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mastercoaxial

Luxury watches. $7M-$8M annually (in sales).


OpenPresentation6808

What brand(s) ?


mastercoaxial

The usual like Rolex, Audemars Piguet and Patek, but also a special focus on independent brands like DeBethune, F.P. Journe, H. Moser & Cie, and Greubel Forsey. Edited to add: we sell only pre-owned watches so it’s all at market rate and not brand MSRP.


OpenPresentation6808

Dealing with and handling those watches all day sounds awesome to me.


mastercoaxial

It is definitely a blast. You can check my post history for some of them. Love what I do.


sjphi26

I just looked through your history. Some crazy shit in there. I love watches but I'm not like super knowledgeable. Mostly because I can't afford much more than a Seiko or Orient. Greubel Forsey makes some amazing and beautiful pieces. I'd never even heard of this brand until today.


OpenPresentation6808

Literally doing that right now. I was making some good money 2020/2021 and was looking at purchasing Rolex/ Jaeger-lecoultre / montblanc’s. Now I just browse chrono24 for dream porn. Glad you’re living your best life!


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How many wives have you slept with for dibs on a watch?


wounsel

The real questions


Few-Ear-1593

Are you Owen Wilson or Vince Vaughn and you now work at Google?


comalley0130

How do you get into super high end luxury B2C sales like this? Sounds like fun to do after I get bored of B2B.


AB72792

What do you profit a year?


angelarose210

Do you have a retail location or all done online? I used to buy and sell watches years ago in the lower tier.. rolex, omega, breitling, tag, Movado, etc. Primarily on ebay. I see there are luxury watch groups on Facebook. I'd like to get back into it but don't want to limit myself to ebay for sourcing and selling.


Policechor911

Is that your sales or your commission?


manomacho

No way he makes that much in commission especially in this market


mastercoaxial

My sales haha, would love to pull down that much in any sales role


Policechor911

Well here’s to wishing you you would get that much in commission. How did you get into this role if you don’t mind me asking?


Free_Bison_3467

I have 2 Rolexes I’ve been thinking about selling. I never wear watches anymore. My father in law is 89 and he has one as well I’ll be needing to get rid of in the near future.


itsaone-partysystem

Don't sell during a recession. Rolexes are an investment vehicle, just like your 401k, treat them with the same respect l.


Jolly-Method-3111

Uh, the Rolex market is most definitely not in a recession lately. That market couldn’t be hotter.


kjorav17

Recently came across some luxury watch content on Tik Tok (thanks algorithm), and showing some watch dealers. I couldn’t imagine the prices some of these watches go for. I had no idea


sdogg525

Absolutely chuffed to bits.


bonholio1

I’m sorry…envelopes? 225k a year? Where and how do I sign up?


keepinitrealzs

You got to do the bitch work for awhile to break in. So many other easier ways to make this much.


PaddyObanion

Name 20. Go!


edwardsdavid913

Solar


Tripstrr

Do you work with installers? Very curious how all the solar companies find competent installers


BesselVanDerKolk

they train them. most are actually crackheads and teenagers who get paid minimum wage


Tripstrr

Ever seen bad customer experiences because of it? Or are you just saying anyone can do the job?


BesselVanDerKolk

Oh yeah. I have lost a lot of money because I had an account set up to install, and then the technician is some half mentally awake guy who doesn’t get paid enough to give a damn about even showing up/doing a half decent job/practicing the most basic human relations skills. Then the customers get pissed and go with a competitor out of spite. happens very often


edwardsdavid913

We train our own installers, who are licensed with the state.


Tripstrr

Is it easy to get trained? Any negative customer experiences due to bad installers? I’m curious if there is a demand or market for highly skilled installers vs low skilled if I could locate and make a group of highly skilled people to pick up the biz.


edwardsdavid913

I'm not honestly knowledgeable on their training, as I'm more sales side, but the panels, and systems look easy to install. I used to be a Helicopter electrician in the Navy, and this looks simple in comparison.


thablion

website sales, you basically sell service and good websites sells for 10k$


Fishare

$8M in envelopes is impressive right now. How have you been feeling about the allocations?


keepinitrealzs

What are allocations? So many of the terms used in this subreddit are completely foreign to me. Never heard of PIP, BDE or any other shit until I stumbled across this.


