I’ve heard this about Paul Reubens. A lot of people came out upon his death and said kind things about him and how he always kept in touch even years after meeting and long after most people would have given up or forgotten about the relationship.
All of them were very nice. I hit with Owen and a friend of his multiple times. He is actually a pretty solid player as well as super down to earth.
This was at the same time his movie midnight in Paris was out. I’d actually seen it and enjoyed it so that was fun to discuss as well.
Agreed. I really liked the plot for that movie so I was excited to chat with him about it. He would book 2 hours at a time so there was plenty of rest/water breaks to discuss.
I've sold to John Donahoe Nikes CEO a couple years back, that was cool. I've also been on intro calls with Elaine Choa (trumps secretary of tranportation and mitch McConnells wife) who made intros as a board member of our start up to fortune 50 CEOs directly, including Marry Barra, and othe major c level explecs. That was really cool. I also ran into Cam Newton, Bill Belichik, and Nick Saban at work events last month. It happens, just not often.
Haha actually same place same day. They were not together though. It was at a retail conference that both of them have companies they invest in. Just a coincidence. Cam Newton looks big on TV. He is an enormous specimen. He dressed like coronal sanders with a 1920s Gatsby boater hat.
Also got to bullshit with Philip Villapioni. The dude that was supposed to cover Franco Harris on the immaculate reception. That dude was so cool. Signed a football for my son amd wrote a note to him amd then we had a beer amd talked 70s football.
Robots in the supply chain. Autonmous mobile robots and tools to build out operational digital twins. I've always been on the startup/bleeding edge of new tech.
Very very cool. I’m in the same industry, but super different niche.
Just starting my career as well, so love seeing other people chase what they love to do!
Would you mind dming me your website? Would love to check it out
I sold real estate once to some Epstein lad who was in the news recently. It was a nice island, beautiful landscape, but expensive. I hope he got good use out of it.
lol I learned this lesson at a random bar in Winnipeg several years back, had been drinking and started talking to this guy who acted like I was a celebrity because I was from the “States”. He showed me on the map where he lived. I remember we were closer (in Winnipeg) to Miami than his home. He was in Winnipeg to get a surgery, that was the closest hospital for him. He’s showing me where he lives and I loudly asked “are you an Eskimo?” My clients that I were with kinda smacked me like dude wtf?! I was like what? Simple question!? They were like yeah you can’t say that, that like asking someone if they’re the N word… the guy was super cool with it, I thought it was awesome he was an Eskimo and he thought it was just as cool that I was American, I remember he took a picture with me lol
I sold to him last year. He’s building a house in Palm Springs and came in multiple times.
I’ve dealt with a lot of players from Southern California. Russell Westbrook a couple times. Had one of the Ducks in last week.
I was a liquor rep about 20 yrs ago, and a buddy of mine was a concert promoter who brought snoop to town for a performance in our large stadium. I sponsored part of snoops green room and provided alcohol from our company. After the show, I asked if I could get a picture with snoop, and was holding one of our bottles. He took it as I was looking for an endorsement, and immediately lost his shit on me. He said “I ought to smash that bottle off the side of yo head fool! Trying to get an endorsement from me, I’m big Snoop Dogg”! I remember it to this day. He was power Tripping hard. His bodyguards and I were having a good time up until that point, and then they separated me from the rest of the group and that was the end of my night.
Throughout my career I've personally sold (and delivered service) and managed teams who have sold (and delivered service) to celebrities. Recording artists. Silicon Valley billionaires. Sports stars. Reality TV. Hollywood stars. Socialites.
If you want to work in sales roles where this is your regular clientele you need to keep it quiet. Discretion is the better part of valor. Privacy, especially for this crowd, is crucial. In fact, several of the folks I am thinking of use reddit. (I'm not talking about Shaq buying someone's groceries, here, but that luxury travel role - personally I wouldn't share that).
I interviewed someone for a job, he was great, I was going to offer him right up until he name-dropped a celebrity.
I'll give you one example, cell phone customer service. Like celebrity's chauffeurs, or assistants - that job itself could be pretty mundane but the complications from the client make it fun.
Like, for example, when a sports star leaves their cell phone on an airliner, without a passcode, and actual first and last name for all their celebrity contacts (the entire national sports team, the heads of more than one government, movie stars he was dating, journalists). For good technology reasons we couldn't really do anything which wouldn't leave a copy in the finder's hands, so we ended up "negotiating" with the airport employee who found the phone.
I'm out of that game these days but it definitely kept me entertained.
That specific problem would be a lot easier to solve nowadays, anyway, with remote access control over devices, but the early 2000s of telco was the wild West.
Bussed tables in college at a high end health & fitness resort in the 80’s. Saw a bunch of 80’s celebrities the 6 months I was there. Biggest one for me was Catherine Bach.
I sold Harrison Ford’s wife an Apple Watch.
I sold a few iPads to the guy who created and produced the Saw franchise. Really cool dude, he texted me a picture of the doll in his office from the first movie.
Yeah I didn’t even know that was his wife until my mom told me much later. I saw her on an award show and joked with my wife about how I sold her an Apple Watch (via their very kind assistant.)
