product that they purchased from you. So you want to sell high quality products and you want to also be in the right categories. Budget productions, if you are completely clueless on how to dropship on eBay, I cannot teach you everything in this live, but I can give you all the pointers that you need to take the right steps moving forward from here. Our blog page, read the how to dropship on eBay step-by-step guide that I showed you. Go to our YouTube channel, watch more videos on eBay. We have a full playlist on that. You can also check out our eBay course. Once you did, once you took all of those steps and you want to take the next step, check out our eBay course and sign up for the mentorship program. That's if you really care about your business and you really want to stay here for the long term and that's exactly why we created that program. Same, okay, same. Let's move on. Top, red, etc. But I'm worried about Vero. Vero is a very good subject. I'm sharing my screen, guys. You should be worried about Vero because you don't want to get your account suspended for importing products that you are not allowed to. Let me just log out of WordPress because it doesn't look good. All right, so what you want to do on eBay Vero? I know I talked about this a few times, guys, but it has so much value. So I'm going to talk about it again. Our blog page, what I'm going to do is head over to our blog and you're talking about Vero. So what do you think we should search? Let's search for Vero. Better yet, eBay Vero. Search for that. And check out the first result, eBay Vero. How to avoid copyright infringement on your drop shipping store. I like the fact that you guys are asking questions and I have the content already ready for you guys because it's showing you guys how much thought and how much work we're putting in beforehand to help you guys and to answer all you guys questions before you even have to go to anyone else to find answers and they may not be the right ones. Our goal here is to help you guys succeed because our success is mutual. When you guys succeed with your drop shipping stores, we're also succeeding on our side. So that is why it's so important for us to give you guys the right steps and the right amount of value. So what is this article about? What is eBay Vero? How does eBay Vero work? For those of you who don't know what Vero is, it's eBay's Verification Rights Owners Program where they simply tell you, hey, you can't sell and we don't mind you selling here but you can't sell copyrighted products. You can't sell trademark products, patented products. You can't sell fire hazard products, choking hazard products, you know, those that are not safe for babies, for kids and so forth, unless of course you have permission to do so. So what you want to do is avoid importing such products. When you do that the first time, eBay will give you a little slap on the wrist, second time bigger warning, third time probably going to be a bye-bye. So you want to avoid eBay Vero. Now if you got a Vero but a long time has passed, I think it's about a year, maybe a little bit more, then it kind of resets. So don't worry if you got a Vero last year or half a year ago, let time progress, fix your listings, make sure it doesn't happen again and once again, it resets. So if you get three Vero violations in three years, it's not going to be any problem. How to avoid Vero on eBay? So you have the whole explanation here and by the way, we're also embedding the videos inside the blog articles. So once again, if you're the viewer type, you can simply click on play and start watching the video. Inexperienced eBay sellers find themselves locked out of their accounts or suspended from their seller accounts time and time again.  So there you have the full explanation on eBay Vero and of course how to appeal against eBay Vero once you accidentally got a Vero and you know, a lawyer reached out or eBay reached out to you from their lawyer and they suspended your account right now when you need to appeal. You know, you don't want to leave your account suspended with funds inside and all that. So we have the solution on also how to appeal. So everything around eBay Vero on our blog page, on our YouTube channel, that's all the information that you really need to keep your store safe. How come 40% of my auto stock products and auto DS are in stock on Amazon at this moment? Check your settings. There's something wrong there. Once again, this is for tech support, but I've had a lot of users, I've noticed a lot of users who on the auto DS settings, they set that the item will go out of stock if the supplier has three or less or five or less in stock or other reasons for the product to be on hold or out of stock. Besides that, if you see that your settings are fine and there's nothing wrong with it, I don't need to share my screen here. If you see that your settings are fine and there's nothing wrong with it, then simply open up a support ticket. I've had this problem once before, got it fixed once and didn't see it again. Okay, I got to start moving faster, working fine. Thank you. That's the audio that I asked you guys if you guys can hear me. Yes, I have this issue, but sometimes it says 100% overshipping time set, which is six days, but when I check Amazon, it's not. I forgot what we're talking about here. Please refresh my memories. Michelle, you sound great. Can you put the calendar link in the chat? Yeah, sure. Michelle, thank you for telling me that I sound great. I know that you mean the sound quality and not the actual sound of my voice, but auto DS e-commerce calendar. Let me drop the link right here. There we go. Auto DS e-commerce calendar. Okay, there you go, Michelle. I dropped it off in the chat. Okay, moving on. How long does it take for auto DS to order with auto fulfillment? Pretty much no time, just a few seconds to a few minutes. It shouldn't take longer than that. Now, if you have in your settings, you can click in your settings to automatically issue out the orders as soon as they come in. So while you sleep, while you travel, while you eat, an order comes in, it gets fulfilled for you automatically and gets sent out to the buyer, or you can configure that you want to send the order to auto order fulfillment.  You want to analyze them. Maybe you want to cancel some of them and you want to issue some of them. So you'll be able to change the status one by one, send it to auto order, or once again, set it automatically to do it. It only takes a few seconds, a few minutes, a few seconds up to a few minutes. Can we sell on eBay UK as a foreigner? Sure. So if you guys want to start drop shipping on eBay, then you have the choice to drop ship on eBay US, eBay UK, eBay Canada, eBay France, eBay Germany, eBay UK, if I didn't say it, eBay Australia, I think I said it. You guys can start eBay seller accounts on any one of those marketplaces, just like starting on eBay US. If you don't live in the US, there's still no problem to do it. Same thing for other regions. And I recommend to do this guys, because when you're trying out different markets in different regions, then you'll notice that you'll start getting a lot more sales, even on products that didn't sell well in the US, because let's say it's saturated in one place, it won't be in another marketplace. So it's definitely a good time to check it out. Are you open 24 hours? Well, the platform is open 24 hours, if that's what you mean, the platform never goes down. Me personally, I'm open, I would say nine, 10 hours a day. Are these new suppliers going to be available for the UK? We seem to get left behind from USA, everything on ads should be available to you mean auto-DS, should be available to us in Europe. Okay, Paul, what suppliers are we talking about? But by the way, we're not leaving out the UK, the UK is a big market and we're definitely tapping into it. So you can drop ship using eBay UK as a selling channel and auto-DS and get everything automated and you can use UK suppliers to import products. Now, if you guys want to know what kind of suppliers we have, let me show my screen. And we're always adding more guys, we're always adding more. So I'm going to head to autoDS.com slash suppliers. Now here, we have all the suppliers that we support today, and we're always always, like I said, adding more. Now you can use all of these suppliers. Okay, and look at the regions here. Let me zoom in on the screen so you guys can see it more. I'll even maximize my screen so you guys won't see my pretty face. I was being sarcastic. Okay, so we've got all of these suppliers that you guys can see here. And here we also have regions. So if you want to get a supplier from a specific region like you say, okay, you can use all of these suppliers to drop ship on eBay. And on eBay, you can use any marketplace like the UK. But how do I know what suppliers we have from the UK? You can simply click on United Kingdom and Voila. So you can use Aliexpress UK, Amazon UK, Banggood UK. You can also use eBay as a supplier. But if eBay