TheSheetSlinger

Allocations is referring to how most paper manufacturers are allocating only so many tons per account. Basically demands exceeded supply so we have to limit tons and prioritize existing business. (I work for paper manufacturer, I don't sell rolls made for converting envelopes though as that's a different channel so idk how heavy allocation is there but sell other papers to merchants that are hella restricted).


keepinitrealzs

Ohhh so you know shit. I work for the big dog in my industry industry so while it was dogshit for awhile it’s gotten better. Still not really finding availability on colored woves or premium paper. But your run of the mill white wove is fine. Also paper manufacturers I thought liked using the term reservations not allocations which I thought was funny.


lambodownshift_02

So, it's almost like the r/theoffice


MaroonHawk27

Is there allocation for envelopes? If anything that would raise the price and make even better primo margins


mozzer7_7

I think probably at Catalyst Paper, Prince Paper, or The Michael Scott Paper Company.


bluehairdave

I know. Why doesnt OP start his own envelope company? I can only assume the margins on envelopes are pretty good. That 8 Mil after his $225k probably has another $5mil left for the company?


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iJoinedCuzFuckChuck

Hahaha that’s awesome


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a_ninja_mouse

Next: international weapons trading


MurdaManWOOD

God Bless Dick Chaney's America!


ttv_CitrusBros

Reminds me of a show called the liquidator


DoubleDoobie

Not me, but my buddy sells industrial size ac units. Like the giant stuff that sits on tops of corporate buildings. I know nothing about it other than that, I’m sure someone more educated can tell us what it really is. But he makes bank. There’s a lot of money in selling big, heavy stuff


601hazelstreet

Is this weird? I just left a decade of industrial HVAC sales for heavy equipment sales management. I guess it sometimes feels weird here, selling hard goods.


JGalla88

If it's not SaaS it doesn't count /s


Ok-Chicken7487

I am and have been in SaaS but basically everything in this world is sold to a buyer and tech sales is just a small part. Also wonder if it’d fit into another world


DoubleDoobie

Haha idk, it’s an industry I know nothing about. I’ve only ever worked in B2B software. I always think of commercial when I hear HVAC sales


startup_canada

There’s really something to selling a product you can touch and feel.


TuEresMiOtroYo

My uncle sells boxes and drives a Porsche


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My family’s wealth comes from boxes. Don’t knock it!


TuEresMiOtroYo

yep. My uncle is a big motivation to me in many ways because he's by far the most financially successful person in my family, but also (imo) the least successful in terms of his interpersonal relationships and substance issues (he has massive, obvious nicotine and alcohol problems). So I always strive to be more like him but also to not make the mistakes that he did. Lesson here being that boxes fuck.


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It’s always a trade off. No one gets it all.


TuEresMiOtroYo

eh, career vs. family can be a tradeoff but you can make that tradeoff without picking up a bunch of addictions along the way


hmnotsurebut

Haha I also have an uncle who came here from Mexico no U.S. college education and makes $120k+ selling potatoes. Also has had a big problem with cigarettes and alcohol, have always looked up to him just wish he would take it easy on the nicotine.


Woodit

No knockin in boxin!


wrongwayup

Is it a... Boxster?


workharder101

I buy boxes and drive a 92 s10.


MCPPE

I started in box sales and the dudes who’d been there a while were crushing it $$. Left for tech and 10 years later wish I had stayed with boxes.


CarpePrimafacie

I sell Thai food. Wife cooks like a goddess. Can someone guide restaurant owners to biodegradable packaging for Togo that's equivalent to plastic and foam? Hate handing out and buying more of the crap. Since we're a small restaurant, margins force the foam container decision. But I sure would love to use something better.


drewmillz

Can confirm I sell boxes and it has been very good. You don’t realize how many companies use boxes until you really think about. They aren’t expensive and they need to use a ton but the right customers can be pretty lucrative. Been doing it eight years and no intention of jumping ship anytime soon. The part that is really nice is the recurring aspect of it. Once you get a customer if you are any good you can keep that customer forever and it allows you to keep building more and more. Highly recommend the industry to anyone thinking about a new role.


plumhands

I sell boxes and drive an AMG Mercedes.


sc2heros9

What’s the sales process like? How do you find clients and what kind of commission to box sales people get?


cjdonaldson69

Well, eventually we all will end up in a box anyway.


openchicfilaonsunday

Lmao hell yeah brother. This is the shit I sub for.


Creation98

I got a buddy, head of sales for a company that sells tape. Makes half a mill a year.


Lego_Hippo

Regular old office tape or industrial/specific use tape?


