Okay, here we are at the Goodwill Benz. Let's see what I find. Hey, fellow buddies, thanks for watching. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. I found some amazing items. Thank you guys all so much for being here. I appreciate you. We are going to dig through the Goodwill Benz. If you don't know what the Goodwill Benz is, it is an outlet store where you pay by weight. And those were pretty cool. Maybe I should have bought those. I could have parted those out like in sets of five or in sets of four, something like that. I think I passed on something I should have grabbed. Let me know what you guys think. I think those are those travel games. Did you guys have those as a kids? Where you're in the car and you have to, if you see like a truck, then it's like a bingo game. I think that's what it was. All right, let's see what we can find here today and let's see what I miss. Again, I welcome everybody to, as you're watching, if you time stamp it, it's even better. Let me know in the comments what I missed. All right, that Caterpillar, it's a Codepillar. I pick those up all the time.  Always, always grab them. That one did not work. So what I did is I took the battery cover off and I'm going to sell that separately just to try to recoup some of my money. I had a battery cover that I took off of another item. It was a Leapfrog, I think it was. One of those like ABC things and that battery cover sold in like a week or something. It was ridiculous how fast it sold. I thought I was going to sit on that thing for 10 years and it was kind of the same situation. I picked it up and I wanted to recoup some of my money. So keep that in mind when things like that happen. There is money on items that don't work. You can sell replacement parts. I'm not sure if that was Barbie or what, but it just looked annoying to ship. So I left that one behind. You know, sometimes things just take weird box sizes, the box that you can't find and you're looking all over your house and you're moving shaping boxes into different shapes and oh, it's just a pain. So I left that behind. This I did pick up. It's a little, I think it's like a creamer thing. It's a little cow. I thought that was kind of cute. I guess you could put whatever you want in it. But that Hallmark little plush thing, the animated thing. Some of those do really well. That one was not in great condition. So I went ahead and left it behind, but definitely be on the lookout for those. Some do better than others. So if you see them, do look them up. So if you shop at the Goodwill Benz, drop me a comment and let me know where you go first. Which section do you go to purses and bags? Do you go to shoes, hard goods? What's your favorite section? Oh, I did pick up these stickers. Now these are not vintage. These are not that cool. They are off the thing. This was more of a, I'm just going to try it. So my thought process there on those is people can pull the stickers off and use them for crafting or something like that. I, it may be a womp, womp. I don't know. We'll see. But I thought I would try it. I did pull them out of the binder. So by weight, it probably cost me 25 cents. They weren't very heavy, but that's something that you can do.  I do look inside of those binders. Sometimes you'll find like old photos and different things like that, cards, stickers. The little thing I just picked up was a part of the coda pillar and I found one. So I was like, I have got to keep looking. I might find another one. Now this piece here, I don't know why I didn't grab it. I think it was yellowing really bad. It wasn't the right color. So I left that behind, but I have sold those before. I think the one I sold came out of a house though. So definitely keep that in mind. That's another good replacement part. That one still had some numbers and letters in it. I will sell those individually as well as a lot, not like individual letters. I haven't got down to partied it out that much. That would be a little time consuming. All right. So stickers, I always pick up these sticker sheets that are sealed. I have a stack that is ginormous. I just keep picking them up. All right. There's the replacement parts because the head didn't work. I am going to sell the segments or the each piece as a lot. So we'll lot those up and those should do pretty well. I've done that in the past, I do believe. Of course, it's best to keep it together. Some people actually sell each section separately. They will part it out down to like the turn or the, you know, the different, the different pieces there. This here, I think was a slide thing. I don't know. Maybe I should have picked that up. That would have probably been something I could have said, how much for this by weight? And they probably would have said five bucks, maybe 10. I'm not sure. Some of them do it differently. Some it's a flat five. Some of them will weigh it and give you half off. It really just depends on who's checking you out. But those heavy items, they will work with you because, you know what? Nobody's going to buy them by pound because it's going to cost way too much money more than it's worth. Those are, I think magnets. I have a big horde of magnets. So I buy them every time I go. Anytime I see the magnets and the problem is, is that you have to put them in sets and kind of like my Legos, I never get around to it. But I will, I will. I'm just building my lot, my big old horde. And then eventually I will be able to go in and make some really nice big sets. Those were a different style though. Some of them had wheels. I think those might do really well. So we'll see. Those magnets are not cheap. Actually somebody at the bins picked up a box of brand new ones and we were looking up what they retail for and they can, they're, they're money. So, all right, we're going to keep looking here. Some cups. Those are cups. Let me know if you sell cups. I think it was, who was it that was selling cups? Somebody was selling cups. Mom knows treasures. I think it was Mom knows treasures. I think she sold some cups. It was in one of my featured members videos. Go check out Mom's knows treasures if you haven't checked her out yet. She has a new YouTube channel, but she is doing awesome. Those, the bag that I dumped back there, that was, I believe that was wallpaper and wallpaper border, which I will pick that up from time to time, depending what is on the, what the print is. That was kind of cool, that little wall hanging. Probably could have got that by weight too. That's a puppy dog, pal. I don't know why I didn't grab that. I think because maybe I have some listed that aren't really moving, but I probably could have put it in a toy lot or something. I want to do more toy lots because my inventory is just out of control or I'm thinking of doing toy lots over on whatnot. So you can follow me over there. There is a link down in the description. If you want to click on that, you can join whatnot and you'll get $10, a $10 credit to shop with that referral link down there. But if you're already on whatnot, you can also use that link to find me or just type in Bolo Buddies. I'm pretty much Bolo Buddies on everything. But all my social media and stuff is down there. If you guys want to check that out and find me on Instagram and all those other places. Look, look, look. Lots and lots of hard goods at ours. I love it. Lately it has been a little bit, the rotations have been a little slow. So if you see me pick something up and I put it in my cart and I do not pop up a screenshot, that means it is getting lotted with something else. I haven't listed it yet or I put it back. But I did find that little grip. That was just a weird unexpected find. Not something I would normally pick up. But I'm hoping to sell that and have that be in one of my what solds. I thought that was a pretty cool item. All right. And thankfully it had some information on it. So that helped me look it up because I wasn't real certain what that was. I have been picking these up and I've been doing pretty good. I think that one, I thought that one had already sold, but maybe not. I'll have to go back and look. I know I sold one of them and it went internationally. I did put that crocodile game in my cart because it was vintage. That's my cart, by the way. This guy sold. He sold super fast. I couldn't believe it. He's a Treasure X guy. Do you hear the train? Oh, there's a train. Sorry, guys. But anyway, the crocodile game, I put that in my cart. I was thinking about parting it out, but decided to just go ahead and leave that behind. Oh, that train's getting loud. I apologize. I'm getting ready to go into an appointment. So I'm sitting out in the parking lot and I was like, I'm just going to do my voiceover. I'm going to go early and I'm going to sit in my car because it's kind of raining out and enjoy just like listening to the rain. And now I'm listening to a train. Oh, go figure. I did get this little guy. I do pick these up a lot of times they sit for a long time. They're very long tail, but they will sell eventually. This is a Panasonic DVD lot and that sold pretty quickly.  