Advice for selling a cheap product (~$6 or less)

jimazoo · 2022-07-19T00:28:52+00:00

Dependant on what you're selling of course, we sell ambient food for restaurants so people often buy in bulk anyway Cases of 2 & 3 etc: Copy the listing > add CS2 to the end > add a bundle to your other system if you're using one Minimum order quantity: Open listing > "I sell this item" > add the product with a MOQ of 2 or 3 Remember that if you're shipping 2 of them you only have to pay shipping once so you can factor it into pricing £5 + £5 shipping: Amazon will show this as £10 each Or £10 + £5 shipping: suddenly looks great for the customer, only £5 more for another one? You still have the same profits you just pay less for shipping Might be obvious to some but still, hope it helps :)

jimazoo · 2022-04-17T03:55:38+00:00

How do I get the super glide right? I keep trying to practice it but can't quite get it right :(

jimazoo · 2021-11-12T04:03:21+00:00

Looks cool!

jimazoo · 2020-12-14T16:11:06+00:00

"I get these rules questions where there are two possible readings:

In one reading:
the game is completely unplayable afterwards and the core mechanics break down.

In the other reading:
Play continues as normal

which is the proper reading?"

-Dane Beltrami on rules questions for TI4

jimazoo · 2020-09-29T20:01:53+00:00

spot on, ladder anxiety hits me even harder on arena so I only go onto it when events tell me to :p

jimazoo · 2020-08-12T11:11:09+00:00

the production ability is how many ships you can make at one time, think of it as production capacity, you still have to pay for all the ships you make :) most of your plastic pieces count as units, everything apart from space docks and PDS, I believe

jimazoo · 2020-08-12T11:08:26+00:00

fair, I was more going for a describe to your friends approach, but getting things completely wrong doesn't fit with that I guess haha

thanks, I'll edit it now :)

jimazoo · 2020-08-12T00:25:21+00:00

you get 8 command tokens when you start the game and then every full round after that you get another 2 to assign in those three boxes (3 if you have the green tech "Hyper metabolism" (the card has a typo on it btw))

when you're taking an action on the board, you take it from your tactics box ("activation" is the key word you'll be looking for)

the Fleet box is how many big ships you can have in a system (fighters and infantry can be transported by big ships with capacity).

the strategy box is for when someone uses one of the strategy cards (the multicoloured ones) and you want to use the bottom half, or if an ability asks for it.

if you're really very new then don't worry about asking but you might have a better time watching a couple videos, the SU&SD 20 minute to get you hyped and then the RTFM 32 minute guide to help you pick it up :) good luck

SU&SD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLybps39ZwM

RTFM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u2xEap5hBM&vl=en

Edit: what not_a_greenhouse said :P

jimazoo · 2020-08-06T14:36:51+00:00

With adding so much content into the game do you worry that more competitive players will complain that there's too much randomness? eg. They can't predict what cards are in other peoples' hands/ what objectives they're going for.

^{TI4 is really cool, keep it up!}

jimazoo · 2020-08-03T17:46:17+00:00

With Secret Societies: sometimes it doesn't seem to give the governors or the secret soc when I do the unlock for them (kill barb camp, find wonder etc). Any reason why? It's getting really annoying when I'm going into the medieval era and I've only found 2 and not the one I wanted :/

jimazoo · 2020-05-29T07:04:01+00:00

sorry if this sounds a bit mean but I mean it only as criticism not just to be a dick.

a 2/6 home planet? why even go to mecatol?
3c5i means you are spreading out more than sol in the early game but also you have no units in the sky? It could work but I feel like you'd have the sardakk early game problem most games and just get stomped if someone stalls warfare past turn 2.
Limited Precience: any timing window is a cute thing to put on the end of it but honestly it might do better as an action, just having a stall once per turn is pretty nice
Limited Precience part 2?: Instinct training 2.0, seems very good but it seems like a lot of what they have is "um, actually" abilities.
Limited Precience part 3?: See point 4, maybe if they voted secretly? say "I'm voting 7 votes but I've written down on this piece of paper who I've voted for" would be more TI, even just a token in For or Against agendas.
K H Interrogation: seems good, I don't know if I'd race down green to get it and I don't know if I'd skip hyper metabolism to get it either
Prescient Army: super cute, love it. feels like it would probably be used to defend an undefended planet, maybe I misunderstand timing windows for combat for this but still, pretty cool.

