What "BLACK MARKET" did Kids at your School Run? - Reddit Podcast

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[@harvesthavenwastaken]

Lol

[@SquidWardisback-v9h]

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[@davidlilley2736]

Cool voice works as good as that robot voice. I havent laughed this much in a while thanks the cola one really got me I will definitely check out more of this channel

[@MelbaFarar]

I used to sell jawbreakers two for five cents. This was in the middle of the 1960s.

[@bentleynorman6289]

There was a kid at my school who would print out copies of “the anarchists cookbook” without the cover page to avoid unwanted attention from teachers and would sell small amount of gunpowder and certain ingredients to make fireworks.

[@monke5250]

At my elementary some kids sold candy. It was like fight club nobody talked about it out of the area. No teacher ever found out even after 2 years. Good prices and good kids they actually have 10 % to charity I think

[@swimfan6292]

charity= their pockets

[@thisisthesecondtimegoogle]

Bro my elementary school had a small fight club that was in a secluded area that was over by the "Arena" (which was a just a small corner with wood logs) and people would bet like 50 cents on one kid, so just like real fight clubs you would get a cut of the bet money if you won which was like 5$

[@tanyahardman4321]

My friend made a tenner a day on selling sweets and fizzy drinks.😅

[@swimfan6292]

@@thisisthesecondtimegoogle we had sum craft sh like that at my middle school. Group of girls was tricking themselves out at 13 to kids their age and older. fight club sounds pretty cool. This is why kids shouldn't watch movies like that.. i grew up watching jackass and the first game i remember playing in elementary school was called Jackass. it involved us doing shit we weren't supposed to do in an effort to freak out the recess aid person who watched us. we all got suspended for 3 days. grade school can be tough

[@LunarArrow-gk1lw]

The black market in my school system was blackmail. My best friend would collect information on people, and sell their blackmail for a fine. That being said, he raised prices if it was on a friend or asked by someone he didn’t like. This stopped by high school, since he moved. He told me about this, and I asked him two questions. The first one was what blackmail he had on me. The other being if anyone (if so, who) asked for blackmail on me. He answered both. He continued selling blackmail in the new high school, though.

[@warrenpeace9547]

When I was in junior high school there was a fundraiser though I honestly cant recall what it was supposed to be raising money for. What set this one apart thought was that unlike most of the catalog based fundraisers that were usually used, this one just gave us a box of various candies which we would sell directly. Even more unusual they were name brand candies such as m&ms, skittles, & snickers.Naturally, it didn't take long for us to realize that the price that we were selling the candy for was almost twice the cost of the identical candy at the corner store, so despite the fact I don't think we ever actually met the fundraiser goal there were a number of us that had managed to sell our entire box of candy dozens of times over while only actually having to turning in the funds for the original amount in the box. It was an absolute failure of a fundraiser, but it was also, by a wide margin, the best exercise in entrepreneurship of my entire education. Good Times!

[@420neoclash420]

In middle school I was pretty big into origami and learned how to make loads of stuff. The most popular among the troublemakers were the paper noise makers. If you made them with notebook paper they weren't very loud or noticeable. But I would use huge sheets of construction paper and if you set it off in the hallways it made a huge boom that literally echoed down the hallway. I sold those for a dollar each. They were super easy to hide so it took the faculty around 2 weeks to figure out what was making the noise and banned them. Still that 2 weeks was awesome hearing all the booming echoes that I single-handedly created. Made probably 30-40$ before it got shut down. Good times.

[@danielbryant4349]

I grew up in the 90s in a very conservative community. So parents and teachers banned kids from watching shows like South Park , jackass, and bevis and butthead. I was a volunteer at the church and science fair nerd. I was the last person anyone would suspect of wrongdoing. But I was the secret head of a bootleg video tape ring. I secretly recorded the shows that were banned and gave the copies to my classmates. To this day none of the parents or teachers know who was behind it.

[@d00m0racl3]

Before I get called out as lying let me tell you this was mid 70's rural central valley california. My high scholl had a smoking area. My dad owned a bar & spoke lousy english so I'd always be the one translating the orders. I'd get a few cartons of cigarettes of the most popular brands & sell them at school during off periods or between classes. I was making a couple $100 a week, "big money" back then for a 15yr old kid lol.

