A man comes across a stall on the side of the road, and hears the vendor say "Coconuts, $5 a dozen." With his lightning-quick arithmetic he quickly calculates that if he sold the same coconuts to the Coconut Air Assault Squad for the accepted rate of $3 per dozen that in no time at all he would be a millionaire. How is this possible, assuming his math is accurate?

He's currently a billionaire, but would quickly lose money until he became a mere millionaire?

beaten by 3 minutes

I'm sure I remember posting effectively the same riddle, but with rice being bought for $10 and sold for $1 (per some amount of rice)

But I can't find it.

Sad times of inability to find things...

I have the whole list of topics filled out (kept scrolling to the bottom to expand the whole list) and used Ctrl+F to find all mention of "Started by Super-King" but no... no rice-seller riddle.

Found it 

http://tangler.com:80/forum/riddles/topic/6559

hehehehe I wouldn't have gotten it this time either

Got you plenty riled up last time 

Probably for the best that I stepped in and saved you the pain.

I know.... how hopeless am I??

Is that the start of a new riddle?

I'm not sure it's possible to quantify that.

Alright, let's make it a riddle.

I'll know the correct answer when I see it, and yours wasn't it

Infinitely hopeless?

Bzzzt

Wrong

Slightly less hopeless than Morgan's aircon guy?

hahahah Flattery might get you some where, but no

Variable, depending on the task in hand?

He paid for the coconuts in HK dollars, and sold them in Australian dollars?

Maybe he sold them in Zimbabwe

Maybe he bought the coconuts, then rented them out to various coconut shies, then sold them after as used coconuts.

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most hopeless that any normal person can be, they would have to rewrite the scale to accommodate you?

Depends on whether you've had coffee or not?

hahahahahahah

Okay, you have it

Yes, SK gets the point...

omg.......*searches for scoreboard topic* - where'd it go!?

LOL!