How my friend James paid his IM bills this month

He didn't use the public library; he said school library. Since he has a cable bill, I would assume that means a college as most high school kids would not have bills of their own. If that's the case, with as much as tuition can cost, I don't see the beef as long as the school allowed it.

And he also said he printed PLR books which means they are very likely fairly short. I've never seen a digital ebook come close to being the size of a real book.

Maybe much of the controversy in this thread can be attributed to not reading carefully.

Whenever someone posts that they need to pay a bill or make money, everyone says get creative. Someone does get creative and everyone knocks the dude down.

Is that irony...

Or something else?

Did anyone notice that this was a kid? Read the OP for clues.

Give him some credit for being creative, I do admit I'd like to know more about his permission to use a school printer and supplies before I give him 100% kudos, however I see no reason to not believe this or even to be negative about it.

We all have our opinions about what's dumb. Some think it's dumb to sell gigs on fiver for under $4 while others sell info on how to do it. Some think it's dumb to sell or buy info products at all, however we all are all here because, one, Allen Says, does not think it's dumb.

Yep, they are. And others are dumb enough to pay for books printed on printing presses and in the past stone tablets were all the rage and don't forget parchment scrolls.

No mention was made about what was printed. It could have been recipes that people wanted, "How to train your dog." "How to cure.... whatever." and any number of other things.

This kid might have been a "Guru" to his buyers. Whether we believe it or not, many if not most people do not Google. If they even know about Google they think it's still a noun.

I have friends who have paid thousands for a couple of pieces of paper a week from the likes of Kiplinger and others. $2 was not much to pay for some good ol' needed information.

So true Tina. I give the kid credit for doing something many only dream of. Making money using the Internet and a printer.

I don't know what you base that on, however I have done the same thing. I don't call them books I call them "special reports" and I find Realtors, insurance agents and some others are willing to pay $100 a page or more. (OK, small font and single space I admit.)

So have local PTAs when they use a copier to print "Our Favorite Recipes," use a spiral binder to put the pages together in a "Cook Book" and sell them to the public at large to raise funds for the sports teams.



That's really not a joke, it's true and very germane to this discussion.

George Wright

Truth is - any kid on my street could do that if he thought of it. I've bought a lot of things from neighborhood kids that I didn't want or need - because the kid need spending money for vacation or his band or sports group was raising money.

When my son was 14, many of his friends were Dungeons and Dragons addicts (remember that?). He made up what he called "matrices" and typed them up and sold them for $1 each. He made enough over a weekend to buy the skateboard he wanted.

This is the same kid that "collected" beer cans by picking them up from the gutters and roadsides in the college town where we lived. My friends thought I was crazy to let him keep them but he neatly lined the wall of the garage with them and I saw no harm in it. When we were moving I told him he couldn't move the "collection" so he advertised it and sold it for four figures. Crazy, right?

Some people will find a way to work for what they need - others will wait for someone else to tell them how or to give it to them. I'll take the first kind of person any day.

kay

A little clarification:



He just turned 20 goes to NAWCC, so we could talk about the current rate of student loan debt, but that is another encyclopedia of posts waiting to explode.



Good one! There is also a very amusing cartoon/movie to go along with it... AT&T showed it to me when I was doing some work for them back in 2003 (they were SBC back then). Spencer Johnson rocks! If you like Who Moved My Cheese you should also check out The One Minute Manager and The One Minute Salesperson.




Agreed 100% ...and yes, there is a huge difference between being a troll and playing Devil's Advocate or having a different viewpoint.




Now that is huge! Much coolness, I love it!!




Well it was Holloween, and he grew-up Jehovas' Witness, so being able to celebrate the Holidays is a big deal to him. But yeah, he's a kid, so not going about things in the smartest way possible, and using PLR (not to start another war, but that is another thing I am very strongly against) could perhaps be forgiven?