Comments on: Blogger asks, 'Wanna trade a paper clip for a house?'

A Montreal blogger is trying to trade up from a red paper clip to a house. So far, he's made it to a year of free rent in Phoenix.

[qazwiz]

Anybody want a silver paperclip?

I am surprised that it took so few trades, but not that it is happening. This is standard business rules of "buy low, sell high" and "figure what the customer wants and charge an arm and a leg for it"


This reminds me of the guy who pays for everything by actually printing his own money. Now he has the government watching him but he does it by making the "money" art and a receipt. but if everyone talented enough to do this did it then the market would be glutted and it wouldn't work for anyone.

The same goes for our trader, being the first there is publicity for everyone who participates.... even a possible movie deal. but what if there were 100 "red paperclips" for trade? (doesn't need to be red or paperclip, just unique unto itself) With that many then the market is flooded and the novelty has worn off... result no one will participate.

Good luck guy... I hope you make it.
(perhaps you can trade the week for a movie contract which includes a house in the Catskills as part of its indemnification.)

[kyevkp]

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[Eskiegirl302]

BARTERING..

Is nothing new. The mormons have done it forever. I know full communities who do it. Like one town I visited, I met one guy there who knew everyone else. This community sent him to college to learn a skill. He was learning architecture. So once he learned this skill, he could plan out a house for the others in the community. Then he would trade his skill for the skill of another. The man he traded his skill with would buy old broken down furniture and repair it so well, it looked like it had never left the store. When a young couple would get married, they furnished them with a house filled with furniture, carpeting, appliances, ect. Everything they needed. They in turn would contribute some skill they had back to the community. Hell they even make their own electricity. A town built by the hands of their own people.
There is nothing they do not have, and everything is done on the barter system. They do not need much money to survive. They grow their own food. The town has a post office, gas station, store, park, bar, and some other things. I am not sure how they run them, but they built them all theirself. Except for the post office. When they need money in an account, they can contract out with the skills that they know. They have their own swimming hole which is well...entertaining to say the least. So bartering is alive and well, it is just that most people do not do it. Taxes? next to nothing except for the paper money they bring in. It all depends on what you consider your needs.

[kyevkp]

BARTERING

YOUR RIGHT, MOST FOLLOW THE WAYS OF THE WORLD

POOR WORLD

[kyevkp]

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[markdaycomedy]

Red Paperclip PARODY video

How to swap one red paperclip for a crack house in the ghetto...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRjnhKXCwPI