Can I Have 50 Thousand Dollars? No Seriously, Can I?

Don’t give him a fish. Teach him to fish. Send him a copy of your ebook.

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.

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.

You give man a fish,he will eat for the day.
You teach man how to fish,he will eat for life!

John! where’s the link to his website?

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

I’d say ill think about it when i will start making that much from adsense

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.

I hate people like that, just consider it spam?

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

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

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.

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.

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..

Imagine how many people would ask for something if you actually gave him the car (not that you would)!

Sending him the following:
-Your eBook
-Link to your preferred CMS/blogging system of choice (Wordpress)
-Link to your hosting company of choice (Hosting Canada)
-A suggestion that he earn the money exactly like you are doing. Anything worth having is worth working for.

If you were incredibly nice I would offer to pay for his web hosting for 1 year. 12 months is more than enough time to make money to pay for his hosting and be well on his way to a car (USED).

Keep us updated!

Ask him what color he wants and if he had an insurance company preference…what a donkey…

Just give him 25% of the revenue generated by this blog post, which he made possible

I have a better and cheaper idea! Give the money to me! It will be going towards paying the last ($14,000) of my student loans!

Is that not a much better and cheaper than a car? What has he done to prove his worth? At least I put in four years of work and contribute productivity to society.

I don’t think this is much of a money issue, but from a Eurpean standpoint, putting an Audi TT in the hands of a sixteen year old is simply irresponsible behaviour. The kid is young, has dreams, I wanted an iPod when I was sixteen. Sheesh. He should learn how the world really works.

He didn’t specify what currency… so I would agree to his request and send him 50k in Monopoly money

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day
Teach him to fish and he eats for his life, but then gets mercury poisoning, and fishy breath.

Is there any way you can make money off this kid? Oh, yes, you made a post up about him and you already have!!! You are SO EVIL!!!!! And now you are making money off me writing about it, EVIL!!!!!

–C8j

Personally, I’d give him one of these three:

1. The “Biggest Balls” award

2. The “Most Clueless” award

3. The “Biggest Victim of this Generation’s Sense of Entitlement” award.

Vic

I would tell that 16 year old that I had to earn it and so should you! Also, it’s not cool to beg!

Had to check my calendar. It wasn’t April Fools’ Day…

But seriously let him have an e-book. In fact I will give him one he could use for FREE:

Making Sense of Internet Marketing Chaos

As a bonus he should be instructed also to read my article “What You SHOULD KNOW To Dramatically Increase YOUR Google Adsense Income”

Finally, when he has implemented these and your tips he could enjoy the fruits of his OWN labour just as the rest of us will need to settle with reaping what we sow.

Beggars should never be paid. It spreads just like spam….

Have a nice weekend.

Give him Audi TT and I would like to have Ferrari!

I would talk him down to a smart car or echo and coach him on how to find sponsors for the car to advertise on it.

I would like to have $1,000,000, can You give me? I think he should earn himself this money. He will see the value of them then.

I wonder if that kid has read this post/comments yet

This was entertaining. Its amazing that people would actually ask someone for something like 50,000. I had to buy my own first car and pay for insurance. And it was a piece of shit. Ive since graduated to a 2002 honda accord, but i had to work for it.

I could see if he asked you to help him make his own money, but flat out asking for 50k is crazy. He at least could have kidnapped something and held it for ransom. Make it more interesting.

I would have suggested he get a cheap (

If you are so absurdly rich that you can afford it without trouble, give him the $50k just for having the balls to ask.

Simple…

Buy an Audi TT, drive it to his house and then smash it up in front of him then laugh in that evil way that im sure you do and then get a helicopter to pick you up

I was reading through the comments on here and it amazes me why some people would automatically assume this kid even has a website. Just because he is a visitor or reader, does not mean he might actually have a blog or any website of his own.

I totally would not give him anything. His expectations for a car is unreasonable especially when asking for a freebie. I wouldn’t even pay for his domain or web hosting as someone suggested either. I have no problem donating money to those who need it but this kid apparently don’t “need” it, he just wants “it”. There is a difference.

I would email him back politely and ask him to earn it himself. He obviously read this blog so he should have no problem getting started on his own. I know of a website that started about 4 years ago by a 15 yr old kid (at the time) that now has 1.8 million visitors. There is no excuse for him to not be able to earn it himself online or the old fashion way.

doesn’t he know that is a chick car?

Give him 50k, John! That’s like a penny out of your fat piggy bank

Just kidding

Hrm…do this:

John: Hi Keenen, you seem to have a talent in writing. Because of that, I’m going to give you more than just 50k. I’ll give you an infinite amount of $$$$ *give copy of e-book*. Now you can earn beyond mere 50k

I would either ignore him, or make up some story as to why I can’t send him money - while suggesting he get a job and earn it himself.

The kid just gave you something to post, you should give him something now.

This kid is insane. Nothing is free.

If he’s 16 he does not deserve a nice car like that. The first car anyone drives should be a junker. Like my first car, 1991 Mercury Sable. Now that car was a true junker!

John tell that kid to go to the used car dealership and look for a $3,000 car.

I really like the idea of Derek (send him a miniature of the Audi TT) and Shawn (send him 50k Monopoly money)

My personal response would go something like this:

Dear [kid's name],

Sincerely,
XXX

Damn! I wish these people could just … I don’t know … die or something Sorry, that was mean.

But seriously! What’s going on with people nowadays? I remember being the happiest kid when my mom would buy me an ice cream.

Buy an Audi, take a photo with you behind the wheel, and send it to little Keenen with a header “check out my new wheels!” And somewhere in the text, you can then tell him about the fish/fishing analogy.

Offer him a six month mentorship so that he can begin earning his own money online. Help him set up a website. Walk him through the development and promotion of it. Help promote his site with your site. Let him earn his own car, but help him to do it.

Hi

Can you possibly highhlight the ‘Adsense for Darfur’ campaign on your website and encourage bloggers to help 2.5 million people in desperate need?

Thank you

Alan

I would tell him to read John Chow’s posts from day one, so that he can earn his own money and upgrade that audi to a bentley continental flying spur…

John pls. can you buy me a skateboard..

Haha.. Audi TT without work… you bet kiddo… read John’s posts and his ebook and work and then buy your self some cool new wheels..

Who knows, if you’r smart you could even end up buying new Bugatti Veyron before your 25th birthday.. just don’t get yourself killed..

I would show him this link and tell him he better start saving.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_17/b4031064.htm

You gotta admit, the kid’s got guts. I always tell my kids that “You’ll never know if you don’t ask - the answer just might be yes.”

Kids nowadays, eh? When I was 16 I remember asking my dad for a cellphone. Back then they were still ginormous — bigger than an iPhone but definitely smaller than Surface LOL.

Am I the only one that thinks that it a little rude to ask people for that kind of money? Let alone, a total stranger? I agree with the first commentor.. send him an e-book! *=)

wow, this is pathetic. send him over a free copy of your ebook and tell him to read it. Tell him earn the $$$ look you do.

haha, Audi TT in NYC.. John, can I have $400 so I could pay you for blog review? sorry..I am having a bad day.

I would respond by saying hey I can not give you 50k but maybe I can help you set up your own site so you can get the 50k on your own. It’s nothing like having your own money

Well, if you’re going to aim, aim high.

Seriously, remember Benny Hill, the UK comedian?

He left ALL his estate to a single fan who admired him, and never pestered Benny for money.

Be careful what you wish for, it might come true.