Seed Sellers Comic Ads: Was It a Scam?
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
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It wasn't a scam. The problem is it requires you as a child to be a harassing door-to-door salesman. It also took massive sales to get the points to get anything.
I also wonder if all of the kids lived in rural areas. I can't imagine any of the testimonials being delivered by children living in the big city! That would also explain why they were all WHITE, Junkman!
Put that Kool aid down! Kool aid is for closers only.
I cut lawns. Old people hated cutting theirs lawns. They treated me good and I made good money. Just take a couple of my afternoons a week and I had a bunch of money.
Old people hate cutting lawns and admire the hustler spirit (or whatever they'd call it) in kids.
I mowed many lawns then graduated to mowing pastures with a tractor. All that heat & sweat but nothing like the satisfaction of completion and a few bucks in the pocket.
My parents made it a condition of my existence in the household at age 8. I didn't want to mow any other lawns. My dad probably would have charged me an inflated price for gas anyway...
I remember similar ads for selling Grit newspaper. I never actually saw Grit anywhere, just the ads.
I sold Grit!
@@ThatJunkmanthat's awesome, J-Man!
I did the 100 Revolutionary War soldiers mailaway in 76 or so, before Star Wars came out! First mailaway offer that i engaged with. 100 very teeny tiny Revolutionary War soldiers! Those ones that did not disappear I sold off in 1994 or so.
if it's on the back of a vintage Star Wars comic, it must be true.
Bucktooth Chipper lol
😁
All of these comic book ads usually were, the pet monkey one (saw an interesting video about it on here, it’s worth checking out), the spaceship which was just a bunch of cardboard pieces fitted together and fell apart in the rain and barely lasted a week, the x-ray specs that never worked and the sea monkeys, which were just brine shrimp.
It prepared you for life really. So many of those you knew couldn't be real but what's the catch?
Grow your hair back, lose weight quick, It's the same kind of thing sold by the same kind of people. Hurry up, supplies are limited!
we used those shrimp in Zoology class in high school. It was an interesting experiment.
Count Dante's ads allowed me to learn the deadly art of Dim Mak and join the most dangerous fake organization ever...The Black Dragon Fighting Society.
@reptomicus I think I remember that one 😂
As A kid I never did this
I remember being 6 or 7, and I didn't believe in those ads.
My mom used to literally "pimp me out" for yard work for her friends and associates before I could get a job . She grew up in poverty and was convinced that everyone else did too. If a friend of hers paid me 20 bucks to mow a very large lawn ,because her friend "was on a pension" and 20 bucks was too much .She would make me give 50% of it back.
Really didn't help my self-esteem.
When I was 12 I was selling candy door to door in my neighborhood. People want candy more than seeds.
cicada: "best thing about selling American Seeds...."
Gilligan needed a boat, not a bike!
06:29 no lie, i now live in buddy's old famous trailer.
....he is a schmuck, he still owes me seeds. he promised they where ramen seeds, grow my own ramen he said! ... i ordered chicken flavor.
I sold these seeds and also greeting cards. I paid $5 to the paperboy for a list of his tippers and focused only on them. I made $30 first time and many more times after that
All those kids need to go on tour together at comic con
I think the girl in second picture puked on my backpack!
I always wondered about these offers.
"Should I sell MY seed?"
I was never the type to go door-to-door and do any pushing and pulling.
Even saving up Kool-Aid points seemed to take years to have enough to get a bike or a nice denim jacket.
I think I'd rather just buy it outright istead of saving Kool-Aid points for a decade or so.
And remember, money doesn't grow on trees, but money does.
Thanks for the video
Should I sell my seed 😂🤣😂
Comment near the end............and what's wrong with that?
I'm sure there was a route to success here, probably taught the salesman spirit to a select few. Good luck selling seeds in NYC though.
It reminds me of those awful school fundraisers selling candy. It doesn't matter what you do, some kid's parents are going to take the list to the factory and lap you 2000 times.
Knock knock, g'day sir, would you take pity on me and buy this chocolate for $5.00?
- "Would you like to buy some candy?"
- "Frig Off Kid! DOOR SLAM!"
Junkman, one of these days, you have to do one of your good research videos on that Pepsi Cola contest where they were giving away a Harrier jet. That, to me, is still one of the funniest stories I've ever heard. And, it's all true!
I don’t remember seeing the ads. But I do remember the ads for x-ray glasses, always wanted them. r
Dang, Junkman! I always wondered if a single person on Earth sold Grit! Now I know! Sounds like you would have been better off selling grits door to door, though.
Me and a friend used to wash cars or collect leafs of gardens for 50p-£1 ( remember this was back in the late 1970s so 50p for example went a very long way unlike today)
One address which we badgered for work had a small shed on their backgarden where their son stored alot of his toys (wierd parents)
On two occasions the owners of the house let us clear the leafs away. The second time, they went out and left us to it. :) oh boy, the toys in that in that tiny shed lol
I left with a metal Pirate pistol that fired caps. Can't recall what my friend took. And then a few weeks later we let another kid know about that alladins cave of goodies (to cover our backs) He nipped around on the day that they were out with us on lookout. We kept winding him up with "oh no, they're back" in the end though when we did spot their car returning he ignored us and got caught in the act with an Action Man lol. He explained his presence on their property as him just checking everything was neat & tidy lol
He ran off leaving a vapour trail with a red face. Never saw that kid again
I take it your career in petty crime didn't flourish. If I was a child detective hired to crack the case of the missing pirate pistol, it wouldn't take long.
Just to clarify here that our prank was revenge. The boy who lived at that address would turn up on our street and take a corgi car or anything left on my parents front drive.
He'd then go off with it and flatten it before returning it. He was in higher class at school and him and his parents thought they were posh compared to me and the other guys of same age.
The kid in question later went on to university, became a doctor and then sadly took his own life at around the age of 40. Before this he had the expensive house/car/lifestyle
Money can't buy everything. It seems it didn't help this individual. I'm so sorry to hear about that kid/young man/doctor you knew.
Yeah I missed the boat on that one I just had a crummy news paper route 😓
Tangent: i recently got a 3d printer from china of course. There were a few seeds purposefully placed among the components. Is this a good luck token? An invasive species to take over the country? Perhaps some chinese magic?
I want to plant them. Honestly, I will be disappointed if there's no beanstalk & magic anime girls in my future
Ooo magic anime girls!
That'll get the ol' beanstalk goin'! 😍
"Cold showa!" 😓
Dude, that's awesome! If you plant them, try to let us know what grows 🙂
I was a bagboy at Winn-Dixie making $4.25 an hour in 1995. On a really good day, I made $12 in tips on an 8-hour day. If you remembered to keep the watermelon under the bread (don't squish the bread!), you were good. I never tried out the comic backpage stuff. I figured it was a scam back then.
I really wanted the dang sea monkeys, though...
Sold the Greeting cards with same type promotions and scored much swag. 😊
Some say you gotta make money in order to succeed or is it the other way around 😂🤣😂 The American people want these seeds... 🙈🙉🙊 I still have those comics, but didn't remember what's on the back until now. I didn't do it, but tried the candy sales thing, it was just okay.
Great video man. Love this stuff! E.S.P!
I’d pay good money for a real GRIT. 😅
HaS the Star Wars book giveaway already happened??? Did I miss something? Who won?
No. Will be soon.