How is the sledge market going?
You should open up in Salisbury so that Russians who come to visit it in March won’t be put off by snow
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Originally posted by tomtomagain View PostWell done. You should always ignore the naysayers and trust your own judgement.
What is the profit on 2k of sales?
Vanity mate, vanity, not sanity.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostOh bugger, with Id seen that thing about online arbitrage before I set up my Amazon FBA account a few weeks back then I wouldn’t have done £2k in sales since then.
Oh well, live and learn, live and learn.
What is the profit on 2k of sales?
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Originally posted by tomtomagain View PostThey've all be done to death. They are already Plan A's.
1. The ebay market has been around for so long that the opportunity to arbitrage has been diminished. You'd be better off searching local car-boot sales for someone off-loading their grown-up children's Pokemon trading cards.
2. Making trinkets and jewellery from junk. You can buy this sort of stuff at every market in Europe. Also you'd need to have some practical skills to make something worth buying.
3. Post-redirection. Every business centre in the land does this. There's no money in it. You could create an "Email To Post" service that would allow the customer to "email" a letter ( that you would print, put in an envelope and post ). So if you wanted to send a letter to dear, old, granny you could from the comfort of your iphone. Also handy if you wanted to send a letter from one country to another ( have local offices that do the print-out-and-post in each country, thereby avoiding airmail ).
I once wrote a POC of a Windows Printer driver to do such a thing. It would let you "Print To Post" from Windows. Couldn't be arsed to finish it. Concept is easy enough.
4. Kebabs direct. Well that's Deliveroo. Linking restaurants and take-aways to their customers. They got $275M of funding in August of last year so competing against them would be "a challenge".
Oh well, live and learn, live and learn.
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Originally posted by tomtomagain View PostOf course not. I am fully onboard with your attempts to revolutionise the Kebab market.
There is something in my fridge, but it isn't untapped value.
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Originally posted by Fronttoback View PostAre you taking the piss?
There is untapped value in your fridge and I'm unlocking it.
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Originally posted by tomtomagain View PostAnd of course, we can have kebab derivatives. Kebab shop owners can sell future contracts to lock in their profits and provide stability in the otherwise volatile kebab market and to hedge against fluctuations in the price of that strange elephant-leg that they "cook" by warming it over a small heater for 12 hours
The kebab shops have dominated for too long- but smart phones were a game changer.
Watch this space.
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Originally posted by Fronttoback View PostSorry Tom, but you're not synergetic right now. Stay with me..
Deliveroo is "point to point". They simply take food from shop to consumer. I'm talking about a complete freeing up of the kebab market. As a consumer, as long as the product is good enough (*) , you shouldn't care where it comes from - you just go to kebabs direct and the market provides.
You could be knocking these kebabs out in your back garden with what's left from your BBQ this afternoon. Are you on board now, Tom?
(*) Kebabs direct is self regulating - deliverers are rated by consumers like on eBay. Any deliverer with a low enough "Mara-Doner" score gets a red card. The deliverer owns the quality obligation. That's how it works, Tom.
Whereas Deliveroo is a service that uses "Self-Employed" people ( or "media studies graduates" as they are also known ) to avoid paying the minimum wage and thus allowing the purveyors of low cost, low quality goods to deliver to their end customers at a price that otherwise be impossible to achieve you are proposing the creation of an ICE style market for junk food.
Allowing me, the consumer, to purchase a kebab by "hitting" the market, matching my purchase the to one of many sellers.
I like it. So we get dynamic pricing. A Kebab ordered on Friday night at 2:00am costs more than one for delivery at 10:00am on a Wednesday.
And of course, we can have kebab derivatives. Kebab shop owners can sell future contracts to lock in their profits and provide stability in the otherwise volatile kebab market and to hedge against fluctuations in the price of that strange elephant-leg that they "cook" by warming it over a small heater for 12 hours.
Good thinking.
Go and do it and report back in 12 months.
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Originally posted by vetran View Postyou obviously have experience with this market,
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Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostWe need gamification and flexible market dynamics. You want a kebab Saturday night then you are bidding up for a quick delivery or taking a discounted rate but accepting a wider time slot so you can be bumped for a premium customer. Wednesday morning and there is a reverse auction with off peak loyalty points. 10 points and your next off peak delivery is made by a hot Polish dwarf.
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Originally posted by Fronttoback View PostSorry Tom, but you're not synergetic right now. Stay with me..
Deliveroo is "point to point". They simply take food from shop to consumer. I'm talking about a complete freeing up of the kebab market. As a consumer, as long as the product is good enough (*) , you shouldn't care where it comes from - you just go to kebabs direct and the market provides.
You could be knocking these kebabs out in your back garden with what's left from your BBQ this afternoon. Are you on board now, Tom?
(*) Kebabs direct is self regulating - deliverers are rated by consumers like on eBay. Any deliverer with a low enough "Mara-Doner" score gets a red card. The deliverer owns the quality obligation. That's how it works, Tom.
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Originally posted by Fronttoback View PostSorry Tom, but you're not synergetic right now. Stay with me..
Deliveroo is "point to point". They simply take food from shop to consumer. I'm talking about a complete freeing up of the kebab market. As a consumer, as long as the product is good enough (*) , you shouldn't care where it comes from - you just go to kebabs direct and the market provides.
You could be knocking these kebabs out in your back garden with what's left from your BBQ this afternoon. Are you on board now, Tom?
(*) Kebabs direct is self regulating - deliverers are rated by consumers like on eBay. Any deliverer with a low enough "Mara-Doner" score gets a red card. The deliverer owns the quality obligation. That's how it works, Tom.
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Originally posted by tomtomagain View PostThat's Deliveroo.
Deliveroo is "point to point". They simply take food from shop to consumer. I'm talking about a complete freeing up of the kebab market. As a consumer, as long as the product is good enough (*) , you shouldn't care where it comes from - you just go to kebabs direct and the market provides.
You could be knocking these kebabs out in your back garden with what's left from your BBQ this afternoon. Are you on board now, Tom?
(*) Kebabs direct is self regulating - deliverers are rated by consumers like on eBay. Any deliverer with a low enough "Mara-Doner" score gets a red card. The deliverer owns the quality obligation. That's how it works, Tom.
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Originally posted by Fronttoback View PostI'm a kebab broker. A stinky fixer, if you like.
I hook you up to a kebab. That kebab may not have come from a kebab shop, per se.
Sooner or later they will fall off the wagon and go for a kebab then you've got them again, you'll have a circular motion of fatties getting addicted to 'babs and then going cold turkey (or cold chicken doner), with you making a fat pile of cash on both sides of the equation.
It will be just like the food industry selling low-fat "diet" options with extra sugar - the more you eat the diet options, the fatter you get SO - here's the clever part - the more you eat the diet options. Ker-ching!
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