is your selling channel, then don't use it as your supplier because you'll have problems with tracking information, double tracking in your store. Bobby gets suspended pretty quick. But if you drop ship on top of Fireface, you can definitely use eBay as your supplier. You can use Wave for UK, Costway UK, Vita XL UK. And this is just the beginning. Once again, guys, we're adding more suppliers. If you guys checked out this page a month ago, two months ago, three months ago, you'd see how, you know, every month we're adding more or almost every month. Okay. What a client asks me for tracking number, which one do we give because the one that was converted to Amazon for Amazon doesn't work. The one that was converted for Amazon. I don't know exactly what you mean by the one that was converted for Amazon last, but you have two choices to convert tracking numbers where eBay will be able to support it. And that's if you're using the fulfilled by Autodesk service. Let me show you those two options if you're not familiar with it. So I'm going to show my screen again. And let's go to the Autodesk platform. This is the product research. Let's go to the platform. Use the product research tool, guys. If you haven't seen it yet, it's free inside your subscription. So just check it out. See what items you have there. Best sellers, you've got the item ratings there and pretty much everything that you need, the item specifications, a one button quick import. And the only reason that it's loading slow right here, guys, is because when I'm using the streaming app and I'm sharing my screen, it's making things a little bit slower. Okay. So what did we want to do? Once again, the conversions. Okay. So let's head to the settings. And here you have two options, like I mentioned. So I'm going to check, I'm going to use an eBay store because it's mainly for eBay stores and dropshipping from Amazon US. Okay. So here, where is it? Where is it? Where is it? So first you have the default item country. Always make sure that this is that you're using the right country, using the right country in your policy, in your item listing. So if you're dropshipping from suppliers in the US, then you can use the United States. But if you're dropshipping from the UK, then your default item country should be UK or just change it according to what it is. What I wanted to show you here was the tracking conversion.  So you can click on that. So one, you can disable it, convert all orders, tracking numbers to Blue Care Express. Blue Care Express is supported by eBay. So eBay won't say that your tracking is uploaded on time, but not validated. So now it will be validated with Blue Care Express. Excuse me. Or you can convert all tracking numbers to Aquiline with zip code masquerade, meaning what I explained earlier, where the zip code that you have here, okay, the zip code that you have here will be what the tracking information shows. So it will show that you shipped from this zip code, and then you can get your account on flag in case it got flagged by eBay.  In order for that to work, of course you're going to need the fulfilled by auto TS service right here. Click it in and automatic orders is to issue out your orders as soon as they come in, which I explained earlier. If you don't have it checked in, then you'll need to manually go to the orders page and change the order status from pending, send it to auto order. Okay, so that's the difference there. And I hope I pretty much answered you there. Okay, let's move on. The product finder for UK is poor. I can't find any products available for five day delivery. The whole thing seems to be geared towards USA and not US, you mean UK. You're talking about the auto DS finder, which is also a pretty good tool. I don't remember the last time I tried it for the UK, but what I suggest to do is if you don't see that you're getting good results from there, then you can simply go to UK, Amazon.co.uk or any other UK supplier that I showed you earlier. You can simply go to autoDS.com slash suppliers and check out what supplies we have there from the UK and start importing best selling products that they have there and see what's starting to sell. Once you start to see that an item is selling, even if it's one out of 10, one out of 20, one out of 30 products, focus on that product and more products that are similar to it, more variations, more colors, more dimensions, and you'll slowly start to see that you'll discover a niche that's really good for your stores. And then you can maybe make a niche store or you can, if it's an eBay, then you may not want a niche store. You can just upload a whole bunch of general products, but always have categories that are trending hot. So you got one thing that's trending, but selling well, keep that, add more listings, but always test out the market for new categories and niches to always add on to your success. Once you get that ball rolling, that success ball rolling, and you start to see what products you need to be, what products sell for drop shippers, it starts to get really fun and addicting. So yeah, once again, product research, go to your suppliers websites, grab the products from there. Can you add instead of 50, 100, 250, 1,000 for loading? Can you add 250, 151, 75? Thanks. So this is a good suggestion. And when you guys have recommend, you know, requests like these, what it's just to do is the following. So on AutoDS, where is it? Right up here, you have this circle. So I'm going to click on it. It took me to the help center.  And here you guys can vote for what features you want to see on AutoDS. So I guess maybe not now. Let's give it another try. Yeah, click on feature request. Yeah. No, okay, I need to check why it's not working, but it worked this morning when I checked it. Maybe there's just a little problem. By the way, web services, I noticed that a lot of websites went down today. So I don't know if that's part of the problem, but maybe. But the form itself is of course working. So what you can do on the other hand is just head to feedback.autoDS.com. It's the same place. It's just not internally inside the system. Yeah, okay, it's not working right now, but mainly it works. And that's where we're getting all of our feature requests from. So for example, the last things that we went live with is Australian drop shipping suppliers adding eBay Australia to, you know, to the market to selling channels that you guys can drop ship on. There were more things that I cannot remember right now, things that people wanted to move from the version one of AutoDS to version two. So from there, you can simply vote for what features you guys want to see go live on AutoDS. And when people will start to upvote on whatever you requested, then we will move it to the development team. It will move in progress.  So we're always listening to you guys. AutoDS is pretty much built from your requests. So that's what you do when you have requests like the following. Okay, moving on. Do we have to make eBay business policies from list to list? No. I mean, when listening to an item from, yeah, you need to make, wait, let's slow that. When you make a business policy on eBay, then you're making it for a specific supplier and a region. For example, if I'm going to use Amazon Prime, and I know that all of my orders are going to ship out within two days, then I'm going to create a business policy for that for Amazon Prime. And I will choose my handling time to be two to three business days with another, let's say three, four days shipping time. And that works for every time you import a product from Amazon using the Prime service. Now, if you're going to start using also Aliexpress on the other hand, you can't use Amazon Prime's business policy. So what you need to do there is create a new policy for Aliexpress using Chinese shipping times, Chinese shipping locations and so forth. So you need to create a shipping policy for every type of supplier and region that you're drop shipping from. But once you create it, you only have to create it once. So once I create a listing, a policy for Amazon, then I can, you know, every time I add listings and more listings and more listings, I don't have to create that policy again. Okay. So I hope I answer your question there. Have you have any idea when Facebook will introduce the full marketplace option for us in the UK so we can sell, so we can use Autodesk to sell on marketplace. Right now, I don't know of Facebook extending their marketplaces, their marketplace for other countries outside the US. Of course, you can use the Facebook marketplace, but you can't drop ship to the US. I don't know of any plans of Facebook letting out a feature like that anytime soon. But if I hear something about that, I guarantee you guys that you guys will be the first to know before anyone else from the drop shipping community. Hello, Iran, how the best in corporate Autodesk platform for useful automation for Facebook shop. Thank you. So not Facebook shop or Facebook marketplace, you can use Facebook shops if I'm