Can I make £1,024 in 11 weeks from nothing?

dirtyepic

This is a bit off topic but relevant to this (well to me it is anyway)!!

Has anyone opened any kind of account solely to use for their winnings, profits etc. Then used this account to pay ebay etc?

If so what kind of account should I be looking at?

I am also quite interested in this match betting and bingo. I have read up on the match betting and must read through it a few more times for the mse penny to drop.

I haven't read up on any bingo tips yet though. This is an afterthought for me. Any suggestions?

Thanks and good luck everyone.

I have raised about £26 only towards this MFN challenge. Not that good really but its only a few weeks in and according to the rules I'm up already!!!

mennie

sold a few things on ebay
Up to £19.75

2 of my mixed lots arrived today. Too late for the 10p day but never mind.
Listed 92 items on ebay.

ONly 4 things have bids making £12 ish

Im ellis2260 if anyone wants to give me some pointers

thanks

jpwhittle

hi all im back from my hols glad to see iv managed to drop so far down the list lol. anyway just before we went we sold some sim cards we got for free and made £4.70 so now up to £14.70. also got loads of really good freebies through the post while we were away so will be listing them and the things we bought with our money on ebay in the next few days.

waveydave

after posting my bionic man ( sold on ebay see earlier in thread) i had a few pence left over from the postage leaving me total of £35.76 - so i invested that in a TMX elmo which sold today for £66 ( inc postage)

making me a further £10.71 profit after postage and ebay fees

So Far so good and on target i think.

£45.50 from NOTHING :j

Now gotta think what to invest my £45 in lol

debzi

Got my ebay money through - £6.60 exactly after fees, postage & what not, so I'm officially up to £19.63 now.

Didn't get my euros changed yet & TBH I don't know if I'll get them all changed this week cos I'd feel a bit guilty weighing my poor friend down with small change when she's going shopping (she doesn't know how much I've got yet!) - about a tenners worth should do (& that's mostly the bigger coins) to be going on with.

Me & the OH went skip-diving last night & managed to hoick out a small plastic coal bunker from a house that's getting knocked down. It's the sort you could use for animal feed or garden tools/toys storage as well & it's in good nick apart from the lock bit is bust but OH reckons he could mend it. Might get a tenner or so for it, who knows? We looked the price of them up & the same model sells for over £80 new.

Didn't manage to get a single darn thing on ebay yesterday but brother-in-law dropped the phones by that he promised & some other stuff to go with them so they'll go up in due course & I'm gonna try & hit the charity shops in the big town tomorrow.

Don't know about you lot but this thing has become a whole new hobby!

SoScrooge

BangraMonkey wrote:

i'm always up late

erm.. how do you play risk free bingo :huh: :huh:

I do it this way....

I get to Quidco to finid bingo sites. Say Quidco pays £20.00. Then I open an account with one of those bingo sites, with £10.00 of my money. This way, even if I lose my £10, I am a £10 up.

I have done it 4 times, and 3 times walked away with winnings. Last night I got full house!!!!!!!!!

But the golden rule is to leave the site and draw the funds before they asked you to top up your account.

I hope my explanation is clear enought. (I am not a writer, I am a reader :rolleyes: )

SoS

freebird65

Freebird floats happily into the room with a stupid smile on her face!

Had my bestest EVER day on ebay today....sadly it doesn't count towards the challenge but hey....several of my challange pieces have gone on BINs and several have bids on, have also sold a few bits to the neighbours when they came to get their energy bulbs....my total should look a little better come Sunday!

This IS a whole new hobby - trouble is I keep losing an hour or two on MSE!!!

waveydave

SoScrooge wrote:

I do it this way....

I get to Quidco to finid bingo sites. Say Quidco pays £20.00. Then I open an account with one of those bingo sites, with £10.00 of my money. This way, even if I lose my £10, I am a £10 up.

I have done it 4 times, and 3 times walked away with winnings. Last night I got full house!!!!!!!!!

But the golden rule is to leave the site and draw the funds before they asked you to top up your account.

I hope my explanation is clear enought. (I am not a writer, I am a reader :rolleyes: )

SoS

So then, am i right in thinking that when it says £30 cashback on quidco if i join the bingo site through them then that is seperate to any money may deposit and win on the actual bingo site ?

ie - i click through to Bingos.co.uk via quidco (where it says: £30 for a genuine new depositing player (minimum deposit and wager is £10)) and register and deposit £10 on bingos - i will then recieve £30 on quidco + i will have my £10 to play bingo with - then anything i win with that£10 can be withdran via bingos

So even if i lose on teh bingo site with my £10 ill be £20 up via quidco yeah ?

Sorry for a dumb question but just wanna confirm before i part with a tenner

BangraMonkey

SoScrooge wrote:

I do it this way....

I get to Quidco to finid bingo sites. Say Quidco pays £20.00. Then I open an account with one of those bingo sites, with £10.00 of my money. This way, even if I lose my £10, I am a £10 up.

I have done it 4 times, and 3 times walked away with winnings. Last night I got full house!!!!!!!!!

But the golden rule is to leave the site and draw the funds before they asked you to top up your account.

I hope my explanation is clear enought. (I am not a writer, I am a reader :rolleyes: )

SoS

many thanks... although as moderator on rpoints i think i'll do it there and then use the HCP

does mean a 1-3 month wait for the points though so can't use that for my "money from nothing" funds... still it sounds like easy money!!

westernpromise

mennie wrote:

sold a few things on ebay
Up to £19.75

2 of my mixed lots arrived today. Too late for the 10p day but never mind.
Listed 92 items on ebay.

ONly 4 things have bids making £12 ish

Im ellis2260 if anyone wants to give me some pointers

thanks

I don't think you're doing anything wrong, I think it's just that you are selling some stuff that doesn't do well on eBay, in my experience.

Books for instance. Yours are mostly management science and popular fiction. Management books date very badly. One of yours, "Mania, Media, and the Markets" is from 1982, so it predates the internet and arguably even predates the computer to some extent. If it's about marketing it must be questionable whether there is anything of value in it any more. So those could be tough to shift.

You can value second-hand books reasonably accurately via Amazon. One of yours, "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", is £3.00 including postage in your ad. On Amazon it starts at £2.76, but more importantly there are 43 of them available second-hand and they aren't selling. So that suggests that it isn't worth even £2.76.

Your baby stuff should do better, maybe you could mention that the items are from a smoke and pet-free home (if that is true). Can you borrow an attractive baby to model them? It can be difficult to work out from one flash photo on eBay what these things will look like on.

VHS tapes are also pretty low value these days. I buy Teletubbies videos for the kids because tapes are less fragile than DVDs, but even strong sellers like that only go for about 50p. It is still about £3 delivered, and you can still find old stock in shops for £4 or £5. I sell them on afterwards but I really only do it for the feedback, not the money.

HTH