About four years ago just before I sold my Business I went down and watched "The Mole Guy" case in court.
The Prosecutor asked him "How much did you make on an average year?" He replied $500,000.00 and his best year he made $750,000.00.
Yes Sir he made that much up in King and Snohominh County. But remember he used scissor traps and knew that they were against the law. He didn't care. The Department caught him several times, at a matter of fact when they brought him to court they had him on four counts. After two days of trail, he paid a fine of $16,000.00 and didn't do any jail time. But the department have him on 23 more pending cases, so he promise to stop his business. If they catch him one more time, it is straight to jail, don't pass go and don't collect $200.00 (Monopoly game). He's retried in Hawaii now.
Anyway I came across a "Live/cage Mole Trap" the other day that looks like it might work. I think I'll pick up a half dozen and field test them. Cost for them seem high until you start to think like The Mole Guy did and make yourself $500,000.00 - $750,000.00 a year. The #1 problem I can see is Initiative 713 where you would have to check you traps every 24 hours (live trapping). That in itself could be costly.
So .............. if I try these traps out and they work good, would anybody be interested in mole traps? Cost is right around $40.00 each. Ya that sounds high (that is what I have to pay for them) but than again all one would need is a couple hundred or less of them. A $10,000.00 investment or less to make $100,000.00 or more for your first year doesn't sound bad.
My thought is if they work good, I would talk the guy into a distributorship. I don't want to do moles any more, my knees hurt and I need a knee replacement now but holding off for as long as I can, but you guys can do it, plus I'm semi retired. Anybody interested in mole trapping and would you pay this price for such a trap?
JC
