/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>451768

Quick edit, it wasnt One tree it was like 30

>shoveling snow as a kid
>most people give us $2
>some drunk guy in underwear gives us $10 each

Bought so much candy after that

>>451768
When I went on a army cadet camp at 15 I took a family sized pack of m7m's. Ate half and then sold them to a fat kid for $10. I then used the $10 to buy cans of coke for $2 each from a truck that came by every few days and sold them off to desperate people.

>chopped up a bunch of old Vicodin and caffeine pills
>sold them to other kids as cocaine after school
>made 400$ in a couple days but stopped when some crazy bitch threatened to kill me and was 100% convincingly serious

It was funny though I had some repeat customers that thought it was really good cocaine. I never tried it myself but I'd imagine it does actually have some decent effects.

>12
>Buy small sweet necklace
>Realise with the elastic in the necklace, you can bite the sweets in half and slingshot the other half at people with high accuracy and range
>Bring a few into school to test the waters, sell them to popular kids
>Funny stories of the popular kids launching them at teachers and other students causes demand to rise exponentially. 'fad' created
>Can't meet demand
>Take my earnings from this and go to the local wholesalers to buy bulk necklaces
>Go back to school, more than double the price but demand stays the same as there's no competition
>Workout that I'm selling these at 500% markup, pocket it all
>One teacher gets pelted so much he takes time off
>School tries to shut it down
>[STREISAND EFFECT INTENSIFIES]
>Nearly everyone in the school wants at least one now
>Assemblies created specifically to tell people to stop buying them
>Kids that got into trouble from it talk about snitching on me in revenge
>Pay some of the harder kids necklaces to shut the snitching down
>[MONEY INTENSIFIES]
>Never get shut down, fad just dies slowly
>Pocket around £150 (Big money at 12)
>mfw remembering the best necklace shots

>>452171

I would lend my friends money for candy and charge them interest.

4 Years old. Good times.

I had OP pic related, but I charged way more than 25 cents. I made one guy pay over $5. Also took advantage of a fake monetary system that a teacher put in place in elementary school.
>tfw buying all the Goosebump books off classmates using fake money

Patrick, I lent you a quarter to buy a popsicle back in elementary school.

You said you'd pay me back.

I'm still waiting.

>8th grade
>grandfather buys 15 cases of red bull thinking it was beer
>gets pissed, gives them to me
>sell them for $5 each out of my locker
>tfw blow it all on weed from sophmore to senior year in high school

> buy lighters for 10 moneys
> sell lighters at school for 20 moneys

good times were had

14, high school.

I never touch drugs but somehow I become casual acquaintances of the 'stoner' group.

Start going to gym, get growth spurt so become one of the biggest guys in school.

Age 16 start lending stoners money to buy weed, just until their next payday which would be 2 or 3 days away. Charge $5 interest on a $20 loan.

Everyone knew I would fuck them up if they didn't pay me back, so I ended up automating my loansharking.

>Get text from guy
>transfer money online
>???????
>Profit

I sold the panties of my sister to the weird kids at school for 20 bucks each.
Drove the price as high as 130 bucks a pair until my sister caught up with me, years later.

Sold custom built computers and laptops to the plebs at my high school.

>>452171

Top kek. You did a good service, bringing happiness to the world, and making a little money on the side.

>>452380
if only she was as ambitious as you were you two could have worked together. buy some cheap panties for $1-5, have her wear them for a day, sell them for $20+, split the profit however you guys wanted
money in the bank, only problem is your reputations in school could have been tarnished had word gotten out pertaining to your schemes

>>452380

You're an idiot. How could they have ever figured out if they were really your sisters'?

You shouldve just have some girl go to a store for you, buying a shitload of panties, selling them and tell people your sister wore them.

Missed opportunity

Teaching the other 10 year old kids in my school how to draw. 50 Chilean pesos for lesson. Not much, but I was a good teacher (I made sure everyone progressed which made classes more and more popular with time) and being weeaboos was cool back then so the market was flourishing.

I was always skilled at art. "You should be an artist" everyone said, including adults. Fuck that, even my 10 year old self knew artist were poorfags. I could go for something bigger.

