Ways you hustled before this

ok, this one I am not proud of but here goes...

in college I lived in an apt complex and noticed that the night
before our rent was due is when all the students would slip their
envelopes with the months rent into a box just outside the resident managers
office.

after 5pm when the managers office was closed, I removed the box and replaced
it with my homemade replica box.

about 2am the following morning I would take my box (filled with envelopes) back to my room and keep all the cash envelopes, then return the original box with the envelopes that paid via check.

I only did it for 2 months because I knew they would catch on. Cant be greedy!
 


O.k , So all of you husteled for money , that doesnt count , what about the fun ?
18-21 - husteled with guns and tanks , was a tank commander , nice shit ( Israeli Army )
 
oldgym said:
ok, this one I am not proud of but here goes...

in college I lived in an apt complex and noticed that the night
before our rent was due is when all the students would slip their
envelopes with the months rent into a box just outside the resident managers
office.

after 5pm when the managers office was closed, I removed the box and replaced
it with my homemade replica box.

about 2am the following morning I would take my box (filled with envelopes) back to my room and keep all the cash envelopes, then return the original box with the envelopes that paid via check.

I only did it for 2 months because I knew they would catch on. Cant be greedy!
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That's pretty funny
 
During high school, i sold Dragon ball Z divx cds on ebay. Made a couple thousand £ reselling a single set i bought for £8 on ebay, and resold with a better looking html template (1st attempt at a sales page i guess).

Then ebay got wise (think it coincided with Cartoon Network showing the series in the UK for the 1st time), so i moved to selling links to pyramid scheme freebie websites under the guise of 'want an ipod / playstation etc for free? i'll show you how for £20' with the link in an auto-responder.

This worked pretty well, provided i refunded the people that complained the loudest.
Went to hell when i was on holiday and not even thinking about the numerous buy it now auctions. Some kid bought one with their parents account, the parent complained to ebay and chargebacked paypal - result being my entire family had their ebay accounts suspended.

Stuck to selling semi legitimate stuff ever since, even my AM is almost entirely based around physical products.
 
In high school, I made damn good bank selling counterfeit software on eBay. I would go on Alibaba.com and order MS Office CDs from China(great quality, had hologram, certificate of authenticity, everything) for $30 and resell them on eBay for $150.

The first time I came to the UPS store to ship 20 of those CDs the UPS guy just looked at me and said "Are you sure this is legal?". I gave him 20 bucks and he didn't ask any more questions.

I was doing great for about a month, then Microsoft noticed and shut down all my accounts.


Nice to see most successful people in AM started hustling young...
 
At the age of 7 I tried to put a barrier across our street and charge pedestrians for walking down it.

After that... selling contraband at at school (won't go into more detail than that ;) ). Weirdly, my parents never asked how I could afford to go out the whole time on my £20/mo pocket money.
 
from about 19-21 I slang magazines door to door across the country. saw a different city every week and learned very quickly how to make a friend in 30 seconds. averaged about $1000-1500 a day in revenue from about 5-12 sales usually. wasn't uncommon to walk away from someones house having just got them to give me 400 bucks for 5-6 subscriptions to shit like maxim, ESPN, good housekeeping, seventeen, house & garden, etc.
 
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from about 19-21 I slang magazines door to door across the country. saw a different city every week and learned very quickly how to make a friend in 30 seconds. averaged about $1000-1500 a day in revenue from about 5-12 sales usually. wasn't uncommon to walk away from someones house having just got them to give me 400 bucks for 5-6 subscriptions to shit like maxim, ESPN, good housekeeping, seventeen, house & garden, etc.
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I did the same exact thing for about 1 year when I was 18-19 (24 now)

Best time of my life. My crew was a fuckin scam though and I left with zero dollars. In fact, they said I owed them money.

What I learned? Girls in Texas are fuckin HOT :D
 
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Dang it - these stories make me cringe. It's like the brightest yet the most corrupt minds have all congregated under one forum roof to talk shop. Some of you should be ashamed of yourself!

Age:

5 months... after breastfeeding, secretly regurgitated mother's milk into baby bottle and sold to other kids at daycare; had my own gold-plated binky collection and platinum baby bottle by 8 months.

9 months.. produced album, "Baby Ballerz", picked up by Virgin Records, was an immediate hit. Took proceeds and invested in Forever Diapers company. Lost it all by age 3.

4 years... set up a BBS with an ascii porn rebill membership, after 30 days, you'd be sent the real image by mail of the ascii teaser and be billed $49.95. Instant success.