Any blank media or things like that that are sealed, I definitely pick those up and I do very well with those. They are a little bit heavy. So, you know, you might have two or three bucks in them depending on the weight. That was just paper. All right. Glasses. I always open up the cases because you never know. I know that some people sell glasses cases. I'm wondering if I should buy like all of the glasses cases and make like a huge bundle and sell them as a reseller lot for somebody who would want to part them out. What do you guys think? I don't know if it would be. They don't weigh very much. And I always see them. I'm guessing it's probably the ones that are branded that do better than others. But sometimes I see some nice ones. All right. I've talked to you guys about it before but anything that is new old stock, I will pick it up. Even if it only retails for like ten bucks and if I can sell it for between five and ten, it's so easy to list those barcode items. So, I will get those. I do like it when they are valued higher, of course, but, you know, I will pick up the bread and butter. All right. I do grab this right here. This is pretty cool. And I don't think it was ever used. So, I do have that listed. It's in the original box. Looks brand new. I did take it out to take photographs. These are Halloween. I have sold these in the past but the ones I sold were vintage. I went ahead and left those behind. If you think I should have grabbed those, let me know in the comments. I did grab this fabric, this Halloween fabric, and it sold pretty quickly. It was a pretty big chunk and I feel like I priced it pretty good and that sold for $12 plus shipping. I do not do free shipping on eBay. I do free shipping on Mercari and, of course, Poshmark has their shipping. So, I start my items on eBay, cross-post to Mercari and Poshmark with List Perfectly, which is my cross-posting service that I use. There's a demonstration or a demo video down in the description if you guys want to check that out. If you're looking to get your items on other items, I highly recommend List Perfectly. You can use my coupon referral code BOLOBUDDIES all one word and that will get you 30% off your first month. I've been using it since 2019 and just those extra eyes on your items. I have been doing it really, really good on Poshmark lately. I don't know what's going on. I know they keep changing the algorithm and they changed it and everybody was really mad and then they recently changed it back. Well, I think whatever they did when they changed it back has been helping me. I don't know why I sat that math thing to the side. It must have been broken or something because I pick those up all the time. I think it's called like magic math or something like that and I always sell them. I do really well with them. They sell really quick. I don't know why I didn't grab it. So, I'm guessing there was something wrong with it. I did throw that in my cart. I've got her sitting at home. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with her yet. Might bundle her or I don't know. So, here's some more fabric. I did find quite a bit of Halloween fabric. Only one of them has sold so far, so it doesn't weigh much. So, I felt like it might do okay. But those pieces, the other pieces that I pick up are not as big, but definitely cute. You'll see me pick up some more here. That volleyball said, oh, what did it say? I think I show you guys something about homecoming. It was like somebody inviting somebody to do something. I think it was homecoming. Maybe, maybe not. I think I show you. But it was like maybe asking somebody out on a date and that's how they did it with a volleyball. It was kind of funny. Looking at the toys, you guys know I like to dig to the bottom of the bins and pull out all of those small toys. There's one. I grabbed that one.  I'm not sure what it goes to. If I listed it, I forgot to pop up the screenshot, so I apologize. Sometimes it's hard to see everything that I grab. All right. So where are my people that part out games? Do you only part out vintage games, the older games with the harder to find pieces? Or do you also part out modern current to date games? Let me know in the comments. That was another piece of Halloween fabric. Is that another math thing? What am I doing today? Oh my goodness. I left another one. Oh, don't leave those behind you guys. Those are money. That would have been two of them. Can't believe. Oh my goodness. It's right there. Did I get this one? Oh, I did get it. Oh, yay. So I only missed one. I bet that other one was broke. See, I told you they sell fast. That one sold for $15 plus shipping. How funny is that? I couldn't believe I wasn't grabbing it right away. What was I doing? I tell you, I watch these back as I do the voiceover and I'm like screaming at myself. VHS DVDs. I usually leave those behind unless they are sealed. Now, they're bread and butter, most of them. Every once in a while, you can hit a home run with the VHS. If you find like a one of like a scary movie or something like that, some of those old vintage ones. That were low in production and sealed. You can do pretty well on those. In fact, some of them are going for crazy money, but most of the time it's just going to be bread and butter. Look at this person's cart. Oh my goodness. All right. I am going to go through these hair things because vintage hair things right here, bam. I got those listed. Those are not goody brand, unfortunately. If they are, they are not marked. So I did go ahead and grab those. I'm always looking for markings. Some of them will say made in France. There's a good one. I listed that one, but I couldn't find my listing. So it may still be in the bottom of a bag or it fell out of my bag. I don't know, but I will list it. That one looked like a goody brand. I recently just sold some of those that I picked up from in a state.  Keep on digging. I think I've asked you guys this before. Do you like it when you can hear me digging like the sound in the background? Or do you prefer me to take the sound out? The last time I asked, I felt like more people said take the sound out. So that's what I have been doing lately. But would love your feedback. I kind of have mixed feelings about it. I kind of like it both ways, honestly. I don't think I really care. I feel like if I leave the sound in, then if I pause from talking, there's not like a big silent void. Like right there. You would have been digging. And a lot of times there's people talking in the background at our bends, you know, it's not real quiet. I have been watching a dumpster diva and she has a really cool way that she does hers. She just talks to you guys, wow, she's at the bends digging.  Because I feel like if I was talking as I was doing it, people would be like, who is she talking to? What is she doing? Because I just hold my phones. I kind of keep it. Most people probably don't even know I'm recording. I'm just holding the phone and digging. And then I come back and I pop up my screen shares for you guys and I do my voiceover. So my way is definitely takes more time. But her way is just so like entertaining and I love watching her videos. So if you have not seen the dumpster diva, definitely go and check her out. We recently did a scavenger hunt where we went and looked for 12 items and she had to find the 12 items at her bends and then I found 12 items and it's a collab video. So definitely if you miss that, go check out her video and check out mine as well. I'll try to remember to link those down in the description. But super fun collab right here, Paul Patrol. That is the piece off of the Paul Patrol play set. Always pick those up. They are a winner. This is an Imaginex ball. I do pick those up. I mean, they weigh next to nothing. This guy was a little bit on the heavy side, but I think he's going to do pretty good. I got him home, put some batteries in him, tested him. He did work. I also have a video over on my reseller testing Bolo products of how that works. It's really cool at like glides and then I had fun playing with it. I was like, I'm going to do a video on this so I can play with it and make sure it works. I got to make sure it works and it glides and then it also pops up and drives. So pretty cool piece.  There was lots of stuff today. This I spent I think $111. This is a two part video because the video would have been like an hour and a half long. That's like a little Fortnite Nerf shooter. Grab that. I don't know how that'll do. This one actually surprised me. Comps were pretty good on that little pig. So yeah, $111 by the pound. I wonder how many pounds I actually got. I did pick her up also. She is a Shirley Temple doll and they're kind of all over the place. So I've got her up for auction. We'll see what happens. If she doesn't sell, I will put her on a buy it now with best offer. No clothing, just those little panty shorts. So we'll see. We'll see what happens with her. If you've sold Shirley Temple, let me know down in the comments. How did you do with it? Again, DVDs that are sealed. I will pick them up, especially if they're like children's movies or if you can find the DVD sets that are sealed. I do pick those up as well. Digging, digging, digging. I love the bins. I'm actually heading up tomorrow. I'm going to take my friend Erin with me. If you guys missed the video where she sourced a bag of stuff for me, you have definitely got to go and check that out. So much fun. She did really, really good. But she also walked out of there with a cart full herself, which was pretty incredible. All right. There's the screenshot you guys are looking for. If you want to go check out that video. Super fun what she found. All right. We're looking at toys. Of course, always look at the bottom. You're going to find dates and you're going