Ways you hustled before this
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I got ipods, a tv, xbox 360, xbox 360 games, some computer peripherals like mice and keyboards and stuff, printers, couple $100-$200 giftcards.
however the part where I started making money was doing 'greens' for other people.
When a new freebie site would come out, you'd go on a forum like anything4free.com and sign up to people's links and they'd pay you $30 or so for each offer you did that might only cost you $10.
I made about 5k doing that.
Then there was a lot of bingo sites, casino sites and poker sites that would pay $100 - $200 for going green, so you'd get the money the person gives you PLUS the casino would match your deposit 100%, so long as you played x amount of wager, you could keep the match deposit.
I probably made another 10k doing that.
I'll tell you though it was more stressful than doing affiliate marketing and PPC...it gave me ulcers thats why I quit lol
Nice man! I went from doing freebie sites to doing autosurfs and HYIPs, did youg et into those too?
14-18: High school I hustled burned CD's to everybody. Napster FTW.
18-23: Sold weed, lortabs, bars, coke, ecstasy and meth. Sold god awful amounts of pills, ecstasy and meth. Mexicans FTW.
18-23: Sold weed, lortabs, bars, coke, ecstasy and meth. Sold god awful amounts of pills, ecstasy and meth. Mexicans FTW.
I tried to hustle a little bit in Diablo 2 but I think I came onto the scene a little late...also at that time Everquest stuff was a lot more valuable, Diablo you kind of had to sell shit in bulk.
I started playing EQ right when Velious came out as well on the Tholuxe Paells server...pretty much exact same story as you, top raiding guild, had to quit because I was wasting my life on it. Though it was nice to leave with a pretty good chunk of change, though. Playerauctions.com for the win
It kind of killed mmorpgs for me -- I played WoW for a while but it really didn't compare to how much fun Everquest was. It was a lot harder so it definitely gave you a much bigger sense of 'accomplishment' while leveling up/getting gear.
I don't think I really went out of my way to hustle stuff for money. I was always the candyman and took a bunch of candy and gum to school and always gave shit out to people for free. I kinda wish I would of thought about hustling all the stuff I was giving away, but at the time I didn't see money as a big deal and I was always taught to share with others.
One thing I notice from some of you posting is that if you were hustling something early on you probably have a good idea of what your doing with shit like affiliate marketing and pitching stuff to people. Although I ain't a hustler by nature I'm learning. Lets hope growing up like a money hungry jew isn't a requirement to being a good marketer (no offense jon
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One thing I notice from some of you posting is that if you were hustling something early on you probably have a good idea of what your doing with shit like affiliate marketing and pitching stuff to people. Although I ain't a hustler by nature I'm learning. Lets hope growing up like a money hungry jew isn't a requirement to being a good marketer (no offense jon
).
somewhere I have a full collection of these fucking cards + a box full of those worth nothing + my well performing blue and black deck.
all stuff of 13-14 years ago...good times
I've thought several times of listing them for sale, but I think finding how much they're worth would take a considerable amount of time
I played in a MTG tournament once, had a few hardcore friends. I rebuilt the World Championship Psycatog deck and used it in middle school during lunch.
I was the most badass nerd around. lol
P.S. I took it so seriously I used to keep my deck in a box in the freezer since it was a blue & black deck. Seriously. lol
From 6th-8th grade, had an older friend who had a card printing equipment. We would make fake Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and I would sell them during lunch. This was during the times when yu-gi-oh was the hottest shit on the blocks and everyone during lunch was playing against each other. We would just create fakes of the rarest cards, and sell them at $20-$30 a pop, and kids were buying easy.
Steps:
1) Visit one of those big Yu-gi-oh shops.
2) Always a section with the rarest/most powerful card. $100 will get you something killer.
3) Reprint the card dozens of times.
4) Sell during lunch.
5) PROFIT
Steps:
1) Visit one of those big Yu-gi-oh shops.
2) Always a section with the rarest/most powerful card. $100 will get you something killer.
3) Reprint the card dozens of times.
4) Sell during lunch.
5) PROFIT
Wish I'd gotten into the game earlier, but early attempts were all rather lame. Going door to door at the age of 13 with a friend and washing cars. Selling a bit of weed to fund a holiday.
As teenagers we used to sneak into gigs/concerts - climb a fence, fake a stamp, force a door etc. Once inside we'd get the venue stamp, walk out and sell our tickets to the sold out concert at a profit (bought tickets 'just in case'). We also had a 'stamp kit' - collected all the different stamps for all the different venues on masking tape, and we'd sit outside and the hardcore fans with no tickets would line up and get our stamps and walk in for free. We rarely charged though, but got a lot of 'donations'. Was interviewed by a radio station about this once.
One of my friends, who now runs a multi-million dollar company actually ran a black market gas station in the bushes behind the school, while still in high school. He and his mates would syphon petrol from cars and then sell it to school kids old enough to drive at a discount. He sold all sorts of other dodgy shit too and would piss the teachers of by telling them he was already earning more then them and they should fuck off.
Another mate was using school printers (early 90s) to print fake ID for everyone.
Back in the USSR in the 70s my dad used to sell rock records. Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Zeppelin. My grandfather worked on an ship and would buy the records overseas for my dad. It was impossible to get these in Russia, so a record like that would cost a month's wage. There was an illegal meet up in the park where they'd sell/swap this shit, when the cops weren't chasing them. His crew was rolling.
