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Emerging Entrepreneur Profile: Brian Burke Of ISellMac.com

March 13, 2009 at 8:15 am
by Timothy Sykes

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I had to feature this loyal reader since he got me a great deal on a Macbook Pro through his website ISellMac.com.

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1. What made you want to sell apple stuff online?

I’ve been selling Apple products for 2 years now. Apple continually makes the best computers and coolest gadgets and they are always in high demand. Personally, I’ve been using an Apple Computer for 20 years now. My goal is to get others to recognize how much easier and more reliable Apple’s computers and operating system are vs. PC.

2. What’s the craziest order you’ve ever gotten asked to fulfill?

I sold a lot of 100 womens schik razors, voip phone system with 80 phones, a land rover defender, a 6 series BMW, a harley roadster, and ….. Vibrating panties.

3. What’s your background?

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Then I went to Tulane University and graduated with degrees in Finance and Management. After trying to get a job working with a hedge fund, I ended up starting my own eBay business. Now I realize how much happier I am working for myself!

4. Tell us more about your business, is it just you?

It started with myself. I quickly grew my business buying and selling cell phones. At that point I hired two employees. Right now I have three employees to help with all the work that goes into my eBay business.

5. Where do you see apple’s stock headed now that your founder is on his deathbed?

Apple’s stock is depressing for multiple reasons. Steve Jobs leaving the company is a major blow and I hope for his sake that he returns in June as he stated. Steve has led Apple to become the most successful computer company in the world, but without him it will still grow and prosper. The products currently in the pipeline with continue to allow Apple to grow even in our current recession. The demand for Apple products is increasing fast as consumers become more aware of the quality and service that Apple offers. It is only a matter of time before more business start switching over to Apple as well. And wait till the next generation iPhone comes out! The iPhone is going to drive Apple’s growth over the next few years and get more people switching over to Mac. I see Apple’s stock at 200 in 2010 and hitting 1000 within the next 10 years!

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  • Keller

    Tim,
    You had a small profit with COIN, then a loss and now a profit within a 30 days period. Just wanted to know will this type of trade is considered as a wash sale on your tax next year? And also, when you file your tax, do you have to enter every single trade or all with total cost price and total sale price stating “stocks various” on your tax form? Just wanted to know the facts regardless of whether you care about wash sale or not.

  • timsykes

    no idea, i have my tax guy handle all that stuff. i don’t want it to influence my trading at all. COIN’s a slippery microcrapper, add that to my lack of discipline and u’ll see some good trade and some bad. today was a good one

  • lmsmith

    Tim- about time you went long on this………

  • NeilTheRealDeal

    hahaha at exactly 43:40 the advertisement on that radio interview plays the part from Happy Gilmore’s “Happy time thoughts” love it. This interview was awesome! Whole hour with Tim.

  • Ilan

    any one play the SEED

  • lmsmith

    Who is making money today on COIN??? Jump in!!!

  • Dan

    AGIX Buy it its going again today

  • KS

    Tim

    Why do you hate the exact kind of trader you are? You are a scalper. Selling for 20 to 30 cents here and there profit or loss is a scalper in my book. Nothing wrong with being that if it works, but I don’t understand why you always say you hate scalping.

    timothysykes
    Administrator
    Registered: 2008-02-17
    Posts: 179 Re: COINu can play it however u want, i wait for the ranges to break before i enter. i hate scalping!

  • timsykes

    I did not scalp COIN, I had an important meeting this morning! Ideally I could be a full-time trader, but my goals are to teach people now. Who cares how I did with COIN, I’ve been talking about the breakout at $14.50 for weeks now. THE KEY IS IT WAS PREDICTABLE

  • Scott

    Tim,

    Why is there so much hatred for you on EliteTrader? Seems like all the so called voices of reason and experience over there really have a problem with you and question your honesty and ability to trade/teach. They do respect your ability to self-promote.

  • timsykes

    PS Since I have such a small account and I really need to get over $25k, i’m being extra cautious. u’ll see me hold for days as my assets grow and i can afford to take some risks without losing day trading ability

  • tsa

    I am long on HNAB today

  • Stan

    my positions are full, but doesnt COIN looks good to short? its taken a small tumble from morning highs. momentum probably on the short side

  • timsykes

    coin is a doubly confirmed breakout, where is your short gonna go, u might make $1 u might lose $1, no edge in shorting this strong a pattern. its really only gonna tank $2-$4 when theres much less volume and the chart looks like its rolling over. for now its just a stock fighting lots of demons, its pathetic that it cant really breakout with this strong a base and i think it goes back to how shady the company is, aka shorts aren’t panicking, they’re just adding to their positions

  • Ilan

    SEED will pop soon

  • Stan

    yea i shorted RYL @ 27.40 right now and as soon as I did i saw COIN drop a to a dollar off its highs and now even some more. its too hard to play COIN anyway, id just throw it up in the air for discussion

  • timsykes

    gartman now lightening up on COIN, who lightens up into a perfect breakout…what a pump and dumper, this calls for a blog post!

