I don't even have the money to kill myself

[endofme0001]

US gov't has killed my business. My suppliers went under and now the tariffs have resulted in zero sales. My biggest demographic was in the USA. I have nothing. Less than $2 in my bank account.
I don't even have enough to buy a rope at the dollar store. No one can help me financially. Nor would I expect them to, everyone is suffering right now.
I can't even print shipping labels (on various marketplaces) to sell my personal goods to the USA unless I use a courier for prepaid tariffs. No one is going to pay for a courier on a small ticket item with excessive tariffs. 90 percent of my 25 year old business has been outside of my own country (Canada)
I can't live like this. I really don't want to die but I see no way out. The worst thing was my business was picking up just as the new year started. I know I can't be helped here. I'm just venting because no one else seems to give a shit.

 

[EmptyBottle]

I agree that those tariffs are dumb, they will only make consumers pay more, and hurt businesses on all sides.
Can you advertise in some way, whether door to door, telling friends to share on Facebook, etc?

I also only have a few dollars in my account, and some HECS/HELP debt.

 

[endofme0001]

I agree that those tariffs are dumb, they will only make consumers pay more, and hurt businesses on all sides.
Can you advertise in some way, whether door to door, telling friends to share on Facebook, etc?

Those are good ideas I've tried without success. Unfortunately my goods are now being manufactured in the USA due to the loss of my original supplier. Because of that prices are triple what they used to be. People just aren't buying and I don't blame them since I had to increase pricing. It just isn't something I can sell locally now. Facebook hasn't generated any sales for me and I've promoted the crap out of my store. If I had a substantial advertising budget I'm sure it would help but my data says most of my sales come from the internal search (marketplaces) or via offsite ads on Google. I haven't sold anything in 6 days now. Lots of "favorited" items but no buyers.

 

[EmptyBottle]

Those are good ideas I've tried without success. Unfortunately my goods are now being manufactured in the USA due to the loss of my original supplier. Because of that prices are triple what they used to be. People just aren't buying and I don't blame them since I had to increase pricing. It just isn't something I can sell locally now. Facebook hasn't generated any sales for me and I've promoted the crap out of my store. If I had a substantial advertising budget I'm sure it would help but my data says most of my sales come from the internal search (marketplaces) or via offsite ads on Google. I haven't sold anything in 6 days now. Lots of "favorited" items but no buyers.

ah, you've tried those ideas. I'd probably manufacture locally and sell locally if possible rather than seeking international suppliers, I have a feeling you've tried to source local suppliers though.

Not too sure what to advise, or whether trying for an hourly job would be a good idea, etc... tho I've done online selling on the side, and it definitely isn't as simple as it seems.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

I feel you

 

[Aiyuxiao]

I feel you too :( I don't have any more money to try and get the whole SN protocol :/ So, I'm just going based on what I have

 

[Manga]

US gov't has killed my business. My suppliers went under and now the tariffs have resulted in zero sales. My biggest demographic was in the USA. I have nothing. Less than $2 in my bank account.
I don't even have enough to buy a rope at the dollar store. No one can help me financially. Nor would I expect them to, everyone is suffering right now.
I can't even print shipping labels (on various marketplaces) to sell my personal goods to the USA unless I use a courier for prepaid tariffs. No one is going to pay for a courier on a small ticket item with excessive tariffs. 90 percent of my 25 year old business has been outside of my own country (Canada)
I can't live like this. I really don't want to die but I see no way out. The worst thing was my business was picking up just as the new year started. I know I can't be helped here. I'm just venting because no one else seems to give a shit.

i just wanna get a pistol somehow and blow my brains out
im tired of everything

 

[thankyouforthis]

I feel this so hard. Pretty much every method I can think of or have encountered via others requires some amount of money. The only free way I can think of is to chuck oneself off of a building, but that's not guaranteed; people have at times "miraculously" survived falls from great heights (though they are, of course, horribly injured in the process). There's also walk-into-trafficking, but I'd never do that because I wouldn't want other people to die or get hurt in a resultant crash or pile-up.

 

[EmptyBottle]

For me, the reason I tried NN instead of trying to source N in 2022, was I didn't yet have access to my bank account coz it was some saving-only type until it got converted.

 

[Off_Switch]

Don't feel bad if you ever have to resort to crime in order to get by. It would be completely justified. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Almost nothing to lose for someone that is aiming towards CTB.