In confusion there is profit.
Posted on 04/19/2006 2:06:41 PM PDT by rawhide
Kyle MacDonald harnessed the power of the Internet to trade a red paper clip for something better, over and over again.
Since last July, he’s managed to turn a red paper clip into a year’s free rent on a house in the desert, the Associated Press reports.
"It's totally overwhelming; I'm not going to lie," he said by phone from Montreal, where he and his girlfriend, Dominique Dupuis, live with two roommates. "But I'm still trading for that house. It's this obsessive thing."
MacDonald’s obsession started with an ad he placed in the Craigslist.org barter section, saying he wanted something bigger and better for his red paper clip — just a trade, of course.
From there he was able to trade his paper clip for a fish-shaped pen.
He traded that for a doorknob, which he traded for a camping stove, which he traded for a generator, which he traded for a keg of beer and a neon party sign.
The trading — and his ever-increasing celebrity — escalated until he traded a studio recording contract in Toronto for a year’s stay at a singer’s duplex in Phoenix.
Where his trading takes him from Phoenix is anybody’s guess, but MacDonald says he’s had offers from Hollywood to turn his story into a movie.
"If you say you're going to do something and you start to do it, and people enjoy it or respect it or are entertained by it, people will step up and help you," he said.
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Further to your profile page...I live in La Quinta, and attest to all FReepers that I am NOT the one that offed your Porsche!
I wanna visit!!! LOL!
Kyle's website is great--thanks for giving me the link! That guy is amazing...
In confusion there is profit.
He should keep trading. That particular neighborhood in Phoenix is still rough around the edges. Oh yeah, find out if the place has AC, too, otherwise summer will be brutal!
did you get the memo?
I'll take it into consideration...
SIGH
I miss my porsche...
There's not much to do on an island in the South Pacific.
I just wish I had cooler pictures..
Bring lots of Scotch.
Preferably single malt.
Of a legal age (18 or older)
Though French Bubbly is nice on the beach, too...
'cause the sunsets are to die for, the stars absolutely twinkle at night, and champagne in the South Pacific is the nearest thing to paradise...
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