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Old 05-10-2011, 04:51 PM  
Jon Oso
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I sold band CD's and T-shirts one year... and I took a summer school course in economics one year - the goal was to create a business, and sell a product during the 3 break periods. We did this over a week.

I decided that with all the other groups selling little shitty trinkets they could only sell once, we should sell something that people could buy one or more of every day.

So we had one of the group members moms go buy about 30 dollars worth of McDonalds and sold it for double our cost. We sold out in about 5 minutes and sat around the rest of the time.

Next day we had the mom bring about $100 worth of food, and the remaining three days we were selling about $300 worth of product.

I think I still have the T-shirt, we called our group "MacDaddy's" and our slogan was "You're loving it."

I'm surprised we didn't get sued haha.

We got an A for the assignment, A for the class and got to keep what we made split between a few people. Even with us eating some of it we still turned a massive profit for really doing nothing but having someones mom go pick up food and then overcharging for a product that's already too expensive for what it is.
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