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Re:NYC Man Earns $55,000 A Year Peddling Candy On Subway by gerggerg on Saturday December 03, 2011 @01:03PM (#3308273)
Untapped? Selling candy to nice people in an uncomfortable situation is an untapped market?
Re:NYC Man Earns $55,000 A Year Peddling Candy On Subway by burgerbrain on Saturday December 03, 2011 @01:06PM (#3308279)
People are buying aren't they? And I reject the suggestion that he is somehow pressuring people into buying, if you've ever been on a subway that is rather implausible.
Re:NYC Man Earns $55,000 A Year Peddling Candy On Subway by jrockway on Saturday December 03, 2011 @10:49PM (#3309801)
Some people are deathly afraid of people talking to them in public, especially if they are from a different social class.

I've had people try to sell me candy on the L before. I said, "no thanks" and that was that. I imagine this is the end result of 99.99999% of interactions between people on public transportation. (Someone stole my shoes once after he asked to read my newspaper and I gave it to him. That's the 0.000001% case :)

Re:NYC Man Earns $55,000 A Year Peddling Candy On Subway by steve-howard on Saturday December 03, 2011 @11:52PM (#3309900)
I meet panhandlers on a daily basis who pressure people in all kinds of ways.
Re:NYC Man Earns $55,000 A Year Peddling Candy On Subway by joelrunyon on Saturday December 03, 2011 @02:15PM (#3308526)
If convincing people to spend real money on fake farms on Facebook counts as an untapped market, then this certainly should count.