5 Ways to make some quick money
1. Sell on ebay. This requires some research, but what I do is scour Best Buy and Circuit City (and other such electronics retailers) for great sales, then buy the product and put it on ebay. Best Buy has some great sales where you can get $100 off retail value, sell it on ebay and get a $50-75 profit easily.
2. Join websites that pay you to fill out surveys and do free trials. The ones with high payout are usually trial offers that require a credit card to join, and if you cancel within the trial, you won’t be billed. I’ve made $80 in two months with Cash Crate. You’ll also need an extra email address for all the spam you will get from the surveys.
3. Do laundry for your friends. It costs me $2 to wash and dry one load of clothes, so charge $4 and you make easy money with a few minutes of work.
4. Bring energy drinks and snacks to all-night study sessions in the university center or library and sell them to the different study groups. This works best during finals week.
5. If you’re decent with computers, start a computer maintenance “business”. Post flyers advertising your services around campus. Offer to backup hard drives, clean up and optimize computers, install new memory…Charge half of what it costs to take it to Best Buy.
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Be careful with buying from best buy and selling on ebay, because that is usually very tricky to pull off. Best buy and similar electronics stores have their sales on a state or national level, which means if they drop the price for a certain item, ebay will be oversaturated with people just like you and the overall price will drop.
Good point, Geoff. What I do actually is wait about two weeks after purchasing the item. Stuff in the weekly ads go back up to regular price the following Sunday so by the time I get the item (usually takes a week), I wait one more and then list it. Hasn’t let me down so far. Also, I always check with ebay first, see what the going rate is for whatever it is.
Some of those tips are really good! Thanks.
Those are really great tips to make quick money! I’m a university student and could use some of those right about now for tuition fees. Thanks a bunch!
These are some very good tips! I especially like number 4..brilliant..Had never thought of it.
Although my friends and I did joke about trying selling sour candy to stay awake in our incredibly sleep inducing chemistry class.
I like number 3 too. I bet there’s a lot of money to be made there.
sounds like good advice. I’ll try that once I’m off to college and jobless lol.
Sounds fun too - only I’m way too busy for any of that right now.
You could also offer webdesign services. Haha.
Thanks for the tips!! I’ve spent years looking into those, but I never had the patience to follow through. I’m glad you’re able to max out on the web as well!
Great ideas, I used to run an xbox 360 ‘repair’ operation, but they were an arse ache to work on - simple jobs like you mention would be perfect though!
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Feb 21, 2008