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What type of product or service were they selling?

A calendar for cutting your hair according to the phases of the moon.

Sounds like a tough business. The profit margins must have been razor thin.

Jokes aside, the guy made an impressive amount of money with this.

I should have charged him a percentage. Even if I had charged 0.5%, I would have made more money.

Retail customers or B2B? What was stopping you from starting a similar business, but different product category?