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A kid started selling paper boats for 5 dollars each when we were in the 6th grade, I remember a kid copied him but instead of buying paper boats he was teaching other kids how to make them for 8 dollars. One kid asks him "why would you teach us how to make a paper boat when I can go buy them from another kid who sells them cheaper?" The other kid replied "Would you rather buy a paper boat you'd keep for a few days, or would you rather learn how to make them and be able to have paper boats forever?" He was a pretty smart kid.

There was a kid at my school who would print out copies of “the anarchists cookbook” without the cover page to avoid unwanted attention from teachers and would sell small amount of gunpowder and certain ingredients to make fireworks.

I grew up in the 90s in a very conservative community. So parents and teachers banned kids from watching shows like South Park , jackass, and bevis and butthead. I was a volunteer at the church and science fair nerd. I was the last person anyone would suspect of wrongdoing. But I was the secret head of a bootleg video tape ring. I secretly recorded the shows that were banned and gave the copies to my classmates. To this day none of the parents or teachers know who was behind it.

At my elementary some kids sold candy. It was like fight club nobody talked about it out of the area. No teacher ever found out even after 2 years. Good prices and good kids they actually have 10 % to charity I think

In middle school I was pretty big into origami and learned how to make loads of stuff. The most popular among the troublemakers were the paper noise makers. If you made them with notebook paper they weren't very loud or noticeable. But I would use huge sheets of construction paper and if you set it off in the hallways it made a huge boom that literally echoed down the hallway. I sold those for a dollar each. They were super easy to hide so it took the faculty around 2 weeks to figure out what was making the noise and banned them. Still that 2 weeks was awesome hearing all the booming echoes that I single-handedly created. Made probably 30-40$ before it got shut down. Good times.

When I was in junior high school there was a fundraiser though I honestly cant recall what it was supposed to be raising money for. What set this one apart thought was that unlike most of the catalog based fundraisers that were usually used, this one just gave us a box of various candies which we would sell directly. Even more unusual they were name brand candies such as m&ms, skittles, & snickers.Naturally, it didn't take long for us to realize that the price that we were selling the candy for was almost twice the cost of the identical candy at the corner store, so despite the fact I don't think we ever actually met the fundraiser goal there were a number of us that had managed to sell our entire box of candy dozens of times over while only actually having to turning in the funds for the original amount in the box. It was an absolute failure of a fundraiser, but it was also, by a wide margin, the best exercise in entrepreneurship of my entire education. Good Times!

The black market in my school system was blackmail. My best friend would collect information on people, and sell their blackmail for a fine. That being said, he raised prices if it was on a friend or asked by someone he didn’t like. This stopped by high school, since he moved. He told me about this, and I asked him two questions. The first one was what blackmail he had on me. The other being if anyone (if so, who) asked for blackmail on me. He answered both. He continued selling blackmail in the new high school, though.

I like these black markets in schools the lesson of the story is if the school banned something make a black market

In the sixth grade, fidget spinners were banned from the school for unspecified reasons. My clever (and fidget-obsessed) classmates almost instantly made an entire network of kids to smuggle fidgets into the school and trade them. I vividly remember that I wanted a glow-in-the-dark fidget spinner very badly, so I sent my request through a friend who had been formally inducted into the dark web of fidget spinner trading, and he told me three days later that he found a classmate who was willing to give me one in exchange for something cool. I snuck into the boys bathroom during lunch break and traded a bag of British candy for the fidget spinner. Still have it to this day.

Before I get called out as lying let me tell you this was mid 70's rural central valley california. My high scholl had a smoking area. My dad owned a bar & spoke lousy english so I'd always be the one translating the orders. I'd get a few cartons of cigarettes of the most popular brands & sell them at school during off periods or between classes. I was making a couple $100 a week, "big money" back then for a 15yr old kid lol.

My uncle worked in a restaurant/dining hall in college. He proceeded to make sandwiches from roast beef he got from the kitchen and fermented his OWN APPLE CIDER in his closet. Took the kitchen management a couple of months to find him out.

I used to copy down the teacher's lesson plan for the week, then sell the home made cheat sheets for 10 bucks a pop to normal students, 15 to jocks and cheerleaders(because they needed the 2.0 GPA). This payed for anything I wanted to in highschool.

