Money making ideas for uni?

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  1. electrogear's Avatar
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    Re: Money making ideas for uni?
    Yeah I do that all the time. Not clothes though. I have about £2000 - £3000 (RRP) worth of electronics components, but the eBay value would probably be less than £100, so I'm reluctant to list them really. I've tried listing a few components separately (such as some IC's that are worth £5 each) but I only got about £1 each for them. Mind you I have about 300 more so if I list them all separately I might get more money.
  2. electrogear's Avatar
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    Oh, and I sold some tools & stuff I got from work just before I left, and I got £300 for them. Didn't even think they were worth that much....
  3. electrogear's Avatar
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    Re: Money making ideas for uni?
    Has anyone tried the search thingymabob? Anyone need any help with it?
  4. Sprockette's Avatar
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    Re: Money making ideas for uni?
    Only cos you get more money when we do :rolleyes:
    Last edited by Sprockette; 20-02-2008 at 21:41.
  5. electrogear's Avatar
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    Yeah... that one :P (sshhh!)
  6. electrogear's Avatar
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    Yeah if anybody would rather not be referred by me they can go direct to the website and sign up.
  7. electrogear's Avatar
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    Hey you changed your post :P
    Mine doesn't make sense now!
  8. Sprockette's Avatar
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    Well mine didn't the first time, I was really just trying to be a b*tch lol Sorry, having a bad day!
  9. electrogear's Avatar
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    No worries. I have those days quite a lot recently.
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    Re: Money making ideas for uni?
    well i live near an outlet village so i can get a lot of clothes for discount prices and regularly sell these on ebay and make quite a bit, this is also to help me out through uni! =)
  11. electrogear's Avatar
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    Where? Doncaster? or somewhere in Pakistan? lol

    I used to do what you do. There was a clothes shop near me selling 'Crosshatch' T-Shirts for about £6 - £10 each. For some reason there was a sudden demand for them on eBay, and second hand T-Shirts were selling for £20, even "worn once" ones were selling for 3 times the price I was buying them at, so I bought 5 and sold them for anywhere between £20 - £35 each, then bought about another 20 and sold those too. I made about £500 profit altogether!
  12. Diminutive's Avatar
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    Re: Money making ideas for uni?
    the only point of this entire thread was that the OP is advertising his/her affiliate link for the search engine thing.
  13. mariad's Avatar
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    Re: Money making ideas for uni?
    I've sold stuff on Ebay aswell, I 've made some money, but not much, probably about £100. I've thought about buying random things in the sale, that wouldn't even fit me, just so that I could sell them on Ebay in the hope of making a profit. I haven't done it yet though as its difficult to assess what will, and won't make a profit.:confused: :mad:
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    Re: Money making ideas for uni?
    ticket touting via ebay?
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    (Original post by mariad)
    I've sold stuff on Ebay aswell, I 've made some money, but not much, probably about £100. I've thought about buying random things in the sale, that wouldn't even fit me, just so that I could sell them on Ebay in the hope of making a profit. I haven't done it yet though as its difficult to assess what will, and won't make a profit.:confused: :mad:
    I don't think that will really work, at least you'd need some clever ideas. Nowadays, ebay is full of random junk that people are trying to make profit from.
  16. Sprockette's Avatar
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    Re: Money making ideas for uni?
    Maybe rugby tickets - I'm so going to do that anymore, I usually get 6 Nations tickets for <£20/30 and if its a popular game they go for >£200 later on
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    Re: Money making ideas for uni?
    eBay anything you don't use and make a pile on the postage! :p:

    And get a job where you can do something like 30+ hours each week with a decent hourly wage and you'll be laughing.
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    Re: Money making ideas for uni?
    (Original post by Diminutive)
    the only point of this entire thread was that the OP is advertising his/her affiliate link for the search engine thing.
    :ditto:
  19. electrogear's Avatar
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    Re: Money making ideas for uni?
    I updated the post today to include that link - partly hoping I would get some referrals yes, but trying to help others out too. I'm really skint at the moment, just thought every1 could help eachother out.
  20. electrogear's Avatar
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    Re: Money making ideas for uni?
    (Original post by Diminutive)
    the only point of this entire thread was that the OP is advertising his/her affiliate link for the search engine thing.
    I've changed the post - it gives the non-referral link too. Hope it irritates you less now? although I'm not sure why it bothered you in the first place that I might've been making a few extra pennies from referalls... come on dude, we're all in the same boat!
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