I sold lollipops in Grade 4, what did you sell?

[Pearso]

When I was growing up I always had a little passion for selling things. Whether it was selling lollipops on the school bus home or selling collectible toys to other kids in my class.

It got me thinking… who else on the forum had a passion for selling things in school and what did you sell?

Keen to hear from everyone

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

I sold a magic show to neighborhood kiddos, it was a miserable failure!

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

I sold my drawings (copied and numbered) and then tech decks.

Tech decks I bought in packs at the store and sold individually.

5th grade

 

[mikecarlooch]

I was the "Affiliate marketer" kid in high school trying to sell supplements for a brand i liked lol

 

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[MrE]

I would buy a pack of Bubble Yum gum for .25 and then sell each piece for .25. A nice $1 profit per pack. Reinvest and do it again. It was a good little gig for an elementary kid.

 

[Charnell]

I would buy boxes of Pop-tarts from Walmart ($1 for 4-packs of 2) and sell each pack for $1 in class. The student store had strawberry, brown sugar cinnamon, and chocolate chip. Ya boy had the other 72 genders flavors.

 

[harumi]

Would buy as many packs of donuts as my bag could fit early in the mornings near the bus stop shop, 50 cents per pack of 4. And sell 1 donut for 25 cents during school breaks. If not every donut was sold out then me and my homies had some free donuts to enjoy on our bus journey home.

 

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[Private Witt]

Cannabis in high school. 30 years later in cannabis marketing and within a year will be selling legally through my own brand.

 

[YanC]

Around this age I set up a shop in my bedroom to sell my stuff I didn't use anymore to my brother and sisters. My parents didn't like it and closed it down after a couple days. I guess it counts as my first business failure, I hadn't checked the regulatory framework

 

[Kalactose]

I sold peanuts. Got the whole class addicted

 

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[becks22]

This is fun. Not exactly selling but one of the popular girls in elementary school would have extra money for an ice cream everyday. I would get it for her and buy myself one and then pocket the change (another 50 cents or so). Free ice cream for a year!

 

[BD64]

lobsters at varrock west bank. 100 gp each

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

lobsters at varrock west bank. 100 gp each

That's where I learned my deal making too. GE ruined the original Art of the Deal!

 

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[Albert KOUADJA]

Quand j'étais jeune, j'ai toujours eu une petite passion pour la vente. Qu'il s'agisse de vendre des sucettes dans le bus scolaire ou de vendre des jouets de collection à d'autres enfants de ma classe.

Cela m'a fait réfléchir… qui d'autre sur le forum avait une passion pour la vente de choses à l'école et qu'avez-vous vendu ?

Hâte d'entendre tout le monde

Me when I was small ,back from school holidays, in primary
, I selling boiled corn,boiled peanuts .
Sometime, I get chalk or money.

 

[Yogi_Fastlane]

When I was growing up I always had a little passion for selling things. Whether it was selling lollipops on the school bus home or selling collectible toys to other kids in my class.

It got me thinking… who else on the forum had a passion for selling things in school and what did you sell?

Keen to hear from everyone

Tried to exchange sweets for toys from other children, may not count as selling.
when I was a teenager, tried selling Coffee....left it with others, failure...
then, Cashew,.....did not take the lead, failure...

 

[Simon Angel]

lobsters at varrock west bank. 100 gp each

That's where I learned my deal making too. GE ruined the original Art of the Deal!

free stuff pl0x

come pk wildy n00b

buying gf

my main is zezima

selling rune scimmy 20k

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Guys did you know that if you type your password backwards JAGEX will censor it? ******* WTF it works!!

 

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[Angler]

I used to haggle Pokémon DS games that were worth 40-60$ each back in 2nd grade. I would end up getting them for free, under the condition that I would give the guy a few juice boxes or share lunch for a few weeks. I thought it was a steal. I would have my fun and he would enjoy some food. Then after getting the games, I would also haggle to borrow their console because I felt bad asking my parents to buy a DS. For a kid to be able to play Pokémon on a DS without asking for a cent from parents, I felt like I was living large LMAO.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

free stuff pl0x

come pk wildy n00b

buying gf

my main is zezima

selling rune scimmy 20k

a q p
w

Guys did you know that if you type your password backwards JAGEX will censor it? ******* WTF it works!!

"Look buddy, I know I can only sell these for X gp to the general store but we are way out here and you aren't going to find anybody else with this many."

"I'll trade you 17,000 of this item for 1 of that item"

Loved making those deals back in the day hahaha

Oh, or trying to buy something and you put up a whole assortment of junk instead. "Bank sale."

