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Colin Landforce 🛠

@landforce

Building things and making content. 🛠️🏴‍☠️ Cut30 bootcamp https://t.co/iw5cP8JVLC

Portland, OR Katılım Mayıs 2014
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Colin Dougherty
Colin Dougherty@colindougherty·
"It's a bizarre time in golf merch." @landforce isn't mad about it: "All of this is powered by the fact that everybody is on fire about golf merch." The Masters cleared ~$80M in 7 days. $35 hats. $100+ polos. "There's some truly awful stuff out there. I'm not afraid of anything here."
Colin Landforce 🛠@landforce

The Masters is gonna do $70M in merch sales before the weekend is over but John Daly is gonna do $1M from the parking lot of a dive bar in Augusta while blasting cigs and sipping Diet Cokes What's more impressive/sick?

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Mehtab | Karta Ventures
Mehtab | Karta Ventures@MehtabKarta·
Fun fact. You can get ancient artifacts relatively reasonably priced that make awesome gifts. Here’s a Byzantine fire bomb I got a friend 😂
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Greg Baumann
Greg Baumann@glbaumann·
I reviewed the X algorithm and have programmatically shaped my feed to be just dunk highlight reels and Will Manidis essays
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Barrett O'Neill
Barrett O'Neill@barrettjoneill·
@landforce I wouldn’t care about this kids stupidity if he weren’t helping people take out debt.
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Colin Landforce 🛠
Colin Landforce 🛠@landforce·
Wait til this kid finds out about gold
hunter@hxxntrr

