Post by seanx on Jan 11, 2008 23:28:09 GMT -5
....This Just In....
A local entrepeneur has taken his self-started, ebay business to a new level. No longer will he be serving the local area and community, but his business is expanding to foregin vested business opportunites where unusual cultural artifacts and "trash" can be recycled through internet exposure to more civilized, money-rich consumers in more refined communities.
On Saturday, we were able to contact Jim " Big Jim " to get his perspective on this huge step forward for his business. On advice from his live-in girlfriend, we headed to the alleys of the Steelton/Highspire area and eventually caught up with the resale mogul while "dumpster-diving". We pulled up and to our astonishment out of a large green dumpster in the shadowy niches of an alley, a Dick-Dastardly-looking-mutha-fucka poked his shining noggin.......with treasue in hand.
As Big Jim nimbly crawled out of the green treasure trove, with sack in hand, it reminded this reporter of the Anti-Claus. In one hand were half-used bottles of hair straightener and the other grasping onto a fistful of soiled and still sticky magazines.
We asked Big Jim as he tumbled to the ground if we could ask him a few questions regarding the breaking news of his business. Always one for promotion and advertising, Jim took us up on the interview request:
US: Big Jim, can we ask you a few questions?
JIM: (putting out a cigarette, while smoke begins to waft out of dumpster behind him)....What do you want? I dropped my car keys in there...............I'm not doing anything illegal......
US: It's ok, we are here to find out about helpyousellstuff.com going global.
JIM: Oh, right. Yeah, we've been doing a lot of business locally and I've been noticing a trend in certain "cultural" products and I thought I would expand my business to searching dumpsters behind not only American food restaraunts, but also such places as Chinese and Italian like Olive Garden and things like that.....plastics are huge......any sort of authentic looking bottle or occassional panty....or old magazine ad.....
US: What did you find today?
JIM: (looking at hands) These hair straightener bottles are still nearly a third full......I can combine the contents and make about 7 bucks. And these are some old Playboy magazines, not old, but still have a few Anna Nicole photos in them, so they should go for over a buck 50....three of them so about 4.50. I crawl in a dumpster and wa-la, I made 11.50.
US: So what would you expect to find in a "cultural" dumpster?
JIM: I'm hoping something real big.......like an illegal alien hiding out who I can threaten or something.......you know someone to help me update my hbgonline.com site so I can juggle 2 empires at once......
US: Is that a police car coming.....?
JIM: (running towards car and lighting another cigarette)....hey thanks for the advert....I mean interview!.......Email me at hbgonline.com and I'll get back to you....I gotta run, I've got an interview with Mr. Hower for old cubscout gear...........
Contributing writers.......Dennis Buterbaugh and Tim Rasmus
A local entrepeneur has taken his self-started, ebay business to a new level. No longer will he be serving the local area and community, but his business is expanding to foregin vested business opportunites where unusual cultural artifacts and "trash" can be recycled through internet exposure to more civilized, money-rich consumers in more refined communities.
On Saturday, we were able to contact Jim " Big Jim " to get his perspective on this huge step forward for his business. On advice from his live-in girlfriend, we headed to the alleys of the Steelton/Highspire area and eventually caught up with the resale mogul while "dumpster-diving". We pulled up and to our astonishment out of a large green dumpster in the shadowy niches of an alley, a Dick-Dastardly-looking-mutha-fucka poked his shining noggin.......with treasue in hand.
As Big Jim nimbly crawled out of the green treasure trove, with sack in hand, it reminded this reporter of the Anti-Claus. In one hand were half-used bottles of hair straightener and the other grasping onto a fistful of soiled and still sticky magazines.
We asked Big Jim as he tumbled to the ground if we could ask him a few questions regarding the breaking news of his business. Always one for promotion and advertising, Jim took us up on the interview request:
US: Big Jim, can we ask you a few questions?
JIM: (putting out a cigarette, while smoke begins to waft out of dumpster behind him)....What do you want? I dropped my car keys in there...............I'm not doing anything illegal......
US: It's ok, we are here to find out about helpyousellstuff.com going global.
JIM: Oh, right. Yeah, we've been doing a lot of business locally and I've been noticing a trend in certain "cultural" products and I thought I would expand my business to searching dumpsters behind not only American food restaraunts, but also such places as Chinese and Italian like Olive Garden and things like that.....plastics are huge......any sort of authentic looking bottle or occassional panty....or old magazine ad.....
US: What did you find today?
JIM: (looking at hands) These hair straightener bottles are still nearly a third full......I can combine the contents and make about 7 bucks. And these are some old Playboy magazines, not old, but still have a few Anna Nicole photos in them, so they should go for over a buck 50....three of them so about 4.50. I crawl in a dumpster and wa-la, I made 11.50.
US: So what would you expect to find in a "cultural" dumpster?
JIM: I'm hoping something real big.......like an illegal alien hiding out who I can threaten or something.......you know someone to help me update my hbgonline.com site so I can juggle 2 empires at once......
US: Is that a police car coming.....?
JIM: (running towards car and lighting another cigarette)....hey thanks for the advert....I mean interview!.......Email me at hbgonline.com and I'll get back to you....I gotta run, I've got an interview with Mr. Hower for old cubscout gear...........
Contributing writers.......Dennis Buterbaugh and Tim Rasmus