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Simon Espinal must be rolling in all of the $100 us dollars he collected from the hat monger....

Yes Simon can make as many as he wants, but that will ruin the scam of the 100K hat...

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Here's an excerpt:

Before we began to work together, he could not earn enough from weaving to support his family. He worked on a fishing boat. He, his wife, and their three children, all lived with Simón’s parents. Lived in one room with a dirt floor. In an interview with World Vision Network, Simón said they often didn’t have enough to eat.

Now Simón weaves full time. His dependable, guaranteed weaving income is in the top 30% of all incomes in his country. The cash price he now receives for each hat makes him the highest paid weaver in history. He also receives an artist’s commission when one of his works of art is purchased.

When he received his artist’s commissions from the sale of his first two hats, it was more than he used to earn in three years of weaving, before El Gringo Loco came a knockin’ on his door. Jorge and Diego helped him open his first bank account. I stayed out of the way. But I was there and I felt good about it. Simón looked like he felt pretty good about it too.

Simón has received a commission from a single hat that was about equal to what he used to earn in five years. And he has received more than one such commission. ]]>Aug 10th 2009 2:04PM