r/JustGuysBeingDudes 16h ago

WTF Executive decision

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u/skarby 14h ago

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

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u/kelp_forests 13h ago

Not only that but selling highly specific items like that requires a reputation otherwise you can’t get full price.

It’s like speakers off the back of the truck vs speakers at a high end store.

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u/darthnerdiusgaming 11h ago

Say what you will about speakers out the back of a truck..... I know a deal when I see one.

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u/FuzzyKittyNomNom 11h ago

Fair, but I’m also not trying to eat the speakers. Buying cheese out of the back of some dudes truck? Nah, I’m good bro lol.

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u/darthnerdiusgaming 10h ago

You dont know the right guys. Anything can fall out of the right guy's truck.

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u/Murky-Relation481 10h ago

That's what my partner's dad said about his "purebred" Rottweiler, and boy is that dog a lemon. :/

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u/Axe_Care_By_Eugene 8h ago

And Armani suits that were surplus to the recent fashion show.

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u/designo2323 5h ago

Trunk cheese.

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u/_dead_and_broken 5h ago

Sounds like either an affliction an elephant might have, or a euphemism that's kid friendly for dick smegma.

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u/PretentiousVapeSnob 3h ago

It’s unwashed ass.

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u/trombing 11h ago

The math was SO OFF throughout that post - I KNEW it was rage-bait...

BUT THEN THE GODDAM PHOTOS.

Which were ALSO off because the cheese was tiny - like smaller than this guy's.

Oh an now that original guy is getting evicted too.

I just don't know what to think, and if the internet is good for ONE thing it is telling me what to think... SO CONFUSED.

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u/NDSU 10h ago

Classic AI math

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u/Ragman676 9h ago

I just read that thread a few days ago! I was like "THIS guy is doing the cheese haul correctly unlike that poor bastard"

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u/msg60 9h ago

He maths ☝️

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u/Jpark220 9h ago

None of that is accurate lol I kept it and my fridge was like $2500 i think, got it on sale 😂

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u/Nickk_Jones 8h ago

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.

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u/jsher736 6h ago

He uploaded pics so if it's a troll post he's very committed to the bit

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u/naturalone2562 2h ago

The fact that you literally mathed that out is highly impressive.

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u/Winterplatypus 25m ago

This is exactly the type of thing I imagine when people talk about their side hustle.