[@JamesDavy2009]

$200 back in 1975 was big money no matter the age.

[@mistermeanial1690]

I walked to school and had to go right past a cigarette vending machine. $1.25 a pack for any brand in the machine. I’d sell individual cigarettes for a quarter each. ($5 a pack) Nobody brought a whole pack because they didn’t want to get caught. We weren’t allowed to smoke on school grounds, so people would buy one off me before the end of class, then run out and smoke between classes. This was the late 80’s on the east coast 😁

[@nyanya2757]

this would makes sense even now because people do this... but back in those days when they didn't have as much laws against it, it makes even more sense. Since it wasn't really illegal then.

[@ddcs0s]

Did the exact same thing around 2009 to 2011 in Fresno CA ... Some things never change

[@unnamedweirdo3804]

For a 15 year old today that’s still big money

[@og_3rd_st_saint_gat]

I like these black markets in schools the lesson of the story is if the school banned something make a black market

[@MaxHolleyBC]

My uncle worked in a restaurant/dining hall in college. He proceeded to make sandwiches from roast beef he got from the kitchen and fermented his OWN APPLE CIDER in his closet. Took the kitchen management a couple of months to find him out.

[@imnotcrazy7108]

In the sixth grade, fidget spinners were banned from the school for unspecified reasons. My clever (and fidget-obsessed) classmates almost instantly made an entire network of kids to smuggle fidgets into the school and trade them. I vividly remember that I wanted a glow-in-the-dark fidget spinner very badly, so I sent my request through a friend who had been formally inducted into the dark web of fidget spinner trading, and he told me three days later that he found a classmate who was willing to give me one in exchange for something cool. I snuck into the boys bathroom during lunch break and traded a bag of British candy for the fidget spinner. Still have it to this day.

[@draglorr5578]

Dude that's awesome! The fact that you never lost it is impressive

[@bitterlycursedstars]

I used to copy down the teacher's lesson plan for the week, then sell the home made cheat sheets for 10 bucks a pop to normal students, 15 to jocks and cheerleaders(because they needed the 2.0 GPA). This payed for anything I wanted to in highschool.

[@yosoydave8521]

during high school some friend sold candies in the classroom, you would see her going in with a big bag full of stuff, from tiny chocolates to bags of chips and even some bottles of juice, we were at the other side of the school store so it would be easier to just buy straight from her between classes, there was no rule against it so the teachers never said anything as long as she didn't sell during class and some even bought from her. we men also used to trade android apps and videogame roms for emulators, sometimes for soda bottles or cigars, it wasn't a trade per se but more like a favor

[@altercard5389]

At my high school(though this would be middle school age for US people), there was a kid who sold soft drinks as our school wouldn't sell any kind of soft drinks, I'm not sure how much he made but when he was found out he was suspended and later expelled. Since he sold them in the boys' locker room, a few people ended up getting a bunch of people to cheer his name in protest, getting the whole of the boy's locker room in an uproar. Many also found the decision dumb as if the school had given him a more official venue to sell they could have easily bragged of being a school that encourages kids to grow their business skills. It is ironic as well since the school has a supplementary business class, and the final project is to plan out a business idea.

[@polychromia]

Just goes to show you that school isn't for teaching anything but how to be a good little worker drone who doesn't question the system.

[@Gabriel-b3r3r]

@polychromia amen to that brother.

[@esecretlangel9130]

This was in my primary school years (Between 2005 - 2008) Pokemon and Yugioh cards, Slap bracelets, silly bands, the bands that had words on them, junk food, Bratz parts.

[@thaipankatima658]

A kid at my high school sold loads to phone. It's the minutes you use on your mobile. His family worked for a company so he practically got them for free, and sold them to students. Even teachers would come to him when they needed load on their phones. He was pretty much THE cool kid in our school.

[@trich742]

My class was both known as the worst and best class. We had the highest pregnancy rates and fights, starting from junior high and running through high school we were the record holders and my class was the 1st group were the number of seniors graduating actually went down rather than surpass the previous years. Boys would regularly set up fights and then place bets. If you knew the right people, drugs, alcohol, and even prostitutes were accessible. Despite how bad we were, most staff loved us as we never did anything against staff and would even protect staff from harm.