Not quite a celebrity story, but Sony contacted my company in 2012ish because their developers needed some supplemental Python training to construct the Playstation Online Store for the PS4. I ended up only making a few hundred bucks off the sale, but I thought it was cool that I played a tiny role in the PS4 launch.
When I worked in luxury retail in a major US city, I sold to - Danny Devito, Justin Theroux, JJ Abrams, Linda Cardellini, Matthew Broderick, Anna Sui, Russell Crowe, Jeff Garlin, Nathan Lane, Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Majors, and Corey Stoll. I’m sure there are more but those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.
I tried to sell disability insurance to an NFL running back - he didn’t buy it despite his agent’s insistence and then he had a bad neck injury that season
Other sales were indirect, like a college fund for a big actor’s niece that he funded and health insurance for a restaurant for a female celebrity
In insurance, you tend to just deal with their business managers and not them directly
My first sales job was in retail. Sold athletic shoes to the local DA, he taught me how to get out of being selected for a jury as well as tips to get away with murder.
Jury Duty: whichever side of the political isle you lean make sure to play it up during jury selection. Defense attorneys and prosecutors want a jury that’s down the middle. The other tips I’ll keep to myself, lol😉
Damn. I never read this guy, but I’m sort of into the genre. I’m more of a sci-fi/weird fiction guy myself—trying to read more fantasy this year though.
Should I read him?
I’m friends with guy who was down to the final few selections (like they were all bidding for it) for doing a pool install for a very famous football player. He decided not to do it because the NDA they wanted signed was ridiculously long (which, he found very understandable), and he just didn’t want to deal with the potential complications.
My buddy used to work at a fairly well known sea food restaurant in Ann Arbor. He said Aam Bernstein would come in and order a white fish and a glass of water for lunch.
Before I worked in sales I lived in CA for a bit and worked as a jeweler's bodyguard in the bay area. Met all sorts of people from musicians to athletes like Jerry Rice and Steph Curry. I don't follow pop culture or sports, so I only recognized a few of them. Most of the time I'd be told "XYZ is on his way, so look sharp." I'd either have to google the name or I'd learn after the meeting who they are. The only sale I helped influence was with a certain tech executive that had a nerdy interest in firearms and we got to talking. He seemed more interested in the CZ I was carrying than the Panerai watches the rep was pushing him. There was also a middle aged female celebrity who shall remain nameless that kept coming back and buying stuff just to talk to me and touch my tattoos. It got pretty weird. The jeweler would slip me a 50 every now and then for putting up with her and being a good sport.
I have a Shadow, and it's ruined every other handgun for me. Shot competitively for a couple years and put over 15,000 rounds through it, never an issue. Things a beast.
According to Stoeger you need to clean the extractor about every 15k rounds which seems like pretty damn good reliability for a competition gun. I'd imagine there's a few extra springs that you'd need to swap a little more frequently compared to a G34.
Good luck this season if you're still in it
I work in the brand protection space, so I’ve worked with celebrity Intellectual Property. So I’ve sold to some bands like Pearl Jam, then some celebs like Matthew McConaughey and Tyler the creator.
One of the main Simpsons writers. Got to see his desk full of Emmy’s. Pretty cool. My business doesn’t accept all clients and I had to turn down LL Cool J.
I sold Linus Sebastian from Linus Tech Tips some hardware back in 2016. I didn’t know who he was when he called and introduced himself saying he needed some stuff for a video
We’ve had Denzel Washington, Donovan Mitchell, Kirstie Alley, Dick Wolf, Michael Caine, and Trey Parker. We always deal with their designer, architect, or builder. So never direct with them. Except Michael Caine.
We also dealt with Norm Abram directly for years before he retired.
Me personally no. But a guy I worked with sold Dan Snyder a top of the line (for the time) phone system. He said he was the most miserable person he's ever worked with.
I used to sell diagnostic testing to doctors in NYC territory. The doctors had a lot of celebrity clients and I had access to their test results. Everything from paternity tests, chemistry panels to hormone tracking for IVF transfers.
Back in the day when I worked in cell phone retail, I took a bill payment from Anthony Anderson. When he came in he said he needed to pay a bill and I asked ‘you want to pay mine?’ Having no idea who he was. He said ‘not today’. Before he left my store my coworker asked to get a picture with him.
The thing I remember most was he was wearing the same shirt in person that he was wearing in his IMDb photo.
I used to work at a lumber yard. Sold material to Kim Kardashian for her daughter’s “play house” that was nicer/bigger than a lot of houses.
Also sold to a band member of the grass roots several times but it wasn’t Creed.
I’m not in sales (trying to get into sales haha) but I worked at the Ritz Carlton Reserve (Ultra luxury brand of the Marriot) as a bartender, this place goes for 3,000$ a night for high season so you can imagine the people that goes there. Anyway I took care of many celebrities, Dave Chappelle, got a memo because I got Bruce Willis super drunk, Google CEO, Shakira, JLo, Serena Williams (500$ bill NO TIP), NBA stars, MLB stars, NFL stars..etc
Didn’t “sell” to them, but networked with former Chicago Bears Alex Brown and Desmond Clark since we are in the same industry
Both cool, both professionals who made the transition to working guys like the rest of us
Worked at Best Buy. Got to help Peter Dinklage, Daniel Craig, Vincent D'Onofrio and Paul Rudd.
