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metaladdict
Elite Member
You could sell a few detectors on craigs list, You may profit then.
Are there not a lot of rich people in Kansas losing gold rings?
Are there not a lot of rich people in Kansas losing gold rings?
Mud-puppy
Forum Supporter
This Hobby, unlike most, actually has the potential of paying off!...The initial barrier to entry costs are minimal,...The skills gained from our past hobbies are easily and immediately translatable...Theres no permits or licenses or ramp fees or limits or seasons or tee times or memberships....So once you got a rig in hand, you are good to go!
The entire World is full of dirt, and a guy can just up and hunt it when the situation or interest strikes, no need to plan or parcel out time for it...
Its a solitary Sport for Subsistance Hunter Opportunist Personalities......example: A guy gets sent into town for a loaf of bread and sees a tear out, has his rig and whips on in....in less than 10 minutes pulls a gold ring worth $200!
Zip Zap Zoom! It would take two solid 12hr days working at the dirt factory to make that kind of money!
The REAL money is in the bycatch! Just being outdoors looking for valuables! Detectors are merely 'stage props' for a lone old guy to be out wandering around with a viable reason for being there! You cant go out wandering around in a totter with your hands in your pockets!
The big money is in all the various other things we find that can be sold for fast cash! Here in Michigan, we have a 10cent deposit on cans! Its a lot easier to pick up an empty can than it is to hunt for and pop a 3" clad dime!
Out hunting for anything of value! Garbage day curb set outs, abandoned towels on the beach, jackets and whatnot after Sport events, even an errant golfball is worth a quarter! I actually found a drunken teenager one morning! Passed out on the beach!
He dug himself a little nest like some kind of turtle! see? I figured I could get at least $150 for him sobered up! Or have him mow my lawn or something...but he put up one hell of a fight when I tried to stuff him into my trunk!...He kicked out my tail light wiring and puked all over my nice towels!
You dont have to worry about that with empty cans!...I shoulda known better...Most kids are pretty much worthless at best and loss leaders..
Kids are like a pothole...they begin Life as a minor annoyance, then they get big and wreck your car!
The entire World is full of dirt, and a guy can just up and hunt it when the situation or interest strikes, no need to plan or parcel out time for it...
Its a solitary Sport for Subsistance Hunter Opportunist Personalities......example: A guy gets sent into town for a loaf of bread and sees a tear out, has his rig and whips on in....in less than 10 minutes pulls a gold ring worth $200!
Zip Zap Zoom! It would take two solid 12hr days working at the dirt factory to make that kind of money!
The REAL money is in the bycatch! Just being outdoors looking for valuables! Detectors are merely 'stage props' for a lone old guy to be out wandering around with a viable reason for being there! You cant go out wandering around in a totter with your hands in your pockets!
The big money is in all the various other things we find that can be sold for fast cash! Here in Michigan, we have a 10cent deposit on cans! Its a lot easier to pick up an empty can than it is to hunt for and pop a 3" clad dime!
Out hunting for anything of value! Garbage day curb set outs, abandoned towels on the beach, jackets and whatnot after Sport events, even an errant golfball is worth a quarter! I actually found a drunken teenager one morning! Passed out on the beach!
He dug himself a little nest like some kind of turtle! see? I figured I could get at least $150 for him sobered up! Or have him mow my lawn or something...but he put up one hell of a fight when I tried to stuff him into my trunk!...He kicked out my tail light wiring and puked all over my nice towels!
You dont have to worry about that with empty cans!...I shoulda known better...Most kids are pretty much worthless at best and loss leaders..
Kids are like a pothole...they begin Life as a minor annoyance, then they get big and wreck your car!
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Dewsweeper894
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Kraemer;3055584 If this hobby doesn’t pay off soon I’ll be forced into a detecting fire sale so that my kids aren’t burdened with final expenses. Your cooperation appreciated. [PHP said:
This is actually the only thing that stops me from Turning Pro.
I am getting closer.
I am only one detecting gear sponsor away ... and one phonecall away from the sprinter van conversions company deal. Oh and A loose ends wrap up on an unlimited citco annual gas card sponsorship. And then there is my ethnicity change application to the Feds so I can get that to my attorney who insisted I can qualify for disability benefits no questions asked if I can get my doctor to sign off on my mental health conditions.
Then every single thing I find is all gravy.
,Dew
Mud-puppy
Forum Supporter
This is actually the only thing that stops me from Turning Pro.
I am getting closer.