[@CalmQueenKey]

The last story at 17:22 is my absolute favorite because that's the reality. I had the same thing happen to me and it made me question my supposed real friendships. Feeling on top of the world, making bank, and feeling important is an addicting feeling. Yet it can also mess with your judgement. This guy did right shutting down shop when the copycats popped up. Their amateurs and will most definitely make a mistake. So when they do the first person being thrown under the bus is the least popular of the bunch. I sold the basics candy you can get in bulk back in the day like M&Ms, taffy, and lemon head. I also sold a few rarities for my area like from sugar daddy and sugar babies to candy cigarettes, woka candies, and toxic waste. I made so much money off of all that I was coming home with at least $30 or $60 at most a day. I did too well too fast and had to solo production. Because of that I became last week's news instantly. More people more liked than me started selling but they were sloppy and didn't care who saw. I cleaned out and played it safe everyday until I was summoned to the office. They placed the blame on me but I had nothing on me. No candy other than what I planned to eat. No money since I got a free lunch, and no proof that I even knew people were selling things. I walked out of that office a free girl for the moment. Everywhere I looked a teacher stood making sure I didn't get any ideas. Even if they had no proof multiple kids putting the blame on one person was still suspicious. I was able to start selling again when the next year started but it was never really the same and I honestly felt no drive to continue. I learned a lot but the most important thing I learned is that people suck. Edit: Should mention I sold stuff for pocket money until I was in highschool.

[@oldbutnotdead1]

Lol, for a while it was cinnamon toothpicks. Then a few girls had the puka shell necklaces and bracelets market cornered.

[@buzzsaw133]

In high school, I didn't sell anything per se... I was just the kid who knew the right people. Suffice it to say, I never got caught. Pencils, homework answers, "substances", drinks, snacks... I knew the right person and got free stuff. Also ran a lunchroom gambling operation for a few years... they never caught onto that either.

[@nodopamine_inme]

In 6th grade I had switched to the local middle school from the kinder-6th elementary and would visit my friends that stayed there and the elementary school being right next to a little Cesar’s they’d ask me to buy em a pizza and give me the money for one and I’d come back and slip them under a part of the gate since that was one of the emergency exits I presume. One of the strict teacher’s class was near there so they’d have to hide the box out of sight of her I remember seeing em hide one in between a fuse box(?) and the building. I never actually thought to charge em a fee for it I just did it cause I wanted to be nice and would be offered a slice too sometimes

[@justbeingbored5282]

I bought pens in bulk, they were a new brand new and only sold at a members only store an hour away from our town. I got them in bulk (was a buy one get one free deal), and loved them. They wrote so well and were in different pretty colors. A student didn't have a pen so I let them borrow mine, they loved the pen and gave me their $7. I then started to sell the pens and borrow them out. Was able to use the money to get snacks at the school store. Eventually the pens came to our local store after two years so my business ended then~ was fun times tho

[@splashman2465]

6:17 the t rex silly band would never

[@SXMEBXDYEditz]

Kid At My School Sold Prime. He Was stopped After 2 days. He made Over £150 in that time

[@og_3rd_st_saint_gat]

He should had kept hustling they legally have to deal with it

[@Flapinations]

Damn

[@Spaghetti742]

What is prime?

[@roflchill]

​@@Spaghetti742the drink of Logan paul

[@Spaghetti742]

@@roflchill Oh, didn't know he had a drink, cool.

[@darkstone_official_2427]