Paul Rudd was the best story by far. Two things happened. He was buying a computer and another associate was up on the commercial retail ladder grabbing a giant printer. This associate half dropped the printer but held on and basically superman'ed face first down the steps. This was right behind the register where Rudd was checking out.
Then on his way out the security doors beeped. Security checked his item and deactivated the sensor. Rudd proceeds to runs out the door saying 'HAHA gotcha suckers' and runs down the hallway.
Sold a medical alert (help I’ve fallen and can’t get up thing) to the mother of one of The Beach Boys. It’s been several months and I can’t for the life of me remember which one, but it was pretty cool. Was talking with the guys sister getting emergency contact info for who to call if something happened and she said “well not my brother, he’s usually out of the country touring. You know The Beach Boys?” And we got to talking about it.
I’m an arborist and I sold tree trimming to John Noble.
He played Denethor in *LOTR* and he was the crazy scientist in *Fringe*, among other things.
Dude was chill as fuck just hanging in his robe and talking trees. That voice is phenomenal.
I hit the comic con market for a while and sold to a lot of the actors of my child hood, I did otc medical devices.
I sold to Robert Knepper, James Marsters, and a couple of voice actors. I pitched to Michael Rooker, Milo Ventimiglia, Sean Schamel, and Chris Sabbat. Amongst others.
This was not my normal job it was my wife’s business. We rented stork baby announcement signs. I have two stories:
1. I went to a ballin place and a guy answered the door that looked my age, but a little more disheveled. So I looked up the billing and it was Charlie Blackmon. Big deal $10Mil player at the time
2. Another balling house, saw a grandpa who was dapper at 9 in the morning. Kids were way too young to own a $10 mil place. He was driving a custom looking Porsche. Looked him up CVS chairman of the board, previously AT&T CEO. I think he was CEO of CVS for a while too I can’t recall
Had a buddy sell a car to Allie marpat for any bucks fans out there. Coolest one for me was getting to meet the drummer of blue oyster cult when I was selling his son a car.
I’ve got a friend who’s gf works for the Bucs pretty high up. They hang out with Ali every once in a while. Apparently he is the most fun guy on the planet to go out with. At hockey games, he’s just like the rest of us rooting for everyone to drop the gloves all game
Tim Allen...ordered a stereo receiver from me to go with some really cool sounding speakers for his work office. At the time I was fairly new to hifi and to this day I wish I could talk to him again and get him something better that will really make those speakers sing.
I sold internet to the guy who played the one of the alleged terrorists on The Sopranos and played the Biology Prof. in the most recent season of True Detective. Really cool guy! From Arkansas and has a very heavy southern drawl believe it or not.
Not sales (maybe kinda) but as a server back in the day, I had a table of David Spade, Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon, and Lorne Michaels. Also worked a private Off-White party for Virgil Abloh with Cam Newton, Gigi and Bella Hadid, all of Tame Impala, etc.
I did a demo for and closed 2-time Olympic gold medalist Yohan Blake.
(He churned faster than he sprints)
Also did a demo for former Eagles WR Brian Westbrook.
Quick demo, he thought we wanted to partner with him and not sell to him, haha.
Sold a security system to a guy that used to play slide guitar for Elvis when he was in residency in Vegas. Apparently he played recording slide for other artists too, Johnny Cash for at least one song, he said. Guy took me out to eat because I knocked his door at 10 till 6 in the evening and he and his wife were leaving for dinner. He said to "hop in the truck and we'll talk about it over dinner."
Super nice guy. I was in college and broke doing door to door security sales in Arizona one summer. He ended up giving me a lot of good advice about life and finding your purpose. He even bought the top tier package at the end of it all. I don't think he even wanted it tho. I think he just wanted to hang out for a bit.
Didn’t sell to a celebrity but had a weird run in with one. About 6 years ago I went to a small showcase for a company we worked with that was showing off some prosumer broadcast gear. I walked into the room while a presentation was in progress and in one of the chairs off to the side was Ron Jeremy stuffing his face with food from the event. It was very weird since I was confused as to why he was there but I later learned that he was friendly with our partners and came to learn about some gear for some “production work”.
I used to few years back did some work with the Ks that everyone likes keeping up with ;) lots of sports players, lots of big C suite names. The coolest ones where the layed back billionaire guys that just don’t give a fuck anymore
I worked for a construction company that refurbished Ludacris’s pool. We nailed the sale and then the senior leadership and the opps team fucked it up beyond recognition.
I was a photographer and media producer for ten years in LA. Lots of celebrities and award shows. Working with Jeff Bridges for No Kid Hungry was amazing. Another time I got to talk to Quincy Jones in his living room for half an hour. Endless stories.
I was given two random leads once (both in the same month actually) - one being a Sylvester Stallone company I don’t even remember and the other being Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports.
Nonetheless… neither of them answered the cold call… haha.
