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1. Lelouche 🌸 (lelouchebag@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 10:13:08 JST Lelouche 🌸
   It's kinda fucked how they would use kids in pyramid schemes to sell stuff like knives and cookies to people and give them a cotton swab or whatever in return
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 10:13:04 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • _Syhmac :python:
     @lelouchebag @_syhmac I remember these when I was a kid. I don't remember why people did it, maybe fundraising for a school trip overseas or something?
     
     I recall the "prizes", where if you wanted the actual good shit, you had to sell a ludicrous amount. Like in the 20k to maybe 100k and you get one of those toy car kids can ride in... which are only about worth 200-500$ and you sold a magnitude amount of that more
   • Lelouche 🌸 (lelouchebag@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 10:13:05 JST Lelouche 🌸

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     • _Syhmac :python:
     @_syhmac Yeah it's been going on since I was a kid: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2000/10/25/should-kids-sell-door-to-door/
   • _Syhmac :python: (_syhmac@furries.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 10:13:07 JST _Syhmac :python:

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     @lelouchebag Is that real?

   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 10:14:31 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • _Syhmac :python:
     @lelouchebag @_syhmac seriously, I legitimately cannot believe that schools ever approved these
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 10:20:01 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • The Forbidden Dreamer
     • _Syhmac :python:
     @ForbiddenDreamer @_syhmac @lelouchebag Ours had prizes even on the low tier. I definitively recall my sister getting one of those plastic bird toy that balances on your finger. Of course, this was probably for something stupid like 50 to 200 bars too
   • The Forbidden Dreamer (forbiddendreamer@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 10:20:02 JST The Forbidden Dreamer

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     • _Syhmac :python:
     @coolboymew @lelouchebag @_syhmac I don't recall anyone actually ever getting one of the prizes to be honest, although I think everyone just went with the 1% of sales deposited to your school account or whatever.
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   • Lelouche 🌸 (lelouchebag@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 10:29:23 JST Lelouche 🌸

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     • _Syhmac :python:
     @coolboymew @ForbiddenDreamer @_syhmac I found some recent prizes and they haven't changed that much. This one guy managed to get every member of his extended family to buy a candle or whatever and got an RC car
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 10:30:22 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • _Syhmac :python:
     @lelouchebag @ForbiddenDreamer @_syhmac yeah, looks pretty crappy. They're probably buying this shit in bulk from unsold shit merchants too
   • Lelouche 🌸 (lelouchebag@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 10:33:10 JST Lelouche 🌸

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     • _Syhmac :python:
     @coolboymew @ForbiddenDreamer @_syhmac oh ok so light up badminton isn't good enough for you
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 10:36:31 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • _Syhmac :python:
     @lelouchebag @ForbiddenDreamer @_syhmac I legit lol'd
   • ooignignoktoo (ooignignoktoo@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 13:31:09 JST ooignignoktoo

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     • cool_boy_mew
     • _Syhmac :python:
     @coolboymew @lelouchebag @_syhmac
     
     When I was a kid we sold Yankee Candles in elementary school for door to door fundraising. It was a hard sell because the candles were expensive and it was a product mostly women would be interested in. Some kid I knew managed to somehow sell enough that he won one of those radio AM/FM analog portable tv's and everyone was kinda jealous of him because of it.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 13:31:33 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • ooignignoktoo
     • _Syhmac :python:
     @ooignignoktoo @_syhmac @lelouchebag whoa, that's kinda a nice prize
   • ooignignoktoo (ooignignoktoo@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 13:32:58 JST ooignignoktoo

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     • _Syhmac :python:
     @coolboymew @_syhmac @lelouchebag
     
     The best thing I ever won selling one was one of those chinese knock off 999 in 1 tiger handheld game machines that was shaped like an old nokia cellphone from the late 90's I had fun playing tetris on one but the audio was pretty bad.
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   • _Syhmac :python: (_syhmac@furries.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 21:38:29 JST _Syhmac :python:

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     • cool_boy_mew

     @coolboymew @lelouchebag WTF, that's such a scam?!

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