31 of the Dumbest Businesses People Have Seen

The secret password is... Going out of business
31 of the Dumbest Businesses People Have Seen

Some of the greatest businesses came from nothing but a dream and a small loan from incredibly wealthy parents. These businesses aren’t those. In fact, most of these businesses aren’t even around anymore — e.g., the cereal bar where a single bowl costs more than an entire box. 

In any event, these people clearly didn’t strategize well, otherwise they would’ve ended up on a Forbes list rather than this one.

Fabulous_Engine_7668 7mo ago A heater to melt snow that builds up on solar panels. When you consider how much energy the heaters would use... + 42 Reply ...
cakeba 7mo ago While working at a bike shop, one of my coworkers broke both his arms at the same time on a ride. Не realized he couldn't wipe his ass when he got home so he used a toilet brush with TP on the end of it to do so. Rather than patenting an ass wiping device for people with disabilities, he said he would found Timmy's Ass Wiping Service where you just hire someone else to do it.
kissbiz 0 7mo ago My buddy wanted to get paid for giving people business ideas and only that, no solutions or implementations... just dreams. + 77 Reply ...
perchance2cream 7mo ago A guy keeps pitching my friend on a company that would distribute wifi enabled safes to all households that sign up, containing the most popular prescription drugs in the country. When said household gets a prescription from the doctor, a little door in the safe opens up and dispenses that prescription without the need to go to the pharmacist. I swear to god I am not making this shit up. Guy has been working on this idea for years. It's the single stupidest idea I've ever heard in my life. I could make a list of 1000
LandLakeAndRiverGuy 2y ago - Saw a biz for sale where the service is driving rich people's dogs and cats to their other homes via van as the owners fly to same location. So it's transport for rich pets. + 198 Reply ...
vandalayindustriess 3y ago Opening up a 2000 Sq ft Calendar store in a mall...I remember walking by that store 10 years ago as a teenager and feeling bad for the owner for the lack business sense. So many reasons why that business would fail fast... it turned into a Sharper Image 6 months later. Not like they did much better though. But Who's buying more than one $10.99 puppy calendars in a year?? 464 ...
danielledbetter1954 3y ago A business bank manager told me about someone wanting a loan to open a fish'n'chip shop combined with clothing racks, so people can look while they wait for the food. Since she was a beneficiary, the government made it go ahead to help her get off the benifit. Turns out people don't want their new clothes smelling like fried food so it didn't last long 633 ...
 3y ago My husband put us in debt and lost our home through his business. Не started a company doing handywork. Not a bad premise. But... he had no capital, so used my hatchback car, and refused to charge clients for travel expenses. When work wore thin or he just didn't feel like working, he would spend his business hours at the pub spending company money on booze. 935 ...
badassbradders 3y ago o An old, local pub legend, friend of mine won £400k-ish (around $500k at the time) on the lottery. So, he decides to buy two tanning salons opposite eachother thinking that he had an instant monopoly. But the problem came when he started getting them to compete with one-another. The managers at each salon began a pricing war and he was broke in 6 months. + 1.6K ...
rocknin 3y ago A rollarskating rink wanted to teach kids STEM... while skating. I couldn't help but laugh during the job interview. 2.3K ...
Ermineloathly 3y ago I saw something where these men were trying to sell gloves to wear for girls when changing pads or tampons so we don't get blood on our hands. What do these guys think we've been doing our whole life? Besides we wash our hands, and we don't need gloves to wipe after using the bathroom. Very stupid idea. 3.6K ...
Trinerella 3y ago In our town a few years ago was a zombie-themed doughnut shop. Yeah. The doughnuts had cool names and interesting ingredients, but unfortunately, they cost almost twice as much as Krispy Kreme. I mean, kudos to them for trying to cash in on the zombie fever that was going around at that time and at least they took a shot, but the business didn't do well. They closed down pretty quickly. + 3.9K ...
laxvolley 3y ago в Edited 3y ago E Someone in Edmonton, Canada opened a dairy store; milk and cheese, and placed it across the street from a large grocery store. Не hoped that shoppers would buy everything they needed at the grocery store except their milk and cheese (which the grocery store had ample supply of) and make another trip to their store for milk and cheese. It didn't last.
Kaffine69 3y ago I had a customer once that wanted to build an auction website that would put ebay out of business, his hook was he wanted to sell very niche expensive items. To kick the whole thing off he was going to sell Monika Lewinsky's jizz stained dress. Out of the all the polite questions that emerged from the initial meeting I finally got around to asking how he ended up with the infamous dress. Oh I don't own that, I was just going to take the final auction bids and offer that to Monika for the dress I