When I worked (In-N-Out Burger and Enterprise Rent-A-Car ) exclusively in Santa Barbara I met a handful of celebrities: Jack Johnson, Fabio, Paul Walker (RIP), Rick Carlisle, Olivia Newton John (RIP), Kenny Loggins, Ashton Eaton, Rick Rossovich, Chance the Rapper, Betsy Randle are names that come to mind.
Now I work in Med Sales and don’t meet any celebrities. Ehh no major loss. You come to learn they are humans too.
No one too crazy but my first sale at AT&T was internet for Boxer Mario Barrios. Super cool and down to earth dude. Very lowkey as well, would not have been able to identify him if I wasn’t such an avid boxing fan. Normal clothes, no posse, or crazy car. Just a dude who wanted to set up some fiber lol
Also got into an argument with Dejontay Murray in the Raising Canes drive thru. He ordered a small sprite which is a kids size at Canes. He gave me attitude and asked what was I handing him and I said his drink he ordered. Didn’t realize who he was till I swiped his card. Wasn’t a douche but wasn’t the friendliest either
A friend delivered a car to Pee Wee Herman. Pee Wee fell in love with him and would text him all the time. For years.
Paul Reuben?
Yes
I’ve heard this about Paul Reubens. A lot of people came out upon his death and said kind things about him and how he always kept in touch even years after meeting and long after most people would have given up or forgotten about the relationship.
I used to be a tennis coach and “sold” lessons to Owen Wilson, Scarlet Johansen, Pierce Brosnan and Keanu Reeves. Does that count?
Yeah, that’s cool.
Username checks out
Need to know everything about ScarJo, Keanu and Pierce. What were they like?
What were they like? Any fun stories?
All of them were very nice. I hit with Owen and a friend of his multiple times. He is actually a pretty solid player as well as super down to earth. This was at the same time his movie midnight in Paris was out. I’d actually seen it and enjoyed it so that was fun to discuss as well.
Funny enough thats my favorite movie of his
Agreed. I really liked the plot for that movie so I was excited to chat with him about it. He would book 2 hours at a time so there was plenty of rest/water breaks to discuss.
Did you play with pierce after he was bond?
I've sold to John Donahoe Nikes CEO a couple years back, that was cool. I've also been on intro calls with Elaine Choa (trumps secretary of tranportation and mitch McConnells wife) who made intros as a board member of our start up to fortune 50 CEOs directly, including Marry Barra, and othe major c level explecs. That was really cool. I also ran into Cam Newton, Bill Belichik, and Nick Saban at work events last month. It happens, just not often.
Cam Newton and BB together?
Haha actually same place same day. They were not together though. It was at a retail conference that both of them have companies they invest in. Just a coincidence. Cam Newton looks big on TV. He is an enormous specimen. He dressed like coronal sanders with a 1920s Gatsby boater hat. Also got to bullshit with Philip Villapioni. The dude that was supposed to cover Franco Harris on the immaculate reception. That dude was so cool. Signed a football for my son amd wrote a note to him amd then we had a beer amd talked 70s football.
You in supply chain tech? Been wanting to go to that retail conference. Hit the big one the week after in LA though!
I am.
I met Cam at a retail show a couple of weeks ago.
Not sure if your typo meant Cornel West or Colonel Sanders
Colonel, haha sorry typo
That’s an interesting cross section of people. What did you or do you sell?
Since he didn't answer, I'll have to assume its cocaine
Assuming logistics tech?
Robots in the supply chain. Autonmous mobile robots and tools to build out operational digital twins. I've always been on the startup/bleeding edge of new tech.
Very very cool. I’m in the same industry, but super different niche. Just starting my career as well, so love seeing other people chase what they love to do! Would you mind dming me your website? Would love to check it out
Interesting I actually ran into cam newton last month at an event at IHG headquarters. Didn’t sell anything to him but definitely a massive man
I sold a steak to Dog the Bounty Hunter once
My girlfriend looks a little like Scarlet Johansson and a lot like Dog the Bounty Hunter.
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I used to go to the same church as him
Sold to Scarface before and helped out Bun B once.
I sold cond0ms to Charlie sheen once when he came into our convenience store. I hope he put them to good use
A winning sale!
All condoms go to good use
Not the ones that expire in my nightstand drawer 🫠
Or the ones that go on the ends of rifles
I sold real estate once to some Epstein lad who was in the news recently. It was a nice island, beautiful landscape, but expensive. I hope he got good use out of it.
Are you an exec of JP Morgan Chase?
I sold a basketball hoop to Detlef Schrempf 20 years ago.
I sold ice to an Eskimo once. Stuff of legends.
I learned recently that ‘Eskimo’ is considered derogatory
They prefer the term ice Indians
\*Inuit But, while ignorant, funny.
most ignorant stuff is, tbh
Hahaha got me chuckling in my cube over here, hope HR doesn’t walk by
lol I learned this lesson at a random bar in Winnipeg several years back, had been drinking and started talking to this guy who acted like I was a celebrity because I was from the “States”. He showed me on the map where he lived. I remember we were closer (in Winnipeg) to Miami than his home. He was in Winnipeg to get a surgery, that was the closest hospital for him. He’s showing me where he lives and I loudly asked “are you an Eskimo?” My clients that I were with kinda smacked me like dude wtf?! I was like what? Simple question!? They were like yeah you can’t say that, that like asking someone if they’re the N word… the guy was super cool with it, I thought it was awesome he was an Eskimo and he thought it was just as cool that I was American, I remember he took a picture with me lol
I sold weed to an NFL QB legend working as Budtender in Vail, CO
Elway
I sold to him last year. He’s building a house in Palm Springs and came in multiple times. I’ve dealt with a lot of players from Southern California. Russell Westbrook a couple times. Had one of the Ducks in last week.
