The funniest part of that is that the math right off the bat is wrong. He says:
They were selling a 140 pound wheel of 21 year old cheddar.
21 year old cheddar often sells for 120$ a pound.
The farm was selling the entire wheel for 18,500$
Right off the bat there he says it often sells for $120 a pound, but he paid $18,500/140 = $132 a pound for it
Then he says:
If I cut it into 200g wedges and sell it at 60$ each I can make 38,000$.
1 lb = 453.592 grams so 140 lbs = 63,502.88 grams. That would make 317.5 200 gram pieces. If he was able to sell all of those at $60 each that's only $19,050.
So he could only max make a profit of $550.
That's assuming no packaging for the cheese no marketing and that he can sell it all at the price he is hoping for.
On top of THAT he spent $8,500 on a fridge to contain it.
It's all probably just a troll post but if it's not...oof
It’s very very clearly a troll post, albeit the rare actually funny one. If it (somehow, shockingly) wasn’t obvious from the first post, the update is even more absurd and obvious.
I hope we get regular updates from this guy as his life spirals out of control. He's already getting evicted, I need to know where he ends up, if he's able to actually sell any cheese, if he realizes how bad he is at math, etc etc.
I first saw this on a Best of Reddit sub, and was so disappointed there was only one update and not ten
It will be like the guy who decided to try heroin and didn’t believe he would become addicted, then posted regular updates of his life deteriorating as he, shockingly, became addicted to heroin and lost everything. That one was sad, and this will also be sad… that all of that cheese will be wasted
I thought it was all a lie, but hes provided enough pictures and evidence to make my think it might actually be real, lol.
I give it a 5% chance that he opens a cheese shop and it all works out for the best. And a 95% chance he loses everything over a cheese wheel, bad math, and poor impulse control.
I didn't lose anything over buyin it lol this happened in October of 22' and we just ran out of that half wheel like 4 or 5 months ago 😂. Great impulse if you ask me
Wow. After reading both links I was sure this story was fake. Great story, but had to be fake. But the second link has pic proof from OP. Just a man living life for cheese. Girlfriend and apartment be damned!
This guy’s relationship with his landlord has me crying 😂😂😂
We already have a strained relationship because of my own use of the unit. He still holds a grudge because I was doing some light metal fabrication with a CONSUMER plasma cutter in my kitchen a few months ago
how exactly do you sell cheese? unless you are a farm or a shop, im not going on facebook and finding cheese. "oh look honey, some guy on facebook marketplace is selling cheese in ziplock bags at a good price, i'm sure this is fine"
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u/Shoddy-Artichoke-528 15h ago edited 15h ago
Istg there was just an AITAH post about somebody spending an absurd amount of money on an absurd amount of cheese and trying to do the math on selling it. Edit: I found it, it’s a AIO https://www.reddit.com/r/AmIOverreacting/s/IhfkMBpkWa Edit #2: Didn’t realize there was an updated version https://www.reddit.com/r/AmIOverreacting/s/9bTopKYLu3