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cheerfullydrab posted:It's not an "idiot tax" and statements like that are classist as gently caress. Nah e: btw if "nerds" are the first people that come to mind who dismiss the lottery as a money black hole, maybe you spend too long around nerds and might be a nerd yourself 😱 hackbunny has a new favorite as of 13:52 on Aug 11, 2016 |
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Waffleman_ posted:I'd make a monthly mystery box that sends you an actual murder mystery to solve every month. I can do that. It might not be a very good mystery though. The answer is always "He got a parcel-bomb in the mail."
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Aug 11, 2016 10:31
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The Door Frame posted:
Sounds like you just answered your own question.
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Waffleman_ posted:I'd make a monthly mystery box that sends you an actual murder mystery to solve every month. Was it you
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Aug 11, 2016 11:43
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I'm gonna Kickstart my new idea which is a monthly service in which a burly teenager comes to your door, punches you in the neck, and takes your lunch money as payment. It's just as big a waste as all those other mystery crates only with less clutter.
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Aug 11, 2016 11:57
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can't you guys just subscribe to a patreon
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Aug 11, 2016 12:08
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Somebody write an app that downloads a random pic off Wikipedia every day and sends it to your printer and sends me a dollar at the same time please thanks.
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Aug 11, 2016 12:20
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There's something similar to the "murder mystery box" idea with The Mysterious Package Company. Depending on how much money you spend, you can sign up yourself to receive updates on current mysteries or you can sign up someone else to receive mysterious packages that put them in the middle of a Lovecraft-style supernatural horror story that ends with them receiving a personalized gift related to the story.
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Cakefool posted:Somebody write an app that downloads a random pic off Wikipedia every day and sends it to your printer and sends me a dollar at the same time please thanks. This...actually isn't a terrible idea. It would probably fly if you didn't reveal the source of the "random" images and only charged a quarter for each one. Maybe set it up to only shoot one a day to the printer and only during times when there isn't any other network activity. And definitely let it scan for unsecured networks and/or unsecured WiFi printers. Give it a lovely Web 2.0 name like "so.randm" and watch the quarters fly in 
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:This...actually isn't a terrible idea. It would probably fly if you didn't reveal the source of the "random" images and only charged a quarter for each one. Maybe set it up to only shoot one a day to the printer and only during times when there isn't any other network activity. And definitely let it scan for unsecured networks and/or unsecured WiFi printers. This and also post peoples' horrified reactions when they get photos of medical problems, injuries, executions, etc..
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BattleMaster posted:This and also post peoples' horrified reactions when they get photos of medical problems, injuries, executions, etc.. 
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I still don't quite understand how this thread evolved from making fun of bad marketing to suckers paying for badly printed jpegs of trains. Me neither
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I still don't quite understand how this thread evolved from making fun of bad marketing to suckers paying for badly printed jpegs of trains. When you gaze into the abyss... Superficially, Bobcat doesn't sound horrible. "Hey, for a small amount of money you'll be randomly sent some junk you don't care about. And because it's random there's a chance that it'll amuse and distract you for a few seconds as you try to figure out why you got it." And now it turns out that people are gaming the system which makes it terrible for the people drawn in but hilarious for those of us who weren't. Now I'm thinking I should set up my own "I'll print out this picture for you and mail it for $1 including shipping" ebay store and try to hit every key word Bobcat in a Box has. Maybe they have enough subscribers to make it worthwhile.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:46
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Guy Mann posted:From the makers of JustWorld Box comes GamblerFallacy Box: So many mystery boxes are complete ripoffs that surely the next one will have to be something good, right? I'm going to make Ripoff Box. It's literally just a $10 empty bix.
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Tiggum posted:Sounds like you just answered your own question. Yay me! ToxicSlurpee posted:I'm going to make Ripoff Box. It's literally just a $10 empty bix. You could totally get away with it, just say that every 500th box will contain $100 worth of something wacky, and you have a business model. Just make a program that generates random numbers for every address on your list, and send anyone who doesn't get 500 exactly a box of packing peanuts and a piece of paper with their number on it. Boom, that easy. It's especially tempting if you live in a state that produces things that are hard to get outside of that area, so people can't easily buy it themselves
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The Door Frame posted:You could totally get away with it, just say that every 500th box will contain $100 worth of something wacky, and you have a business model. Just make a program that generates random numbers for every address on your list, and send anyone who doesn't get 500 exactly a box of packing peanuts and a piece of paper with their number on it. Boom, that easy. So a numbers game, then.
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Phlegmish posted:Was it you No. Maybe.
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Are there really ebay sales now designed specifically to game BIAB? I'm kinda morbidly curious about the whole idea and want to hear more goon unboxing stories. I feel like if I were savvy with the positive and negative keywords (ie no print outs, post cards, beads, or food, and then yes to four or five interests/hobbies) I could start getting things I would say "yeah that's worth a buck to me."
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The Door Frame posted:Yay me! Better yet go the exceptionally lazy route and just put a $100 bill in 1/500 boxes.
