24 yr old makes $10,000 a month by shipping potatoes with messages on them

Indeed. I couldn't agree more.

All confirmation bias. This is one person making $10,000 a month - 1 person out of 3 billion active internet users.

There's all sorts of weird income stories like these.

Yeah people have been making money on the internet for ages. Pornography. Bitcoin. Sending potatoes / glitter in the mail. YouTube stuff. Et cetera.

Well I wouldn't go as far as saying I'm bent out of shape about it, I'm just seriously puzzled. I guess I am, admittedly, a bit envious of the ability to make easy money while I have worked the traditional methods like a sucker.
Now don't get me wrong, I admire their creative abilities and recognize that my envy is a reflection on my own short comings rather than theirs. I'm not in any way suggesting that they should not be capitalizing on these whacky ideas, as long as they don't cause arm to others. I just want get out of the rat race and I'm frustrated with myself that I have not thought of some of these things. Even if short lived, it could provide much needed cash to pay off certain debts or provide extra cash flows to contribute to causes that I would like to support further.

And the thing is, most of these ideas require no risk at all. They are ideas that can be started with little to no up-front capital. So I'm just thinking out loud here: what could I do that would require little risk on my part but could potentially provide a flow of cash to pay off my mortgage or other bills and perhaps help others do the same?
I feel like I need to do some brainstorming and I'm also curious if there is a formula that can be used to ramp an idea up to the viral status via marketing strategy or whether it is all based on dumb luck.....or perhaps a combo of the two.
Also, the skeptical side of me wonders if some of this stuff is not placed in the public eye to provide false hope or make the average person feel like a tool for not having been clever enough to get ahead. The old propaganda of making the people feel as if their situation is 100% their own fault rather than having the cards stacked against them due to the underlying fundamentals of a flawed and rigged system.
I dunno, prolly a combination of the two.
Like I said, just thinking out loud.

Yes, this is true. Stories like these never provide information on how many other ideas similar to these have failed. It would be interesting to know the statistics and analyze the data to figure out why some florish and others do not.
Like I said, I'm curious if there is a method that helps the odds of ones success such as marketing etc or if it's all just random luck. I would imagine both play a factor to some degree.

I used to make extra money on the side backing he late 90's selling stuff on eBay. I would pick up something I like which I thought could fetch profit on eBay and then list it for 2 to 3 times what I paid for it. Most of it sold and if it didn't, that was ok too because I always bought things I wasn't afraid of beings tuck with.
The ability to do that on sites like eBay has pretty much dried up since it has been over taken by big business. Now it's so over run that unless you are doing it full time, the chances of being able to squeeze a little extra cash, let alone a living, have become increasingly difficult.

good for him, I have respect for any person that lives by their own wits and proves the naysayers wrong.

Imagine someone asking for an investment for a business idea. " yeah so I have this idea, about er potatoes and er sending them in the mail with a message."

GTFO!!!

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea the kids got going.

Somewhat off topic. But people will buy absolutely anything. At the grocery you can buy a 15 pound bag of Russet potatoes for $1.89. You can also by a single Russet potato, pre-washed and wrapped in plastic, advertised as "microwave ready" for $2.29.

Have we gotten so dumb, that one simply can't reach into the big bin of loose potatoes, grab one for like $.10, wash it at home and toss it into the microwave? Because I think people that buy those pre-washed, wrapped "microwave ready" potatoes aren't smart enough to know it's just a marketing ploy. They honestly think "regular" potatoes aren't microwavable.

Odd.

At first I thought he carved or dyed small potatoes so they'd grow with messages hidden inside or incorporated into the skin.

Using a permanent marker seems so lazy and stupid.

Why not use other fruits & vegetables...or large bird eggs?

pretty sure this is fake as fuck.

seriously, how can ANYONE be this fucking retarded? $8 to ship a fucking potato? you can get a potato at the store for $0.50, and shipping will be $2, so less than $3....

if this is real and stupid Americans fall into this, then they deserve to get slaughtered during this collapse this september...

that's precisely what you're doing, DK.

Now watch, the government will fuck it up by declaring it "unsanitary" or some shit, then grab all the potato cash.

[link to en.shitexpress.com]

"We send a real piece of shit in a box to the person of your choice. Give us an address, pay with Bitcoin/Paypal, then wait for the shit to come."

I don't get why you cant just send the potato yourself. Why the middle man?

It is simply because none of you are doing anything else. other than posting on GLP.


well dont bombard me for posting, im just a potato messenger

americans are stupid.... thats why

the same reason why they keep buying worthless shit they dont need with money they dont have...

None of these assfuck ideas *work*.

They are about retards throwing away money they never should have been in possesion of in the first place.

your avatar disturbs me op

You won't believe what people will pay for a peice of old barn wood restored Slap some lacquer on it screw in a couple coat hangers and you just made yourself 80 bucks.

That's what I'm saying man, but how come it never EVER happens, not even once?

I've worked in marketing over 20 yrs. and there is an unapoken line once tptb notice your earnings, these folks either change personalities significantly or fail, I've even watched buddies earn then join the masons with the intent to stay pure while they did it, as if forced in some way.

I'm just not buyin' it.

Well maybe he is serving a usefull function.

---->Removing purchasing power from the stupid.



We've all heard a lot about "smart money".

Now we know where the stupid money goes.

You can always bank on the stupidity of others.

This species has become just too damn retarded.
Final Doom couldn't come fast enough.

To be fair, a lot of old reclaimed lumber is at a premium, because that particular wood is no longer harvested in the US.

I could do this, really I could. maybe I should start a site like that.