  • Gary

    This stock is strating to fit the model. Up like 200%

    STEN

    Keep an eye on it.

  • timsykes

    STEN, gary look in the forums, i posted why it does NOT fit the model–namly too low marketcap, solid earnings

  • lmsmith

    Coin is a pump and dump stock- I played it early in the morning- and only held for 10 min or less, because it goes up real fast….. I am glad I got out at $15.57 today- a quick $200 gain…… Because I swear after 10:30 this stock is knowing for down trending… just look at it now.

  • Gary

    Tim, Sorry…After I hit send went over to the forms and saw it there and read the whole post.

    Sorry for the double post.

  • Scott

    Tim,

    Any comment on my post above concerning your rep. at ET?

  • timsykes

    i dont pay much mind the haters–especially on ET where nobody ever loses money (even though in reality 95% of traders lose, aka these cowards are ashamed of posting the harsh truth)–because everyone and i mean everyone in this industry hides behind aliases and lawyers. i lay it out all out there, u wanna attack me, fine, but be prepared for me to defend myself cuz i got nothing to hide. some people think my “its sad that honesty is a revolutionary business model in finance” line is some arketing thing—how can honesty ever be confused with marketing?

    all i know if that this pennystocking stuff works, i’m not great at it and i think i can teach others to do better. all be resolved eventually so lets see what happens. so far, i’ve been proving my ideas nearly every week while ETers just trash talk and blah blah, not worth wasting my time on losers

  • Whiskey Mac

    feckin long COIN… I’m down $1.20 on COIN. Afraid to let go thiking it might crawl back in the next day or so…..

  • Aegir

    FINL >> any comments on that one, has been a nice climber?

  • timsykes

    COIN IS A PUMP AND DUMP, I’M WRITING AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW. IT COULD BOUNCE, IT COULD NOT, THE PREDICTABILITY IS VERY LOW RIGHT NOW

  • http://jcutz5000@aol.com The Barber

    THIS COIN ANIMAL IS JUST RIDICULOUS… WHO EVER IS LONG THIS STOCK IS GETTING SET UP FOR A CATASTROHY.. I ALMOST GOT SQUEEZED OUT TODAY BUT HELD,, HOLDING THIS SHORT FOR THE NIAGRA FALLS CHART.. LETS SEE HOW THIS PLAYS OUT…..GOOD LUCK LONGS. A LOT OF MINIPULATION GOING ON HERE…HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

  • http://jcutz5000@aol.com The Barber

    ANOTHER HIGH FLYER THAT MAKES NO MONEY.. I DONT CARE HOW STONG THE AG SECTOR IS… FIGHTING THIS PUPPY TO THE DEATH…NOOOOO MONEYYYYYYYY……………..DIE

  • http://jcutz5000@aol.com The Barber

    TIM DO U KNOW WHEN COIN COMES OUT WITH EARNINGS??

  • lmsmith

    This best way to play COIN (IMO) is to buy in the a.m about 9:40 hold for 10 minutes, and dump…….no need to stay long after 10:30 this stock can easily take a turn…I have been playing this for months…and it acts the same way…. now, shorting it and getting squeezed…that is not my thing…. good luck to the Shorts on this one

  • JMAN1234

    Yay, Timmy made $140!!!! Oh my god, monster day dude. You are a hitter!! Piker

  • KF

    stuck my claws out today. SWC = game over.

  • Stan

    good analysis imsmith, this is the only repetitive pattern that i see tooo. this is most true the morning after it had a great day and hits a new high.

  • COINZMASTER

    FINAL WARNING SHORT COIN AND GET BURNED BY WHAT IS CALLED ALPHA WE ARE THE HIGHEST IN THE WHOLE MARKET GO LONG OF COIN AND NO GARTMAN DID NOT DUMP COIN!!!!!!!LONG ALL YEAR COIN COINZ SOLD W’S{NAKED SHORTS CANT STOP THIS MONSTER PLUS FLOAT IS TRADED IN LESS THAN A DAY!$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$DO DD ON GLOBAL WARMING/KYOTO THEN TALK!!!!!!!!!!PLUS WE MIGHT GO ALL ORGANIC IN 5-10 YEARS

    ==================================THE BEAR TRAPPER==================================

  • timsykes

    JMAN, aka typical snobby finance scum, the $140 does not matter, its the process. i could take on that same pattern with 1,000 shares, 10,000 and even 100,000 shares. its still too funny to me that the scum in this industry have such trouble understanding what i’m doing here. i guess greed really does blind people, sorry man, i don’t envy u

  • Yordan Daskalov

    What do u all think for AGIX

  • Aegir

    AGIX , is holding a nice gaine, up 14%.