to find brands. And that's going to help you determine if you want to pick up that item. Do I comp out every single toy I pick up? Absolutely not. If it's a heavy item, yes, I will. If not, I just throw it in my cart, take it home. Worst case, I will bundle it with other items. If I can't list it for more than $5, I'll just bundle it. But I still will make a profit because these items are $1.89 a pound. And, you know, they don't weigh very much a few ounces, some of them. This guy right here. I can't remember if I actually got that or not. I just sold a broken toy that I got from the Benz. I don't know. Just something about it caught my eye. I had never seen it before, but I knew it was missing like a foot and a hand. It was kind of a mess. And that thing sold super quick. You will see that in one of my other Goodwill Benz videos. Because I think it sold before I aired the video. So it was just a definite quick sale. So parts and pieces can definitely, replacement parts can definitely do well. Again, I use replacement in the title. Sometimes I put parts and pieces. Really just depends on what the item is. But is there money in replacement parts? Most definitely. Is it time consuming and a lot of work if you're parting out a game? Or like I've parted out connects. I've parted out play sets. Yeah, it's a lot of work. And a lot of times the items are long tail. But you will make more money doing it that way. I don't know why I spent so much time on that book. These were kind of cool. Maybe I should have grabbed those. I left them behind. They were kind of heavy. I don't know if that was how to train your dragon or some other dragon. All right. This one's a long one, you guys. I don't usually have super long Benz videos. I usually keep them about 20 to 25 minutes. Maybe maybe more 30 for my Goodwill Benz. But this one, this one is 44 minutes long. So here's my question. I'm going to take a little poll here. Let me know in the comments what length do you like the Goodwill Benz videos to be? Because I know it's different than like a what sold video. Because these are more like entertainment plus education. So if you like them to be a little longer, let me know 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, an hour. Give me that feedback down in the comments. I would love to hear from you guys. Because I've been going and when I go, I have so much footage and I buy so much stuff. Like I walk out of there and my cart is overflowing almost every time. And I usually put it into two sometimes three videos depending on how long I record. The last time I went, I ran out of my battery went out. So when I went back in, I had no battery and they had just pulled out these amazing vintage Christmas items. So I had to go to my car and I had to record my cart. I plugged my phone into my car and I recorded my cart for you guys. So you guys will see that video in the future. Oh my goodness. I got some fantastic stuff. It was so fun. But I had to get that footage for you guys and it worked out. But I would have loved to have been recording in the actual store. But I probably need to get one of those battery packs or something. It seems like when I have more stuff on my phone like lots of videos, my battery maybe dies sooner or maybe I was just there for five hours. That could have been it. That could have been the problem. When you guys go to the Benz, how long are you there typically? I'm there a long time. It's like I'm already here. I don't know how many times I try to leave. I'm like, all right. See you guys to my friends that are there. I'm like, I'm taking off. And then I see them bringing out a new buggy and I'm like, oh, just one more round. And I ended up being there a lot longer. I'm like, I got to get out of here. Maybe I'll go to the thrift store. This is a Kaboodle. I feel like these used to do better than they're doing right now. But this one was a cool color. And I listed that one at $42. And I will take a best offer on that. So how I list my items if you're new here is I put them on buy it now or best offer. I run sales and I send offers. And I also have best offer option on all of my items. So here's my full cart. I'm sure that I put quite a bit of that back. As you can see when I'm putting stuff into the little thing, I don't pop up a screen share. So that's a good indicator that it got tossed back. All right, you guys, so far, what's your favorite thing that I've picked up? And do you see something I picked up that you would not have picked up? I love all your comments. So keep them coming, especially on these videos.  You should have got this. You should have got that. I love it when you guys put those in the comments. So keep them coming. If you time stamp it, that's even better because people that read the comments, they can go look. And it's educational. It helps us all learn. All right, we are going to keep digging. What is this? Little sewing thing, maybe? Something to hold sewing items. All right, I'm going to find something soon. There we go. Peppa the pig. I do pick up Peppa the pig. A lot of times just bread and butter, sometimes long tail.  I threw that under my sink. I'll use that for cleaning items. It was brand new. I forget what they're called.  They were just all over this bin. And actually a couple of the ladies beside me knew that I was picking them up. So they started handing them to me. So I had just a hodgepodge. As you can see in that listing, some of them are duplicates. Not duplicates. They actually have matches. And then some of them are singles. So I did sell one of the singles. I sold a single American girl shoe. I think I pop it up here in a little bit. So stay tuned for that. I have heard of people selling single shoes like adult and kids shoes, like just one shoe. But this was a doll shoe. So pretty spectacular. And I figured I would be sitting on that thing for years and years to come. And it actually sold pretty quickly. So if you can find those branded items like American girl, usually American girl is going to be your best bet. There are as Batat I think it is and our generation. So if you pick those up as well, those are some more shoes that were in that lot. But I decided to just lot them together with a couple pairs and then the singles. But I did do the one American girl shoe on its own. And it had like a cherry on it, I think. So it went to a special doll. So I'm guessing somebody had a kid. They had a doll. The doll lost their shoe. And they're like, mom, dad, I need the shoe. And then guess what? They looked on eBay and I had the shoe they needed. So pretty funny, right? Anything. You can sell anything pretty much on eBay except for the items that you're not supposed to sell on eBay. And you can check out my do not list these items on eBay. I have a whole series of Vero and policy violation videos. Things that are in current time being removed from eBay that my Facebook members have shared. So definitely check out those videos. Throw them on while you work. You can listen to them in the background and get to know what things are being removed right now. Like one thing recently that popped up for hazardous materials is bubble lights. And I guess it's vintage and the modern ones as well. They are pulling all bubble lights. So it's not, they're just taking it down and giving you a warning. So that's good. But be careful with those. Don't list them. They will get pulled. That was somebody that just handed me off some toys. I did pick up this little rabbit. It was Department 56. Cute as can be. Figure that might be an item that sells during Easter. Anytime that I have bunny rabbits and stuff like that. I typically, if I have enough room in the title, will put Easter in the title. All right. We're going to keep digging here. I love digging to the bottom. I will tell you that I am a Benz digger. I dig to the bottom for those small toys. This is a stif. However, it is a more modern stif. But I was pretty excited when I saw that tag in the ear. I am listing that high simply because I couldn't find any others exactly like it. So do I think I'll get that much? Probably not. But I do have best offer on it is super cuddly and snugly and cute. So there'll be a buyer for it. I just don't know if it'll be at $81. But I will send out offers that any, if anybody likes that item. And I will also entertain any offers that come in for that item. I also am currently running a buy one get one 25% off sale. I just created that coupon. And if you guys don't know how to create coupons, I just released probably it's been a little while ago, but a video on how to create a coupon if you have an eBay store. And I created a coupon for my viewers. It's down in the description.  