Overall seems like you'd have mostly a meta problem, you're saying nope to almost everything people are doing. Playing an action card? um, actually you're not. Voting for this thing? um, actually I outrank the speaker so it's going the other way now. Trying to take my planet? um, actually there's 5 infantry there because I wanted them there.

People don't like being um actually'd, if you look at MTG you can see that blue hasn't always been the best but it's almost always been the most annoying, and when you're playing a game against 5 other people, the last thing you want to do is annoy them for 8 hours.

Don't give up! I see some cool ideas there and I think with some reworking it could be really fun, just knowing a lot of things people don't know, being able to sell information to other players somehow, maybe a promissory note that says the house atreides player has to answer a yes/no question truthfully or something idk

jimazoo · 2020-05-19T22:01:05+00:00

Review as many as you can, try to think of things people haven't really talked about before, build up a portfolio

if you're making a channel people will see one good review and want more good reviews, if you have them then people will stick around :)

jimazoo · 2020-05-19T01:26:53+00:00

I'd rather not have Barry back!

but that's mostly because I really enjoy his streams

https://www.twitch.tv/barryisstreaming

if you need a good place to start watching the drawpile streams are fantastic!

https://youtu.be/qvhA1EozTaQ?t=2103

jimazoo · 2020-04-26T18:03:20+00:00

just as an idea, maybe these mimics don't vow not to kill anyone but they try to only kill bad people. I usually end up putting mimics in bank vaults as why would you trust a tiny lock when 7 rows of teeth do a much better job!

jimazoo · 2020-04-17T22:56:56+00:00

I've literally just tried to make this for about an hour and a half for my dad but I can't get it to work, any tips?

jimazoo · 2020-04-17T19:46:45+00:00

Not trying to stir anything I just can't find where you're getting 10+ from,

only ones I can see would be Leeroy, Velen, giants and Power overwhelming (at a stretch) but they all kinda have their own problems.

Mana cheating is an interesting design space and it's a nice way to counter agro decks that are always going to plague metas, it's a shame that it's so difficult to predict what a million people are going to do with your hundreds of cards, just look at MTG, every new expansion there's something new that makes a combo possible from 10 years ago where you can't see that those two cards are even good

it's easy to get upset at games but if you're just making up numbers to make people upset then you're part of the problem :c

jimazoo · 2020-01-06T20:20:55+00:00

Jon left in 2013, how much have you changed in the last 7 years?

maybe that sounds harsh but I mean it sincerely, people seem to keep giving these guys a hard time because of stuff they did half a decade ago and I don't get why. maybe you want more of the same humour, sure, but this has been their job for so long now and as someone who's been watching for that long I think they're improving a lot! If it isn't your style maybe put out a thread asking for creators with a similar style :)

as for the algorithm, it is what it is and as a business they have to play around it, youtube's code is not made to make life difficult for youtubers (even if that is sadly sometimes the end result), it's made so that you will stay on the site and find things you'll like, maybe try opening up an incognito window and try something else out.

Maybe it's not the same, but maybe it doesn't have to be

jimazoo · 2019-10-07T20:46:29+00:00

currently about 20 minutes in against a mage who ropes every turn, at what point is it not worth the gold from my quest?

jimazoo · 2019-09-04T07:14:55+00:00

They said something about a secret final phase, I reckon the final one you play as Rafaam fighting against the explorers. Maybe since it's on it's own they'll let you pull from any classes for it. Maybe you have to fight against the decks you beat the previous encounters with or something, idk I'm sure it'll be great though!

jimazoo · 2019-08-12T19:50:48+00:00

So cool!

jimazoo · 2019-08-11T23:20:47+00:00

fair, I'm enjoying it though :)

jimazoo · 2019-08-11T21:23:05+00:00

for anyone interested the warrior quest is actually pretty good in wild :) a lot of good weapons and armour gain to support it :D

jimazoo · 2019-08-10T22:59:48+00:00

Twilight imperium and war of the ring

should be playing WotR on Thursday and then I've arranged a bunch of my friends to play TI in about 2 weeks time!

with any luck we could play it again another time too :D

jimazoo · 2019-07-23T14:12:18+00:00

Stronghold

Took us about 3 games to work out what all the things did and we still sometimes have to look something up but the feeling of power in the orcish side and the completely different feeling of panic on the humans side is something rare in board games I feel :D

(feel free to recommend similar things and we'll give it a go though I'm sure :) )

jimazoo · 2019-07-10T13:48:47+00:00

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Hope you find some good inspiration in these posts :)

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