I was an avid gum chewer in school and was able to get away with it because I was diagnosed with ADHD among other things and the gum chewing helped me focus, the only caveat being that I wasn't allowed to blow bubbles with it or make noise (which I couldn't do anyway because of the shape of my jaw at the time). Anyway, I got packs of gum with like 25+ of those mini sticks in it for like $2 or less per pack and then would sell pieces for 25 cents a piece. I was able to do this for several weeks before someone eventually ratted me out and I lost my gum chewing privileges just like everyone else. Another story I have is when I was in elementary school (a few years before the above story) and we had these things called "Gotcha" cards that were basically tiny rectangular slips of paper that said "Gotcha" on it and you were given these for doing well in class or being caught while doing a good deed or just generally being nice. Some of the more spoiled kids even got some for getting good grades, though I never received any for that. There was a 'store' where you could go and redeem your cards for useless little trinkets and stuff like that or pencils and pencil toppers, etc, but there were also more impressive rewards like MP3 players and remote controlled cars for an absurd amount (like 500+ or something like that.) In short, nobody ever managed to save up that many, so imagine my surprise when I find a stack of the cards just laying on the floor in the hallway one day. And when I say stack, I mean like a literal, uncut, 50+ card stack of them still glued together at the top ready to be torn off and used. Me not really thinking at the time picked up the stack and pocketed it and every now and then I'd tear off one or two cards to add to my stash (which I stored in a pencil case.) Anyways, one day when the teacher told us we'd be heading to the store to buy some stuff with our cards we started lining up, this event being one of the bigger ones because it was near the end of the year before we transitioned to the next grade. Being that I wanted a specific item from the shop and didn't have enough separate cards on hand to get it, began tearing off card after card from my little stack before we exited the room and went down the hall. Only problem with that is that as the teacher was passing by she heard the ripping sound as I picked off card after card and wanted to know what I was doing. So without warning she reached over my shoulder and into my desk cubby (back when desks had a small storage compartment under them) and pulled out the stack. I got into a HEAP of trouble for having a so-called "Teacher Stack" of cards and got all my legitimate cards taken from me as well as a detention and being sent home early with extra homework. (basically the highest level of punishment back then aside from a referral or expulsion.) I never got another card after that as I'm certain that miserable teacher spread the word around school not to give me any cards, because despite my good deeds or grades I never managed to make a single card ever again in the 2-3 year history of the school doing them. Don't know why it never occurred to me to give the stack back to a teacher and probably get a reward for it, but I was a dumb kid back then who was treated unfairly on a regular basis for being different by both students and teachers, so I took any advantage I could get. Unfortunately that was probably the first and last time I ever got to do something like that as nothing like that has happened since.

[@darkstone_official_2427]

She probably thought I stole it from another teacher which is why I got into so much trouble, but no, I literally just found it in the hallway against the wall with no teacher in sight who could've dropped it.

[@augustuswayne9676]

I remember at Christmas time the cheerleaders would sell Christmas themed suckers . They were the thing . The good flavors ran out quickly . But dang were they good . And they were not small either . One sucker would last you all day .

[@skyden4637]

My friend and his friend would buy and sell candy to kids. Late 6th grade to early 7th grade they made a minimum of $50 per day they even held interviews and hired employess. The best part is my friend spent up to $0.50 while his friend spent up to $6 on the candy so I was always confused on why they both split profits evenly with each other.

[@mrp0t47o4]

Our school has canteen but the prices are absurdly high which I dealt with for 12 years in that school and im one of the longest student in that school so most teacher knows me especially the principal. Many people complain about the prices but people learned that it was because of the rent as to why the prices are high, but one janitor manage to sell junkfoods for a lower price and we secretly buy them as so the principal can't detect them and pretty much still ongoing.

[@tinybirdKam]

there was a kid in my school who would buy 6 pack of coka cola and sell them for like £1 each. honastly i love these little sneaky school merchants

[@trueblue97]

Bro I was that kid haha!

[@just_a_chad]

Same I had a kid do that, too. He made a fortune for his age.

[@trueblue97]

I used to sell pop at my old high school. I'd buy cases on sale, and Sell bottles for $1, or cans for 50 cents. I remember I made basically enough to get pizza every day, plus I had pop for myself too. It was pretty epic for a while

[@alexiathecringemaster4332]

Living in a rural town a few years back when the internet wasn't heavily relied on, we could only get movies through disks. A kid ran a pirating business, selling 10 bucks a movie.

[@narsilthefreak6171]

The one about Marbles was, by far, the most awesome one. Kids really turn into bizarre shonen gangsters if given the chance. lol

[@sillyunicorn25]

The first one is my kind of “Market”. THE BLACK MARKER-T!

[@user-eh2jk6mf9s]

In our school books were provided by the school but only until the 7th grade, after that we had to order our own books. Well, obviously the school had a not so secret black market for said books and would sell second hand books, printed out editions (literally made on a printer and bound in plastic folders) and even notebooks with already solved exercises and filled out questionnaires. Of course the teachers were not told about the cheat sheets sold and the people running it were mostly the school newspaper guys.

