Finally have my hard-times business online!
I frequently advocate on Daily Paul that we take charge of our job security by becoming self employed in some endeavor that takes advantage of public needs and concerns that will only grow as the economy deteriorates. I've now done that and I want to show you my approach so you can get some ideas for building your own collapse-proof enterprise.
I may also be recognized as the resident squirrel on Daily Paul because I'm always suggesting burying things that governments have been known to confiscate. Indeed, I've built my business around this advice. Here is my newly activated business Web site:
http://www.preparednessequipment.com/11501.html
My first product line is BURY 'EM! tubes in several sizes. They are heavy-duty PVC tubes with Mylar liners that provide a double-sealed hermetic buried cache system, a multi-component kit that includes oxygen absorbers.
The reasoning is that enough people are (or soon will be) concerned enough about civil unrest, pillaging gangs, and government clampdowns that hiding at least some of their most vital possessions underground in off-site locations will make imminent sense to them. That's the need I aim to fill with the BURY 'EM! tubes.
I did a fair amount of planning and testing before I came up with a system I thought was marketable. I invested about $5k in forming a limited liability corporation, Web hosting, UPS shipping account, credit card processing, PayPal setup, commercial banking, and lots of supplies for tubes, kit components, packaging materials, and google advertising. It took me over a week to create a modest Web site with an off-the-shelf design template. If the business shows promise, I may hire someone to create a sexier site in the future.
Besides selling online I expect to retail at certain shows and conventions and wholesale to specialty shops. I plan to do zero selling from "the factory" since my neighborhood is not zoned for retail. I priced my online products so they would not undermine my retailers' prices, then made shipping free within the continental US so online buyers would not pay more than at a retail store. On nearby orders I'll make out well but far-off orders will gouge me good in the profit margin. Still, I wanted to make ordering as simple as possible, both for me and my customers.
I have another motive of course besides profit. I see my product line as potentially vital in defending our constitutional rights to own certain things that are in danger of government confiscation. Also, I want those who are most committed to the principles of freedom to come through the probable coming collapse in the best position to restore the original intent of the founders. Those who are awake to the perils we face, and are therefore likely customers, are most apt to be in line with our views.
I hope this will help stimulate other depression-proof business plans by DP users. It is too early to say how profitable this one will be but I'll do an update in a month or two.
Whoa hold on a minute
You know there are millions of gun people in the good old USA. How about we take these herre weapons and tell these bastards to GTFO, don't bury anything, if your burying it then you've lost IMHO. This is how all this shit started in the first place. It's called drawing a line in the sand and sand. Well that line was crossed long ago. 30 states declaring sovereignty, when will you declare yours?
Just one last kick in the nuts, then a final deathblow
OK, here's the setup:
You hear a knock at your door some evening. You open the door and there is a soldier there in full battle gear. Behind him stand three more. All are armed with automatic rifles and their fingers are on their triggers. In your driveway you notice an armored personnel carrier. The nearest soldier says, "Sir, we need you to step outside at once."
What do you do? Is your *semi*-automatic leaning just inside the door? Is your pistol tucked in your pants? Do you begin firing on them?
Or maybe it's the ATF team, or even local police..
So you take stock of the situation and figure you'll be dead in about one-and-a-half seconds if you try anything. You step outside. They pat you down and have you sit on the ground while one holds a gun on you and the other three, plus another soldier from the vehicle, come with metal detectors and proceed to search your house for firearms. They find your guns and ammo and take them away -- for public safety reasons.
This is an extremely civilized version of the scenario some patriots are expecting, but let's say they leave you free but gunless. At that point will you wish you had buried a gun and ammo offsite someplace?
Please understand, if you only have one gun, you should keep it accessible. There are lots of people who have a full gun safe and might select one to bury, or buy one especially to bury, not that I'm *recommending* they do.
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Sundown at Coffin Rock
This is a work of fiction about a "hidden cache" with a very important lesson at the end! It's only a one page story so take a minute and take heed!
Sundown at Coffin Rock
http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/sundown.html
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I like it.
