Not exact matches
It is common in high schools especially for students to sell pizza or other
quick food at lunchtime to their peers to raise
money for school clubs or activities, but those sales
draw students away from the cafeteria and cost your nutrition department
money.
Honestly, of all the BlackBerrys I have had, I have yet to ever take the included Stereo Headset out of its plastic shrink wrap (they really shouldn't even spend the
money including these — I'd rather save $ 5 on the device), and though many people are fans of the included BlackBerry OEM cases / holsters, I'm not one of them (I guess I did like the
quick -
draw - McGraw style holster on my 8700... but that's about it).
These schemes are dependent on the fact that people want hope and believe in
quick, easy
money, and it works as long as the con artists are able to get the «mark» (the person who deposits the check and sends them the
money) to send the
money before the check (always
drawn on some obscure foreign bank) has a chance to clear.
Speedrun events like Games Done
Quick, which challenge players to get through games as quickly as possible, regularly
draw in thousands of viewers and raise huge amounts of
money for charity every year.
Stellar is just about getting started doing the same (as illustrated by a
quick mention on CNBC's Fast
Money last night) but it's a long way off
drawing the speculative volume that Ripple has picked up as its name has moved out of the crypto - umbrella and into the glow of mainstream industry.