[gouranga]

Buying shit on Cragslist (or Gumtree in the UK) and selling on eBay and vice versa. My better half manages 500-800GBP a month with this quite happily. Persuaded some muppet to sell her a Korg Triton for 80GBP and got 580GBP on ebay for it :)

Unfortunately it got converted to clothes and shoes pretty quickly :(

[joh6nn]

let me translate what you just said:

"Persuaded some muppet": she gained her mark's confidence.

"to sell her a Korg Triton for 80GBP": she ripped her mark off.

"and got 580GBP on ebay for it": and then she profited from the rip-off.

in some circles, that is referred to as grifting.

[gouranga]

It was knocked down from 120 from someone who hadn't done their pricing research so it's fair game :)

Taking from idiots is an evolutionary step. Look at VC funding!

[pbhjpbhj]

Ignorance =/= idiocy.

[gouranga]

No but idiocy is directly proportional to ignorance.

[damian2000]

who the fk sold it for that price - beaker? ;-)

[gouranga]

Not far off :)