Sell Yourself For Cash

#1 Sell Your Blood

Blood drive operations and "non-profit" outfits pay you with a cookie and feel-good sticker, so skip those. There are actually pharmaceutical and medical facilities that will pay you for certain blood types they may need at a particular time. Some college students are selling their blood "donations" to researchers two times a week and $25.00 a pop. That's fifty extra dollars for beer or gas.

#2 Sell Your Plasma

Although red blood cells and platelets are needed too, it's usually your plasma that you sell. Plasma can be donated twice in a seven-day period, with a limited number of donations in a year, in a process similar to giving blood. The collected plasma is used to treat many things, such as rabies, measles, rubella and hepatitis B, and can normally be sold to a center twice a week for about $60.00 each time. A list of more than 500 licensed plasma donation centers throughout the U.S. is available at DonatingPlasma.org.

#3 Sell Your Sperm

Hey, guys, you'll get about $250. per donation and most sperm banks want you to return again and again. However, it is very difficult to get your foot in the door at this bank. You'll have to undergo dozens of questionnaires, a full background check, and 3-4 medical examinations before they take a deposit. Sperm banks typically ask men who are accepted as donors to sign a contract committing to one or two sperm donations a week, for at least six months. College students who are doing well in business, technology, law or medicine are in very high demand and often use this transaction as a way to supplement their income while in school. You can search for a "cryobank" near you on spermbankdirectory.com.

#4 Sell Your Eggs

Eligible women typically must be between the ages of 19 and 32, be in good health, a non-smoker, not use drugs and must pass a medical history and disease and psychological testing to qualify for sperm donation or selling. Many egg 'donors' earn over $3-7,000 per month but it's not for the squeamish. Every day, the egg donor has to inject herself with fertility drugs. Drugs turn a woman's normal menstrual cycle into something like a human egg harvest and the long-term effects on the body have yet to be determined. After four weeks of daily shots, the woman's eggs are ready for harvest and undergoes a 10-minute operation to remove them. The surgery isn't risk-free. There's always the danger of injury or infection. While many opt to simply donate eggs to desperate friends or family members, there is a booming online business to sell them for big bucks if you're willing to go through all the hard work.

#5 Sell Your Womb

Womb for sale or rent. Acting as incubators for babies that will never be theirs is tough for women, though it can reap a big payout. Surrogacy is still very controversial and many states ban it completely and there is a thin line when it comes to paying the human incubator for her time and efforts, as many believe this is a form of baby selling. Being a surrogate mother is nine months of often grueling work. Women endure doctor appointments and the usual toll of pregnancy. The average woman put on 25 to 30 extra pounds, not to mention morning sickness, back pain, and the possibility of complications at birth. A good candidate is paid around $40,000 for her time and typically given free room and board while she is pregnant. This practice is popular in Europe, and there are many websites designated to matching up wombs with prospective parents who can't carry their own child to term.

#6 Sell Your Hair

We all have heard of the charity organizations that collect hair to make complimentary wigs for children who have lost their hair due to chemotherapy, radiation treatments, alopecia, burns, or other medical situations. But It is also possible to sell your hair, at your own risk, via the Web. Some of the same charity collection organizations sell the unused hair they get donated to the same places you can sell it yourself. There are hundreds of websites where one can auction off one's hair. The market for human hair goes way beyond the web. It's a multi-million dollar business, thanks to man's eternal obsession with beauty. Most buyers are paying around $10.00 an ounce. Ebay will allow hair to be sold on their site now, so start chopping that ponytail!

#7 Selling Breast Milk

Some moms, who produce too much breast milk for their own babies, have found a way to turn their extra milk into cash. Women are selling their unwanted breast milk for about $4 an once, and it legal. There are many milk banks which will accept and pay for healthy milk from a woman, and there are online ways to purchase or sell it, which is a bit riskier due to the known ways diseases can be spread. You can sell breast milk on Ebay, or do a simple search for it in your area. For-profit companies offer moms the chance to earn $1 an ounce to $2.50 an ounce for their milk, which leaves thousands going to the online sites to make a load of fast money. There is one site dedicated solely to men who want to purchase the milk, claiming that they drink it for athletic reasons, and the milk helps to increase muscle quicker. A woman can earn $5 an once for her milk there.

#8 Drug Testing

It's possible to make money by participating in clinical trials, but there may be risks involved. It's important to know that most of these tests are clinical studies that have thus far only been performed on lab animals, so you are putting yourself in potential long-term danger. However, very popular on college campuses, these studies are big business, and many 18-30 year old students enjoy becoming test subjects for an average of $3,500 per case. It's pretty good money if you want to risk your life, but most of the facilities performing the testing require you to sing and fill out a form stating you will be held responsible for any additional health risks and that the study in not accountable. You are typically only allowed to be in one "study test" every 6 months, though many people who make this a living, partake in several ongoing tests done through different clinics. Participants may be a guinea pig for new medical products, like drugs to treat high blood pressure or even weight loss, or be a part of observational research, like a study that records the effects of different lifestyles on heart health. You can find research facilities near you at ClincalTrials.gov.

#9 Selling Vital Organs

It is strictly illegal to sell organs in the United States. However, that doesn't mean it doesn't go on, and it is legal in many Asian and European countries. With so many lives on the line, black market kidneys can fetch tens of thousands of dollars. One person even tried to sell his kidney on e-bay. The starting bid was $25,000. In just eight days, desperate patients drove the price into the millions before the company blocked the sale. Trafficking of organs from other parts of the world is big business, and it has been widely known that desperate sellers have sliced open living humans and take their vital organs to sell on the market, leaving the victims to perish. In the US, the average waiting time for a kidney is three years or more, so some break the law to obtain them. A search online will lead you to places where you can sell or buy human organs, but it's at your own risk.

BTW, the going rate for a black market kidney is $22,000.00.

#10 Body Advertising

one of the first times that body advertising got major headlines, was when a company paid Andrew Fisher $37.000 to put a temporary tattoo of their logo on his forehead for a full month in an Ebay auction. But it wasn't the first or last time people put company logos or marketing slogans on their skin. In 2009, a New Zealand airline paid 50 Americans $777. each to become human billboards for them with a tattoo on their foreheads reading "Need a change? Come To New Zealand." There are several people who regularly auction off parts of their body to be advertising platforms for companies or brands, like the man who makes a living advertising porn sites on his face, chest, back, and yes, his privates.