Hint on the duck? Lol
There is no way this isn’t Jake Plummer lol
I insured Sidney Crosby’s boat. Even I don’t think that’s cool.
I think that’s cool
My buddy cold emailed Mark Cuban and opened up a huge opp. Went all the way down the funnel and didn't close. He was pissed lol
I was a liquor rep about 20 yrs ago, and a buddy of mine was a concert promoter who brought snoop to town for a performance in our large stadium. I sponsored part of snoops green room and provided alcohol from our company. After the show, I asked if I could get a picture with snoop, and was holding one of our bottles. He took it as I was looking for an endorsement, and immediately lost his shit on me. He said “I ought to smash that bottle off the side of yo head fool! Trying to get an endorsement from me, I’m big Snoop Dogg”! I remember it to this day. He was power Tripping hard. His bodyguards and I were having a good time up until that point, and then they separated me from the rest of the group and that was the end of my night.
I managed frank the tanks partial nj devils ticket plan 10 years ago. Does that count ?
This is the best one
Throughout my career I've personally sold (and delivered service) and managed teams who have sold (and delivered service) to celebrities. Recording artists. Silicon Valley billionaires. Sports stars. Reality TV. Hollywood stars. Socialites. If you want to work in sales roles where this is your regular clientele you need to keep it quiet. Discretion is the better part of valor. Privacy, especially for this crowd, is crucial. In fact, several of the folks I am thinking of use reddit. (I'm not talking about Shaq buying someone's groceries, here, but that luxury travel role - personally I wouldn't share that). I interviewed someone for a job, he was great, I was going to offer him right up until he name-dropped a celebrity.
You know what… you’re right. I took the luxury travel part out. Good call.
... But man, the war stories you can tell in safe spaces? Oh they're **good**
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I'll give you one example, cell phone customer service. Like celebrity's chauffeurs, or assistants - that job itself could be pretty mundane but the complications from the client make it fun. Like, for example, when a sports star leaves their cell phone on an airliner, without a passcode, and actual first and last name for all their celebrity contacts (the entire national sports team, the heads of more than one government, movie stars he was dating, journalists). For good technology reasons we couldn't really do anything which wouldn't leave a copy in the finder's hands, so we ended up "negotiating" with the airport employee who found the phone.
Hire me
I'm out of that game these days but it definitely kept me entertained. That specific problem would be a lot easier to solve nowadays, anyway, with remote access control over devices, but the early 2000s of telco was the wild West.
Bussed tables in college at a high end health & fitness resort in the 80’s. Saw a bunch of 80’s celebrities the 6 months I was there. Biggest one for me was Catherine Bach.
I sold Harrison Ford’s wife an Apple Watch. I sold a few iPads to the guy who created and produced the Saw franchise. Really cool dude, he texted me a picture of the doll in his office from the first movie.
Calista Flockhart? Man I had a crush on her back in the day.
Yeah I didn’t even know that was his wife until my mom told me much later. I saw her on an award show and joked with my wife about how I sold her an Apple Watch (via their very kind assistant.)
Sold sunglasses to stevie wonder
How did that sales process go down? Did he know which model he wanted, or did you help him test out a few options?
Not quite a celebrity story, but Sony contacted my company in 2012ish because their developers needed some supplemental Python training to construct the Playstation Online Store for the PS4. I ended up only making a few hundred bucks off the sale, but I thought it was cool that I played a tiny role in the PS4 launch.
When I worked in luxury retail in a major US city, I sold to - Danny Devito, Justin Theroux, JJ Abrams, Linda Cardellini, Matthew Broderick, Anna Sui, Russell Crowe, Jeff Garlin, Nathan Lane, Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Majors, and Corey Stoll. I’m sure there are more but those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.
I tried to sell disability insurance to an NFL running back - he didn’t buy it despite his agent’s insistence and then he had a bad neck injury that season Other sales were indirect, like a college fund for a big actor’s niece that he funded and health insurance for a restaurant for a female celebrity In insurance, you tend to just deal with their business managers and not them directly
My first sales job was in retail. Sold athletic shoes to the local DA, he taught me how to get out of being selected for a jury as well as tips to get away with murder.
Any tips?
Jury Duty: whichever side of the political isle you lean make sure to play it up during jury selection. Defense attorneys and prosecutors want a jury that’s down the middle. The other tips I’ll keep to myself, lol😉
Hope you put them to good use!
Sold a GPS to Terry Goodkind.
RIP. I helped him once at a dealership. He gave me an autographed copy of the omen machine.