If you use coupon code BOLOBUDDIES all one word at checkout. And then I also created a coupon that I send out to people who have purchased from me in the past and people that follow my store. And that coupon I believe is BOLO coupon maybe. I can't remember. I'm getting them all mixed up. Or maybe that one is BOLO with OLO. I have three coupons going on right now. But anyway, I will send out messages to past buyers and that encourages them to come back into my store and look. But that is a code that you set up through eBay that people have to put in at checkout when they buy from you. So it's really a cool feature. And I haven't used it for a long time. I do have shipping discounts on and stuff like that and volume pricing. But this is totally different. And it's been working out pretty well for me. So definitely think about adding some sort of coupon to your store. Coupon code. And I know some of my featured members. I have memberships on my channel and I do special BOLO videos with their BOLOs. And when I do that I feature their stores. And I know a couple. Well, one for sure. No, two of them had a special coupon for viewers of the channel. So maybe more of them will start doing that. So you can maybe look for that in the future. Just ways to get some deals. Everybody wants a deal, right? All right. I don't know what that was. Like a little light up ring or something. Back earlier. Well, first off, let's talk about this. A vintage Wilson leather key chain. I thought that was kind of cool. What is this and should I have bought it? This here is a Barbie Suzy Goose. And I got it home and it was broken. So I took it apart. I took the doors off and I'm going to sell those doors individually. Somebody is going to crack a door off. It's a vintage item. And I'm going to have what they need. Probably a long tail again.  And if you're watching, don't get discouraged. Not everything sells as soon as you list it. In fact, most items do not sell as soon as you list them. It usually has to be something pretty special to get a quick sale. And check your pricing. Check how your pricing things. Are you offering best offer? Are you running sales? But don't be discouraged. Just keep listing. The more you list, the more you sell because obviously you have more items for people to choose from, but it also keeps you more current in the algorithm. But I don't want everybody that's watching maybe that if you're a new reseller to think that as soon as you list these items, they are going to sell. That is not typical. So I don't think about what I list. I just list it and I forget it. If you concentrate on, oh my gosh, this item has been listed for 30 days and has not sold, you're going to stress yourself out.  Just keep listing. All right. You guys are seeing all these magnets. These are magnets that I think you put on your car and their dog magnets. And it says like, I love my whatever dog. And they're super cool. There were also key chains. I did put a lot that I popped up on Poshmark. And I think there was 50 or 100 in the lot. But I have tons of these. I am, I think going to bring these over to what not and do small bundles. Or maybe if somebody wants a specific dog, I don't know. I haven't decided exactly what I'm going to do with them, but they are so cool and I could not pass them up. So I just had to grab them all. And I don't even have footage of all of them. My tote was stuffed full. I'm going to say, I don't know how many pounds. It was a lot of pounds. They did work with me on price because I was buying so many of them. And I can't remember what I ended up paying for all of them, but it was a really good deal. And I saved it from the landfill and they're really new old stock cool items. And I could part them out, but I just don't have the time to do that right now. I did see some that were listed individually on Poshmark. But I just, again, I don't really enjoy that type of thing, that style of listing. I like more new old stock items. And items that are vintage and hard to find and fun stuff like this right here, these plastic horse blow mold lights. That's the stuff I like, but I am going to grab the magnets because I don't want to leave them in the bins to go to the landfill. They're incredible. And I know that people love items that look like they're dogs and stuff like that. I can't remember if I threw that back or not. I haven't listed it, so I'm guessing I threw it back. But I was thinking maybe like a little dollhouse thing. This sold really quick. It's a little Mega Blocks builder, first builders. Here's a Batman Lego Duplo. I do pick up the cars and the vehicles, anything like that that are building toys, if they're Duplos. So, and Mega Blocks. And of course you will see me digging for all of the small, what do you call them? The little small Legos. I will pick those out of the bins no matter what they are. I just make a pile. So many times I buy Lego sets and they are missing pieces and that is where you're going to find your missing pieces. And a big Lego tote that you have at home from Legos you've dug out of the bins.  So many items. It is so hard for me to not just grab everything. I don't know. I think those were boxes. Maybe I should have got those. Maybe they would have been good packing supplies. I do, I just threw that in my tote. Did you see it? I just tossed it. I think that was a bag of hair things. I don't think I ended up getting it. So I probably looked through it more and decided not to get it based on what was in there.  Thanks for hanging with me. If you're still here, let me know in the comments. I am still here because we are 38 minutes in. And again, this is a longer video for me. So let me know if you're hanging out still and what you think, if you think I'm finding good stuff. And there is a part two of this video. Those were kind of cute. I think those are little crafters items that people stuff. Grabbing more magnets. You guys, I turned off my phone for a while. If I would have kept all the footage of me grabbing magnets, it would have been probably 15, 20 minutes. I grabbed so many. And like I said, people were just handing them to me in piles. These are cool. I love my whatever kind of dog that is. And there were so much, like so many different types of dogs. It wasn't like they were all the same. It was incredible. Such a great variety. Not, I said key change luggage tags. That's what I meant. So just grabbing them out, grabbing them all. Okay, that's where I cut it off. I'm like, all right, they do not want to watch all of me grabbing these magnets. However, it probably would have been pretty funny watching me just keep grabbing them. Okay, creative memories. New old stock. Definitely a pickup. I love creative memories. Been doing really fantastic with it. Always pick those up at garage sales. I seem to find them a lot at garage sales. And here is a set of trains and track. And I listed the track. I've got the trains somewhere. I'll probably put them in a little bundle. But thought I would give the track a good try there. We'll see if somebody wants to buy that track from me. All right, what's in here? I'm always intrigued by the bags full of stuff.  I grabbed that one day and I do have a little video of that. At first I saw this and I thought it was going to be one of those little Boyd's Bears sweatshirt bears. I got excited for a second, but it was not unfortunately. But I still listed it. It is a mini bear with a little sweater. It's just a Christmas ornament, but very, very cute item. This I picked up. Grumbacher, I think is how you pronounce it, is definitely a Bolo. These are not in great condition unfortunately, but I just had to take a chance. I squeezed the tubes. They weren't super soft, but I think that there's something you can put in paint to bring it back to life. So I did go ahead and grab it. I've just put it all together. I don't know if it'll ever sell, but if you find Grumbacher brand, definitely look it up, especially some of the vintage paints. Some of them can go for big money, discontinued colors, stuff like that. Mine, I don't know how it's going to do. I was hoping it was going to be something special in there, but I did not look it all up while I was there. So took it home and decided I was just going to put it in one bundle lot. All right. There was a horse there. I usually check the horses. Some of them I know right away. Like this is what I want. If it's a briar, I think that's just a wrapping paper. I mean, there's so many items that people could get for personal use. Tell me in the comments, do you buy stuff for yourself when you're at the Benz or are you a reseller? Because I'm sure there's people watching right now that you're not a reseller. You just go to the Benz and buy for yourself and maybe you like watching these types of videos. So let me know in the comments are you a reseller? Do you source at the Benz? I did look that up and I decided to put it back. I don't remember why. I don't know if it was dirty or damaged or just the comps weren't very great, but I did put that back. What is that? I need to do, like if I see paper and stuff like that for packaging, I need to buy more of that. Maybe they can, if it's a heavy item, they'll give me a good deal on it. I did grab a roll of Ikea drawing paper once and I think I paid the $1.89 a pound for it, but I am going to crinkle it up and use it as packaging paper for when I have breakables and stuff. In addition to bubble wrap, of course. All right. I always look in the pencil cases. You never know. You might find a gem. Vintage pencils can do pretty good. I don't know what was in my hand there, but I pulled something out of there. I can't remember. Maybe on the big screen, you guys will be able to see what it is. I'm holding on to it. It's in my hand. I lost my car or my tote or whatever I have. All right. I'm not doing a very good job of getting down to the bottom. I need to really be digging to the bottom. That's where you find those small amazing toys. All right. We are about finished here. I just want to thank you all so much for being here and thank you for watching. Be sure to like, comment, subscribe and share. And answer some of those questions that I asked during the video. And there was my total.


