Geekhack used to be much more fun.
But I’m too busy now to have fun talking to you all.
In the past, I did a lot of small transactions. I have sold at least 200 people keycaps, parts or switches on this forum. It was a little hobby thing. I’m sure many of you will remember, when I transact with you I always talk, and sometimes we talk politics or philosophy or stuff like that. It’s always interesting to engage someone from a very different country or culture. It was never really about the stuff I sold.
Do you think I make money from selling people 25 cherry MX clears or 1 small pack of LEDs? Whatever I made usually went into a small giveaway after that. It was really about engaging different people, getting to talk in a setting very different from my work and daily life. I got to know and exchange thousands of words with Mougrim from Ukraine for instance. In my work and daily life, I haven’t met a Ukranian for a very long time.
But now I don’t have time for that. Work life, family life, household problems (house is now a disaster zone), all take up my time and energy. Transacting is not fun anymore.
In the past I just did once a week shipping. But now, I’ve never been so eager to ship. At least 30 people have 3 or more items in their orders, and most of them change their orders at least 2 times. Especially after I dropped prices. And I have tons of troll buyers who promise to pay but nothing comes of it. Or they say they don’t want, then come back and ask for something, then change their minds again just to mess with my head. My notes are now a disaster zone.
I want to ship just to stop people changing orders.
This whole month has not been pleasant for me. That’s why I’m getting family members to ship stuff earlier. We want everything out of the house asap. And after this I’m going to take a long, long, long, long break from Geekhack.
