Send local goods to foreign subscribers in monthly surprise shipments.
Out of interest, what would people want shipped from England? As a native I have no idea what people overseas would go for.
What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?
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#102I haven't created one personally, but if you're in a maker desert (where there isn't great access to spaces/people/tools to build and hack things), consider starting a maker space. I used to live a few blocks away from one in Seattle and it was awesome. Just a couple workbenches, a 3D printer, hand tools, wifi, and some electronic components can go a long way and get people in the community stoked. :)
> consider starting a maker space. // I've thought of this many times - mainly cause I'm too poor to buy all the tools I want and even the tools I have I wish it were easier to lend them so they don't die of rust before their otherwise useful hours have been used up ... But, I've always thought that this would need to be a government supported social enterprise, never that it could make enough money to pay for rent+w…
We have a hackspace here that I've (shamefully) never actually gone to.
You could try contacting them and ask how they did it:
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of interest, what would people want shipped from England? As a native I have no idea what people overseas would go for.
Off hand I'd say native candies/foods (for example, I saw Kinder Surprise on a podcast the other day but I've never seen them in America) and Doctor Who stuff. Some merchandise makes its way to the US but it can be pricy and I'm sure just scratches the surface of what's seen over there. Similarly I'd pick out other things which have niche interest here (soccer clubs for example) but which are hugely popular in the UK…
The Kinder eggs are considered an adulterated foodstuff and are banned from import into the US, so you do have to be careful about exports.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've heard that this isn't easy.
Do you know of any obstacles/challenges to doing this? Something like Backpage escort listings where you just offer craigslist-like functionality for the occasional listing fee. Seems like it'd be pretty straightforward, but I may be overlooking something.
It's reference to an 80s rap song. First post suggesting selling women's bodies (pimping). Second reply is reference to:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGRoEfRJSGs
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#105Re: What's an idea or creation that you've had success with locally that I can copy?
#106I've not done it, but I always toyed with the idea of doing a tampon-equivalent of the Dollar Shave Club - i.e. get sanitary products emailed out every month automatically.
i had this idea and found that there are lot of these.. its a tough one to get successful in because amazon etc are already big time in it, unless you can reduce the product cost itself.
Yeah. I had the idea of basing outside of the UK/EU to make use of the Vat exemption for small packages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAT-free_imports_from_the_Chann...
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#107Jacking off
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#108We did make a free beer mobile application in 1999, when cell phones had been still big, called Happy Hopper. The idea of the service was: You send an SMS to our server, we send you an SMS back to a pub in town, together with a riddle to solve in that pub. Solve that riddle and you get a free beer and the address of the next pub. The SMS also served as a ticket for the bus. Success of this service was based on workin…
What a great idea for Vatertag in my corner of Germany. Some of the folks here still celebrate it as a day for drinking with other fathers during a really long walk in the forest.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
i had this idea and found that there are lot of these.. its a tough one to get successful in because amazon etc are already big time in it, unless you can reduce the product cost itself.
Yeah. I had the idea of basing outside of the UK/EU to make use of the Vat exemption for small packages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAT-free_imports_from_the_Chann...
The standard rate of VAT in the UK is 20%. Tampons are subject to a reduced rate of only 5%. Being based outside of the UK wouldn't save you much VAT.
Visit this page and scroll down to the 'Health' section: https://www.gov.uk/rates-of-vat-on-different-goods-and-servi...
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#110Fetish based dieting advice. I'm serious. In brief you need a market of "kinky people", and you need a market of people who wish to lose weight, stop smoking, or similar. You agree on challenges, you "punish" them if they fail, or succeed, on a case-by-case basis. Very hands on. But there are a subset of people who will be in your target audience who are extremely wealthy..
There's already an exercise equivalent. Google "Slavercise". Appears to have lasted a few years at least...