21 Jun
2002
21 Jun
'02
7:49 a.m.
At 01:55 PM 6/20/2002 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
I bought the rather impressive looking set of "300
army men" or whatever
the number was only to be severely disappointed when I got them to find
they were cheap molded plastic bastards that were of majorly suckish
quality compared to the more durable and softer plastic variety you could
get from the grocery store toy section.
The route to success in any mail order business is
to pick a product that costs you less than you
charge the customer for shipping and handling.
My now 7-year-old son has long had a fantasy of building
a helicopter out of scrap wood. I decided to show him the
mail order page from "Boy's Life", which is still carrying
the same ads I remember for the build-your-own hovercraft,
and the "free chameleon."
- John