The funniest thing I ever did – a.k.a. "How To Make $100K From A Dick Joke."

Re:The funniest thing I ever did – a.k.a. "How To Make $100K... by sandworm101 on Monday January 06, 2025 @06:58AM (#42609838)

>> buying large lots and retailing them, holding things over time, etc are both a worthless drag on the economy...

Like grocery stores? Department stores? Costco? Buying in bulk and selling smaller lots to consumers over time is the definition of retail sales.

If you want to eliminate middlemen and buy only from manufacturers, you better first know/learn chinese, japanese, french, german and spanish. And get a forklift. Most only ship product by the pallet.

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Re:The funniest thing I ever did – a.k.a. "How To Make $100K... by jenscow on Monday January 06, 2025 @07:12AM (#42609922)

> who do none of the value adding work of buying large lots and retailing the ...

I think they're saying that is the value added work, which they don't do.

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Re:The funniest thing I ever did – a.k.a. "How To Make $100K... by sandworm101 on Monday January 06, 2025 @07:17AM (#42609945)

I dont think so. We might not like dealing with them, but even the most horrible of middlemen still provide liquidity to a market. Amazon got its start as a middleman for books, and was hated for what it did to the retail bookshops, but it did inject liquidity to the betterment of consumers.

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Re:The funniest thing I ever did – a.k.a. "How To Make $100K... by idiotsecant on Monday January 06, 2025 @09:17AM (#42610714)

I think you need to re-read the posts you're replying to. Everyone is specifically saying warehousers add value to the chain. Drop shippers do not.

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Re:The funniest thing I ever did – a.k.a. "How To Make $100K... by wasmitnetzen on Monday January 06, 2025 @07:12AM (#42609926)

You might want to re-read that post you quoted, your snipped quote inverts the intended meaning.

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