Plan B

[Tarquin Farquhar]

I'm probably not cut out for doing one. I had already thought of slide copying, but dismissed it on the grounds that:
1. there are plenty of places, both High St and Web/Mail Order, that do it already.
2. Or you can buy a USB slide copier for what? £60 or so.
3. it would be a real faff to get clean copies, without spending ages in Photoshop.
4. Joe Public would probably be consistently demanding, wanting dust-free white-balanced copies at 2p each.

So I didn't do it. Same for VHS copying and vinyl disc copying.

 

[Olly]

errrrrr....well thanks for you revealing your non idea that you didn't do

 

[chef]

hasnt slide copying already been done by someone on this board??

so it isn't even a new or original idea

 

[norrahe]

hasnt slide copying already been done by someone on this board??

so it isn't even a new or original idea

Yep

 

[Pondlife]

hasnt slide copying already been done by someone on this board??

so it isn't even a new or original idea

gooner IIRC

Best of luck to him.

 

[EternalOptimist]

I think the OP was lamenting the fact that the one idea he had, he rejected as a non-starter, only for someone more enterprising to make a big go of it

 

[Olly]

ah........well if we're talking about "lamenting ideas"

when I was 17ish my dad got Beebug (BBC B) magazine and in the back were a few wanted adverts for those machines, mostly schools and labs needing spares. There were a few for sale too around the 100 - 150 mark. That afternoon I saw one advertised on the noticeboard at Gateway, 50 quid.

Bought, washed, stripped of games and accessories, packaged and sent, 125% profit!

They wanted more, so I bought more. £400 profit in about 2 weeks until I tried to sell my family's one that my dad spent a good few months salary on 10 years earlier. He kicked up a fuss, told me what I was doing was stupid and I should get a REAL job. So I stopped, disheartened and with my main customer pissed because I promised something I couldn't deliver, I even had his cash.

If I'd stuck to it lordy knows where I'd be now but def the sort of thing that could have spiralled nicely with a bit of adult encouragement.

Not had any good ideas on the 13 years since then.

 

[Tarquin Farquhar]

I think the OP was lamenting the fact that the one idea he had, he rejected as a non-starter, only for someone more enterprising to make a big go of it

You got it. I was hoping that people might discuss what it takes, psychologically, to implement a Plan B, or what prevents one from doing so. I don't mind if it hangs off the theme of my own stupidity and character defects.

 

[n5gooner]

yep mine! hands off!!!

Have a look here....

http://www.contractoruk.com/news/004705.html

 

[stek]

I bought 25 SGI Granite UK keybs from America hoping to make a huge killing with the SGI-nuts I used to hang out with.

That was eight years ago, they're still in the shed....