i.e. pay $5 to go back 5 days.

The time travel is permanent and one-way.

Edit: this is a one time offer and your budget is however much liquid cash you have right now. Cards are accepted, though.

For non-Americans, feel free to convert $1 USD to your currency

  • sharpiemarker@feddit.de
    78·
    3 years ago

    Rough question for a guy who just lost his wife at 35. I’d empty my account to be able to have the time over.

  • yenahmik@lemmy.world
    56·
    3 years ago

    2 days. I’ll memorize the Powerball winning numbers to win something like $500M, since I know there were no other winners.

        • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
          8·
          3 years ago

          I’m sure the time travelling service provider could make an exception for 500.000.000 USD.

          • reev@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            8·
            3 years ago

            Nah nah, their rules are explicit and their pockets are full. They can, after all, also time travel.

        • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          3 years ago

          Will they remember I was here before if I’ve looped back around?

          • reev@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            3 years ago

            Hmmmm, that’s a good question. If they’re wearing a tin foil hat they may be immune to your time anomaly shenanigans so I would be careful about that.

            Also, maybe don’t tell them you just won the Powerball.

            • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
              3·
              3 years ago

              Yea that’s true

              With the travel being so cheap, unless their profit margins are really small, they could probably toss me back to Pangea for the cost of a lime

              Don’t want them to catch on to any shenanigans. I’ll just abuse my wealth like a regular billionaire

              • reev@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                3 years ago

                Seems to work out for them so I don’t see why not!

                Also then you can eat the rich 5 days ago.

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
      3·
      3 years ago

      That’s pretty smart. Even jumping to the one before the billion dollar win isn’t that far back, and even if time changes the chance of splitting the winnings is low.

  • Poggervania@kbin.social
    435·
    3 years ago

    They’re offering $1 per day? That’s $1 for every 24 hours you go back, which is around $0.04 per hour, which can be broken down even further to around $0.0007 per minute.

    I’d give them 1 penny to go back 15 minutes in time, find a penny on the ground, then find them again to go back the same 15 minutes in time over and over until I can figure out how to kidnap them in 15 minutes.

    After I successfully kidnap them, I will go on a bank heist and keep the time person near me so I can keep trying to rob a bank until I do so successfully. Then because they’re an accessory to the crime, I can blackmail them to let me rewind time for free at any time I wish so I can become a crime lord, otherwise I’ll give them to the police and let them know he can time-travel.

    EDIT: Just saw OP’s one-time offer clause, so I am assuming this means the time person retains their memory.

    I won’t immediately take them up on their offer - instead, I would take them out on a date or five first. Get to know them a bit better; where they lived growing up, how they grew up, how old they are - that kind of stuff.

    Then I would figure out how much money I can use to go back in time to my youngest point of life that also meets their youngest point in my same lifetime, and I’ll track them down from all the details they gave me while they were pegging me. I’ll become best friends with them, and convince them that we could be using their powers to become the dopest crime lords in history.

      • Poggervania@kbin.social
        131·
        3 years ago

        It’s not about the money here man - it’s about the power. The main squeeze here is becoming a crime lord, not getting rich.

      • Poggervania@kbin.social
        51·
        3 years ago

        Yes - but there’s a non-zero chance one or both of us would be underage, so we’ll be chaste until 18. Then we enter the bone zone.

    • calabast@lemm.ee
      3·
      3 years ago

      Keep giving them 1 penny and then tracking them down. Do this for most of your life until you are pretty young, and kidnap them. Then you can just relive your life over and over as many times as you want. I mean, sure, it’s not the ethical way to use their power…

  • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    32·
    3 years ago

    A person comes up to you and says, “I can reverse time for just $1 per day.” Do you take their offer?

    Obviously not, I’d have to be an idiot to fall for this con.

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    3 years ago

    It’s always tempting to say things like, “Go back to being 20 and relive young adulthood again, avoiding all the stupid mistakes I made the first time around.” But I know I would make a whole new set of different stupid mistakes the second time.

    Knowing that, I would do what others have said: only go back enough days to play a winning lottery number or make some ridiculous stock options bet and become filthy rich.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    18·
    3 years ago

    Depends on how this works. Do I wake up in my younger body, in my previous situation? Do I still remember everything I know and remember now?

    Or do I just appear as I am right now, in the past?

    Because we’ve gone back, the money is kinda irrelevant in some cases. I would whoop out $3,650 or more out of my savings to go back a decade or more. I would give the rest to my family in case that timeline carries on, whatever is left is irrelevant to me since in the past I had $0. I’ll have to make it again.

    • Nkiru Anaya@lemm.ee
      2·
      3 years ago

      This is a pretty common wish, I’d wager. Know everything you know now with no responsibility. Ace school cause it’d be like a review. Friends and romance would be much, much easier with your experience. You would be SO free simply be knowing it’s such a waste of time and energy worrying about certain things (am I normal, does she like me, am I ugly, etc.)

      Oh to just sit back and relax with nothing hanging over my head and no responsibilities (compared to an adult). Oh, to have that very strong feeling of wonder and know your while life ahead of you and the possibilities are endless!

      What a beautiful and splendid fantasy. If only.

      • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        Also, pretty much free get-rich schemes. Betting, crypto, pharma stocks around 2019…

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      If you bought too much you’d impact it’s utility, Bitcoin exploded because people paid what would be millions for pizza, pot and presumably porn

  • space@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    11·
    3 years ago

    Take a loan, pay the guy to reverse time. Now the loan is reversed and you don’t have to pay it back.

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
      5·
      3 years ago

      Now you’re stuck in 1936.

      Another person is getting cheered on because of his hate of the foreigners, the French, the Jews, …

      Oh yeah, and you’re in post WW1 Germany, good luck!

      Edit: I’d watch that movie though 🍿

    • alokir@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 years ago

      What? You mean Hitler should have stayed in power and drones were not invented by Führer Himmler but are future tech?

      Damn, maybe Germany would have lost the war, I wonder what kind of world would that be…

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 years ago

    If I stay mentally the same I would start over from age 8 I think, just old enough to skip the awkward part of having your parents helping you bath or wipe etc but still young enough were all of my life is ahead of me.

    With good investments I can never worry about money and I would have all the time in the world to educate myself further and develop a career in a field that I love and not worry about money.

    The only issue would be hunting down my best friend and befriending her again.

  • raptir@lemdro.idEnglish
    9·
    3 years ago

    January 2015. I would do my best to put paychecks away for a few months coupled with what I already had, and invest it all in Bitcoin in August/September when it was $200. Even if I just let it ride until November 2021 rather than playing the ups and downs I’m looking at a 340x return. If I emptied out my savings and 401k, even if I couldn’t convince family members, I’d have tens of millions of dollars.