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General => General Discussion and ??? => Topic started by: tancehughes on June 06, 2013, 01:54:30 PM
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Side business/hobby/project that we do. Build modified golf carts!
Swamp Carts - All Electric Modified Golf Carts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6ioSA_lEY4#ws)
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I do work for one of your competitors... Cajun Carts.
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Well in that case you're dead to me.
Nah, but do they stay pretty busy? We literally put $0.00 toward marketing it. We just place them in front of our place of business and people see them and talk about them. And I have a facebook page. That's it! We sell them every once in a while, but it takes someone who wants to spend $4000-$5000 to get one of those jacked up ones.
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I don't know any hardcore numbers, but I think it's in the multi-million in sales (gross) a year. They have a large amount of inventory (some of it rentals/used) and I think about 7 on staff (3 up front and the rest in the back). The owners don't go in very often, but they have/had very lucrative careers in other fields.
Good thing is, they started in a small shop in the back of his house... so it doesn't take much and you can blow up big.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=70501&hl=en&ll=30.286238,-92.02267&spn=0.000935,0.001206&sll=30.937336,-91.40087&sspn=5.379029,9.876709&t=h&hnear=Lafayette,+Louisiana+70501&z=20
That's their location, that's about the lowest the inventory ever gets.
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It amazes me the people that spend money on these things. I'll be there and watch people getting financing for $10k carts. I'm like WTF?! If you can't afford to pay cash for your "toy", then you shouldn't be buying it!!