Get Rich QuickJabboy contacted us because he's skint. So what have you done to make money fast? Did you actually make anything, or were you just ripped off by someone who really was getting rich quick? Did you have to sell your soul?
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chthonic, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 16:57)
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Conker's bad fur dayI loaned a tenner to my flatmate's girlfriend back in 2002 and then didn't see her for a few weeks. No problem I thought, it's only a tenner. She turned up at the flat high on some illicit substances (denied at the time as she was a semi pro wrestler) and proceeded to tell me that she had no money to pay me back, but had swiped her little brothers N64 game; Conker's bad fur day and wanted me to have it as part payment as she was sick of hearing it through her bedroom walls.
I repeatedly reassured her that I appreciated the gesture, but it wasn't necessary. Eventually I took the game with the intention of giving it back to her when she was sober/straight. She and flatmate had an almighty row that night and flatmate moved out a week later. He cut all contact with her and so we had none with her either. I did try to get in touch, but she'd left her job during the week and moved in with some other guys up north with the aim of becoming a pro wrestler and not working in Tesco anymore.
Four years later I'm packing up my own stuff as things didn't work out with my boyfriend and I stumble across the game again. I'd played it a few times and completed it, then put it away. So with no desire to play it again I listed it on eBay. Sold for £200 (plus postage). I didn't believe it was real bidding until the money cleared in my bank account. I then spent the whole summer going round cash converters and similar shops buying up their N64 games and selling them for silly money.
Not so much get rich quick as it took that long for the game to appreciate in value and the eBay market soon became saturated, but it was fun for those five days.
No apologies for length.
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fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 21:43,
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Sucker!Wow! £200 for CBFD? That game sucked when it came out never mind once it became a "classic"
Now I'm off to look in the garage and see how much all my old N64 games are worth :-)
BDC
(, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 2:14, closed)
It's always....worth nipping down the local car boot sale to see if anyone's selling SNES or N64 games. Some of those carts are worth a small fortune, plus you get to feel like a proper entrepreneur when you turn a tidy profit.
(, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 12:25, closed)
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