Genius PhD Student Paid His Tuition With Mail-In-Rebates

[MeToo]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/genius-phd-student-paid-tuition-232906757.html

[AsherO]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/genius-phd-student-paid-tuition-232906757.html

Misleading title, the guy paid "only" ~$3.5k with rebates, not all of his tuition as the title implies.

[bubbles]

Misleading title, the guy paid "only" ~$3.5k with rebates, not all of his tuition as the title implies.

Also why does the article make it sound like he was paying with free money?

[meshugener]

I have a better question: why didn't Jewda say repost?

[DH Data Recovery]

Whats the big deal?? Who here hasn't made at least $5000 - $10000 in rebates and points and cashback??

[bubbles]

Whats the big deal?? Who here hasn't made at least $5000 - $10000 in rebates and points and cashback??

it's not like he even made this money. He got the stuff for free but the money came out of his pocket

[DH Data Recovery]

No they write he sold most of the stuff

[JEWDA]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/genius-phd-student-paid-tuition-232906757.html

REPOST!!!!!

[bubbles]

No they write he sold most of the stuff

at around 25% so instead of $3500 we're talking about $875. So headline should have been "guy makes under a grand selling stuff on ebay" 

[meshugener]

Jewda alive!

[smurf]

he could do a lot better with staples easy rebates and IB + URM
Maybe he won't have so many free stuff but the profit margin would be much better

[rots5]

it's not like he even made this money. He got the stuff for free but the money came out of his pocket

i was wondering the same exact thing, he just paid his tuition a diff way, its the same 60$ whether it came from rebates or cash, its still 60$ that he had to shell out,
and reselling it stuff u cant always make a 11$ profit esp on ebay!

[jaxonJones]

Misleading title, the guy paid "only" ~$3.5k with rebates, not all of his tuition as the title implies.

I was impressed to Jonathan Hood and maybe he really loves to finish his studies that's why he came-up to this unique way to pay off his tuition. Hood has been at this for years, according to Yahoo Finance. He got inspired as a child, when his father took him to early-morning sales and only would purchase video games that had a rebate coupon attached to them, giving him the idea about how they could be useful. He's used rebates to pay his cell phone bill for the past two years. Read more here.

[jj1000]

I was impressed to Jonathan Hood and maybe he really loves to finish his studies that's why he came-up to this unique way to pay off his tuition. Hood has been at this for years, according to Yahoo Finance. He got inspired as a child, when his father took him to early-morning sales and only would purchase video games that had a rebate coupon attached to them, giving him the idea about how they could be useful. He's used rebates to pay his cell phone bill for the past two years. Read more here.

1. Really old thread, why did you find it? Are you Jonathan Hood?

2. I hope he has fun doing it, because it is a terrible waste of time trying to earn money this way, if you can even call it earning.