[@rizkiramadhan9266]

Your country doesn't supply textbooks?

[@user-eh2jk6mf9s]

@@rizkiramadhan9266 It supplies textbooks now, but when I was in school it only did from class 1 to 7, then we had to buy them ourselves

[@rizkiramadhan9266]

@@user-eh2jk6mf9s ah, makes sense

[@thecatarmy3485]

I wouldn’t call it a black market but I found the website that my homework came from in 4th and 5th grade and I only sent the links to my friends, so we could cheat. Told them not to tell anyone they didn’t trust (talking about you, Evan.) so that we could continue using the site. Most free time after school ever. Well, except nowadays I do high school online so I have free time all the time.

[@jrp7808]

Military school in Virginia. It was a boarding school so we didn't have access to much because we could only leave campus once a month. There were these identical twin brothers who would bring footlockers of chewing tobacco and sell each can for 10 bucks a pop. They made a killing doing this

[@empresshydra3489]

There would be one kid that bought the whole box of the Erasers with legs that was at the bookfair. The kid would buy many crates and distribute the crates to other venders. Each eraser was between 2-5 dollars depending on the vender.

[@YamaMaharaja]

I had two encounters: I'm 34, but back in High School, I ran two gigs. First, before it was big, I imported games from Japan as well as the devices and stuff needed to play them on American systems. Only person to do it in High School. Second, we had/have Anime shops that had TCG, Anime Merch, and stuff like that. However, because the prices were ridiculous. So I found a way to circumvent it by going straight to the sources and lo-vibe markets to get the same stuff at lower prices and sold them to undercut the shops. When I was found out, I made a couple of shop owners mad, but hey. If you get bested by a Black high school that easily, then you brought that on yourself.

[@JCardo2502]

Back when I was in school some tests we had to do were the exact same the grades above us already did a year before, so they sold us the tests with all the answers and we just memorized them. The teachers never found out why so many of us were getting good grades. I used to have a code of honor before the 12 grade in which was "never cheat on a test no matter how desperate you are", but something happened on my final year which made me throw my code of honor to the garbage can and say "fuck it, it's my final school year, I might as well do as I f'ing please and get out of this hell hole once and for all". So I started buying copies of exams with all the answers and all year long I got excellent grades. My parents never questioned it, they just assumed I was studying much more and they didn't ask questions. At the end I graduated as honorary student of my grade. Did I feel guilty about cheating? honestly? no... I was at a point that I just wanted to get out of that hell hole of a school once and for all and I didn't felt like studying their crappy material anymore. I've gone back to my code of honor since I got into college and I'm doing pretty good I must say.

[@wightmamba8085]

Cubanos are amazing, and chef is why I wanted to try one. We watched in my class because I was in culinary school and we had a off day due to snow issues and only half of my class had been able to show up.

[@Neffffi]

There was a system in our school where if your good you get this piece of paper with like a ton of stuff on it, and you could use it to buy gift cards and other stuff, so in 6th grade we made them a dollar in a new currency, we set up a website, and hired people to where a certain outfit and if an offer is made on the “Black Market” the people selling it would bring it in to school and you would go to the offer section when buses were being dismissed. Also you could just trade them out for real money Edit: one kid started printing them, also me and my friend ran half of the bisness each, we ended up being rich ($52,000) and that all ended up going to our parents.

[@inkedteddy4627]

17-18 years ago as a young teen the local Asian Gifts store wouldn't ID me so knives, brass knuckles and mall katanas for all.

[@maxnarum6168]

So, there was a candy salesman at my school, he sold Prime, Mountain Dew, and other things. I remember him having competition by one of his friends. Hope you notice this!

[@wildorchids8137]

Dude silly bandz are making a comeback I saw them at a middle school last week it was like an entire monopoly.

[@darkartsgaming1664]

When I was in high school (Freshman), I became really good at drawing, so much so that I would sell ten nked women drawings for $20 bucks. $50 for hyper realistic ones and $75 for celebrities. LOL. In three years I made $2400. And no, I didn't make any of other students even though one guy was willing to pay me $250 for one of a popular cheerleader.

