Bad business ideas

Ramit Sethi has put together a list of the “8 Stupid Frat Boy Business Ideas” that’s quite funny. While reading his comments I could help but add “Ebay Drop-off store” to the list, but I see someone in his comments sections already did. Someone with a lot more talent than myself put together the “Ebay drop-off store break even calculator“.

Here’s my own list of bad business ideas:

1. The Digg of Sports, The Digg of Gossip, the Digg of Cars…
2. A Craigslist clone for your dorm, church, scout troup, drinking buddies…
3. Any software idea involving “Widgets”
4. The next great airfare tracking site
5. The next great real estate mashup site
6. The next great online photo album site
7. Any new micropayment business
8. Any new price tracking busines