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Geek Culture / One Red Paperclip... Unbelievable!

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Izzy545
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Posted: 9th Feb 2006 07:03
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So this guy started out with one red paperclip to trade for bigger and better stuff... He now is the proud owner of a cube van!

He wants to barter up to a house, and it seems he has gotten an offer for a trailer home and a house for his cube van... This is nuts!

http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

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Mucky Muck Ninja
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Posted: 9th Feb 2006 07:36
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Lol! That is pretty crazy! I offered him an ipod :p

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Peter H
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Posted: 9th Feb 2006 15:52 Edited at: 9th Feb 2006 15:52
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that's great, but it's gotta cost alot for all those plane trips and gas for the car rides

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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 9th Feb 2006 17:17
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omg lol did he get an x-box and trade it for the car

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JoelJ
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yeah people do things like that all the time... thing is, no one gets ripped off.

i've heard of people starting with toothpics and ending with snowmobiles and fourwheelers and such

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Sid Sinister
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who would want to buy a toothpick though?
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Chris Franklin
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dentists

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UFO
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Quote: " who would want to buy a toothpick though?"

Most of the trades are probably just for publicity, not because it is a good value.


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JoelJ
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no, you start with a tooth pick, and you tell them "i'm playing bigger and better, will you give me something bigger and better than...", and they'll say "haha, funny" open their junk drawer, pull something out like a pen.

you go to the next house... eventually someone will give you a broken tv, you trade that for a ... and eventually you have an old run down car, and you take it to someone who fixes cars, and they'll have a ...

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Dave J
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I wonder if the original red paperclip will shoot up in value now that it's famous. Probably needs a lot more media attention, but I'm willing to bet that it could get quite a bit on Ebay.


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JoelJ
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Posted: 10th Feb 2006 07:47 Edited at: 10th Feb 2006 07:50
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I have a red paper clip...

who's to say i don't have it?

...

i'll put one on ebay anyway...

I'm actually looking over EXACTLY what was traded for what now...

and i take back waht i said about:
Quote: "Most of the trades are probably just for publicity"

and that is true...

heh, there wasn't enough stuff between everything to say it isn't

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Les Horribres
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Posted: 11th Feb 2006 01:28
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I love the way it jumps...
He goes from a pen... to an ugly little cubby knobby
and what comes next? one coleman stove
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Mnemonix
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Posted: 11th Feb 2006 12:25
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Quote: " I have a red paper clip...

who's to say i don't have it?"


ME!

U dont have it.

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Oh sweet, the dude's from B.C. as well

I'll put this idea into the fairly large book of good ideas that will only work once, that I wish I had first.


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JoelJ
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Quote: "I'll put this idea into the fairly large book of good ideas that will only work once, that I wish I had first.
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he's not the first

people here do it all the time for Day Activities for school dances thingies.

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