"I traded a paper clip for a house"

[Narz]

Narz: Have you any trading tales like this? Don't you do some bartering like this also?

I do enjoy bartering yeah. Never quite got such a good markup as paperclip man though. The best was $20 for a rock I found in my driveway. Also I made $250 once selling coupons for "debt work" when I was at boarding school (only two people who bought my $10 coupons actually cashed in ).

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Also I made $250 once selling coupons for "debt work" when I was at boarding school (only two people who bought my $10 coupons actually cashed in ).

What's "debt work"?

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

Regarding Jessica: When will you guys realise that she is NFS !? I'm gonna start reporting you guys for disrespectin' me julie like this.

Ah, but, is she NFB?

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Ah, but, is she NFB?

NFS I can gather. NFB?

 

[IglooDame]

NFS I can gather. NFB?

Not For Barter?

 

[Alpine Trooper]

I met this individual for a brief period of time at my previous job. I am glad to hear he has completed his mission.

 

[dutchfire]

In 1626 Peter Minuit traded some trade goods for New York, in 1674 the Dutch traded NY for Surinam, we traded some trade goods for a whole country!

 

[Narz]

What's "debt work"?

It meant that I would owe them a debt and they could call on me to pull up weeds for them, mow their grass, do whatever chores they asked me to basically.

 

[Hakim]

This is nothing special once you accept that nothing have an fixed, absolute value regardless of how much work it took to produce it. What is of little worth for someone can be very valuable for someone else. Although he added som media attention in each exchange, he could most probably get that house without it, it would only require more transactions.

We constantly throw things away that others could have been very useful for someone else. I could have given him a few books and CDs for that door knob, things that will most likely go into the bin next time I clean the apartment.

 

[Rambuchan]

I could have given him a few books and CDs for that door knob,

His write up about the doorknob was very funny indeed.

Ah, but, is she NFB?

You leave a little gap and a nit picker will step in. Anyway, sadly predictable question. Ditto my answer, which I don't need to give really.

 

[Urederra]

it is not the paperclip, it is the website he, i guess, had to pay, and the many, many, many travels he had to do.

Although some of them were for free, I guess, once he bacome a celebrity.

It is old news, anyway.

 

[downtown]

My church youth group did this 3 years ago for charity. We started out with a pinto bean. In two hours, we had a really nice TV. I ought to try it without the charity bit, and pay for school....

 

[Fox Mccloud]

Wow. Cool.