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Does anyone else find this annoying?

  • 06-10-2005 8:11pm
    #1
    cregser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 999 ✭✭✭


    I haven't heard about this before (maybe everyone else has) but some guy in England has made a website entirely devoted to advertising. Advertisers buy a tiny space on his homepage in the hope that people will come to the site... just to look at advertisements. Here's the part I find annoying, the guy has made $288,300 from this idea... IT'S SO STUPID!!!

    - The story on Sky News
    - The actual website

    He hopes to make $1million from this, which sounds ridiculous, like WTF has he done? But he's 1/4 of the way there. I mean fair f**ks to him. But if such a stupid idea can make you a millionaire... uh... Why does anyone bother working?

    There have been other ideas in the last year or so were people sold advertising space on their bodies and auctioned it on eBay, which I thought was kind of inventive. But this is... just... stupid. I'm gonna have to get brainstorming now.


Comments

  • #2
    Endurance Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    Hahahha, thats brilliant :D . Lots of people make millions of the dumbest ideas, we just have to live with it and hope 1 day we come up with something stupid that even idiotic people fall for.


  • #3
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-304547.html

    I dont mind it at all


  • #4
    Jimi-Spandex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭Jimi-Spandex


    If it's such a stupid idea, how come he has 250k+ and you haven't got squat? :)


  • #5
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    cregser wrote:
    Why does anyone bother working?

    Because not everybody can think of ideas as good as that...

    It's a brilliant idea, and fair play to him.


  • #6
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Fair play to him, but money isn't everything.


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  • #7
    cregser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 999 ✭✭✭cregser


    I'm starting in my first full-time job on Monday and I worked out it would take me around 10yrs to earn what he has in about 1 and a half months. And I've finished college while he's starting, and we're the same age. He's 4 years slow but soon to be $1mil richer! Once again, fair f**ks to him. He had the balls to follow through on his idea. But FFS!

    One add on his site says "Even Monkeys Fall Off Trees". Even though it tells you nothing about the product, whoever it was payed this guy $4,000 just to show it. I'm jealous. Jealous that he's appealed to the eedjits out there with money to burn.


  • #8
    penguinbloke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭penguinbloke


    And then he get's more traffic from people posting links when giving out about the site.

    I'm fighting the urge to click the link as I type.

    Watch out for advertisers,
    Don't play their game....


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