Thank you Frank,

What you do is not the easiest thing either. I’m sure I could do it after an (adjustment period) but by no means would I say it would have no impact or difficulty at first as a regular job. I think people in your field are very under appreciated. I have a person living near me who is a funeral director, I told her I respected what she did and thanked her for it. Your contribution to society is of no less value than any other field. Props to you amigo. And in all honesty given what you do, your the kind of guy I would trust more than most in a fox hole.

Thank you Darrel, but I’ve always thought it was folks like yourself that had the really
respectable tasks… with you, lot’s of things are ON THE LINE as you go… YOU can mean
the difference between someone going home or to jail/morgue!

ImaJane is a Hospice Nurse….
Fairin is a Nurse for inmates….

I salute you all, for I don’t know how I w/could handle that… I’d probably be the one looking like “Steve”!!

Ahahahahaha Frank! God Bless you for the good and respectable work you do. What you do is so very important to families.

@Steve – I’ve come to realize most of the ones who have issues with the submission fees are…. ummm…
oh yeah… it’s an entire $15 more than…. errr… forget it; it’s no use.., everytime I try to concentrate,
my eyes scan back to that avatar and I loose it all over again! LOL

@Jim, Darrel, and Gabe – True story… I was up to my elbows in a full autopsy when the Eddie Haskil
looking florist popped right through the doors and found himself standing within arm’s reach of the
table…. that was the look on his face as he randomly stammerd out the first three or four words of several
sentences, between little micro-coughs that shook his entire body, then desperately exiting! LOL

Wow, 0 for 3, can we make it 0 for 4?

Best $20 I’ve every spent has been with EN…

Ha…$25.00…that won’t even fill my gas tank. Gas in my town hit $4.18 a gallon. By this summer it will probably be close to $6.00 a gallon. I go to the store and spend $50.00 and come out with a bag the size of a napkin holder. I buy boxes and tubes and cans of stuff that are smaller in size and yet still cost the same if not more than what it was. I’ll live on the edge and throw $25.00 here for someone to look at my idea. It can’t be any worse than what is already happening around me and to me. LOL.

Besides, it gives me pleasure to be here with all of you, and that alone is is worth the price of admission.

Kevin :)

Thanks for the laugh Frank.

Nothing like a mortician’s photo analogy to put things in perspective. You gotta love Frank lol!

Frank, I love your analogy about how Steve looks like he missed the flower stand closet and walked into the mortician’s prep room instead! Has anybody recognized that Steve is probably long gone?

I think thats what they want you to do, spend some time and research to develope your idea I believe the cost is right and you did agree to pay the amount in the beginning . I have spent alot of time and money in my idea also . I know its original and will sell but I got a R4 yesterday in one search that just means it didnt work for that search im still G3 in 2 other searches with the same idea though. I am already prepared to go to bank and persue my idea even if they red X in other two searches . The cost to market and pitch your product is alot of time and money . $ 25 is a very small investment if you think its the right idea . Just sayin

Steve your all upset about the 25 bucks. Just think you could have saved 15 bucks if they charged 10 bucks. Did you get a red X? Or are your seriously upset about paying 25 bucks later when you were perfectly willing to pay 25 bucks to start with? Why is this a problem now and it was not a problem when YOU decided to spend YOUR money? Yep I think your bitter about something else and this is sort of like some venting cry for help. Tell me how you feel about it. Maybe you go into to the gas station and yell at the cashier when you get done filling up the car with gas you decided to buy. I mean seriously, is the price of gas fair when you choose to pay it?

Funny, reading the original post, I’ve never thought of the product searches as contests. I think I would see it all through a different shading if I thought of them that way.

I have only been here a little while but have already had one of my ideas looked at. This may not seem like much to maost but it is a milestone for me. All these years I have had stuff floating around in my head and now someone actualy wants to see them. Even at twice the price I would be happy.

Frank you are WAY TOO FUNNY !!! … i have to cheer in here with the rest…. i paid the 25 as well… for the privilege to have EN even look at my ideas… :))) more than once in some cases… errrrrr uhhhhhhhhhhh sorry EN… hahhaa haaa

good luck with everything !!!

Aloha Charlie………….looking forward to EE……now you got Eric, Bruce and all the other amazing ones (no disrespect, just not good at name memory, old age) , sure to be the best series ever, just really good and creative people……EN knows people and great ideas. Mahalo and good night Sir.

Welcome Steve, Felicity and Aaron …. This is an awesome community, it’s truly inspirational and real … You will gravitate to the forum more and more and be amazed at the new friends you will meet … Enjoy !!!

Steve; you look a lot like the local florist who was searching for the flower stand closet at
the funeral home, and wondered into the prep room instead! <;-)

Welcome, and all the best to you!

Steve, welcome to EN, and the best of luck to you.
Welcome also to Felicity and Aaron, which by the way.. nice dog!

Scott hit the nail on the head there.

It’s not only fair it’s beyond fair it is a real privilege when a team like Edison nation with their expertise looks into any of our ideas

i think the 20 dollars is more than fair,,,,i just developed an idea for Irwin tools, the prototype mockup cost me 10 dollars and 20 minutes to put together,,,,then it was submitted for 20 bucks,,reviewed extensively using many man hours I am sure and since going G7 two people got on a plane to fly to another location to present and promote my idea to a manufacturer,,,,for 20 bucks!!!…

So you normally do product presentations? If so, then you should be able to breeze through this. All En is doing is looking at it and promising to devote a small amount of time to review the viability. You will still have the opportunity to show it to other companies that may never take any time to look at it. For the price of a large pizza, you are getting an opportunity to share the profit, in a potentially great product, and take absolutely no risk beyond the $25.

Potential rewards could be greater going solo, but there is also a huge risk and a huge learning curve that you must endure to succeed even if you have a great idea.

I am in for 200 shares (depending on price). Go Public, Go Public!!!

I like the idea of all the $25s (or $20s) adding up to create the opportunity for Edison Nation to exist, and therefore for a selection of our best ideas to be turned into commercial products.
I’m not sure that it would be commercially viable to not charge, then to assess every idea properly, to invest well into the selected ideas, and to give such a large proportion of the proceeds to the inventors.
Anyway, how would someone invest in EN? The company as a whole must be a good bet…

Hi Steve, I personally think this is beyond fair. You can’t even go to a nice restaurant for a meal for that amount.
Look at all EN does for each entry. How much they spend traveling around to show our products. That is an enormous
amount of funds they have to lay out. I truly hope you do understand this and realize you found a great site.

Hi Steve,

$25 is close to free in my book. It is more than fair because we can choose not to submit. Correct me if I am wrong, but I am guessing you are coming over from Quirky. Most topics of this nature are started by people trying to compare the two. EN and Quirky are completely different. I prefer the protected model of EN vs the public disclosure model over there. If you find yourself submitting more to EN, I high recommend the Insider Membership.

Good luck with Bandai.

I am now going to the sidelines with Chappy.

hmmm… this will get interesting… i am on the sidelines for this conversation though… become a member then it is only $20. This price is extremely fair and affordable.

Have you ever tried to submit to an angel investor or to any other submission company before or is EN the first place that you came to?

No, really I am on the sidelines…