Lets make a Deal!

[Limper]

Back in the day I made a decent living by a variety of methods and I really wish I had had a bigger repertoire or had figured out how to take it to the next level cause I’d like to have been able to make a living off this stuff… it was fun, it was easy and it left me with a bunch of free time to do things I enjoyed more than work.

I worked at a restaurant at the time and this was my system.

I’d get scheduled for as many shift as I could get. Then I’d sell those shifts to college student coworkers and other folks wanting more hours for $5-10 a pop. $40 a week.

I’d raffle off the gimpy one shift paycheck at the end of week. Check worth 25-30 bucks. $50 a week.

I’d play cards with the heavy drinking frontside people twice a week for a few hours. $20-50 a week.

I’d buy beer for the underage folks I trusted not to fuck me, in bulk at the cheapest rate I could find and sell it to them at something less than the most expensive but close to it. Counting tips for services rendered $50-100 a week.

Helping folks with their homework and other consultant services another $20-30 a week.

All said for 5-6 hours of work and another 3 hours of hanging out and doing things I’d normally do on my time off I pulled down about $200 week, not bad for tax free money but not enough to live off of.

What else could I have done? What sorts of scams have you all done and to what were the payoffs?

[FeatsofClay]

I have, at various times, been known to take mud and form it into little shapes. I am always amazed that people give me money for it.

[Keeper of Secrets]

I flipped comics as an experiement. It was a nice gig for, like, 50 bucks a month.

I like Limper's scam better.

[Limper]

I have, at various times, been known to take mud and form it into little shapes. I am always amazed that people give me money for it.

In my days of making jewelry I used scraps from other folks projects and stuff I found in the garage to make pieces that I'd sell for $20-75 each... not bad for a quarters worth of personal outlay and a few hours of time I enjoyed spending.

You have one upped my endevors though since you are taking mud and turning it into money.

If you could turn poop into money then you could top yourself.

[mollygrue]

i too did my time in the restaurant. i was front of house and worked it from the opposite angle as limper re: hours--people would pay me to pick up their shifts ( they wanted a free friday nite for example)--then i got the wages and tips from their shift--plus they paid me to take it. and since waitress shifts are usually abt 5 hrs--out early if it is slow-the income per hour ratio was still very good.

[Keeper of Secrets]

In my days of making jewelry I used scraps from other folks projects and stuff I found in the garage to make pieces that I'd sell for $20-75 each... not bad for a quarters worth of personal outlay and a few hours of time I enjoyed spending.

You have one upped my endevors though since you are taking mud and turning it into money.

If you could turn poop into money then you could top yourself.

Oh you . . . I turn poop into money. I am a lawyer.

[doc]

Take old ACs that are just old and not as energy eff. and rework them, sell them to folks that need one for parts, labor +10%, way cheaper them the companies will sell a new one for.

Coils and copper from the ones that are worthless :)

[Limper]

Take old ACs that are just old and not as energy eff. and rework them, sell them to folks that need one for parts, labor +10%, way cheaper them the companies will sell a new one for.

Coils and copper from the ones that are worthless :)

Thats a good deal more work than I'm looking for.

[doc]

Well for a reworked unit I could get 200 for it, I haven't priced copper latley

[Limper]

Well for a reworked unit I could get 200 for it, I haven't priced copper latley


How many hours would that take to do? Cost of materials and tools? General pain in the assness?

[doc]

Depends, some of them work fine they were just replaced to cut bills ( The guy thats owns most of the strip malls in and around the county is sort of a relitive ) so it's just clean the coils, replace a feedback valve, fix a leak etc. and it's good to go. Mr. H is redoing them every few months, so it's not steady.

[Steampunk]

Not exactly a scan, but I collect old computer parts from people I know or work with (usually old machines) and I get it into a semi working state and sell it off to a local guy who deals in used computer equipment. I usually make about $30-50 per PC. Some weeks I make nothing, some weeks I can pull in about $200. Spending money.

I also sell bulk boxes of NICs, RAM, and other assorted junk.

[Limper]

Not exactly a scan, but I collect old computer parts from people I know or work with (usually old machines) and I get it into a semi working state and sell it off to a local guy who deals in used computer equipment. I usually make about $30-50 per PC. Some weeks I make nothing, some weeks I can pull in about $200. Spending money.

I also sell bulk boxes of NICs, RAM, and other assorted junk.

I used to collect 256k 30 pin ram and print stuff on the side of it and sell for upwards of $20 but the supply of useless ram dried up.

[Steampunk]

I used to collect 256k 30 pin ram and print stuff on the side of it and sell for upwards of $20 but the supply of useless ram dried up.

I would sell a lot of my junk to art students. They love it to make sculptures and stuff with.

[Limper]

I would sell a lot of my junk to art students. They love it to make sculptures and stuff with.

If I had a farm with out buildings I'd be doing the same but storage is an issue.

[doc]

I was a teenage Black marketeer !!

When I was stationed in Korea in the early 80s I would get cigarettes, booze and other items that was rationed and sell them on the black market. The cigs went with me on FTXs and I sold them to the poor 2 pack a days at 100% profit, then it was a buck a pack.