Boyd,
I was thinking on this flyer distribution thing for this and wouldn't it be better to maybe distribute the flyers to cars at shopping centers?
That way you would be able to get a lot more than 35 of them out.

> Hi,

> Actually, my wife did the work of spending
> 45 minutes placing flyers on 35 doors in a
> middle-class neighborhood near us. (She's 59
> and she can run rings around me.)

> I wrote and printed the flyers. I wrote
> little ads about three of the items from the
> wholesaler John McTighe told us about. One
> of them was the 300 piece drill bit kit. The
> other two were hunting knives. I did
> searches on eBay for the items available
> from this wholesaler, and I looked for
> completed sales in which people had actually
> bought something (and I noted the price the
> item went for). The drill bit kit and the
> two knives actually sold at eBay.

> The flyer distribution was about 24 hours
> ago, and so far we haven't gotten any calls.

> We also placed a $7.65 ad in our local
> shopper newspaper, and after the ad runs
> I'll report back about what response we got.

> Adventures In Entrepreneurship!

> - Boyd