Dog Bowls Waste, Raise Money
August 13th, 2008Artist has bright idea to raise money for local dog park. Artist buys 500 bright green dog bowls, sets them out in front of a gallery, fills them with water and encourages passers by to throw their loose change into them.
Let’s look at this stratagem a little more closely. I would estimate that the average dog bowl costs $5. Let’s presume he got a bulk deal and got them for $2 each. Now if I were the supplier I would charge an extra buck for guaranteeing an all-green batch. That’s a whopping $3 per bowl, which means a total dog bowl outlay of $1500 just to raise $4500…in change!
How many dog parks do you get for $3000 these days? There’s something seriously askew with the effort/reward ratio in this. Surely the most sensible and obvious course of action would have been to invest in $1500 worth of scratchcards, or am I missing something here?
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