[@noracola5285]

I went to school in the middle of nowhere in the 80s and idk what they weren't peddling out of their lockers. Mainly music CDs, cigarettes and weed, from what I saw. They used to take requests for whatever other students wanted shoplifted for them, keeping lists of orders in notebooks. The oddest one was rubber bands, because they used to play poker for them during study hall & then have rubber band fights between classes.

[@SargeWolf010]

It's funny teachers and faculty would get pissy with me for having a black market but at the same students were learning something 🤔😑🤦‍♂️🤯

[@the_kombinator]

In high school, I bought a CD burner (in 1997) for $400. I made it all back in 6 months burning games, music CDs, and for a premium, custom mix CDs. (Looks like its covered in 7:02)

[@missingnoghost]

I want that last story as a nostalgic, childlore-centered, coming-of-age 80s period piece movie ngl

[@JSUTrumpet]

When I was in the 10 th grade, papa John’s would sell small 8 slice pizzas for $5. Some people didn’t have the five so I would buy a pizza and individual slices for $1 and repeat. I would make bank. People started realizing what I was doing a couple weeks in and did the same thing. But I made a good bit of money for those few weeks. Eventually the market was too saturated it all collapsed.

[@hermitsunite953]

My middle school had an extensive black market. All the way from unblocked sites to student passwords. Being the kid with a photographic memory, I was hired to get people's chromebook passwords. I made hundreds during my middle school years. We never got caught. We made our deals at the basketball court because that was the one camera blind spot. I was also occasionally paid to forge teacher signatures. Middle school was a wild time. Mind you, this black market caused my county to give out new chromebooks because of how many were "freed" from admin control. They never found who was responsible.

[@robertbaker7610]

In my 6th and 7th grade there was a fair bit of underground binaca sales. Cinnamon was a favorite. I remember at times that my homeroom would just smell of binaca from so much use going on.

[@thisbrainofmine]

when i was in like, 5th grade, i used to have this notebook where i wrote down candy and prices next to it, then i'd have kids pick a candy, and i'd write their name down under the candy they wanted and then bring it the next day. got a few dollars out of it, and i remember one of my friends bought something but said he'd pay me back the extra ten cents he was missing. i chastised him about it for two years straight and i am glad to inform everyone i got my ten cents

[@trevorrex7210]

When I was in high school, I became known as the 'gum guy' and gave out gum all four years. Did surprise me at the start how many people wanted some.

[@Slushiebop]

Dude i was hallway throught the video when i knowiced you were playing an Inital D game, HUUUGE respect

[@nitro3401]

In middle school, there used to be an area called the snack shack that people could get food like soft pretzels and pop-tarts at. However, since we were all in sixth and seventh grade, we didn't have enough money for that stuff. However, my parents had a digital fund for whenever I would have school lunches, but I usually packed, so there was a lot of extra money, so I traded the goods I got from the snack shack with people for certain, 'Favors', which usually included having homework get done for me, or getting unwritten hall passes out of them. I had enough hall passes that by the last month of school, I could burn through them all and just roam the halls! It was a good life, and my grades were near perfection, cause I had every middle school genius hanging on my supply! I may not have been a good student, but I was pretty dang smart.

[@CatManReal]

Something I've wanted to try but haven't gotten thee opportunity to do is to sell math notes that show the entire process of solving the question. At all of my schools, we need to show our work to get the question right, so giving the process would actually be useful.

[@nyanmurai331]

It wasn’t at my school but my friends school. This one kid there was selling salt

[@JamesDavy2009]

In the days of yore, selling salt made you the man.

[@nyanmurai331]

@@JamesDavy2009 lol true. But I’m pretty sure it was crack not salt 🤓

[@JamesDavy2009]

@@nyanmurai331 Maybe crack, but there are other products that you can pass as salt: speed, ice, etc.

[@nyanmurai331]

@@JamesDavy2009 the heck is speed or ice and are you referring to frozen water ice or something else?

[@JamesDavy2009]

@@nyanmurai331 Speed is a street name for amphetamine and ice is a street name for crystal methamphetamine.

[@AtSymbolAtSymbol]

I had a shop called the “white market” where I sold things like tickets and stickers. If anyone asked where I got it from, I would respond with “white magic”.