At my high school(though this would be middle school age for US people), there was a kid who sold soft drinks as our school wouldn't sell any kind of soft drinks, I'm not sure how much he made but when he was found out he was suspended and later expelled. Since he sold them in the boys' locker room, a few people ended up getting a bunch of people to cheer his name in protest, getting the whole of the boy's locker room in an uproar. Many also found the decision dumb as if the school had given him a more official venue to sell they could have easily bragged of being a school that encourages kids to grow their business skills. It is ironic as well since the school has a supplementary business class, and the final project is to plan out a business idea.

Kid At My School Sold Prime. He Was stopped After 2 days. He made Over £150 in that time

A kid at my high school sold loads to phone. It's the minutes you use on your mobile. His family worked for a company so he practically got them for free, and sold them to students. Even teachers would come to him when they needed load on their phones. He was pretty much THE cool kid in our school.

My class was both known as the worst and best class. We had the highest pregnancy rates and fights, starting from junior high and running through high school we were the record holders and my class was the 1st group were the number of seniors graduating actually went down rather than surpass the previous years. Boys would regularly set up fights and then place bets. If you knew the right people, drugs, alcohol, and even prostitutes were accessible. Despite how bad we were, most staff loved us as we never did anything against staff and would even protect staff from harm.

In high school, I didn't sell anything per se... I was just the kid who knew the right people. Suffice it to say, I never got caught. Pencils, homework answers, "substances", drinks, snacks... I knew the right person and got free stuff. Also ran a lunchroom gambling operation for a few years... they never caught onto that either.

during high school some friend sold candies in the classroom, you would see her going in with a big bag full of stuff, from tiny chocolates to bags of chips and even some bottles of juice, we were at the other side of the school store so it would be easier to just buy straight from her between classes, there was no rule against it so the teachers never said anything as long as she didn't sell during class and some even bought from her. we men also used to trade android apps and videogame roms for emulators, sometimes for soda bottles or cigars, it wasn't a trade per se but more like a favor

The last story at 17:22 is my absolute favorite because that's the reality. I had the same thing happen to me and it made me question my supposed real friendships. Feeling on top of the world, making bank, and feeling important is an addicting feeling. Yet it can also mess with your judgement. This guy did right shutting down shop when the copycats popped up. Their amateurs and will most definitely make a mistake. So when they do the first person being thrown under the bus is the least popular of the bunch. I sold the basics candy you can get in bulk back in the day like M&Ms, taffy, and lemon head. I also sold a few rarities for my area like from sugar daddy and sugar babies to candy cigarettes, woka candies, and toxic waste. I made so much money off of all that I was coming home with at least $30 or $60 at most a day. I did too well too fast and had to solo production. Because of that I became last week's news instantly. More people more liked than me started selling but they were sloppy and didn't care who saw. I cleaned out and played it safe everyday until I was summoned to the office. They placed the blame on me but I had nothing on me. No candy other than what I planned to eat. No money since I got a free lunch, and no proof that I even knew people were selling things. I walked out of that office a free girl for the moment. Everywhere I looked a teacher stood making sure I didn't get any ideas. Even if they had no proof multiple kids putting the blame on one person was still suspicious. I was able to start selling again when the next year started but it was never really the same and I honestly felt no drive to continue. I learned a lot but the most important thing I learned is that people suck. Edit: Should mention I sold stuff for pocket money until I was in highschool.

In 6th grade I had switched to the local middle school from the kinder-6th elementary and would visit my friends that stayed there and the elementary school being right next to a little Cesar’s they’d ask me to buy em a pizza and give me the money for one and I’d come back and slip them under a part of the gate since that was one of the emergency exits I presume. One of the strict teacher’s class was near there so they’d have to hide the box out of sight of her I remember seeing em hide one in between a fuse box(?) and the building. I never actually thought to charge em a fee for it I just did it cause I wanted to be nice and would be offered a slice too sometimes