7 years... Formed "Bully-B-Gone" services. A revolving rebill. Employed bullies, and sent them one at a time after the richest, weakest wimps. Wimps would come to me for payment protection, $199 a month; after payment received, bully #1 would move to Kid #2, and Bully #2 would move to Kid #1, and the entire process would repeat and recycle. At one point up to 54 bullies and 55 wimps. Framed Subigo's payment in glass frame above bed.

And there you go...
 
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I should've scaled this one - when i was 16-ish i worked at kmart, my first 'real' job. around that time, the PS2 came out. It was only one per customer - but since i was an employee, i snuck a box out the back, and bought 4

I kept one for myself, sold the other 3 on ebay - each for at least $300 profit. I think one sold for like $1200 which was 4x the original price.
 
When I was in grade school, I was in the "star trek" group. I took some old toys, my mom's glue gun and made phasers. I remember making around $50, not bad for 5th grade. I remember the feeling. Kind of like the first time you saw a naked chick...
 
My "hustle" was stealing other students' college textbooks and selling them back to the bookstores. Some of the books "converted" at $37 a pop. Fairly primitive, although it did pay for my beer and groceries in my last year.
 
This isn't really a hustle, since we did it for fun and not money, but my freshman year of college my roommate (who also happened to be my best friend from high school) was very big into the warez/pirating scene. He had a few TB's of mostly movies, mp3's, television shows, etc, and updating daily. My friend had the bright idea of distributing all that content to the entire campus, so I designed a web-based portal complete with security, user tracking, download activity, automatic content updates, etc. After a few weeks we had roughly 75% of the student body registered and active. We had a full 42U rack in our dorm room, and we also distributed some cheap servers to friends so none of the content was actually hosted through our own room-based IP's; sort of like Napster but we controlled all the content as well.

I had a friend who worked for the IT department, and he said that outbound traffic dropped substantially (since the students had no need to use limewire or whatever the popular programs were back during that time), so they looked the other way for a while until a trustee got wind of it and told them to shut us down.

This was probably one of the stupidest things I've ever done for a number of reasons. If my friend suggested I build a social networking site for the entire campus, I would've done that instead ;)
 
Hustle..

I went to a remote village and setup the first computer shop (home-based) was 12 at the time but my mom drove me house to house and I made more money than parents did. Got some newspaper coverage, business boom'ed for a little while, got some older peeps that I taught on how to fix computers then boarding school happened.

Good money but didn't change a thing. Still poor but I'll change that soon, very soon now.
 
6-8: My family was one of the first to move into this new development so there was a ton of construction going on. Sold lemonade/drinks to construction workers, easy 20 bucks for only an hour or two of work

9-10: Most of the construction was done so I graduated to selling drinks/snacks to golfers during the summers on the golf course right down the street. It went really fucking well for being 10 years old, could make an easy $75+ in an afternoon (no idea why the fuck you golf in 110 heat but meant good money for me). I even split tested signs in front of my drink stand to see which did best (course I didn't know what split testing was, but my "saving for college" sign did the best). This stopped when the drink lady that drives around the course got pissed and shut me out.

13-14: napster + broadband to burn cds and games for kids at school. did some candy too but games and music were way more profitable. also started a shitty geocities (or some free host) website and clicked my own ads. That didn't work out too long.

Also jacked a sheet of "front of the lunch line" passes from a teacher (dumb idea) and ran off a bunch of copies. Sold individual passes for a couple bucks each and got away with it for awhile. Then a teacher figured out and I got suspended.

17-20: played/toured in bands and started booking shows on the side. I was friends with tons of bands in the southwest and got most to play for fairly cheap. Could pull $500-$2000 easy each show, my best was right around $5000 (big show, couldn't do those as often). Also started my first form of aff marketing here, reselling t-shirt printing services to other bands I had connections with.
 
I did the candy resale biz back in Jr High, late 80's. I sold Now & Laters, Atomic Fireballs, Nerds, all that shit right out of my backpack. I was doing candy deals in class, and never got busted, but came close. I was making $20-$30 profit a day for a long ass time. Straight ballin for 7th grade. Then my mom got sick of driving me to the store to re-stock every other day...so my cash flow got anorexic after that.

When I was still in the car biz, to supplement my income I collected old keyless entry remotes & fobs from lease turn ins and company car's that were returned. I had boxes full of those things, and sold them all on ebay, sometimes making $20 a pop. Then I just started doing them in bulk and selling 10-20 for $100. Good money. I think I still have a box of them somewhere around here. I need to throw those on and make a few bucks.
 
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