Influential YouTube resellers, who do you recommend for your business?

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

     I have several YouTubers to view that I enjoy for fun or to pass the time. And I watch one in particular that is very knowledgeable about the items I like to sell. He is an appraiser,  collector, reseller on ebay and he is extremely well versed in mid century items.

     He knows makers marks, pinpoints dates and how items were manufactured.  He's also an author of a book dealing with a collectable type of ceramic ware.

     I think YouTuber resellers should be commended for the constant release of videos and the knowledge that they pass to their viewers for free. It looks like a difficult and time consuming job and I know I couldn't do it!

     I know they get rewarded with a large fan base to their ebay stores as well as they should. I just wanted to give a shout out to these dedicated resellers for all the good information you give to viewers.

     My favorite YouTuber is The antique nomad, do any of you have a favorite and why?

[atlasesattic]

I like Flippin ain't Easy with Jon and Jenna, they have lives shows every Monday and Friday 3pm eastern time

[tdl_collectibles · Accepted solution]

I subscribe to SM Post Cards, Daily Refinement, Auction Professor, Commonwealth Picker/Flipper and Million Dollar Peddlers.

I like different points of view as for example, I don't sell anything that Daily Refinement talks about but I like to know the strategy he employs and teaches others. 

Based on subscribing to them, I get recommendations from others and try to mix in knowledge from them as well just so I can learn about things I don't sell, but might run into in auctions or auction stores.

[slippinjimmy]

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@silverstatetreasureboxes wrote:

     I have several YouTubers to view that I enjoy for fun or to pass the time. And I watch one in particular that is very knowledgeable about the items I like to sell. He is an appraiser,  collector, reseller on ebay and he is extremely well versed in mid century items.

     He knows makers marks, pinpoints dates and how items were manufactured.  He's also an author of a book dealing with a collectable type of ceramic ware.

     I think YouTuber resellers should be commended for the constant release of videos and the knowledge that they pass to their viewers for free. It looks like a difficult and time consuming job and I know I couldn't do it!

     I know they get rewarded with a large fan base to their ebay stores as well as they should. I just wanted to give a shout out to these dedicated resellers for all the good information you give to viewers.

     My favorite YouTuber is The antique nomad, do any of you have a favorite and why?

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YouTubers, good or bad ones are not doing it "for free" they are doing it to make money from the ads YouTube shows on their pages.

There is nothing wrong with that but don't be thinking that they do it just to be nice and helpful.

The people who post on these eBay boards get paid nothing especially the ones that post here NOT using their actual selling id's, they don't even get the potential of makes a few extra sales.

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@atlasesattic 

I've watched them also, delightful. Those live auctions seemed to be quite popular now with YT. Which leaves me out as I'm an ebay girl all the way. Thanks for posting!

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@tdl_collectibles 

Is daily refinement the ( shoe guy?) I've seen him before. I like different points of view and how others collect and scout collectables and why, it makes it interesting.  Thank you for posting!

[iamalwaysright]

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@slippinjimmy wrote:

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The people who post on these eBay boards get paid nothing especially the ones that post here NOT using their actual selling id's, they don't even get the potential of makes a few extra sales.

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I always thought those people were ebay employees in disguise.

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@slippinjimmy 

I know they make money thru YT, and that's quite alright with me. I meant that when I view their channel it's free personally to me unless I opt to sign on a membership upgrade.

     Thanks for posting jimmy.

[simply-the-best-for-you]

I take all of them with a grain of salt, since they're there to make themselves money.  

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

I thought I would start a different thread just for fun today but I guess posters are more interested in a thread about a TV show with old news that happened 2 days ago, sad. Peace out.

[m60driver]

I found YouTube Vloggers enjoyable to watch in the beginning but they all tend to get a bit repetitive.  I mean how many times can you watch the Auction Professor talk about his buttons?  I did start watching some of the women because they tend to notice items that I, as a curmudgeon of an old man, don't notice.

[kensgiftshop]

They don't do it for free, YouTube pays therm pretty good.

[qeqo_0]

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@silverstatetreasureboxes wrote:

I think YouTuber resellers should be commended for the constant release of videos and the knowledge that they pass to their viewers for free.      

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Just like Multi-Level Marketing, you should ask yourself -- Self, if they actually know how to make money, why would they share/sell that knowledge?

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@silverstatetreasureboxes 

I am subscribed to a lot of You Tubers (doesn't mean I actually watch them regularly), but won't even try to say which ones I prefer. And it seems there are more and more resellers with their own shows, which I would guess makes it harder and harder to build a real, engaged following. 

As a reseller myself, I'm primarily interested in learning more about the stuff I sell (so someone like George, who you already mentioned, is an obvious choice.) Next would be "how to" videos (how to clean antique bottles, how to ship old 78s, etc). Last would be the videos dealing with ebay policies , site issues, etc.

I really don't care that some of them are monetizing (or trying to monetize) their channels. I learned many years ago that one can learn useful information from many sources...it's my job to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Unfortunately, the pressure to monetize and to build a viewership means we have way too many YouTube titles and thumbnails that are nothing but clickbait. Given the unwieldy size of the reseller YT community, I think it would be great to see someone put out a weekly "Reseller's Digest", kind of like Readers Digest, with summaries of the ACTUAL content of many of the videos released that week. Of course, I don't think anyone will do that (and I'm certainly not interested in doing it), but it would be helpful....

As it is, I occasionally sample from the YT menu, but more often I actually search YT for specific types of items I'm trying to learn about, or how to do it videos. 

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@my-cottage-books-and-antiques 

Thank you for that, it's exactly what I was hoping to read as it's interesting.  Unfortunately this thread didn't go as I hoped it would.  I'm so tired of listening to news and this country's problems that my YouTube videos are a relief and a break from all of it.

    I'm just sorry I choose this unpopular topic for a thread to write. 

    Thank you dear cottage for replying.