Sell water! Make millions!
For the bulk volume thing, get water from a hole in the ground, stick it in bottles, and sell it for 30000% more than the clean, regulated, tested stuff that comes out of the tap. Imply that it is in some way healthful.

For the truly exploitative, get distilled water, add nothing to it, claim it's "homeopathic" (but carefully make no actual medical claims for it but it has been used for hundreds of years *wink* *wink*), and sell it for more dosh than perfume.

To appeal even more to the sociopathic tendency, into the bargain you might get to hurt people too, by persuading them to use this instead of genuine medical treatment!

Quids in, from nothing more that simply selling water and lying about it!

Bah. Why am I so honest? I could be rich.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 14:24, 11 replies)

Richard Hammond sold his tap water...
in an experiment for, I think, the "Should I be worried about..." series he did ages ago.

Result: People are reluctant to take free tap water in cups off people in the street

People are willing to pay for tap water if it's in a bottle with a fancy label and called something silly.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 14:30, closed)

I remember a while ago
someone was selling bottles of Loch Ness water via ebay, for a tidy profit.

We've got a spa in our local town, with apparently healing water. It tastes fucking rank (things which are good for you often do it seems), so maybe I should try flogging some online.
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 14:35, closed)

@Lemon
Not Leamington Spa water is it?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 14:38, closed)

@Badger - it certainly is Leamington Spa
You a local by any chance?
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 14:42, closed)

If all else fails,
market it as a special tonic which is rich in "dihydrogen monoxide."
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 14:45, closed)

The creepiest bastard I've ever met
.. was a homeopathy practictioner. Despite intense scientific scrutiny there is 0 evidence that homeopathy works beyond placebo. Even if it does, ripping people off for what is basically water with a tiny amount of "active ingredient" that is then diluted with enough water to make it just plain old water is absolutely scandalous.
(lost, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 14:48, closed)

^ It's just staggering to think how many morons actually believe it
I don't have a problem with "alternative" or natural medicines provided they can be proven to work. How many times are we going to have to debunk homeopathy before the mentalist bastards give it a rest?
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 14:50, closed)

Make even more money,
'bless' the bottles of water and tell the gullible audience
it contains divine powers and it cures everything. You can ask for a lot of money if you play your cards right.
(DrDoxy, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 15:13, closed)

homeopathy
It is an utter, utter heap of sh!te, however, the placebo effect could be utilised as a very cheap, yet effective way of clearing the NHS of hordes of hypochondriacs and moaning old bastards.....
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 16:01, closed)

@Crow
If it can be proven to work, then it's not alternative medicine, it's just medicine.

Therapy is getting better, alternative therapy is just that: an alternative to getting better.

Oh, and I found out that they now sell homeopathic medicine in 1000C dilution (also sometimes written 1M). That's one part of active ingredient in 10²⁰⁰⁰ parts of water. If every subatomic particle in the universe was a universe in itself, and the particles in those were universes too, then you could search every particle in them all and still not find one molecule of the original substance.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 18:25, closed)

peckham springs
in this part of the world there is a company selling botteled tap water! they say it comes from an artesian well where the water has flowed for hundreds of years over sands and gravel. It just happens to be owned by the council. As for bottled at source water comes out of a tap right?

Court case dismissed no false advertising here. 100% true
(welgar, Sat 2 Aug 2008, 10:49, closed)