I wonder if I could....
Buy 50 gift certificates for $1000, thus giving me 50 free half-pounds of coffee.
Sell the coffee for $10 a pound to people (i.e. friends, family, people at stoplights)
At $10 and 25 pounds that'll give me $250.
Sell my $1000 worth of gift certificates to a local corporation or business at a discounted price of $900.
End up making $150 and a nice shirt tan from standing at the street lights. Hot HOt Hot!!!!!