How to earn money from doing nothing - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ZeTeX
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2016, 05:37:29 pm
content: So I was looking around at eBay for israeli money (my country) just for fun and I have found out that people are selling brand new (2015) money literally for much higher price and people buy it!http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_nkw=israel+money&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1For example:http://www.ebay.com/itm/ISRAEL-2015-200-NEW-SHEQEL-NIS-BANKNOTE-MONEY-COINS-UNC-/172071510393?hash=item281042e179:g:U7QAAOSwhkRWewlO67.90$ for a bill wroth 52$.Almost 16$ profit for almost no work at all!

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2016, 05:49:15 pm
content: Your can do the same with 500 euro notes.

author: dannyf
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2016, 05:54:57 pm
content: someone published an ad in a newpaper way back that simply stated "you have 1 day to send me $10." and numerous people sent him money.The best making-money-for-doing-nothing is to become a politician.

author: Jeroen3
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2016, 06:15:04 pm
content: Quote from: dannyf on September 11, 2016, 05:54:57 pmIn the EU parliament.But seriously. Get some apparment buildings and start renting those.

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2016, 06:33:02 pm
content: Quote from: Jeroen3 on September 11, 2016, 06:15:04 pmHigh sunk costs, a long time to break even.

author: Alex Eisenhut
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2016, 06:40:04 pm
content: Shh! It's secret!http://www.tinaja.com/ismm01.shtml

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2016, 06:47:20 pm
content: Quote from: ZeTeX on September 11, 2016, 05:37:29 pm$10 - shipping cost actually, don't forget about ebay + paypal fees. Then about doing nothing. It's about the same amount of work as if you were reselling some goods. And then some scammer will claim he received nothing, and get refunded so your profits will go down to the drain.

author: ZeTeX
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2016, 06:53:02 pm
content: Quote from: wraper on September 11, 2016, 06:47:20 pmshipping cost is 5.8$, but buyer pays for that as well in the listing that I showed as example.if you ship with tracking number it will much problematic for the scammer to claim he did not relieve it, if even possible (?)So if a seller ships with a tracking number and the buyer says he did not receive it, would PayPal refund his money?

author: John_ITIC
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2016, 09:33:30 pm
content: Quote from: AcHmed99 on September 11, 2016, 07:08:29 pmI own a 2nd rental home. I have a property manager that takes care of all interaction with the tenants, handles repairs etc. If one tries to handle this by oneself, the business model doesn't scale very well. He charges $125 / month, money well spent.And, it has taken 10 years before I got positive cash flow on that house. By no means "free money"...

author: John_ITIC
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2016, 01:57:04 am
content: Quote from: AcHmed99 on September 12, 2016, 12:51:09 amNo, the time before the property became cash flow positive. The house prices are so inflated that rents did not cover the mortgage unless half the purchase price was paid in cash. As rents go up and as the mortgage is paid down (including refi's), the property became cashflow positive at some point. And that does not include maintenance. Overall, being a landlord is NOT free money...

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2016, 03:05:37 am
content: When I was young and hadn't thought through the practical and ethical consequences of such practices I sold some currency at a significant markup. Used two points to justify the price and make the sales.1. The rarity of the bill. It was the only one in the whole world with that serial number.2. I later came up with one that had a minor amount of justification and justified an even larger markup. Two bills, each as rare as the ones in item one, but even more incredibly, with sequential serial numbers! Never mind that just about anyone can go to a bank and get a wrapper of newly minted bills with a large number of sequential numbers.The hucksters who invented the phrase "A sucker is born every minute." knew what they were talking about.

author: SteveyG
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2016, 11:18:04 am
content: You could work in religion. God created the world and everything in it, but he's justreallyterrible with money and always needs more of it, preferably set up as a direct debit from your account and at least 10% of your wage.

author: Alex Eisenhut
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2016, 11:21:33 am
content: Quote from: John_ITIC on September 12, 2016, 01:57:04 amOverall, home "ownership" is not an investment, it's a liability. There is so much emotional garbage in the real estate field.