[@MarimbaBurd]

i remembered when we sold several things. Because of the type of uniforms, several of pockets in and out, we could trade during classes rather secretly. Someone had these suspicious looking bags that ended up just being some collectors item or something lmao.

[@manitshukla568]

I ran one but not in school. I lived in a hostel during college. I seted up a webside type shit through which, anyone can sell any skill they have. Like a guy good at cooking can sell fast food, a guy good at cleaning or just in need of dome money can sell cleaning services, a smart guy can offer to do honework etc. I charged like a 20% cut on every transaction. That definitely made a bank. But then, the adminstration caught on 😢

[@luckyduckyfluffy9674]

The kid with the markers I can imagine the sound Mordecai and Rigby would make whenever the market was going out

[@bombdotcom2168]

In Elementary school, Pokemon cards were banned because they apparently promoted gambling. As a result, we started an underground trading and battling ring that to this day, as far as I know, is still going even years after me and the other kids left. Those little graders are keeping the Pokemon League strong.

[@rengoodmen2879]

In my school, there was a big alleyway like path that was in an outside hallway that lead to a pretty big area at my school. I have no idea why that was there but kids used it as a fighting ring where two kids would square up and fight. There were also really things other than fights like commentary and vendors while the fights would happen. I saw this place as a way to make some money so I set up a betting system and took a cut out of the winning bet. I made major cash off of this betting system. This ring was never found out and lasted until I left.

[@foxpro3002]

Chalk, we even thought a war over it, until I stopped the trade by causing both the last big fight in the playground between the two rival factions and a massive cleaning operation by the older students. Fun times.

[@Riley-ub2tf]

My schools back market was in 6th grade: we had a little section in the back of the cafeteria (individual desks) where a group of us would just trade things from hot lunch like 3french toast sticks for 2 sausage. I think the teachers knew but didn’t do anything and it was just sixth grade

[@knightstalkerVA]

Got a second story. There was a kid at my school who from freshman year to senior year ran an underground sports beting ring. Whenever a high school football game, basketball game or baseball game would come up, people would come to him and place their bets as to which team would win. And this would be betting for all schools within the district. It has rule was you put up to $20 on a bet if they win you get double the money. One year he made $800,000 just off lost bets.

[@Eternal-pj8zh]

Shit like this is the best argument for public schools just being prisons for children

[@ksutubagal]

When a former student of mine went up to high school he started selling little Debbie snack cakes out of his backpack! $.50 apiece from a box that cost about $2.50 for six or eight snacks. many students knew about it, including some of the teachers who would hit him up for a midday snack. He only got shut down when the administration finally figured out who was dealing Little Debbie’s

[@jonaldorobertmanutd2994]

so , in my school there usually arent any snacks for us to eat. (schools should always have snacks) a kid went around and sold a dessert that he made usually ranging from cookies to pudding 5 dollar each

[@SpoonedCranium]

I sold everything I would find on the beach behind the school, we were always there. For example, a brick could be sold from 5 to 10 units(units being seashells).

[@amandacockerham6387]

My brother sold candy bars. The school vending machine charged… I think $1.50 for a candy bar. My brother would go with my mom to a local warehouse bulk store and by boxes of candy bars. His costs was about $0.50 a bar so he sold them for a dollar. He probably made close to $1000 before the teachers shut him down.

[@762459]

I wonder what hapenned to these kids. Im pretty sure they are going places for sure.

[@black.sasuke.uchiha]

9:57 wait ARE YOU playing Initial D??! can’t believe it took me this long to notice, I am driving after all

[@Maeshalanadae]

Honestly, most of these just seem to be entrepreneurial. Always like to see kids do a sort of underground market of harmless fun items for others, like those custom slammers.

[@JamesDavy2009]

In a capitalist society, they should be encouraging the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

[@aredboxnation]

In 3rd grade, we had these little keychain things named heart heroes, but you had to do tasks, download an app, donate money, and all this other stuff. Nobody had the rarest one, but I ended up getting 10 copies from the PE teachers box full of them I would trade them out until eventually I gave her like 7 of them and came clean about what I did. For a while though, I would get cool gifts like 10 minute tech time passes, and other really cool stuff.

