Remember my blog post about Kyle MacDonald’s Storebuyout.com Well, I and many others received the following email this week:
Here’s a video of a chat we had with Hercules.
The original sales receipt is currently being auctioned to help buy
Hercules the store of his dreams. Please spread the word!
http://cgi.ebay.com/
have fun,
Kyle
So, currently the auction stands at $1,025 with the reserve not met. I can’t wait to see what happens. Whether this receipt is sold for heaps or it isn’t I love Kyle’s approach to the world and there is heaps to learn from him so check out www.storebuyout.com and get learning!
I have mentioned Kyle MacDonald a number of times before, most notably through one of his projects OneRedPaperClip.com whereby he traded a paperclip to a house. This time, Kyle has done it again with an awesome little project called StoreBuyOut.com
Just to back track a little bit as I would like to make an important point about Kyle MacDonald. Kyle MacDonald has tried a number of things, some of his things have worked, like OneRedPaperclip.com and some haven’t like whoaretheseguys.com (which he eventually turned into a comedy show). Even before Kyle launched OneRedPaperClip he did many other things that were not so big, not many heard about any of them, until OneRedPaperClip did so well.
Irrespective of what has worked for Kyle or what has not worked for Kyle, one thing is completely and utterly true: Kyle loves projects. Kyle gets an idea in his head and he wont stop until he has given it a go, whatever the hell happens to the project and I completely and utterly respect the guy for that. Kyle MacDonald lives his life with passion.
Now, back to Kyle’s latest project: storebuyout.com. Kyle MacDonald and some of his artist mates walk into a local convenience store and buy everything. The guy who owns the store, Hercules, was running out of money and had some bills to pay. Kyle and his mates came up with Storebuyout.com in order to help him out.
All of the contents of the store have been turned into ‘art’ and are being showcased in an art gallery. Kyle and his team are also looking to sell these items, after they have been turned into ‘art’ and will be sold.. including an upside down can of coke for $400.
Now, with the turning it into art and selling it on bit, this is interesting. I would love to know whether they are secretly going to share some of the profit with Hercules, it would be nice if they did. Some people will buy this stuff, just because it is ‘arty’. Fair play.
Kyle made a big gamble here, he had to raise the money from somewhere and presumably he owes this money back. It is a huge gamble but he took a risk and I hope that it will work out for him and will financially bring a return for him. I have to say though that this guy is really living his life and I can only do nothing but respect that.