ZF Lee
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Phew...been a long time since I posted a thread of my own.
But DAMN am I exuberant!
Damn, money came into my hands this morning! I can use it to do a Google AdWords test, get some samples plus a little inventory from AliBaba, pay for a Fastlane meetup (if you like to), get a nice pizza dinner....
Stop F*cking around, ZF Lee
Oh, whoops...!
Let's get to the meat of things.
One of the most touted ways on raising capital without the perils of investors to run our Fastlane businesses is to resell stuff. I remember there is a thread around here on some clever guy who bought off cheap stuff from Walmart and resold it online, sparking up harsh criticism from the general community.
From the comments section, they said things like:
'This can't be done.'
'This is cheating!'
'This business model will crack when others start copying it.'
Ah, cracking. Let's talk about it.
Probably one of the hardest stuff to resell are textbooks. The perfect standard of a commodity. No matter what you do, everyone wants them cheap. They'll cuff you until you drop the price so low you'd wonder whether you had a negative return of investment on those books.
Or else they'll ignore you, and you leave those dusty books to collect cobwebs in a dismal corner of defeat.
We can't have that, can we?
My pre-university studies ended a week or two ago. Time to sell my books to juniors.
I obtained the services of a middle person to send my offers to Whatsapp groups of juniors who would soon take my place and may need my books.
The guy didn't ask for commission. If he did, I'm wondering what additional stuff would he do to help me sell my books.
Let's compare scenerios of how I posted on Whatsapp groups as opposed to your typical resell dealer:
Typical post
Chemistry textbook for (dead low price). No marks on it, still clean.
The end
Whut??? That's all you can give to your seller? Good grief.
Let's boost the value skew, shall we?
My Post
Chemistry Textbook (plus picture of textbook cover, with snapshots of inside pages)
Selling at X price. (I had a range of prices offered by present sellers. I put prices in the middle range so that I had room to jack prices up or down)
Knowing that the course is difficult and will eat study time ravenously, allow me to help you reduce your study time to only one hour per topic.
- The textbook has certain sections highlighted and marked as they have evergreen questions that come out commonly in exam.
-I lost 10 marks for an explanation question. I will show you the very pages that I failed to read on the textbook so that you don't need to lose those marks like I did.
(adds snapshots of some of the pages)
A few days later, my whatsapp beeped. The book was sold.
Did you know that...
The chemistry textbook was NOT required by the college classes.
But DAMN am I exuberant!
Damn, money came into my hands this morning! I can use it to do a Google AdWords test, get some samples plus a little inventory from AliBaba, pay for a Fastlane meetup (if you like to), get a nice pizza dinner....
Stop F*cking around, ZF Lee
Oh, whoops...!
Let's get to the meat of things.
One of the most touted ways on raising capital without the perils of investors to run our Fastlane businesses is to resell stuff. I remember there is a thread around here on some clever guy who bought off cheap stuff from Walmart and resold it online, sparking up harsh criticism from the general community.
From the comments section, they said things like:
'This can't be done.'
'This is cheating!'
'This business model will crack when others start copying it.'
Ah, cracking. Let's talk about it.
Probably one of the hardest stuff to resell are textbooks. The perfect standard of a commodity. No matter what you do, everyone wants them cheap. They'll cuff you until you drop the price so low you'd wonder whether you had a negative return of investment on those books.
Or else they'll ignore you, and you leave those dusty books to collect cobwebs in a dismal corner of defeat.
We can't have that, can we?
My pre-university studies ended a week or two ago. Time to sell my books to juniors.
I obtained the services of a middle person to send my offers to Whatsapp groups of juniors who would soon take my place and may need my books.
The guy didn't ask for commission. If he did, I'm wondering what additional stuff would he do to help me sell my books.
Let's compare scenerios of how I posted on Whatsapp groups as opposed to your typical resell dealer:
Typical post
Chemistry textbook for (dead low price). No marks on it, still clean.
The end
Whut??? That's all you can give to your seller? Good grief.
Let's boost the value skew, shall we?
My Post
Chemistry Textbook (plus picture of textbook cover, with snapshots of inside pages)
Selling at X price. (I had a range of prices offered by present sellers. I put prices in the middle range so that I had room to jack prices up or down)
Knowing that the course is difficult and will eat study time ravenously, allow me to help you reduce your study time to only one hour per topic.
- The textbook has certain sections highlighted and marked as they have evergreen questions that come out commonly in exam.
-I lost 10 marks for an explanation question. I will show you the very pages that I failed to read on the textbook so that you don't need to lose those marks like I did.
(adds snapshots of some of the pages)
A few days later, my whatsapp beeped. The book was sold.
Did you know that...
The chemistry textbook was NOT required by the college classes.
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