not mistaken and also synchronized with Shopify. We have several users doing that. I haven't found out exactly how they're doing it. They're doing something with the synchronization using the Autodesk platform and Facebook shops and Shopify at the same time. But if you mean Facebook marketplace, then that's a different question. Do we have to make eBay business policies? Okay, I already answered this one. I think that you wrote it twice. Can you make a video for first-timers from setting up the account for your first upload to eBay, like looking over your shoulder video using Amazon on the Express so we can get over that nervous hurdle? Yeah, Michelle, that's a pretty good tip. That's a pretty good tip. So you want a tutorial video step by step from the minute that you register your eBay account, step by step what you need to do. So that's a very good tip. I'm going to add that to our Blacklock. And for now, you can use all the information that we do have. Okay, I talked about it earlier in this video, the how to drop ship on eBay, the full step by step guide. Start with that. But mainly, let me just walk you through it verbally just really quick before we publish that because it takes time. So when you're starting on eBay, what you want to do first is list your first item manually because if you start drop shipping right away, we've had a lot of drop shippers who don't know what they're doing and they're making a lot of mistakes and they're like listing items and not shipping them out. And then eBay looked at this. I'm not talking about all of this. I'm talking about general drop shippers. And then eBay came out and said, okay, our customer service is starting to go really, really, really low because of all of these new drop shippers who have no idea what they're doing. So what eBay did here is they started suspending new drop shipping accounts, only temporary suspensions. Now, this is to filter out all of these newbies that have no idea what they're doing. So eBay would tell these guys, okay, reach out to us, call us by phone, and let's get some identification, verification, see who you are, what you're selling, who you're getting these products from, what your deal is, what your business is, and so forth. Now many drop shippers, in this case, they don't call eBay. They're like, okay, no, it's too much. Maybe this isn't the right marketplace for me. And then they quit. The better, more professional drop shippers that want to stay here for the long term, they call eBay and they give them everything that they want. And then eBay is like, okay, welcome aboard. That's all that we needed to know. So what you want to do first is list your first item from home. And when you first create your eBay account, they'll only give you a limit of five to 10 items to list and about $500. So you want to use up your limits right away as fast as you can, just items that you have around the house, upload them, upload those listings. Don't think about it too much. Don't overthink it. Add images, add product descriptions, make sure that the product matches its description. Add images, of course, put it in the right category. It takes time to upload manually. That's why you need to use automation tools. But in the beginning, you need to start manually.  I want to, you know, sell some things that I have or at my home. And they'll check out your listings. They check out what you're saying. They see that everything matches and they'll say, okay, let's raise your limits. It's 50 good. You can even ask for 100. Tell them that you have a lot of items and, you know, you ship out really quickly.  That's a representative. So you want to start off slowly, list items from home. Once they upgrade your limits, work to upgrade your limits again. If you can keep adding manual products. But once you have enough listings, you have enough limits, that is when you can start, you know, connecting dropshipping software, start dropshipping and so forth. You can even do before, but you'll have to work harder, you know, with eBay and verifications and so forth. They're just doing that once again to filter out the new people who don't know what they're doing and they're not really serious about their business. That's what you do to start off. But mainly you need a step-by-step video tutorial. Start with what we have on our blog and on our YouTube channel. And I will work on releasing what you asked for. How long does it take for Autodesk with order fulfilled when I answer that question? When a client asks for a tracking number, which one do we give? Because the one that was converted for Amazon doesn't work. I answer that. Okay. I think I went up in the chat by accident or I don't know. See, these questions are repeating themselves. This one I answered. When are you going to update your Udemy class? Hey, Michelle. So what Udemy class are you talking about? We've got the eBay course there. We've got the Shopify course there. And soon we're also going to be adding a Facebook marketplace course there. All of the courses are free except for the eBay one if I'm not mistaken. So which Udemy class exactly are you talking about? Are you open 24 hours? I answered that. Does Autodesk block imports from Amazon if the products are not prime? They will block it if you don't allow marketplace sellers.  Guys, this is your last chance to ask questions. This live is ending in 15 minutes and I will be able to answer all of you. Okay.  And where's the marketplace sellers? It's like, I think it moved to a different place. Here, allow marketplace sellers. So when you click on Amazon as your supplier, what you want to do is if you do want to sell products that are not prime, then allow marketplace sellers. If you don't want products that are not prime to be in stock, so if a product is prime and one hour later, and it's in your store and Autodesk is monitoring it, and one hour later it goes out of prime, then it will go out of stock on Autodesk and on your selling channel if you don't allow marketplace sellers. So marketplace sellers will allow non-prime items to be alive, to be in stock on your drop shipping store. Okay, next. Do we have to make eBay business policies? Wow, I think you asked that question three times. How long does it take from Autodesk to upload the tracking number from Walmart? As soon as tracking information is available, probably on that same minute, it will be uploaded on your selling channel and on Autodesk. That's of course if you have the automated order service enabled. Can we drop you from other platforms, not just eBay and Shopify? Yeah, so as I mentioned, you've got also the Facebook Marketplace and 2022 is going to be a great year, guys. We're going to also add Wix. We're going to add Amazon. So more surprises also coming up. I'm just telling you guys what I can at this point. But we're definitely going places and you can definitely join us for the ride. How do I know when the return arrives at Amazon? When do I get the refund? So the refunds are automated. Once the product returns to Amazon, you will see the refund on your managed balance account. So you can click on view history and write the order number there and you will see that you were charged and then you were refunded. If you didn't get the refund for any reason, simply open up a ticket, paste an order info, the eBay selling ID or your selling channel selling ID, let them know that the product was returned. You didn't get the refund yet and you will get it. But guys, you should definitely keep track of your profits, keep track of your returns, see what returned, and send the refunds as soon as the products return. Even if you're getting the refund a day or two after later, give good service to your customers and give them the refund right away. What's the ideal profit margin to set for your products? Nearly that's a good question. So this is a big question that many people are asking and while no one can give you the exact answer of what a profit margin needs to be, at the end of the day, I can tell you from my personal experience, when I first started out dropshipping, I thought that you have to be super competitive, kill the market and start getting sales. So I would make like 20, 30 cents profit on every order.  So what I did then is I started with 15% and I noticed that the sales did not decrease. Then I upgraded it, then I opted to about 25%. Today I'm selling anywhere between the 40 to 50% profit margin range. I'm not ashamed to admit it. I love these profits. I'd rather sell let's say 30, 40, 50 orders per day at high profit margins than 200 orders per day at low profit margins because then I have to get married to all of these customers and give all of them service and it's going to take me to see I'm sitting here in the dark with barely an internet connection. So I'll see you guys in the next live. Technical difficulties happen every now and then. There's not much we can do to control it. So I'll see you guys in the next live. Thank you for joining and sorry for all of those who I couldn't reach your questions.


