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How Do You Make Money On a $375,000. Truffle?

post #1 of 8
12/28/10 at 11:58pm
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How do you make money on a $375,000. truffle?    Even one that weighs 1.497 kilograms.   

 

That's what Stanley Ho paid for a truffle several years ago.   Story here:   

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2007/12/03/5590_gold-coast-news.html

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post #2 of 8
12/30/10 at 2:56pm

shave it very very thin and charge 2,000 a pop for a slice with a bowl of rice?

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post #3 of 8
1/1/11 at 1:25pm

Looks like I need to become a truffle hunter.

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post #4 of 8
1/10/11 at 12:59pm

Easy.

 

Shave it thin, and sell it to people who think that a truffle can be worth that much money, Served preferably with $10,000 a bottle wine. 

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post #5 of 8
1/10/11 at 1:19pm

Portion into 375,000 servings and sell them for $4.00/serving!

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post #6 of 8
1/11/11 at 8:36am

Make a big deal out of it :p And find someone willing to pay for the publicity and exclusivity of having it served at their dinner or party.

 

I personally believe it's kindof easy to make money at it, because you appeal to a completely different customer group then what you ordinarily do. The people willing to pay 10000 USD for a night with a model, 5000 USD for a beautiful chefs knife or spend 25000 USD on champagne in a single night. Now when you throw a party or dinner where you have something exclusive enough to attract that kind of big spenders in the first place then the rest is not that hard.

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post #7 of 8
1/11/11 at 11:39pm

Hoenestly, you don't. Ya make money from the hype. :)

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post #8 of 8
1/12/11 at 11:02pm

haven't tasted it, not gonna...unless its free

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