Encouragement!!!

One of my favorite movies is "Couples Retreat" with Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, and others.  It's a funny movie, but I feel like my wife and I relate to Dave and Ronnie.  One of the parts that I like is the yoga instructor scene.  He goes around and smacks everyone on the rear end while exclaiming, "Encouragement!"

Well today held some encouragement for me.  I had 7 total views on my first blog post (yeah, not a ton, but better than 1 or none).  Hopefully I can keep this fun, entertaining, and possibly worth reading.  I'm obsessing over numbers...well I am a CPA...my listings have over 30 views on Gunbroker and over 25 on Gunauction.  That's encouraging that people are stopping to look at the pictures and maybe read the description.

The less encouraging part is that no one had bid on any of it.  Bummer!  I get it on one of them.  I listed it as a "fixed price" auction and it has a healthy price tag on it, but it's a good build.  Lots of solid upgrades.  I also listed it as a Reserve auction,  I have the reserve set, but the starting bid is one cent.  Yep, $0.01.  I can't even get a bid of one flipping penny.  SADNESS!  😢

But this blog is entitled "Encouragement!!!"  Today I got 1 watcher on my fixed price listing!  Not a bid, not an offer, but 1 person thought my build worthy of keeping track of.  Perhaps there is hope yet!  I know it's early, but if I sell this one, I get to build another one!

So instead of dwelling on not selling anything, I shall bask in the ENCOURAGEMENT of the views and watcher!

Thanks for reading!  Leave me some comments, encouragement, words of wisdom, etc.