Popular mechanics still had those cheesy/scammy mail in ads when I read it in the 90s.
I always wanted to build the hovercraft you could supposedly build with old vacuum cleaners, but in my heart I knew it either wouldn't work or would be super expensive for a kid.
I wonder if some YouTuber has tried building from those scammy old plans...
11 Comments
Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 11d
Only person getting rich is the man who posted the ad!
Hamartia@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 11d
I N S P I T E O F Y O U R S E L F
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 10d
https://archive.org/details/getrichinspiteof00graf/mode/2up
jdr@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 10d
Would you have believed that it was written by an ad man?
Hamartia@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
Hamartia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10d
Great find!
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11d
Reminds me of the pack pages of Boys Life or Hustler magazine.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 10d
Hey hey hey, it never promised quick.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 10d
Popular mechanics still had those cheesy/scammy mail in ads when I read it in the 90s.
I always wanted to build the hovercraft you could supposedly build with old vacuum cleaners, but in my heart I knew it either wouldn't work or would be super expensive for a kid.
I wonder if some YouTuber has tried building from those scammy old plans...
jdr@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 10d
EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 11d
Seems everything you'd buy through the mail in those days, both sham and legit products alike,
was soldcould be bought C.O.D.