Chalk replaces Gloves as the New Sledges!

[MarillionFan]

Well having focused on being a full time Amazon seller this year, everybody is buying stuff online except sledges (which luckily I dont have)

Just as the pandemic kicked off, Amazon stopped taking non-essentials into their warehouse which meant I got stuck with loads and loads of toys at home and in the lockup. I immediately got a courier up and running and have been shipping out of the house for the past 5/6 weeks until Amazon opened up again.

A week before lockdown I sourced 1500 Boxes of Latex gloves which made a nice profit and then last week I realised that people on facebook groups were asking for chalk as there was none in the shops. So I looked at my suppliers and on one website they had an advert for chalk with no pictures, so no-body had bought it.

I bought the entire lot, three pallets, 1.5 tonnes of prime A grade childrens chalk for £3k which is now in the top 10 on Amazon & selling like hotcakes and will return me a £7k profit. £500 so far this morning and it's only 9.30

Now I wonder what's going to replace the chalk?

[ladymuck]

Nice one.

It's interesting how random stuff suddenly becomes the thing everyone wants.

[Mordac]

Round my way everyone seems to be knitting and they're all complaining about the lack of wool. I wouldn't suggest taking my neighbours' strange habits as a basis for your future business plan though, I wouldn't want you stuck with a warehouse full of the stuff.

[jamesbrown]

Sounds like a massive PITA. I guess it’s more scalable than consultancy, but I think I’ll stick with that

[DimPrawn]

Sounds like a massive PITA. I guess it’s more scalable than consultancy, but I think I’ll stick with that

Yep, dealing with the idiot public, no thanks.

"I ordered blue chalk, you sent green"

"No, the chalk is blue"

"No it's green"

"It's blue"

[ladymuck]

Yep, dealing with the idiot public, no thanks.

"I ordered blue chalk, you sent green"

"No, the chalk is blue"

"No it's green"

"It's blue"

Then they return a box of broken bits of blue chalk, smashed to smithereens.

[OwlHoot]

Nice one.

It's interesting how random stuff suddenly becomes the thing everyone wants.

But why in God's name does everyone want chalk all of a sudden?!

I can only imagine it may be for marking off six foot spaces on the floor in shops. But all the shops I've seen are using labels with arrows.

edit: Ah, it's for kids to play with. OK, that makes sense.

[SueEllen]

But why in God's name does everyone want chalk all of a sudden?!

I can only imagine it may be for marking off six foot spaces on the floor in shops. But all the shops I've seen are using labels with arrows.

edit: Ah, it's for kids to play with. OK, that makes sense.

Didn't you scribble all over the pavements, your garden and school playground with chalk when you were a child?

I remember that OAPs always thought it was lovely, but middke aged adults called you a vandal .

[Scruff]

Pies

[ladymuck]

Pies

I think I've had my fill of them