For my internet marketing class we are reading about this guy who used Craiglists to trade stuff until he got a house. He started with a freaking red paper clip! (I've heard the story before, but this is step by step what he got). SO AWESOME.
-Trade clip for fish shaped pen,
-pen for a doorknob shaped like E.T.,
-doorknob for Coleman stove (the guy needed a doorknob for his stove top expresso maker)
-stove for red generator (marine sergeant needed stove for his drive across country)
-generator for "instant party" (keg, Budweiser sign)
-party for snowmobile (from a radio talk show in Quebec)
-snowmobile for roundtrip airfare for two to British Columbia, a day of skiing and meals
-van for a recording contract with 30 hours of recording time, transportation/hotels, and a record pitch with radio stations.
-recording contract for a year's free rent in a furnished apartment in Arizona plus roundtrip airfare
-rent for a afternoon with Alice Cooper
-afternoon for motorized Kiss snow globe
-snow globe for roundtrip airfare anywhere in the world, hotel, and speaking role in movie (traded to a snow-globe collecting actor)
-movie role for the world's largest paperclip, a key to the town, and a freaking HOUSE.
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