He is from Canada. He traded a red paper clips for something.... then kept trading until he finally got a house. I have 2 paper clips i wonder if i could get 2 houses... It was on yahoo news yesterday... very funny good read, what do you think about that
2006-07-12 02:40:47 · 17 answers · asked by Grin Reeper 5 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I had a bureaucratic job once which I can only describe as shuffling paper clips around. To think, I could have been sitting on a fortune!!!!
2006-07-12 02:44:46 · answer #1 · answered by Ya-sai 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Yes, saw him in interview yesterday. What a hoot. He did start with that red paper clip and ends up with a house out west. Very nice. And it took him less than a year to do it. Amazing.
2006-07-12 03:18:49 · answer #2 · answered by robert43041 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I was following that story since he began. I am glad he finally got his house. He started with the paperclip and traded it for a pen. People were offering their virginity at times to trade for some of the things he had
2006-07-12 02:44:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw that too. I heard a lot of places were offering him houses right away so they could get the publicity but he tried to keep trading for reasonable things and working his way up. Unfortunately, I don't think it would work if we all tried to do it. LOL!
2006-07-12 02:45:34 · answer #4 · answered by Suzanne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and right here we bypass back, xTF guidelines :) putting ahead the patronisingly glaring!! attempt e-bay or totalbids, as they're appreciably used (properly totalbids is only in uk i imagine) in case you pick to attempt some thing like this on e-bay there are particular circumstances that are ideal to make a sale (monday and ending the typical public sale over the weekend as theoretically human beings locate stuff at artwork and skim the listings as a activity and then over the weekend they are going to see that the products they're fascinated in are gaining better interest so that they are going to have better time to keep an eye fixed on the products and compete with different bidders) by technique of writing a short humorous/unhappy tale connect on your products you benefit better interest (consisting of a guy who bought a tent with a hollow in it including his tale about how he went camping out each and everything became going incorrect then it were given teared and he ended up soaking and therefor he had to rid of it) Take good pictures, and describe the article thoroughly and quite with any mild scratches, and so on, bypass over it with a microscope as customers have the right to go back the article with money back in the journey that they locate some thing which could no longer stated about.
2016-12-01 03:20:43 · answer #5 · answered by abeta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it works, he wasnt the first guy to use the barter system well, he just documented it. Sure you could get some, its just a matter of wheelin and dealin, its actually easier than I thought it would be, i just need keep it up for another year or two. lol yeah, I salute that guy cause "you cant live in a paperclip"
Its worked for thousands of years, what not a better time for it, the internet age.
2006-07-12 02:45:32 · answer #6 · answered by red_samurai_dragon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL my cousin plays that game a lot. You start with something small and go door to door seeing if someone will trade for something better. Then you trade that for something better and you keep doing that. One of her friends got a tv once.
2006-07-12 02:46:14 · answer #7 · answered by Noland Voyd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i heard that on the radio about a month ago. i need to start trading paper clips. maybe if i start with a stapler i'll get there faster
2006-07-12 02:44:22 · answer #8 · answered by Lindsey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i saw that all over the news, he traded this red apr clip on ebay until he got a house, unbelievable.
2006-07-12 04:57:18 · answer #9 · answered by kara 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder what he will get next He will still have to trade the house.
2006-07-12 02:44:15 · answer #10 · answered by gauthier613 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