One Red Paper Clip

[Beef]

This man is a genius...

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/12/08/barter_paperclip051208.html

[Ecthelion]

That's awesome! From a red paper clip to a snowmobile. Brilliant, truely brilliant.

[Sikawtic]

We do this every year at our church (for fun), this years winner had a fridge... and some other stuff. That was in ONE night from paperclip to refrigerator, in a town of only 2000 (and like half are in our prison :D.)

[Protoss_Honor]

bam, I try the link and it says:


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E-mail:cbcinput@toronto.cbc.caStupid interent is always aganist me.

[Beef]

bam, I try the link and it says:

Stupid interent is always aganist me.

The site still works for me...

[Protoss_Honor]

The site still works for me...It really is against me! Or maybe it only works For canadians, are you guys canadians?

[Sikawtic]

I'm from Minnesota. Which is almost canada :P

[Beef]

It really is against me! Or maybe it only works For canadians, are you guys canadians?
I'm from Canada, but it should work for you.

[Sikawtic]

Yeah, I don't really think country effects the internet that much <_< (other than laws...)

[ShadeZ]

For anyone who can't click the link:

Montreal man trading paper-clip for house
Last Updated Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:50:27 EST
CBC News
A Montreal man is grabbing international attention for his increasingly successful quest to barter a single red paper-clip for a house.

Five months ago, Kyle MacDonald looked at a red paper-clip on his desk and decided to trade it on an internet website. He got a response almost immediately – from a pair of young women in Vancouver who offered to trade him a pen.

"It was a fish-shaped pen. And I got it from a pair of vegans. So it was a great exchange. They didn't want anything to do with fish," he said.

MacDonald, 25, then bartered the fish pen for a handmade doorknob from a potter in Seattle.

"It was a ceramic doorknob that had been hand-shaped by, I believe the person I traded with, her son, and she had been trying to get rid of it for quite some time," said MacDonald.

Annie Robbins, the Seattle potter who now owns the fish pen, says she loves the idea.

"I think the whole concept really flips the idea of consumerism around. How we value things, and what things are really worth," she said.

In Massachusetts, MacDonald traded the doorknob for a camp stove. He traded the stove to a U.S. marine sergeant in California for a 100-watt generator.

In Queens, N.Y., he exchanged the generator for the "instant party kit" – an empty keg of beer and an illuminated Budweiser beer sign.

On Thursday, MacDonald traded the keg and sign for a Bombardier snowmobile, courtesy of a Montreal radio host.

"If I get up to larger items, I'm going to need a larger base of people to pick from. There is someone out there with a surplus house. I just have to find them," said MacDonald.


And yeah, that's a really good way to make money :)

[SpeedyWorm1]

this is the kinda thing that makes you think....... WTF HOW DOES HE GET ALL THAT MONEY AND WE WORK HARD FOR NOTHING!!! I'm gonna try with a BLUE paper clip ^^/

[BlackHawk]

Wow, that's quite the story. I have a few things lying around, anybody have a surplus uber-gaming-computer they want to trade for say...a pokemon necklace? (Yes, I actually have one, and no, I haven't worn it since I was like 7).

[GrassDragon]

This is nuts. BH, I'll trade a Magic card for your pokemon necklace :P

[SpeedyWorm1]

ill trade my paper clip for your magic card. ^^

[Fred1000000]

bam, I try the link and it says:

Stupid interent is always aganist me.
Aye, I feel yer pain too, laddie. The internet has dead links all over for me.

Me: COOL! Noah's Ark was found??
Website: Dead link. Contact your internet provider and see if your connection is established.
Me: :bonk:, or :samurai:, or :smash: Take your pick.
--------------------------:_penguin:

[BlackHawk]

This is nuts. BH, I'll trade a Magic card for your pokemon necklace :P

Magic as in Magic: The Gathering, or a real magic card?

[Fred1000000]

Ok, this time it worked. That's insane! A string of trades leading up to a house. Thank God for paper clips.

[TinyDancer]

Ahh thats so awesome. Who wants a hair barrette?

[Fred1000000]

I'll trade ya this pocket lint! -.- (Is joking)

[bluemicrobyte]

hahahaha, so if it's possible to turn a paper clip into a house, why are there still homeless people? >_>

[EvilEggCracker]

Because they dont have paper clips...DUH!

[DragonPaladin]

(and like half are in our prison .)

>_> ok...

Anyway, to house is a bit hard...Snowmobile for tractor...tractor for car...car for RV...RV for apartment...Apartment for Big Condo...Big Condo for House.

[GenocideAlive]

Bleh, half the stuff he's getting is from charity. They might as well just be giving him the crap, the trading is just a facade.