Need a Pencil Sharpened? $35.00 USD, Please!

[Bailey Guns]

OK. Now I'm convinced people will pay for anything. This guy's made nearly $65,000 in the last couple of years sharpening plain ole number 2 pencils for people. But, hey...he does return the shavings so maybe $35.00 is a good deal.

NY Man Tires of Sharpening Pencils for $35.00 a Pop (http://www.myfoxny.com/story/23471204/new-york-man-tires-of-sharpening-pencils-for-35-a-pop)


BTW...if you need your pencil sharpened I'll do it for $20.00 each, 2 for $35.00, return postage included. Oh, hell. I'll even include a shiny, yellow, new #2 pencil.

[RblDiver]

$35 to sharpen pencils? What does he do, take it to the top of a mountain in Tibet, reach enlightenment with the monks, letting the chi flowing off of him sharpen them?

[Sawin]

I don't get it...So was he sharpening all the pencils to be used by the census or something? Who the F would send him a new pencil and $35 and have him sharpen it for them? Seems to me like something only the govt would do...

[7insert]

Sounds like someone the obama administration would like to hire

[Zundfolge]

Artisanal Pencil Sharpening? ... sounds like it should be a sketch on Portlandia.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfLu7GRMR7g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiIvnFz--k8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9EyGxejt6E

[merl]

Well it is 35c for the pencil sharpening and $34.65 for the coke & weed. :)

[Delfuego]

Brilliant! Wish I thought of it.

“Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.”
― P.T. Barnum (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/201036.P_T_Barnum)

[UrbanWolf]

He sharpens them with......AR-15.

[brutal]

The secret is to know what his primary and secondary angles are or if he strops them convex on leather or paper.

Can he do the hair drop split test when he's done?

[cstone]

BP has a lathe and would do a better job. A skilled pencil smith is difficult to find.

[Zundfolge]

He sharpens them with......AR-15.
Worse, he sharpens them INTO AR-15s [panic]

[DFBrews]

Hmm knowing my labor rate... I have 38 minutes to produce a solid pencil product

[Superorb]

OK. Now I'm convinced people will pay for anything.

A long time ago I sold an ice cube on ebay :D

[BREATHER]

A SUCKER AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON SEPARATED. ... This is why coffee shops can charge $7.00 for a cup of sludge.... This is why people pay $200.00 plus per month for cell service.... on and on and on.....

[Beprepared]

Mmm! I love a good sandpaper sharpen.

[Superorb]

A SUCKER AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON SEPARATED. ... This is why coffee shops can charge $7.00 for a cup of sludge.... This is why people pay $200.00 plus per month for cell service.... on and on and on.....

If Americans weren't so damn stupid we probably wouldn't be circling the drain, and households wouldn't be broke.

[KS63]

The reason it's so expensive is that it's done using Green Tecnology.

[tmleadr03]

He made 63K doing that. Holy fucking shit.

[Justin]

I read an article about this guy last year. basically he's a comedian who started doing the 'artisan pencil sharpening'thing as a shtick, and was shocked to find out people took him seriously enough to pay his prices.


Basically he's the Andy Warhol of pencils.

[Bailey Guns]

Basically he's a damn marketing genius.

[TheGrey]

'Artisan pencil sharpening'? People display the pencils he sharpened?

I've got to agree with Bailey Guns- the guy is a genius. It's not the actual sharpening; it's the packaging. He sends the newly-sharpened pencil back with the graphite covered in its own tube of clear plastic, the entire pencil comes back in another clear plastic tube, and it looks like he sends the carefully-collected shavings in another small container.

Of course, we have the Wolrd's Best pencil sharpener here at home, which renders his performance moot...;)

[buffalobo]

Basically he's a damn marketing genius.

And his customers are f***ing morons.

Sent from my electronic ball and chain.

[3beansalad]

Is this why I haven't seen hare krishna's giving out pencils in a long time? Can't charge those prices and remain a non-profit.

[Rabid]

This guy is out there. If you do not feel like wasting 12 minutes of your life go to 9:50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KabOfnbS4TQ

[DD977GM2]

I hate to admit it, but I am slightly intrigued by this and considered
ordering one just for shits & giggles [ROFL2][ROFL3][LOL]

[CO Hugh]

Organic and Artisnal food fall into the same category. Also carbon credits and being green.

A smart person would figure out how to sell carbon credits to fund their hunting and shooting.