Re:The ASCII Million Dollar Page
by TweedHeads on Sunday August 16, 2009 @09:19AM
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"You might buy something that you find is unsellable, killing momentum."
You can't allow that to happen, if you do you fail at the game.
You have to study all submitted options and pick the best according to all variables involved, time included.
If you get enough publicity perhaps Mercedes will give you a car for half the price so you can sell it quick, going from 50k to 100k in days. Or any other sponsors, Rolex may help you jump from 5K to 10K. Harley-Davidson from 10K to 20k, and so on.
Free publicity for the seller and for the buyer if they choose so.
Luck may be on your side...
This plan sounds like it rests on the classic answer to how to make a million: "first, get a million page views"
I have those, now tell me what to do next :)
"Beware of people giving you advice that they themselves do not follow".
I figure if you tell people how to go and make a million you had better made a few of those yourself.
It's a good one but I can see a pitfall:
You might buy something that you find is unsellable, killing momentum.
A friend of mine - Joyce - had a good idea and put it in to practice, it was called jam-trading.
In the Netherlands the traffic jams are terrible and people end up next to each other, often for long times.
So she devised this game (not without danger to passing motorcycles), take anything from your car and try to trade it with the people next to you for something that you value more.
When the cars move again you get parked next to your 'next victim', rinse & repeat.
They started out with a fairly squishy apple (the food kind, not the digital kind), and managed to trade it all the way up to a notebook and a pretty neat pen over a stretch of about 5 kilometers.
A 1:20 fold increase in value or so.
Not bad for a simple idea...