I was an avid gum chewer in school and was able to get away with it because I was diagnosed with ADHD among other things and the gum chewing helped me focus, the only caveat being that I wasn't allowed to blow bubbles with it or make noise (which I couldn't do anyway because of the shape of my jaw at the time). Anyway, I got packs of gum with like 25+ of those mini sticks in it for like $2 or less per pack and then would sell pieces for 25 cents a piece. I was able to do this for several weeks before someone eventually ratted me out and I lost my gum chewing privileges just like everyone else. Another story I have is when I was in elementary school (a few years before the above story) and we had these things called "Gotcha" cards that were basically tiny rectangular slips of paper that said "Gotcha" on it and you were given these for doing well in class or being caught while doing a good deed or just generally being nice. Some of the more spoiled kids even got some for getting good grades, though I never received any for that. There was a 'store' where you could go and redeem your cards for useless little trinkets and stuff like that or pencils and pencil toppers, etc, but there were also more impressive rewards like MP3 players and remote controlled cars for an absurd amount (like 500+ or something like that.) In short, nobody ever managed to save up that many, so imagine my surprise when I find a stack of the cards just laying on the floor in the hallway one day. And when I say stack, I mean like a literal, uncut, 50+ card stack of them still glued together at the top ready to be torn off and used. Me not really thinking at the time picked up the stack and pocketed it and every now and then I'd tear off one or two cards to add to my stash (which I stored in a pencil case.) Anyways, one day when the teacher told us we'd be heading to the store to buy some stuff with our cards we started lining up, this event being one of the bigger ones because it was near the end of the year before we transitioned to the next grade. Being that I wanted a specific item from the shop and didn't have enough separate cards on hand to get it, began tearing off card after card from my little stack before we exited the room and went down the hall. Only problem with that is that as the teacher was passing by she heard the ripping sound as I picked off card after card and wanted to know what I was doing. So without warning she reached over my shoulder and into my desk cubby (back when desks had a small storage compartment under them) and pulled out the stack. I got into a HEAP of trouble for having a so-called "Teacher Stack" of cards and got all my legitimate cards taken from me as well as a detention and being sent home early with extra homework. (basically the highest level of punishment back then aside from a referral or expulsion.) I never got another card after that as I'm certain that miserable teacher spread the word around school not to give me any cards, because despite my good deeds or grades I never managed to make a single card ever again in the 2-3 year history of the school doing them. Don't know why it never occurred to me to give the stack back to a teacher and probably get a reward for it, but I was a dumb kid back then who was treated unfairly on a regular basis for being different by both students and teachers, so I took any advantage I could get. Unfortunately that was probably the first and last time I ever got to do something like that as nothing like that has happened since.

Lol, for a while it was cinnamon toothpicks. Then a few girls had the puka shell necklaces and bracelets market cornered.

there was a kid in my school who would buy 6 pack of coka cola and sell them for like £1 each. honastly i love these little sneaky school merchants

I used to sell pop at my old high school. I'd buy cases on sale, and Sell bottles for $1, or cans for 50 cents. I remember I made basically enough to get pizza every day, plus I had pop for myself too. It was pretty epic for a while

I bought pens in bulk, they were a new brand new and only sold at a members only store an hour away from our town. I got them in bulk (was a buy one get one free deal), and loved them. They wrote so well and were in different pretty colors. A student didn't have a pen so I let them borrow mine, they loved the pen and gave me their $7. I then started to sell the pens and borrow them out. Was able to use the money to get snacks at the school store. Eventually the pens came to our local store after two years so my business ended then~ was fun times tho

When I was in high school (Freshman), I became really good at drawing, so much so that I would sell ten nked women drawings for $20 bucks. $50 for hyper realistic ones and $75 for celebrities. LOL. In three years I made $2400. And no, I didn't make any of other students even though one guy was willing to pay me $250 for one of a popular cheerleader.

So, there was a candy salesman at my school, he sold Prime, Mountain Dew, and other things. I remember him having competition by one of his friends. Hope you notice this!

Back when I was in school some tests we had to do were the exact same the grades above us already did a year before, so they sold us the tests with all the answers and we just memorized them. The teachers never found out why so many of us were getting good grades. I used to have a code of honor before the 12 grade in which was "never cheat on a test no matter how desperate you are", but something happened on my final year which made me throw my code of honor to the garbage can and say "fuck it, it's my final school year, I might as well do as I f'ing please and get out of this hell hole once and for all". So I started buying copies of exams with all the answers and all year long I got excellent grades. My parents never questioned it, they just assumed I was studying much more and they didn't ask questions. At the end I graduated as honorary student of my grade. Did I feel guilty about cheating? honestly? no... I was at a point that I just wanted to get out of that hell hole of a school once and for all and I didn't felt like studying their crappy material anymore. I've gone back to my code of honor since I got into college and I'm doing pretty good I must say.