 

[Simon Angel]

"Look buddy, I know I can only sell these for X gp to the general store but we are way out here and you aren't going to find anybody else with this many."

"I'll trade you 17,000 of this item for 1 of that item"

Loved making those deals back in the day hahaha

I was always that dude paying extra for a rune scimitar or food deep into the wildy because I couldn't be bothered walking to the GE. I made my first million in RS stealing berries from some church tower right below the GE. You'd just pick them and they'd respawn once you entered the room or logged out and back in again.

For my second million, however, I was just walking in the wilderness with absolutely nothing on me and some level 130 dude got wrecked by a clan of mages and dropped dragon gear. I immediately looted him and nearly died of a heart attack at the age of 12 while running to the GE to sell his stuff.

Looking back on RuneScape it was definitely a great game to teach business and value to kids but it definitely did not have that effect on me at the time, lol. I was on the lookout for get rich quick schemes.

 

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[Raoul Duke]

Indian arrowheads. Baseball/Basketball cards.

 

[bbar97]

I sold skittles in middle school. Not the best profit margin, but I did make some money.

 

[kebman]

I sold lottery tickets door to door when I was a kid. My father did a lot better tho. He sold illegal books at school at great profit. It's a book called The Song of the Red Ruby by Agnar Mykle. It was so sordid that it got censored for a time here in Norway. Well, he tore out the "best parts, " copied it up using an old stencil machine, and sold it in the school yard. When the principal got wind of it, he stopped him and called in his father, believing that he would give him a stern talking to. Instead my grandfather gave the stern talking to the principal for meddling in his son's splendid new business.

 

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[Martinisawe]

When I was growing up I always had a little passion for selling things. Whether it was selling lollipops on the school bus home or selling collectible toys to other kids in my class.

It got me thinking… who else on the forum had a passion for selling things in school and what did you sell?

Keen to hear from everyone

When i was like 12, i got my 1st taste of business. My primo cachunda liked my lanyard that he bought it for $8.

 

[kebman]

By far the best story is when my dad was blown over to Sweden in the fog. (Yes, this is a sales story, believe it or not!) He was out learning how to fly in an old Cessna with his friend who was also a flight instructor. They were trying to land at Gardermoen in Norway (just outside Oslo) but they couldn't find the damn airport due to thick fog. So to try to get their bearings, they followed the coastline in order to find some landmark that could get them back on track.

Slowly running out of fuel, they started to get a little desperate however, but suddenly the flight instructor yelled out that he thought he saw the airport. And so they just turned around and landed there.

Only one problem...

When they landed, they saw Swedish flags flying at the buildings. They had landed in another country unannounced. This of course peaked the interest of the local customs authorities who told them that this could take a while. Then they started to dismantle the entire plane, screw by screw. Since it was clear that they were going to do a very thorough inspection, the only thing the two buddies could do was to get a room at the closest hotel. But that was just the start of their troubles.

When the customs officer looked at the pilot's license, he was told that, "Sorry, you're not going back in that plane!" It was an American flight instructor's license, which was valid for flying also in Europe, but it had one unique catch. You could only make domestic flights with it. You could fly out of your home country and into another, but you couldn't fly back with it, he was told. So now they had to call in a third party to come pick them up, with two new pilots.

In other words, things were starting to get expensive... And so they started to discuss how they'd pay for this ordeal. Then my dad came up with a bright idea. Seeing as this was in the 70's, porn was still illegal in Norway, while it was fully legal in liberal Sweden. So, he though, let's just load up on all they have at the local stores, and sell them to bar guests in Norway! The flight instructor thought that was a jolly good idea, and so off they went to buy all the porn they could find in the stores around the airport. As much as they could carry!

When the other flight crew arrived, things went from bad to worse, however. Turns out one of them also had an American license... So they had to get a third plane over to get them all.

Meanwhile they discussed how they'd smuggle all that porn to Norway. See, if they were caught, they could risk jail time. So they discussed dumping a net over some forest, perhaps. But then they'd have to go looking for it, and judging by how they got lost in the fog, that could take ages. Not to mention it's really easy to get caught if you do that kinda stuff. So instead my dad hatched a daring plan.

They were going to take the illicit load straight to Gardermoen! Right into Norwegian customs! But since they had two extra planes with them, they'd be bait. They all agreed it was a fine plan, and so they finally they took off for Norway. Well, after paying the Swedish fines, the hotel stay, and the other pilots, ofc.

The plan was this. The flight instructor's plane would land first, and taxi straight to the Norwegian customs hangar. But then the other two planes agreed to taxi straight to their private hangars. And so they did.

