but I do my best ecommerce work at like 10pm-2 am

because that's closer to what my heart desires

Brain fatigue or whatever you call it is real

of course, but it's amazing

I like producing/composing, hate mixing and mastering. Thus I end up with a huge backlog of unreleased music

I enjoy ecommerce because I feel so tricky doing it

like "haha I jewed these dumbasses into buying chinese plastic I made some other dumbasses make for me"

So you're the one with the gult of offbrand fidget cubes?

if those had a good margin and long term demand I would do them, I don't though

you should look into kitchen shit

Fondling the real deal vs the fakes is pretty big

people buy kitchen shit all the time. I bet you could sell a lot of cookie cutters in novelty shapes

yeah

you know I am actually looking into a certain sort of cutting boards

I see a lot of stuff on amazon where it looks like it all is exactly the same thing from china at wildly different prices

one of the reason you see that is they run simultaneous listings at different prices, then take data on which price sells best

that's how they determine their prices

That makes a lot of sense

I have to pay spergs money for software to do that for me

and then run chi squared tests to see if the data is real or not

Usually at that point I'll just try to track down the name brand whatevers if it is something I really want

interestingly that puts you in a small break of consumers

an admirable one, but a very small one

of people who buy name brand?

no, people who do the slightest product research

Well it's like I want let's say X pair of sunglasses, and the entire amazon market is just a flood of confusing chinese knockoffs

So eventually you just say fuck it and buy the designer pair they're cloning

most people are like... price, picture, possibly the right brand, review average, then a coin toss chance of buying

my buying patterns are really different from normies because I don't want to be a wage slave for the rest of my life

oh? go on

well I just avoid buying things that I don't need or won't contribute to my happiness

and if I think i need to buy something I'll give it a couple weeks and see if I still need/want it

then I think about the value of a dollar being $1 if you spend it but infinite if you keep it which makes it really easy to keep putting disposable cash into my investment/retirement accounts

yeah

in my view, every dollar invested is 3 cents a year I can spend for life

No point in impulse buying expensive shit

Or even cheap shit

I do not buy anything except food

I have no TV, I sleep on the floor, I have a guitar I bought for $200 more than 10 years ago and that's about it

also a gym membership

Get a bed