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You want money. You like to crochet. You've been crocheting for a couple of years now, so you have many finished projects lying around so you put that online. But then you decide, "Hey, I'm not ready to commit to making a hobby into a business, I'll just hike up the prices until I can get around to taking the website down." But then it sells. It sells like no man's business. All the little old grannies and white millennial girls ate it up.
So, you get greedy. You begin trying desperately to keep up with the orders, but you just can't unless you have 10 arms. So.... You decide you need a little help. You begin scouring online for REAL sellers. People who want to sell their items. They have it for far lower than what you're going for, so with the money you just received from your own crochet business, you begin buying in bulk. 50 to 100 crochet items purchased at one time. Then all you have to do is trademark it. A little teddy bear on the corner and no one will tell the difference. You can't purchase all the items from the same person, so you have multiple suppliers, with multiple accounts so no one gets suspicious of one single account buying in bulk like this. If the items you received are trademarked, it's a simple matter of taking them out and making your own.
It's been a rousing success. You've been monitoring the crochet forms and no one seems to notice anything out of the ordinary. The public loves the 'homegrown' business that just popped up, and you've been enjoying that homegrown money. It's not like you give NO credit. You usually look at the name tags of the suppliers and name that batch of products after them on the website. However, that seems to have just made it more of a style than anything, leading to more rookie businesswomen trying to emulate 'your' style to try and make money.
Damn, it feels good to be king, or queen, or ruler, or whatever you'd like to be called.
Though... You've been craving. Craving something more. Something more...lucrative?
(Join me next week as you make the flipping business into a drug empire, and then the week after that when I reveal it's all been a metaphor for dudes stealing people's novels. This is your host, Trash.)
So, you get greedy. You begin trying desperately to keep up with the orders, but you just can't unless you have 10 arms. So.... You decide you need a little help. You begin scouring online for REAL sellers. People who want to sell their items. They have it for far lower than what you're going for, so with the money you just received from your own crochet business, you begin buying in bulk. 50 to 100 crochet items purchased at one time. Then all you have to do is trademark it. A little teddy bear on the corner and no one will tell the difference. You can't purchase all the items from the same person, so you have multiple suppliers, with multiple accounts so no one gets suspicious of one single account buying in bulk like this. If the items you received are trademarked, it's a simple matter of taking them out and making your own.
It's been a rousing success. You've been monitoring the crochet forms and no one seems to notice anything out of the ordinary. The public loves the 'homegrown' business that just popped up, and you've been enjoying that homegrown money. It's not like you give NO credit. You usually look at the name tags of the suppliers and name that batch of products after them on the website. However, that seems to have just made it more of a style than anything, leading to more rookie businesswomen trying to emulate 'your' style to try and make money.
Damn, it feels good to be king, or queen, or ruler, or whatever you'd like to be called.
Though... You've been craving. Craving something more. Something more...lucrative?
(Join me next week as you make the flipping business into a drug empire, and then the week after that when I reveal it's all been a metaphor for dudes stealing people's novels. This is your host, Trash.)
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