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.
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.
What I’ve found is people will pay SO MUCH for convenience. It’s insane.
I know I’m going to talk video games here for a second, but the insight to human nature applies. All the parts for a spaceship can be in a store, and cost 200M to buy and assemble. Three minutes tops typing in words and pressing ‘buy’.
Buy all the parts, assemble it, stick it on the market as prebuilt and ready? People pay 300-350M each, and I’d sell out almost as quickly as I could make it happen.
It’s nuts! People pay so much just to avoid a bit of work, and that was ON A COMPUTER where it’s not like there’s any physical activity to do! Only a few minutes saved!
Our daughter plays some game (not sure if it’s iPad or Switch) where she finds stuff then puts it in the “store” and people actually buy stuff that they can just go pick up off the ground somewhere.