How to: Earn money through time travel

[Rantz]

Go to Klondike, go back 500 years in time and dig up all the gold. Go back to our time and build a skyscraper entirely out of the gold. Rent out the apartments.
Go to the Weimar Republic in 1923 and get a sack of high value banknotes. Back up a few years and buy tons of land. Go back to our time and throw the biggest party mankind has seen and sell beer and hot dogs there.
Go back to when Queen Elizabeth was young. Seduce her and take pinup photos of her. Go back to our time and sell them on eBay.


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[Psychotic]

Go to the Last Supper, pummel Jesus, steal Holy Grail.
Go back 22 years, rob a Vegas casino, and now the cops are no longer looking for you. And even if they were, I am 21 years old, officer, surely there must be some kind of mistake.
Back to the Future 2, anyone? Buy sports almanac. Bet on winners. Victorious.

[rubah]

Be a photographer with lots of batteries and plenty of card space. Go everywhere.
Scalp your tickets to the Titanic.
Bet on baseball games.
Sell your stockmarket shares on September 31st 1929
Get into the subprime market and then get out in late 2006.
Take a telegraph machine back to 1885 and beat out Marconi *and* the other guy
About 7am, early September 2001, walk around a couple of buildings in New York, and say you had a bad dream and that people should just go home for the day. Profit from the lack of war and fear.

[Momiji]

Take a sports almanac back in time via a De Lorean DMC-12-turned-time-machine...

Oh wait, it's been done. Damn you Paul... :p

[Captain Maxx Power]

88 MILES PER HOUR!

[Madame Adequate]

Sell your stockmarket shares on September 31st 1929

It wouldn't be so funny if you turned out to be the cause!

[Muhyo]

Just go back and steal from the rich. You get to get away with it after all.
Find celebrities that made it big. Before they got anywhere, ask to be their manager. OR make them love you then marry them.
Steal blueprints of inventions that made it big, then go back some more and show it to everyone, claiming you have invented it. Or alternatively, go back to the future then show it, seeing as we wouldn't have those inventions if you stole the prints!
Tell your ancestors what they should trade around to make them rich. There should be a profit in your bank account when you get back.
Buy something that would be an antique. Sell it at a very high price (get Antiques Roadshow to help you out on the price).

[Randgris]

Murder Bill Gates and claim ownership of Microsoft.

[Innes]

Alternate Timelines would be caused by you being greedy. :o

[Muhyo]

Greedy is a terrible way to put it. We are just 'earning some spare change', yeah?

And that's what this thread's about :up:

((I know, our lives could change so much :down:))

[Randgris]

Time travel is complicated. Makes my head go coockoo

[Peegee]

Invest in Enron. Sell out your shares before the scandal.

Less risky: note the winning lottery numbers of various years. Win one and have members of your cohorts win others. Pool your money.

Then, invest in Enron.

[rubah]

Sell your stockmarket shares on September 31st 1929

It wouldn't be so funny if you turned out to be the cause!

he didn't say anything about it having to be a NOBLE way to earn money! I'd actually feel worse about the titanic I think!

[Heath]

Go back in time, buy a first edition Lord of the Rings/Dickens/whatever book, sell it now.

[Fire_Emblem776]

Make sure FF 1 was released years earlier, to ensure FF 7 had plenty of time to be done. And the flower girl is saved!!!!

[Jessweeee♪]

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[Dynast-Kid]

Go back to Russia circa 1917. Steal the 8 missing Imperial Fabergé eggs. Return to present, auction them off to the highest bidders.

[Quindiana Jones]

With the cash made from your Microsoft investment, go back in time and invest a large amount of money (for a large percentage) into some young "Bill Gates" fellow's idea of some kind of confusing computer-y business.

[rubah]

oh hey
find an old penny and put it in a bank on the appropriate year. make sure the bank is FDIC'd

[blackmage_nuke]

Ask politely.

[I Don't Need A Name]

Go back to Britian when the race for the moon was on, and pass them the blueprint of a rocket

[Namelessfengir]

bust open the great wall of china, let the mongols in.

make sure the limestone facing stays on the pyramids

give the aztecs, mayans, and inca vaccination shots before the spanish kill them with germs.

kill hitler

knock up joan de arc

set up negotiations to prevent all crusades

find out what really happened on the island of rapa nui

save atlantis

find out the truth of area 51

[Denmark]

Sell your stockmarket shares on September 31st 1929

30 days has April, June, and November? Something's missing here. orite :D

Go back to 1980 and give Shigeru Miyamoto the ideas for Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. Rejoice.

[BardTard]

Lottery.
Pass yourself off as psychic.

[Balzac]

Thanks for the idea's. I'm off to do it now.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Offer information to the soldiers of New France in regards to the various British attacks. Time travel back to the present and sell the coins you received to some crazy coin collector or museum. Also, chance of completely altering the course of history as we know it. Meaning worst case scenario: you cease to exist to prevent a time paradox. Best case: you are now fluent in French.

[Jojee]

Go to the future, see successful ideas and inventions, go back and invent them yourself! ^.^

Dunno why everyone else is traveling back to the past :3 Probably easier to make money that way, but future is so much more interesting to top it.

[Levian]

Buy EoFF before it got expensive. Make HUGE profit. Also, register before Raistlin while you're at it. No gain, just for fun.
Just as they're about to wrap up FFVI, burst into their office and scream at the top of your lungs "THERE'S A BUG IN RELM'S SKETCH!!!!!!" Maybe they'll offer a Squaresoft toaster or something. Then use the toaster to make a toast and claim you can see Jesus in it, then sell for a high price on ebay.

[Rantz]

Go back to '86 and steal baby Levian. Let him do the job for you.

[Lawr]

Get an autograph from Jesus. eBay will do the rest for you.

[rubah]

Sell your stockmarket shares on September 31st 1929

30 days has April, June, and November? Something's missing here. orite :D

I don't know what's worse, that I made that mistake or that only you noticed it.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Go back into the Cold War era. Establish yourself as a famous psychic/time traveller. Then set up a secret meeting with both sides at the same time. Start an auction on your own predictions (but be vague in order not to change time, if that is your thing) and have all the money you made put into a Swiss Bank account with high interest. Come back to the present and check out your account balance.

[Quindiana Jones]

For poops and giggles:

1. Make a sperm sample - keep with you at all times.
2. Go back in time, and GM yourself (as foetus) into a girl.
3. Take your other self back in time to before you were conceived. Chuck the sperm in.
4. Wait 9 months.

Congratulations, you are now yourself, your mother, and your father.

[Goldenboko]

Invest in google the day it was made. Seriously.

[Namelessfengir]

go back and kick your own ass for all bad decisions (like not dating faith, sam, nikki, stacie, or jamie... )

[Aerith's Knight]

To quote the ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy:

"Deposit one cent into a bank account, when you reach the end of the universe the interest will be able to pay for the entire fabilous meal."

Doesn't really work because of inflation, but it's a nice thought.

[Yar]

Invest in any legitimate computer company and then sell in the present day.

[Clouded Sky]

Go to the future, see successful ideas and inventions, go back and invent them yourself! ^.^

Dunno why everyone else is traveling back to the past :3 Probably easier to make money that way, but future is so much more interesting to top it.

She's got it right you know. Altering the past creates some crazy time paradoxes if you change it, so it's been recently hypothesized that you would be unable to change anything. However, if you go forward, once time reaches that point anyway, your actions in the past will have made it so. :D

[Quindiana Jones]

I never liked Ashton Kutcher anyway.

[Fire_Emblem776]

Get an autograph from Jesus. eBay will do the rest for you.

A bible autographed by him