I think I'll include it in my blog on http://www.preparednessequipment.com
New Hampshire and Ecuador
Good story
Hard to believe there are pieces of human excrement that will and have done things like this to family members. The grandson needs a hole six feet under.
Just one last kick in the nuts, then a final deathblow
Pretty sweet!
Now that is clever. I hope it sells good for you. Just remember that at some point in time people may not have enough metal in need of burying. Very difficult to predict market saturation levels.
I would caution you, however, about the appearance of this device. It has a look about it that I have seen in Hollywood somewhere (if you can catch my drift).
I am incredibly dense.
Please give me a few more hints about that Hollywood look.
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Call Before You Dig!
Just had to throw this in for good humur!
http://www.call811.com/default.aspx
A new, federally-mandated national "Call Before You Dig" number, 811 was created to help protect you from unintentionally hitting underground utility lines while working on digging projects. People digging often make risky assumptions about whether or not they should get their utility lines marked due to concerns about project delays, costs and previous calls about other projects. These assumptions can be life-threatening.
Every digging job requires a call – even small projects like planting trees or shrubs. If you hit an underground utility line while digging, you can harm yourself or those around you, disrupt service to an entire neighborhood and potentially be responsible for fines and repair costs.
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Been so many buryin' guns in these parts,
that nine out of ten holes you dig to bury yours are already occupied ;-)
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Nice - Congrats
To help stimulate other ideas Daily Paul had a thread here:
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/67553
Detective Krum Investigates:
http://victory1project.wordpress.com/
http://v1-p.com/
Detective Krum Investigates:
http://victory1project.wordpress.com/
I'm not opposed to others doing the same thing.
I can't possibly make as many as I think are needed.
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A bump
so others can get a chance to see.
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Bravo!
Your a can do kinda guy. Good for you. I know I will buy something they look great and I like a plain web site. Sometimes that all jazzed up annoys me. You know I wonder how cigarettes would hold up. I don't smoke but can you imagine what a great barter item that would be, plus it's not metal and good as gold. LOL
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Problem is…
…You just never know who could be watching you bury your stash. And, if someone were to watch your very suspicious behavior, they may think the worst and report you to the police (think body parts). Seriously, eyes are everywhere. Also, if you shouldn't bury on your own property, then who's property? All property is owned by some entity or another. Are you going to trespass and bury? Once you bury on another persons property, not only have you trespassed, but your stash is no longer legally yours. It can be taken at will by the owner.
I truly wish you all of the luck in the world. But, I personally would not invest such hefty sums on such a risky endeavor when there are less expensive and safer methods. Also, the soil/ground just about anywhere in the desert west is like concrete. One would need a jackhammer, and I'm afraid that would draw just too much attention.
I really don't think I would ever want to survive to live a Mad-Max existence. If it ever comes down to that, I will probably start hunting the bad guys and taking a few out before I go. No matter what you have, somebody (better armed and without conscience) can and will take it from you. Nobody will be able to survive alone. Combining resources within a patriot minded community would probably be a much better way.
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“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality”
That's true, you do have to be careful.
I cover this at some length in the detailed instructions. Scroll down on this page:
http://www.preparednessequipment.com/11552/23222.html
You can get permission if you like but it had better be a large tract of land so a search by metal detector would be impractical. Yes, you take a chance, but I regard a properly buried cache as much safer than a safe or safety deposit box. From the site:
"If you keep your gold in a bank safety deposit box, it can be confiscated by the government just like Franklin D. Roosevelt did in 1933. (Actually it was a forced "turn-in" with nominal compensation and criminal penalties for noncompliance.) If you store much gold in your home safe, you may come home someday to find the entire safe gone, floor bolts and all, and your financial protection will be wiped out. Think about how multi-ton logs are hauled out of the woods. A stong cable wrapped around your safe and pulled by a heavy winch can yank it right through the walls, leaving a gaping hole in your house. When times get desperate, thieves get bold."
BTW, I've got relatives living in the desert and they say people are burying guns there. Maybe they bury 'em in the mine tailings.
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Not sure about the value you provide...
I wish you well. I really do, but...
