Mar 22 2006
One Red Paperclip
one red paperclip
Originally uploaded by kylemac.
If it’s not on your radar already, it’s time for another crazy Internet story about someone with a wacky idea. This time it’s a gent from Montreal who started with a red paperclip, and his quest is to do “up trades” eventually trading for “a house, or an island, or a house on an island”. The point of all this is to follow the story about people that Kyle meets. He says he’ll go anywhere to trade for the right thing. Thanks to Alan Levine for stumbling across this.
Gardner (41)
Jim (34)
Shannon (32)
Alan Levine (10)
Jerry (9)
Martha (9)
Brian (8)
D'Arcy Norman (7)
Steve (7)
Abject Learning (4)
[...] Is money becoming obsolete? Is the web going to enable us to just trade for things we need. Some of the recent evidence of note is the One Red Paperclip site that I referenced earlier, and also a new site called Zunafish. Its idea is to allow people to trade their old, unwanted media for “new” media that someone else wnats to get rid of. The trade costs only a dollar, and the end result, theoretically, is two happy customers. The media is limited to things like Cds, DVDs, VHS tapes, books, and video games. I always thought the Internet was at times bizarre, but not A bazaar. [...]