8 terrible business ideas you tried to implement

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

From a secretive bar to a shrimp trade.

A new interesting one has appeared on Reddit. In it, users talk about unsuccessful business ideas that their friends or relatives have tried to bring to life. We chose the most interesting stories.

1 … “I used to work for a company that supplied ink to printers. Since digital printing was already widely established at that time, this type of ink was not used by very many printers, so there was a lot of competition between suppliers.

One of the technicians somehow managed to climb the corporate ladder despite having no business experience. He was given the task of focusing on increasing profits rather than finding new clients. And his brilliant idea was to loosen ink pigmentation so that our customers would have to buy more materials to work with.

Surprisingly, the customers didn't like it. They went to competitors, and we stayed afloat for less than a year , -

2 … “A friend of mine once won £ 400,000 in the lottery and decided to invest in a business. He bought two tanning salons nearby and decided he would have a monopoly. But then he decided that the salons should compete with each other. As a result, the managers of both establishments reduced prices in order to get more clients, and ruined it in six months,"

3 … “Once we were walking with a guy around the city and saw a place called Banana Pudding. We thought that there are probably desserts and other flavors there - can't they sell just one product in the store? There was only banana on display, but we thought it was just branding. We went in and asked for chocolate pudding - the seller answered that there was no such thing. Caramel? Also missing. It turned out that they really only sell banana.

Of course, this is not a deceptive advertisement, but how can a business last without offering any variety? Not surprisingly, when we walked along the same street a month or two later, this store was no longer there,”

4 … “Someone thought it would be a good idea to open a dance club in our northern Canadian town and have a dress code. Here are only 90% of the population - merchants and miners who wear nothing but work clothes and heavy boots. The institution closed in six months , -

5 … “My father-in-law drove 18 hours to Florida to catch shrimp, stuff his whole car with them, and then drive back. He sold only a couple of bags to his friends, and it took several days to vacuum the entire cabin before the fallen shrimp began to deteriorate, and the car then smelled of seafood for several more years."

6 … “A bar opened in our city, the entrance to which was kept secret. In honor of the opening, they advertised in a newspaper but declined to give an address. They closed in a couple of weeks”, -

7 … “In 2005, my friend's father decided to open a hall with arcade machines in our small town. He bought machines battered by life and chose a place not far from the school … but to reach it, he had to walk past a large and popular hall with vending machines, where they also sold food."

8 … “An acquaintance with whom I go karate decided to become a handyman - to offer help at any time of the day or night, fix plumbing and all that. Sounds good: take out a loan, buy a used truck, buy tools, and pay for your phone so that you can be contacted, right?

No. He decided to ride a bike and use clients' tools to fix it, and had to be contacted by email to make an appointment, even though the case was in 2006. Of course, if someone has a pipe burst in the middle of the night and water rushes to the ceiling, he will write a letter to the master to come by bicycle and fix the breakage with tools that are not available in every home”, -