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| | so many business opportunities: sell them shovels, "100% treasure chest-free lawn" certifications, lawn security cameras, security camera disabling equipment, useless dowsing rods, cheap metal detectors, barbed wire, stepladders... [[Special:Contributions/172.69.91.125|172.69.91.125]] 19:05, 17 February 2024 (UTC) | | so many business opportunities: sell them shovels, "100% treasure chest-free lawn" certifications, lawn security cameras, security camera disabling equipment, useless dowsing rods, cheap metal detectors, barbed wire, stepladders... [[Special:Contributions/172.69.91.125|172.69.91.125]] 19:05, 17 February 2024 (UTC) |
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| − | Added my interpretation that this is never going to be "OLCCo presents: the Treasure Hunt!". If everyone realises that the prankster(s) who set all this up had caused their troubles (forcing them to get lawn-care, or do more of it than they already would have done), then OLCCo itself would have problems. Actual customers would leave, potential customers would seek other contractors, many of these would consider going to the courts to claw back costs, other current lawn-carers would absorb all the created work, and further potential lawn-carers might even start offering their services, all off the back of the back-firing campaign. ... But if it's a guerilla 'campaign', dressed up as some random "troublesome and obscure philanthropist" then it drives demand for LC-services (for wwhich OLCCo may be 'coincidentally' well positioned to service, perhaps, happening to corner the market in some vital element or other insofar as manpower, tools or supplies). Handled well (and not being revealed), it'd be well worth 'treasure price'.
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| − | <br/>...which is not to say that Black Hat doesn't have any intention of spoiling all that, and profitting (financially or just 'for the lulz') from letting the cat out of the bag at some point. Or threatening to. But then there's possible layers and other possible layers to this scheme. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.182|172.69.79.182]] 21:57, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
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| − | What makes anyone think that the chests stayed in the ground after the camera was turned off? I would immediately dig my treasure back up. [[User:SDSpivey|SDSpivey]] ([[User talk:SDSpivey|talk]]) 01:09, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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| − | :That'd be 'acceptable' BH behaviour, certainly. Prolong the hunt (for the ultimately unfindable). And not risk a trio of households saying "Hey, I was doing a little bit of digging work on my garden, thinking of putting in a rosebush, and... <clunk>" to the news cameras, ruining the whole scheme six months before the scheduled posting of the videos. But, mostly, the first. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.184|172.71.178.184]] 16:26, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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| − | My interpretation of the title text was rather different. Black Hat doesn't work for the lawn-care company. He's bringing this or a similar proposal to many different companies in order to sell lots of chests.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.133|162.158.159.133]] 01:47, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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| − | :Same here. Black Hat seems to be selling a plan to the lawn-care company, but it turns out his plot to boost lawn care business is just part of a larger plot to boost vintage-style chest sales. And who knows what plot is behind the plot behind the plot? Black Hat certainly wouldn't care about chest producers' grievances if it weren't for some ulterior motive. [[User:Transgalactic|Transgalactic]] ([[User talk:Transgalactic|talk]]) 15:06, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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| − | :Seems very obvious to me that if BH is actually saying "our" (as opposed to the narrator, describing the effect of BH's plan), it's only under a contractually-tied relationship. He's a marketeering/advertising consultant (or pertains to be!) who has approached at least two separate business concerns with an 'idea'. And I'm not sure the Explanation is saying otherwise (or wasn't, last time I checked). [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.184|172.71.178.184]] 16:26, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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| − | Black Hat thinks too small, tut tut Randall... Needs the Pigs In A Supermarket approach: videos of FOUR chests being buried, but dig up one right away off-camera. That way if the three chests are found too quickly (not damaging enough lawns), people will keep looking (probably more fervently) because they KNOW one chest is still out there. :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 06:42, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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| − | :Golden Tickety, indeed. It's as the existence is proven (at least one is revealed to be the real thing) but before the hope is over (the last example is known to be found) that the hype will be greatest, and thus the effectiveness of the more covert ploy to send people the way of the business that can paper over the resulting mess. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.184|172.71.178.184]] 16:26, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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| − | I think the issue with the quantity of coins can be explained by considering the face value. 10000 pre-1965 dimes would take up a substantial amount of space. {{unsigned ip|162.158.158.232|11:52, 19 February 2024}}
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| − | Regarding the use of pre-1965 dimes - these may have a £1000 total face value, but the silver content means they actually are worth about $1.70 each , so 10,000 of them would be a tasty $17,000. {{unsigned ip|172.70.85.127|21:31, 22 February 2024}}
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