Surefire Return Policies vs. Ebay

(upbeat music) Hi again everybody, welcome back to the flagship podcast of Floats Switches. The other day are our dishwasher stuff working. For the reason like you'd start it and it would turn on and make its noises and at the end of it, the light would turn off and you'd check it and then like there was no, this is still dirty. It felt warm 'cause the heater would work or the heating coiled work, or whatever that device is called. But the dishes wouldn't be clean. And then the problem was like all of a sudden all the food is now super baked down because it's got super hot in there. It's like what the heck? So I had to research it and I tested a couple things and I listened to it and like there'd be some water that would come in but it wouldn't be enough. Turns out after a bunch of research and looking through the YouTube videos and such, the problem was a float switch, which I, I mean I never really like, it's a little device on the bottom of your dishwasher. And I was trying to give a shape. The only shape I can think of is it looks like a sombrero. Just kind of like sitting there on the bottom. It's like a gray shape, a circle with kind of like a raised interior and it turns out like I think we had so much like gunk under ours that it wouldn't float and go up and down the way that it needed to and instead kind of like stay elevated 'cause the idea's like when water flows in, this switch goes up once it reaches a certain level. Oh, this washers full enough and that continues with its cycle. Problem was ours to stuck up so like no water would flow in or it's like a tiny bit would knew it automatically elevate way too high and that was our problem. But long story short, I think it's working again. I got it to work last night. I'm hoping that it can stay consistent 'cause if it doesn't we just got this dishwasher a year ago. The last thing I want to do is replace the dishwasher. And again, it seems like it works. I just, I need to be consistent for me at this point. But float switches, I had no idea that thing was. I lived my entire life seeing that thing on the bottom, never really thinking a whole lot about it. And it turns out that thing is crucial to making your dishwasher work. And it fingers crossed that that's gonna solve our problem. It's funny because I just got in bed and like telling everybody it worked like it just, when you wash dishes in your dishwasher, you're not supposed to rinse all the food off. Like it's important that there's still some stuff on there. I think the rule is like you scrape but you don't rinse. And you know, lo and behold, here I am having dishwasher problems after a year and nobody else is. So who really knows what the best advice is for that? 'Cause I know I talked about that on the podcast before and boy, that might not be the best advice if this is our problem. Anyway, stay on the show. Use your whole stuff. Tell me something good. I gotta talk about an I/O you on, Sean's what he went into and then a Gabby sound bite to close the whole thing out. But to get get a lot, tell me something good. This is funny because I, as of yesterday's thing and I was gonna talk about great return policies. Costco, tell me something good. Costco's return policy is fantastic. We've returned. We got a Roomba for our wedding present. And then several years ago, like it didn't work so well. We took it back. We were able to find out who got it for us and they gave us a brand new one and an upgraded model 'cause they didn't have the old model in stock. I think we did that twice actually. And then we did the same thing for our Dyson vacuum. We got it there, one of those nice handheld ones. It stopped working, we took it back. Got a new one and they upgraded the model, which has been awesome. So so nice to have that. But another great return policy that I found out lately is Nike's return policy. 'Cause I talked about last week about getting this like new running shirt as a super excited about and I researched like the return policy. Like am I able to try this and wear it? Turns out with Nike, you have 60 days to return it. As long as you've proof of purchase, it doesn't matter what you do with it. You can wear it, you can take the tags off it, you can wash it. They don't care. As long as it's within 60 days and you have proof of purchase, you can return whatever you want to return, which was shocking to me. 'Cause I know I've bought stuff from there before that. I know I was really careful with 'cause I didn't know if I was at the right size or how much to wear it to pass it out, especially like shoes and stuff. Turns out they have a fantastic, fantastic return policy. I mean, their exceptions to it, like customized clothing or customized jerseys, which obviously makes perfect sense, but man, it was awesome. So it's gonna be really excited to talk about that. Turns out, so I got the two things that I talked about getting last week, the two new Nike radical air flow shirts. I was able to get two and very, very luckily so, 'cause then it sold out immediately after that. And I got them in the mail, tried them on, got the one that worked, the extra small, it fit great, so I was gonna return the small. And then as I was laying down with Gabby last night as she was falling asleep, I'm like, hmm, these are sold out. I'm curious that there's a market on eBay. Like, could I get more selling it on eBay than I could just returning it? And hopefully, Smokes was at a good, good brand, I'm thought, because I looked it up. They're selling for more than twice the price on eBay right now. Like you can buy 'em for, like retail prices 150. They're selling on eBay for like 3.2330. Like it's one of those items that, you probably haven't seen it yet, but it's crossed that threshold like into the everyday wear, like influencers and such, like are wearing it and it's getting a lot of traction in a lot of ground. There's been