Opportunity .... it appears where and when you least expect it.

[Raul]

Aside from being a vet and have the kitty/pooch hospital I have several other businesses going on at the same time ( oh yeah, I 'm a greedy sob   ), one of them is I have a bussines partner and we manufacture hair treatments, shampoos and stuff like that, we sell them directly to the beauty shops or have distributors for them.

Because of the pork flu outbreak I had in idea a couple of weeks ago, manufacturing antiseptic gel is pretty easy, we manufacture hair styling gel and the formula ain 't that different, so we made a couple of buckets of antiseptic gel, bottled it and gave it away to our beautician customers, think of it as a professional courtesy, gave a couple of bottles to a friend of mine who worked with me as my asistant and forgot about the situation.

Well, last Monday my phone rang, it was Ramiro ( my former asistant, he now works for the Secretaría de Salubridad ( Health Department ) and asked me if we can manufacture the antiseptic gel in large quantities, large quantities ..... low how large ?  :-?, he said that there 's a huge shortage of antiseptic gel in the market nowdays ( because of the pork flu hysteria ) and that the SSA needs it like ... right now. Ok, how many and right now like how right now ?  :-? 100,000 bottles of 120 grams of antiseptic gel deliverable in one week  . Uhhhhh ...... lemme see, I 'll call you in an hour, so I called my partner and explained the situation to him and to see if we can deliver them in that time ( cuz you not only need the raw materials but also the bottles, the caps and the labels ), not everyday we have to make 100,00 units of anything in so short term.

Well, we finally talked the guys who manufacture the bottles into making the 100,000 bottles we need, they fortunately have the caps and the guy who prints all our paperwork can print the labels in two days. We talked to another person we know who also has a bottle filling machine and he accepted to outsource us with 40,000 units @ 50 cents a piece ( we can 't bottle 100,000 units with one machine in a week ).

And to think that all this began just because I had the idea to gift a few bottles of antiseptic gel for our customers. Now we got ourselves a nice bussines.

[Root beer]

Nice!

[Big Tom]

How much JDM tackle will come from this?

You going to get those new Revo's you been posting?

Congrats.

[roadwarrior]

Congratulations!

Raul, your story is heartwarming...payback for a good deed.

That's wonderful!

[nateobot]

That's awesome.  Congrats Raul.

[Raul]

How much JDM tackle will come from this?

You going to get those new Revo's you been posting?

Congrats.

I think it 's going to be the way it 's always been, those JDM limited edition reels I 've always wanted are never available in the condition I want them when I have the dough and when I don 't have the dough one or two pop up  :, sad isn 't it ?  :-[

I 'm gonna pass on the tackle purchases and better save the profit for something else. ( I must be sick or sumthin '  :-? ).

[Big Tom]

That's just how it goes.

Not buying any tackle though?  Wow.

[Jimzee]

Good to see something like that happen for someone who deserves it.

I am however calling on the no JDM tackle purchases though. ;D

Plat has that new Katsutaka Imae Revo in stock now. The new JDM Zillion limited edition comes out in two weeks.

[bait__Monkey]

im so happie          

                             

                               

we wait til my friend gets paid, then i tell him some tings we need

raul a good man, he sav sum his money so can buy sumore later

jimzee hav good sugeston 2, butt we gonna ned sum rods go with

dem reels. maybe megabass hav sumting we like, yes?

[Raul]

Plat has that new Katsutaka Imae Revo in stock now.

Yup, I saw it a couple of days ago, looks nice !  

But I gotta be strong, I must resist the temptation ! just got the Alphas R Edition ( a couple of weeks ago ) and I haven 't even tried it yet. It doesn 't even have line spooled in. The Chronarch B I purchased a month ( or month and a half ? yikes ! I can 't remember when I purchased it, let 's say recently purchased   ) ago it 's still there also, lineless, don 't know why I purchased it though .... must have been the fury critter.  :-?