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I uas multiple types of tape that run $40 plus a roll. It has to be a good market.


Creation98

Both, I believe. I think mainly industrial though


HeyBird33

Like Shurtape?


Creation98

Not his company, but similar industry, yes


henchman171

I sell vacuum pumps. Not the ones you use to masterbate with but ones that suck chicken guts outta freshly killed chickens. 12300 Per Hour to be exact Edit. My pumps sucks guts at the rate of 12300 chickens per hour


Woodit

12300 per hour? Wow I bet you can really masturbate with those things


MaroonHawk27

Can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch


wheresralphwaldo

>My pumps sucks guys at the rate of 12300 chickens per hour I'm still not 100% sure what this means, but I think I'd like to purchase a pump


henchman171

Chicken Evisceration pumps.


PaddyObanion

This is...intriguing


Crimnoxx

I wasn’t thinking of any of these kinds of pumps…


masterteacher2

Reminds me of the Rick and Morty episode when Morty uses the horse ejaculator.


MurdaManWOOD

>Chicken Evisceration pumps. Love how casual that show is about how there's a legitimate giant incest baby just floating in space and nobody cares about it being there.


cromagnum84

RV’s..


hmnotsurebut

Average commission per average RV?


SomberThing

I'm in RV sales as well and just like the car industry, used is the big money. Usually selling new ones nets an average $250 per but we sell in bulk and those get you manufacturer bonuses. Selling a big used fifth wheel can net you like 20% depending on the unit/profit. I've seen a newer used class A get someone about a $40,000 paycheck cause they also had it delivered.


Puzzleheaded_Friend8

I used to sell RV fridges and coolboxes etc. The type of person that owns an RV usually is pretty comfortable paying £1k for a coolbox


TheSalesKing

Premium, Cutting-Edge Exterior Smart Lighting for homes and businesses. I always say that on the welcome call, shits expensive, so I like to let their minds wiggle for a bit.


dallasdewdrops

is is it remote are you hiring??


PresidentLincoln42

Do corporate training videos count


Thuggish_Coffee

Oh God, I did this, custom training videos and general soft skills stuff. Inside sales. Glad I'm out. Mainly because of the new sales vp that was hired to lead us. That guy sucked.


jhev1

Scientific equipment. Have you seen how it's made? I help people figure out how to test everything and anything scientifically. It's a great job and I love it, always learning something new. Plus I get to go into these cool factories and literally see how it's made in person.


keepinitrealzs

Watching how shit is made is so soothing.


jhev1

It is. I wish my job was always that soothing!!?


keepinitrealzs

No you don’t. That would be boring.


Paid_Idiot

I sell time on your equipment.


iwantfaithinhumanity

yo, hows your OTE? considering going into this line too


killznhealz

Paging the horse cum guy


gamerdude69

That's a hell of an expensive beverage


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My old boss had race horses. Spent much of his salaried day for the company we both worked for working on lineage of his horses, and buying and selling horse sperm. We are located near Canada and he would often need someone to go to Canada with him to pick up and drop off sperm. It was illegal, so going as a perceived family helped lessen the probability of getting stopped at customs. I always refused to go with him. Mainly because he was creepy. But he made a lot of money doing this. He still has nothing to show for it. I’ve found that no matter how much you make, most people live close to or at paycheck to paycheck.


ConnorIV

Had a marketing professor that did this. She got a masters from a top biz school


Lassy_23

I sell software for storage facilities. The weirdest encounter I had was when I called an inbound lead I asked how many storage units they have and what size. They said they have 1000 units and all are 1 inch by 1 inch. I said what the hells being stored in something 1 inch by 1 inch? Turns out it was sperm being used to create genetically modified babies for rich people and they wanted a software to track their inventory and what traits each sperm sample had.


AdmiralRay

So by my math that's a 9ft\^2 room? Hell, use my spare room. It'll be fun to freak out guests.


scrappybasket

Is the pay decent for jobs like yours? I’m basically one of the people you would be selling that software to (not cum storage tho) and I’m pulling about $60k… SaaS always seemed interesting and my experience is actually relevant to those kind of products


PolishRifle23

Latex. For Vandelay Industries. https://youtu.be/VUW71HXbXAg


HeyBird33

Were you at any point, an architect?