What's the rarest thing inside the back rooms? Like out of all the entities, the levels, the objects, what is the hardest one to get your hands on? Well, the rarest level is probably level 696, and it's pretty much just a place of repeating parking garage floors that get glitchier and glitchier and more unstable the further you go down. And in the entrance section of the level, it literally says entry to this level happens seemingly at random, so yeah. Then there's object 99, the Hermes device. This is a very rare item that allows the holder to glitch between levels at ease. The only problem is it's pretty much impossible to make. But I think the rarest thing period in the back rooms is entity 666, the happy files virus. The entity can only be encountered on specific computers with a specific file on the desktop.


In the last experiment, we measured the speed of sound. We did that by using a high-speed clock to measure short-time intervals. In this experiment, we're going to do things just a bit differently. Now that we know the speed of sound, we're going to use that particular value to measure short-time intervals. And the short-time interval that we're going to measure is the amount of time it takes this balloon to pop. From the instant that I prick the balloon with this pin until the balloon is pretty much completely gone, that's the amount of time that we're going to determine. You might call that the lifetime of a bursting balloon. The experiment will use some of the same equipment as in the last experiment, a sound trigger connected to this flash unit. And then the two meter sticks that we'll use to measure distance. To begin the experiment, I'll be putting the balloon right here at the zero mark of the meter stick. I'll pop it right at the front. It won't take very long for the sound to travel from the point where I prick the balloon to the sound trigger. In that amount of time, the balloon won't rip very far. It'll still be pretty much an intact balloon. But then I'm going to move the balloon further and further down the meter stick. And the further I move it while keeping the sound trigger in the same place, the longer it will take sound to travel from the balloon to the trigger, and so more time will elapse. About how much time are we talking about? Well, from the last experiment, you probably found that the speed of sound was about 340 meters per second. Now, that's also the same thing as 340 millimeters per millisecond. Now, it's useful to think of it in those units because of the fact that we're going to be dealing with very short time intervals that are on the order of milliseconds rather than seconds. For example, if I move the balloon from the zero mark to about a third of a meter, well, a third of a meter is 33 centimeters, and that's 330 millimeters. If the speed of sound is 340 millimeters per millisecond, that amount of time for sound to travel this far is just about one millisecond. So if, for example, the balloon were, let's say, two-thirds of the way down the meter stick, and we popped it, and we saw that the balloon was pretty much gone at that point, we could say, well, that took about two milliseconds because each third of a meter is a millisecond of time, okay? So we'll use that in order to figure out the lifetime of this bursting balloon. So let's begin, we'll do a series of four bursts, one at zero, one at half a meter, and one at one meter, and one at a meter and a half, and then we'll see what results we get from those. So let's begin with the first one. Here it goes. So on the freeze frame, you saw that the balloon head split just a very short distance up the front of it. And that's because the amount of time it took sound to travel from the point of the rip to the microphone on the sound trigger was very short. Next I'll move the balloon, the next balloon, a half a meter down the stick, and we'll do it again. But I'm going to move my flash down just a little bit so it's closer. But I'm keeping the sound trigger in the same place. Okay, let's try this one. Well, in that particular shot, you saw that the balloon was ripped completely up the front and actually ripping on the back. So the balloon was about half gone. Let's keep moving on down the meter stick. Well, that time the balloon was pretty much gone, but it still had a little bit of shape of the balloon. So let's move down another half a meter for the final shot. Well, in that last shot, you can see that the balloon was almost completely gone. There was just a little piece left and it was completely collapsed. So we can say that the lifetime of a bursting balloon, at least the balloons that I'm using here, is about the amount of time it takes sound to travel a distance of 1.5 meters. So knowing the speed of sound and that distance, you can calculate the amount of time it takes a balloon to burst.


All right. Well, thank you guys for joining us for our workshop today. We're going to be talking about topic selection and introduction to searching. As Allison mentioned earlier, we do have a couple of announcements. The first is that this session is being recorded. So if you unmute yourself during this first 30 minutes, your name and camera view will be included in the recording. So if you want to avoid this, please just use chat for any questions or comments until the end. And like Allison said, we'll stop recording before we get to the Q&A. Also, if you're viewing this recording later, please note that some information might have changed, not necessarily for this workshop, but in general. So just make sure you check the library for most up-to-date information. And we will get started with introductions. Allison, would you like to introduce yourself? Yeah, I can start us off. So my name is Allison Shepard. I'm an online learning librarian at UT Libraries. And my pronouns are she, her. You can reach me by email at Allison at Utk.edu after the workshop if you have questions. And I'm going to turn it over to Amber. Awesome. Thanks. I am Amber Sewell. I also use she, her pronouns. I am the teaching and learning librarian here at Hodges Library. And my email is asewell1 at Utk.edu. Please feel free to email me anytime. All right. So here's what to expect from today's workshop. We'll spend the first 30 minutes going over how to search. And then there will be half an hour after for questions or working time, say if you want to try out something that we talked about today and you'd like to have a librarian on standby to ask questions. Feel free to do that. Only the first 30 minutes of that will be recorded. And then at the end of the session, you'll have learned how to choose a topic, what Boolean operators are, and how to use them, how to choose keywords for your research, and what a search string is and how to make one. So we'll just dive right in. First, the most important part of any research assignment is choosing a topic. I have a lot of opinions on this, but essentially they all boiled down to pick something that you're interested in. If you're researching something that you think is fun and cool, everything else is going to be so much easier. I don't know about you guys, but when I was taught how to write a paper, I was essentially taught to start with a thesis statement and then go find sources that agree with that thesis statement. And this can be problematic for two big reasons. One is you're worried that there aren't going to be enough sources out there, so you pick a topic that you don't care about, like Disney princesses and how they're bad for kids. You know that there are going to be 50 million papers that agree with that thesis statement, but you don't necessarily care. Or you could pick a topic that you're really interested in and then you start researching and none of the papers agree with your statement. And then what do you do from there? Which is why I really like framing research through a research question instead. With the thesis statement, you're saying, I think this is true. And a research question, really you're posing a question and you're letting your research answer it throughout. What this really looks like is you start with your assignment. So what does your professor want? What are the constraints of the class? These are things you can't change. So if you're in an English one or two class, say myths and monsters or news and popular culture, you don't really have any control over those. And that's where the next step, your interest really comes in handy. I'm a big advocate for picking something that you're interested in, hobby, your expertise, and seeing how you can link that to your assignment. And you can do this two ways. One, you can think back to something you talked about in the class that you really thought was interesting. So for myths and monsters, I have loved dragons forever. If we talked about it in class, my research question might be, I don't know, what are physical differences between evil dragons and good dragons? I don't know the answer. I don't know if there's research on that, but that's what I want to check out. Or let's say you got totally caught up in this tiger that has escaped in Knoxville and you were like a meme creator expert. You've made awesome memes about this. It's become a hobby of yours. If you're in a news and pop culture class, there's a natural overlap. And so that makes your next step, finding your resources. I wouldn't say necessarily so much easier, but it's going to be so much more fun because you actually care what you're researching. Reading five papers about why Disney princesses are bad for little girls when you don't care about Disney is really boring. But if you really care about dragons, that research is going to be so much easier. Or maybe you know that scholarly publishing can be a slow process. You're not going to find scholarly articles about this tiger escaping in Knoxville. But you know that this has happened before and you can find scholarly articles about other times that it's happened and used, say, those primary sources to tie everything together. And that really leads to a cool new product.  