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Not So Great Inventions #1
A would-be inventor was having trouble scraping the thick sheet of ice from his car windows when he came up with an idea.
He had just bought a new snow shovel and it had a metal edge on it to help break up ice. Why not create a car ice scraper with a metal blade? He drew up the plans, had them manufactured and began marketing his new invention. Initial sales were excellent but his newly formed company soon went bankrupt as there were no reorders at all. His product removed ice better than any other on the market. It was a great price; well built and there were still 3 months of winter left. What went wrong seeing as the product worked so well?
He had just bought a new snow shovel and it had a metal edge on it to help break up ice. Why not create a car ice scraper with a metal blade? He drew up the plans, had them manufactured and began marketing his new invention. Initial sales were excellent but his newly formed company soon went bankrupt as there were no reorders at all. His product removed ice better than any other on the market. It was a great price; well built and there were still 3 months of winter left. What went wrong seeing as the product worked so well?
Hint
He made a lot of windshield repair shops happy.Answer
Most ice scrapers are plastic; some are wooden, but other than this one, never metal. Plastic and wood rarely scratch glass. Metal, on the other hand, can scratch glass quite easily; especially when it is run across a windshield vigorously in an attempt to remove ice and snow, as the unfortunate owners of the metal ice scraper soon found out.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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That is not too bad
I thought it would be something like the product was so popular that everyone had bought one in the first few weeks that he sold them so no one needed one after that
I thought the same thing as bullet... that it worked so well, that people didn't need to buy another one.
good,but easy
The hint helped alot! Good one!
Pretty obvious really.
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