How did YOU made your first big buck?
- Thread starter smashhell
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I dont remember exactly whether it was my first buck or not. But yeah I sung a song for a local radio,they gave me 3$. 
Talking in context of Internet money, I earned my first buck by selling twitter followers.
Talking in context of Internet money, I earned my first buck by selling twitter followers.
I threw a tennis ball soaked with the urine of a doe in estrus into a field and the horny bastard ran in a half hour later. I sat in some cover on a rock wall at the edge of the field and spanked him with a .300 win mag.
My first Internet sale came in the form of selling Diablo 2 Maphacks on ebay. Made about $5k one summer without any effort.
In 2005, I got into selling diablo 2 dupe software. What inspired me to do it was myself getting scammed by someone who claimed they had a working method for $200 on ebay. I got my money back, but the pure excitement leading up to the realization that it was a scam is what made me think about selling products that were too good to be true, but since my target audience were all basically the equivalent of meth-heads, they would buy on pure hopium. Made about $500/day for 2-3 years selling the dupe. A few months after I started the diablo dupe, I introduced a WoW dupe, during the first few months it was pretty good, but eventually died down to $1-2k/day.
Then I decided, fuck the dupes.. I'll provide the ultimate crack to these junkies. In came the World of Warcraft 'Stat Changer'. Showed videos of a private server where we increased the damage output 100x so instead of taking a hundred swings to kill a mob, you could pretty much mow everything down. Made upwards of $10k/day for a little over a year.
Since then I've moved on to bigger and better things.
Nothing big, but I made my first $50 last month. A nonprofit org that supports startups paid to put an add on one of my WP blog tag pages.
Used to hack rapidshare accounts on porn sites and sell them for half of original price on Porn forums when I was 14.
Made a bulletin board spam program using AutoMouse, spammed AOL's gaming forums using it, pushing all traffic to a fake front door that lead to AllClicks/BulkClicks for .03 per click.
lol @ finding another former sports card tycoon... I used to ride my bike to Walmart with a caliper and measure the packs and buy only the ones containing "insert" cards. Purchased table space at local card shows and sold said cards. Probably the most fun I ever had making money.
lol @ finding another former sports card tycoon... I used to ride my bike to Walmart with a caliper and measure the packs and buy only the ones containing "insert" cards. Purchased table space at local card shows and sold said cards. Probably the most fun I ever had making money.
We ranked a site on the first page for Nintendo Wii related search terms for Xmas 2007 in a local market. Simple 5 page site with a buy now lander selling the console for $25 above retail. (a lot of shops were sold out for some reason). Meanwhile we bought them in from the only wholesaler who stocked them at about $35 below retail. With shipping and card fees we were making $45/console and selling around 30 units a day on around 4000 visits.
Wholesaler was pissed we weren't buying any games so we ended up buying games and selling them at break even on eBay also just so they would keep supplying us the consoles. Was a lot of fun handing $8k of consoles to the UPS guy every day out of this run down building we we operating from at the time. Never had a fraudulent sale which was extremely fortunate in retrospect.
It only lasted 8 weeks or so then the rankings dropped and the demand fell away after Xmas. Seemed like a lot of money at the time.
Wholesaler was pissed we weren't buying any games so we ended up buying games and selling them at break even on eBay also just so they would keep supplying us the consoles. Was a lot of fun handing $8k of consoles to the UPS guy every day out of this run down building we we operating from at the time. Never had a fraudulent sale which was extremely fortunate in retrospect.
It only lasted 8 weeks or so then the rankings dropped and the demand fell away after Xmas. Seemed like a lot of money at the time.
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The first buck I made was actually on eBay selling an old Lava lamp that I bought at spencer gifts for more than I bought it for.