[@ReSpark141]

i was both the maker and seller of paper hornets, there was a whole bunch of attempts to dethrone me but the quality and quantity simply couldnt be matched, i sold 50 for 2 dollars and by the time middle school was done it was a war zone, no one was safe

[@Xariama]

I used to sell smokes in 7th grade for a quarter a pop, back when a pack cost me $1.50 out of a machine. Never got caught. Ran that market clear up through 9th grade. Then switched it over to Jolt Cola for three years.

[@ChrisTownsend98]

That was a good Merchant impression.

[@yourneighborhoodfriendlysc8142]

Not me, but another kid in my school. not as sinister as the others but he would either- give you a lot of very good pencils for candy, or- give you candy for basic school goods.

[@lelandkinney4792]

Glad you guys figured out the fake music strike stuff. Unless I am an idiot and that's an old vid

[@personapersona-ws5xh]

One autumn there was just multiple conker businesses where you would pay confers for little paper laptops lol.

[@justgary2471]

Not really a black market but I had a good friend back in highschool that ran a subway business. He would take orders the day before and wake up early to pick up the sandwiches from subway. There was a buy 6 get 1 free deal, so essentially he would just eat for free which meant he could save his own lunch money. Dude ended up going to Harvard and then working at Microsoft. Not that complex but he knew how to work smart and work easy.

[@thesixthkid7689]

For me personally we used to secretly trade video games even though the school I went to having anything from home that was for entertainment purposes (yes we're talking that far back) wasn't allowed. I still remember trading a Spiderman game for a Naruto game. My uncle did something similar by using Burned CDs (they looked plain white) to copyright movies and sell them in for cash back in High School alongside some of his friends. They had to be much more careful after copyright law was starting to be enforced.

[@TheAT5000]

A kid in a school around my area would machine out your AR-15 lower for you in shop class. Even made some with second sears. (Full auto)

[@Copter200]

Talk about underrated :O I don't even watch edits a lot besides reaction videos, but this takes the cake

[@rdrekin954]

A group of about 55 kids at my school including me sold proxies to bypass the internet restrictions

[@THEsauceboi6billion]

Kid in the last story had his villain arc

[@juliaolson1427]

Fidget Spinners This was during the fidget spinner craze. Some guy in my middle school knew how to make fidget spinners at home, I think he had a 3-d printer. And he sold them for about $7 per spinner. The school found out and banned fidget spinners and the selling of them. I he did this for under 3 months, and he made at least $700.

[@GPrson]

In primary it was bracelets and I think it might've prime aswell, then in high school apparently some kid was selling drugs and these people were selling sweets.

[@a7xmshadows19]

At my school you would take those little pencil topper erasers and draw faces on them, They were called Jimmys. You would make a display of them in your desk

[@Bertik008]

The game in the background is initialD street stage

[@musicalatv]

I think they mean carpet for on the shelves. When I bought my house, the shelving built into the bathroom had carpet on the shelves.

[@ddcs0s]

Me and a couple of guys used to do a combination of two of these our high school only allowed seniors to leave campus for lunch we used to buy 12 packs of canned sodas and Little Caeser pizzas and turn around and resale them I don't remember how much we were making but we did ok ... Also I had a liquor store that sold to me you can imagine how that worked out

[@mistermeanial1690]

Waaaay back when I was in high school, I used to buy a pack of cigarettes for $1.25, then sell the for 25 cents each. There wasn’t an age restriction for buying cigarettes back then. Hardly anyone brought their own cigarettes to school because they were all afraid of getting caught and suspended. I didn’t have that fear because I kept them in my backpack. When they would perform locker inspections, I had nothing to catch in there

[@sluggetsnail2592]

I was never part of this but it's short, at my middle school they trade candy in the locker room at 1st period and maybe more periods

[@mrpro538]

My school served awful tasteless yogurts. In lunch time, kids traded sugar without the monitors noticing.

[@minecraftplayer7554]

Kids sold soda, gum , sugar in a ziplock bag and stuff like that, they wore fedoras and long jackets aswell

[@yoshihiroitabashi]

I had a classmate of mine forge my moms signature for report cards, because I'm afraid of get scolded for getting grades below 90%, I did this for a full year, I have her copy my homework in exchange.

[@mathewmclean9128]

#7 was totally me in school. That's the reason I got the nickname "Coke machine".