um...my parents steal money from me and denie it........and i have no job or allowence....so i play poker adn sell stuff on ebay!

ya im selling my first few items on ebay this week so i should make about $70

i could seel your items, but you dont live near me....cuz i pay 2$ for overnight ship, and thats how i get all the profits

LOL I know what your talking about. I once walked in to Hobby Hobby and they were expecting $700 for a T-Maxx. The guy who owns this hobby shop is stinking rich and he runs this hobby shop as a hobby so I have no idea why he has to charge so much... I got a better deal at another LHS and the owner runs it as his full time job

its a bummer when things are so over priced[:'(][&o]

Well boys, ive got three glow r/c planes and a micro rs4. All with wonderful equipment in them..... my secret.. LAWNCARE. it is in constant demand, people need it and if you start your own, you make 20$ an hour. GRAVY MONEY. i have gotten enough to buy a truck the day i get my licesense. no help from my parents, i have build up the company and by the time i graduate i will be able to pay off my college. But it is work first, play later. so my hobbby is niglected a bit. but yeah. easy money, easy work. good exersize. try it out guys.



Brian

I am 18 and have a hooked up 90' civic, 92 kx250 dirtbike, pocket bike, and about 10 nitro cars and trucks. I also just sold two 1/4 Raco buggies for about $900 on ebay. I know what you are thinking parents have a lot of money to spend on me. Actually I bought all of it my self! I have had two jobs for the past year ( out of school now). I work about 60hrs a week and only bring home about $300 a week. My car insurance is about $2500 a year, I have had two accidents a year ago. I still have a cell phone bill and a few other things to pay for. It is all just a matter of being able to work rather then going out and spending money all the time. If you have extra time on yuor hands, then pick up a part time job. Save up a bit of money every week and you owill be good to go.

im 19!!!... and i payed 2,600 4 my dad's new car.... and i pay 600 a year for other expensives... plus about 300/400 a year on my r/c car!!!!![:@][:@][:@] and i jus payed for a new car audio system!!!! well... i got it 4 a deal tho' 4 3,100!!!!

i got my gt for xmas, i pay for about everything. my dad bought a starter box, thats it

We’ll no offence, but I think you’re all spoiled. I’m 15; neither of my parents have ever given me any money without me having to do something in return. I had to take a loan from my mom to my for my car, and I was only able to pay her back after Christmas and my b-day, which are close together luckily. I get paid 10 bucks Canadian (about 8 bucks american) a week to do chores, and they aren't easy, here’s my chore schedule thing that my mom made: Monday - bring garbage and recycle pails in from the curb & do laundry, Tuesday - empty all garbage pails and do kitty litter, Wednesday - Tidy room, Thursday - Vacuum basement and stairs, Friday clean main-floor bathroom. I only get 100 bucks for Christmas (well hundred bucks from my mom and 100 from my dad (their split up)) and 100 bucks for my birthday. The only way I will ever be able to afford this hobby is if I get a job this summer.

back in the day (seems like ancient history now) I actually had two jobs...
a hobby shop and Arby's. I paid for my own cars (at one point had 4 in my possession, two 86 thunderbirds, an 82 Jeep CJ7, and a '66 buick special rustbucket), insurance, and went to school, and worked about 40 hrs a week (20 hrs each job). with enough drive, you can do anything you want
and just remember one thing...it's never too early to think about retirement. if you put about 2 g's away each year from the time you turn 21 till you turn 40, you can have 7 figures in your retirement fund if you invest wisely. THEN imagine what kinda sweet RC gear you can get

Hi,

I'm 16 and i dont have a job. I have 3 R/C cars. I waited till i got the money for My Factory Team B3 it cost me about $500. I got My first car as a gift from my dad it was a Traxxas Rustler. And i got my latest car over X-Mas it was a RTR Factory Team TC3. All you have to do is drive your cars carefully and you wont have to buy parts for it. sure you need to put some money on the side for hop ups and addons but it is all worth it. all together i have probably spent about $800 on upkeep and tuneups and hop ups for my cars and i have been driving R/C cars for about 5 years. All you need to do is want it bad enough and you will get it.

