Any Money Making Idea's In This Economic Climate?
Any Money Making Idea's In This Economic Climate?
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d3hno

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812 posts

221 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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As its the credit crunch and most people in the UK seem to moaning like mad about cash, i thought i'd do my good deed for the day and allow everyone to give their two pence worth on how to benefit the way the economy is and make some coin!

Any ideas are more than welcome (especially from the serious players on here with mentally nice wheels and houses to match)

No more hunting down the side of the Sofa for spare change, then?


PLEASE KEEP IT LEGAL!


This post is not made to cause offence so if it does, sorry!

Edited by d3hno on Thursday 8th January 23:02

DjSki

1,331 posts

224 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Buy oil?
Buy Yen?

Nolar Dog

8,786 posts

224 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Cars and property.

Buy them whilst they are cheap, sell them when they are more expensive.
It's a tried and tested formula and it never changes.

It's simple.

d3hno

Original Poster:

812 posts

221 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Nolar Dog said:
Cars and property.

Buy them whilst they are cheap, sell them when they are more expensive.
It's a tried and tested formula and it never changes.

It's simple.
Property seems the way forward at the moment I have to be honest! I can't believe the bargains that are about!

LotusACBC

2,591 posts

313 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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In all seriousness, Mystery Shopper. You and your OH can do it, and you get paid plus sometimes free stuff like Dinner and hotels etc
There is no shortage for it, and no fee to begin. Just type it in Google and find places 'hiring' near you. There are a lot, you just never knew they existed. You can do it on 'your' time and schedule.

not a way to become wealthy or even well off, but enough to ease some of the pain for relatively no 'work' at all

RobDickinson

31,343 posts

283 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Shirly starting a company of Receivers is the way to go?

ss64ii

304 posts

247 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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LotusACBC said:
In all seriousness, Mystery Shopper. You and your OH can do it, and you get paid plus sometimes free stuff like Dinner and hotels etc
There is no shortage for it, and no fee to begin. Just type it in Google and find places 'hiring' near you. There are a lot, you just never knew they existed. You can do it on 'your' time and schedule.

not a way to become wealthy or even well off, but enough to ease some of the pain for relatively no 'work' at all
A lot of the mystery shopper companies I looked at were only paying £5 for each of the tasks you had to do and the paperwork you had to fill in afterwards was a nightmare!!
Just wasn't worth doing in my opinion.

Pat H

8,058 posts

285 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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In the last recession my cousin made an awful lot of money buying up repossessed plant equipment then exporting it.

Most of it went to Indonesia and the like.

Given that Sterling is now worth the square root of feck all, I rather suspect that a similar enterprise could be pretty profitable.

drink



collateral

7,238 posts

247 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Get involved in the joke that is about to be the 2012 Olympics?

They seem to get another billion chucked their way every week

lost in espace

6,584 posts

236 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Start selling used ladies underwear. Tuna juice + Primark pants and you are onto a winner.

Gemsbok1000

1,957 posts

233 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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d3hno said:
Property seems the way forward at the moment I have to be honest! I can't believe the bargains that are about!
You are joking, right?

d3hno

Original Poster:

812 posts

221 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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lost in espace said:
Start selling used ladies underwear. Tuna juice + Primark pants and you are onto a winner.
HAHAHAHA! Tuna Juice, that has cracked me up for some reason

d3hno

Original Poster:

812 posts

221 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Gemsbok1000 said:
d3hno said:
Property seems the way forward at the moment I have to be honest! I can't believe the bargains that are about!
You are joking, right?
No, cheap repossesions are everywhere, one persons misfortune is another persons gain and all that (if you have no conscience) One day they will be back up there, depends if you have the balls to buy now..... oh dear, you are a business analyst, I have a feeling I am going to need my flame suit for that statement!

Edited by d3hno on Thursday 8th January 20:53

LotusACBC

2,591 posts

313 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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ss64ii said:
LotusACBC said:
In all seriousness, Mystery Shopper. You and your OH can do it, and you get paid plus sometimes free stuff like Dinner and hotels etc
There is no shortage for it, and no fee to begin. Just type it in Google and find places 'hiring' near you. There are a lot, you just never knew they existed. You can do it on 'your' time and schedule.

not a way to become wealthy or even well off, but enough to ease some of the pain for relatively no 'work' at all
A lot of the mystery shopper companies I looked at were only paying £5 for each of the tasks you had to do and the paperwork you had to fill in afterwards was a nightmare!!
Just wasn't worth doing in my opinion.
Yes $5 is certainly not worth it. Around my area it can be as little as nothing (but you get free groceries or free rooms or something along those lines) all the way up to $125 a visit.

haggy

1,955 posts

243 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Nolar Dog said:
Cars and property.

Buy them whilst they are cheap, sell them when they are more expensive.
It's a tried and tested formula and it never changes.

It's simple.
Where and what are those cars? hehe

crossle

1,520 posts

280 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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You could try flogging off all your surplus apostrophes, instead of smattering them all over PH?

TWSTEEL

1,099 posts

218 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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If you have a clean credit history,a few hundred will buy you a category A consumer credit licence.
Set up a "discreet" pawnbroking business from a small low rent office which has lots of footfall in the area so people aren't self conscious about visiting.
Small well worded adverts in your local/regional press and your county magazine.
You'd be amazed at the number of people now using pawnbrokers.
It also enables you to collect debts should you wish to enter that market.

selmahoos

694 posts

238 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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repo man; debt collector; bailiff; pawnbroker

elster

17,517 posts

239 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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selmahoos said:
repo man; debt collector; bailiff; pawnbroker
May I also add bookie to those.

LayZ

1,826 posts

271 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Buy a truck you can load cars on to and to start your own repossession business.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7EtCclwKmAM