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Updated: 7:56 PM Feb 17, 2010
Big Bucks, Small Capitalist
Most third-graders enjoy playing with friends outside and playing video games, and while one elementary student does enjoy those things, he also has been able to make more than just a few extra bucks.
Posted: 7:52 PM Feb 17, 2010Reporter: Andrew Colegrove Email Address: andrew.colegrove@wsaz.com |
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ASHLAND, Ky. (WSAZ) -- Most third-graders enjoy playing with friends outside and playing video games, and Sawyer Mays does enjoy those things.
However, he also has a knack for selling, and the Fairview Elementary student has been able to make more than just a few extra bucks.
"A couple weeks ago I tried to sell a crab,” Mays said. “He was pretty old, but I didn't sell it, so after that I said ‘I can't sell nothing.’ I just threw him out in the woods."
It doesn't sound like the resume of a professional salesman, but young Sawyer is gaining experience.
His mother’s coworker, Providence Hills Manager Marty Kershner, had tried for weeks to sell her ‘95 Grand Voyager with no luck.
"I put a for-sale sign on it cause I'd been making double payments,” Kershner said. "That's hard.”
She told her maintenance workers that if they sold the car for more than she was asking for, they could keep the commission, but they didn’t accept her offer.
After the crab fiasco, 8-year-old Sawyer was ready to take on a new challenge. He decided to help sell the van.
"The reason I got involved is because of the cash," he said.
Sawyer worked tirelessly to spread the word about the vehicle, putting up homemade signs all over Ashland and even telling the faculty at his school about it.
Finally he pitched the purple van to a representative at Fred Unrue Pre-Owned Sales who decided to buy it, leaving the third-grader with a hundred dollar commission.
"He was really working,” Kershner said. “He deserved the money."
"It made me feel awesome that I helped Marty," Sawyer said.
The budding capitalist used his earnings to purchase a pair of binoculars and a bow and arrow set.
Along with doing some deer hunting, Sawyer plans to use his new items to earn a Cub Scout Archery Merit Badge.
Despite his talent for sales, he says he wants to be a scientist when he grows up.
Latest Comments
Did anyone actually listen to this story when it aired? He did not help his Mom sell a car. He helped his Mom's assistant manager sell her car because she was struggling making 2 seperate car payments. In this economy not many of us can afford to do that. The kid saw an opportunity at a young age to help someone who was struggling and was rewarded with money in which he used to purchase something he wanted for cubscouting. Do you not realize that it takes a lot of money for kids sports no days and that he is going to share his equipment that he purchased, with money he earned with the other children in his cubscout group? Many of which cannot afford to buy their own individual equipment? I think it is awesome what he did. Good story WSAZ!!!
Sawyer is a wonderful kid who saw an oppourtunity and took advantage of it. Who many of take advantage of the oppourtunities that have been presented to you or all of you that are bashing this child riding on the coat tails of someone who has seen an oppourtunity and realized it and made a proffit from it? I guess would be that you all work for someone else & always will. In other words you will only achieve what someone else will let you you achieve in their company which you are employeed. Now when was the last time you peta & animal rights types went to Red Lobster? Those lobster's there in the tank with thier claws tapped together in the aquarium are dropped into scalding hot water alive when you order them for dinner. They make a grewsome sound when that happens also. So why not go pick on them? As for the crab I like mine with lemon butter.
Does anyone have a good recipe for crab cakes? Please post it.
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