If you follow this process, nobody else could have written the paper that's going to come out of this if you are pairing your interest with the assignment. A professor would so much rather read something off the wall that the student clearly loved rather than 50 of the same papers because people thought it was an easy topic. And as a librarian, my favorite thing is when students are really into a topic and then they come to me and ask for help.  So the next thing we're going to talk about is choosing keywords. And typically after you choose the topic, the next step you'll want to complete is deciding what words you want to search for. So keywords are really just the main ideas or words surrounding your topic. So you can ask yourself questions like, what is the main idea of this? What words would I use to describe this topic to someone else and make note of all of those words? If you can go to the next slide, please. Now, if you need some help deciding on what keywords to use, there are a lot of different ways to do this. And use keywords or words that you would use to describe the topic. If you were talking to someone about it, ask someone else what keywords they would use for your topic. Also, if you're just getting started and kind of deciding on your topic, it's really good to Google your topic and see what keywords come up there. And you can also use something like Wikipedia to do a little bit of background reading. And I will say Wikipedia can be edited by basically anyone. So you don't want to cite that information, but it can be a good starting spot just to get some background information on your topic. You can also find some synonyms for your words if you use an online thesaurus or even a physical thesaurus. And if you're into using databases, oftentimes they will have a thesaurus included in those as well. And thesaurus will just find words that mean the same thing as the word that you're using. Sometimes if you're searching and you're using one keyword, like say tiger, for example, but you're not finding anything, you might have to slightly alter your search or use synonyms. There's not really a great synonym for tiger, aside from like using the scientific name, but you could get more general and just say big cats. Or if you decide that that search isn't working for you, you could change directions entirely and talk about a different animal. So you could switch to cougars or lions. So there's a lot of different directions you can go with keywords. I usually find that making a list and having that on like my desk with me when I'm doing searching makes it a little bit easier. And when you're searching, if you try one search and it doesn't work with the keywords you're using, if you try switching out some of those keywords, you're going to get different results. Also too, if you're not really sure where to start with your keywords or you're searching and you're still not getting anything for the assignment that you're working on, reach out to your librarian for help. We're here to help with that part of the process too. Awesome. So once you have your keywords, you got to put them together in some form or fashion. And this is where Boolean operators come together. It's just a fancy word for and or and not. And I'm going to briefly tell you how they all work together with your keywords. So let's say you're really interested in this target that's escaped. And so basic search you could do would be tiger and escape. So when you put that into a database, like one search or academic search complete, this is kind of what it looks like. So you've got everything that's ever been published about tigers that we have access to, all of the things about escape. But because you've used and it's only going to show you results for things that have both of those words in them. So there's tons of stuff about tigers that won't show up, but using and tells the database you want both of these things for it to be relevant. There's also or and this is a good place to use the synonyms. So if you're searching either something that has multiple names or you want to try different variations or can be great. So like with this tiger that escaped, some people from the zoo said people might have seen a cougar. So maybe I want to look at tiger or cougar escapes. And what this looks like is it's got everything about tigers, everything about cougars, anything that has both and I'm getting all of those results. So this is a good way to expand results if you're not getting enough. And lastly, we have not. This can be good. Say I'm doing a lot of research about big cats, but I keep getting things about lions and I don't care about lions or a lot of the articles for some reason might mention tigers but are mostly about lions and it's getting super frustrating. I can use not to get rid of anything that mentions lions. So not only the bulk of information but anything that mentions tigers and lions. I'm not going to get it. I'm only going to get that information that just mentions tigers. We often say use this with caution because sometimes this information in the middle can be valuable. But there are times where say if you're looking at different sports and you keep getting the one that doesn't matter or different countries, this can be a useful one to use. So the next part we're going to talk about just briefly is constructing a search string. And a search string is really just what you type into the search box whether you're searching in Google or the one search or if you're using one of our databases. So it's the combination of the keywords that you're using, those Boolean operators, and any other information that you're searching for like an author name or a date. So here are just a few examples of search strings you could use to talk about the topic of the tiger escape. You can do tiger and escape to look for articles that include information about both of those words. So anything that just has information about one of those won't show up in the search. It has to have both. And make your, will make your search more narrow. So you're going to get fewer items the more that you use and. Now you can continue adding more Boolean operators to your search string by making it longer. I've included an example of that next. So tiger and escape and zoo. If you just wanted to look at tigers that escape from the zoo. Now in the report last week they knew it wasn't from Knoxville Zoo. They're not really sure where it came from. So this probably wouldn't be the search you would do to look at articles on that when they're available. Now the search string that I've got at the bottom is a little bit more complicated. Now when you're trying to search for articles or other resources and you're not getting enough results something I usually recommend that people do is include some of those synonyms or other keywords that you can use. Now let's say we're getting a lot of articles about escapes from zoos for animals. But maybe we're not getting enough just for tigers specifically. Maybe we want to expand it to include other big cats as well. So you'll see that I've included in parentheses at the start of the search string. Tiger or lion or cheetah or big cat in quotations. What this tells my search to do is search for everything that's in the parentheses first. So any of these words can show up in the article and I want to see them. But it also has to include escape and zoo. So any articles that pop up will include escape and zoo but they also have to include one of those first words in the parentheses as well. You'll notice I also put quotation marks around big cat. And that's because I want to search for that as a phrase. When you do that in a database or Google or one search it's telling the search engine that you're using. I need these words to appear together. So if I just search for big cat separately without the quotation marks big might be on the first page of the article. Cat might be somewhere else. But if you put quotations around it those words have to appear together for it to show up in your search. That's just one way you can conduct search strings. They can get pretty long. You also don't have to type the Boolean operators in all caps like we have here in most databases. But I do it because it makes it easier for me to see where the words are separated and it makes it easier to switch things out. So these are just a few examples. Your search will look entirely different depending on what your topic is. But if you have any help figuring out just let us know. Right. And that is just a very quick run through of how to get started with searching. Make sure to make it fun or something you're interested in if at all possible. And then the basics of getting started. We do have our survey here. We'll drop a link in chat. We would greatly appreciate it if you would fill that out. Also if you need proof of attendance for attending this webinar either live or for the recording. Filling out the survey will give you that. And then please join us next Wednesday for our workshop on finding primary sources. I'll be there helping with that one as well. All right. And I will go ahead and stop the recording so we can begin our Q&A session.


