A 15-year-old bought $1 bills, covered George Washington's face with stickers, and sold them on eBay for $15 each. He scaled to 100 sales a day, making $1,000 in daily profit, and eventually hit $10,000 a day as eBay's top seller of custom novelty dollar bills.
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selling dollar bills for $15. He's 15 years old and he says he sees a dollar bill on eBay that it's Michael Jordan's face in the middle. It's a normal dollar bill, but then there's just like a sticker paper over the George Washington. You can just go to OfficeMax and like do this. What better business is there to sell dollar bills for $15? He goes there and then he puts them up on eBay and he starts averaging 100 bills sold per day and he's profiting basically $1,000 a day. And then he got it to $10,000 a day in sales and he became the largest seller of custom novelty collectible dollar bills on eBay. Then he became the top ranked seller, which helped him in the organic search as he was going from there. And I kind of love this. It's just another example of these little nuggets, these little stories that shows you there's a trillion ways to win.