Selling Things for Fun and Profit
Yesterday on the train a man got on with a big box of fruit snacks and announced he was selling them—two for $1. Later, on a different train, another man got on with another box of fruit snacks, and announced he was selling them for $1 each. Though the box of fruit snacks retails at $40, it can be purchased on Amazon for $18.95, with free shipping if you spend $6.05 more (buy two?). There are 80 packs of snacks in a box, which at $1 each means $61.05 in profit, and at two-for-$1, $21.05 in profit, which means the guy doing the two-for deal would have to sell three times as many fruit snacks to make the same amount of profit. But maybe he sells them faster because they are cheaper? But then also he has to figure out where to stash the other boxes of fruit snacks while he sells down on this one, and that sounds stressful.
I didn’t see anyone buy any fruit snacks.
SERIOUSLY LOGAN, YOUR TAGS. I’m obsessed.
@bgprincipessa Also maybe this should be the new version of “Train A leaves the station at 1:05…. etc”
At least it was an adult man instead of a Dickensian swarm of dead-eyed children selling them “for school,” which is who I always see selling things out of boxes on the train.
If this comment were a trashy magazine article, it would be titled I Was An Adolescent Scam Artist. I grew up reaaaaal close to an NFL stadium and we totally did this all the time. My mom would go to BJ’s, get a couple “fund-rasier” boxes of chocolate, and my sister and I would sell candy bars for a dollar each to tailgaters, who I suspect were too drunk to notice/care that we were raising money for our own savings accounts.
@Vicky Johnson@twitter (I’m sorry if this posted like 30 times. I promise I’m not a spammer).