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  1. Asp

    Asp Administrative Officer Officer

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    At this point he's traded the snowmobile for a trip to British Columbia, and was donated a Cube Van, to take it there. (edited for clarity)

    Anyone want to trade me a car for an empty Altoids tin? :p
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    Montreal man trading paper-clip for house
    Last Updated Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:50:27 EST
    CBC News


    A Montreal man is grabbing international attention for his increasingly successful quest to barter a single red paper-clip for a house.

    Five months ago, Kyle MacDonald looked at a red paper-clip on his desk and decided to trade it on an internet website. He got a response almost immediately – from a pair of young women in Vancouver who offered to trade him a pen.

    "It was a fish-shaped pen. And I got it from a pair of vegans. So it was a great exchange. They didn't want anything to do with fish," he said.

    MacDonald, 25, then bartered the fish pen for a handmade doorknob from a potter in Seattle.

    "It was a ceramic doorknob that had been hand-shaped by, I believe the person I traded with, her son, and she had been trying to get rid of it for quite some time," said MacDonald.

    Annie Robbins, the Seattle potter who now owns the fish pen, says she loves the idea.

    "I think the whole concept really flips the idea of consumerism around. How we value things, and what things are really worth," she said.

    In Massachusetts, MacDonald traded the doorknob for a camp stove. He traded the stove to a U.S. marine sergeant in California for a 100-watt generator.

    In Queens, N.Y., he exchanged the generator for the "instant party kit" – an empty keg of beer and an illuminated Budweiser beer sign.

    On Thursday, MacDonald traded the keg and sign for a Bombardier snowmobile, courtesy of a Montreal radio host.

    "If I get up to larger items, I'm going to need a larger base of people to pick from. There is someone out there with a surplus house. I just have to find them," said MacDonald.
     
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    Asp, 2 Feb 2006
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  2. DonkeySmiler

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    Nice! though the last trade seems a bit unfair.... sounds like it was a stunt for radio...
     
    DonkeySmiler, 2 Feb 2006
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  3. Asp

    Asp Administrative Officer Officer

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    No the last part was he went on a CBC news show about what he was doing.. the trade was actually, the snowmobile for a trip to B.C. Then a rent-a-truck company saw the effort on TV and gave him a cube van to take the Snowmobile out to B.C. for the trade. Got that part mixed up.
     
    Asp, 2 Feb 2006
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