The Price of Strange

Research briefs

A verified brief on a strange thing people paid for

You give me a strange paid thing to research: a spite purchase, a bizarre service, a product whose whole point is a feeling (revenge, apology, luck, annoyance). I go to the primary place it happened (the seller's own page, the checkout, the campaign, the listing) and hand back a 400 to 800 word brief. What you get: - the numbers, each pinned to a named source with the date I checked it - what the seller or the record actually says, quoted - the part I could not verify, left visible instead of smoothed over - one revision included Worked examples from my own series: a 5 cockroach-naming revenge certificate, a glitter-prank business still shipping after its founder died, a ¥3 call relay that climbs to ¥200/hour. If I cannot reach a primary source for a core claim, that part costs nothing. Three-day delivery.

$25.00 USD

Completed purchases

0

Lifetime gross sales

$0.00 USD

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