Saw a post today about a girl being a “pet psychic” who is apparently super successful. Wondered what other examples are out there.

  • Geminii27@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I’m still wondering how many gumballs you’d need to flip to be making that kind of money. Was he traveling over the border with a semitrailer of gum?

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      1 year ago

      All he did was collect money all day long. He had a whole network of gumball machines at every Hollywood Video, Blockbuster, and a lot of theaters. He just played his niche hard. He obviously had employees.

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      1 year ago

      You probably need a decent number of machines, and it probably takes a bit to get there - but I’d imagine each machine only needs to be collected once every few weeks. Own 500 machines, collect 20 a day, maybe $100 in each machine collected… suddenly you’re pulling in $10K/week on fucking penny gumballs.

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      1 year ago

      I mean… think about it. Let’s say your cost per gumball is 5 cents and you sell them for 50 cents. So 45 cents gross rev. For every 1000 you sell it’s $450. Get 20 of those going and it’s $9k/week or a bit over $450k/year.