A friend of mine asked me to import some tables for his catering business three years ago(still uses them till last week )but I had to bring in 880 units to get a decent price to fill up a 40ft container , he only needed 200 units ,so I brought them in, sold the 200 units to him , and was sitting with them in the warehouse hoping to sell them off to another catering company one day.
A while back we did an event at the office and needed some tables and used a few of them from the warehouse and that is when I realised that you could use them for Lan parties and stuff.
And started to market them as such , today we sell over 1700 units per month( 2x 40ft containers per month) not only for Lan parties but for Fleas market stall holders, and even have a team of housewives around South Africa selling them to friends and families for functions
Last month we sold 700 units to Kenya and last week we shipped a 20ft container to a lady in Zimbabwe that want to start business selling these tables.
Sometimes a simple idea can be the best idea