We love talking to our next guest, Mel Kuiper Jr., who knows football like no one else, and he's going to help us with Mr. Kyler Murray. Mel, it's Michael, Don and Peter. How you doing? Good, guys. How you been? We're doing OK. So what is Kyler Murray? Where can we expect him to be selected? How good can he be? Well, he's going to go very high. I think we all know that. I think what it is now is, OK, number one or number four. That's Arizona and Oakland. Does Arizona draft him with Kingsbury, you know, needing a quarterback with his, you know, doesn't max protect, then he needs a mobile quarterback in that offense? Does he take Kyler Murray at one and trade Josh Rosen to say Denver, who was picking 10 and get that 10th pick, or say Miami, you know, was picking 13, and then does John Gruden maybe deal Derek Carr in draft Kyler Murray, knowing he has to outscore Patrick Holmes for the next nine years. And that's the end of his contract. And in nine years, Patrick Holmes will only be 32 years of age. If he had passed those two, then you're getting into the Giants at six. Jacksonville at seven, Denver at 10. I don't think that's going to happen. I think he goes in the top four overall. And I think the combine is going to be important to see as he five, nine, five, 10, where's he stand there, the size of his hand, the how people view his body type when they see him face to face. He'll interview great as football IQs off the charts.  So he doesn't have to throw, he doesn't have to run. His accuracy is outstanding throwing a football. I think the height and the, the hand size is going to be a determining factor of whether whether he does go that high with our teams, other teams embrace him and going to wrap your arms around Kyler Murray as a today type NFL quarterback rather than the 1980s, 90s when he wouldn't have been viewed as anything, but probably a position change and a third round pick. Yeah, we were just talking earlier, Mel, about how the fact that Baker may feel all of a sudden went to number one very early, about a week before the draft. Right. So what really didn't happen until late. Can something similar happen here where these quarterbacks and, and the shuffle make everything that we're saying right now almost obsolete where everything kind of changes a week before the draft. Yeah, they all get moved up. They really keep moving and moving and you keep adjusting and the combine. And keep in mind, a lot of people didn't know if they had any idea that Kyler Murray was going to be in this draft process. So during the year he kept playing great and then get into October. Hey, he could maybe and then get into November. They can into the playoffs. So I think people had to catch up. They didn't expect him to be anything other than right now Oakland A getting ready to report this Friday for spring training with the Oakland Athletic. So I think this caught a lot of people by surprise. They're hurrying up now trying to catch up the Kyler Murray, the combine. Pro day obviously going back in Washington. This was a kid was 42 and oh in high school, three state championships in Allen, Texas. Obviously the great year at Oklahoma sat behind Baker Mayfield and learned that Lincoln Raleigh offense inside out. This is a Lincoln Raleigh offense and all the a lot of NFL teams are trying to figure out how to take pieces of that. And work with it in the NFL. So yeah, to me, I think he's got everything it takes. I said about two months ago, if he were three inches taller, it'd be the number one pick guaranteed. They still may well be the number one pick overall to Arizona.  So if he's going to go first to fourth, then he obviously made a good move, not going to the Oakland A's. And my question to you, and I know you're not doing baseball here, but did the A's make a mistake? Did they misread this or did he just come out of nowhere? Couple things on that. You know, I think they should not have. I think it was a mistake to not force them to decide and not give them the opportunity to play at Oklahoma.  Once you do that, it's a win-win for Baker, the up for Kyler. The only thing Kyler knew is after Baker Mayfield went number one and Kyler's a very confident kid. He saw what happened with Baker. As you said, that late rise up to number one, same offense, similar skill set, only faster and more athletic. And you think about accuracy, he completed almost the same percentage of pass, right around 70% was his completion percentage. It's about the same as Baker. He accounted for more touchdowns this year than Baker did last year. So he knew all that as the year went along. And I think what he was thinking here was, okay, if I do play great, I can get to the first round and then become a football player. I don't think Oakland A's made because they thought he was five, nine, five, nine and a half. He didn't suit with the NFL's looking for. Maybe they underestimated that and how the NFL was changed. They certainly maybe didn't expect as a first year starter. Remember, you played at A&M, but wasn't the guy Kyle Allen was there. So I think they just underestimated that. I just don't understand guys why you make a ninth pick Kyler Murray and you let him go have an option. And I think for Kyler was a win-win. The only negative for Kyler would have been a serious injury, which he unfortunately didn't sustain. So here we are. But if you're the Oakland A, you underestimated how good a player and football quarterback he could be, and he should have, I think, never been given that opportunity, like I say, to play that one year at Oklahoma. Talking with Mel Kuiper Jr. Well, Mel, we all agree that he's probably shorter than your prototypical quarterback. But does that matter anymore? Because the fact that you're saying that even though he's short, he could be taken first, it sounds like it doesn't matter anymore. It really doesn't. Like, that's the thing that you have to adjust. You're thinking, I speak to people in the league and I think the old guard, you know, and I'm part of that. Now, really, Drew Brees was a second-round pick. Russell Wilson, just seven years ago, was the 75th pick in the draft. Third round, had a great career in both NC State and Wisconsin. He was a third-round pick, like, say, 75 overall. Why? Because he was 5'10", and three-quarters. Here we have a 5'9", and a half, say, quarterback, one-year sensation that could go number one or number four because the way the game has changed, the fact that you see quarterbacks coming in. And I said seven years ago, he was going to be a test case. And I said it to John Gruden, because John and I were there for that draft. And ironically, John's picking forth and could be interested in Murray. But we said that's the test case. If Russell Wilson develops into a really good, the great NFL quarterback, the height factor won't be an issue. If he struggles, it will be. And look what happened. So I think Russell Wilson really helped Murray. Now, Russell Wilson is a different body type than Murray. He was 2'10", 2'15", coming out. We'll see what Tyler Murray is. 1'85", 1'90", 1'95", we'll see. Obviously, you're giving up an inch and a half there, possibly, maybe even a half inch. If he is 5'10", with some things, something 5'9", we'll see. But I think when you look at Tyler Murray, it's because of the way the NFL has changed. And the success of Russell Wilson, Baker Mayfield, has certainly led to what we see right now with this kid being projected as a top five pick, possibly.


Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. So have you ever had a vision for something that you wanted to make and you were able to find all the elements you needed to make it come to life and then you were able to see your vision actually come to life? Well, that's exactly what happened with my latest make. The pattern is McCall's 7774 and I knew as soon as I saw it that I wanted a red, white, and blue variegated stripe linen and when I stumbled upon the fabric I Joanne, the rest was history. So I did end up making two quick alterations to the pattern. First of all, I did a little tissue fit on the bodice and realized I needed to shorten the darts and then the fabric didn't end up being quite wide enough to do the full length of the bottom skirt band. So I had to narrow the width of the skirt a little bit to get the band to fit. I paid super careful attention and really took my time to match the stripes perfectly along the center front and the center back of the bodice as well as the side seams of the skirt. So I'm really proud of how that came together. The pattern is supposed to be self-lined meaning you would use the linen fabric to line it but I didn't see the need to spend extra money on the linen for the lining that no one would see. So I just cut the lining pieces out of a very lightweight cotton and it works fine. Working with the linen, you know, linen is great to wear but I did wash, I pre-washed it once and that probably wasn't enough. I probably needed to pre-wash it maybe a couple more times as I've washed it after wearing it. It does shrink in the length a little bit but that's just the joys of working with linen, I suppose. But all in all, I really, really love this dress. I get lots of compliments every time I wear it. I think that the play on the stripes in the three different parts makes it very eye-catching and makes it different and makes it stand out and all those wonderful things that we love whenever we make our own garment. So I hope you guys like this dress as much as I do. I have been living in it this summer and will continue to wear it into the fall with my white denim jacket. So yep, that's about it for this dress. I will see you guys very soon. Bye!


These don't feel as good. What's this? What's this? Oh my god, bro. This don't feel so heavy That's cool, baby What's this? What's up, I got a carp man. Oh, it's coming towards me. Jesus Christ. These don't feel so heavy What's going on under the luck?  Oh my god.  Let's go. I think I got a seven pounder, baby. Let's go Bet the fishing here. You know how we do bro This one is heavy over here on Central Park Oh my god, this is a cool moment. I better not lose this one. Bro. Look, he's big bass, baby. Oh My god, bro.  Let's go. Oh my god. Don't go under the luck, baby.  Oh my god.  Get over here. I better not lose this one, baby I'm gonna lose this freaking good bass, baby. Let's go That's what I'm talking about, baby That's what I'm talking about. Oh my god, what a beast I could barely hold it and it's punny too. Look at the big belly Bro Heavy bass, baby On the blue crawl. Oh god, bro. What a beast This is a seven pounder right here, bro I'm not joking I'm not joking I could barely hold it, bro. Look at the belly on this beast I'm better fishing over here. Man, you know how we do, bro. I was just flipping over here on this corner. I Know probably got a nest right there or something Spawning. I think the male is there too. I just threw the blue crawl


Silly maybe but you can feel it and the passengers Well to most of us officers the passengers are the parasites of this ship My but you look confident. I said I'm glad you look confident But you don't have to look so serious. I'm sorry missy passengers are not allowed on the bridge I know that I've been on ships before and I've never been thrown off a bridge yet Well, I have no intention of throwing you off, but I must ask my name is Marilee. How do you do? Are you the captain? No, no, I'm Bridell the first officer. Oh the captain's right-hand man You might put it that way now if you'll please Marilee is my first name. Yeah, I assumed as much Well, I'll just call you Bridell then Maybe you'll loosen up when we get far to south. I doubt it. At least you have to dance with me in the evening Part of your duty. Well, I'll be I'll be happy to in the line of duty a regular machine. Aren't you? I think this is going to be fun Well in the meantime, please be kind enough to yes, mr. Driscoll. What is it captain's? Complement sir like to see you and his cabin run away good Take charge of the bridge mr. Driscoll right some most of the luggage is already aboard and Paki is on the wind She's pretty drunk, but my row seems to be able to handle them. All right, mr. Bridell I'll watch him and please make sure the young lady finds her way back to the passenger deck. Don't worry, Bridell I know how to get any place.   I understand you sent for me captain. Oh Mr. Bridell. Yes, I did my boy Everything in order on deck. Yes, sir. We'll sail in about 20 minutes. Good. Good mr. Bridell. Oh, I'd like to present a Friend of mine dr. Percival. How do you do mr. Bridell? I don't wonder it's your surprise My appearance is somewhat strange. I'm uh Sorry, sir. No, no, I'm quite used to such a reaction. I am well aware that I closely resemble a corpse Well, mr. Bridell, I wonder if you'd mind showing dr. Percival around the ship I'm a captain clentening. We sail in 20 minutes a very brief tour will show me what I we've to see mr. Bridell Well, maybe after we get underway, I can show no no dr. Percival isn't sailing with us mr. Bridell It shouldn't take more than a few minutes. I'd show him around myself, but I'm I'm not feeling too well The man wears out I guess starts to break down like a machine Like a machine That's what she's what what's that mr. Bridell. Oh nothing nothing sir. Well, shall we get started dr. Percival? I showed him through the empty dining salon along the boat deck and the promenade We opened the bulkhead door and looked down through the gratings into the engine room And everywhere we walked people drew back and stared silently until we passed then whispered together behind us We met Marilee and she started to speak and Then her face turned white and she passed us without a word Dr. Percival paid no attention to any of them his gaunt gray face never changed expression And those dark hollow eyes stared straight ahead His twisted hands were covered by gloves made of soft gray leather and He reached out with them from time to time and touched things as we passed almost Caressing them and was almost repulsive for some reason Finally we wound up at the port rail of the officers deck and I showed him how to reach the gang flank I presume these are the officers quarters along here mr. Bridell Yes, that's right the port cabins here in the same thing over on the starboard There are few spares we use for sick base when we have to I see Nearly 400 people on board Quite a responsibility Especially for the captain. Yes. Yes. He has his hands full. All right, and if something should happen to him Well, I'm next in charge only Nothing will happen What causes that sound Right my row, oh there the ship's engines will be hearing them for the next ten days Mr. Bridell Have you noticed that your ship is not floating level, huh? This side of the deck the port side. I think you said it's a good deal lower than the other Yeah Yes, we do have a slight list of port hadn't noticed it well It's nothing serious. We'll correct it with the ballast tanks as soon as we're underway Now, sir if mr. Bridell The captain is an old man He's in bad shape. Well not according to the ship's doctor. I am his doctor now Well, I I don't believe I care to discuss it sir nor I I Only mention it Thank you, mr. Bridell for showing me what I wish to see I'll be going now fine fine fine glad I've had you bored now straight down that ladder now By dinner that evening we were 140 miles at sea the sun dropped behind a red haze and brought out a clear starry night sky Marily had somehow wangled a place at my table But held herself down to an occasional knowing grin that the other passengers probably misinterpreted Well, I dodged her afterwards checked over the cargo plant for a while trying to find some reason for the strange port list It was getting a little more pronounced And finally dropped into the wireless shack Hi, Bridell Get bored with social life. Yeah. Yeah. It's not the heat. It's the femininity You should squawk only time I see a girl on board this tub is when they come into wire from money at the next port Well, I know when you can have and that's just the one I take to you're crazy for it out.  