What’s up Grinders!
Today has been a real grindy kind of day. Lots listed on TCGplayer, mostly Flesh and Blood. Probably around 2500 cards listed today =]
Got my orders shipped this morning, including the few orders from my first ever claim sale over on Whatnot last night. That was a lot of fun. Not the most monetarily rewarding (I made $10 XD) but I made several new contacts and also used it as an excuse to sort through a couple thousand Pokemon WotC and mid-era cards that needed conditioning before I did much else with them. Made some people happy and produced content while doing it. Win-win.
Late yesterday evening, I decided I wanted to explore some API solutions. I’m wanting to have a channel in the Discord receive notifications when I add or update products in the WooShop. I also want to have my contact form for bulk submissions ping me in a private channel in the server, rather than send only to my email, where it often gets lost or overlooked. I thought I had found a free option for the latter thing, but several hours of trying to get the Webhooks operating properly resulted in nothing. Apparently the output from my contact form will not properly format to a form that Discord likes, so instead of posting, it just does nothing with it. I’ve confirmed both that the sender is sending properly, and that the receiver is able to receive properly, but when the sender sends to the receiver, it just acts like nothing happened.
Was hoping to avoid using Zapier, because it can add up kinda quickly, between the service itself and the plugin on the WordPress side. But it looks like ultimately that’s going to be the way to go. I’m hoping to build up a few more use cases for the service before I commit to getting it, because that’s a lot for a couple edge nice-to-haves.
Going to build my second card storage shelf tomorrow – I still haven’t gotten it put together since moving. Hoping to blast out the rest of the Ebay listings I need to be completely caught up from basically taking January off. And then also to get a lot of TCGplayer listings out as well. I am looking at a 4-row of Weiss Schwarz to list tomorrow, which should be a lot of fun. Always enjoy listing WS.
Oh, and the video I published yesterday is doing really well. Over 2k views as of this writing. A lot of people seem turned off by the difficulties I was having in the video, with regard to having to manually change the card listing to match the appropriate set. I think this is a new game problem with the service. I rarely have any problems with it when adding Magic or Pokemon. Maybe I should do an update video or short to showcase that….
Anyways, back to the grind tomorrow! Cheers!