What do you guys do for extra income?

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

Car flipping. Bought an '88 735i for $1500, did a full detail job, re-finished the wood trim, re-dyed the leather and sold if for $3000 the next week. Took a few afternoons and about $100.

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*dream flip; best example, your results may vary.

[atomic]

car flipping is profitable I bought a 86 325es and did a ton of work to make it a nice car again, since it was a carfax certified car. When I finished with it I had $1850 in it including the car. Things done to it, clutch, paint job, front seat reupholstery, some a/c work very big detail and when I finished it it was sold on ebay for $5250 although this has been almost 4 years ago now and I also had a ton of car fixing hookups as well.

[rwh11385]

i dont care if my insults suck, im simply replying to everything you've said. remember, you started it by associating me with jscotty.

your words don't hurt. i know when the sun goes down, you'll be fondling my balls, just like every other night.

I've been wondering... Are you considered clever where you are from or is Pennsylvania the state that wit forgot?

And why are you obsessed with the boy on boy love? Have you ever touched a girl? Or just watch her touch herself in your avatar?

[blunttech]

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*dream flip; best example, your results may vary.

i hate people that always have to top another but this story is worth it. i bought a non running 95 e36M3 with an AA turbo kit on it for 3k.brought it home,put 6 spark plugs in it ,paid a body shop 700 bucks to touch up a couple spots and sold it for 12.5k. 4 days later the guy who bought it called to say the diff fell out of it in chicago. i paid him 1400 to have it repaired. i made 8800 bucks for putting in 6 spark plugs

[Fanzotti]

In all seriousness - first find out why what you are currently making isnt enough. Lose the credit cards and bullshit expenses. The key is to live below your means - then the $$ will be pouring in.

This line of thinking is correct. It's not always how much you make, it's more about how much you waste. People spend money on really dumbshit and end up just getting by. I'm not saying live like a cheapskate, just don't waste money on stupid shit (Disclaimer: this does not include E30's)

[Garageaholic]

holy shit

[JGood]

I've been wondering... Are you considered clever where you are from or is Pennsylvania the state that wit forgot?

"is Pennsylvania the state that wit forgot?"

are you fucking retarded?

[Jscotty]

The one thing that used to irritate me was seeing a someone buying stupid stuff when they owed me money. A friend of mine borrowed $50 from me because he was in a crisis and promised to pay me back the next day. At the time I was a poor college student and I could barely pay my own bills but I figured that I could re-arrange some things to be paid later and I could help him. So I loaned him the $50 out of what little money I had and then for the next 2 weeks I am calling this guy and leaving messages and going over to his place in attempt to find him. Finally I am in his neighborhood one day and I discover that he bought 2 kegs of beer and was having a house party.

I went to go see about my money. He said, "Oh man.. sorry scotty.. I had your money the other day but I didn't see you so I didn't think you wanted it.

[equate975]

I do a few things for some extra cash. Not a whole lot but its easy as hell.

First, I dumpster dive. Its really profitable.... Staples throws away the best shit ever. Some of the best scores I get are: empty ink, they don't recycle it like they should. Its worth a ton on ebay. Each 1/2 full garbage bag of it is worth $300-500. Software, I got two brand new box loads of norton AV, we ended up selling all of it for $600. I also just acquired a ton of peachtree accounting software. I haven't put it on ebay yet, but estimates are I will make another $500 or so.

This summer me and my buddies have gotten maybe $3k worth of shit, and maybe $1500 in resale. A lot of stuff we keep just because its a bitch to sell. Like office chairs, we just got a SUPER nice chair, brand new, $400 at staples with a 10 year warranty. I also got a brand new $300 filing cabinate that was discontinued, it weights like one fucking metric ton, so I just keep it in my room to put shit in.

Game places are good too. I recently got a brand new 360 DDR pad, couple ps2 controllers, memory cards etc. The best joke with this stuff is I go in the next day and sell it back to the store lol. Thats how I ended up paying for my brother bday present from game stop. I took all the crap they threw out a few weeks previously, turned it all back in, then bought him a wii game.


I also hit up salvage yards for pricey items. Windows switches are good! I just started doing this and its turned out to be pretty profitable. I got 4 window switches for $20 or so total. Ended up selling all of them for $195. The best part is its a pretty steady stream to get these items unlike dumpster diving where its just luck if you find anything.


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On a side note, I wish I could flip cars. MN Blows though, everyone things their piece of shit e30 is worth like $8k. Its so hard to find a cheap car anywhere. Anything you do find is just luck. The market for cars here blows.

Joe, wtf did you even find cars here?

[Funkmasta]

Joe, wtf did you even find cars here?

dude I traveled all over the place to find shit...

the supereta I had, I picked up out of twin cities, the 535is was from Madison, the E36 318i was twin cities... all 3 were ebay cars.
I only saw 4 BMWs all year in Winona. F that.

It is pretty hard to get good deals on ebay anymore... the bandwagon caught on....

[Funkmasta]

Pete, are you still building arcades?

[equate975]

Pete, are you still building arcades?

I finished mine, I haven't built another one but I could.

[equate975]

dude I traveled all over the place to find shit...

the supereta I had, I picked up out of twin cities, the 535is was from Madison, the E36 318i was twin cities... all 3 were ebay cars.
I only saw 4 BMWs all year in Winona. F that.

It is pretty hard to get good deals on ebay anymore... the bandwagon caught on....

Yeah, I've been hunting craigs list and the best deals I can find are busted up bmws that don't run for around $1k-$1.5

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And the resell is less than half of what that price is doubled. So its not even worth my time.

[Digitalwave]

Call me at 281 208 0100 if you have any problems with me. I work at bruno's erotic cabaret.

I do freelance photography (fun) and web design (getting out of this, it's fucking tedious). I get $50-250 an hour for this kind of work, so it's great supplimental income.

[equate975]

I do freelance photography (fun) and web design (getting out of this, it's fucking tedious). I get $50-250 an hour for this kind of work, so it's great supplimental income.

Yeah I did web design for a while. I loath it, sooooo much work and it is super tedious. Most boring work ever.