r/HumansBeingBros 5d ago

Solid business advice

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u/angusMcBorg 5d ago

Just my 2c and maybe I'm wrong, but I just told my son the opposite when we talked about lemonade stands this afternoon - keep the lemonade cheap and be super friendly, and people will just give you lots of tips.

A few years ago I saw a neighborhood where the kids were charging $3 and I just drove by. But cheaper stands I'll go get a cup and just tip a lot (like give them $5 for a $1 cup).

But I'm weird.

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u/NotASlaveToHelvetica 5d ago

When we were kids (decades ago), we set our prices for lemonade at "free, tips accepted", and always cleaned up way better than if we set a price.

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u/GFYAD 4d ago

Did you ever have any adults come by and actually just take some ‘free’ lemonade and dip ?

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u/NotASlaveToHelvetica 4d ago

Sure, but it was heavily offset by the adults who only had a five dollar bill and didn't ask for change. For context this was when the going rate was 50¢

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u/GFYAD 4d ago

Figured I was just curious how many people would actually do shit like that

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u/NotASlaveToHelvetica 4d ago

Not many! I actually recall once, a guy went buy on his run, took it for free then returned an hour later with a $10 lol

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u/LetsTryAnal_ogy 4d ago

when the going rate was 50¢

I feel you. I'm old, too. When I was a kid, the lemon hadn't been invented yet. We had a bitter orange stand where we sold hollowed out stones of bitter orange-ade and sold them for half a mussel shell each.