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Imagine the situation. You are runing through New Yorks Central Park, listening to your mini-disc player. The music stops. The mini-disc players battery's are dead. Luckily, there is an energy vendor just across the street. You buy some lovely triple A batterys from him, and can continue to listen
to your music as you jog.
You are an important businessman. You are working on a proposal on your laptop out in the fresh crisp air of Boston Common. Disaster strikes. Your battery gets closer and closer to draining. It would take you hours to recharge the battery. Luckily, there is an energy vendor near by. He sells you some new battery's for your laptop, and you get your proposal in on time.
Not only does the energy vendor sell a spectrum of battery types, but also light energy in the form of glow-sticks, and chemical energy in the form of lighter fluid. All in all, he sells you energy quickly and efficiently on the street corner.
Battery Vending Machine
http://www.halfbake...20vending_20machine
Very similar [FarmerJohn, Jun 30 2002]
Bread and Butter Vendors
http://www.halfbake..._20Butter_20Vendors
Saveloy's idea that led to my annotation [kaz, Jun 30 2002]
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I prefer the personal touch John. |
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excuse me, I need to lie down. |
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There's plenty of people selling batteries in New York. |
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Will the energy vendor sell chemical energy in the form of food? (possibly bread and butter) |
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Sounds like McDonald's with a couple of cell-phone chargers thrown in. |
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Somehow I don't think this is a viable business model. How many people would the vendor sell batteries to per day? And how many people would the vendor really sell batteries to if you adjusted the price of the batteries to accord with the figure you first thought of? |
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Based on the fact that even big cities don't have any specialised battery shops, and batteries are always sold as small sidelines by other merchants, this is almost in WIBNI territory (wouldn't it be nice if there was always someone around selling batteries when mine ran out?) |
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At the beach, I noticed a girl walking up to people & opening up her bag. Sometimes people would give her money and they'd get something in return. My partner thought we should call the cops since she might be selling drugs, but I thought it best not to waste a cop's time. So I left our spot, went down to the vicinity - laid down a towel, turned the radio on and listened to some John Lee Hooker and was annoyed when my battery started running down. Within minutes, the girl was there & she made me an offer I couldn't refuse.
She sells C Cells by the Seashore. |
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[ sctld ]/pottedstu: as bookworm notes, there are plenty of people doing just this in NYC, so clearly it is a viable business model for some. Mostly on the subway, tho, rather than Central Park (which is a poor place to sell anything but cold drinks). |
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Interesting.. Some schools do similar things with their laptop program. I have heard of a school which issues laptops and then you can go to laptop charging stations and pickup a fresh battery and drop yours off. If only ALL laptops had standardized batteries! |
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Energy Venders that REALLY save : |
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myutilitybrokers.com/geopros |
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as fast as your state qualifies
commercial electric especially
paperless billing eft's for comm electric or ccd ONLY
seeing 13% to 17% with from 100,000 to 120 Million KWH INVOICING !! |
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Residential electric opened in PA last month and more states ~ end of July
GAS !
Just type in account for getting a top - to- top 1% highest davings as fast as you enter your gas acct and name on the account !! WOW
We saved over 40/ month in the first entry !!! |
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also see teamccm.com/geopros |
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for consumer savings since 2005 commercially and 2008 residentially ! |
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