When rentoid.com was launched. I believed in the concept, the dream and the process. (still do).
So in order to make the site work I had to put some stuff to put up for rent. Stuff I didn’t even own – yet. Once the site went live, it needed stuff on it. But at that stage we had no members, so we had to populate the site. Content was and is King. Included in my listed stuff was a home gym. A rental came in for it. So I went and bought it. It cost me $400 to buy. I rented it out for $140. Then Sold it on Ebay afterwards for $280. (We now have other suppliers of gyms for rental on rentoid)
Net result:
A good user experience for a new member
A $20 profit
And I felt the excitement that goes along with bootstrapping; finding creative solutions, and most importantly, inventing transactions.