Buy iPhones in low-tax state, resell abroad
Travels to the US regularly, buys phones where there is no sales tax, and resells them locally in a country where import taxes make them much more expensive.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Physical products97% surex
- Earns from
- One-time sales94% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- Over $10k70% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Part-timeLow confidence50% surex
- Where
- Online and in personLow confidence57% surex
- Coding
- No coding needed99% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by anotherthro313 in “Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?”, April 23, 2019
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