What was your first hustle?

[Anonymous No.25777255]

I'll go first. About 20 years ago when I was around 12 or 13 and Pokemon cards were big my father had a workshop containing a wide variety of glues and tools. He had a pot of the same type of glue that Pokemon cards packets are sealed with, normal superglue doesn’t cut it when trying to reseal packs as anybody who would reopen one sealed with superglue would be able to tell that the packet had been tampered with. I would go into the British equivalent of Toys R Us (Woolworths) and purchase around £100 worth of Pokemon cards and keep the receipt. I would then open them all up very carefully and replace the good cards with energy cards reseal them and go back to the store asking for a refund saying that my parents went crazy at me. The staff usually refunded the money no questions asked and going around from store to store with this hustle I was able to amass quite a good collection in a short period of time at no cost.

What are your teenage hustle stories?

[Anonymous No.25777742]

So it was you. You little prick. I've been hunting for you all this time. But vilola, here you are.
I'll superglue your eyelids to your scrotum and roll you down a hill, you little jew. I'm bagdodling those damn energy cards to this day.

[Anonymous No.25777832]

>>25777255
A long time ago I used to run leached RuneScape private servers. I only made like $300 but I was 13 so it was a lot to me at the time.

[Anonymous No.25777875]

My high school did collection money for charity. Me and the bros would go door to door with the collection sheets and pocket the money. Made about 100$ each per day we were out. Thinking about it we were kinda smart because we knew our demographics and only collected from “big houses”

[Anonymous No.25777951]

>>25777255
And where in life are you now?

[Anonymous No.25777972]

>>25777951
Can’t speak for OP but I’m a real estate agent now and still pocket money from “the big houses” made about 350k in Gross commission last year.

[Anonymous No.25777980]

I mowed lawns....then learned to grow mushrooms...

[Anonymous No.25778006]

I gave my mom and dad garbage bags and told them to tell their coworkers to put their empty soda cans/bottles in them. There's a 10 cent deposit on them in my state. I recycled like $100 every 3 months. I was 8. kek

[Anonymous No.25778052]

>>25777255
this is pennies but back then it was big cash, I started like a 'gofundme' for a jtagged xbox so that I could hack everyone on cod mw to 10th. Ended up just keeping the $700 cash.

Another time during schooling, I went to a service station and mass purchased energy drinks on sale then sold them at a large mark up at lunch. Lol

[Anonymous No.25778087]

>>25778052
kek. I use to play cod back in the day so I remember how you would get messages about doing hacked lobbies with people.

[Anonymous No.25778102]

>>25777255
I lived in a hillbilly town with nothing and got a prescription for hard drugs so I sold them to hillbillies for hundreds of dollars and weed

After that I made fake social media accounts of roasties to scam simps

[Anonymous No.25778130]

>>25777951
I took the cards back into school to flex and Tyrone stole them all from me.

[Anonymous No.25778143]

>>25777875
>>25777972
Kek, still up to your antics.

[Anonymous No.25778174]

kek You people were born for this gig

[Anonymous No.25778302]

i remember being 12 or 13 id pose as some girl from my school then get people to download a RAT
then id open up a chat box on their desktop and tell them what they are wearing because i could open their webcam
eventually made them buy me like $20 worth of rsgp to get me to stop fucking with them
ahh the good ol days
also used to send a facebook phishing link to steal other kids facebook accounts from my school and message girls embarrassing things
many keks were had

[Anonymous No.25778597]

>>25778143
Indeed, the skills I learned from hustling the charity money door to door are what kick started my RE career, at least 80% of my deals during the first year came from door knocking.

[Anonymous No.25778649]

I used to pretend to read the PC Gamer etc magazines while stealing the demo cd from the case. Sorry to the rich kids who got it home without a disc inside.

[Anonymous No.25778789]

In 7th grade I realized that I could make money selling candy at school. I started with lollipops at school.

[Anonymous No.25778945]

>>25777255
When I was 14 I was doing website for some shitty minecraft servers, made like 500/600$ from it

[Anonymous No.25779043]

>T R A D E Z
>WUG?
>WUW?
>buy low
>GODLY TRADEZSZSZ
>sell high

[Anonymous No.25779614]

>>25777255
So once a week you had the ability to buy snacks at school. I usually lend money to people with 50% intrest the next day. And double if they didn't pay me within a week. I made a deal with the local bully to enforce payments. He would get half of the intrest kek. My parents where informed that I was loan sharking so I stopped kek. Learned a lot of it though, the magic of earning money simply by having money

[Anonymous No.25779768]

Not my histle but my bro's hustle he'd knock on people's door at apartments when he was 14 and offer to take their trash for tips. Some apartments gave a quarter others gave him 5 bucks eventually he learned the good tipper homes and he'd take their trash out most days for pocket cash.

[Anonymous No.25779840]

I pimped my sister out for ecstasy pills

[Anonymous No.25779849]

>>25777255
I purchased Dustin Lancasters soul for a carton of chocolate milk in 3rd grade

[Anonymous No.25779885]

>>25777255
cute larp, but pokemon card packs aren't sealed with glue, they're thermal sealed.

