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Lemonada.

Can you buy and sell Instacart accounts as a side hustle?

Maybe you've heard about people buying and selling Instacart accounts or DoorDash accounts.

Maybe you haven't.

But basically in the gig economy, you'll sometimes hear about these gray market strategies.

They're kind of workarounds, loopholes shortcuts. So we've

got a caller here. He's been doing some Instacart shopping. He kind of got into the gig economy,

and he wants to upgrade himself to a better side hustle, which if you haven't heard me say before,

I think driving for Uber and doing these kinds of services, ultimately you're working for

those companies, those platforms,

not for yourself. So it can be helpful in some ways, but hopefully you want to transition to something

else soon. And so he's thinking about his transition and he came across something odd online.

He saw people selling or renting out their verified Instacart shopper accounts. Now, this might be

a clever hack, or it could be something that could get you into some

trouble.

So let's talk about it.

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