Thread: Bootstrapping e-Commerce to 16 Million: Cableorganizer.com

Simply AMAZING success.

Of course it helps that they had the intelligence to put up a website back in 2002 long before the market was flooded they probably never imagined what it would turn into.

I truly believe simple things like this site is beyond my reach for one simple reason. I would never pay for such a thing. I used twist ties off bread bags instead. So at the most basic level it is tough for me to understand why people waste money on such things.

Anyone else find this for themselves?

Anyone else like me, so completely out of the loop on what the average person will actually spend money on?

I have rarely ever even looked at something for sale and thought OH I want that! Includes magazine ads, TV ads etc. Nothing not watches not clothes, not food, not vacations etc etc. I will say my one weakness is houses. For some reason I continually want another house in another part of the country. Wonder if a psychologist could have a field day with that one lol

My wife actually complains that I never spend money to buy anything.

I have not been in a mall in probably 10 years. Probably gone out to dinner 5 times in the past 10 years. Probably have been in any store, of any kind, less than once a month for my entire life.

It isn't so much that I don't want to spend the money it is just that I don't see the point in it for 99% of things that probably can be found in almost all households in the USA.

I count myself as truly blessed because I have never longed to buy something so I don't have the desire to spend money basically at all.

Originally Posted by PatrickP

Anyone else like me, so completely out of the loop on what the average person will actually spend money on?

Yes, I never spend money for in-app purchases (e.g. for games). But there's a whole economy based on that.

Originally Posted by PatrickP

Simply AMAZING success.

Of course it helps that they had the intelligence to put up a website back in 2002 long before the market was flooded they probably never imagined what it would turn into.

I truly believe simple things like this site is beyond my reach for one simple reason. I would never pay for such a thing. I used twist ties off bread bags instead. So at the most basic level it is tough for me to understand why people waste money on such things.

Anyone else find this for themselves?

Anyone else like me, so completely out of the loop on what the average person will actually spend money on?

I have rarely ever even looked at something for sale and thought OH I want that! Includes magazine ads, TV ads etc. Nothing not watches not clothes, not food, not vacations etc etc. I will say my one weakness is houses. For some reason I continually want another house in another part of the country. Wonder if a psychologist could have a field day with that one lol

My wife actually complains that I never spend money to buy anything.

I have not been in a mall in probably 10 years. Probably gone out to dinner 5 times in the past 10 years. Probably have been in any store, of any kind, less than once a month for my entire life.

It isn't so much that I don't want to spend the money it is just that I don't see the point in it for 99% of things that probably can be found in almost all households in the USA.

I count myself as truly blessed because I have never longed to buy something so I don't have the desire to spend money basically at all.

This reminds me of the Big Bang Theory episode where Sheldon Cooper tells he doesn't open any of his recent paycheckes, because all the things he would like to buy haven't been invented yet

Originally Posted by PatrickP

Anyone else like me, so completely out of the loop on what the average person will actually spend money on?

Yes. It has been one of the biggest obstacles for me to overcome. I try to not think about whether or not I would buy a product or service, the answer is almost always "No", unless it can make me money or really save me time. I don't use myself as a test of whether a product or service has a market, I'm absolutely not the market lol.



Sue

Originally Posted by TK1

This reminds me of the Big Bang Theory episode where Sheldon Cooper tells he doesn't open any of his recent paycheckes, because all the things he would like to buy haven't been invented yet

lol


Talk about not cashing pay checks, before I had a business I usually worked 2 full time jobs and only cashed the pay checks from one of them and just held on to the checks from the other job. Well after I left a job and moved south I cashed about 5 months worth of checks. I found out years later that my old boss went around telling people that his mortgage and car payment checks bounced because I did this and he was furious with me.

Guess he didn't understand keeping track of what checks you have written hmmmm

Lucky your old boss didn't go bankrupt in that time.