My "pupils" set their bar to becoming manga or comic artists, I just wanted to make money. It is more fun. Now I don't know how many of them got higher education, I lost contact.

>parents has free satellite and got all pay-per-view channels for free as well
>recorded all the big WWE wrestling events on VHS
>rented the tape out to kids in my class. $5 for one day.
>wrestling was really popular so I always had 5-6 kids who were willing to pay up.
>ended up making $30 every time an event happened

bump

more like these, im loving this stuff!

I sold a lot of shit in school, everything from fireworks to candy. I have no idea which is first, but I'll share one or two.

>elementary school
>back when funnyjunk was the shit
>go to funnyjunk.com
>find a relatively funny picture
>print out a few copies
>sell copies to kids for $3 a piece

The trick was to get to the kids before lunch, and impulse sell the shit out of them. I charged $3 a page because lunch was 2 something. I never once tried to beat up a kid for his money because tricking them for it was so much more satisfying.

>>451768
That's why you Americans are stronger at this whole capitalism game.

In my yuropoor country, it would have been:

>when i was 15 my neighbor had an apple tree
>he felt offended when i offered to pay for his apples
>gave me two or three apples instead (i wanted ten but he wouldn't sell or give ten)
>took bicycle to park where kids were playing
>tried to sell apples but all the kids were like "i have no money" or "go fuck yourself"
>finally i ate all the apples myself, became sick, and had to pay the doctor
>tfw i lost 23 euros trying to be rich

>Winter
>Snows, me and buddies go do door to door shoveling
>Most people pay what we ask when done
>Some people get pissy and won't
>Learned two valuable lessons that year
>Always negotiate price up front
>People who won't pay you what you ask are usually too lazy to stop you from putting the snow back on their property after they slam the door.

moarrr

>be age 8
>running a lemonade stand with friend
>elderly couple comes by
>ask if they want lemonade
>they say no
>i know that old people like/have sympathy for kids
>fake sobbing to friend and stammer "we're never gonna sell any cups of l-lemonade"
>we've already made almost $50 and it was 1995 and we were 8
>they feel bad and give us $5
>I was 8 years old and willfully manipulated an elderly person for money and I knew exactly what I was doing

a-am I a sociopath?

age 7 was watching some national geographic shows on minerals saw them talking about silver, convinced my parents to let me buy some with the 400 $ I have in the bank. was around seven bucks an ounce at the time. years go by and I'm fifteen during the last precious metals spike and I sell my silver at 32$ an ounce.
> tfw when my first ever investment got me a 450% rerun after 8 years

>>452761
Yuropoor version of your story:

>see a national geographic show about silver
>understand it may be profitable
>tell parents i must invest in silver
>dad says "stop watching american bullshit and go play with your game boy"
>the end

>>452721
>>452773

yuropoor here, this is actually how it would be like.

>>451792
Greentext of the crazy bitch threatening to kill you?

>>452750
if you worry about being a sociopath you're not, but I know that feel and I feel emotionally distant from people

>>452721
Except that doctor's free.
You'd get sick from eating apples when they're grossly unripe.
That's why neighbor only gave you three. Enough to shut you up but not enough to kill you.
Are you sure you don't have applesburgers?

>lemonade stand
>its super popular but we ran out of ice and its super hot
>use the ice thats left in the beach bucket has has sand all over it
>sell sandy drinks to people

i felt bad

>>452721
in yuropoor it would be, receive 2 "free" apples, not even to satisfy you. Pay ridiculous taxes because of everyone's right to free apples.

>have paper route as young kid
>slave-wage now but then was more money than I could spend
>stockpile it all because don't know what to buy
>go to stores and just spend hours deciding how to spend my money
>get bored of things quickly because didn't like them or need very much
>decide to sell them for a fraction of the cost
>mom takes all the money from selling MY things because shes a greedy kike

Not really capitalism story but still. I made some store owners very happy by buying their useless shit nobody wanted that they'd probably throw out.

