📝 Shaan Puri shares a story on My First Million…
[This 15-year-old kid] sees a dollar bill on eBay that has Michael Jordan’s face in the middle. It’s a normal dollar bill, but then there’s just like a sticker paper over the George Washington.
The kid sees this, realizes the whole operation is just sticker paper from Office Max printed with a celebrity face. Stuck over George Washington on a real $1 bill. So he starts doing it himself.
What better business is there to sell dollar bills for $15?
🤑 Shaan says the kid scaled it fast…
He starts averaging 100 bills sold per day and he’s profiting basically $1,000 a day.
The beauty is the simplicity: your raw material costs $1, you sell it for ~$15, and all you need is a printer and sticker paper.
You don’t have to stick with celebrity faces on dollar bills either.
The broader play = find a novelty/collectible item already selling on eBay, figure out how it’s made (often dead simple), and make your own version.
Think seasonal stuff like 👇
- Election candidates
- Super Bowl players
- Trending memes
- Personalised gag gifts
No reason to limit yourself to eBay — Etsy, TikTok Shop and Amazon Handmade are all options too 🔥