Uh, not exactly. Todd Graves (who is a genuine success story) actually worked long hours for months as a commercial fisherman in Alsaka and as a boilermaker in refineries in California to put together sufficient seed capital that would allow him to secure an SBA loan. A bit more commitment than selling some chicken at LSU football games.
Okay, that approach makes sense. For that matter the Ebay stuff would be a good “time filler” during the months you can’t cut grass.
But may I respectfully ask for some punctuation? I was out of breath by the time I got to the end of the huge block of text.
Oh yeah I’ve heard the fishing story, he almost named the place “Sockeyes” forgot about that, sorry.
I reopened this thread with the admonition that you keep it on topic. This thread was originally about opening a train store… NOT about making a go of mowing lawns or selling fried chicken. Keep it on topic, or it will be closed down again.
Aye aye captain!
It’s actually originally about selling trains online but same difference.
We will try to keep it on topic.
I have been where you are in summer. So in the topic at hand, you can e-bay during your afternoon break. Parts are much eisier now as the post office will pick up packages and you can do postal weighing and stamping from your house also.
I can do the stamping/weighing at home but I will still have to go to the post office because the rural carrier lady is nuts, theres a story there, we live next door to my mom’s parents and if we would get a package addressed to us she would deliver it to my grandparents, which is good and fine but then they would open it and not tell us we had a package till like a week later, we tried telling the mail lady to not do that she wouldn’t, so now we have a P.O. box. My grandparents now have a P.O. box too because the mail lady thought they should pave around the mailbox, which no one else has done, so she is bit “postal”[(-D]
You know they have a number to report that kind of stuff. She broke federal law with some of that.
So, NWP SWP, what did you decide? Will you start small, and grow? Or will you try to sell with goods you can pick up at train shows, sell on EBay and build from there? Inquiring minds want to know!
Neal