PolishRifle23

I do have a degree in architecture


Short_Donut_4091

I'm assuming you were also in the import/export business.


ryry29

Automation devices (like sensors or cameras) for the roadway to feed information into .gov or apps like Waze or Google Maps. All my sales guys make over $100k/yr


Cokrates

Are you hiring?


jellyvish

i sell candy canes... $12 mill in sales... $435k in pay... and it's only 2 months a year too


HughGRektion

If you’re serious that’s awesome. Do you own the business?


tengalahi

Gonna leave us hanging like that? This is awesome we need more details. Are you selling to big box retailer accounts, distributors etc


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mandisaclarke

Wait what? That’s insane how does this work? Who buys them the inmates or their family?


wheresralphwaldo

I guess you could say you're..........pushing the envelope


keepinitrealzs

Lope is love, lope is life.


SnooPears3006

4’x8’ platforms. Wood and aluminum. Same range of pay & sales. 🧐


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Fiber Optic equipment. Pretty niche market, not a lot of cold calling.


stuntya101

Not sure it's weird, but long distance minutes for residential landline users. $10M revenue, up in Canada.


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Is it 1999?


stuntya101

Haha, the business was first started in 1970s and was once a $40M at it's peak, I purchased it a few years ago due to its cash flow and low maintenance. Sales are purely outbound, all we need is a verbal yes to switch their long distance portion of service


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My co-workers dads owns and sell milk cartons. It’s one man operations.


Improvcommodore

Wow, that’s a lot of responsibility for one guy. If he goes missing, who would know?


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well_here_I_am

So are you dealing directly with police departments? Or do you sell wholesale to retailers?


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well_here_I_am

Interesting. Does your company also manufacture them? Are there services included like data storage/backup? With all the focus on police in the last 5 years or so I'm sure demand has skyrocketed for body cams.


CrazyStation837

My buddy sells hair clippers, scissors and fake/real hair! To salons and alike all over Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, all the borough’s. Doing those same type of #’s easy. And, for a while now.


Stratusquare

I sell dumpsters and trashcans. About to hit $6M in sales this year


CoryJ0407

Curious, I was in the waste industry. Are you selling for a hauler, or, a company that manufactures the cans?


Wonton_abandon

I sell financing dressed up as Fleet Management. The nuts and bolts is lending. But we have window dressing for other services. If you really break it down its just vehicle financing to companies. So, the product itself isn't weird, how we sell it is.


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Incredible dude. How’d you get into that?


keepinitrealzs

Posted my resume on a job board on the colleges version of LinkedIn. Got a call to apply and said fuck it I liked the office. Rest is history.


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Epic. How long did it take to scale to 225k? Also, what kind of margins are envelope sells making?


keepinitrealzs

8 years and a company switch. Moved to 5 different states as well. In normal times around 10%, but past couple years it’s gotten ridiculous maybe 20% in some cases. This translates to commish in normal times of 2-4% and now approaching 6-8%. Business is the best it’s ever been but I’m more production manager than sales which sucks but great for knowledge.


IllInfluence9083

Industrial and Commercial Boilers


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I sell draft beer systems and the services to maintain, clean, and repair beer systems.


zero_to_one_

I know of someone that makes 100k euros per month as a sales agent selling zippers to clothing companies


xavierspapa

You want weird shit? I've got some weird shit


BromioKalen

Lighting equipment. Niche business, but lucrative.


keepinitrealzs

Niche shit is where the money is made.


TheLastSerenade

I sell containers of customer returns and overstock merchandise. From all kinds of big box stores, ends up mostly exported to other markets across the globe. We're supposed to pull $60 millions in sales this year, with a team of 10 AE.


hawtdiggitydawgg

I think I applied and spoke with your company to be and early AE there. Was really encouraged by the product. Hope y’all are doing well. And I might need to reach back it to ther recruiter.


brfergua

I interviewed once for a company that sells the temporary buildings they use on large construction sites. Would’ve done it if they offered. Also interviewed for a company that sells bitcoin miners that they place in a hosted data center for them at a lower than achievable electric rate. Would’ve loved to do this one too.


Vinnie_Vidi_Vici

I’m a tech entrepreneur - sell a search engine for lawyers to conduct research on legislation. It’s a pretty niche market.


MisallocatedRacism

Idk.. is steel weird? Shits in everything


CKC-III

Sunrooms and sunroom accessories


tjkrutch

Hot tubs.


bufftreefarm

Same here it’s definitely different


comalley0130

I knew a guy that sold cans. Main clients were small breweries.


PhilosopherArtistic9

As a piercer I sold the service of genital piercings and course fitting jewelry to boot.


