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Never mix up filching with felching if you can help it.

Unless it's a way for Typeline to make a buck... ?

sourclams wrote:Buy a very cute animal domesticated for human consumption, like a rabbit or piglet. Name it Rupert.

Take lots of pictures of this very cute animal doing very cute things; if you can throw kids in there who are also cute, bonus.

Start a website called rupertgetseaten.com, and by hook or by crook spam the crap out of 16-22 year old girls on myspace with the link.

Explain that if you do not receive $300 in one week, from random donors, Rupert is going to be slaughtered, gutted, and converted into foodstuff for human consumption. Attach several pictures of fresh [whatever] carcasses to graphically illustrate the conversion from Rupert to Meat. Further your threat by saying you will buy another Rupert every week until your $300 quota is met. Have a Rupert counter on your website, start it at 7 or something, with pictures of past Ruperts getting thrown into the pot. Swear to God that you will stop once you hit $300.

It won't work repeatedly, but thankfully you only need it for a one-shot deal.

Good one, but not 100% efficient. You need to cash in on "the haters", too. So start a different page, rupert-must-be-eaten.com (sadly, "all flesh must be eaten" is an rpg title and therefore taken), make fun of all the little girls donating to save Rupert, Greenpeace wannabes, eco-terrorists and all P.E.T.A. followers in general and ask for donations to a legal fund that will, by some inexplainable legal-magick, force the owner of Rupert to eat it as all animals are meant to. Cater to the other half of people that regularly read such forums, cash in on the trolls.

P.S.: The modern way of kidnapping: Completely virtual, grass-root based, containing the full experience for every single participant with shared costs. Here comes everybody. Clay Shirky will cry tears of joy.

P.P.S.: This system is adaptable to different topics peple care about, of course. You might build an absolutely great conversion and threaten it to be painted by a well known terrible painter, for example, unless a certain amount is met for it to be painted by Jen Haley.

sourclams wrote:Buy a very cute animal domesticated for human consumption, like a rabbit or piglet. Name it Rupert.

Take lots of pictures of this very cute animal doing very cute things; if you can throw kids in there who are also cute, bonus.

Start a website called rupertgetseaten.com, and by hook or by crook spam the crap out of 16-22 year old girls on myspace with the link.

Explain that if you do not receive $300 in one week, from random donors, Rupert is going to be slaughtered, gutted, and converted into foodstuff for human consumption. Attach several pictures of fresh [whatever] carcasses to graphically illustrate the conversion from Rupert to Meat. Further your threat by saying you will buy another Rupert every week until your $300 quota is met. Have a Rupert counter on your website, start it at 7 or something, with pictures of past Ruperts getting thrown into the pot. Swear to God that you will stop once you hit $300.

It won't work repeatedly, but thankfully you only need it for a one-shot deal.

Clams, you are my new hero.

"Befriend" an old lady and take her social security checks to Nick's Check Cashing.

You can sell your plasma (the blood component) and make $300 in a month and a half. Just look up "plasma bank" in your local yellow pages or whatever and start selling the goo, man.

Yeah, it'll hurt. Don't be a wuss.

Iorek wrote:You can sell your plasma (the blood component) and make $300 in a month and a half. Just look up "plasma bank" in your local yellow pages or whatever and start selling the goo, man.

Yeah, it'll hurt. Don't be a wuss.

OMG good idea! I've donated plasma before at a blood drive. I didn't know they will pay me for it too.

And some hospitals don't give away needles. You might be thinking of a lot of non-profit intercity hospitals. Profit hospitals get pissed when you give their needles away because they do cost money.

If you were female, attractive and intelligent, you could donate your eggs, or even become a surrogate mother. They make thousands. Plus you get maternity leave, which is plenty of time for painting models!

Arctik_Firangi wrote:If you were female, attractive and intelligent, you could donate your eggs, or even become a surrogate mother. They make thousands. Plus you get maternity leave, which is plenty of time for painting models!

It's times like these I wish I was born a woman...

They still give you like 20$ at sperm banks right? Maybe it isn't so bad.

if you really are desperate donate bone marrow..... Its good money.


but I can tell you its one of the most painful things you can do.

Clthomps wrote:if you really are desperate donate bone marrow..... Its good money.


but I can tell you its one of the most painful things you can do.

Don't want to do that now. I might need my marrow for later.

yea, but you need gaming stuff NOW!

Typeline wrote:

I could just put on some tattered clothes and sit outside a clothing store begging for money. When I get some go to a different good will.

