"This Is The Golf Tee From Hell!" | Dragons' Den Canada

[@GigaEnigma]

Jim and Arleen are absolutely right. The number of people who put their houses and families on the line to be an entrepreneur is absolutely insane, infuriating, and saddening.

[@frikkievarkpiel5854]

The winner here is the company who sold him an overprices mold for something so simple as a tee

[@CharlieTheAstronaut]

Molds ae stupidly expensive

[@ThelRiSycusee]

@@CharlieTheAstronautlies

[@SeizureGman]

Could 3D Print to test the market then get a mild if demand was high enough

[@CabbageYe]

After this pitch Jean went to the factory and had millions of these made with Boston pizza printed on them

[@matthewbell4273]

Generous of Jim to say he’d buy all of that relevant stock. No numbers or pricing discussed though, oddly.

[@danzephyr2797]

Classic

[@garbygarb31]

@@matthewbell4273 were you there

[@garbygarb31]

If you actually watched the video.. he said he has 100,000 in inventory

[@sluggingbread]

Lmao can't stop laughing haha

[@lukewoodworth2101]

You know it's bad when the dragons are completely rattled by your situation

[@SaHaRaSquad]

And then he goes "yeah so I'm gonna ignore everything they said and just continue sinking money into this bottomless pit".

[@pseudonymous8702]

@@SaHaRaSquad I am curious what happened to him. They should do follow-ups on everyone they had on.

[@billyjesus5442]

@@pseudonymous8702 hes a multimillionaire, his product took the golfing wolf by storm.

[@mane4408]

6:33 Damn That made me sad Looked like the guy was gonna cry I hope he finds a way to make something work

[@-WhizzBang-]

Yeah, and I hope he does a little more research into whether something is a good idea or not, the next time!

[@ScottOSaurus]

Not me I hope he went broke.

[@moogleking]

Guy looked like he was in despair at the end

[@raven4k998]

well you would be to if you spend 250 thousand on an idea and still had not made it yet

[@techwiz81]

LOL at this guy saying Timmins is “way up north near the igloos” when in reality it’s south of the western Canada border with the US

[@garbygarb31]

If it's south of the border it's in the United States.

[@techwiz81]

@@garbygarb31 eastern Canada goes significantly south of western Canada, so no

[@hellohello9400]

@@garbygarb31 you ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed

[@futurelivesxi]

To be fair, it DOES feel like that far up north in the middle of the arctic during the winter, particularly in a province where the Golden Horseshoe is like 5-6 hours away. You're basically out in nowhere

[@jeffm7487]

Still a a lot of snow

[@bodhi8260]

I think entrepreneurs don't like to "test the market" because then it is "out there" for others to copy their idea before a patent, but that also means they put a boatload of money on things that might not sell. We've seen this several times, like with "kid's love" in the shark tank u.s.

[@victorespino5650]

They have to get a patent first, spend a couple thousand before mortgaging your house

[@jeremydoucet8918]

and by the strangest of coincidences all 100k in inventory was branded with the boston pizza logo

[@cosy1914]

This was overcomplicating to a tee.

[@MikeGush.]

The product is below par…

[@aquarius_bb6658]

I see what you did there 😏

[@punchypete1066]

Strange saying, isnt it? Something poor should be above par, really.

[@PORCHMANKEY]

...you just push the wooden one into the ground further. The only reason you would need a differently sized tee is if it needed to be longer.

[@kevindunlap5525]

100 3 1/4" tees on Amazon are 7 bucks.

[@iandouglas1704]

Jean was surprisingly on top of his numbers. He barely hesitated when the dragons asked him for dollar amounts.

[@goughmi5430]

I would rather use different fixed height tees so I can have a consistent height for each type of shot

[@victorespino5650]

Right, bc you have to manually screw it up and down and on each one you'll probably be off from the one before. Lol so it doesn't fix the issue

[@andipandi5641]

yes.. shame that this guy did not have a golf friend to point out some bleeding obvious things to him..

[@hidansektas]

even kevin was nice and actually worried for him. you know its bad

[@-WhizzBang-]

I thought he was going to start crying! At least Jim felt bad enough for him that he offered to buy the Tee's with his name on them! This is another sad example of someone NOT doing their research into whether something is a good idea or not, before investing their life savings into it!

[@Jessica7318]

Absolutely. Jim didn't commit to buy them at a certain price either. This is a situation where Jim could say: "Look, the T's are useless to anyone else, they're pre-branded, so you burn them, or you give them to me." and he could put an offer in for whatever he wants. - He could buy them at cost. - He could generously buy them at the price the guy decided on his plan (low numbers so the ones with Boston Pizza can be paid 'full price' as a charitable gesture to him). - He could buy the ones with the name on them at a discount. If someone else pays more for them, fine, Jim doesn't have to buy them. If Jim buys them, Jim can decide what he'll pay, etc.

[@bodhi8260]

"I have many of those" lol

[@CatopiaCatSanctuary]

WHOA! I pray this man keeps his shirt!😬

[@frederickbowdler8169]

A neat idea which makes sense

[@joeg5414]

Maybe he should just make normal tees with an improved top or something since he has a supplier? I dunno tho, if they're cheap and he can get them in stores, golfers will buy it. Maybe make some money back.

[@AlphaCentauri24]

"Watching Golf is like watching flies fk" - George Carlin.

[@wizzi11able]

I just don't get it, I swear to god. Don't become emotional with your business/product. I mean, you do your market research(advertise) if people don't respond to it with the right publicity then the market is talking to you... your product does not sell, just move on and focus on something else. With 40k you might aswell just put the money in an index fund or invest in something and let the money sit until you get your next ideia, I mean, it makes no sense that you get damaged for life because of one single ideia... if it doesn't work just try something else and keep going until you find the one thing that works.