As teenagers we used to sneak into gigs/concerts - climb a fence, fake a stamp, force a door etc. Once inside we'd get the venue stamp, walk out and sell our tickets to the sold out concert at a profit (bought tickets 'just in case'). We also had a 'stamp kit' - collected all the different stamps for all the different venues on masking tape, and we'd sit outside and the hardcore fans with no tickets would line up and get our stamps and walk in for free. We rarely charged though, but got a lot of 'donations'. Was interviewed by a radio station about this once.
One of my friends, who now runs a multi-million dollar company actually ran a black market gas station in the bushes behind the school, while still in high school. He and his mates would syphon petrol from cars and then sell it to school kids old enough to drive at a discount. He sold all sorts of other dodgy shit too and would piss the teachers of by telling them he was already earning more then them and they should fuck off.
Another mate was using school printers (early 90s) to print fake ID for everyone.
Back in the USSR in the 70s my dad used to sell rock records. Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Zeppelin. My grandfather worked on an ship and would buy the records overseas for my dad. It was impossible to get these in Russia, so a record like that would cost a month's wage. There was an illegal meet up in the park where they'd sell/swap this shit, when the cops weren't chasing them. His crew was rolling.
I worked at a photo studio in high school. Had access to a lot of gear. I made up fake season ski passes to a nearby mountain for $100 a pop. Did some fake ID's too.
In gradeschool I'd buy bulk pogs and resell them for something like 20x what I paid per pog. Great business, had kids from all over knocking on our door all the time, all day, even when I was in school, my mom didn't like it though. But at that tender age, I truly felt like I was 'balling' from all those pogs.
I'd buy used nintendo/supernintendo games and sell them for more than I paid for... after playing them.
I sold red peppers I would grow. I sold cookies and split the profits with my mother who cooked them.
When I got to a be a teen and got to taste 'happy adult stuff', I made some good cash with that... I'd rather not go into the details. IM was great as it gave me money minus the risk.
I'm envious of those who got to burn cds and sell them... I begged my dad so hard to cough up the $600-700 that a CD burner costs... I swore I'd pay him back... but he never budged.
@ Jew comments,
Yes, I come from a Jewish background
I'd buy used nintendo/supernintendo games and sell them for more than I paid for... after playing them.
I sold red peppers I would grow. I sold cookies and split the profits with my mother who cooked them.
When I got to a be a teen and got to taste 'happy adult stuff', I made some good cash with that... I'd rather not go into the details. IM was great as it gave me money minus the risk.
I'm envious of those who got to burn cds and sell them... I begged my dad so hard to cough up the $600-700 that a CD burner costs... I swore I'd pay him back... but he never budged.
@ Jew comments,
Yes, I come from a Jewish background
Lets hope growing up like a money hungry jew isn't a requirement to being a good marketer (no offense jon
I think there is a pretty good divide of those that hustled because they literally had no choice, had to be creative, had a colorful home life/neighborhood etc. While others just wanted to fit in, be cool, hang out with certain crowds, rebel against rich parents, be half way crooks - and everyone in between.
Thinking back I never really did my hustle to live large back then, I did it to help mom pay rent, to finally pay for my own college (most of it), my gas, my day to day, and to smoke for free of course.
Yeah I never really thought about 100's of G's back then. A few G's was a LOT, didn't have a need for it, it would just get stashed away for a rainy day.
I used to be posted on the corner, if someone was short a buck I would send em to the coroner. Plus the gun was small but the clip hang like florida.
6 - 9 yrs old, hunted for golf balls that golfers hit down the canyons. resold them for $0.25 - $1 ea. made about $15 per day
I did the candy bar thing, and sold coke's for $1 too
10 - 13 yrs old, Paper Route, 30 minutes of work per day fro $200 per month.
15 - 19 yrs old, weed
17 - 21 yrs old, was buying old 1970's skateboards for $2 each and selling them as
"vintage" for $20 - $30 each. I sold about 1000 of them over the years and always had beer money.
I did the candy bar thing, and sold coke's for $1 too
10 - 13 yrs old, Paper Route, 30 minutes of work per day fro $200 per month.
15 - 19 yrs old, weed
17 - 21 yrs old, was buying old 1970's skateboards for $2 each and selling them as
"vintage" for $20 - $30 each. I sold about 1000 of them over the years and always had beer money.
Started in 4th grade, would walk by a corner store and fill up my backpack with candy for $10 then go to school and sell it for double. Made some nice cash. Kept everything nice and organized in an old cigar box my grandfather had given me. By the end of the year it was covered in stickers and my parents were called to the principals office as kids were spending lunch money on candy and not eating. Took a year off.
6th grade I'd order pizza delivered to the front of the school, then walk over to the cafeteria and sell it for $4 a slice. Lasted for three weeks before the Assistant Principle called up the manager and asked him to stop delivering to kids. Two days detention when I just moved to another pizza place.
6th grade I'd order pizza delivered to the front of the school, then walk over to the cafeteria and sell it for $4 a slice. Lasted for three weeks before the Assistant Principle called up the manager and asked him to stop delivering to kids. Two days detention when I just moved to another pizza place.
Been had dough, hahah
Yer I got into free xbox sites, got a few things - 360, dslr out of it