You can make money doing this. Here's some popular spins I've heard when visiting larger cities:
"I lost my wallet and need gas money to get home (in faroff city). Give me your address and I'll send you a check later."
"My girl/boyfriend kicked me out and I need busfare to get home."
"I'm hungry." (Be prepared to except McDonalds from some 'good citizen')
"Will work for food/money." (except they won't work, they just want cash. People will often just give them money because they're 'willing' to work for it)
"Disabled vet." (works best if you have a scraggily beard, an army field jacket, and access to a wheelchair. I can sell you a field jacket; the beard and wheelchair are up to you.)

You could also scam your fellow gamers. Open a bank account and link a paypal account to it. Sell minis on bartertown at a decent discount and accept paypal. Tell buyers that it'll be a few days before you can ship and wait for their funds to clear. Withdraw all funds and close the bank account. Don't ship the minis and ignore their further emails/PM's. It works, trust me. Lost Closet got $115.00 from me this way and paypal can't get it back for me.

Thalor

I think if you're gonna make money, do it honestly. Sell sperm, sell plasma, sell marrow. (In Ireland you must donate these things and so that's not an option for beleagured irish gamers ) Don't scam people. It's wrong.

I like the disabled vet one. I can get old wheelchairs easy and some badges/camo from this antique store I know of. That is a really good one.

Steal something off a truck bound for a major department store. Doesn't matter if its valuable. Then "return" the item(s) to said store and claim they were a gift and you don't have a receipt. Odds are, they'll accept said items no questions asked. I know a guy who works in the toy department at Wal-Mart who has told me that every two months or so something doesn't ship then the same guy returns the "missing" items... in the box they were shipped in. He's reported it to his supervisors multiple times yet no one has done anything. (Stealing is wrong. )

You can donate spinal fluid!
Thousand so odd bucks, but incredibly painful...

Sell your newborn white male child on the black market.

I hear that white males are going for a good price these days. Think of all the models you can buy after peddling real flesh.

...makes selling sperm seem like a terrible investment. Why spend your paycheck on stuff today, when you can invest it, and nine months later bring in many times the amount you had before.

While blood and Plasma are donated in Ireland, you could sell your body to science. Serious! a buddy did it in Canada when he was on drug treatments.he says he got the placebo but he also keeps wondering as to why he's now got a 2nd ass! the other thing you could do is sell your body to a medical college.

I know that UCC in Ireland offer 1500 euro for corpses. you can actually get this written in a will! aaahhh the joys of free enterprise

Deadshane1 wrote:Sell your newborn white male child on the black market.

I hear that white males are going for a good price these days. Think of all the models you can buy after peddling real flesh.

...makes selling sperm seem like a terrible investment. Why spend your paycheck on stuff today, when you can invest it, and nine months later bring in many times the amount you had before.

Nine months is some wait though...

Thats what investments are all about.

But that would mean he would have to find a willing individual to copulate with...

Sell some of your old models on ebay and saw they are OOP and RARE and that they are PRO PAINTED. Take a few fuzzy pictures and charge a TON of money for them. All you need is one sucker to buy them...

Murder for hire works as well. Makes great cash.

I repeatedly tell people my minimum for a job is $10K.

Yes, I've had people ask, but couldn't show proof they could pay.

1. Walk into a GW, pick up a boxed army (literally)
2. Attempt to return the box for store credit.
3. ???
4. Profit!

If you're serious about selling yourself, places will pay you to donate plasma. Where I go to college, they pay you 40 dollars the first 4 times, then $25 dollars the first time you go during the week, and $35 the second time. If you break 180 lbs, they'll pay you 30/40. You can only donate twice per week though.

I always end up doing that when I need cash to pick up a sack really badly. Thing is though, the process decreases your tolerance to anything by a ton (which is awesome).

Sounds like a win win to me. Sell plasma. Get warhammer. Or ganja. Depending what you want. Thankfully it's decriminalized in my county

Arctik_Firangi wrote:If you were female, attractive and intelligent...

Or you could just walk into a store and use your feminine charm (aka just stand there, not very likely that people in GW's see good looking girls on a regular basis) on the store clerk and walk away with the board...FOR FREE!!!

Take an ad out in your local paper/mailer telling people they can get rich for just $5.00! Have them send you five dollars and send them back a letter saying....."take an ad out in a local paper that says get rich.........you get the idea.

But what ever you do...........BUY ONE. I'm now trying to justify a second one in my mind. It's worth it.

the process decreases your tolerance to anything by a ton

O RLY??

Pyramid schemes are always a god start some guy made $50 Billion the other week...

Sure you'l need to be able to screw over the crooks which takes some brains!. Either that or mug guidos , please mug guidos hell id donate to you if you did it.

You can grow something but id had to condone something "illegal" with little side effects.

The best scam i know is to get bar work in a swanky bar and when the clients are well and truly pissed make SURE they pay very large tips