FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for March 18, 2021

Jason’s got you there, Roger.

But there’s advertising, manufacture, and distribution.

I prefer the underwear gnome version.

which is easier – sell 1 product for $1m, or 1m products for $1 ?

P.T. Barnum way underestimated the birth rate.

Place in the personal section of several large metropolitan newspapers: Send $1.00 to PO Box 10783 blah blah. See how much you rake in.

Dad you have to create a product and get customers to buy into.

When I see these schemes, I always ask myself, if this is such a wonderfully easy get-rich-quick method, why is the guy selling it instead of just using it to get rich quickly. Jason hit on the answer.

Like I said earlier in the week, this is all you need to know about get rich quick infomercials.

This is funny AND true! There are so many stupid consumers, they deserve to lose their money.

Years ago, I remember something similar. The ad read to learn how to make money at home send $1 and they would send you information. So the information said to post an ad in the paper and tell people to send you $1.

Is Rodger really THAT THICK? I get that his character isnt the brightest but seriously

But that’s a bad example. That would require 5002 buyers.

Reminds me of when I was a kid. There was the guaranteed roach killer. Two blocks of wood and the instructions, “Place roach on block A, smack sharply with block B.”

P.T. Barnum would appreciate the hordes of people willing to pay thousands of dollars to attend seminars teaching the secret of how to be so wealthy that you have to go around the country teaching seminars to hordes.

I can’t quite make out the copyright date, but this was some time in the 90s, when people were making quite a bit of money selling four letters for $10 each.

OMG people it’s a comic

I only remember sending away for two things from those “back-of-the-magazine” ads. One was for a lot of miscellaneous stamps from around the world, sort of a stamp-collecting “jump-start”. The other was a “device” that would allow you to throw your voice. I did get a bunch of stamps from around the world, as advertised. The device only allowed me to make a sort of buzzing noise, a rip-off.

Ouch

Plus shipping and handling.

my favorite was when the 5 1/4 floppy was king, Double the size of your floppy. Turned out to be a paper punch.

Do you want to receive a blessing …? We personally pray over each and every check you send.

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