 Hi everyone, this is Chichu. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book related video. And this video is going to be at some point, well it is sort of right now anyway, being linked up with ASMR mathematics and some of the work we're doing with personal finance and investing and whatnot, right? And what we're about to do is package up some comics, the first set of comics that we've ended up selling on EP. Okay, and let me show you what they are. They're the go-go boys, right? So we ended up selling and if you want to know what's going on with this, we put out a video where I went through basically three short, four and a half short boxes or four short boxes where I pulled out comic books from my collection that we're going to end up selling over the next few months, right? Just basically to collect some data because we've done a lot of comic book haul videos, right? So we've got some data, a lot of data from that end and what we're going to do is we're going to sell a whole bunch of comics and collect that data from that end and take a look at the different ratios and just numbers and see what it means really to invest on something, what the rate of return might be and whatnot just to connect up with personal finance and investing and whatnot, right? And ASMR mathematics of course, okay? So the first set of comics we ended up selling are these guys. Let me put these in order. Let me show them to you. And they're the go-go boy sets, okay? This is go-go boy number one and we end up selling this one for $20.50. The starting bid was $20 for all of these. So there's two people bidding on this one person, stepped in and the last second bought it for $20.50 Canadian. And these are Canadian funds I'm going to give you right now. We can talk about, we'll do a conversion when we put in, you know, collect a whole bunch of data in American funds as well but because I'm listing on .ca, not .com, eBay made it very hard for me to list on .com the American eBay site. So anybody that's doing a search in the U.S., if they're only doing a search with comic books in the United States, they won't be able to find the comics that we're listing, okay? So starting bid was $20 for each one of these, $20 Canadian, which is about $15.50. $15.50 U.S., right? This one went for $20.50, okay? The rest of these went for $20, okay? This is Gogo Boy number two. Here's Gogo Boy number three. And this is the Ashken. So the total, let me tell you what the fees for these are because this is going to be important and I'm going to create a spreadsheet for these, okay? On my personal computer and then once we accumulate a fair bit of data with a couple of sets of or a couple of months of selling comics, right? I'll provide the spreadsheet online somewhere, open source where you can take a look at it and play around with it and whatnot, just the same way we've done with some of the comic book haul videos because we use, I forget which site it is, which program we use to have that data available for people where they can take a look at the formulas and stuff, but we'll do the same for this, okay? But just to let you know what the fee structure was, what the fees were from eBay and PayPal, right? So total selling price for all these four comics was $80.50, okay? The eBay fees individually for each one was, for the ones that sold for $20 was $2.10 for the one that was $20.50, it was $2.15 So total eBay fees was $8.45, Canadian again. The PayPal fee for this was $3.76, okay, Canadian. So total fees ended up being $12.21, Canadian. You divide that with the selling price, which is $80.50. You get your decimal and you convert the percent, which is just basically moving the decimal over a couple of spots, right? So the total fees from eBay and PayPal was 15.16%. So 15% in fees combined from eBay and PayPal, which is a lot, right? What I'm going to do for the next set of Google Boys that I'm going to put on eBay is put them all as a lot. Google Boy 1, 2, 3 and the Ash Count together and all listed for $80, okay? And if it ends up selling, we'll take a look at what the fee from eBay is going to be because I'm assuming the fee from eBay is going to be less. It won't be $8.45 because this was individual listings, but I sort of took advantage of eBay's promotion, I guess. I don't know if they're doing this on a monthly basis or not, but there was no fees to listed comic books due to listings. I had, they gave a, you know, I don't know if they're doing this for everyone. It's a monthly thing, but basically they gave 53 listings for the month of July, right? And we've gone through, I don't know, 30 of us so far or something or more in that 35 or so, right? So listing for these, there was no listing fee. It was just a selling fee, right? So hopefully they're doing this on a monthly basis. If they're not, if they're going to start charging fees for even listing the comics, then that's going to be pretty expensive. Actually, there's one other calculation here that I didn't do. There was a sort of an extra fee, 34 cents per comic book for these ones. So 0.34 times 4, $1.36 more. So $1.36 plus 12.12. I'm