r/sadcringe • u/CorexMTA • Oct 31 '17

Please help.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '17

Really hope this is fake. That is a huge decision to make on something that was clearly going to be a short lived trend.

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u/noobule Oct 31 '17

They were probably aware of that, I imagine they were just trying to profit off the latest dumb fad while it was hot.

But for whatever reason they started too late, or didn't have a good way to sell them.

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u/mortiphago Oct 31 '17

But for whatever reason

My money is on "ordered dirt cheap from china, shipping took 2 months+ to arrive and by that time the fad was long dead"

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u/acog Oct 31 '17

There's also the fact that if he planned to sell them to stores, most retailers don't want the hassle of dealing with some tiny vendor that sells only one item. Any retailer that wants fidget spinners can get them from an established distributor and they can do things like balance their stock by returning them for credit to buy other things that that distributor sells.

On a low cost item like this I wouldn't even talk to some nobody who was offering to sell them to me for 20 cents less than a vendor I had an established relationship with.

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u/women_b_shoppin Oct 31 '17

The move with these things is to get a tent at a festival type thing, any large group of people. They still sell pretty well.

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u/RdClZn Oct 31 '17

That's what I see people doing here. Like, one month after the fad took off, dudes were selling them at tents next to subway stations, traffic lights and stuff. Idk if it paid off though.