Help with my extruder skipping?

Hey guys, I am in the process of getting everything set up, and for some reason I can’t get my extruder to quit skipping and actually extrude more than a few drops. My steps/mm for the extruder is 30, and the feed rate is 50. I have tried all sorts of other numbers for both of those values, but I simply can’t get it to stop skipping. It is not grinding, and I have tried releasing the tension from the direct drive spring and even when the tension is off, it still does the back and forth motion. I have swapped stepper drivers and also increased and decreased voltage on the potentiometer, but to no avail. It just goes tick tock clockwise and couter-clockwise by 1 step. The temp is at 220* and I can manually extrude fairly easily. Anyone have any ideas? Here is a video of what the extruder is doing. Pardon my camera abilities, my other hand had a mouse in it! https://vid.me/5f6W here is another video of the extruder trying to turn with zero resistance from filament or anything else. https://vid.me/doIp http://ift.tt/29XanAq

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