Sell belongings online at places like eBay, Amazon, Craigslist (or equivalent), Facebook market place. Take on short term loans/debt from banks, lenders, friends, family to get a cash base. Use that to buy and sell something, e.g. could BBQ food or make coffee to sell to people, at an event or crowded places.
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#12Sell belongings online at places like eBay, Amazon, Craigslist (or equivalent), Facebook market place. Take on short term loans/debt from banks, lenders, friends, family to get a cash base. Use that to buy and sell something, e.g. could BBQ food or make coffee to sell to people, at an event or crowded places.
Also, if you're musical. Get a few gigs at bars or play in the street for money.
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#13Knock on doors and mow lawns until I have a enough to fly to Vegas and play poker.
Play for 6 days and hopefully don't go bust.
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#14I would buy something semi-expensive from Amazon, lie to them that someone stole it, get a refund and then resell it to someone else.
I would sign up for the most profitable affiliate program, get a friend to sign up for something with free trials, cancel it, and then get a commission. I would ask multiple friends to do this in exchange for a split of the money.
I would spam Redditors with affiliate links in threads where they are looking for recommendations to buy something.
All shady stuff that wouldn’t benefit me in the long term but hey, you said I got 7 days to make $$$.
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#15Fun thought experiment, if I had to absolutely make money in 168hrs: - Buy drugs from darknet rush shipping and go to sktechy area, sell for 50% markup while trying not to get robbed. Look for local customers on reddit, nightclubs, parties, college campuses, etc. - Sex-work, apparently even men can make decent money camming for other dudes - Pan-handling - Get a job at local chipotle/mcdonalds/etc, would be interesti…
"apparently even men can make decent money camming for other dudes"
I'm not into this, but I am into making money. Any numbers on what the earning distribution might look like?
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#16Some places pay for plasma donation.
Day labor.
Sell your stuff.
Hustle people at something you're good at.
Not making money, but if you need money then a loan or charity.
Otherwise it's mostly illicit stuff for fast cash.
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#17Some places pay for plasma donation. Day labor. Sell your stuff. Hustle people at something you're good at. Not making money, but if you need money then a loan or charity. Otherwise it's mostly illicit stuff for fast cash.
Oh plasma and sperm donation, didn't think of that!
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#18Fun thought experiment, if I had to absolutely make money in 168hrs: - Buy drugs from darknet rush shipping and go to sktechy area, sell for 50% markup while trying not to get robbed. Look for local customers on reddit, nightclubs, parties, college campuses, etc. - Sex-work, apparently even men can make decent money camming for other dudes - Pan-handling - Get a job at local chipotle/mcdonalds/etc, would be interesti…
"apparently even men can make decent money camming for other dudes" I'm not into this, but I am into making money. Any numbers on what the earning distribution might look like?
No idea, just heard this anecdotally from a friend of a friend, >50$/hr.
I'm rethinking if you could get this going in 7 days, though. Might take a few weeks to build up an audience and cashout the tips.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
"apparently even men can make decent money camming for other dudes" I'm not into this, but I am into making money. Any numbers on what the earning distribution might look like?
No idea, just heard this anecdotally from a friend of a friend, >50$/hr. I'm rethinking if you could get this going in 7 days, though. Might take a few weeks to build up an audience and cashout the tips.
At $50+/hour I'd be tempted to quit my day job. I'm still a little skeptical that I could make $8k-9k a month burping the worm on cam.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
No idea, just heard this anecdotally from a friend of a friend, >50$/hr. I'm rethinking if you could get this going in 7 days, though. Might take a few weeks to build up an audience and cashout the tips.
At $50+/hour I'd be tempted to quit my day job. I'm still a little skeptical that I could make $8k-9k a month burping the worm on cam.
Only one way to find out ;)