Closest you came to a lot of money.....relatively.

I had a mate who asked me if i fancied doing some gambling, minimal output for maximum return blah blah i said no.

He was playing the system with the free online casino bonuses etc and ended up making a lot of money from it, and by a lot i mean he made enough to give up his teaching job and set up his own business giving out very short term loans.

I didnt realise quite how big it was going to be, he started out and had a good wedge of money, that wedge eventually turned into a shedload, i heard a rumour that he is a liquid millionaire (actually has the cash rather than the funds being on paper and tied up in property etc) owns his large 4 bedroom home and very nice sports car outright.

His Mrs has also given up her teaching job too and is now pretty much a lady of leisure!

To be fair though, he is a bit of an arrogant ****
 
I play roulette a lot and one night while online I went to place £1 on green Zero and I accidently placed £100 on it...wrong chip....nearly screamed when I hit spin as I was playing "for fun" money before moving to real cash, I forgot to change the amount I was betting.....the zero dropped in and I got £3600 (3500 plus the 100 back)

ah that was immense....nearly had a sex wee when I seen the zero drop in :D
 
A bloke in the pub offered me an iphone at the weekend which contained the previous owners bank details, logins, passwords etc. I will never know how much money I could have gained access to now. :(
 
On a serious note, myself and another manager years ago setup a waste recycling composting company whilst we were working for a waste disposal company.

This was after our MD had said he wasn't interested in setting up recycling/compost as he couldn't see a future in it and it was just a fad :p

After a few years of trading and doing reasonable well, it was going to need a massive injection of cash to take it to the next stage. My mate had just moved house and had young kids and didn't want to take the risk. We decided to come clean with our boss. He was amazed we had done it at first and thought we were "cheeky" and was a breach of our contracts of employment but he bought the company from us (pretty good payout) as he realised by then that recycling/composting had a future.

He got a ready made network and setup and he had the cash to invest to take it to the next stage. He put in £1m and then 5 years later sold the company for £6m.

If we had just had the bottle to find funding/raise capital and go self employed we both would be multi millionaires now.
 
My other half almost won £20 million on the lottery. I got her lottery tickets for her and put one line down as the winning numbers from the previous weeks show (we hadn't bought any that week so hadn't watched it but recorded it).

I set the recording playing whilst she was in the kitchen and when it came to the the draw she checked each number as it came out and got excited at first then when very quiet towards the last number.

She couldn't speak for a while and didn't answer me as I asked her what was wrong. Her hands were shaking.

Then they announced there was only one winner and I thought she was going to have a heart attack. I couldn;t keep it up any longer and told her the truth.

It was quite some time before sex was back on the agenda and she could see the funny side.
 
Great grandparents set up a trust fund in their wills for me and my sister many moons ago, when it matured we would have received around £200k each on our 21st birthday. My gran on my dads side contested the will and got it overturned so she received all the money which was meant to set it up for us!

Not sure if it can be classed as this, but up until 8yrs ago i was set to inherit a rather large farm in Ireland (value circa £3m) as being the oldest male heir in the familly, but then my 50yr old Uncle got himself a young bint and she produced a load of kids for him that meant i wouldnt get anything. Booooooo. Not really that bothered as he's a great bloke and is really happy (the kids are ok too)
 
Honestly the closest i've been was looking at my bank account on the day we were paying the deposit on our house. We had 52k that day. It was nice.
 
screwed out of a considerable chunk by my sis

long story short, sis bought out my mums old house for £6k to help her out, 10 years later mum passed away, house was then valued at £140k which of course sis pocketed once it was sold on

( house had been an ex council semi but was in a prime location, solid brick build 4 beds, 2 reception rooms, detached garage and a mahoosive garden which backed onto a private school field ) mum had lived in it 40yrs which explains the cheap price, thing was sis arranged all this on the quiet and it only came to light after mum passed away.
 
Greebo said:
My other half almost won £20 million on the lottery. I got her lottery tickets for her and put one line down as the winning numbers from the previous weeks show (we hadn't bought any that week so hadn't watched it but recorded it).

I set the recording playing whilst she was in the kitchen and when it came to the the draw she checked each number as it came out and got excited at first then when very quiet towards the last number.

She couldn't speak for a while and didn't answer me as I asked her what was wrong. Her hands were shaking.

Then they announced there was only one winner and I thought she was going to have a heart attack. I couldn;t keep it up any longer and told her the truth.

It was quite some time before sex was back on the agenda and she could see the funny side.
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:eek: That is not funny, if i was her i would be in prison now for taking the kitchen knife to your chest.
 
Grandfather bought 200 acres in Canada in 1910, we even have the deeds, it was recently sold for $80m. The only problem he stopped paying the land tax in the 50s, thus the government took it.

I was in the cayman islands this year, went round to fix an old ladys PC. She told me she found $7m in cocaine in a bag outside her house (apparenty it's quite common for drug boats to chuck their goods around that area), come to think of she was a bit hyper.
 
Not me but this is from another forum I'm a member of. A photo of an ex Royal Navy issued Rolex Submariner (aka Milsub), sitting on top of the £60k which was paid for it (on Ebay - last week)! :eek: :cool:

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Sadly the above photo is the closest I'll come to either. :(
 
mcast123 said:
Grandfather bought 200 acres in Canada in 1910, we even have the deeds, it was recently sold for $80m. The only problem he stopped paying the land tax in the 50s, thus the government took it.

I was in the cayman islands this year, went round to fix an old ladys PC. She told me she found $7m in cocaine in a bag outside her house (apparenty it's quite common for drug boats to chuck their goods around that area), come to think of she was a bit hyper.
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$7 million? Must have been a bloody big bag.
 
Vampire said:
Silly isn't it, just supply (very low) and demand (very high) at the end of the day. :o
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I mean, who is going to know???? not to turn it into a watch thread, i mean.....There are better things to spend £60k on ! Like a £10k Rolex and £50k on i dunno......a trip to Amsterdam ?

You will come back with fewer braincells, herpes and still a £10k watch and the majority of the population won't know it isn't £60k...or £10k.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I mean, who is going to know???? not to turn it into a watch thread, i mean.....There are better things to spend £60k on ! Like a £10k Rolex and £50k on i dunno......a trip to Amsterdam ?

You will come back with fewer braincells, herpes and still a £10k watch and the majority of the population won't know it isn't £60k...or £10k.
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Agreed, though a £3k watch would do me, sod spending £10k on one. :)
 
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