I wouldn’t call it a black market but I found the website that my homework came from in 4th and 5th grade and I only sent the links to my friends, so we could cheat. Told them not to tell anyone they didn’t trust (talking about you, Evan.) so that we could continue using the site. Most free time after school ever. Well, except nowadays I do high school online so I have free time all the time.

My friend and his friend would buy and sell candy to kids. Late 6th grade to early 7th grade they made a minimum of $50 per day they even held interviews and hired employess. The best part is my friend spent up to $0.50 while his friend spent up to $6 on the candy so I was always confused on why they both split profits evenly with each other.

Living in a rural town a few years back when the internet wasn't heavily relied on, we could only get movies through disks. A kid ran a pirating business, selling 10 bucks a movie.

There would be one kid that bought the whole box of the Erasers with legs that was at the bookfair. The kid would buy many crates and distribute the crates to other venders. Each eraser was between 2-5 dollars depending on the vender.

Military school in Virginia. It was a boarding school so we didn't have access to much because we could only leave campus once a month. There were these identical twin brothers who would bring footlockers of chewing tobacco and sell each can for 10 bucks a pop. They made a killing doing this

Honestly, most of these just seem to be entrepreneurial. Always like to see kids do a sort of underground market of harmless fun items for others, like those custom slammers.

when i was in like, 5th grade, i used to have this notebook where i wrote down candy and prices next to it, then i'd have kids pick a candy, and i'd write their name down under the candy they wanted and then bring it the next day. got a few dollars out of it, and i remember one of my friends bought something but said he'd pay me back the extra ten cents he was missing. i chastised him about it for two years straight and i am glad to inform everyone i got my ten cents

In our school books were provided by the school but only until the 7th grade, after that we had to order our own books. Well, obviously the school had a not so secret black market for said books and would sell second hand books, printed out editions (literally made on a printer and bound in plastic folders) and even notebooks with already solved exercises and filled out questionnaires. Of course the teachers were not told about the cheat sheets sold and the people running it were mostly the school newspaper guys.

I remember at Christmas time the cheerleaders would sell Christmas themed suckers . They were the thing . The good flavors ran out quickly . But dang were they good . And they were not small either . One sucker would last you all day .

Our school has canteen but the prices are absurdly high which I dealt with for 12 years in that school and im one of the longest student in that school so most teacher knows me especially the principal. Many people complain about the prices but people learned that it was because of the rent as to why the prices are high, but one janitor manage to sell junkfoods for a lower price and we secretly buy them as so the principal can't detect them and pretty much still ongoing.

This was in my primary school years (Between 2005 - 2008) Pokemon and Yugioh cards, Slap bracelets, silly bands, the bands that had words on them, junk food, Bratz parts.

I had a shop called the “white market” where I sold things like tickets and stickers. If anyone asked where I got it from, I would respond with “white magic”.

The first one is my kind of “Market”. THE BLACK MARKER-T!

Kid in the last story had his villain arc

Shit like this is the best argument for public schools just being prisons for children

Cubanos are amazing, and chef is why I wanted to try one. We watched in my class because I was in culinary school and we had a off day due to snow issues and only half of my class had been able to show up.

It wasn’t at my school but my friends school. This one kid there was selling salt

In Elementary school, Pokemon cards were banned because they apparently promoted gambling. As a result, we started an underground trading and battling ring that to this day, as far as I know, is still going even years after me and the other kids left. Those little graders are keeping the Pokemon League strong.

My middle school had an extensive black market. All the way from unblocked sites to student passwords. Being the kid with a photographic memory, I was hired to get people's chromebook passwords. I made hundreds during my middle school years. We never got caught. We made our deals at the basketball court because that was the one camera blind spot. I was also occasionally paid to forge teacher signatures. Middle school was a wild time. Mind you, this black market caused my county to give out new chromebooks because of how many were "freed" from admin control. They never found who was responsible.

I want that last story as a nostalgic, childlore-centered, coming-of-age 80s period piece movie ngl

Glad you guys figured out the fake music strike stuff. Unless I am an idiot and that's an old vid

6:17 the t rex silly band would never

My brother sold candy bars. The school vending machine charged… I think $1.50 for a candy bar. My brother would go with my mom to a local warehouse bulk store and by boxes of candy bars. His costs was about $0.50 a bar so he sold them for a dollar. He probably made close to $1000 before the teachers shut him down.