I am only one detecting gear sponsor away ... and one phonecall away from the sprinter van conversions company deal. Oh and A loose ends wrap up on an unlimited citco annual gas card sponsorship. And then there is my ethnicity change application to the Feds so I can get that to my attorney who insisted I can qualify for disability benefits no questions asked if I can get my doctor to sign off on my mental health conditions.
Then every single thing I find is all gravy.
,Dew
Why are you going to all this trouble? Just do the cardboard VietNam Vet sign thingy at the corner? Two hours tops and you got a coupla hunnerd dollars cash! Also apply for free housing and medical and what not under the pseudonym of Eddie Torres or Eddie Espinoso? Besides a room, You can even get a free phone and $500 worth of chit for calling in the Uber!
Just saying...get creative! I bet you might even qualify for disability and really rack in the stink!
Full disclosure, I've been trying this angle for the last few years, without any decent results...it seems like nobody here wants no more destitute Pollocks coming ashore...So yeah, you want the big free money from Uncle Sam? You gotta go in as an albino Afghani kweer...or a Mongolian Weeger...something...No more hardworking Christian Pollacks accepted! WE are full up! Lets roll sugar cane Honduran!
Dewsweeper894
Elite Member
Why are you going to all this trouble? Just do the cardboard VietNam Vet sign thingy at the corner? Two hours tops and you got a coupla hunnerd dollars cash! Also apply for free housing and medical and what not under the pseudonym of Eddie Torres or Eddie Espinoso? Besides a room, You can even get a free phone and $500 worth of chit for calling in the Uber!
Just saying...get creative! I bet you might even qualify for disability and really rack in the stink!
Full disclosure, I've been trying this angle for the last few years, without any decent results...it seems like nobody here wants no more destitute Pollocks coming ashore...So yeah, you want the big free money from Uncle Sam? You gotta go in as an albino Afghani kweer...or a Mongolian Weeger...something...No more hardworking Christian Pollacks accepted! WE are full up! Lets roll sugar cane Honduran!
Mud , you are on fire today. I love what the winter season and being locked inside during the winter brings out in your creative style.
I could only imagine what what would happen if the forces of evil ever locked you in a dungeon. They would have the key to world domination and the universe at their fingertips in days
T-Man
Elite Member
wasatchau
Senior Member
OK Mud...now I know how come you have Polish Pottery. My Daddy didn't leave me any, just the jokes to go with my name.
How's my thread count?
How's my thread count?
Trashfinder
Forum Supporter
The payoff is in the fun and entertainment you get from it and the bull you get from the posting here lol. Anybody in it for the money is probably wasting time. Kinda like going to the casino to hit it big,, not many do.
Kraemer
Senior Member
I just looked at your profile,and your machines..You got more than the Oak Island guys.
I’ll trade you a years worth of my time on here and 500 posts for the Kruzer,then you’ll be set.
Don’t tempt me Pete! The F75 will be fitted with Sun Ray Probe (thanks to you)come tomorrow! Should increase resale value! Never intended to accumulate as I did it just happened. I like playing with them. Probably am the best with E-Trac. Whites machines are my most recent machines, just all ways wanted to try them and got a deal I couldn’t pass up. Old, single, retired and nothing better to do!
HistoryHippy
Senior Member
Better save up my can slaw pull tabs and bottle caps! I'm gonna be rich! My wife will be so proud.
Captain Silver
Elite Member
Only trying for 200 worthless posts? You gotta set the bar higher...I'm closing in on 18,000 of 'em
diggin4clad
Elite Member
To the casual internet viewer, most of the posts here are nonsensical...I go out of my way to make it justly..to keep out the riffraff..
"Hey, I just stabbed an Old Barber in a pounded park" "Hey guys!! I just banged a 70 yr old Walker!"
"Hey guys, look! I just nailed an old Indian Fatty in broad daylight right on a curbstrip at a bus stop!!""
So yeah..have at it...we are all ramrodding for the 200 post metrics to qualify for the sales part, thats where the money is.......I got Beanie babies and Hummels stacked up the wazoo, dont even ask about the Polish Pottery or Pez dispensers.....
All you gotta do is: "hey Great find! "Welcome to the Forum! "What pinpointer do y'all use?" Just bang out your 200 and let us see what you got for sale...For a nimble fingered reprobate, it Takes like 15 minutes tops!
Ya got Any Hummels? First dibs! PM me!
Hummels you say? Now you tell me !! My mother gave me all her Hummels back in the 1970's because she didn't want them anymore. I sold every danged one of them. Good thing I didn't hold the money awhile and invest it in Beanie Babies...…..Polish Pottery? Wasn't he a Cambodian dictator? Oh No ! Wait...that was Pol Pot !
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