“The Easiest Business That Really Makes Money on the Internet!”
Veteran rare and out of print book dealers who have struggled for decades trying to make their monthly nut, acquire new stock, sell books and earn a profit will be dumbfounded to learn that we’ve been doing it all wrong yet deeply thankful that salvation is at hand.
But, aside from an annual income that 95% of rare, used and out of print book dealers can only dream about, a civilian may ask: What are the big advantages to entering this exciting, fast-paced and glamorous trade that the glitterati would just die to be involved in if only they were aware of the fabulous opportunities that awaited them?
Yet the dubious – let’s call them “dubes”- will grumble, “What’s so great about this kind of business?”
“STOP and let me count them…
• Sales come through existing online bookselling portals!
• You do NO SELLING (all you do is “list” books for sale)!
• Work at home!
• Watch the kids, play golf or take a nap while the business keeps working for you!
• Your store is open 24/7 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) without you!
• Your store keeps selling, even while you sleep!
• If you want, you don’t even need to leave your home for supplies, inventory or sales!
• No worries about not getting paid (you get paid BEFORE you ship a book)!
• No running to the bank to cash checks (using online payment methods like PayPal, 2CO, etc.
• No book theft (physical stores have BIG problems-you won’t)!
• Your store is online so you don’t have to baby-sit the merchandise!
• You don’t need to leave your day job (until you’re ready)!”
Well, by golly, where do I sign up? I’ve been looking all my life for a job I can phone-in while lying in bed reading the newspaper’s financial pages to see how my vast portfolio of equities is doing, a portfolio fertilized and watered with the ocean of cash that floods into my direct-deposit bank account every day like a tsunami.
For the answer to your prayers, log on to BookFortune.com, where Doug Dillard, an internet “money guru,” will, for a $79 download (“Today only $39.95),” provide you with a 153 page manual, two hours and twenty minutes of MP3 audio lessons, and a Special Bonus: A rare thirty-three minute interview with a “widely recognized marketing expert in the used and rare book business” that neither I or anyone else in the business I’ve asked has ever heard of.
Clearly, I’m a dube. But…
“Would you walk down the street and not stop if you saw a $100 bill sitting on the ground? Of course you wouldn’t… but I guarantee you have walked past used books at yard sales, estate sales or even in used book stores that were worth $100 or more, maybe even $1,000’s that you could have purchased for a few dollars or less!
“STOP walking past FREE MONEY! Books are everywhere and almost NO ONE knows they are valuable! “With this kind of business you don’t have to operate it full-time! You can do it part time. When you’re out and about keep an eye out for used books, pick them up for pennies and sell them in your leisure for $100’s, maybe even $1,000’s!”
O.K., Doug, I’m sold! I’m trading in my dube duds for rube robes! Rush your road to riches dream-scheme for suckers to me post-haste! A hobby turned into a hassle of a career with long hours, intense capital needs, frequent cash-flow crises, constant hustling – who needs it? I’m going to quit my job as a rare book dealer to enter the effortless and lucrative world of rare book dealing!