different like articles written about it. So all of a sudden, like this thing is high demand. Like the price just keeps going up on these things. And, a, that made it super easy to decide what to do, 'cause I've already posted on eBay, the size I didn't want the small, I've got it set on there for 330 bucks, which, that sounds like a lot. But if you do the math, so I paid 163 after tax and such for it, eBay takes out 13.6%. I looked all this up and like after all, after you do all that kind of math, it ends up being like you sell it for $2.75, 3.bay and if you paid 163.4, you're walking away with that $112 of profit, which 112 bucks is way better than just returning it to the store. Like I have no qualms about that at all. But that led to the other problem though. The problem of what do I do with the one that I like, the size that fit me? Because all of a sudden it's like, oh man. Like, and you can't find extra smalls on eBay at all. Like that's a super rare one. So yeah, I was wrestling with like, do I keep it? 'Cause I've been waiting for it, it fits great. The whole thing works too. I tried it on and I walked around just like our house last night and just like me waving my arms, wearing these like this long sleeve shirt with these holes that are meant to accelerate the air flow against your arms. It was wild. Like it felt like cool air blowing on my arms. Like I had an air conditioner like underneath this shirt blowing on my arms. And the air in our house wasn't that cool. But it's the idea of that wind flow against your body and again, the idea of long sleeves being you now have excited to flow against your arms. There's less sun exposure for what I'd use it for the Grand Canyon. The thing works. Like it was really, really cool. I didn't run in it. I went on run last night and I kind of luckily I didn't wear 'cause it's too cold initially. But that means I didn't take the tags off and I still got it. It's still like brand new. And I went back and forth and it's like, "Oh, yeah, it'd be great to have 112 bucks." And it'd be cool to have the shirt. Like how do I even think about it? And I landed on the fact that there's just no way, like theoretically the value of this item is, you know, it's if I can sell it, I actually have a push on you if I wait more, I post it on for 400 bucks to see if someone would just buy it at that. But I would never pay that for the shirt. So that's the value of it. And I have to sell it, that's the case. I know they're gonna drop them again this summer. I don't need it right away. And it sucks as I really wanted to wear it. And it felt cool and it seemed cool, especially with this, like it's gonna warm up the next several days. But man, if I can sell it for that much on eBay, I've gotta go for it. It's like that would help pay for other stuff that I need for this whole thing. And I did it. So if you're interested in the shirt, go to eBay and buy it there. I'll probably drop the price a little bit. I just wanted to do 400 to see if I could get that. And again, that's, you know, eBay's gonna take out their 13.6% and there's, you know, theoretically I gotta take out the 163 that I paid for to actually get the profit. So it's quite a bit less than that. But still, I mean, that's profit of it. I was very lucky to get a whole bunch, or a whole bunch. I got a couple of them on drop day and again, they're gonna drop them later this summer. They're at least in a whole line. So I get the long sleeve shirt. They're gonna release a short sleeve one and a tank top one and a hat before the end of the summer. So I've got options. Long story short, I was excited to get it and I found this out and it's like, oh God, I can't keep it. But hey, I'm gonna make a profit off of it. That'll be cool. I'll keep that money where it needs to be as far as like buying other cool new stuff and it'll be awesome. It'll be worth it. I only won. (upbeat music) ♪ You know who you are ♪ ♪ Yeah, who you won ♪ - This is for for Garrett. For row carrying my tires. I am not somebody who's an expert at all on tires. And for the longest time, I've had like two sets of tires from my pickup. I had my winter tires and then I had like my normal ones that came with the rims on the pickup. There's summer ones. Those ran out a long time ago. So I've just been running with the winter ones. And it sucks because now I just like have the nice ones taken up room in the garage 'cause I don't want to buy new tires for them because why waste the money on it? Like I've got the ones that are working. But here's like, hey, I'll broker those for you, which is great 'cause I don't, again, I know nothing about 'em. Like I, you can go in and like measure it and, I don't know, there's just all the numbers. I didn't, I didn't know any of it. And I was definitely gonna, you know, if you don't know anything about it, I've no idea what the price would have been, how to talk to people who'd want to buy it. So here's like, hey, I'll broker them for you and we'll post 'em on Facebook Marketplace and see what we can do. Which would be awesome because then I can just go and use that money to like buy the actual tires for my good rams and then I don't have that extra spare tires sitting around which was awesome. So, I owe you one is for Garrett or hopefully someone's gonna go on Facebook. So if you need tires, go on Facebook Marketplace, they're there for you. Just like the shirts on eBay. I mean, go buy all my stuff please. It'd be great. But thanks for having me for doing that because I would have been blind to like what the value would have been and how to talk to people that they came and like they're asking weird stuff about the tires and I have no idea to answer those questions and clearly would look like a fool and probably get taken advantage of. So he's saving me from that. It's just good to have friends or family in different areas that you don't get. Like I can do like medical stuff and I