>>451768

Nother story:

>be 12 years old
>parents go shopping at food distributor, wholesale (you can only buy in bulk, no small portions)
>buy an entire crate full of beef jerky bags for like 20 bucks
>go on bus and pull out one bag of jerky, let everyone have a taste, work up some hunger
>pull out 5 more bags of beef jerky, sell them at above store price
>too good to resist
>i sold spicy beef jerky
>just so happen to have 3 bottles of water
>not enough water for everyone
>bidding war ensues.

Only did that for one day, I feared they would catch on if i did it too much

Was a great day, made 20 bucks profit.

>>452881

Community service then, charitable donations to the global market!

>>452792

I can't greentext it accurately. She basically told me a ridiculously detailed story about how her ex boyfriend and her had kidnapped some chick and beat her and left her out on a dirt road somewhere. It was actually really scary because I believed it was true 100% and the implication was they were gonna come after me.

>>452779
>>452773

yuropoor here, you guys are full of shit

anyways here's my story

>be in primary school
>start buying packs of football stickers for 20p for 10 stickers
>realise plebs will pay like £2 for a sticker of a footballer they like
>hold "auctions" during break for weeks, one kid gave me £10 for a sticker
>mfw they realised they could have just gone to the shop and bought the packets themselves

>>451768
Our school had vending machines.

My clients never had change on them.
I gave out $0.25-4 loans at 25%+ interest rates.
Made about 50-60 bucks at the end of the year. I started out with $2.

bump

>in school
>me and my friend start a "book company"
>most books are about sonic the hedgehog
>never sell any books
>never finish any books
>try to give away the unfinished products as advertisement
>still nobody takes them
>most autismal thing ever

>>454624
lol what grade was this?

I remember me and my friend were going to "give fighting lessons" at recess for money. We would just punch and kick each other in a secluded area away from teachers every recess.

>>454627
This must have been 5th or 6th grade. We weren't good salesman because we were both to shy and autistic to sell to anyone we weren't already acquainted with so our customer base consisted of about five people.

>>454630
Ah grade 5. What I would give to live in those times again.

Then I changed schools and people were extreme faggots who wouldn't accept anyone into their social groups and it got slightly worse in highschool. ;_;

>>451768
>What was your start into the wonderful world of commerce and capitalism?

When the U.S. invaded my country for oil.

>middle school
>draw some kind of graphic for my favorite sports team; banners, players and such mixed in
>friend sees it and says he'll pay $5 for one
>I agree, make one and get $5
>dozens more place orders
>it takes at least a day to make each
>only make like 3 before I give up and let everyone down
>never try to start a business again

>>452171
You were a badass little kid

>>454646
Forgot to mention: copying was not an option. These were different teams they were asking for.

>>454651
You fool. You should've charged $15 instead.

Did this from when I was 12 years old to when I was 19.
>mother is Canadian but dad is French.
>live in France but go to Canada every summer for 1 month.
>work at grandparents farm there, make nearly 500$ per summer.
>spend half on myself and other half on clothes
>clothes I buy are generally 25% more expensive in France.
>come back to Paris, everybody is into fashion and how they look.
>sell 250 dollars worth of clothes to people I know
>60 dollars of profit.
As I got older, I made more money over there and bought more stuff to sell. I think I remember making almost 800 dollars one summer by selling stuff I bought at ridiculously low prices and and inventing a back story to them (Canada is full of mystery for French people). Also bought some products only available over there (maple syrup etc.)

Had a pen and pencil that my mom gave me for school. Traded up to a whole box full of school supplies at years end.

>>452568
>You shouldve just have some girl go to a store for you

You know you don't have to be a grill to buy grill panties right?

>>452193

My uncle gives illegal loans like this and he's a millionaire, plus his wife is an accountant

I should get a job with him

>Walk into uk store called Cash Generators.
>Scummy, low income store but they always had decent selection on cheap PSP games.
>Walk in one day to check out games.
>Mario Kart DS £8.
>It was 2007 so this was just retarded cheap.
>Buy game with only £10 I had in my wallet (I was 14 at the time).
>Walk down to Blockbusters that was literally on the same street.
>Literally a stone's throw.
>They buy it off me £23 cash

And I've been motivated into trying to make easy money ever since.

>>452380
Can you still sell me some?