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Originally Posted by will76
if it was nearly hands free, as in took less than 5 hours a month to make you a profit of 1200 a month why would you turn down $250 a hour ? Or you could have hired someone at $10 hour and paid them $50 a month to run it and not bother you and you still cleared an extra $8000 a year.
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I started making $15,000 to $20,000 per month on eBay in 1999 but I worked 100 hours a week and my wife worked around 70. That started to slow down so I started looking for other things. I found Clickcash in 2001 and made somewhere around $800 in 3 days talking people into signing up by hand. I started dropping computers online into AOL chatrooms and bumped that up to $20,000 to $30,000 per month. The only work I was doing was adding more computers to my pile and dealing with the networking. Eventually AOL had enough and booted all of my accounts, as well as the new ones I started with friends credit cards.
I had already been exploring new traffic and when things died I went into overdrive. I bounced everything over to Yahoo and picked right back up at $20,000+ per month. This was the easiest money I ever made in my life. It took around 1 hour per day (usually less) to reboot all of my computers, start up software and leave. I was renting an office by this time and kept my computers online there. Eventually Yahoo shut down the area I was exploiting and my income from that went from $20,000+ per month to around $1,200 per month literally overnight. After deciding that they were not going to 'fix' the stuff I was using to get sales I pulled the plug, left my lease and used some of the cash I had saved to start an offline business.
There are a few reasons I decided to leave it all offline. I was worried a bit about being sued by Yahoo and $1,200 wasn't worth the risk where $20,000 or more was. Also, it's hard to explain this to broke people here but maybe you'll understand. I was extremely young at the time and confident as you can be. I knew that anything I threw my time into would pay off so I was damned sure going to find something to get back on top. I was used to making a ton of money on everything I attempted and going from $20,000 to $1,200 seemed about the same as going from $20,000 to $0. It was equally devastating in my opinion. I had a new business to start, a newborn to deal with, a fairly new wife, a new home to attend to with a big yard to maintain, and I was doing something every waking hour of the day. I said 'Fuck It' and that was that.