Business & Finance Ridiculous business ideas

[Coledinho]

Everyone nowaday seems to want to own a business. Alot of people like to create there own business. Here are just a few of the more idiotic ones ive come across

1. Prank your mates - Thats the name of the business. They charge $250 per prank and extra to video tape it. You can pick from a host of pranks they have available with one of the more popular choices being a visit from fake cops (surely thats illegal). This person actually makes money

2. Fillerup - Sounds sexy but it isnt. Pretty much this guy fills up peoples cars with fuel while its in the parking lot at work and comes aroud and charges people for it (5-10c extra per litre based on how many cars there). People actually pay for this

3. Electricsaver - Pretty much they come to your house with a watt gizmo and tell you how to save money on your power bill. Its a pretty simple concept really. TURN YOUR APPLIANCES OFF DOI

Any other examples of said ridiculous business ideas somehow working in todays world?

 

[smiddaz123]

If they're actually making a reasonable profit as you say, their idea can't be that idiotic. The people paying for the services though....

 

[lards]

this thread was probably stolen from another forum you fool.

 

[aaronm46]

a pizza place where you make your own pie

 

[Saint KFC]

BigFooty Platinum.

 

[Pavs Nose]

this thread was probably stolen from another forum you fool.

Hahaha

Im calling bullshit on this

2. Fillerup - Sounds sexy but it isnt. Pretty much this guy fills up peoples cars with fuel while its in the parking lot at work and comes aroud and charges people for it (5-10c extra per litre based on how many cars there). People actually pay for this

How does he open the fuel caps, its done from inside on most cars - therefore = bullshit.

 

[centrelink1]

Does anybody know if that 'pooper scooper' idea that Bobby gets involved with on King of the Hill is based off a real business?

 

[lards]

BigFooty Platinum.

Depends on your level of hatred for Chief, the most stable genius,'s banner adverts.

 

[HarryTiger]

Everyone nowaday seems to want to own a business. Alot of people like to create there own business. Here are just a few of the more idiotic ones ive come across

1. Prank your mates - Thats the name of the business. They charge $250 per prank and extra to video tape it. You can pick from a host of pranks they have available with one of the more popular choices being a visit from fake cops (surely thats illegal). This person actually makes money

South Park did something similar.

[Parental Revenge Center of Western America. Cartman prepares to lay out his plans for Stan and Butters. His cap is gone, as is the egg-shell chair.]

Cartman: Okay, Butters, let's start with you. I thnk I've found a great way to get revenge on your parents. Just... tell me if I'm going in the right direction here. [displays a few brochures and opens one] What we're going to do, Butters, is we're going to wait for your parents to leave the house, and then, smear all the walls... with poop.

Butters: Hwuhh. That'll make them awful sore.

Cartman: Now, I want you to take a look at some of these poop swatches. [displays some swatches with poop samples on them]

Butters: Poop- poop swatches?

Cartman: Poop comes in a lot of varieties, Butters. I wanna find the perfect one, tailored to your revenge on your parents.

Butters: Hey, that's neato, huh, Stan?

Cartman: Now, personally, I like the baby green. [switches to a new swatch] But I also think the classic brown would go nicely with your house.

Butters: Wow, Eh eh you sure are a p-professional, Eric! I don't know which swatch I like best.

Cartman: Well, y-you know what we could do, uh, uh Butters, is go with the baby green in the living room, and then maybe a classic brown, or even a nut-n-corn crunch in your parents' bedroom.

 

[lards]

haha south park is golden

 

[centrelink1]

Ed Edd & Eddy would probably be home to thousands of these ideas

 

[pezz]

Hahaha

Im calling bullshit on this

2. Fillerup - Sounds sexy but it isnt. Pretty much this guy fills up peoples cars with fuel while its in the parking lot at work and comes aroud and charges people for it (5-10c extra per litre based on how many cars there). People actually pay for this

How does he open the fuel caps, its done from inside on most cars - therefore = bullshit.

Im guessing he comes inside your work and gets your keys.....Then gets payed when he drops them back.

How about this guy.
1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel – that’s perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire.

http://milliondollarhomepage.com/

 

[pezz]

Ok, how’s that for a brilliant idea. Get a postal address at North Pole, Alaska, pretend you are Santa Claus and charge parents 10 bucks for every letter you send to their kids? Well, Byron Reese sent over 200000 letters since the start of the business in 2001, which makes him a couple million dollars richer.

http://www.santamail.org/

How would you like to go on a date with an HIV positive person? Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin thought that someone would, so they created a dating site for HIV positive folks last year. Projected 2006 sales are $110,000, and the two hope to have 50,000 members by their two-year mark.

http://positivesdating.com/

Create a deck of cards featuring exercise routines, and sell it online for $18.95. Sounds like a disaster idea to me. But former Navy SEAL and fitness instructor Phil Black reported last year sales of $4.7 million. Surely beats what military pays.

http://fitdeck.com/


People will truly buy anything

 

[Brad Goodman]

How would you like to go on a date with an HIV positive person? Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin thought that someone would, so they created a dating site for HIV positive folks last year. Projected 2006 sales are $110,000, and the two hope to have 50,000 members by their two-year mark.

http://positivesdating.com/

I like this one. Of course HIV people are going to want to date other HIV people (unless they are one of those nasty folks who infect others for fun), it's not like you will get any HIVer by rooting them.

 

[pezz]

Time to start stalking some hiv hotties

http://www.positivesdating.com/sections/profiles/profile.asp?mem_id=21869

 

[premiers06]

I remember seeing in Queensland a guy had a business in changing light bulbs.

Do not ever underestimate the stupidity of the consumer

 

[DB10]

my best mate and I have been talking about opening "Random Burger" for years.

it's the fast food where you get something totally random and unusual on your burger.

 

[lards]

my best mate and I have been talking about opening "Random Burger" for years.

it's the fast food where you get something totally random and unusual on your burger.

put one on hindley st and watch your business soar.

 

[Smoooothy]

one of my mates came up with an idea while he was living at a dorm while going to uni

the idea was reading bedtime stories to uni aged girls, for $5 a story

was going swimingly until he was propositioned by a fat chick (think casey donovan), and he never did it again after that. but he was nailing some quality until his demise

 

[getthefooty]

How about this guy.
1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel – that’s perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire.

http://milliondollarhomepage.com/

Actually, that is a genius idea. The proof is in the pudding.

 

[DB10]

put one on hindley st and watch your business soar.

well that Hungry George store is still empty ...

and who wouldn't want to eat the Gummie Bears Burger?

 

[clivewaterhousen]

an ebay store where they auction your things on ebay for you.

suits for women.

 

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