I went to school in the middle of nowhere in the 80s and idk what they weren't peddling out of their lockers. Mainly music CDs, cigarettes and weed, from what I saw. They used to take requests for whatever other students wanted shoplifted for them, keeping lists of orders in notebooks. The oddest one was rubber bands, because they used to play poker for them during study hall & then have rubber band fights between classes.

17-18 years ago as a young teen the local Asian Gifts store wouldn't ID me so knives, brass knuckles and mall katanas for all.

A group of about 55 kids at my school including me sold proxies to bypass the internet restrictions

There was a system in our school where if your good you get this piece of paper with like a ton of stuff on it, and you could use it to buy gift cards and other stuff, so in 6th grade we made them a dollar in a new currency, we set up a website, and hired people to where a certain outfit and if an offer is made on the “Black Market” the people selling it would bring it in to school and you would go to the offer section when buses were being dismissed. Also you could just trade them out for real money Edit: one kid started printing them, also me and my friend ran half of the bisness each, we ended up being rich ($52,000) and that all ended up going to our parents.

Information. I found a way to access the security cams because they weren't on a closed network. I spied on people and even programmed the cameras to record audio when they heard certain information. This allowed me to blackmail people. I did this by sending candy grams with a black lollipop. I always operated through proxy, even pretending to be a courier myself a few times. I would gather info, blackmail people, trade info for other things, call in favors, and find things out. I had an entire network of spies working for me all thinking they worked for someone else. I controlled that school through fear of reputation alone. The Legend was that if you had skeletons in your closet or knew anything, you were in the "Shadow King's" pocket. I kept tabs on everyone and everything. Not even teachers were immune. I knew where parties were held and at whose house, I knew who was doing drugs and where, I controlled anything of true value and kept to myself. After all, the wall flower could never be a threat. When I left that school, it left a power vacuum that my siblings took over at my request. My middle sibling controlled the High School and my younger sibling the Middle School. I left a legacy and I'm told to this day "The Shadow King" still rules. I was the Jury, Judge, and Executioner enlisting the sport teams through blackmail and favors to carry out my orders. It got so bad the school started changing the cameras but that gave me even more powerful because I got to know the electricians and memorized their admin access. I went from controlling a few cameras view feed to having access to the entire local school website. I could change grades, access info like addresses, and even control the PA system. I went from a figure of myth to one of legend because on my last day before graduation, I accessed the PA system remotely and gave a seemingly garbled announcement that made no sense. I then sent out a group email to every single student, staff, and faculty in the registry. It was a basic cryptogram that read "Dear Ladies, Gentlemen, and the Colorful Assortment In-Between, It has been fun ruling but all good things come to an end. I am stepping down from my ruling and passing my mantle to my successor (s). It has been a pleasure but now, like all good shadows, I'll slip away and watch from afar while my proxies step into the light. Sincerely Yours, The Shadow King" For the audio message, I prerecorded myself, slowed it down to a slur, and then played it in reverse using a tape recorder. My siblings later told me after taking over my entreprise that I went from a Legendary figure to a straight demon. Apparently, the principal spent years trying to track down those messages but never could because I had covered my tracks too well. It got to the point that they even thought I was a demon and brought in representatives from The Vatican to talk to my graduating class and determine if there was a demonic presence in the school. To this date, over half a decade later, I still have favors I can call in and people left in the school I know. My middle sibling is graduating soon and has taught my younger sibling the ropes for when they take over and my younger sibling, being the most conniving of us, has set a proxy in their place to rule the middle school in their absence. That's my legacy.

Talk about underrated :O I don't even watch edits a lot besides reaction videos, but this takes the cake

In high school, I bought a CD burner (in 1997) for $400. I made it all back in 6 months burning games, music CDs, and for a premium, custom mix CDs. (Looks like its covered in 7:02)

Got a second story. There was a kid at my school who from freshman year to senior year ran an underground sports beting ring. Whenever a high school football game, basketball game or baseball game would come up, people would come to him and place their bets as to which team would win. And this would be betting for all schools within the district. It has rule was you put up to $20 on a bet if they win you get double the money. One year he made $800,000 just off lost bets.

