I had a friend who wanted to start a coin counting by mail business. The customer mails the coins in a flat rate package and then you count them and in exchange the people get a gift card to a local restaurant.

  • Geminii27@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Same guy wanted to set up hidden cameras in people’s businesses with the owner’s cooperation of course and then tell the business owner what they could do better.

    I mean, I could see the idea behind it. Time and motion studies without interrupting the business or needing the consultant to be onsite for a lot of billed hours.

    Just had that wee small problem with legality…

    I’m actually wondering if it might have worked if they’d worked through a security-camera company, selling it as an additional service. Install the security cameras and be upfront about it, then have a business consultant access the footage via a mini-clause in the security contract allowing the security company to farm their record-viewing out to “approved contractors”, or something.