Dan Novaes narrates an anecdote from when he was 15: while working at a Polo Ralph Lauren factory outlet he noticed tourists spending large amounts, used a Palm Treo to identify high-margin leather jackets on eBay, bought several on his father’s card, resold them (including shipments to Brazil), and over a few months earned roughly $30,000 from the scheme. He also reports early wages ($100 total for a week) and a later overnight $1,000 profit; the operation nearly led to his firing.
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15
Polo Ralph Lauren (factory outlet)
About $100 total for the week
Approximately $60,000 ("they dropped like 60 grand")
A $5 reward in gift cards
Chapters
So at the time, you know, 15, I wanted a motorcycle. And so I ended up getting a job at the time at Polo Ralph Lauren. It was like the factory outlet that I was working at. And I worked that whole week, made like a grand total of 100 bucks. Like, I remember seeing my paycheck was like, wow, it's really hard to make money. And then this big tour bus of, you know, foreigners came in. There's a Toyota factory there. And all these people from Japan came and they dropped like 60 grand at the store there. And it was just me and one other dude. We took care of them and whatever. And the next day I'm like, oh, they're surely going to give me a commission. Like I've hit like a new benchmark here. And I got a $5 R these gift cards. And I was like, really frustrated about that. And I had this idea. I was like, man, if these people knew that I had a 40 discount, I could give them 20. I could have kept 20 and I would have made like, you know, 12K. And then that's where I had this idea where I was like, oh, like I could basically take screenshabs on like a Palm Treo pilot that I had like a little phone. And I then cross referenced it on ebay. And I bought three on my dad's emergency credit card and then sold all three of these like leather jackets that had the highest profit margin. And I made a grand overnight. And so I just did that for like four, four months. And I had everyone in the store buying these leather jackets. I started sending them to Brazil. And then I tell my manager, like, I just have a lot of uncles that want these. I made like 30k. And then I was about to get fired. Sick of wasting all this money. Follow us and get all of our hacks for free.
