How to sell fear for $1,000,000...

Throughout history fear has been a good market and sold well, propaganda and religion come to mind.

This has never been more apparent than during the last 12 years, starting with 9/11 and ending with people killing themselves over Mayan end of the world, the end being here with Obama being reelected and guns selling out faster than pumpkin spice coffee during Halloween.

Meet the man that capitalized on this with his Grovel.

http://pifeed.com/post/meet-the-entrepreneur-behind-the-apocalypses-the-man-who-sold-the-end-of-the-world/

That’s Tim Ralston, 49, apocalypse salesman of the year. Before he put a shotgun in the trunk of my car, blindfolded me, and took me to this undisclosed location two-plus hours from Phoenix, he invented the tool we’re throwing. This one product has helped him make more than a million dollars in 2012 selling to people who think America — or the entire world — is at risk of collapse.

The Crovel ($109.99) was conceived as a survival tool for the mashup age, a Swiss Army cudgel that could make Switzerland seem fearsome: half-crowbar, half-shovel, all testosterone. But as the device has gotten more profitable, it has also gotten more violent. There are now 11 other tools packed in there: axe and saw blades on opposite sides of the shovelhead, a hammer, “zombie spikes,” the usual. What began as a utility is now a weapon.

Very long but well written article. Worth the read.

I like it!

I could pull down dead locust branches from my surrounding woods, market/sell them, and those would be dubbed weapons in this day and age.

It’s nothing really new, I have an original VNW era military version of that, just has a spade shovel handle on it instead of a “weapon like” prybar hook. collapses down and fits into a small sack pouch less than 10" square. Used to have one that the handle became a military red/white flashlight too but that grew legs and walked off one day :shifty

and to add…good for this guy(seriously, no sarcasm) nice that he found a legitimate way to market and make seven figures without doing something illegal.

ban this now i heard that someone is planning a killing spree with it…

Boxer nailed it, this is nothing but a tacticool version of a regular folding military shovel dating back a good 70+ years now. Except it’s shit because you can’t even fold it as small as the actual military shovels, and costs three times as much. Cudos to they guy for a making a fortune off of it, wish I would come up with something like that.

gtr’s, twinkies, ar-15’s, grovels

In that order? You keep changing shit around and it’s fucking with my head :ahh

Band Violent videogames I hear this was inspired by nazi zombie mode!