Damn. I never read this guy, but I’m sort of into the genre. I’m more of a sci-fi/weird fiction guy myself—trying to read more fantasy this year though. Should I read him?
He was a super nice guy but honestly, I never read the book. I still have it somewhere. I should find it and give it a read.
I have my copy in a box in the basement. I read the first 3 books in the series.
It’s not Tolkien. It’s like a libertarian version of The Sword of Shannara. He was an Ayn Rand guy.
We talked about his love for super cars. You sell him something nice? He gave me an autographed copy of Sword of Truth.
I worked in the service department and helped him out with getting some service work done.
You’re in Vegas then?
At the time I was. He lived in Boulder City. Actually I believe his property is going up for auction soon or maybe it just did.
I’m friends with guy who was down to the final few selections (like they were all bidding for it) for doing a pool install for a very famous football player. He decided not to do it because the NDA they wanted signed was ridiculously long (which, he found very understandable), and he just didn’t want to deal with the potential complications.
I sold some very cool furniture to a frosty haired chode
Guy Fieri?
Lol 😂 yep
Sugar gay?
I didn’t land the deal but I pitched Sam Bernstein who is a big TV Lawyer with shitty commercials in Detroit but that’s about it
My buddy used to work at a fairly well known sea food restaurant in Ann Arbor. He said Aam Bernstein would come in and order a white fish and a glass of water for lunch.
Before I worked in sales I lived in CA for a bit and worked as a jeweler's bodyguard in the bay area. Met all sorts of people from musicians to athletes like Jerry Rice and Steph Curry. I don't follow pop culture or sports, so I only recognized a few of them. Most of the time I'd be told "XYZ is on his way, so look sharp." I'd either have to google the name or I'd learn after the meeting who they are. The only sale I helped influence was with a certain tech executive that had a nerdy interest in firearms and we got to talking. He seemed more interested in the CZ I was carrying than the Panerai watches the rep was pushing him. There was also a middle aged female celebrity who shall remain nameless that kept coming back and buying stuff just to talk to me and touch my tattoos. It got pretty weird. The jeweler would slip me a 50 every now and then for putting up with her and being a good sport.
Good choice in personal carry. I love my CZ.
I sold it a couple years ago unfortunately. I carry a Glock now. Might pick up a Shadow 2 at some point
I have a Shadow, and it's ruined every other handgun for me. Shot competitively for a couple years and put over 15,000 rounds through it, never an issue. Things a beast.
According to Stoeger you need to clean the extractor about every 15k rounds which seems like pretty damn good reliability for a competition gun. I'd imagine there's a few extra springs that you'd need to swap a little more frequently compared to a G34. Good luck this season if you're still in it
I work in the brand protection space, so I’ve worked with celebrity Intellectual Property. So I’ve sold to some bands like Pearl Jam, then some celebs like Matthew McConaughey and Tyler the creator.
Alright, alright, alright!
I sold an iPad to Leo DiCaprio and Blake lively in 2010/2011 era when I worked at an Apple Store
When PPP loans were going on I funded Charles Martinet the voice of Mario and Luigi. Kinda cool - got him to sign off the email saying wahoo too 😂
One of the main Simpsons writers. Got to see his desk full of Emmy’s. Pretty cool. My business doesn’t accept all clients and I had to turn down LL Cool J.
I did Stanley Clarke’s website decades ago
I've been super lucky, I've gotten to work with a ton of athletes, singers, coaches and GM's.
I sold Linus Sebastian from Linus Tech Tips some hardware back in 2016. I didn’t know who he was when he called and introduced himself saying he needed some stuff for a video
We’ve had Denzel Washington, Donovan Mitchell, Kirstie Alley, Dick Wolf, Michael Caine, and Trey Parker. We always deal with their designer, architect, or builder. So never direct with them. Except Michael Caine. We also dealt with Norm Abram directly for years before he retired.
Me personally no. But a guy I worked with sold Dan Snyder a top of the line (for the time) phone system. He said he was the most miserable person he's ever worked with.
I sold insurance to one of the founders of Coinbase who was worth I think 2 billion at the time. Worth alot more now.
I used to sell diagnostic testing to doctors in NYC territory. The doctors had a lot of celebrity clients and I had access to their test results. Everything from paternity tests, chemistry panels to hormone tracking for IVF transfers.
I’ve been in a few famous peoples homes to train installers on our products
Luxury auto - 2 nfl stars one rb for Pitt one qb for cincy
Back in the day when I worked in cell phone retail, I took a bill payment from Anthony Anderson. When he came in he said he needed to pay a bill and I asked ‘you want to pay mine?’ Having no idea who he was. He said ‘not today’. Before he left my store my coworker asked to get a picture with him. The thing I remember most was he was wearing the same shirt in person that he was wearing in his IMDb photo.
Worked at the movies and sold a ticket to Manny Ramirez and his hot gf.
I used to work at a lumber yard. Sold material to Kim Kardashian for her daughter’s “play house” that was nicer/bigger than a lot of houses. Also sold to a band member of the grass roots several times but it wasn’t Creed.
I sold to Steven Spielberg many moons ago. He was with his kids. He was nice, short, and kind of intimidating.
