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Demovictory9 (24,671 posts)The People Behind the Joe Biden Sticker That Has Colonized America's Gas PumpsThe stickers first started showing up on gas pumps across the country last year: pictures of President Biden, usually placed to look like he is pointing to the price of the gas, with the words “I did that!” beside him. After first spiking in popularity online months ago, the stickers are hot once again these days, thanks to recent sharp rises in gas prices—$4.33 on average for a gallon of regular. With some consumers mad enough to become sticker vigilantes and Biden’s approval ratings in the dumps, there’s only one real winner in this situation: the sticker profiteers themselves.“It’s been ramping up for a few months,” said Javier Estrada Ovalles, who’s been doing brisk business in “I did that!” stickers at his online store catering to car enthusiasts as well as his brick-and-mortar store in El Monte, California. “But in this last month alone, once the prices of the gas really started going up, I started getting bulk sales twice or three times more than it was before.” He said he went from getting 20 to 30 individual orders a day to 80 a day, and those 80 are often for packs of 10 or more.The stickers are also moving fast at the Patriotic Products, an online shop run by an Oklahoma-based young man named Keenan. (Keenan declined to give his last name or specific age, saying that he’s “under 21.” He was suspiciously unavailable between the hours of 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.) Over the past week, “I’ve noticed an increase of organic sales, meaning I’m not having to do advertising,” Keenan told me. He estimated that he’s sold about 1,500 stickers in that time, which is pretty good, but small potatoes compared to August—that was the first month he started selling “I did that!” stickers, still very early in the trend cycle, when he claimed he raked in $40,000 in sticker sales alone. The field was clear then, but now he has dozens, maybe even hundreds, of vendors to compete with.----------As the stickers have become popular, gas station employees have complained about the difficulty of getting them off the gas pumps or the worry that they might rankle some patrons. Estrada Ovalles protested that he doesn’t make the stickers for people to stick on gas pumps, but acknowledged that “they end up there anyway.” Because of that, his stickers are made of vinyl, he said: “If you try to remove ’em, they will fully come off. Wherever they might end up, it’s not a pain in the butt to clean up.”https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/joe-biden-i-did-that-gas-pump-stickers-prices.html
He estimated that he’s sold about 1,500 stickers in that time, which is pretty good, but small potatoes compared to August—that was the first month he started selling “I did that!” stickers, still very early in the trend cycle, when he claimed he raked in $40,000 in sticker sales alone.
“If you try to remove ’em, they will fully come off. Wherever they might end up, it’s not a pain in the butt to clean up.”
... Colonized America's Gas Pumps
Star Member Catherine Vincent (34,073 posts) 27. The gas station managers should check daily for stickersIf they catch anyone with the stickers, they should be fined. It's destruction of property.If I come across one, I'll take my business elsewhere.
Wow, that article is rife with loaded language. "Colonized", "profiteers", "vigilantes"...I'm not that familiar with Slate, but I'm guessing they have, shall we say, a leftward slant.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216480652What we really need are Trump stickers with "Miss me yet?" to put under the Biden "I did that!" stickers. Their heads would explode.
Ted Kennedy is the only person with an actual confirmed kill in the war on women.
Yep, burn up precious gas going from this station to that one seeking out one with no stickers. We don't call em DUmmies for nothing.
Star Member Catherine Vincent (34,073 posts)27. The gas station managers should check daily for stickersIf they catch anyone with the stickers 1., they should be fined 2.. It's destruction of property.If I come across one, I'll take my business elsewhere 3..
...3.. Star Moron Catherine Vincent believes gas stations should have an employee dedicated to sticker removal, lest one not remove a sticker fast enough and thereby lose her business? ...
inthewind21 (473 posts) 31. soIf you see a sticker, instead of informing the gas station or just removing the sticker yourself, you'll punish the gas station and not the moron who put the sticker there? Makes perfect sense.
All one needs a printer and some sticker paper. I guess that would make me a 'sticker master at arms' or something. I read elsewhere that if one wanted to put the sticker somewhere where it wouldn't be taken off, that one *could* put it over the cert tag sticker on the machine.
If they catch anyone with the stickers 1., they should be fined 2.. It's destruction of property.
I was told by the communist democrat leftists that destruction of property is no big deal when Black Loot and Murder did it in the summer of hate, rage, and intolerance of 2020. Also if the black folkx can steal up to $950 with no penalties of the law happening, so should putting a sticker on a gas pump.In addition, **** YOU DUMBASSES!
Yup.How many times did we hear "It's just property" at the DUmp and elsewhere.