  • Gary

    Why does everyone think they need to SHOUT in every comment they post in your comments segment, low IQ?

  • timsykes

    swc, damn that chart is a tempting short, might just grab a little bit overnight, we’ll see how it acts

  • lmsmith

    TIM forgive him- JMAN rides the yellow bus

  • lmsmith

    swc- humm I am tempted to go long…. I am the opposition… onyl because it was up all the other days, except today- perhaps it might recover tomorrow-

  • KF

    It was up all the other days? It doubled in a month, because of the palladium trade. But it’s still the same shitty mining company. Say hello to 16.14.

  • http://www.glguideservice.com Jeff C

    You mean short bus? Long AGIX for now…..

  • JMAN1234

    Its not the money, its your inability to see that you suck at what you do and are going to drag down these idiots who think you know what you are doing. The problem with Finance is that people don’t do their homework, they listen to tools like you and Cramer.

  • timsykes

    haha i admit every day i’m not great at this! learn to read buddy. buuuuuuuuuuuuuut even though though i’m not great, i can still trade and make money, which makes me better than 95% of traders out there. and more importantly, i can teach this stuff to others to do better than me. they can avoid my mistakes. my faults. like archie manning, he never even made it to the super bowl and now look at both his sons. c’mon JMAN, what else u got

  • Aegir

    COIN >> NIUCE BOUNCEEEEEEEEEE

  • timsykes

    in the voice and mannerisms of Robert Di Niro, “You Got Nothin’!!!!!!!!!!!” you moron haters forget that I expose, detail and even celebrate all my shortcomings and mistakes for all to see and learn from. people can learn form my mistakes, from my successes, from everything,

    again I say “You Got Nothin’!!!!!!!!!!!”

  • JMAN1234

    What do I have? A rollie, a benz and reservations at Daniel for 8, come on by I’ll buy you a drink and teach you about trading. Unless of course you are trying to pick up nickels all night long

  • COINZMASTER

    NAIL COIN EVERYTIME LOOK AT PPS WHEN I POSTED NOW LOOK AND SHIT YOURSELF SHORTY BUYIN IMMENIENT ALSO WHY DID TIMMY NOT GO LONG OF COIN AT 4$?OR COINZ AT 2$ TOLD YOU TIMMY POO LOL

    =============COINZMASTER===============

  • lmsmith

    THE BARBEr??? How are you doing- I know you are hating COIN right about now

    p.s I mean yellow- I guess in Mass. the yellow bus are for the children.

  • timsykes

    haha JMAN, i thought it wasn’t about the money? i hate all those cars, you’re just polluting and PS Daniel sux. its a stuffy POS restaurant, i’ve been there too many times unfo0rtunately…but if u had any taste, u’d know that. instead, you’re a classic wall streeter, who thinks good living is all about big spending. U HAVE NO SOUL.

  • http://www.glguideservice.com Jeff C

    When will IDMI crash land again? Anyone go long this morning?

  • JMAN1234

    Oh ive got soul Timmy. Ill think about you when Im poppin bottles down in Brazil next week and you are in your burnt up apartment tryin to make another hundo. Its not about the money?? YOu were on WSW braggin about how much loot you were makin, I guess its not about the money when you lose it all. Cop out

  • http://jcutz5000@aol.com The Barber

    DONT LIKE IT BUT IM STILL HOLDING

  • http://www.glguideservice.com Jeff C

    Ya, i’m not a huge fan right now…….

  • http://www.glguideservice.com Jeff C

    Short Bus= Slow Children…kids who wear helmets like JMAN’s mom put on him, forgot his mouthguard though…

  • timsykes

    teaching is simply more fulfilling and given the lack of scalability of my strategy, this si best business decision i could’ve made. have fun in brazil, but do NOT doubt i’m having a ton of fun doing what i’m doing…

  • lmsmith

    to each their own- tim you know your reasons- screw the skeptics

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  • HopeSolo

    Umm, 1000? One would think it would split by then, but we get the idea. He thinks they’ll increase 10 fold in 11 years? Possible, but unlikely with Jobs soon to retire.

  • http://www.isellmac.com Brian

    Yes I do believe it will split, but that Apple will grow 10 fold because government and businesses along with more of the public will soon adopt Apple products. Jobs has helped Apple for a long time, although I do not believe his absence will stop product development or sales. Apple will thrive better than any other tech company in the coming decade! Buy it on the cheap NOW!

  • Greg Money

    Tim,

    You are head and shoulders above Dennis Kneale as the biggest financial douche.
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  • Greg Money

    Tim,

    You are head and shoulders above Dennis Kneale as the biggest financial douche.
    dodusbag.blogspot.com

  • http://www.timothysykes.com Anonymous

    Greg, thanks for being so useless, you are a true Wall Streeter!

  • http://www.test.timothysykes.com timothysykes

    Greg, thanks for being so useless, you are a true Wall Streeter!