[@vishk123]

Not even a birdie would invest in that!

[@jimhen459]

Never put your house up for a business --- never.

[@Morgana7262]

At 3:31 he says "We've sold about 15,000 in the last month or so" and then everyone completely ignores him and goes out. Weird. There are a million knockoffs now, so obviously there is a market. Just google adjustable height golf tees and get ready for the flood of brands doing it and not as "a promotional item"

[@lostinlife647866]

A year has passed this horrible product is being sold by everybody on Amazon, its rated 1 star . Hard to imagine a golfer would want this horrible wannabe product. $275,000 to produce this " Hot Garbage " What a waste of time and money !!!!!

[@TomRelic]

No one asked what he's spending $130,000.00 and what his plan was to make lots of money like he said?

[@joewas2225]

This guy is highly delusional if he really keeps going. No it's not a bad idea but it's not selling. Stop for now & wait till people will want this.

[@jomojojo6603]

$275,000 for a nut and bolt?????

[@victorespino5650]

There's no study that shows the tee will make your shot better .

[@oneheadlight8000]

Consistently placing your tee at the same height for a given club 100% improves your consistency with that club.. it's why tee manufacturers have painted marks on the tees.

[@scratchy1704]

Some people are just silly.Poor man.

[@kevindunlap5525]

Am I wrong thinking that a mold runs about $50,000 for the average one, certainly one making tees would be a smaller one even to accommodate 100 tees at a time? For argument's sake that must be pretty close. You don't need distractions on the golf course, like unscrewing a tee that just jammed, and now it's bent, and.........and everyone carries different sized tees IF they even use them. I haven't played in years, and I have three sizes of wooden tees in my bag. Let's keep plastic off the golf course. Every other ball you pick up on the course is branded, they do same with wooden tees, I mean dude, SAVE YOUR HOUSE. You buy a 3 1/4" tee and you push it in deeper. I repeat, save your house. They're $7 for 100 on Amazon, and you may never have to buy another tee in your life.

[@jakecooper5855]

A lot of the average golfers don't spend anything on tees, they just find the odd one on the ground each time they play,

[@BiffJackson-o4i]

To the Boston Pizza dude, how did you finance your first Boston Pizza purchase? Most likely by mortgaging your house.

[@Lincolntowncoupe]

If you don't even know his name then it shows how much you know about Jim Treliving. He didn't start Boston Pizza, he grew it. He already had a career as a Mountie and bought a franchise in 1968. He made enough money from that to buy the company in 1983. I can guarantee you he didn't have to mortgage his house to do it.

[@BiffJackson-o4i]

@@Lincolntowncoupe So he took his tax-payer money and bought a franchise. What an entrepreneur.

[@Lincolntowncoupe]

@@BiffJackson-o4i yes he took money that he earned doing a job, regardless of where it came from, and bought a franchise.

[@canag0d]

This is a horrible idea coming from a golfer. It doesn’t even improve consistency. U have to move the thing up and down and have to judge where it is the same way you have to judge how far down a standard tee is. Any golfer that takes the game seriously enough to use this, would already be able to gauge how high to tee up the ball using the club as a measuring stick because they’ve hit so many shots. A 3 times a year golfer would try to use this once and call it stupid and be frustrated by its tediousness. Even if a decent golfer found this useful they would have to mark on each individual tee where to spin it for driver, 3 wood etc. considering you can break a tee in one swing this is annoying. However let’s say someone was willing to do this (some golfers are goofy). They could still just use a standard tee and mark that the exact same way. This product has 0 merit. Not even as a promotional tool because there are far cooler tees you can brand than theses.

[@rpminc1974]

Dragons " don't invest other dime into this 275,000 disaster" Golf tee guy " i am going to keep on investing and pursuing this total disaster until i am completely broke and have to file bankruptcy !!

[@ryancooper2901]

I think Jean was wasting money

[@billyjesus5442]

his business turned him into a multi millionaire the investors got it wrong this time.

[@dontbedummy8101]

Source? I don't find any

[@bodhi8260]

Professional golf players would buy this in a second.

[@jakecooper5855]

No they wouldn't, they are the last people that would buy it. Professional golfers rely heavily on muscle memory in their techniques, and a very basic element of that is placing their tee in the ground at the same height each time. They don't need a guide.

[@oneheadlight8000]

@@jakecooper5855 Lol.. its one more variable that they dont have to worry about.. 60% of the PGA tour pros are using a marking system or the tees with the shelves.. this is a tee with a shelf that you can adjust.

[@Waybackhollow]

If your over 40, we all want to adjust our "ball height!"

[@ScottOSaurus]

Honestly he deserves every cent of bankruptcy. He’s to deluded to see how far in the hole he is and he keeps shoveling.

[@raven4k998]

happens all the time sadly

[@shannoncarlson6960]

Really sad. It's always good to put your heart into your dream but NEVER put up your house to secure loans on a dream. Do a few small vendor events to get feedback and see what sells. This guy is obsessed with a fairly useless product that nobody seems to want.

[@369DamnThingsFine3]

TIMMINS REPRESENT🩸🩸🫄

[@Numberonechesspest]

Kevin debunked his invention in 3 seconds.

[@rauserbegins5850]

Another over-engineered product that solves a problem that no one has.

[@Landrew0]

I find these overthinkers hilarious. Hopefully shows like this can save some families from wasting money on stupid ideas like this one. Someone could have made this simpler by making a 4" tee with graduations on the side. But no one has, so go figure.

[@evilish888]

Remember, it's the Indian, not the arrow