[Anonymous No.25779914]

Used to print out playboy pics and sell them in middle school

[Anonymous No.25779967]

>>25779840
thats hot, can i coom inside ur sister?

[Anonymous No.25779974]

>>25777875
I did this collecting money to buy water sanitation for africans. My jewish neighbor said no

[Anonymous No.25779990]

>>25779967
Show the pills

[Anonymous No.25780155]

In 4th grade I sold a magazine that contained n64 and gameboy cheat codes, mixed with comics that me and my friends drew. It was very high quality because I had a nice printer at home. I sold them for $15 each and eventually got in trouble for it. Then in 5th grade I made a website for AIM buddy icons that I created and started taking requests from class mates. Most of the requests came from girls, who wanted buddy icons of them beating up other girls. Didn't get in trouble for that surprisingly. My payment was packs of Big Red gum.

[Anonymous No.25780293]

>>25780155
Not even a boobflash? They tricked you

[Anonymous No.25780315]

>>25777255
I used to doubiously apply Yugioh rulings on mfs
I'm a nog so obviously used to steal the packs at this chinese shop and go hustle my fellow schoolmates. then moved on to the traditional resell
good times

[Anonymous No.25780364]

>>25777255
>sold candy in middle school
>sold cigs in high-school
>sold weed later in high school

Candy was the gateway drug

[Anonymous No.25780414]

>>25777742
>bagholding energy cards

[Anonymous No.25780486]

>>25778302
ultrabased

[Anonymous No.25780713]

Betting on csgo matches used to be the shit. Netted me some cash that I ended up putting into crypto

[Anonymous No.25780761]

>>25777255
i became a hockey referee at 11 and did it through being 18. since i was in florida, there wasn’t much competition for jobs and i worked pretty much every weekend. was able to buy a car in cash at 17 and basically lived off savings in college.

[Anonymous No.25780772]

>>25780713
One of my mates got a cs knife from a case worth 2k. And sold it for cash

[Anonymous No.25780796]

>grandma gives $3 lunch money
>never eat lunch except on dominos pizza days
>dresser drawer full of $1 bills

[Anonymous No.25780829]

>>25777742
>bag holding energy cards to this day
got an audible nose pamp of air from me

[Anonymous No.25780861]

>>25777951
OP here I spent all my pokemane savings on trannies

[Anonymous No.25780940]

>>25779614
Jew

[Anonymous No.25781015]

>>25777255
Clever little bastard.

Me and my Chinese friend were about 8 when we figured out you could cut out quarter sized pieces of cardboard and use them in the quarter machines. We used this cardboard he had from China and it was the perfect thickness. We would just trace the quarters and cut it out. We would take our bounty of toys and candy and sell it on the bus for actual dollars. We thought we were geniuses.

[Anonymous No.25781082]

When I was 20 I decided to buy 50 copies of the deathly hallows Harry Potter book because I thought they would sell out fast. I couldn’t compete with Amazon and B&N and only sold one copy on eBay. I had to liquidate the other 49 and sell them back to the buyer and lost half of my investment

[Anonymous No.25781269]

>>25780155
Haha you’re age is showing anon. Based

[Anonymous No.25781548]

>>25781269
The magazine he's probably referring to is called Nintendo Power and it was the absolute shit back in the day

[Anonymous No.25782416]

>>25777255
Ah, trading cards. When I was younger cards were still in wax or plastic wraps, not foil. At the time holographic, metal, etc...cards were huge and selling for a decent chunk of change. I realized that even though the weight difference wasn’t enough to confidently tell which were money packs, the density would. So I disassembled a stud sensor, extended the wires so I could hold the sensor in my hand and have the rest of the device up my sleeve. I extended the LEDs to an old watch casing. I’d hit the card shop, hold a pack in my hand against the sensor and adjust the sensitivity until the LEDs would click off. Then I’d grab a different pack. If the LEDs didn’t light up, I’d adjust them slightly to make I hadn’t happened to pick up two chase packs. Once I was dialed in, it was the matter of just picking up and checking every pack in a box. Cleaned out my small city’s card shops that summer. My dad was pissed when he found out I destroyed his stud sensor but he forgave me. Was able to do this off and on for about a two years until foil packs became the normal. Made a few thousand $$, though.

[Anonymous No.25782554]

Me and my buddy used to sell porn and pirated movies, sometimes games on CDs at school. At some point we built proper copy machines featuring 4 CD writers each to burn CDs in parallel to keep up with demand. Must have made thousands of dollars. Shit was very cash.

[Anonymous No.25782596]

>>25777742

[Anonymous No.25783162]

>>25781269
hyep. noice

[Anonymous No.25783263]

Did websites at 16-17. Actually couldn't code for shit but my buddy could and I just pocketed Commissions on the projects I wired him up with. Couple hunnis. Also tried to join anonymous but that was a huge kek.

[Anonymous No.25783307]

I go to estate sales and buy jewelry boxes. Usually they aren’t cleaned out and it’s full of nice stuff. I’ve made thousands from $5 or $20 for the entire box. It’s all gold or silver. Sometimes diamonds.