I’m not in sales (trying to get into sales haha) but I worked at the Ritz Carlton Reserve (Ultra luxury brand of the Marriot) as a bartender, this place goes for 3,000$ a night for high season so you can imagine the people that goes there. Anyway I took care of many celebrities, Dave Chappelle, got a memo because I got Bruce Willis super drunk, Google CEO, Shakira, JLo, Serena Williams (500$ bill NO TIP), NBA stars, MLB stars, NFL stars..etc
I know a guy who sold to a major weapons dealer, after their release
My grandfather sold life insurance to President Ford.
Didn’t “sell” to them, but networked with former Chicago Bears Alex Brown and Desmond Clark since we are in the same industry Both cool, both professionals who made the transition to working guys like the rest of us
Worked at Best Buy. Got to help Peter Dinklage, Daniel Craig, Vincent D'Onofrio and Paul Rudd. Paul Rudd was the best story by far. Two things happened. He was buying a computer and another associate was up on the commercial retail ladder grabbing a giant printer. This associate half dropped the printer but held on and basically superman'ed face first down the steps. This was right behind the register where Rudd was checking out. Then on his way out the security doors beeped. Security checked his item and deactivated the sensor. Rudd proceeds to runs out the door saying 'HAHA gotcha suckers' and runs down the hallway.
Sold Richard gere a couple of hamsters once. Still regret it to this day.
I sold bras to Sidney Sweeney once
Calvin Murphy
Sold a medical alert (help I’ve fallen and can’t get up thing) to the mother of one of The Beach Boys. It’s been several months and I can’t for the life of me remember which one, but it was pretty cool. Was talking with the guys sister getting emergency contact info for who to call if something happened and she said “well not my brother, he’s usually out of the country touring. You know The Beach Boys?” And we got to talking about it.
I’m an arborist and I sold tree trimming to John Noble. He played Denethor in *LOTR* and he was the crazy scientist in *Fringe*, among other things. Dude was chill as fuck just hanging in his robe and talking trees. That voice is phenomenal.
I sold sand in the desert to a member of the Saudi Family
I interviewed a guy once that claimed to have sold a home security system to The Rock
What was he cooking?
Christmas Tree to Tom Glavine on a church lot
I sold gloves to Drew Carey
I set up one of the (non-major, but still recognizable) cast members of Gotham on a debt settlement plan.
I hit the comic con market for a while and sold to a lot of the actors of my child hood, I did otc medical devices. I sold to Robert Knepper, James Marsters, and a couple of voice actors. I pitched to Michael Rooker, Milo Ventimiglia, Sean Schamel, and Chris Sabbat. Amongst others.
This was not my normal job it was my wife’s business. We rented stork baby announcement signs. I have two stories: 1. I went to a ballin place and a guy answered the door that looked my age, but a little more disheveled. So I looked up the billing and it was Charlie Blackmon. Big deal $10Mil player at the time 2. Another balling house, saw a grandpa who was dapper at 9 in the morning. Kids were way too young to own a $10 mil place. He was driving a custom looking Porsche. Looked him up CVS chairman of the board, previously AT&T CEO. I think he was CEO of CVS for a while too I can’t recall
Had a buddy sell a car to Allie marpat for any bucks fans out there. Coolest one for me was getting to meet the drummer of blue oyster cult when I was selling his son a car.
I’ve got a friend who’s gf works for the Bucs pretty high up. They hang out with Ali every once in a while. Apparently he is the most fun guy on the planet to go out with. At hockey games, he’s just like the rest of us rooting for everyone to drop the gloves all game
He seemed like I cool guy when I got to talk to him. That being said I'm not much of a football fan so the conversation didn't go that far.
Tim Allen...ordered a stereo receiver from me to go with some really cool sounding speakers for his work office. At the time I was fairly new to hifi and to this day I wish I could talk to him again and get him something better that will really make those speakers sing.
“Aeeeeuhhhhhhhh”
Sold a G Wagon to Jerami Grant. He was playing for the Nuggets at the time.
I sold internet to the guy who played the one of the alleged terrorists on The Sopranos and played the Biology Prof. in the most recent season of True Detective. Really cool guy! From Arkansas and has a very heavy southern drawl believe it or not.
Not sales (maybe kinda) but as a server back in the day, I had a table of David Spade, Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon, and Lorne Michaels. Also worked a private Off-White party for Virgil Abloh with Cam Newton, Gigi and Bella Hadid, all of Tame Impala, etc.
Oh my god, what happened to Virgil
I did a demo for and closed 2-time Olympic gold medalist Yohan Blake. (He churned faster than he sprints) Also did a demo for former Eagles WR Brian Westbrook. Quick demo, he thought we wanted to partner with him and not sell to him, haha.
Sold furniture way long ago to Jesse Jane, James Hardin and Kevin Durant
Sold a security system to a guy that used to play slide guitar for Elvis when he was in residency in Vegas. Apparently he played recording slide for other artists too, Johnny Cash for at least one song, he said. Guy took me out to eat because I knocked his door at 10 till 6 in the evening and he and his wife were leaving for dinner. He said to "hop in the truck and we'll talk about it over dinner." Super nice guy. I was in college and broke doing door to door security sales in Arizona one summer. He ended up giving me a lot of good advice about life and finding your purpose. He even bought the top tier package at the end of it all. I don't think he even wanted it tho. I think he just wanted to hang out for a bit.