No, I've been talking to the Toledo about a hundred miles ahead of us making 17 knots So we'll probably tailor all the way south. Hmm. Yeah. Oh, she started hitting some bad weather about an hour ago Guess we'll be getting it to Probably make all your lady friend see good and see if you can hurry it up There's the captain in the chart room. Yeah, go from there 10 minutes ago a How'd you like that character that came aboard to see him? Oh, dr. Percival. Uh-huh. You can have him too Well, see you later, right? I'll let you know if I get any more in the storm, right so long. Oh, mr. Bridell all for wait a minute. I wanted to good evening captain. Oh, mr. Bridell I've been writing up the night orders Who has the first watch? Driscoll. Yes, sir, then everly and good by the way, mr. Bridell I appreciate you're showing dr. Percival around this afternoon. I'm glad to do it captain Say is he an old friend of yours? No, no, I met him quite recently Mr. Bridell, what's this port list? It's getting worse shows eight degrees on the clinometer now Well, I've had one pump on the ballast tanks in three o'clock. I'd better put on another one It worries me bad weather up ahead. You know, yes, I just talked to Morris wonder if we're making any water I don't think so. I'll check with the engine room if you like. Yes, I wish you would Captain fought to take any chances Bridell here McGill Green captain wants your build soundings call them back ride chart room I'm I'm tired tonight mr. Bridell Don't feel so well. Yes, the man's bound to get old some time. Oh, well, that's still some years ahead of you, sir I doubt it doubted very much Well can't do much about it. Oh I meant to tell you the steward reported this afternoon that he couldn't get into number seven port cabin on the officer's deck You couldn't get into it the door seems to be stuck. Don't know what's wrong. We should look into it All right, sir, I'll have my roll look into it. I think he's up on that must be the engine room but down right Right. All right. Thanks Gilbury says all the builders are dry sir. Good. I Well, I guess there's no reason why they shouldn't be at that a Man gets old Well, I'll go to speak to my row captain and see about putting another pump on the ballast Thanks. Good. Good. I'm I'm going to turn in in a few minutes Good night, mr. Bridell. Good night captain Well, I knew you would have to come out sometime now. Look miss relax Bridell You have a terribly romantic profile. We're getting closer to the tropics all the time. I've been there before I'll bet you have I listen if you want to go. Why don't you be human for once? You keep on and you'll end up looking like your ghoulish friend. You were showing around this afternoon He was no friend of mine. There should be a rule against taking passengers who look like that Gives me the creeps. Well for your information. We we didn't take him. He went ashore You'd be a good liar Bridell if I hadn't seen to myself a half an hour ago Well, where you went into one of those cabins right down there ahead of us on the on the officer's deck You didn't notice switch one. Yes. I did as a matter of fact was number seven Seven and All right, come on now look Bridell. I don't want to meet the guy. I don't want to have anything to do with him Gave me the shippers just to look at him did it Is this the one number seven? Yes You notice a little crossbar on the door handle. Yes, it's turned straight up and down. Yes That means the doors unlocked now All right, but it doesn't open. That's right because it's jammed The steward reported it this afternoon not a half hour ago So you're not much of a liar yourself, but I saw him go in this door. Oh sure My ro no no nothing's wrong this door is apparently jammed we should try to get it open when you have a chance All right, sir and my ro when you do please please advise this young lady. She's very curious about what's inside the cabin Good night. Mr. Bridell Mr. Bridell wake up Oh What's the matter mr. Driscoll once you on the bridge sir we got some pretty bad weather yeah, yeah, I could feel it How long's it been this way since midnight, but it's getting worse sir Stewart says some glass broke on the promenade deck. We've shipped water in the forward hole All right, my ro tell Driscoll. I'll be on the bridge in five minutes. Get going It was fairly bad on deck dawn is just breaking with light enough to make out the long high Swells charging into us one after another tops of their crests ripped and torn by the driving wind We were taking them on the quarter rolling pretty badly in shipping water on the port bow at every roll And if anything that list had grown worse during a night bad you're here mr. Britell having a rather bad govind Yeah, yeah, well we've seen worse as the captain been called. No, sir. I thought I'd better wait for you Right no need to call them. Yeah, where's everly took some men down to the ford hole We're shipping water on the port side every time. Yeah. Yeah, I know I know a my ro see if you can get them on the phone Good Lord Well, we're listing 11 degrees now those pumps still going to ballast tanks all night, sir The tanks are two-thirds empty now. I can't understand it All right, my ro you go on down there and see what the trouble is report back yes 11 degrees Can't see any reason I'll take it sir risk of him Yes, I know I know All right, I'll speak to her McGillbury says they're taking quite a beating in the engine room once and all if we can't slack off this role Yeah, yeah, I think we better know you speeding ourselves to death against those swells You're unzending here Redel captain sorry to bother you. It's all what is it permission to change course sir? We're taking a bad swell on our quarter granted whatever you think best. Thank you, sir Need me for anything. No, no, sir. I'll report later All right, mr. Driscoll new course. Yes, sir. He's off 14 degrees and then hold do south He's off 14 degrees hold do south. Hi, sir. I'm going to the wireless room. All right, sir Yeah, we ought to be out of this by afternoon Marley what the devil are you doing on deck getting rained on mostly haven't you got any sense? We're shipping water on the foredeck. You want to get washed over would you care Bridelle? Look it costs money to stop a ship now. Listen get below. I'm still waiting to see inside number seven They're kind of shaking as well before using aren't they? Yeah. Yeah, I just change the course should ease this role a little Morris, what's the nearest ship to us still the Toledo about 70 miles south They say it's raining down there. Can you imagine? Yeah, there's nothing any any closer, huh? Well, nothing and I've been a Hey, you don't figure. Oh, no, no, there's no danger Morris. Just just routine Well, I'll see what I can pick up static's not making it Morris Yeah, he's here It's for you. Thanks, but else speaking dress kill sir. Yeah, the Gilroy just called Wants permission to put all pumps to work on the bill on the bilge. What for as we're making water from somewhere He's got 40 inches in the stoke. Oh, it's probably coming from that forward hole Listen as everybody gets the bulkhead closed will be able wait a minute. Wait a second. Hold on my row just came in What'd you find out? Mr. Reveille needs more men sir some of those big crates shifted They knocked out most of the forward bulkhead knocked out mr. Driscoll. Yes, sir Go away captain and ask him to meet me on the bridge immediately Next hours were a nightmare all through the day into the evening Terrified passengers huddled in the lounges in the salon not knowing just how great the danger might be fearing the worst At 11 a.m. One of the pumps broke down and the San Pedro settled a little lower as the water gained in the bilges At 1 30 pump back in operation and for a while we held our own Down in the forward hole men fought a heartbreaking battle in water up to their armpits Trying to throw up a temporary bulkhead The 515 a heavy sea crashed through the stewards pantry Six men vanished overboard in a smother of foam All night long we fought the sea and lost the battle foot by foot The strange list to port grew worse by dawn. We were leaning over 18 degrees Shipping tons of water with every roll riskal here right All right, hold on Mr.. Bradelle. Yeah, what is it risk? Oh McGill ray on the phone sir since he's had to pull the fire in one boiler He's going to in the second one Wants to know if you'll reduce speed to steerage way. Otherwise. He hasn't got steam enough for the pump. All right. Tell him yes McGill ray right else is okay Take it now one third speed All right, helm speed to one third Confounded sir Captain ought to be here in the bridge Bennett is Kevin for the last four hours. He's got no business to settle to mr.. Drisco Yes, sorry, sir Forget it. You're right at that You haven't got much time to make up our minds. Now. How are the passengers my role fair morale sir The stewards are trying to keep them calm. They're all in life preservers in the way We're healed over we can't use the starboard boats now and in another hour There won't be enough steam for the winches in the port side well Hello Hello What the devil now the captain's phones dead, too Miro this mr.. Reddell get on to the captain's cabin.  