You can walk into any Apple Store in America, buy $50,000 in MacBooks and iPhones on 0% business credit cards, and resell every single item for 85 to 95% of retail on eBay, Swappa, and Facebook Marketplace the same day. Cash in your bank account by Friday This is how people convert 0% credit limits into liquid cash without Plastiq, without Melio, and without paying a 2.85% processing fee The Apple Store accepts credit cards for purchases up to $50,000. No questions. No ID beyond what's needed for Apple Pay. You walk in, buy 8 MacBook Pros at $2,499 each, and walk out with $19,992 on your Chase Ink Business Unlimited at 0% APR List them on eBay as "Brand New Sealed" at $2,199 each. They sell in 24 to 48 hours because sealed Apple products have the highest resale velocity of any consumer electronics on earth. People buy them because they're getting a $300 discount on a product that never goes on sale $2,199 x 8 = $17,592 in eBay revenue eBay + PayPal fees (13%): -$2,287 Your net cash received: $15,305 You spent $19,992 on a credit card. You got $15,305 in cash. You "lost" $4,687 "That's a terrible deal" No. You converted $19,992 in credit into $15,305 in LIQUID CASH at a cost of $4,687. That's a 23.5% conversion fee Plastiq charges 2.85% but has a $100K annual limit and many payees are restricted. Melio charges 2.85% but some payments take 5 to 7 days and large amounts trigger manual review The Apple resale method has: No annual limit (buy as much as they'll sell you) No payment restrictions (it's a retail purchase) No manual review (it's a credit card transaction at a store) Cash in your bank within 3 to 5 days (eBay payouts are fast) And you can improve the conversion rate dramatically: iPhones resell at 92 to 96% of retail (better than MacBooks). A $1,199 iPhone 16 Pro Max sells for $1,050 to $1,100 on Swappa within 48 hours. That's only a 5 to 8% loss after fees iPads resell at 88 to 93% of retail AirPods Max resell at 85 to 90% Apple Watches resell at 82 to 88% The optimal mix for maximum cash extraction: $30,000 in iPhone 16 Pro Max units (25 phones at $1,199): resell at $1,080 avg = $27,000 - 13% fees = $23,490 net. Loss: $6,510 (21.7%) $20,000 in iPad Pro units (10 iPads at $1,999): resell at $1,799 avg = $17,990 - 13% fees = $15,651 net. Loss: $4,349 (21.7%) Total credit card spend: $50,000 Total cash received: $39,141 Conversion rate: 78.3% Effective "fee": 21.7% "21.7% is way worse than Plastiq's 2.85%" Yes. If Plastiq works for your use case, use Plastiq. The Apple method is for when you need: More than $100K liquidated (Plastiq has limits) Cash in 3 days not 7 No paper trail linking credit cards to bank deposits through a payment processor (the cash appears as eBay/PayPal revenue, not as a Plastiq transfer) Amounts above $25K per transaction (Melio flags large single payments) The people doing this at scale aren't converting $50K. They're converting $200K to $500K across multiple Apple Stores, Best Buys, Costcos, and authorized resellers. At that volume they have eBay stores with Top Rated Seller status, which reduces fees to 10.5% and pushes the conversion rate to 82 to 85% There's also the Amazon Retail Arbitrage version: buy Apple products at retail, sell on Amazon as a third-party seller, Amazon pays out every 2 weeks. The conversion rate is similar but Amazon's customer base is willing to pay closer to retail for the Prime badge and the Amazon return policy A guy in our network converts $80K to $100K per month from credit cards to cash using this exact method across Apple, Costco, and Best Buy. His blended conversion rate after eBay fees and marketplace fees: 81%. He converts $100K in credit into $81K in cash every month $81K in cash from $100K in 0% credit. His "cost" of $19K per cycle is his equivalent of a processing fee. He treats it as a cost of capital. $19K to access $81K in free cash for 15 months = effective annualized cost of 18.6% "18.6% is expensive" Compared to what? An MCA (merchant cash advance) charges 40 to 150% effective APR A hard money loan charges 12 to 18% + 2 to 3 points A personal loan at 680 score charges 15 to 24% APR A credit card balance at standard APR: 24.99% 18.6% annualized for UNSECURED CASH with NO APPLICATION PROCESS, NO UNDERWRITING, and NO REPAYMENT SCHEDULE beyond minimums at 0% for 15 months is cheaper than almost every alternative source of liquid capital for someone without assets to collateralize And the credit card rewards on $100K in Apple Store purchases: roughly $2,000 to $3,000 in points. That drops the effective cost to 15.6 to 16.6% btw the IRS doesn't track retail purchases on credit cards. The purchase shows up as "APPLE STORE #R123" on your credit card statement. The eBay revenue shows up as income from your eBay seller account. If your LLC is the eBay seller, the purchase is a "business inventory expense" and the revenue is "product sales." The accounting is clean this is the emergency version of the liquidation play. when you need cash in 72 hours, can't wait for Plastiq, and need more than $25K. you walk into Apple, buy everything they'll sell you, walk out, list it on eBay, and have cash in your bank by Friday. the most liquid asset in America isn't gold or bitcoin. it's a sealed iPhone lmfaooo (we get 700+ score business owners $100K-$250K in 0% business funding. how you liquidate is your business. we build the capital stack. link in bio)