When I was in the 10 th grade, papa John’s would sell small 8 slice pizzas for $5. Some people didn’t have the five so I would buy a pizza and individual slices for $1 and repeat. I would make bank. People started realizing what I was doing a couple weeks in and did the same thing. But I made a good bit of money for those few weeks. Eventually the market was too saturated it all collapsed.

In my 6th and 7th grade there was a fair bit of underground binaca sales. Cinnamon was a favorite. I remember at times that my homeroom would just smell of binaca from so much use going on.

Something I've wanted to try but haven't gotten thee opportunity to do is to sell math notes that show the entire process of solving the question. At all of my schools, we need to show our work to get the question right, so giving the process would actually be useful.

In my school, there was a big alleyway like path that was in an outside hallway that lead to a pretty big area at my school. I have no idea why that was there but kids used it as a fighting ring where two kids would square up and fight. There were also really things other than fights like commentary and vendors while the fights would happen. I saw this place as a way to make some money so I set up a betting system and took a cut out of the winning bet. I made major cash off of this betting system. This ring was never found out and lasted until I left.

The kid with the markers I can imagine the sound Mordecai and Rigby would make whenever the market was going out

Dude i was hallway throught the video when i knowiced you were playing an Inital D game, HUUUGE respect

A kid in a school around my area would machine out your AR-15 lower for you in shop class. Even made some with second sears. (Full auto)

The one about Marbles was, by far, the most awesome one. Kids really turn into bizarre shonen gangsters if given the chance. lol

I had two encounters: I'm 34, but back in High School, I ran two gigs. First, before it was big, I imported games from Japan as well as the devices and stuff needed to play them on American systems. Only person to do it in High School. Second, we had/have Anime shops that had TCG, Anime Merch, and stuff like that. However, because the prices were ridiculous. So I found a way to circumvent it by going straight to the sources and lo-vibe markets to get the same stuff at lower prices and sold them to undercut the shops. When I was found out, I made a couple of shop owners mad, but hey. If you get bested by a Black high school that easily, then you brought that on yourself.

In middle school, there used to be an area called the snack shack that people could get food like soft pretzels and pop-tarts at. However, since we were all in sixth and seventh grade, we didn't have enough money for that stuff. However, my parents had a digital fund for whenever I would have school lunches, but I usually packed, so there was a lot of extra money, so I traded the goods I got from the snack shack with people for certain, 'Favors', which usually included having homework get done for me, or getting unwritten hall passes out of them. I had enough hall passes that by the last month of school, I could burn through them all and just roam the halls! It was a good life, and my grades were near perfection, cause I had every middle school genius hanging on my supply! I may not have been a good student, but I was pretty dang smart.

i was both the maker and seller of paper hornets, there was a whole bunch of attempts to dethrone me but the quality and quantity simply couldnt be matched, i sold 50 for 2 dollars and by the time middle school was done it was a war zone, no one was safe

My school served awful tasteless yogurts. In lunch time, kids traded sugar without the monitors noticing.

i remembered when we sold several things. Because of the type of uniforms, several of pockets in and out, we could trade during classes rather secretly. Someone had these suspicious looking bags that ended up just being some collectors item or something lmao.

Dude silly bandz are making a comeback I saw them at a middle school last week it was like an entire monopoly.

When I was in high school, I became known as the 'gum guy' and gave out gum all four years. Did surprise me at the start how many people wanted some.

Chalk, we even thought a war over it, until I stopped the trade by causing both the last big fight in the playground between the two rival factions and a massive cleaning operation by the older students. Fun times.

My brother used to sell lego sets for hundreds of dollars in elementary school. He told everyone he just found it, so the school thought there was shady activity going on, and they installed cameras. 5 years later, he comes up to my parents, and confessed that he was selling legos on the playground

You are an amazing channel and i love the vid

I ran one but not in school. I lived in a hostel during college. I seted up a webside type shit through which, anyone can sell any skill they have. Like a guy good at cooking can sell fast food, a guy good at cleaning or just in need of dome money can sell cleaning services, a smart guy can offer to do honework etc. I charged like a 20% cut on every transaction. That definitely made a bank. But then, the adminstration caught on 😢

Admittedly, not "school," per se, but when I went to Army Basic Combat Training back in 2011, we had a whole Black Market set up. We weren't allowed to have any sort of snacks in the barracks, but some would sneak out chewie bars and MRE candy from time to time. The currency? Cough drops. Seriously. Usually, it was cherry cough drops, since that was the only flavored cough drops we were allowed. Whenever we wrote letters to our folks, we were all requesting bags upon bags of cough drops. With cough drops, you could purchase contraband or you could also pay people for favors, like taking your fire guard shift. For those that don't know, Fire Guard is where you're woken up in the middle of the night and you are either standing at the position of attention at the end of a hallway or you're cleaning. It always lasts an hour. It was common to pay people to take your fire guard shift with cough drops just so you could get more hours of sleep.