So in today's video we're gonna be discussing drop shipping strategy or more specifically long-term drop shipping strategy then. We've all seen videos on YouTube titles and the headlines of does drop shipping actually work? Is drop shipping dead? Is it a scam? Can you make money drop shipping? And all of those things you've gotta realize are purely for views to get attention to that particular video or that particular piece of content. Ultimately there should be no argument to whether drop shipping actually works. It's just a fact now as long as you do it correctly that is. So you have to have three kind of core fundamentals for a drop shipping business to work. Number one is the product slash supplier. You have to have a good supplier that can supply the right product to a decent quality. You need a decent Shopify store that is trustworthy and professional and comes across as established and you also need an effective marketing campaign and attention grab in piece of content that goes out to the right audience on the right platform. Where drop shipping does have its disadvantages or not necessarily disadvantages it's just better ways of doing things is when it comes to the long-term sustainability of a business. So once you've tested the products you've drop shipped it for a couple of months and it's profitable you've proven that it works. Then in my opinion it doesn't really make sense to continue to actually drop ship that product. There's different strategies and models in which you should then apply to your business to do one of two things which is the two kind of main objectives of your business. So number one is you want it to be sustainable you want your business to last for many years to come. This doesn't make sense to make money for three months for six months and then find that your business is on the decline and you have to find a new product or you have to start again. And number two is you want your business to make as much profit as possible. That's the objective of a business at the end of the day is to make as much money as possible. And drop shipping is not always the best way to do this which is what I wanna show you in this video my six step business model and strategy that you should be using to accomplish those two things which is number one, maximum sustainability and number two, maximum profitability. And with that being said, that's the topic of the video. Thanks for tuning in. Hope you enjoyed the video but more importantly, hope you learned something new as well. So let's jump straight into it. So this is the six step process in which I put together it's kind of like a flow diagram there's different stages and there's different kind of qualifying factors in which you must meet before you move on to the next stage. So I'm gonna take you through it now. Number one is obviously your Shopify store you need a platform to sell your products on. I recommend Shopify it's just the best platform in my opinion. So you build a store to sell your products as a complete beginner I recommend going for a general store just because setting up your store initially is probably gonna take you quite a bit of time and it's probably not gonna look quite as professional as somebody who has experienced on Shopify. If you're more experienced then what I recommend is a one product or branded store this will help you as a business kind of come across as a bit more established and make it look like that you actually own the product and you're the original kind of creators and seller of the product which is definitely more beneficial from a customer's point of view. So if you want to buy kind of like a specialist product you'll probably go to a company or a business that specializes in that range of product. So to give you kind of like an example or a metaphor of what I mean by this if you want to eat Indian food one night you would probably go to an Indian restaurant that specializes in Indian food. You probably wouldn't go to a restaurant that sells English fish and chips or Italian pizza plus kebabs plus Indian food as well. You'd probably go to a specific Indian restaurant that specializes in it because they specialize you assume they will do a better job than anybody else and people will think the same thing if you're selling pet products they'd rather go to a pet shop versus a product that sells pet products, gadgets, kitchen stuff and so on and so forth. The advantages as well for a beginner having a general store is when it comes to the hit rate of finding products that actually perform well then it's obviously going to be a lot less versus somebody who's more experienced. So having a general store just kind of allows you to have that flexibility to test as many products as needs be whereas if you're a bit more experienced you can put a store together in a couple of days and it's not much kind of financial penalty or time penalty to have to redesign your store every time. Once you have a really good store make sure you get some feedback and once you're happy with it move on to step two which is testing your products. So this is using paid marketing to advertise your products. I recommend matching the product to the platform in which you're going to advertise if the product that you're selling is going to be or more suited for a younger demographic sticks things like Snapchat and TikTok. If you're going for a bit of an older demographic 35 plus stick to Google ads, stick to Facebook. An important note when it comes to the testing putting your marketing campaigns together the most important thing by far is the actual content you use. It needs to be attention grabbing and suited for the audience in which you're going to be advertising too. So as it says here, don't skip corners. Use either user generated content or actors or actually film the content yourself. Original content will always perform the best. Step three is kind of like your review phase so is what you're doing at the moment is the product you're testing profitable. So after one to two months testing review your results. If it's profitable move on to step four. If it's not profitable go back to step two of testing products. At this stage at stage three as well you should also consider making it a long-term business. There should be many things you consider here besides just how profitable it is. I would say in my opinion it helps to have an interest yourself in the actual product you're selling. Ultimately the business that you run. Yes you want it to be profitable and yes you want it to be sustainable but you also want it to be something that you enjoy as well. If you decide you want to make this a long-term business for many years to come moving on to step four this is where we need to build a brand. We need to establish ourselves as a market leader and as a professional that's selling this product. So you either completely create a new store around this particular product or you can edit your store to match the product and this is where we start branding it. So as I mentioned we need to build an oppression of legitimate professional and established business. At this point all of your content, your logos the fonts you should be using should all be uniform throughout your website and throughout your social media platforms as well. And then it goes without saying at this point you should have a physical address, a telephone number, contact forms, email address, customer domain, everything you would expect to see from an established business. Once you've completed step four step five is then private labeling your product. This is when it comes back to the profitability aspect of your business. You want your business to be as profitable as possible just makes sense and drop shipping and fortunately it's not the best way to do this. It's obvious that when you're buying one unit at a time i.e. drop shipping it's gonna be a lot more expensive versus say buying 500 or 1000 units at a time. So this is when it makes sense to move on to private labeling your product. To do this speak to manufacturers on Alibaba make sure you get trade assurance so whenever you place that order then essentially you're protected through Alibaba's payment systems. Private label your products and kind of establish that product and match it to your brand and it will help separate you from your competition is you want your logo printed on that product. In terms of shipping now and fulfilling the products you can either use a fulfillment warehouse this will continue to let you essentially run your business 100% online. Or number two if you're on a budget you can choose to ship the items out yourself which is what I chose to do in the beginning. The sixth and final step is product development. So this is where you make your product unique so that nobody can essentially come into the market and compete with you. At this point if your product is the same as every other product on Aliexpress or CJ drop shipping or wherever you're sourcing the product from then anybody with a big budget and the right strategy can come into the market and compete with you very, very quickly in fact. Whereas if you move on to step six which is the product development phase at this point you should probably have 500,000 orders maybe 2000 orders and you should have some returns at this point as well. You should have some feedback from customers what they do like about the product what they don't like about the product and this is where you take this information into step six which is product development and in this step we're gonna make the products unique we're gonna separate the products from anything else on the internet so nobody can copy