Ways you hustled before this

BlueYonder said:
The pros use an acid testing kit that can be bought on Ebay for $20 or so with several bottles of solution. I have a kit.

I found a pair of solid gold hoops yesterday at a thrift shop for .50. :)
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Ah, nice. Does it damage the metal at all? How do you do it in a shop, surely if you did it in front of them, they either wouldn't let you, or they wouldn't sell it to you if it turned out to be gold?

And nice at the hoops!
 


usual shit at school copied tapes then cd's etc

then from 18 on sold just about anything and everything door to door and on the street, never stolen shit but always shit with a mark up.
everything from very early mobile phones, gas, electricity, least cost routing systems, cable tv, it training, socks, watches, clothes, tools, you fucking name it.
you let me get past hello and basically your fucked, you let me in your house and you are really fucked that shit going to cost ya bad.
also ran club nights as a student, made a fucking mint off them but just smoked and drank all that money.
the biggest earner was the it shit, told that story before but that was a real money maker.
most fun was retro football (soccer) tops during a wolrd cup back in the 90's bought them for $4 sold em for $25 door to door, in pubs, round factories etc, was a young student making a good couple hundred a day basically walking around and having a laugh, got all my mates into it as well, were the only lads drinking champagne for the whole world cup, epic summer that was.
worst was pot, smoked it all and made absolutely no profit at all gave trying to sell that up pretty quick.

now i sell myself and my unique headhunting skills at 33% of a candidates salary with a 30% retainer, $24,000 last month and i worked maybe 20hrs tops. am working on developing a couple of products to cream it in IM on the side.

if you aint hustling your either dead or have given up
 
Dr_Ngo said:
21 yrs old - I was flipping Wii's like a boss. Buy it for $250, resell for $450 on Craigslist/eBay. The was a huge shortage of Wii's, and Christmas shot up the demand. You had to wait in line for 3-4 hours Sunday mornings to get some. Not me. I paid Mexican day laborers to wait in line for me in the morning and would cut in. Every week was an easy $700 in college.
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You're my new hero :D

Myself.. shit I've never been that creative lol
 
Shivadxb said:
usual shit at school copied tapes then cd's etc

then from 18 on sold just about anything and everything door to door and on the street, never stolen shit but always shit with a mark up.
everything from very early mobile phones, gas, electricity, least cost routing systems, cable tv, it training, socks, watches, clothes, tools, you fucking name it.
you let me get past hello and basically your fucked, you let me in your house and you are really fucked that shit going to cost ya bad.
also ran club nights as a student, made a fucking mint off them but just smoked and drank all that money.
the biggest earner was the it shit, told that story before but that was a real money maker.
most fun was retro football (soccer) tops during a wolrd cup back in the 90's bought them for $4 sold em for $25 door to door, in pubs, round factories etc, was a young student making a good couple hundred a day basically walking around and having a laugh, got all my mates into it as well, were the only lads drinking champagne for the whole world cup, epic summer that was.
worst was pot, smoked it all and made absolutely no profit at all gave trying to sell that up pretty quick.

now i sell myself and my unique headhunting skills at 33% of a candidates salary with a 30% retainer, $24,000 last month and i worked maybe 20hrs tops. am working on developing a couple of products to cream it in IM on the side.

if you aint hustling your either dead or have given up
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Headhunting has always seemed fun, a friend of mine head hunts for Lucas Group Chicago and he only dealt with investment bankers... Had a condo on the 50th floor with a balcony overlooking the river.
 
When I was around 10 years old I sold firecrackers to kids around my neighbourhood. They were illegal in Canada, but we'd go down to the US and visit an Indian reserve where firecrackers were legal, then bring them back into Canada. For a 10 year old I was bankin'. But then when kids started doing stuff like ringing old ladies' doorbells and timing it so a pile of dog shit would blow up when she opened the door, I started catching some heat for it and the police said I either stop selling now or end up in jail.

lol, those were the days.
 
Shivadxb said:
worst was pot, smoked it all and made absolutely no profit at all gave trying to sell that up pretty quick.
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This made me laugh. Back in college me and my roommates had stash of some real nice kind buds -- the kind of shit that doesn't make you tired -- and easily could've made a nice margin splitting it up. We fucking smoked it all. Hazards of the profession lol.


Shivadxb said:
now i sell myself and my unique headhunting skills at 33% of a candidates salary with a 30% retainer, $24,000 last month and i worked maybe 20hrs tops. am working on developing a couple of products to cream it in IM on the side.
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Smart. So many headhunters out there don't have a goddamn clue and lack even basic professionalism.


Shivadxb said:
if you aint hustling your either dead or have given up
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Hell fucking yes.
 
-joe- said:
Ah, nice. Does it damage the metal at all? How do you do it in a shop, surely if you did it in front of them, they either wouldn't let you, or they wouldn't sell it to you if it turned out to be gold?

And nice at the hoops!
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No, if you're after gold jewelry for a quarter or fifty cents, you just pay upfront and take your chances. Once I wasted $30 on a piece of junk that wasn't gold, my biggest loss. Mostly it's under a dollar.