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Chris Riley
Chris Riley@LCSlates·
Well so much for that. Already lost. The system is utterly fucked and broken. @stripe 48-page evidence package. Easy to read, Table of contents, filled with visuals (a junior bank employee could easily understand everything). The customer used the product for 49 days, was logged in 13 hours before filing the chargeback, then canceled the subscription 5 hours after the dispute was already filed. *Technically they are still ACTIVE. Here's everything we submitted: PAYMENT INTEGRITY • AVS postal-code check: PASS • CVC check: PASS • Stripe Radar score: Normal (22 / low risk) • Auth success rate on customer email: 100% • Card brand, last-4, fingerprint, exp, billing ZIP all confirmed by issuer CUSTOMER USE POST-CHARGE • 35 distinct active days in 49 days • 393 authenticated session-refresh events • 17 long-form SEO articles generated • 18 AI images generated • 3 WordPress sites configured (admin credentials added) • 4 Google accounts authenticated via OAuth • Customer added their own paid OpenAI API key (BYOK) • 4 team members added TIMING • 49 days between charge and dispute • Logged into the dashboard 13 hours BEFORE filing the chargeback • Canceled the subscription 5 hours AFTER the dispute was filed INDEPENDENT IP CORROBORATION • Stripe captured IP at checkout: Manchester, UK • Microsoft Clarity captured 22 of 38 sessions over 60 days: also Manchester, UK • Two unrelated 3rd parties placing the same person in the same city across payment + 60 days of authenticated use THE KICKER - THE CUSTOMER'S OWN PUBLIC WEBSITE CURRENTLY DEPENDS ON OUR PRIVATE CDN • Articles generated on his account are LIVE on his own public WordPress sites • Page source contains img tags pointing INSIDE our private R2 bucket • Last-Modified headers on those CDN files match the EXACT minute his account generated them • Currently fetched by every visitor to his website CRYPTOGRAPHIC IDENTITY CHAIN (Automattic / Gravatar) • Every WordPress author avatar = SHA-256(author email) • 3 of his sites, 3 perfect SHA-256 matches against the gmail addresses in our DB • Automattic has no relationship with us, the customer, or the bank • Effectively unforgeable email-to-WP-admin binding DOMAIN OWNERSHIP (third-party attestation) • Google Search Console verified ownership on 4 separate domains • Public WHOIS: 2 of his domains registered 9 SECONDS APART through the same registrar account • Both registered 5 MONTHS BEFORE he bought our subscription • Pre-existing content business, not a stolen-card test VISA CE 3.0 ELIGIBLE • Same payment credential had a $0.00 trial-start invoice marked "paid" 7 days before the disputed charge • Same customer, email, payment method, subscription • Exactly the prior-undisputed-transaction proof Visa CE 3.0 requires The chargeback dispute system is broken.
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48 pages, 2hrs later, fingers crossed.

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Casey McDaniel - Pest Control Guy
We’ve been calling around to order 5000 hats and apparently that’s actually kind of hard to do? Everybody keeps telling us that nobody orders 5000 hats.
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OnThinIce
OnThinIce@OnThinlce·
OVO GILLIS
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith@adamstatonsmith·
You pay @Paychex to remit your payroll taxes. We just found out 5.5 months later they didn’t. No reason. No explanation. Their answer: “we could not find a reason.” That’s a hell of a service.
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Oren John
Oren John@orenmeetsworld·
The new product launch hotspot... is the cafe takeover. Swap just announced their agentic storefronts with a... quite literal agentic storefront at Airmail in London. With not just a hat or shirt, but a whole suite of unique Swap merch as well. The takeover is live on Chiltern Street through May 15th, and there’s a happy hour tomorrow if you’re in town: luma.com/9raqpq0e
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Alex Garcia 🔍
Alex Garcia 🔍@alexgarcia_atx·
The video referenced here and everything that makes it great: • great title hook - shares an opinion that people will either agree or disagree with • yap format - in the top 3 of formats on social right now - def top for creators • clean set, good composition, and great lighting • delivery and pacing - chefs kiss • camera presence - also amazing Now some of the more specifics when it comes to execution • Listicle Type Yap - great • Reveals ranking then adds great, bright b-roll • clean editing with no crazy effects Overall a banger video!
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Aash just put up her first million view video, you love to see it

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Colin Landforce 🛠@landforce·
Aash just put up her first million view video, you love to see it
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Rory Tyer
Rory Tyer@RoryTyer·
@landforce In my experience over the past few months, Cowork burns tokens like crazy and is unnecessary if you know how to use Claude Code in terminal. I think it is for people who don’t know how to use a terminal
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Colin Landforce 🛠@landforce·
I’m trying to be more like you guys so I just asked Claude to organize my desktop and it’s basically been taking screenshots and burning tokens for 12 minutes now. is this the future? Why not just fetch a list of files in the Desktop folder and do an organization pass based on file names and another after that based on file contents and call it a day? Am I doing this wrong?
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