I get tons of emails from people asking me for stuff but this one from 16 year old Keenen should win some kind of award. However, I’m not sure what award I should give it.
Hey, I’m trying to raise money for a car. I’m a sixteen year old kid in New York city and my parents wont buy me a car or even let me drive until I get my own insurance and my own car. With all the money you make from Adsense per week I was wondering if you would be willing to give me $50k so I can purchase an Audi TT and insurance for at least two years.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope you reply. Note: If you actually visited the site this email address is hosted on I’m asking for a Mustang, but just recently have I seen the TT and I’m hooked. I haven’t gotten a chance to change the layout with all the freezing Photoshop causes on my computer.
From Mustang to Audi TT. Nice upgrade. I guess I’m lucky he didn’t see a Ferrari! How would you reply to Keene if you got the above email?
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Don’t give him a fish. Teach him to fish. Send him a copy of your ebook.
Exactly!
From his e-mail I can tell that he’s a pretty good writer. So, with John’s e-book, it shouldn’t be too hard for him earn enough money for Audi R8, let alone the TT.
I will absolutely disagree that the kid is a good writer.
well.. i see “FREE! John Chow dot Com EBook! ” under your post on my feed reader. is that could be the answer?
or you may give his site linked as a reward, but actually, being discussed on this *cough* forum *cough* blog has already been kind of a reward for him
He might get to it later.
Beat me too it
But this is exactly right, send him a copy of your EBook.
If I was given 1k I would blow thou it in a day but if I spent a month working to earn that money I would be a little more respectful of it.
PS.. Where is the link to his site?
that kid clearly doesnt want to work. and hes asking for 50K. it would be one thing if he was asking for food cause he was poor, but this is out of line.
I agree. He sounds like a spoiled and shameless kid. If u give him an audi (that u will definitely do
), he will ask for an A 380.
Well you would be amazed at the number of sites that I have seen where people beg/ask for money - its been called cybebegging.
I found this one website where a woman was asking for money to buy breast implants and don’t you know that she actually got the money!
If you’re asking for micro-donations and you’ve got a good story, you can get lots of free money. If you ask for $50K from one person with a crappy story like this, you’ll never get anything…
I agree, but I don’t think his parents taught him about common courtesy. You don’t just ask for $50k from someone you know. John’s eBook should be enough to get his money making quest on the go.
I agree. You just dont ask for $50k. He should ask for $100k
Great idea for the eBook.
This is one of the things in life that I simply do not understand. People blatantly begging for money and expecting to get a dime of it.
Good call - I’m with Peter. Get that ebook off to him although you do need to give points for creativity and gusto!
Hilarious.
Supposedly uber rich people have these kind of issues…but more in the form of people knocking on their doors, people expecting them to pay for lunches, etc.
It must be a pain when you win the lottery or something similar and you won enough to make people think that you’re crazy rich, but in reality you don’t have enough to hire people to take care of these people for you.
I’m hoping to skip that step and go from reasonable living to rich enough to maintain a support staff in one leap.
I’d say…..go get a job ya freeloader!
To me sounds like good initiative to start making money, get out there and make something happen instead of begging.
where is my comment?
If I could afford it, I’d buy it for him. I’m all for teaching people how to fish instead of giving them the fish, but when someone makes an impresion on me in such a way that I dedicate a whole post to them, I thing they deserve a reward. Go for it.
$50,000 reward?!
Not necesarily, but maybe. 50,000 might be a bit extreme, but I liked one of the other ideas that were posted
You give man a fish,he will eat for the day.
You teach man how to fish,he will eat for life!
or at least until the fish are all gone.
But the kid will get to drive for two years. That’s way more than a day
John! where’s the link to his website?
yah where the link. it wont hurt to give it to us.
Lets atleast help him buy a prototype of the car!!!
This is a semi-serious idea:
Have him write a guest post and make an argument for why he should get money to pay for a car. Then you can either:
- pay him what you would normally pay a guest blogger
- allow readers to “buy him a soda” (can’t do beer too young)
- or give him a bounty based on number of comments to his post
- or set up the post so people have to do a jump to read the entire thing
- set up something like Make Money and have him recruit friends to write about your website and link to your site from their MySpace pages, web sites, blogs, etc.
Or any combination of the above…
That way he earns some money towards his goal and you build audience/attention.
JM
This idea is good
Good idea actually.
I’d say ill think about it when i will start making that much from adsense
If I were John, I’d tell him, “look, kid, if it were all up to me I’d buy you the car myself, but I don’t think your folks are going to be too thrilled about a grown evil man giving you a car — nor will my wife.”
This is an easy one.
I would offer to pay for his first domain and two years of web hosting. I would then tell him to read johnchow.com and learn how to make his own money.
you don’t need too serious,
it just a spammer.
I hate people like that, just consider it spam?
I agree! There’s nothing worse than people who won’t work for their money and expect people to support them. Anyone can be extremely wealthy if they work smart and work hard…
I’d say he needs to get a job instead of begging…unless begging will be his job.
I think it’s a good idea you didn’t put his web address.. sounds like he just wanted you to put his address so he could get traffic
Could be a ploy to get more traffic through John. Good point.
Imagine the linkbait you would get if you bought him a car. That would be all over the newspapers, tv shoes. Jay leno….the tonight show you might be able to get on haha.
I DONT KNOW IF THAT IS WORTH 50K
Exactly! John, give me $10k for great publicity! Way more value!
I’d answer:
Hello,
Thank you very much! You saved my time and it’s great!
With all that money coming in it’s so damn hard to figure out how to spend it. And Audio TT is a great choice.
As my appreciation I saved your time too. I alredy bought you a car and left it in at my local dealer. You can reach him at High Street 15, Vancouver. Tell him that you are for John Chow Audio TT for smart kid.
Hope that you like this car and as the favour please post a link to my blog at your homepage.
haha lol.
I’d inform him that you can find an Audi much cheaper than $50k so you will purchase it for him and arrange delivery. Then go out and buy a HotWheels Audi and mail it to him with a letter instructing him how to earn his own money to afford a car.
If I was going to beg for money, I would set my sights a little bit lower.
John, I’d really like to be able to afford to send my kids to college. Unfortunately they are not studying hard enough to get scholarships so I am going to have to pay for it. Since I am focused on saving for an early retirement, I was wondering if you could give me $1,000 to start their college fund.
I absolutely love the HotWheels idea, Derek.
same
For someone who is so desperately in need of money for a car, he has pretty high standards for what car he wants. Beggars can’t be choosy.
WOW that guy need serius help haha
Send him your eBook :D.
“Bugger off and get a job you hippy.”
I dunno, surely as you are John Chow, and I saw that video yesterday, you’d know exactly what to do!
I gotta go with the ebook idea…give him something to learn from…
Send him a John Chow T-shirt with
on it. By the way have you made these up yet?Also include the hotwheels car like Derek suggested.
The kid a freeloader but has some balls for asking.
GET A FREAKIN’ JOB!! These are some of the things I talk about on my blog. Kids want and want but have absolutely no work ethic.
i agree with everyone else send him an ebook..