It's too bad I'm an honest person
Dec. 3rd, 2007 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkI'm reading this massive thread on one of the snake communities about a guy who pulled a huge scam, and then had it all come falling down around his ears. And it's really funny, because I found myself thinking about all the stupid mistakes this guy made, and before I knew it, I'd thought up The Perfect Crime. I could make SO much money, and nobody would ever be able to conclusively prove that I did anything wrong, and by the time anybody even suspected anything, I'd be long gone.
Sadly, the scheme involves outright ripping people off, so I can't do it. There's just no way on earth I could bring myself to.
But man... it would make so much money. If I were lucky I could get something like 100k over four years, for just 2-5K investment, and probably less than $1k in expenses, and I would even get most of the initial investment back when I closed down the scheme and vanished into the sunset. And I would hardly have to do any work, it would involve breeding just one clutch of eggs a year.
Now if only there were an ethical way for me to make that kind of mad profit. *sigh* Sadly there isn't. Although I do occasionally toy with the notion of getting into snake breeding, you can get a pretty decent return on a modest investment, but it takes at least a year, and that's if the snakes cooperate and actually mate, which sometimes they don't. And I don't want to have to screw around with incubators and cycling snakes and all that crap. Though at least I know how to figure the genetics. Upkeep isn't too expensive, you're out $150 to get a decent setup, and at 1 mouse a week, X 2 snakes = 100 mice, which is around $50 plus whatever shipping comes to, if you buy in bulk. But meh. I hate waiting a week to see if something sells on ebay! Waiting months, possibly years to see if I get a return on my investment? Urgh, no. No snake breeding for me. I mean, I suppose of somebody just walked up to me and gave me an expensive morph, I'd pretty much have to. (Particularly if it turned out to be the opposite gender from whatever Anthony actually is) but I'm pretty sure the odds of that are low. The kind of guy whose snakes get rescued and need to be rehomed is not the kind of guy who's buying $5k piebalds or fireballs or whatever. (Man, if somebody gave me a fireball, I'd be forced to breed, with a start like that. A fireball is money in the bank, no matter what you breed it with. You can make MAD profit with those things. Man... now I'm tempted all over again, but even with the Windstone money, I don't have the cash to get a fireball, they are not cheap.)
*ahem* Anyhow... yaysnakes! *wanders off*
Sadly, the scheme involves outright ripping people off, so I can't do it. There's just no way on earth I could bring myself to.
But man... it would make so much money. If I were lucky I could get something like 100k over four years, for just 2-5K investment, and probably less than $1k in expenses, and I would even get most of the initial investment back when I closed down the scheme and vanished into the sunset. And I would hardly have to do any work, it would involve breeding just one clutch of eggs a year.
Now if only there were an ethical way for me to make that kind of mad profit. *sigh* Sadly there isn't. Although I do occasionally toy with the notion of getting into snake breeding, you can get a pretty decent return on a modest investment, but it takes at least a year, and that's if the snakes cooperate and actually mate, which sometimes they don't. And I don't want to have to screw around with incubators and cycling snakes and all that crap. Though at least I know how to figure the genetics. Upkeep isn't too expensive, you're out $150 to get a decent setup, and at 1 mouse a week, X 2 snakes = 100 mice, which is around $50 plus whatever shipping comes to, if you buy in bulk. But meh. I hate waiting a week to see if something sells on ebay! Waiting months, possibly years to see if I get a return on my investment? Urgh, no. No snake breeding for me. I mean, I suppose of somebody just walked up to me and gave me an expensive morph, I'd pretty much have to. (Particularly if it turned out to be the opposite gender from whatever Anthony actually is) but I'm pretty sure the odds of that are low. The kind of guy whose snakes get rescued and need to be rehomed is not the kind of guy who's buying $5k piebalds or fireballs or whatever. (Man, if somebody gave me a fireball, I'd be forced to breed, with a start like that. A fireball is money in the bank, no matter what you breed it with. You can make MAD profit with those things. Man... now I'm tempted all over again, but even with the Windstone money, I don't have the cash to get a fireball, they are not cheap.)
*ahem* Anyhow... yaysnakes! *wanders off*