Michael

I love the "and they aren't easy" part...

Looks like about 10-15 minutes a day, 5 days a week, roughly one hour total... you're making $10 an hour! Just put in a few more hours a week and you'll have an income!

I have 3 kids, and here's my take on it:
do you use the bathroom? you shouldn't mind cleaning it
do you wanna eat dinner? good - you should wanna clean the dishes that you ate on too
who messes up your room? oh yeah - so you might as well clean it up
where'd you put all the trash out of your room? ok - so ya filled up the trash can - go ahead and take it outside.
you don't wanna help with laundry one day a week? I'll trade ya - I'll do it one day, and you can do it the other six that I usually do it.

its not a hobby unless it cost money lol, and if you into r/c and you want to get good and race and compete you just have to scramble money togther for the stuff to make you get thier its hard at times but you gotta pay to play!

Yeah, I got to pay for EVERYTHING rc myself also. I'm 14, don't get an allowance and I have to work with my dad over the weekends or on school breaks. I usually have to work 2-3 weeks for the car I want and I usually get 2 a year If I workj hard enough. I usually get about 135-150$ for 30 hours a week. My parents haven't bought me ANYTHING even closely related to rc. And check out all the crap I have. But I've wasted like half my summer working for it.


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well im 18 and i finished school last year. now im working full time for 10$(canadian)[&:] an hour servicing peoples dirty ass pools for a company. But When i was still in school i got about 15 hours a week and just saved up. But when summer break came along i was getting about 25-30 hours a week at 7$ an hour. And my parents havent paid for a single thing on my 2rc's. But i think the main thing to earn money is with summer jobs. So even when you have to work long, short, underpaid, dirty hours at work it all pays off lol.

I hate to break it to you guys, but ANY job is long dirty work no matter what you do or how old you are. You'll be hard-pressed to find anyone who wakes up in the morning and says with a smile "man, I just can't wait to get to work today!"

well my dad for one (seriously)

I sell smack!

i get 0 money toward rc or anything for that mayyer from my parents. during the summer i work ad make money to last the rest of the year.

I am 21 now. I have 3 RCs. I work three jobs, Pay for my car, car insurance, cell, everything that I have. I am paying my own way through college. I work my rear off. All I gotta say if there is a will, There is a Way!

I am going to be 15 in less than a month. I have one rc truck and 2 planes. I bought the truck on my own but if i need fuel my dad might buy it for me. I buy all the parts on my own. My first plane was a profile that i bout my self. I also bought my 6ch exa radio for planes on my own which was a little under 200. I got my second plane for christmas which is a pitts biplane which was a little under 300.

This summer im gonna be looking for a car im interested in redtoring a 68 ford mustang. I was told i need to get most of the money myself. I was also told I need to pay for the insurance my self and that it would cost between $4000-$5000 a year.

Im almost 16 I have 3 RC cars, no real car.....But i do lawn mowing so i get like 70bucks a month from one client, and my left over lunch money if any i save for later use.......

Yeah, if you want to play you gotta pay and if you want junk go buy it somewhere else.

lol i get my cars for 75 bucks,my dad owns a salvage buisness and i bouhgt a pimp 1989 240sx did a rb26dett(nissan skyline r34 gtr engine) swap and a vlsd ear end swap,cost me about 11,000 for the front clip of the nissan skyline r34gtr off ebay had to have it shipped to the us theres a 1,000 gone right there,had to pay 2,000 for the vlsd(limited slip),so all together i i got about 14,000 grnd in my car and i can't frive yet lol,i didn't pay for it my dads work did they payed the 14,000 but when i ell that 14,000 comes out of the money and goes to them[:@],then i'm doing a bunch of audio stuff ,then i'm gonna do s14 seat swap,and a couple of other thing

oh btw the engine is just the block so i have to build it,i have a skyline front end and a s s13 rearend,i'm gonna twin turbo the engine and put a supercharger on it,so all together i'll have around 20,000 in this thing before i can even drive[X(]