When they arrived, the Norwegian customs guards were already at high alert. They greeted them curtly, and told them that this could probably take a while, since they'd have to thoroughly check their plane. But just as they were about to go through the cabin, there was a radio call alerting them to two other planes taxiing straight past customs. So the officer quickly told them that they were cleared, and then they jumped into their police car and burned straight for the two other planes.

And that was that. They had gotten the load into Norway. Then the rest was just a question of discreetly getting rid of it at local bars. And here's the thing. Norwegians at that time were completely famished on the stuff. Better yet, if they were already a little drunk, they'd easily pay 10x the original price. And so despite all the extra expenses for that trip, they still got back in a sweet profit, and then some.

 

[Rangermac2]

When I was growing up I always had a little passion for selling things. Whether it was selling lollipops on the school bus home or selling collectible toys to other kids in my class.

It got me thinking… who else on the forum had a passion for selling things in school and what did you sell?

Keen to hear from everyone

Rainbow Loom Bracelets were a thing everyone wanted when I was younger, had a large market since both boys and girls wanted them and unlike my friends sold them for a quarter or a nickel (depended the colors and style). Didn't make much but later used same techniques to trade Beyblades and also Pokemon Cards which we sold and traded as currency.

Edit: Did consider reselling completed homework and assignments, but just brushed it off you. Sometimes helping your friends (even if it is every day) is just something I did because I didn't care but I really could have profited.

By Middle School and High School I did exceptionally well in selling for fundraisers, had the perfect set ups for door to door sells - the script, the confidence, and the varying payment methods that made it possible - from there went on to do some dog sitting (Charged about $40+ for like 1/2-1hr work daily and some garden watering) which helped fund me later for further projects and making my ideas real.

What I learned was be reasonable in your sales and fair but know your worth. If you do above an exceptional job or provide a competitive service to your customers and make them feel they need something... they do need it and you're going to make the sale.

 

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[BizyDad]

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[LiveFire]

I would buy an entire paper bag full of cheap single gum balls or double bubble for 3 cents or 5 cents and sell them for .25 cents each (a 773% profit). For Jolly Rancher sticks at .15 cents, those were sold for $1 a piece (566% profit). I was the dentist best friend of supplying rotten teeth.

I was eventually shut down by the school as they had found so many wrappers and gum laying all over the place. "Where did you get it?" "From that kid----> over there!" Little rats... trust no one is the life lesson here, not selling

 

[MitchC]

lobsters at varrock west bank. 100 gp each

I had a few examples but man this one reminded me.

Used to flip runes outside falador bank. Made about 30m one day and sold 20m for $10 a m at school. Made $200 and bought some Air Force ones not long after that the GE came out and then they removed free trade. It was a good thing really I was so addicted I would have never quit otherwise.

Before that I sold fruit on my street. Mum made me price it way too cheap but I’d sell out like 15 bags in around 5 minutes. We also sold juice and baking because my neighbour liked to as well.

Trading cards and game boys. Used to buy bulk lots of games and consoles and split them up individually. I made a good profit and kept all the really rare ones when they came up. I probably could have done really well selling them these last couple years after Gary V started hyping it but I’ve just hung onto them.

Then I started importing things from alibaba. Got a scary letter from Sony for infringement and that ended that. If I wasn’t a kid and was smarter back then I had a real opportunity to crush it with that, I just had no idea and no money or money management skills. I knew the marketing a business side instinctively though, took great pictures and wrote great descriptions, priced things cheaper, promoted them well. Basically what Amazon courses teach people now lol.

 

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[Walter Hay]

This is a GREAT thread that fits the Fastlane concept very well.

I loved seeing how many members were hustling at an early age. It strongly suggests that entrepreneurs are born - not taught.

Some babies learn very early in life to get their kicks out of making parents bend down to pick up and return whatever they have capriciously thrown on the floor. The poor misguided parents often don't seem to be as smart as their offspring, so I reckon this gives support to my idea that entrepreneurs are born - not taught.

Just think about it. What have these pesky little kids learned by observation? They have learned to manipulate people. What a great start in the world of business!

Walter

 

[Fox]

When I was in school, there was a year that people went nuts for these...



I bought a few hundred of them online from China and pretty much saturated my whole school market ha.

Also, I used to skateboard a lot so I bought a VHS recorder that could play one tap and record it onto another.
I would buy all the top skate videos from the US and then record 3 of them into one long tape.
I would then sell these at my local skate spot for like $20 each.

^ I ended up getting banned from the local skate shop, though, after undercutting their own VHS sales lol.