Ways you hustled before this

I used to (and still do) hunt down solid gold from old ladies at yard sales, thrift shops and flea markets that I resell at a massive profit to the refiners.

Finding a solid 23 gram 14k gold watch chain in a Santa Rosa, CA thrift shop while on vacation: priceless.

There used to be a big market for ceramic vintage tchotckas that I bought cheap and sold for big markups on Ebay, but the higher fees and recession killed off this end of the business.
 


I used to sell "how to grow marijuana" ebooks on ebay. After those started getting banned, I sold "how to pick locks" ebooks. All the information on the ebooks was available at a few websites, I just compiled it into a .doc and sent in an email. Occasionally I'd list them for $100 or more a pop... and yes people bought the shit.
 
Back in high school, I made proxy sites and sold them on SitePoint. Also, used to game freebie sites and then sell ipods, psps, etc on ebay.
 
cougarclaws said:
Ever been approached in a shopping center parking lot by guys in a van trying to sell speakers?

That was a very interesting summer.
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That happened to me a couple months ago.

Two guys came up to me and said, "Hey bro, check out this speaker system... We were supposed to install it and they sent us the wrong one. See the price? $899 but I'll sell it to you for $200."
 
I did a couple in HS. I burned CD's and DVD's with whatever people wanted, and did the eBay thing later on.

Although, the main hustle was gambling. I could shuffle cards good, so I just kept the same ones at the top for blackjack. The way I got away with it was I didn't let anyone have 2 games in a row, and let someone win every now and again so it didn't look suspicious. Then I'd wait till a teacher came near and use that as an excuse to move along, where I'd sort the cards out again. I did dice aswell. I offered $20 to anyone who could throw 2 6's with 2 dices if they paid $1. I made an average of over $0.50 a throw. I'd pay a couple of friends to do it with me. I'd pay them $5 an hour, so they only needed to host 10 throws to make it a worthwhile investment. It was extremely popular, they could easily each host 10 throws in under 3 minutes on a good day.

After school I went into banking, the biggest organized hustle on the planet.
 
One time in college there was this assignment that everyone needed to read that was, like 100 pages long. Problem was, that the book was on reserve and there was an hour long time limit, otherwise you had to pay something nuts like $5. Well, the genius that I am bought a spindle of 100 blank CDs for $5. I scanned all the pages of the text and burnt them to a CD, charged 50 cents per to make up for the cost. 30 of my fellow students bought.

I really should have charged more, but oh well.
 
Reselling car parts online when I was 16-18.

AKA

Buy totaled car for $500, get it towed to my mothers, spend a few days tearing it apart, listing on enthusiast forums and ebay. Flipping it for a total of a few days of work and making $3-5k.


When my step-mother was in college, she was much worse. They would buy 2 identical totaled cars, weld them together, and resell for 10-30k profit. Back when salvage titles dropped across state borders. They only dealt with high end cars. This paid her college loans off in less than a year.
 
070707 said:
When my step-mother was in college, she was much worse. They would buy 2 identical totaled cars, weld them together, and resell for 10-30k profit. Back when salvage titles dropped across state borders. They only dealt with high end cars. This paid her college loans off in less than a year.
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Yeah, the bitch should be put down for that.
 
Lol I used to sell fish when I was like 12.

Went door to door to all the neighbors, took their order and then would go to a fish farm where they'd let you fish in the ponds they grew them in and then you just paid by pound.

Way more interesting way of fishing as you never had to wait more then like 3 min and I made good cash doing it.
 
seiux said:
bought and sold Everquest characters/platinum for a few thousand back in middle school...was actually pretty easy. people paid a lot of money for everquest characters cause the game was so damn hard to level up...I sold my level 60 with only decent gear for around $700.
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Oh man I forgot, I hustled in Diablo 2. Bought rare items on ebay for $100, trade them in game for stone of jordans. SOJ's would sell $5 a pop around school, so I'd double the profit easily.

I played EverQuest for 2 years during Scars of Velious / Shadows of Luclin. Level 60 warrior on 7th hammer in the top raiding guild. I had to quit right before Senior year of high school cus I was spending literally 14 hrs a day on it. I love MMORPG's but they suck the life out of you.
 
Porn in middle school has to be the best. Kids that age will give their right arm for some decent photos they can pop into their computers/DVD players without fears of viruses or leaving trails for their parents to find. I could easily sell 10 CD's a day for $5 a pop. The best part was, all I had to do was put together 30 or so more pictures and sell a second edition. I had like 89 editions before I graduated middle school. Flippin' pop was easy too. I'd easily make $10/day doing that. Combine that with candy and forging report cards and I was one of the richest kids in middle school. :D
 
I was a clown/magician from age 8-17 doing street magic/buskering to earn some money for my candy addiction.

I sold firecrackers in grade 8, but buckled under the pressure of doing something illegal and turned myself in to the principal by mistake.

In high school I wrote/directed sketch comedy plays to make some cash in the summer for buy an Xbox.

The year I graduated high school, I got an email from some dude in Pakistan who offered me some hacky sack samples. He thought I was a reseller - so I got the samples, they were cool, and I sent him $1000 (my savings, what an idiot I was) to get 3000 hacky sacks - which I then sold all through college locally to skate shops and then on ebay for free using an ebay glitch my dad found.

When I got out of college I got sucked into doing freebie sites like freeipods.com.

Then got roped into 12 Daily Pro, and some other ponzis, which I quit when I realized it was high risk for someone funding everything from a credit card.

That was 4 years ago, and the rest is boring =)
 
I kinda forgot the part where I was making + 150K a year from selling my SEO driven mortgage leads for $55 a pop.

I did that from around 19-22 years old.
 
actually right at this exact minute me and another affiliate buddy are locked into a contest to see who is the best hustler. the rules were starting september 1 to november 1 it had to be a brand new business, you had to start with 0 dollars. He signed for a job with jimmy johns delivering JJ the first day and is using alot of techniques to drive his tips way up to save up to do the car flip described earlier.

I started by pedaling around a rickshaw (actually decent money lol, making like 25-30 bucks an hour doing it), used that to buy up good tickets for some twins games, flipped them outside the stadium to double down, then back to pedaling till yesterday. made 1500 so far, took yesterday off. Today im pedaling and gonna start buying up stuff off craigslist that I know how to flip (cracked ipods, bbs, any other smartphone).

Wed i got a meeting to pick up like 500 bucks of mixed legos. bringing in my younger bro to sort through them, then lotting them out. should double down quick.

next week i should have enough cash from other stuff to build out a couple sites for local seo clients, im gonna cold call till i sell those off.


My problem is that hes taking the months mostly off from affiliate stuff so he can beat me. I run ecomm sites, i can't just turn them off. plus the car flip hustle is real profitable if you know what your doing. My secret weapons are going to be the twins are going to make the playoffs and im going to bank so hard on tickets for that. if it looks like hes going to beat me, ill enroll in a couple medical studies. thats a painful way to make alot of money fast.
 
-When I was in elementary I was coloring normal pokemon cards with glitter gel pens and was reselling these "rare japanese" cards for like $20-$50.
-I was flipping psps,wiis,ds's, etc in hs
- Now I mostly do AM
 
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* Used to spin/sell mix tapes back in my day.

* Went to Sarasota for 4-5 summers straight, brought back boxes of Phillies Blunts as they were hard as hell to find here at the time (most canucks use CenturySams for their blunts), sold those fuckers for $10 each in my HS.

* Juggled a few unmentionables for a few years while in the raver scene.

* Finally started hustling graphics/media when I hit college and the other/sketchy $hit all faded away finally.
 
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