Anybody wanna make $1,000?

I'm in a serious financial bind. I need $5,000 by yesterday. I can pay back $300 every Monday for 20 weeks for a total of $6,000 ($1,000 profit) if any ofmy redline acquaintances can help.<br><br>If you actually want the details, I can explain in detail over the phone (call 410-335-7498 and ask for Bill), but I won't bore everybody here with thedetails.<br><br>The basic scenario is that I gave up my cushy state government IT job around 2 years ago to purchase the carryout restaurant that was my 2nd job as a deliverydriver for 2 years before that. The first 6 months went ok and I made a lot of improvements and renovations to re-model the place into more of a sit-down,dine-in, cafe/pizzeria type of place. I took care of the daily and weekly bills while my wife took care of the monthly, quarterly, annual, and miscellaneousbills as well as the books. We made some mistakes along the way and my wife was also ill for a few months last year. I have since corrected most of themistakes (some of the hiring mistakes and some of the purchasing mistakes) and have also caught up on most of the bills that fell behind while she was ill. Theplace still doesn't really make any profit, but I've turned the corner except for a couple of things, 2 of which are pending doom (Sunday and Monday),and the 3rd can still be fixed if the other 2 don't shut me down.<br><br>The good news is that if I can get over these last few humps, things should settle down, and I would like to host one of the East Coast Redlinersget-togethers, preferably in the summer, maybe on a Sunday.<br><br>Anybody? I need the $5,000 here in cash in Maryland ASAP. I can't really wait around for the Paypal thing. But, that's how I could pay somebody back. Icould Paypal somebody $300 per week for 20 weeks if they are out of state and if they want to do it that way.<br><br>Please. Please. Please. I don't want to go to a loan shark and wouldn't know how. They would also probably charge more than this 20% that I amofferring and all that would do is put back in the same bind in a couple of months. Before anybody starts coming up with some other creative solutions, trustme that I think I've exhausted just about all other possibilities before posting this. Neither my personal credit or my business credit is good enough todo anything, although I'm working on something else on a larger scale with the business credit, but that's more of a long-term thing and I need ashort-term fix. I didn't want to post this either, since I've never done anything like this before in my life, asking my fellow man for helpfinancially.

Wish I could help man, hopefully someone can.

Bill is a top notch guy. I hope someone can help him out.

Hey, Chris, whatcha doin with my avatar? <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/tongue.gif" alt="image">

Throw some reds up ASAP brah!!!!<br><br>Later, Dave

Someone hook Bill up....He's a well deserving (and trustworthy) person..............HJ<br>

Gosh, I really wish I can help you Bill, but I'm in absolutely no position to help...<br>Feeling the crunch here too...<br>I hope you can find someone to meet your needs, I really do.<br>Good luck, someone help him, OK?<br>I'm feeling guilty that I cannot help...<br>

Good night all! I'll check back in the morning. After that, I'll be the delivery driver for the carryout all day Sunday (maybe last time).

Anybody? <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/embarassed.gif" alt="image">

Put that Buick GN, or some reds up my man, that will get ya some instant jack!!!<br><br>Later, Dave

I didn't hear anything about collateral. You can't expect anybody to fork over 5k with no guarantees.<br>Paul

Put some cars on BST..that is the best way to make some $$$!

<blockquote> <strong class="quote-title">The Toy Peddler wrote:</strong> <hr> I didn't hear anything about collateral. You can't expect anybody to fork over 5k with no guarantees. <br> Paul</blockquote><p><strong> That's what I was thinking.</strong></p>

<p>I don't have any significant redline collateral. I have my childhood cars, about 30, which I will never part with. Then, I have the remains of myredline collection from 1998 to 2006. Most of that falls into the redline accessories category, stuff that 90% of the board members don't collect, whichthere is nothing wrong with, just the way it is. That stuff is bulkier and harder to liquidate, plus I don't really want to sell it. The redline cars thatI have that are semi-valuable would be as follows:<br><br>loose 1974 blue Rodger Dodger about C-8.9 ($1,400 - $1,900)<br>carded 1971 Snake II ($300)<br>carded 1971 Mongoose II ($300)<br>loose 1972 rear-engine dragster Snake C9.9 ($150)<br>loose 1972 rear-engine dragster Mongoose C-9.9 ($150)<br>loose 1970 Boss Hoss Silver Special with #1 on door stickers C-9.9 ($90)<br>loose 1968 orange Custom Firebird C-9.9 ($90)<br>carded 1969 red enamel Ford Mk IV with HTF #5 Hong Kong stickers ($150)<br>rubber-banded 1970 Snake/Mongoose funny cars mounted to cardboard insert of track set complete ($400)<br><br>That's a little over $3,000, but I don't really want to sell those off, either. I suppose somebody could hold them as collateral, though, until thedebt is repaid. I hadn't really thought of anything along those lines with using redlines as collateral, even though I came here to Redlines Online with myplea. I just thought of other board members in tough times who have been helped in various ways. Unfortunately, my situation is urgent, not leaving enough timefor most of these solutions. I was just trying to think of something quick, which would lean towards a local redliner with deeper pockets, that could drivehere to make the loan on a Monday morning/afternoon and do the pickup of the cars, since I can't really leave the premises all day Monday, unless I getshut down, which would leave me with plenty of free time, but no source of income to repay anybody.</p><p>P.S. The '87 Buick GN and the '87 Monte Carlo SS are long gone. All I have left is my daily driver, a 2002 Monte Carlo SS with a new engine, whichI'm using for deliveries all day tomorrow and Tuesday night if I'm still here.</p>

Bump.<br><br>I'm dyin' here, but at least the place hasn't been shut down yet. .

I gota say if i had the extra coin i would give it t o you, sadly i dont but i can give this advice sell those reds ther only material things they really dontmean squat in the big picture of things, if i was in your position out the door they would go.<br>jeff