- Wing ! Lim_er_ick . 3y ago Boob therapy. Getting women to become breast therapists to come put a boob on your face whenever you feel bad for therapy and get insurance to cover it. It didn't work. + 7K ...
 3y ago There was a bar that opened up in my city and their entrance was hidden. They did a news story and they refused to tell the paper where it was actually located. To everyone's complete surprise, they only stayed open for a couple of weeks + 8K ...
nofunheremovealongg 3y ago Specialty chocolate shop. It only sold the exact same standard candy bars as any supermarket, but with less of a range, and at four times the price. I asked the manager if he had Lindt chocolate balls (upmarket but well known product) and he said What are those? Also, there was a supermarket two doors down. + 10K ...
Asleep_Remote2000 3y ago . In my country there was a guy who used to sell wood. The problem was he did not have any of it. So he would ask for payment and then not give the product afterwards, hoping that procrastination and time will make the problem go away. Не did 4 years in jail. + 12K ...
FirstArbiter 3y ago Someone in my neighborhood opened an artisan hot dog restaurant called Everyone's Frank about a decade ago. My dad and I went in once at about 6 pm on a Saturday; we were the only customers, so the owner (who was working the register) chatted us up. Не talked about his plans to expand the business to about fifteen locations, which was completely delusional. Не also talked about how much he spent on the interior redesign, which was pointlessly fancy. The hot dogs cost $9 and tasted terrible. We never went back, and the place was bankrupt
DiabeticStormtrooper 3y ago с Edited Зу ago Monthly sex-toy subscription. You would get a different sex toy each month, which is an OK idea I guess, there's one of those for everything nowadays, but the only problem this guy had is that he wanted the customers to eventually return the toy so he could pass it on to the next customer. Не actually got in talks with an owner of a local sex shop to help him start, but the enthusiasm flattened out quite quickly... + 19K ...
chernoushka 3y ago When I was in high school, one of my friends wanted to start a little coffeeshop/hot chocolate stand with a cuddle corner and free hugs for anyone who wants them. She offered jobs to our other friends - - ex. the idea was that this little business would be operated and staffed by high schoolers. She failed to see the issue with having 16 year old girls required give free hugs to customers or having to staff the cuddle corner. + 25K ...
montanagrizfan 3y ago There was a guy in my town that opened a business that was the equivalent of a brick and mortar version of Craigslist or newspaper classified ads. It was a unit in a strip mall with bulletin boards. You paid to put an ad up and other people came to look at the ads with a small picture. This was AFTER Craigslist existed, not some pre internet thing. There was no actual merchandise in the store, just crappy pictures of stuff with the contact info. It wasn't even a high foot traffic location, you had to maneuver
 Зу ago - There was a bar that opened up in my city and their entrance was hidden. They did a news story and they refused to tell the paper where it was actually located. To everyone's complete surprise, they only stayed open for a couple of weeks + 8K ...
emeriethatsme 3y ago e In my college town there was a cereal restaurant. Why make a bowl of cereal at home when you can pay $5 for someone else to do it? Not surprisedly, it closed soon after opening. + 3.8K ...
throwawayunicorn121 . 3y ago 0 Somebody thought it would be a good idea to open a dance club in my northern Canadian city with a dress code... 90% of the population is tradesmen and miners who only own Carhartts and high vis. Needless to say, it shut down within 6 months. + 14K ...
OliNgu . 7mo ago A coffee maker business, where you'd order a coffee maker to your door and they would brew fresh coffee for you. The guy had to charge like 15 bucks for a coffee in order to not go broke in the first week 4 Reply ...
chagawagaloo e 7mo ago Tinder but for file sorting - random guy I overheard on the train who apparently already spent £100k getting it developed 4 Reply ...
poopfacecrapmouth 7mo ago My buddy really wanted me to go in on a garbage can cleaning business a couple years back. I think it's outrageous. Who cares if the bin is clean. I put garbage in it + 6 Reply ...
invincible_quaalude 0 7mo ago S.C.D. A 'rent a queue' business. Food trucks rent a queue to make them look super busy. Based on the idea that 'people love joining queues'. + 10 Reply ...
Redditress428 7mo ago A chain of rubber band stores that sell nothing but different sized rubber bands. + 16 Reply ...
herbdogu 9 7mo ago Old roommate pitched me on a 'cold pizza slice takeaway', while eating leftover pizza one morning. People would love it, cold pizza is awesome + 40 Reply ...

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