While the mylar bag and O2 absorbers are a nice touch, most of your cost will be in the PVC fittings, and especially in shipping the PVC pipe to your customer. As long as Home Depot, Lowes, and every hometown lumber store, carry those items, I don't see why anyone would go to you instead of just getting them locally.
Yes, you spraypaint yours and put a logo on it. I don't see where that buys you any functional benefit. If anything, it draws attention to the item until it is buried.
If I were going to bury something, (which of course, I am not, and if I were, I wouldn't admit it) I wouldn't be purchasing your product. But then, I am kind of a do it yourself guy.
I really do wish you the best of luck.
It's funny you would mention the pvc pipe thing
I have a friend who is a spokes model for a bunch of exercise products and she was selling this one thing that was basically a 6 foot tube half full of water with a cap on each end to keep the water in. I didn't know she was promoting this thing and told her they want $37.99 for this thing ? I can go to Lowes and buy a six foot piece of pipe some abs glue and two caps for about 7 bucks !!
She told me to shut up and don't tell anyone :)
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Just priced PVC for my coming 8-inch-diameter model:
$100.46 at my discount! That's just for the PVC. You can't get the big diameters at Lowe's or Home Depot. Even the large plumbing supply company I use had to special-order the 8" fittings. This size is unlikely to sell well but will be available for those who absolutely need it. It will be offered with two Mylar "gun bag" liners and related contents.
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But still, it's less than the $40 I pay for just the PVC
for my 6"-diameter tubes. The other materials in the multi-part kit are practically that much again. The prices jump dramatically with each step up in size. (I will be making some 8"-diameter tubes that are way more costly. Just the threaded plug is over $32.) Buy the time I add in shipping I'm over $100. The rest is manufacturing labor, packing, marketing, advertising, and testing. I don't expect those who are struggling financially will buy them.
If you can make do with 4"-diameter tubes, Lowes or Home Depot is the way to go, especially if you're burying gold and silver. In that case they don't really need the double protection of a sealed Mylar liner with O2 absorbers enclosed, and they certainly don't need a paint job if you're not trying to sell them. Just do it!
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Yes, you can do it yourself,
but Walmart and Home Depot will provide only so much. They don't carry 6-inch-diameter pipe or fittings or Mylar bags or O2 absorbers or cloth parts bags or cotton tubing and I don't think they carry the pipe clamps I include. In fact, if you were to order minimum quantities of everything I include, the cost would be more than the price I offer. Of course you could then make a set of them, sell some, and come out ahead. I encourage it. Come up with your own brand name though.
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Will you throw in a post
Will you throw in a post hole digger with large orders?
Things are only impossible until they are not.
-- Jean Luc Picard
Things are only impossible until they are not.
-- Jean Luc Picard
When you live in the country
you can set a new fence post, and bury your pipe right beside it. Makes it easier to find in the future, and easier to tell family member how to locate.
Great idea!
If you bury them vertically, you don't have to dig up the whole tube, just dig down to the cap with enough surround space to use a big pipe wrench to open it.
New Hampshire and Ecuador
Great to see someone doing
Great to see someone doing this. I've been using PVC caches for sometime now, burried in threes with cords connecting them through the lid cap nipples. the cords are left close to the surface so when raking the area at a certain depth I can easily locate the caches.
Make sure that if you store arms, wrap them in a good oiled cloth, also always use bags of silica in all of your caches. I also make sure the seals are sound, for extra protection covering the seals with bee's wax, then wrapping tightly with polycloth to ensure that it's completely watertight.
DO NOT BURY ANY CACHE ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY! That's the first place that will be searched. I buring mine along railroad tracks at certain intervals and so many feet from center.
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Credit where credit due
I had already made a few buried caches for myself but I got an extra boost in my thought process from Republicae.
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There are also
special plastic bags just for rifles. I would take that extra precaution.
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They're included in my long tube kit.
They're made of heavy Mylar for the military and can be heat-sealed with a non-stick clothes iron to keep oxygen and moisture out.
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Sounds good to
Sounds good to me!
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Jim, I have a product I could add
Solar generators. I made one for myself and I know I could make at least 5 a week without interfering with my normal business. Let me know.
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