Facebook = Home Shopping Network?

So my SMWBO is now buying most of her clothes from people on Facebook. I admit, they look good on her (I'm a sucker for leggings) so I may be encouraging it a little. But the way it works is crazy, it is like an auction but with set prices. The sellers have Facebook "parties" (which makes no sense) where the seller sets up a webcam and shows off the stuff they have for sale. The "party attendees" tune in to the video and when something is displayed that they want, they type a comment to claim it.

I told my wife I should start one of these things for guys and car parts. I'll just walk around my garage and dig through my stuff. If you see a set of Ford Racing 4.6L plug wires, just claim it and I'll ship it out the next day. Jeep CJ-5 pitman arm? Sold. 1969 Mustang front fender? Sold, but you pick up.

Think it will work?

ha.

Yes, actually. and if you franchise the method to thousands of car guys, you will be a mill-on-air.

What you describe almost sounds kinky, like it could suddenly turn into another kind of webcam modeling.

I'm not sure if I want to buy, can you turn around again? Can you bend over easily without the material stretching too thin? Can I see that again? yessssss...

Got any Mopar, Mazda or SBC parts laying around your garage? I might just have to get a facebook account now...

Yes, I absolutely think it would work. Is your audience limited to just your "friends" on fb?

In reply to slefain:

Luelaroe is a trap. Beware.

My faceboof account is solely dedicated to buying/selling now. I'm on about a dozen different local cars/parts/racing stuff swap and sell pages, plus a few nerd stuff ones. It is the new craigslist, for everything.

No legging modeling though, that would be awkward. "Oooh, I like that HANS device, can you spin around with that again?"

Javelin wrote: "Oooh, I like that HANS device, can you spin around with that again?"

For some reason, that comment sent my mind to places that involved a Stig-like person and a porn movie.. ..

Me too.

dean1484 wrote:

Javelin wrote: "Oooh, I like that HANS device, can you spin around with that again?"

For some reason, that comment sent my mind to places that involved a Stig-like person and a porn movie.. ..

I think that was the subliminal message Javelin was trying to send...

Well it worked! Bow chika-bow-bow.

Degenerate.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

My wife would get on these "parties" to buy Lularoe leggings. It was unbelievable to me how many people were on and how fast they would sell stuff. There was a solid 3 month span where there was a new pair of leggings or a shirt being delivered at least 3 times a week.

In all seriousness, what is it with women on FB and the direct marketing "businesses"? I do not have many FB friends compared to most social media users, but a significant percentage of the women I know make periodic scripted posts trying to sell whatever specific product they signed up to push. It's a little bit annoying and I am often tempted to post really stupid comments, but that would just get their post in front of even more eyes, which is the point, so I don't.

I have not noticed this same trend with my male friends. Though the car salesman and real estate agents are similar...

mndsm wrote: In reply to slefain: Luelaroe is a trap. Beware.

No kidding. I draw the line at selling the stuff, that is a racket.

slefain wrote:

mndsm wrote: In reply to slefain: Luelaroe is a trap. Beware.

No kidding. I draw the line at selling the stuff, that is a racket.

Yeah, its like 10k just to sign up as a seller...

Many "franchises" work solely because when a hard-working middle class person plunks down their life savings on a franchise, they will work their fingers to the bone to make it successful. Usually that means the franchise owner ends up making much less than minimum wages after you calculate out their hours. The competitive advantage that these franchises then end up with is they have hard-working people who work for less than minimum wage.

It's an interesting loophole - how do you get people to work for less than minimum wage? Make them the "owners".

It is not new, but it does keep getting new disguises.

slefain wrote: So my SMWBO is now buying most of her clothes from people on Facebook. I admit, they look good on her (I'm a sucker for leggings) so I may be encouraging it a little. But the way it works is crazy, it is like an auction but with set prices. The sellers have Facebook "parties" (which makes no sense) where the seller sets up a webcam and shows off the stuff they have for sale. The "party attendees" tune in to the video and when something is displayed that they want, they type a comment to claim it. I told my wife I should start one of these things for guys and car parts. I'll just walk around my garage and dig through my stuff. If you see a set of Ford Racing 4.6L plug wires, just claim it and I'll ship it out the next day. Jeep CJ-5 pitman arm? Sold. 1969 Mustang front fender? Sold, but you pick up. Think it will work?

I think it would work. Only if fully clothed though.

There are tons of Facebook specific groups for car parts by brand/type. The DSM Classifieds page has over 20k people and parts are rock bottom cheap.

I made a lot of cash parting SVT Foci on the Focus Classified page as well. You just have to have thick skin because so many people bitch and moan for parting out a perfectly good (rusted basketcase) car.

slefain wrote:

mndsm wrote: In reply to slefain: Luelaroe is a trap. Beware.

No kidding. I draw the line at selling the stuff, that is a racket.

I put the lockdown on my wife buying Lularoe. After she dropped $100 on not that many articles of clothing and after I saw how crazy her and her friends were going for this stuff, I realized this was clothing version of heroin.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote:

slefain wrote:

mndsm wrote: In reply to slefain: Luelaroe is a trap. Beware.

No kidding. I draw the line at selling the stuff, that is a racket.

I put the lockdown on my wife buying Lularoe. After she dropped $100 on not that many articles of clothing and after I saw how crazy her and her friends were going for this stuff, I realized this was clothing version of heroin.

Its been going on for decades. Tupperware, am way, avon, Mary kay. Strange that at least two of those have significant presence in central florida.

In reply to mndsm:

A guy on the radio the called Florida the Ponzi scheme state. The place survives because new people move in to make a buck off of and that was why things like amway take off there. If you had a bit of carney in you it was easy to make a killing.

Wall-e wrote: In reply to mndsm: A guy on the radio the called Florida the Ponzi scheme state. The place survives because new people move in to make a buck off of and that was why things like amway take off there. If you had a bit of carney in you it was easy to make a killing.

I might have had a bit of me in a carny once, and now it burns when I pee. She did give me an extra ride on the spizzler though. Does that help?

Also. I'm a brilliant salesman, however- i refuse to sell on commission. I'd never survive a ponzi scheme.

Strangely I was discussing said schemes the other day with a friend. If you tell 5 people, and they tell 5 people, assuming therror are no duplicates, you will have told every single person on earth in 15 permutations.