Potato Salad Doing Well on Kickstarter

r3p1v · Jul 8, 2014

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ard555 · Jul 8, 2014

There's an interesting chapter in the Everything is Bullshit book where they talk about an app that got removed from the app store because it was more than 900 bucks and had nothing more than a glowing gem image that said if you looked at you would become rich.

A lot of people actually bought it despite how ludicrous it is and if I remember the chapter correctly, some people even actively demanded the right to buy an app with no function.

Karl Marx was mostly a fuck up and the reason why his silly books have led to such much pain and suffering since he published them is that he forgot one very important thing:

The most important pleasure on earth is the pleasure of exchange, especially when the medium of exchange is something that you've bled sweat on in order to have the privilege of spending.

I believe that it is the simple pleasure of spending that explains shenanigans like these. It really doesn't matter what it is. We all have some version of this stupid potato salad or a dumb ass gem app that we toss cash at with glee.

And if you don't ...

What manner of creature are you, Tinkerbell?

icestationzebra · Jul 8, 2014

dzianis · Jul 8, 2014

I love everything about this - the marketing, the virality, the birth of a meme, the raised money, - this is how you do shit.

titanium777 · Jul 8, 2014

Am I missing something? It doesn't seem like he did any superb marketing.

It almost seems like a troll, like those amazon wolf shirts that get 5/5 stars:

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mountain-Three-Short-Sleeve/dp/B002HJ377A"]Amazon.com: The Mountain Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeve Tee: Clothing[/ame]

CCarter · Jul 8, 2014

Back at $41K

ShadowCaster · Jul 8, 2014

titanium777 said:
It almost seems like a troll, like those amazon wolf shirts that get 5/5 stars:

Amazon.com: The Mountain Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeve Tee: Clothing

It's no troll, that shirt cured my cancer.

RAZE1 · Jul 8, 2014

mattseh said:
How is this not marketing?

Because there was no marketing effort involved? This spread completely organically and as is growing as it's picked up by news sources.

Kiopa_Matt · Jul 8, 2014

Well, the potato salad is now up to $57,492.

Thank fuck for that. I was almost beginning to lose my faith in humanity for a moment...

Vadym · Jul 9, 2014

RAZE1 said:
Because there was no marketing effort involved? This spread completely organically and as is growing as it's picked up by news sources.

you mean a bunch of people spread this via social networks cuz it created a buzz?

Viral marketing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

mattseh · Jul 9, 2014

Vadym said:
you mean a bunch of people spread this via social networks cuz it created a buzz?

Viral marketing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's best when it looks like you've done nothing at all. I call it "Cartering".

RAZE1 · Jul 9, 2014

Vadym said:
you mean a bunch of people spread this via social networks cuz it created a buzz?

Viral marketing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just because something spreads virally doesn't necessarily mean someone set out with that in mind. Not everything people talk about or share is the result of marketing.

Kiopa_Matt · Jul 9, 2014

I love the people who act as if there's some genius marketing strategy behind this, and as if they know something the rest of us don't. Bull -- shit.

If you know the marketing strategy behind making something like this go viral, then why aren't you in the boardroom of Coca-Cola, Ford, Nike, or whoever, selling yourself for millions?

kingofsp · Jul 9, 2014

Just pledged $20. Thanks for the link, OP.

tangy · Jul 9, 2014

Kiopa_Matt said:
I love the people who act as if there's some genius marketing strategy behind this, and as if they know something the rest of us don't. Bull -- shit.

If you know the marketing strategy behind making something like this go viral, then why aren't you in the boardroom of Coca-Cola, Ford, Nike, or whoever, selling yourself for millions?

Posted this in another thread, I'll leave it here as well.

poonpossum · Jul 9, 2014

The PS now is backed at $70,615

What the actual fuck?

Furthermore, this guy is planning in sending "bites" of his potato salad through international post. I wonder if he is aware of the repercussions of such a plan.

I'm no expert, but I would imagine that if some stupid bogan type attempted to bring a bowl of freshly prepared potato salad through an airport, they would be hit with a $250 quarantine fine and get their stupid face on Border Security for all of the world to laugh at.

This guy will face some serious quarantine violation, probably have to go to court and wish that he just tried swindle Facebook through fake accounts instead.

The good thing about this is that he still thinks he is being funny, genuinely doing no harm and has inadvertently stumbled upon the most ridiculous gold mine.

"What are you in for cowboy?"

"Oh, not a lot, I just sent over 10,000 bites of fresh potato salad to 10,000 international addresses"

"How unfortunate, now bend over"

JoeFerguson · Jul 9, 2014

I'm not sure I'd say he's some marketing genius for stretching such a menial concept into 10s of thousands of dollars, but he does deserve SOME credit.

We're all here on an internet marketing forum talking about it at least aren't we?

-joe- · Jul 9, 2014

poonpossum said:
The PS now is backed at $70,615

What the actual fuck?

Furthermore, this guy is planning in sending "bites" of his potato salad through international post. I wonder if he is aware of the repercussions of such a plan.

I'm no expert, but I would imagine that if some stupid bogan type attempted to bring a bowl of freshly prepared potato salad through an airport, they would be hit with a $250 quarantine fine and get their stupid face on Border Security for all of the world to laugh at.

This guy will face some serious quarantine violation, probably have to go to court and wish that he just tried swindle Facebook through fake accounts instead.

The good thing about this is that he still thinks he is being funny, genuinely doing no harm and has inadvertently stumbled upon the most ridiculous gold mine.

"What are you in for cowboy?"

"Oh, not a lot, I just sent over 10,000 bites of fresh potato salad to 10,000 international addresses"

"How unfortunate, now bend over"

Potatoes are already pretty fucked as a plant. If you buy a potato, and plant it, it will die of blight. Whenever you want to plant one, you have to buy a brand new seed potato, grown in ultra-sterile conditions indoors, because the potato plant is so fucked at the moment, and even then, there's still a chance it will get blight and die.

Even New Zealand, a country with some of the strictest customs laws in the world, would allow this. Bringing in food for yourself

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