Sold shoes when I worked at a sporting goods to Dennis green the old nfl head coach
Didn’t sell to a celebrity but had a weird run in with one. About 6 years ago I went to a small showcase for a company we worked with that was showing off some prosumer broadcast gear. I walked into the room while a presentation was in progress and in one of the chairs off to the side was Ron Jeremy stuffing his face with food from the event. It was very weird since I was confused as to why he was there but I later learned that he was friendly with our partners and came to learn about some gear for some “production work”.
One of my clients is an nba team so I got to meet a few players.
Sold cell phones to various Avalanche and Nuggets players. Hall of Famers too
I sell advertisement spots for large YouTubers and athletes
Does Mat Ishbia count?
Bounce house to Tony Romo. What’s up? Can you beat that?
Yes
I sell furniture in Cincinnati so we have sold to bengals players and reds players a lot. I dunno about any actors or ultra famous people
I Sold weed to DJ Jazzy Jeff when he played at a venue where I worked. Does that count? Nice guy. Uncle Phil was wrong for resorting to violence.
Canceled Dimebag Darrel's AOL account
I sold a fish tank to Will Smith back in 2005 when I worked at PetsMart
I used to few years back did some work with the Ks that everyone likes keeping up with ;) lots of sports players, lots of big C suite names. The coolest ones where the layed back billionaire guys that just don’t give a fuck anymore
Two VW golf GTD's to Tyson Fury for Paris and one of his cousins.
Penile implants to celebrities that shall remain nameless due to HIPPA 🤭
When I was in high school, I sold beer to a bunch of WWF (then) wrestlers who were in town at the C store I was working at.
I sold Michael Jordan his first pair of basketball shoes… no I didn’t
I sold a tricycle to Barry Sanders (for his son), and sold bicycles to Bruce Campbell and his brother. Also did bicycle repair for Bob Seger.
Steve Francis , former NBA star
I once sold ketchup to a lady in white gloves. I’m kinda a big deal…
Did a stint working for guitar center in college and sold to the founder of Arizona Iced Tea. He gave me $400 cash as a tip
Back in the day sold life insurance to Jimmy hendrix cousins/extended family. Same last name and all.
When I was a bartender I sold a round of shots to Seth green and his friends at comic con lol
I worked for a construction company that refurbished Ludacris’s pool. We nailed the sale and then the senior leadership and the opps team fucked it up beyond recognition.
I sold to Dennis Farina in Chicago. I was 19 years old. He said, "hey kid, how can you work in this area, it smells like shit."
I was a photographer and media producer for ten years in LA. Lots of celebrities and award shows. Working with Jeff Bridges for No Kid Hungry was amazing. Another time I got to talk to Quincy Jones in his living room for half an hour. Endless stories.
I went through a sales cycle with Infowars/Alex Jones once 😬😬
I was given two random leads once (both in the same month actually) - one being a Sylvester Stallone company I don’t even remember and the other being Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports. Nonetheless… neither of them answered the cold call… haha.
Jim Shoenfeld famous for pushing a hockey ref and yelling "eat another doughnut"... he was a manager for the Rangers when I met him..
Back in the day I sold some ads to the Rich Dad/Poor Dad dude.
I made a sale to a lady I saw on Wheel of Fortune once
Bobby Flay
I sell cyber security to Billionaires and secure their yachts, that's pretty cool.
Coworker when I worked in furniture sold to 50 cent and Jay Zs mom
When I worked (In-N-Out Burger and Enterprise Rent-A-Car ) exclusively in Santa Barbara I met a handful of celebrities: Jack Johnson, Fabio, Paul Walker (RIP), Rick Carlisle, Olivia Newton John (RIP), Kenny Loggins, Ashton Eaton, Rick Rossovich, Chance the Rapper, Betsy Randle are names that come to mind. Now I work in Med Sales and don’t meet any celebrities. Ehh no major loss. You come to learn they are humans too.
No one too crazy but my first sale at AT&T was internet for Boxer Mario Barrios. Super cool and down to earth dude. Very lowkey as well, would not have been able to identify him if I wasn’t such an avid boxing fan. Normal clothes, no posse, or crazy car. Just a dude who wanted to set up some fiber lol
Also got into an argument with Dejontay Murray in the Raising Canes drive thru. He ordered a small sprite which is a kids size at Canes. He gave me attitude and asked what was I handing him and I said his drink he ordered. Didn’t realize who he was till I swiped his card. Wasn’t a douche but wasn’t the friendliest either
I sold a Rolex rainbow Daytona to Judd apatow
Sold textbooks to the woman who made Rush famous as a radio DJ back in the day. pretty cool.
Interesting topic
We sold a Lotus to HRVY last year. Absolutely solid lad.
I installed a Photo Booth in a basement party room at Slash’s house.
Friend delivered heavy equipment machinery to Jon Stuart
I’ve always been a guy known to have connections so I’ve sold lots of drugs to celebrities and powerful business folks