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How do you guys / gals make some money on the side?

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Originally posted by: shortylickens
How come nobody said anything about Sonz70 or Video Cards?
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You could always get a job assisting the handicapped.
 
anyone who says it's easy to make good money on ebay is lying through their teeth. It's only "easy" if you have easy access to deals or someone else is doing some of the work for you; i.e., you work at Staples, or your dad does all the accounting, or you have a connection with somebody that gets you deals at low prices. For someone that has no connections whatsoever, making good money on ebay takes a lot of legwork, especially if you're legit about all of it. I make a comfortable living selling on ebay supporting my scuba and daytrading habit, but not without putting in a good 2 years of sweat equity.

I'd hardly call it easy.
 
google ads... and other targeted ads ;] With google ads you make 100+ each month if you have a good site.
 
Originally posted by: Eeezee
I grade papers. I make $2k per semester for two semesters. The work is easy and the perks are good, too. I do maybe 1-2 hours per week average (including test grading). The professor buys lunch and dinner for the graders on test days, so about 5 times per semester. It's not a lot of money, but you'll laugh so hard on test grading days that you won't really care how much you're getting paid.

I would really like to know how to cash in on this $1k/month ebay thing. Hell, I'll take $300/month. What specifically do you purchase? Someone mentioned designer clothing, but I don't know of any warehouses around here that sell designer clothing samples. I live in Tucson, AZ, and it's a college town that only has something like 500,000 people. What are other wise purchases to make and attempt to resell? Do you have to relist an item several times? Do you set up auctions with no reserve or do you do a Buy It Now sort of auction?
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Sorry, but I live in Tucson, and how is it a college town?
 
Originally posted by: daveymark
anyone who says it's easy to make good money on ebay is lying through their teeth. It's only "easy" if you have easy access to deals or someone else is doing some of the work for you; i.e., you work at Staples, or your dad does all the accounting, or you have a connection with somebody that gets you deals at low prices. For someone that has no connections whatsoever, making good money on ebay takes a lot of legwork, especially if you're legit about all of it. I make a comfortable living selling on ebay supporting my scuba and daytrading habit, but not without putting in a good 2 years of sweat equity.

I'd hardly call it easy.
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Networking my friend, helps you out in all facets of life. Whether it be Ebay or a more "professional" job. It can also help with personal aspects of your life.

If you can't network, you better have a different type of skill or just not care.
 
Originally posted by: elevated

i buy and resell concert tickets in the LA area, make about $50-100 on each ticket that some rich girl buys for an emo concert
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you're scum and I hope you die painfully. Fvcking scalpers should all be killed.
 
Originally posted by: Dubb
Originally posted by: elevated

i buy and resell concert tickets in the LA area, make about $50-100 on each ticket that some rich girl buys for an emo concert
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you're scum and I hope you die painfully. Fvcking scalpers should all be killed.
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i hate scalpers.
 
Originally posted by: BoldAsLove
Originally posted by: Dubb
Originally posted by: elevated

i buy and resell concert tickets in the LA area, make about $50-100 on each ticket that some rich girl buys for an emo concert
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you're scum and I hope you die painfully. Fvcking scalpers should all be killed.
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i hate scalpers.
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you should be blaming the promoters for underpricing the tickets.
 
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: BoldAsLove
Originally posted by: Dubb
Originally posted by: elevated

i buy and resell concert tickets in the LA area, make about $50-100 on each ticket that some rich girl buys for an emo concert
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you're scum and I hope you die painfully. Fvcking scalpers should all be killed.
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i hate scalpers.
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you should be blaming the promoters for underpricing the tickets.
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if anything, they are overpricing..except i guess not rly cuz rich emo kids are willing to pay for it. sadly, im not 🙁
 
Originally posted by: BoldAsLove
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: BoldAsLove
Originally posted by: Dubb
Originally posted by: elevated

i buy and resell concert tickets in the LA area, make about $50-100 on each ticket that some rich girl buys for an emo concert
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you're scum and I hope you die painfully. Fvcking scalpers should all be killed.
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i hate scalpers.
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you should be blaming the promoters for underpricing the tickets.
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if anything, they are overpricing..except i guess not rly cuz rich emo kids are willing to pay for it. sadly, im not 🙁
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actually you should be blaming the band for being so good and not having more concerts (i.e. increase supply to bring down price).
 
I blame scalpers for snapping up mass quantities of tickets and limiting supply, ticketmaster for playing along, and the idiots who are willing to pay more than face.

all need a good knock on the head, at the very least.
 
Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
For people who said photography, what kind do you do? Weddings? Journalism? Stock?
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lately, baby portraits. I have some creative ideas going. Hopefully it will spread like wildfire. And I have 2 weddings booked.
 
Man, I miss the days of AllAdvantage.com back in the late 90's. They would pay you for running their advertisement bar on your screen while online, and tracked how many minutes the bar was running. And if you referred someone you'd get paid a fraction of the time they spent online too.

Huge pyramid type setup, but it actually worked and they actually paid you monthly. I did it my first year in college in '98 and was making about $25 a month on it. I heard there were people making thousands of dollars a month with it just by the sheer amount of people they'd referred. 🙂 The cool thing was that you didn't really need to refer live people, just machines. For instance, if you work as a network admin for a large corporation you could in theory install the adbar on a couple thousand computers that you knew were going to be online most of the time - and get credited the "referral person" for all of them. :Q

Those were the days.
 
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