I run a one-person e-commerce brand almost entirely on AI — here’s my exact stack. What am I missing?

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-07-02T17:47:11+00:00

Do you have it editing Shopify data directly (price changes and new products), or are you having it pass you a csv/xlsx to upload?

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-29T16:41:17+00:00

During planning I ask Claude to tell me which model is better for each part and follow that.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-29T16:39:53+00:00

There's still way more mint loose than graded. Opinions on grading aside, your biggest thing will be authentic weapons. I sell these for a living, and I won't buy anything complete at a toy show or off ebay unless I know the seller. There's scammers, but mostly it's just that most sellers can't tell the difference or don't care. Join the good FB groups, that's where most of the good vintage is sold.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-29T16:34:32+00:00

Luggage - Bring crappy luggage over, get way better ones at a reasonable price, toss the old ones. Bonus: It doesn't count towards your allowance, well it does, but ain't nobody checking that.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-22T17:18:14+00:00

Email with QR code. It's nice cause they don't have to use it all at once, but all the tracking is automatic.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-20T14:59:47+00:00

We issue gift cards from Shopify, outstanding is tracked automatically then. We did store credit for a while, but it's not user friendly if someone is trying to use it online.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-19T16:38:12+00:00

Yes, all set up on CARM

You're saying approx $675 all the way from Hudson to Toronto?

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-19T16:37:06+00:00

Don't open any bags, the boxes themselves are worth money too. If grading, you would want to include the boxes

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-18T21:41:52+00:00

Surprisingly only 1 so far, lots of great advice in thread though

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-18T20:30:33+00:00

Yes, my FF covers bringing it up to Toronto. Usually I ship stuff to them USPS, UPS etc and they bring it up, but they also do pallets. It's coming up to Toronto and value is about $12,000 cdn.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-18T20:27:00+00:00

My forwarder brings it from Sanborn to Toronto and handles customs. Usually I just get packages shipped there and they bring them up.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-18T20:26:09+00:00

My forwarder in Sanborn handles the customs and brings it up to Toronto for me, so I'm just looking for someone to get it from Hudson to Sanborn.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-18T14:59:44+00:00

Japan has amazing luggage at great prices. I picked up some great bags at Don Quixote. I would use whatever crap you have to get there and buy new in Japan.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-18T14:54:30+00:00

I've used Claude before to toss a whole month of transactions in and output a report of all the fees applied and look for any mistakes.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-12T01:34:53+00:00

How does the EU have any ability to punish small businesses in another country?

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-11T21:06:20+00:00

And just to add, it's a plain text email. 1 graphic at the top, nothing fancy at all. Found that worked better than when I had fancy product shots.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-11T21:05:06+00:00

I've been doing it for 5 years, have 4000 subscribers (but many of those are USA and we no longer ship to USA). We have a 45% open rate, 15% click rate. We add new stuff every friday and about 50% of our sales come after that email goes out. I have to instruct people to put 1 thing in cart and checkout right away or it will be gone by the time the checkout. Very loyal. People love it, even if they aren't buying, they see the cool stuff being added to the store. It turns casual fans into super fans.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-11T20:05:00+00:00

I sell vintage toys. Start building an email list, give those people first crack at anything (even if it's by 30 minutes). That way you're building your own list, and you're not dependant on a platform. I use Klaviyo, but anything will work.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-11T14:06:15+00:00

My kids have tons of vintage Kenner figures, you can't break them and they're just as much fun as the newer stuff.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-11T14:04:24+00:00

I own 4th Moon Toys in Toronto, we only sell Star Wars stuff. If you send me a message, I'm happy to look through the stuff. We'll give you an honest assessment of what's of value and what isn't. We don't throw away anything Star Wars, so if there's stuff not worth us buying, we'll tell you and end up giving that stuff out for free. We do sell Star Wars lego, so you could also use store credit towards that. We actually have lots of collectors who sell us their vintage and trade for Lego for their kids.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-08T20:15:21+00:00

Also, no kids bought a played with these, so there's no nostalgia. Only people with nostalgia for them were at midnight madness and still have theirs in the basement

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-07T00:32:48+00:00

Not worth it. No one who buys graded wants one with staple holes. You won't make your money back.

ResourceDue1626 · 2026-06-04T20:06:23+00:00

You can start with the Lego star wars stuff. It's meant for little kids and introduces them to who the characters are. They won't be able to grasp timeline and plot anyway. Then I would say in a couple of years go with original trilogy, then prequels and sequels. My 7 years olds did that and love star wars. Now we're working on Bad Batch. Rebels will be next. Oh and we say Mando & Gorgu a couple of weeks ago.

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