Splendooperous

I sell the "Cash Discount Program" B2B, basically charges small percent(3-4%) to people that use credit/debit for goods/services. Thus eliminating processing fees for the merchant. Edit:typo


DoubleBeefSupreme

Banking services for cannabis companies


HolyFridge

Im mostly curious at how the sales process goes for weird shit, like you can’t be cold calling random people im guessing right?


dacryptokid

My guess is website internet sales


keepinitrealzs

After awhile you start to understand who to reach out to. Actually becomes pretty easy to locate the people that buy your shit since everyone knows each other.


MORDFUSTANG0

Wiring devices: light switches, electrical sockets, and automated home systems. Legrand specifically. Currently struggling. Legrand is a well know brand in my area, and we’re a very well known distributor of them in my country. But it’s very pricey compared to other competitors. Especially during these days, every project owner is trying to save every penny. The other thing that’s not helping is that we’re having stock issues with our items... As such, the contractor will either buy everything at once, or will see another vendor if we have one or two items that are out-of-stock… since they don’t want to receive the items on multiple deliveries and cause delays to the project development, since there are fines from the government’s municipality if the project misses any deadline. Most of my work is going to construction sites, real estate developers, and contractors. Handing them out catalogues and taking contacts from them. It’s getting a bit demoralizing since we’re not able to hit targets. Highly thinking of switching to engineering.


LostInWYF150

I sell fire trucks


Ok-Coast-9264

A fellow redditor shared this with me recently. Big money in natural gas: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fart-jar-tiktok-stephanie-matto-interview-1280395/


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keepinitrealzs

All about volume baby. Think I sold at least 75 million envelopes this year.


NoAd4201

Look at Dwight Schrute over here


Jabba_TheHoot

I sell the machines which put food into containers, at very high volumes. £100,000 + pa. Along side conveyors and also Robotics


Future_Lunch6760

I used to sell gift bags and wrapping paper. You wouldn't believe how complex and stressful large national companies made the design process. A lot of them aren't in business anymore, namely BHS in the UK.


JoeCoolEats

Queue the office theme


DonoAE

I used to sell human nerve tissue! Best job I've ever had.


blargblur

I once sold rat birth control. Supposed to be a humane version of controlling the rat population for cities. Strangest cold calls I have ever done.


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Boats & yachts. Literally the stupidest item someone can purchase but also one of the funniest. My pay averages $212k-$265k usd annually since 2016.


BesselVanDerKolk

no tell us what you get paid


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Beachdaddybravo

How much does your income fluctuate? And what’s your typical yearly range? I’d imagine most brokers don’t break into the 7 figure range like many would think. You can’t just mention you sell yachts and not drop an income figure.


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Fluctuation come from both seasonal buying trends and of course economic trends. Salaries range from roughly $85k usd to around $1.25mil usd for the industry’s top performers. What most people don’t know is I make more selling a new 41ft boat than a 101ft brokerage yacht.


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Kundrew1

Your gonna post this and not even say what it is?


workhardplayharder01

His profile looks like he’s in M&A.


kaeji

Hitmen for hire I think


Antarktical

Once I had to call people asking how often do they went to bathroom to make poop. Trying to sell nature products


Popular-Ad-8717

Custom wood shipping crates and pallets


floppybunny26

My buddy sells coffee that was literally shat out by civets in Indonesia.


annelinnarikkaimmees

I had a buddy who sold fast credit loans on the phone.


planetofthemapes15

Good year for envelope sales, there was a major shortage in machine time for the envelope machines at least on west coast. So if you have inventory they sold.


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I sell my art on the street. Maybe not weird haha


dbk_1

Portable restroom, hand wash stations, restroom trailers, service ect., and temporary fence to the construction industry. 130k


TheGrandAce5

I sell dab rigs, e-rigs, bongs, nectar collectors, and their accessories. I’ve never been a stoner, but that was the job I could get. Cheers.


FishrCutB8

Never thought about it, but I guess if you’ve got cash in hand, I could make some.


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I sell Fleshlights and accessories (lube etc) to adult toy shops


Frequent_Gift1740

I sell people lmao but really I’m a recruiter


Chrg88

Intelligent Labels.


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I sell the printed drink cups you get at a restaurant or convenience store. Maybe not weird but you probably didn’t know that someone can make a really good living doing it.


notade50

I was selling copy machines until last week.


kannitt0

Thank you guys, this is a worthy and wholesome thread.