The way to properly use an an acid kit is to scrape a sample onto the touchstone that comes with it, then drop a bit of acid onto the sample. If it's the real thing, your sample stays on the stone. The acid burns up whatever isn't gold.

I have posted at least twice here on this topic, so if you do a search you will find the posts where I give more details on how to find the real stuff.

My biggest finds were a pair of diamond studded white gold earrings from a yard sale for $3, and a man's ring in 14k heavy gold with a karat of diamonds picked up off the street.
 
1337hovie said:
i sold candy in high school, i had a locker full of candy (i designed a tattoo for the disciplinary principal and i was a maid man my entire high school career). I bought boxes for $20, flipped for $40. it was like drug money. I even had a Stduent Governemt box to sell out of, people thought i was legit. Knocked out compeititors with a free airhead to all sales. (had $300 cash on me at all times, made over $150/day) After high school, bought cheap ounces bagged em up small, and slanged from my backpack and nike shocks around the hood - put a nigga through college with that one, haha. i slang leads now, ha.

Wouldnt mind getting into that ebay/china ordeal, haha.
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You lie.
 
kingofsp said:
You did it in TX? I did it out here in LA. My uncle actually was involved in that hustle in TX like back in the 70s. Haha.
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nah this is back when I lived in Maryland. There was an operation out in Laurel. I've seen the pitch going on in a gas station here in Houston before though.
 
Sold most candy in JR High. #1 baby.
My secret was - Petco.
Lots of evenings with "would you like to buy some candy" on my tong.

Also used to hustle Basketball cards. Mostly private buyers.

Lawn care for small 4plex type owners.

Lifeguard at 14, skinny tan white boy got head, and went skinny dipping with teenies on multiple occasions. After hours of course. Different kind of hustle. ;)
 
Dr_Ngo said:
5 years old - Mom would take me to Sam's club. I would buy boxes of candy for $10 and re-flip candy bars on the playground for $20 profit.

14 yrs old - I had napster and a CD burner before everyone else. Instead of buying a CD for $$20, you buy a burnt one from me for $10.

21 yrs old - I was flipping Wii's like a boss. Buy it for $250, resell for $450 on Craigslist/eBay. The was a huge shortage of Wii's, and Christmas shot up the demand. You had to wait in line for 3-4 hours Sunday mornings to get some. Not me. I paid Mexican day laborers to wait in line for me in the morning and would cut in. Every week was an easy $700 in college.

22 yrs old - Can't get into specifics, but it involved ebay and China.

I been had.
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Back in the day I used to play MUD's. Then I realized that if I didn't play for a few days, my character would fall behind. Then I decided to write a script to play for me while I was at school or hanging out with friends. This essentially ruined my enjoyment of playing MUDS, until I found out people were willing to Pay/Trade Stuff for high level characters. I began just running the scripts and selling/trading them off.
 
My first fear based ad copy was written and delivered verbally in person (by me) around age 13.

I'd go door to door on my bike w/ stencils and black/white krylon spray paint in my backpack and kindly explain that not only would me re-painting their house number on the curb (common here at least- white background 'plate' - black numbers) make their faded one look better but that in an emergency did they really want to chance the ambulance missing their house?!

(this was pre-GPS).

Conversion rates skyrocketed once I noted and included this part.

$10/house. I'd try and get a bunch in a row and I could do the whole thing in 20 minutes.

Then toss the stuff in my bag, get paid, and keep pedaling.

Bling blang
 
newjersey said:
modified radio shack tone dialers into redboxes and sold them in college

made fake ids

showed the foreign exchange students how to call around the world for free from the "help" phones connected to the ATM machine with radio shack tone dialers
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hahahhahaha

oh god- I remember making one of those (where you just had to swap whatever the one crystal was) and nearly shitting myself as I pumped in 5 "quarters" via the stored number keys.

Too bad I didn't have anyone around the world to call.
 
8-9: Sold candy at school, in front of stores, and door to door. Had a few friends help me. I'd supply and take a cut. Shut it down when employees became flaky and charities started to move in on the biz.

10-14 Hustled yard service's to neighbors etc. Had a lot of recurring customers. Sold route to classmate.

13-15: Managed a fruit stand. Was paid with a percentage of gross sales.

16-18: Went to auctions to buy surplus electronics, home goods, clothes, etc. Re-sold them on ebay. Most notable purchase. 1,000 pairs of jeans for $86.50. Sold in lots for over $1 per pair.

18: Owned fruit stand with a partner. Sold multiple pallets of fruit and vegetables per day.

19-23: Expanded surplus business with partners. Started purchasing pallets and truckloads of surplus goods for resale online and off. (Sold business to larger competitor in area.)

21-23: Found affiliate marketing by reverse engineering ebay auctions. Started slinging cell phone service contracts, dish network, ebooks, and "pics of my girlfriend," on ebay. Continued to sell new physical goods on ebay (digital scales)

23-present: Got off ebay and moved into more lucrative online ventures.
 
Grew up overseas with access to army base BX's. By 16 I was selling Air Jordans and Starter jackets to every German kid in town with a healthy mark-up. Same went for skateboard decks, but after a year or so, it started causing too much attention :lol

Lots of other little schemes that were on the fringe, that I'm still a tad paranoid recounting.
 
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