Yes, sir We can't chance it any longer Drisco. At least we can start a call out while the captain's on his way here, right? Morris here Reddell and the bridge you still sending the CQ. Yes, sir beats at five minutes You picked up anything the Toledo there's a canard liner a hundred miles north and that's not much help How bad off are we sir bad enough? You can start sending an SOS now Give me position on anything you pick up and stand by for further orders, right, sir This is it then. Well, what else mr.. Drisco. It may be too late as it is Mr.. Reddell. Yes, my role the captain sir. He's in his bunk dead. Good lord. Well. He was right then Men get old machines wear out. I think he's been dead for some time, mr.. Reddell probably so My road did you uh? Did we get that port cabin door open? I didn't have any chance, sir, but what difference does it make now none none? I guess I Just wondered All right, mr.. Drisco. Yes, sir put a general order on the PA emergency all officers stand by both stations prepare to abandon ship Yes, sir now go ahead Attention all officers stand by both stations prepare to abandon ship All officers stand by both stations prepare to abandon ship Her brain already gone ship was dying. I knew that I Stayed alone on the bridge tried to quiet her death rows Tried to hold back the confusion of idiocy that shook her limbs and parts The wind was gone now and a thick gray fog Blanketed the decks and the sea beyond Boats were lowered and swallowed up in it one by one Some of them lowered poorly to spill their human freight into the hungry wet mouth of the sea We were low in the water down at the head already the boughs were awash Suddenly I I noticed that the strange list of port was no longer with us Why we were floating level and then for No sane reason. I wondered if the changed angle had left the door of number seven cabin swing open I left the bridge and hurried forward and door was a jar And swung gently with the movement of the ship pushed it open And stepped into the cabin It was empty In the air was a strange dry Musty smell Like old flowers long pressed in the pages of a book At that moment I turned The water was moving slowly toward me up the passageway Herd my row shout the order for casting off the last boat. I left the cabin ran for the bridge Marilee glad to see me. Oh, do you know the last boat just went over the side sure I Was about to get in a boat I changed my mind why When it's your time you can't do much about it And I knew what it was when he first looked at me. Ah, what are you talking about when when who looked at you that guy? You call dr. Percival. He's not on board. I just came from cabin seven It's empty. Of course it is now He's out prowling around the boat somewhere. I saw him go ashore before we left New York and I saw him three minutes ago Crazy he was standing beside that lifeboat the one I didn't get in that lifeboat was your last chance to live Why didn't you take it? I thought it wouldn't be so lonesome to come here and die with you But you wouldn't have died. Oh, bro. Del. Don't you know yet? It wouldn't have made any difference no matter what we did not with dr. Percival on board What has dr. Percival got to do with it everything when that lifeboat hit the water it capsized I Knew it would so you see I'd have died anyway but Del The water is coming up faster now. Yeah Sinking fast Will go under any second He must be on his way here We should be hearing his footsteps Who in the name of heaven is dr. Percival Who do you think he is? Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald tonight We have brought you SS and Pedro by James Gould cousins adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield with editorial supervision by John Dunkel Featured in tonight's cast were John Daener and Charlotte Lawrence with Jeff quarry Don diamond Harry Bartell Larry Dobkin and Jane Avello Special music by Ivan Dittmar You were standing in the light of an arc lamp by a cathedral in Mexico City looking at a body lying in the grass and Then a great fear comes over you and you wonder If you are a haunted man Next week we escape with Ralph Bates most unusual story the haunted man Good night, then until this same time next week when once again we offer you escape Roy Rowan speaking for CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System


As you can tell by the slide here with the wave, I'm a bit medical student from a coastal medical school. I'm from the University of California, San Diego. My name's Spencer Fuller. And yeah, a lot of my lectures and professors at UCSD use ocean or beach-themed presentations, so as I made this, I thought that would be fitting. And some of my professors actually have really cool pictures of them surfing and doing awesome things in the water, but those definitely don't exist for me. You just get a really cool wave. I am going to be presenting this morning on a project that I did with Dr. Natalie Afshari. She's the chief of cornea and refractive surgery down at UCSD. And it actually relates similarly to what Brian just presented on, which is trying to help understand better what patients go through during cataract surgery. Yesterday, in Dr. Manlis' clinic, we had a patient who just talked for several minutes about the light show that she got to experience during surgery, and this really cool experience that she had. And so Dr. Afshari, when we talked about this project, she said, let's try to video record that. Let's, you know, from the patient's perspective, at least make an attempt to try to record some of those phenomena. So that's kind of the general summary of my project, and you'll see that it's actually very difficult and basically impossible, but this was a really great learning experience for me and a really fun project that I got to work on. In addition to Dr. Afshari, I'd like to thank her international research fellow, Dr. Fukuoka. He was visiting from Japan. He's since gone back. He did all of the cataract surgeries. And then Spencer Yamada helped with the film editing. I presented this research at Arvo this past May, did a poster, and the film that we made was presented at the ASCRS Scientific Film Festival this past May as well. That was in Los Angeles. And the project was funded by the Research Supervent Planus. All right, so, similar to what Brian said, lots of patients have anxiety about their cataract surgery. Doing a let review, I found that up to 50% of patients report visualization of colors during surgery. These are based on post-surgical questionnaires. Up to 50% of patients report light intensity changes during surgery. Makes sense. Up to 30% of patients report being aware of surgical instruments, whether shadows or, you know, yeah, it was mostly visual experiences. So actually seeing shadows of the instruments. And then up to 16% report being fearful of their actually, their intraoperative experience. This isn't asking about preoperative or postoperative. This is actually what they're seeing during surgery. About 15% experience some sort of fear. Is this normal? Am I okay? Is everything going all right? There have been several techniques to try to record cataract surgery, or at least into your segment surgery from the posterior segment. And these include the Miyake technique, the apple technique, and the home-grown approach which is the revised Miyake apple technique by Dr. Manlis and Dr. Werner. Yeah. And they basically involve cutting the eyeball in half roughly and fixing it to some sort of transparent slide or some structure then you can look through. And this is just an image right here. This is just a picture of that. However, because we were trying to record what patients are experiencing, we wanted to try to develop something from the macula, which proved tricky to say the least. And I kind of described a little bit about the purpose of our project. So the goals were to come up with some sort of video footage to quantify the light intensity changes during surgery and also to eventually come up with something that might be patient facing to educate them or help them understand. This is what it might look like for you during surgery. So what we did is we obtained some post-mortem pig eyes and we dissected the tissue and prepared them. We created what we call the maculostomy, which was a roughly 5-millimeter hole over the side of the macula, 4-millimeters, temporarily from the optic nerve. We put these eyes on kind of a modified styrofoam, creepy-looking surgical face that are in the wet lab. And we cut a hole in the bottom of it. We modified it so that way the camera could look up through the maculostomy up to the surgical field. We recorded the video footage on a front-facing iPad camera. There were several reasons for that. One was that the camera was really small, so it could actually look up through the maculostomy. Another is because the IOP would drop when we performed the maculostomy. I would move a lot as Dr. Guglug was doing the surgery. And so we were, you know, readjusting things, re-aligning things, and having the front-facing iPad camera gave us that immediate feedback so where we could know, hey, is the maculostomy situated properly over the camera?  