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2016, 11:22:14 am
content: I think one to make money (literally) is to print US currency. The US currency is quite backwards or primitive, so a good quality laser colour printer and some paper should allow the printer to pay for itself within a few sheets. Maybe it is a simple currency for the Federal Reserve can print more of it.http://www.usdebtclock.org/Fortunately for the FBI, members of the Gambino family don't even have the IQ to boot Windows 95, let alone use a printer.

author: helius
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2016, 11:52:04 am
content: Quote from: VK3DRB on September 12, 2016, 11:22:14 amA widespread myth among bogans. This has never been the case (the greenback has always been printed on special paper stock that is not commercially available and printed with details that no reprographic system can duplicate)

author: richard.cs
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2016, 12:02:01 pm
content: Quote from: helius on September 12, 2016, 11:52:04 amMaybe, but unlike much of the world the USA make all the money the same size, thus making it practical to bleach dollar bills to get the correct paper for $100 bills. Other countries make each denomination slightly larger than the last so this is impossible. I'm not claiming it's easy to do, but it certainly can be (and is) done and it eliminates one of the largest obstacles to printing money.

author: Jeroen3
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2016, 06:53:31 pm
content: Very much correct. When your house is free of debt. You can sell it and rent a senior appartment for the money. Which otherwise you could not afford, since you've given the landlord your retirement money.

author: vodka
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2016, 08:11:24 pm
content: Quote from: AcHmed99 on September 12, 2016, 12:21:26 pm¿Insurance? For what, this is throwing the money to trash, you are paying during years and when you pass some issue , the corporation always have an excuse or hidden clause for not paying you .The taxes municipals are almost 3000€ per year.QuoteThis is best sell the house you will have the money on hand that you take risks to rent somebody that can be a profesional defaulter, or that a gipsy family or dog-flute will go enter on your home.

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2016, 08:56:08 am
content: Quote from: helius on September 12, 2016, 11:52:04 amI knew a schoolfriend in 1972 who photocopied single sides of a paper $20 note, glued the two sides together, coloured it in with coloured pencils and passed it successfully. That $20 is equivalent to about $250 today. Today we have plastic notes that are extremely difficult to counterfeit. Our government manufactures and exports our notes to many other countries because our technology is the world's best with notes. I won't blow the trumpet too loud though, because of the dark shadow hanging over certain vested interests we are not allowed to mention...https://wikileaks.org/aus-suppression-order/press.htmlHow does a blind person know the difference between the different US bank notes if they are all the same size? Ours are different sizes and you can feel the embossed printing section on the clear part.

author: Galenbo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2016, 11:15:40 am
content: Quote from: VK3DRB on September 13, 2016, 08:56:08 amIt is still possible, but it goes wrong everytime because the results are not scalable.Everybody can print a total of 500 euro/dollar and spend it in small amounts, but once you go big or regular it goes wrong.No one bought a new car without getting caught. No one spent multiple 20 dollars bills a week during a whole year.

author: helius
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2016, 12:16:18 pm
content: Quote from: VK3DRB on September 13, 2016, 08:56:08 amPassing counterfeits off a blind person isn't really anything to brag about.These days there are electronic ways to distinguish between different denominations of currency (http://www.eyenote.gov/), but they still leave the blind at a disadvantage in telling real from fake.

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 13, 2016, 12:36:11 pm
content: Don't have any dollars on hand but for blind person, it should be possible to distinguish them by texture on the bill.

author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2016, 01:36:38 pm
content: socialism in a rich country like the USA - if your socially challenged

author: vodka
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2016, 05:04:01 pm
content: Quote from: Galenbo on September 13, 2016, 11:15:40 amThis man is a genious copying euro/dollars bills falsifications almost reallieshttps://youtu.be/gh_WYHL9CDAhttps://youtu.be/_r3NapNCSzshttps://youtu.be/25s4hsO6yxM

author: System Error Message
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2016, 01:15:11 am
content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Fund_Yourself

author: R005T3r
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2016, 08:26:21 am
content: In my opinion, from nothing descends nothing: it's simply impossible to earn/spend from doing nothing because if you earn by doing nothing this implies you have did something previously. If you can demonstrate that you can't spend by doing nothing, you are probably not alive.

author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2016, 09:21:33 am
content: QuoteNot so IMO TheFederal Reserve System?does just that, Prints money to pay off debt from Nothing.the wizard of ozThis would otherwise increase in inflation But for TheExchange Stabilization Fund(ESF) - money laundering through Drugs -Afghanistan Opium poppys and through the armament / Arms trade of Wars like Syria. so Oz one Ounce of Gold is now Paper of the same value, and like Magic the Fed's Wizard can multiply paper without massive inflation.money from doing nothingwe're not in kansas anymore Dorothy.the man behind the curtainAlso picks the next president, and the next War.

author: R005T3r
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2016, 01:39:10 pm
content: Not really: to produce the money you will need:1. energy2. paper3. plastics4. the gold you mentionedand that's way more than "nothing". The whole "nothing" is an abstract concept by itself. I'm not even sure that "nothing" can possibly exist in nature.

author: System Error Message
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2016, 01:52:48 pm
content: when you're a kid your parents would you give your allowance meaning you get money for nothing. only lasts till your teen years.

author: R005T3r
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2016, 05:58:44 pm
content: No, tey are not for nothing: probably the money they give to you are used to buy electronics or (in my case) electric material...