[Anonymous No.25783355]

>>25781082
Well at least you tried. Good luck next time

[Anonymous No.25783726]

I used to spam habbo rooms with links to phishers when I was in my early teams.

I ran a fairly successful forum which was based around cheating in RuneScape. That made me about $400 a month

I password reset the owners of most other large RuneScape forums (rsboards, fagex, etc), downloaded their user database and would spam email the shit out of them with links to my forum or phishers for RuneScape. I made about $3000 in about 2 months doing that

Then I got into crypto at 21, I'm 29 now and should hopefully retire this year if link hits $25

[Anonymous No.25783758]

I scammed people on Habbo Hotel by stealing their passwords, had like 7 rooms full of furniture all stolen

[Anonymous No.25783878]

>>25783726
dam nice, how much would you get in total to retire?

Thanks

[Anonymous No.25783947]

>>25777255
About 12 yrs old, me and a friend would buy boxes of soda and sell the cans individually at school. Made about ~$1.50 in profit per can. Since our families were poor (not brown poor, just lower class), that was a lot of money for us at the time.

[Anonymous No.25783985]

>go on recess to trade Pokémon cards
>have a shit weedle card
>offer to trade it to a kid for a holographic butterfree
>he of course laughs and says no
>at this moment my friend “happens” to walk by and say “Dude are you crazy? I’d totally take that trade. Hey anon if Paul doesn’t want that trade I’ll give you a holographic blastoise for it”
>”nah man I already have a blastoise I really want butterfree”
>Paul takes the bait and FOMOs into my weedle card
>me and my friend run off laughing and Paul cries and tells on me to the teacher but I act like I have no idea what he’s talking about
Still have that butterfree card

[Anonymous No.25784211]

>>25783355
Thanks. I’m 31 now. Still interested in having my own business. I am looking into doing Amazon FBA currently

[Anonymous No.25784272]

My cousin told me about this truck stop where grown ups would pay you $20 to fuck you in the ass.

Let's just say I had more Pokemon cards than all the other kids ;)

[Anonymous No.25784366]

>>25777255
>5 years old, I would keep "finding" money and asking mom if I could keep it. She said yes until asking me where I found it. In her purse

>8 years old, I had won a young writers award, motivated me to write short stories and try to sell them to my neighbors , some pity bought

>12 years old to 15, got into skating and was okay but I knew a lot of "old school" flat land tricks no one practiced anymore. I would play games of s-k-a-t-e and win using tricks like the flamingo or finger flips. Started making bets and taking kids for their iPods and dre beats.

>16 years old, I trade dre beats for drew half ounce of Schwag weed. I start selling weed and built up to a selling a half pound weekly in high school.

>weed is becoming legal so I finally get a job at 20 and get into a skilled trade, worked as an apprentice to journey man at 25. Learned the trade and now I am self employed and investing into shit coins.

[Anonymous No.25785025]

>>25777742
Redeemed OPs shit thread

[Anonymous No.25785238]

Robbing other peoples' scams before they got there. Used to take money from parking meters (as they used break the locks very carefully so they looked locked but weren't). People used to shove flexible plastic in the change part of public telephones, take the plastic out and a day's worth of change falls out. Used to get about £40 every Saturday and spunk it on Streetfighter 2, rave tapes and Mcdonald's.

[Anonymous No.25785495]

>>25777255
Firework. Me and my dad would drive to Belgium and buy a shit ton of illegal fireworks for my country. Because we bought so much we payed 4 euros instead of 16 per package. Sold it to kids at my school while I was 12 or something. I made 2500 euros as a 12 yo, got robbed once though.

[Anonymous No.25785716]

I was sent home from school after making hundreds of dollars selling garbage pail kids during recess. The teachers confiscated my gains and remaining cards. I would ride my bike to all the stores and towns in the area and buy up as many as I could afford. There were rare cards and the Silverstein kid ratted me out after he paid 20 bucks for a certain card he wanted. The kid tried to keep the card and get the cash back. My little brother kicked the shit out of him later on that summer. My dad was proud of me and reamed the teachers and the board a new asshole. He gave me money to invest in baseball cards and I went to shows and sold complete sleeves and sets, sometimes trading for vintage cards that were truly rare. Made a killing doing that. Took my earnings and invested in Apple since I really like my computers. All you need in life is someone to believe in you. Later in life I believed in my friend who really liked to mine magical gold coins on the internet. Life is good anon. Believe in something.

[Anonymous No.25785747]

>>25777255
sold weed to retard high schoolers and made bank

[Anonymous No.25785800]

>>25777980
the trippy thing is that you can make more from your local chef's than the local hippies. :) shine on you crazy diamond.

[Anonymous No.25785803]

>>25777255
I made fake tickets to a Blink 182 concert and sold them to college kids. Made $800

[Anonymous No.25786006]

>>25785747
thanks anon. you changed the minds of many. no more factory trained robots.

[Anonymous No.25786129]

>>25777255
As a senior I was buying textbooks from my peers and then reselling them to the freshmen and people who want to study outside the uni.