our products exactly. And as it says there think of ways of how you could improve it. How can you make it solve maybe more than one problem? How can you make it solve an even bigger problem to give you an example? I drop ship pet pools they're kind of like foldable pet pools but when you fold them up then unless you kind of like wedge them between something that hold them quite tightly because of how rigid the material is then they pretty much end up expanding anyway. So when you put it on the floor in your shed or wherever you're storing it they expand it gets a bit messy and it just kind of increases the risk of it getting ripped and so on. So what I'm actually doing at the moment is speaking to suppliers about whether they can actually attach kind of like a clip on either side so then when you fold it up it kind of wraps around and then clips in to basically keep it nice and neat in a nice kind of easy storage package for the customer. And again, nobody's actually doing that at the moment on Alibaba, on CJ Dropship and all on Aliexpress and this is just kind of one simple way of explaining how you would separate or develop a product to make it different and make it unique. So with that being said that is the six step business model and strategy. Any questions on any of these stages make sure you let me know in the comments section below. I do read every single comments I will get back to you and I will give you my honest answers. Let me know what kind of content you guys want to see as well. I do these videos for you guys at the end of the day so if there's anything at all that you want to request post it down in the comments section below. If you enjoyed this video please do make sure you leave a like and of course if you want to see my content make sure you drop a sub as well. 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So, the today's agenda will introductions for the project team, project overview, show the project area and go over some frequently asked questions for the project. So, again, my name is Leon Wilson, my phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. My email address is. Leon, dot Wilson at forward, Texas dot gov and our engineering design consultant is a Kim, we hoarding associates and our project managers are a John Atkins and Josh Curchum. So, it's sadly stated, this is the community design meeting for the Cliff, work, live station and force main. And so I have a map showing the lift station, which is at the lower left hand side of the map. And the force main, which extends to the north. So, the force may and extends east from the lift station, which is north on Rogers, it goes north on Rogers road across interstate highway 30 and Chisholm trail Parkway. And easily in Trinity Park across Clearford Trinity River. North easily along forest Park Boulevard and ending at West field stream. This project is in city council district 9 impacts the Fort Worth downtown neighborhood alliance and West 700 neighborhood alliance. So, why are we doing this project city of Fort Worth has committed to eliminating a long term sanitary sewer overflow commonly referred to as SSO in this presentation. On 48, 48 inch sanitary sewer main in dash 439 and 1500 South university drive in front of macaroni grill. It's approximately at the intersection of Rose Dell and university in order to eliminate overflow, the city plans to construct a peak flow lift station upstream of this area to pump the peak sewer flows downstream past the overflow area. The intent is to provide additional capacity in a sanitary sewer system through a congested area of the city and discharge the peak flows with a gravity system gravity source system has sufficient capacity. So, this is the location at 1500 university drive near Rose Dell and university drive in macaroni grill. And this is an actual sanitary sewer event and SSO event on March 25, 2019 shows why we're doing this project. This location has had 11 SSO incidents in the past 3 years and approximately 3.8 million gallons of sewer has overflowed out of the system onto the roadway. What does a lift station and force main do the lift station pumps wastewater from a lower elevation or lower level to a higher level. This station site is located between an existing gas well pad located at 1630 Rogers road in a specific Davidson yard. The force main moves wastewater using pressure generated by pumps in the lift station. So the site as mentioned is between the gas well and you, you need Pacific railroad. The access is from Mopac road. So there's no public access to the lift station site. The sanitary sewer collection system. There are currently 2 collective mains. 148 inches and 154 inches in diameter that parallel the clear fork of the Trinity River from university drive downstream through Trinity Park then connects to deep tunnel sewer in downtown Fort Worth. This force may would be 36 inches in diameter and approximately 14,400 linear feet long. The force main lift station will work together handed to both the normal and peak flow conditions for the wastewater. So for the presentation, we have broken up in segments. It would be the force may would be 1 project, but for the sake of the presentation. I'm going to discuss it in 3 different segments. So the proposed lift station would be located between the specific railroad Davidson yard slash Mopac road. In existing gas well past type along Trinity River west of the Trinity residences on rate Rogers road. This segment East along the river then. Sorry, it's a type of segment then turns East along the river and then North on road between Trinity, residency departments. And continues across 30 Chisholm Trail Parkway and the specific railroad to our Trinity Park. The middle segment on this slide is showing that it crosses Trinity Park. And then crosses to East side of the river before heading northeast along force park Boulevard. And the North segment is long force park Boulevard and ends at West fifth street where it connects with an existing gravity system. So, will we need to access access your property? If any easements need it, you should have been or will be notified if your property requires access contact me the project manager. If you have any questions. What happens if my property is damaged, the contractor would take pictures and video of the property before breaking ground. We also encourage property owners to take pictures and video of their property before construction starts. The original contractor will restore the property to its original condition. Most of the construction will occur in the right away city right away. City park and across Trinity River there's middle way impact to private on properties and we've already had contact with those property owners. So, just a basic timeline is mentioned at the beginning. This is the design meeting. So, once we go through our design process, the next steps would be advertised for construction. We take bids, we open the bids. We would go to city council to approve contract to the low bid contractor. And at that point we would have a second meeting, which would be a pre construction meeting with the contractor and the inspector present. To answer any questions specific to construction at that time. It will be a well back's meeting once again to bring everybody up to date and then construction would begin and right now we are estimating instruction sometime in spring of 22. We're still finishing design, but that's the estimated structure and start period. So, where can you get more information? The progress would be updated on the city of forward website located at the link below and at the city's website for Texas and go to the projects page and then look for the clear for lift station and force main link. Once again, that project number is 109, the link to this meeting video, the project map and the project summary and frequently asked questions will also be linked to the project page. At that website. So, once again, project manager of the water department named Leon Wilson on number<PHONE_NUMBER> email address Leon Wilson at forward, Texas dot gov. And just a little some information about water main breaks and sewer backups. Just for general information, you can call<PHONE_NUMBER> select option 1 and that number developed with 24 hours a day. And also for non emergency calls, you can call between 7am to 7pm at the same number of Monday through Friday, 817392. Or 477, but non emergency is closed during city holidays for those for 7 and 7 money to Friday download the my 4th app from the app store or Google play. There you can report sewer overflows leaks, water main breaks missing a broken meter list. Water theft, water violations, no water service, water pressure issues, or any other sewer concerns. Anything else that the water department can help you take care of. And with that, that's the conclusion of my presentation. I think we'll go through the chat questions. 1st, Sally, read those off and then we'll take any calling questions. So, Sally, do we have any chat questions we do not have any questions in chat? Does anyone want to ask a question? Does anyone want to see a slide again, certain slides? If anyone thinks of any questions or has any concerns after the meeting, just. Once again, just send an email to call me or whichever works best for you again. My email number. I'm sorry. My phone number is 817392237. Email Leon, that will snap 4, Texas dot gov. And once again, thank you everyone for cutting them out tonight. I'm attending the web, ex leading. And I think, sadly, if we don't have any questions, I think we can close the meeting. I think we can thank you everybody for coming. All right. Thank you.