However, we tried the microwaving technique as described by the paper referenced here. The paper actually says, to induce a cataract, you have to microwave a pig eye for about 8 to 9 seconds. However, that's really close to the amount of time it takes for the eyeball to explode. So we were kind of like, all right, let's give this a shot. And it turns out that actually when we made a good cataract, the zonules just broke really easily. So we tried coming back, and we just really weren't able to create a meaningful cataract visually and still keep the integrity of the surgery. So we ended up just abandoning the idea to make a cataract with microwaving. Later, I'll talk about other techniques we could try in the future to induce a cataract that might not compromise the zonules, but for our methods initially, we weren't able to do that. All right, here's some images, us dissecting some of the tissue. There's the maculostomy. And here's Dr. Fuboka in action doing surgery. You can see the setup here with the mouse. Yeah, you've got the front-facing iPad camera here. You've got the surgical setup, and the eyeball is right here. You can't really see it. So this is basically how we did things. After we got the video footage, we extracted images from them to add predetermined steps of surgery to then use for the data analysis. And we ran them through an imaging processing package that's free. It's developed by the NIH. It's called Fiji. And from each image, we extracted what's called the mean gray value for each image. And that's basically a unit-less summary of the image's light intensity. And for the statistical analysis, we did crude and paralyzed comparisons of the mean gray value. It's kind of an annoying thing to say, the difference between those values for successive steps of cataract surgery. We also did a paralyzed comparison of the mean mean gray value for after-Iowa placement compared to the start-up surgery, because we wanted to see, well, since we didn't have cataract in the lens, was the light intensity similar to that initial image? And we did the analysis on STATA with a significance level of 0.05. All right, so here's some qualitative images. Here is an image from the beginning of surgery. Here's an image after we empty the anterior chamber. This is after we filled the anterior chamber with OVD. This is what it looked like from the camera. You can't really tell, but it's kind of bluish, but it's very dark after a tri-pan blue injection. This is after the washout. This is after FACO. And this is after the Iowa placement. In the end, we had 24 images available for analysis. We had to do a lot of trial and error experimenting with maculostomy size and balancing IOP requirements to do the surgery. The microwaving obviously destroyed a few eyes. So we had 24 images. And the mean gray value range was 5.5 to 133. Just to give you an idea what that looks like, the lowest light intensity images were after tri-pan blue injection. And those with the most light intensity were after the AC was full, so you can compare these two. Excuse me. This is a table that basically just shows the crew differences in the mean gray value for successive steps of cataract surgery. So basically subtracting the light intensity for the AC images to starting image and going all through surgery. The greatest decrease in light intensity was going from a full AC to after tri-pan blue injection, like I showed you before. And the greatest increase was after the tri-pan blue injection to washing it out. And as you can see, there was dramatic variation in light intensity throughout the cataract surgery. And our sample size was small, so any of these differences statistically significant. And yes, going from an empty anterior chamber to a full anterior chamber significantly increased the light intensity by about 60%. Going from a full anterior chamber to after-faco, we only had one image for each of the tri-pan blue steps because tri-pan blue is expensive I learned. And so we couldn't do statistical testing on one image. So comparing after-faco to a full anterior chamber, there is a very significant decrease in light intensity. And even though it's not statistically significant, it approaches significance going from after-faco to after implanting the IOL. And then the last table shows you the result of that pairwise comparison of light intensity after the IOL was placed compared to the starting image. And as you can see, there was virtually no change in light intensity compared to what's after surgery, after the IOL was placed before. And you would hope that, but we actually were able to quantify that. All right, let's go back to this. I love that song, too, the music. Anyways, so that was not patient viewing just as a disclaimer. I should have said that before. Some more results. Unfortunately, as you saw in the video, we were not able to record any colors or visual phenomena like patients often describe. So moving to discussion, as a result, Dr. Afshari and I and Dr. Vokog were thinking that, well, like a lot of other people think, the color phenomena are probably more likely related to effects of the cataract surgery on the retina, changes in that intracular pressure, photoreceptor stimulation, or saturation, because we had a complete optical system looking up at the surgery, and we weren't able to see any refraction of light or rainbows. We were hypothesizing that we might have seen something around the hydro dissection or fake emulsification steps, but we weren't able to see anything. So there are a lot of limitations of our study in terms of trying to actually record the patient's experience. So the first was that we weren't actually able to make a cataract. It's kind of a big one. Second was that the iPad has a complete optical system. So the video was much more in high def and focused than a patient would actually be able to experience. Additionally, the light intensity data has some limitations. So the iPad has an exposure auto adjust setting that we could not turn off. So even though the images weren't really changing that much throughout every surgery as we did the video, we still can be 100% sure that there weren't some subtle changes that might affect the results. Although over the course of the six video recordings we did, we were hoping that that would kind of all wash out. And also the pig eyes would move, as I explained before, due to decreased intracular pressure, and the tray kind of moving. So we had to reposition it a lot. So it wasn't 100% that we were getting the exact same image at every single step of surgery. But again, we hope that that kind of random error would also be washed out in the analysis. And we also had a small number of images due to the reasons I explained before. So just some ideas for future improvements on this project. We thought about getting a camera and removing the sensor and placing that sensor at the maculostomy in order to try to see maybe more what the redness is without the optical components and the focusing components. We also thought that we could revise the setup and figure out some way to fix the sensor at the maculostomy. We could maybe try something like the revised myocardial technique where we actually glue the maculostomy to a slide that might actually help with the intracular pressure issues. So that's another thing we could try. And there's a paper that described different formalin to alcohol ratio injections you can do through the limbis to create a cataract in the lens without compromising the zonules. So if we wanted to try actually inducing a cataract and then I'm doing the surgeries again, that's another thing that we could try. All right, well, I hope you found this interesting. And I thank you for your time. And I wonder if there are any questions.