assuming that was a combined fee combining. I don't know what that fee is, right? I might send them an email, try to figure out what it is that they're charging us for, divided. So it came out to $13.57 total fees, divided by 80.5. And it comes out to $16.85, 86%. So 17% in fees, which is enormous, enormous, right? So 17% in fees. We'll go through and do the corrections, make sure we're filling in all the stuff in, all the data into the spreadsheet once we go formal with this. And we'll make a video and talk about it and whatnot, right? So basically, we paid 17% in fees. What I'm going to do is, and what we're going to do right now is package these up. And these are some of the packaging that I kept from all the comic book hauls we've done over the last few years, right? And we've bought a lot of comic books over the last few years. I think these, this packaging is from comic books we bought from this one seller. We ended up over like two, three month period, we ended up buying like a thousand comics from the guy, right? And he had packaged them up with bubble tape and cardboard and stuff like this. And that's exactly what we're going to do right now. And one other thing I'm going to do is, because this is our first sale from this sort of project that we're taking on, right? Because what we did in a previous video went through basically, I went through my comic book collection. I pulled out four, four and a half short boxes of comics that we decided to sell over the next few months, right? And this is a set of those, okay? And because this is the first sale from this project and it is the first Google Boy sale that I've done, I guess for like 20 years, almost or 18 years or something. I'm going to include a little extra, just a little gift for the person. And I found just a handful, just a bunch of Google Boy stickers that we printed in 1990s, sort of those promotion stuff. And this is the cover of issue number three, right? I love this cover, okay? So we printed a whole bunch of Google Boy stickers for issue number three. So I'm going to include this one in there as well. I think the person is going to appreciate it. They sent a message saying that we're really happy of getting these Google Boys. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to tag this on all to the back of Google Boy number three. And we're just going to package these up. And I charged, just so you know, I charged $10 for shipping per listing. And I said I was going to charge a dollar extra and dollar Canadian extra for each additional comic. So total shipping for this package, I charged $13 Canadian. Now it's going to cost me more to ship this, right? And I'm going to add tracking to this as well, right? Even without tracking was going to cost me more. With tracking is going to cost me even more. So we're paying basically, if you count everything up, we're paying, you know, probably minimum. If you add it up because the total sale with the $13 of shipping total payment was $93.50. The odds are we're going to be, you know, paying about 20% of whatever we end up getting sent to us through PayPal in fees, PayPal fees, eBay fees and shipping cost, right? But we'll take a look at all that stuff. We'll put the spreadsheet together and see how we can optimize that. Now what I'm going to do is when I'm packaging these up, I'm going to take the covers, make them face each other, right? So two on one side, two on the other side. That way, if there's any punctures during the shipping, they're not going to hit the book still hit the cardboard. I'm going to put bubble wrap on this too, right? And we're doing it that way. And we've got the Google Boy sticker on the back of this, right? I think they're going to appreciate it. And what I'm going to do as well is we've got comic book magazine size bags. I'm just going to take one of these out. And I'm going to put the comics in them and then tape it up so they don't move around, right? We really don't want too much movement during shipping, if at all possible. So I'm going to put these in here, right? And the magazine bags are bigger, so I'm going to take these up. So it's nice and tight. And I think the person that bought these does watch our videos as well. So if you're watching this, the odds are you'll probably see this video before you get the comics. Okay, maybe, maybe. If you're watching this, okay? Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to put these in and bubble wrap. Let's see. Let's take this off. Let's do this, like this, like this. I'm going to do it like this. Okay. So this is the way I'm going to do the bubble wrap. I'm going to wrap it up like this, right? And I'm going to fold this over. I'm just going to cut that. Maybe I have a one that actually fits it better. Let's take a look at this one. Now we don't have to cut the bubble wrap. Where's this one? Oh, this one's shorter. Let's do this one. I like that I saved a whole bunch of... And I have more than these bubble wraps and boards and stuff. So we're going to do this. We're going to do this. This is better so we don't have to cut it like this, right? And then we're going to fold these over. This might be overdoing it a little bit for packaging, but I do want the stuff to get there safe. And this will give us a base value. The maximum will cost us to ship four bucks anyway. That way, later on, we might fine-tune this process and reduce the bulkiness of it and the weight of it. That way, we're not paying so much on shipping. So we've got it packaged up like this. It's pretty nice. It's not that bulky. But I think I'm going to put cardboard on these as well. We're going to put this in this guy. Let me see how much space this takes. So if you do this, that should get there safe. But I think what I'm going to do, because this has got packaging, should get there well enough. Sandwich them between boards and then put this in. It's going to kick up the weight a little bit, but it is safer. I'm going to do this. I'll find out when I go to the post office how much overweight we were in terms of hitting a lower shipping cost on this. Is that big enough to cardboard? I think so. There's no way this should get damaged. You never know. You never know. You never know. You never know. Let me see. Do I have a bigger whole bunch of cardboard stuff here? Let's see if there's anything wider. They're all going to be about the same. Use this one instead. This might be a little loud. I'm pulling off some tape on this. This one's a little wider. So it fits it better. I'm going to do this. I'm going to tape these down. So they don't move around within the sandwich board. About the noise gang. Just want to make sure. Let's get there safe. Watch us be on a couple of grams over the certain fee where it's going to kick us up to a ridiculous fee. Take a look. I'm just taping the sides like this so they don't move around within. That's pretty tight. We'll put one at the bottom as well. We've got tape on all. That's not going to move. Then we're going to use this guy. So we don't need these guys. Let's put these guys away. Look at that. That's a nice sandwich. Gokoboy sandwich. Let's tape these guys out. Make it tight. If we end up doing one more of these packaging videos I might cut these tapes beforehand. So we don't get too loud of a noise. Make it tight. Not too tight that the comics are getting squished. Just tight enough so they're not going to be moving around. And the odds are this is the box. Or the packaging stuff. And it's going to be sitting like that. So there's lots of room. The odds are later on I'll try to find some packages that are a little bit tighter. That's sitting like this. Now this might move around inside the packaging but we're going to make this tight. And it won't move around. A little bit up there. That's our package. I'm just going to put tape on top of this just to seal it up a little bit better. Make sure it doesn't open up. Make sure the goodies are getting there nice and safe. And there's like room here. And room up top. This should be safe. Very, very safe. And we're going to put our dresses here and our dresses here. And this is going to the United States. The person that bought this is from the States. I hope they enjoy it. I hope they love these books. There's a lot of blood, sweat and tears that went into getting these books published, printed, and distributed as far as we could anyway. Even through the censorship. Even through the censorship. Okay. So that's it. Our first sell on eBay in regards to this project that we're doing. And these are the Mermaid stuff, my own stuff. So I'm going to separate these when we take a look at the data of how much the Gogo Boy stuff or the Mermaid publication stuff is selling for and how much the other books, my own personal collection. This is part of my own personal collection. But I think we need to sort of separate the two to a certain degree. Because this was my publishing endeavor. It wasn't really part of the whole collecting comic books and investing comic books. So we'll do something with the data. We'll figure it out. Compile maybe a couple of spreadsheets with this included and with this not included and maybe three of them with this separate. And take a look at that as well. But we'll put the table together and have that available in a couple of months or whatnot. I hope the person that gets these appreciates them. I hope they leave positive feedback. And we've had a handful of other books. Three or four other books that I've sold already as well. Then there's a bunch of auctions that are ending today, tomorrow, and maybe the next day. And what I'm going to do is going to be listing more comic books over the next, well indefinitely, over the next few weeks, few months, just on a regular basis every day or every second day or third day or so. Just list four or five each day. And see what happens. We can collect all the data and take a look at the mathematics of it and take a look at the ratios and see where it takes us just to do some analysis and learn about how mathematics plays into our personal finances when it comes to investing and managing our budget and living this life really. That's it for now everyone. I hope you have a fantastic, fantastic day. Bye for now.