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I just checked the mail and found the same diagram of a steam locomotive that the other goon got, so it looks like keywords don't matter and they're just sending everyone the same junk. I'm thinking about asking for a refund, possibly with the vague threat of filing a charge back, and seeing how that goes.
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Please keep us updated, I'm sure it'll go well for you.
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chitoryu12 posted:There's something similar to the "murder mystery box" idea with The Mysterious Package Company. Depending on how much money you spend, you can sign up yourself to receive updates on current mysteries or you can sign up someone else to receive mysterious packages that put them in the middle of a Lovecraft-style supernatural horror story that ends with them receiving a personalized gift related to the story. This actually seems really interesting, though I can't imagine it's quite as ... amazing as they write it up to be. It's like an ARG except without the game part.
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I can't believe that anyone is still being tricked by blindboxes
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Improbable Lobster posted:I can't believe that anyone is still being tricked by blindboxes the thread started talking about how much of a scam it was then decided they'd all go in on this particular one, its been amazing.
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this is one of my favorite threads to read in the entire forum
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Aug 11, 2016 23:46
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can you guys give me money instead?? I make good quality posts
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You've all been subscribing to my Post-in-a-box service for free for years. Time to pay up.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I still don't quite understand how this thread evolved from making fun of bad marketing to suckers paying for badly printed jpegs of trains. And it looks like the sort of thing you would get as a handout in a class. They paid for teaching materials.
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Guy Mann posted:No, they were rightfully making fun of you because you were calling the lottery an "idiot tax" which is some clasist dunning-kruger bullshit. The fact that you were so sore about it that you crawled back three weeks later just to launch a parting shot is hilarious, thanks for living up to everything your custom title promised about you as a person Stop being an imbecile playing the lottery and/or getting mystery boxes. People of all social strata buy lottery tickets and gamble, so your accusation of classism is as idiotic as your love for lotto. The dunning Kruger thing.. Yeah, I don't know Wtf you're talking about. Perhaps you should use the money wasted on idiotic boxes or the lottery in helping a charity. As someone else said, comparing lottery and bobcat box is not very smart. In the lottery you actually have an actual chance of winning; here goons actively spend their money on the promise of receiving poo poo every month, knowing that they'll throw it away. And I'm classist for thinking spending your money on generating waste is a bad idea? Yeah, gently caress you.
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I mean theoretically you can win the lottery, but I think we can all agree that with these box things nobody wins!
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:I mean theoretically you can win the lottery, but I think we can all agree that with these box things nobody wins! It's about the excitement of not knowing how exactly you'll get hosed. Stop your dunning Kruger classism please.
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LETS JUST SELL BOXES OF GARBAGE
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:I mean theoretically you can win the lottery, but I think we can all agree that with these box things nobody wins! The person selling them wins. 
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Non Serviam posted:Perhaps you should use the money wasted on idiotic boxes or the lottery in helping a charity. Why didn't you spend your sa register+plat+ avatar on charity instead of using that money to argue with people that are clearly below you
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The Door Frame posted:You could totally get away with it, just say that every 500th box will contain $100 worth of something wacky, and you have a business model. Just make a program that generates random numbers for every address on your list, and send anyone who doesn't get 500 exactly a box of packing peanuts and a piece of paper with their number on it. Boom, that easy.
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The weird thing about Bobcat is, as far as I can tell, the creators only keep the extremely negligible change left over from if a person stops receiving Bobcat things and has a few cents that didn't roll over or something. The money you've put into Bobcat isn't profit for anyone except for whoever listed train diagrams on eBay in the first place. This, of course, means putting crap up on eBay knowing that an innocent-minded robot susceptible to rudimentary SEO will spend cash on it is a brilliant move in marketing. Is there a way for you to look up exactly how much the bot spent on what you received? From the discussions in the thread I am betting they could have easily charged $5 for that printout, including shipping.
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DudeGoofyGuy posted:The weird thing about Bobcat is, as far as I can tell, the creators only keep the extremely negligible change left over from if a person stops receiving Bobcat things and has a few cents that didn't roll over or something. The money you've put into Bobcat isn't profit for anyone except for whoever listed train diagrams on eBay in the first place. This, of course, means putting crap up on eBay knowing that an innocent-minded robot susceptible to rudimentary SEO will spend cash on it is a brilliant move in marketing. Is there a way for you to look up exactly how much the bot spent on what you received? From the discussions in the thread I am betting they could have easily charged $5 for that printout, including shipping. I wonder who this mysterious whoever could be.... I suppose we will never know.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I wonder who this mysterious whoever could be.... I suppose we will never know. Bobcat creator SEO scamming his own service would be such a needlessly complicated and therefore brilliantly scandalous scheme, I don't know whether to love the idea or pity it.
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DudeGoofyGuy posted:Is there a way for you to look up exactly how much the bot spent on what you received? From the discussions in the thread I am betting they could have easily charged $5 for that printout, including shipping. Isn't part of the gimmick that each item costs $1 or less with free postage?
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