How did you start making $$$?

I mowed the neighbors lawns with my dad's mower for $2 each until I could afford to buy a mower. Then I hired a kid from school to mow them for me for $1.50 each and upped my price to $4.50.

Outsourcing baby. Only way to fly.

zigzag911 said:

I sold ciggarettes lol and a lot of them ( got them from the states dirt cheap and native reserves ) made like 150 a day but ended up getting caught at school and losing my whole inventory, stopped sales for a day or two lol

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HAHAHA, ME TOO. I used to buy cigarettes from yesmoke.com and resell to friends for more than double. That site doesn't exist anymore

I also made good money off of ebay. I used to sell info products in 1999. people were so excited about the buying online experience they would believe anything.

I used to sell a one page report on how to get free electronics or almost anything off of globalsources.com until ebay banned my account. used to make around 20 -$14 sales a day. Then used dropshippers and made good money.

Selling music cd's in school. Back then not many people knew how to download things lol.

I think I used Morpheus or something. (dont know if I spelled that right)

That was a huge market. everyone wanted music cd's

First money ever: The cliche. Lemonade stand. I sold 2 cups of it and made about 30c. Ants had gotten into it, but some bicycler was so thirsty he bought 2 cups anyway and chugged 'em down! I was about 8.

First blackhat money: I was 14 years old. Selling answers for tests. I hadn't realized there was really a market for that until some kid offered me 50c to fork over a few answers. Soon it ballooned into a nice little racket, complete with timed absences on test days so we would all be sent out in the hall to take the test on makeup days. Then it was a matter of using hand signals to pass on the info. We'd (me and the customers) even make sure to "miss" different answers. One of my conditions was that I was the only one allowed to get 100%, because I was the one who actually read the book. The more important the test, the higher the fee.

This was great for any teacher who had multiple-choice tests and a "read the book and memorize" type of course. Biology...history...that kind of class.

Great people like here started small then accelerated. That is what stepping up is all about. The common thing was to innovate and succeed. Wow, this is really motivating.

myspace baby!!

Started out promoting CPA and paid survey ads on myspace. After I made enough, I moved onto software developing.

ah! gold old days!

first cash i made... back in little school days this thing called beyblades which was HUGE!!! no u have no idea how BIG IT WAS!

in australia that shit was CRAZY! im mean CRAZY! LIKE CRAZY! like "nigga is you crazy!?!"

like real life acai berry man! fuk parents were lining up 5:00 in the morning! and guess how long the line was... seen people line up for launch of harry potter, iphone, wii? well imagine that line of people... TIMES 10! no really it was that long! and the craziest part... it wasnt even a lauch just that the toys r us store restocked the toys since they all sold out in a minute.

we were playing in toilets, bins, shopping malls, libraries whateva place we could find... infact lemme find a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDvBLG52NfE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGgRvu9s9_s


my parents got one and people who got one were like GODS. like "ill suck dick for one more spin". we were tripping balls playing that all day

man if i was in marketing mode back then... i could of earned a few million selling them...

i sold my shit beyblade for like $20. think that was the first cash i every made. $10 profit. 100% ROI. oh yeagood times.

then it got banned in school cuz we were bitchin over it.

Good Old Times.

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then there was the yugioh crazy. looking back it i realise its only a paper card with pictures on it. kind of like the magic cards... but less geeky. thats even more crazy. think cuz we had a snort of the craze before and got addicted again. made a few $ to selling some cards. got banned too cuz our principle was gay (no he actually is gay, he liked dancing and performed ballet with some girls, also talked like one to)

then the first real cash was from selling the nokia 8800 on ebay. got it cheap from this chinese wholesale site. bought one for $650 sold for $800. minus fees made $100. nice oh yea. then tried to continue and got scammed for some headphones. had to pay back shipping to return money and paid $50 for returnin the shit. then spent $500 on some fake golf clubs. didnt sell and i still have them now (in fact they are right next to me)

I got my mind on my money, my money on my mind. :wizard:

So basically from reading this thread, I get the sense that alot of us black hatters, and smarter IM'ers are pretty much natural born hustlers. We've always had that business mindset since kids. When I was a kid I use to sell links to online games. But than i stopped, than I tried to hustle kids at school for pop or try and put things in the vending machine to steal change, but I never really made much. Than at 16 I got a job and thats when my hustling dwindled. I've never made alot with my huslting, but hopefully BHW will help me change that

Zenka said:

Pirating Was downloading games, movies, soft from internet and burning them to CD/DVD and selling.

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Oh yeah same here

When I was 6, Made money Selling Chewing gums in school for double rates.

Paid to click programs. That's how I started. I was barely reaching $1/month but hell, I was making money and I knew this would be only the beginning.

Sold runescape items when i was 12.
Sold 2mill coins/€15. Didn't do it that much, don't know why.
A year later i was stelling rare stuff. One item i sold for €200.
Another year later i was selling accounts. Made a total profit of €1000 in less than a month.

Yeah i'm a real runescape gangster

I started by selling contraband fireworks to the folks along my paper route, I made like $3 a day for the paper route, and about $10 a day for the fireworks. I generally made a 500% ROI on anything that flew, and 1000% ROI on anything that went bang, whether it flew or not. I gave all law enforcement free stuff, and they made sure I didn't get bothered. Hmm, I guess I bought off my first cops when I was 9.

By age 10 I had a lucrative candy business at my middle school, and an effective enforcement team to ensure that I had a candy selling monopoly. I continued my candy and fireworks businesses (separately) until I moved out of the state.

Jeeze, apparently I was the mob as a pre-teen.

At least now everything I do is legal, and I'm beyond legal recourse for the other stuff, due to the statute of limitations.

Moneymaka said:

Sold runescape items when i was 12.
Sold 2mill coins/?15. Didn't do it that much, don't know why.
A year later i was stelling rare stuff. One item i sold for ?200.
Another year later i was selling accounts. Made a total profit of ?1000 in less than a month.

Yeah i'm a real runescape gangster

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sweet man, I was doing that as well in my teens. I also sold high level accounts.

Runescape was so fun.

My first experience. I sold porn in middle school. Wallet size, so they could be easily hidden. Fast forward a year ago, I was doing the freebie trading business and now, affiliate marketing, and adult dating
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enrikole said:

sweet man, I was doing that as well in my teens. I also sold high level accounts.

Runescape was so fun.

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Yeah it was a really lucrative business back then, too bad they fucked everything up when they disabled free trading.
I bet those websites selling gold coins were making a fortune.

Anyway, i just had an idea of something i could do that could make me some money. If you're interested, pm me.

Was in the Amiga 500 scene once.
Sold some "demo creating" software for the local kids.

pro gamer in counter strike, easy win with awp :smashfrea . Game Era is over now, IM have better potential

I used to get my two younger sisters to paint pictures and then i sent them out to places that old people were and got them to sell them for a lot of money.

The old people used to think they were so sweet and so they used to buy the crummy paintings. I used to hide behind the bushes and laugh my head off when they sold one. When they came back i used to cut them in on the deal.

80% to me - 10% each for them..


lol
best,

Rudy