I used to sell smokes in 7th grade for a quarter a pop, back when a pack cost me $1.50 out of a machine. Never got caught. Ran that market clear up through 9th grade. Then switched it over to Jolt Cola for three years.

Please dont stop making these awesome videos

so , in my school there usually arent any snacks for us to eat. (schools should always have snacks) a kid went around and sold a dessert that he made usually ranging from cookies to pudding 5 dollar each

My schools back market was in 6th grade: we had a little section in the back of the cafeteria (individual desks) where a group of us would just trade things from hot lunch like 3french toast sticks for 2 sausage. I think the teachers knew but didn’t do anything and it was just sixth grade

I ran my school silly bands black market! We met behing this plastic rock climbing wall on the playground. No cash payments, pure barter system.

We sold toxic waste, the candy, and traded it for other snacks.

Fidget Spinners This was during the fidget spinner craze. Some guy in my middle school knew how to make fidget spinners at home, I think he had a 3-d printer. And he sold them for about $7 per spinner. The school found out and banned fidget spinners and the selling of them. I he did this for under 3 months, and he made at least $700.

Not me, but another kid in my school. not as sinister as the others but he would either- give you a lot of very good pencils for candy, or- give you candy for basic school goods.

Oh boy... story time. For my school it was Playstation 1 games, and it was the kids father who started it. The father was one of the ones who developed mod chip that allowed people play burned games in their PS1, and they were everywhere in my little town. There was no major game store or anywhere we could get the latest games, so people started burning their games they got for Christmas, Easter, birthdays, and started trading them at school for lunches, homework vouchers (get out of homework free voucher), candy, and straight up cash. There was always an honour system in play that you could not burn burnt games, so each student had their own selection. This kid had the whole Crash Bandicoot series, this one had Spyro, another had Tomba games, etc. My personal premium product I offered was Diablo 1, as it was a bloody, gruelling game, and my parents didn't believe in the whole "Games cause Violence" thing and let me play my older brothers games. Not only did I provide this game to the other students, but since I played it so often I had all the Unique Items and such scattered all over the ground, so kids would also hand over their memory cards for me to duplicate my items (very easy to do, drop it on the ground in a two player game and save the player data to a seperate memory card when quit the game, and have the second player pick up the item) for even more money. Around grade six was when the trend ended, but it was fun how a bunch of student in a backwater town with no major game distributor made the school into a fair system. Not really a Black Market persay, since everyone knew about it, but certainly illegal so I think it fits the prompt. Funny how the teachers didn't even stop this from happening.

I just started to do commissions for kids that wanted it.

That was a good Merchant impression.

"The numerators are free, but the denominators will cost you." -Nelson Muntz

I sold everything I would find on the beach behind the school, we were always there. For example, a brick could be sold from 5 to 10 units(units being seashells).

There was a candy trade, kid got busted by his parents. Had to give all of the money he made from the other kids.

I was never part of this but it's short, at my middle school they trade candy in the locker room at 1st period and maybe more periods

Kids sold soda, gum , sugar in a ziplock bag and stuff like that, they wore fedoras and long jackets aswell

It's funny teachers and faculty would get pissy with me for having a black market but at the same students were learning something 🤔😑🤦‍♂️🤯

In primary it was bracelets and I think it might've prime aswell, then in high school apparently some kid was selling drugs and these people were selling sweets.

I had a classmate of mine forge my moms signature for report cards, because I'm afraid of get scolded for getting grades below 90%, I did this for a full year, I have her copy my homework in exchange.

Not really a black market but I had a good friend back in highschool that ran a subway business. He would take orders the day before and wake up early to pick up the sandwiches from subway. There was a buy 6 get 1 free deal, so essentially he would just eat for free which meant he could save his own lunch money. Dude ended up going to Harvard and then working at Microsoft. Not that complex but he knew how to work smart and work easy.