can do tech and technology. I cannot do tires or engines. I'm always asking for help on that stuff and it's so nice when you people to go to for that kind of thing. All right, last but not least, this is kind of a quicker podcast. Sean's what are you into? All right, listen. and ours it's time for hidden passions, wild hobbies, and that one thing they didn't know miles was obsessed with. Buckle up, it's time for Sean's, "What are you into?" - It is, like this time of year, there's all of these presentations for what's coming up in the fall. All the video game companies just had their presentations, there's been the PlayStation state of play, there's the Xbox, there's the Nintendo Switch, an Nintendo Direct, and I love watching those, and then there's been, Apple did their big developer conference for their software that's coming out the fall. And I love just being able to watch this stuff. It's fun, it's stuff that it doesn't mean, probably doesn't mean a whole lot to a whole lot of people. The people that are interested in though, it's so fun to watch, and it's cool to be interested within these things with these groups of people. The Apple one, there's not a ton of massive updates coming, but just little performance improvements that are gonna make it faster and better, like every year, but then series actually gonna be much, much better, and dictations gonna be much, much better. They're kinda playing catch up in the air, in these areas, but that combined with the interface of just having it all work with our whole system is gonna be awesome. But Nintendo's looked really, really cool. They've announced all their games that are coming up, and the biggest one for me, and I think for a lot of people, it was like the right at the end, and it's a room that already got now, but they finally themselves announced it was like the remake. Nope, that's not true. Well, yes, so the "Ocarina of Time" is a game that I actually talked about in my podcast about video games Trevor or Go, and how it was like one of the top 10 games like that impact my life. And they're remaking it. Here we are, I think it's like 26 years later, or 24 years later, and they remade it several times. Like they remade it for the Nintendo 3DS, and they made it in 3D, and they remade it for GameCube. But now they're finally, they remastered it for those situations. I'm trying to get my words right, I'm all confused. They remastered it several times. This time they're completely remaking it, like brand new graphics, they're gonna change, little things here and there, probably to make the gameplay a little bit different to add to it, but just like seeing the little teaser, "Trailer of it" looked awesome. Because for my generation, that was one of the highly, most highly rated games there's been, that's essentially come out. Like everyone's loved that game, everyone's played it, and it looks awesome, and the way that they're redoing it looks really, really cool. So Jack's about that, it's supposed to come out this winter. I'm betting like a November release. But again, just like seeing all these little things that are coming out, it's that time of summer right before everyone goes on break from everything. But let's say, hey, let's announce all of our fall stuff. Right now, or everything we've got in the calendar. And it's been a fun week for that kind of thing. In a couple weeks, slate, like the little miniature pickup, I talked to this thing forever ago. It's called slate, it's like a little super tone down, like small pickup. Kinda like they used to have back in the day, like I or S10s. And there's like no tech in it, except for the fact that it's like battery operated, and it's like this small little pickup that has like rolled down windows, and there's no radio in it. It's just super chill. And the ideas that's supposed to be like, meant to be really, really cheap. And they're announcing, like they're doing their pre-orders, and like their pricing comes out in two weeks, like June 24. So I got that to look forward to as well. Now, I'm forcing that thing pretty much all, but like dead in my chances of getting one at this point, just because like the tax credits no longer there, and it's probably more expensive than they initially thought, and it just, it doesn't really make sense, but I'm so excited to see it. And to see like the pricing of it, and it's like, it's meant to be super customizable. And it'll be exciting to see all that. But it's a fun time of year to see all this kind of stuff. And backyard baseball, kind of the same thing. They keep announcing all this stuff. They've got, so back in backyard baseball, another one of my games that I mentioned. They're releasing their new one on July 9. I'm sure I'll talk more about it then, but they've been releasing all their characters and their new fields and all the, like the real-life playable characters coming back. I don't know, just a bunch of fun stuff like to look into and to see. And again, probably doesn't impact lives of very many people, but for the niche people like me who love all this kind of random little stuff, it's an exciting week as far that stuff goes. All right, that's it. Super short podcast. I appreciate you all listening. Gabby Soundbyte on the way out. Enjoy the sunshine this weekend. If you're listening to it, you know, during this week's supposed to be nice and sunny. But the first time in a while, we've got a truly rainy weekend. Sun's finally coming back. Thank you all for listening, and I'll catch you on the flip side. Bye. That's a heart. - No Gabby. - Heart. - Gabby likes hearts. - Heart, too. Gabby likes hearts, too. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Daddy's monkey bars. - You like doing the monkey bars? - Yeah, it's. - What else do I like to do? - Fink. - Like to swing? - Yeah. - What else? - Slide. - You like to slide? - Yeah. - What else do I have to do? - Bye, bye. - Bye. - Bye. - Bye.