How to earn profit with a dead comp.

[avdven]

A metaphor for how to make money off of an old, broken down computer.
(Also interesting to any business people/majors out there)

A city boy, Kenny, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.

The next day the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the donkey died."

Kenny: "Well then, just give me my money back."

Farmer: "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."

Kenny: "OK then, just unload the donkey."

Farmer: "What ya gonna do with him?"

Kenny: "I'm going to raffle him off."

Farmer: "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!"

Kenny: "Sure I can. Watch me. I just won't tell anybody he is dead."

A month later the farmer met up with Kenny and asked, "What happened with that dead donkey?"

Kenny: "I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece and made a profit of $898.00."

Farmer: "Didn't anyone complain?"

Kenny: "Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back."

I got this in an e-mail, but you can find it online HERE

AJ

[sumdumguy]

LOL..

let's see.. I have about 15 old xt/at/386/486 boxes..

and if i had a raffle.. i could fleece the folks and then when the cops came to
my door, I could just say.. oh.. "avdven said it was ok.."

gimmie your address and phone number buddy.. just in case..

[Suppoko]

thats funny, and someplace in middle america i bet its happened

[Joey_Batch_File]

So, I could post a raffle for an HP Pavilion 6360 in like new condition. So, then everyone thinks they could win a PC. Make $300, and get rid of an outdated 133MHz system. Nothing illegal about that, I never listed the specs, and it works fine. I'm running XP Pro on it as we speak...

[hollow_man]

A nice one.
If u wanna sell ur old type writer, u can say that u r selling a crash proof word processor at 100$. No one can't complain as u didn't lie.

[wardtech]

I had a typewriter that crashed all the time.

If I typed too fast the little metal hammers would collide and jam up.

[aeallison]

Originally posted here by wardtech
I had a typewriter that crashed all the time.

If I typed too fast the little metal hammers would collide and jam up.

Great reply, wardtech, I just woke up the wife laughing at your response...whahahaha!!

Funny because I had one of those too, I probably sold it to you, I am in middle america...lol

[Sosodef]

hey avdven,
Good one there,
guess what? adven i got a donkey for sale, are you gonna buy it? just for the price of $xxx.

lol, just kidding, i like that.

[Quiller1101]

Bit of an old chestnut. You'll find it in one of PG Wodehouse's books. As far as I recall, that one used a greyhound as the base animal.

[Gurl]

It just goes to show you that it never hurts to make the best of what you have.....even if it is a dead donkey! lol

Good one, AJ.