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- sanman, on 10/12/2007, -23/+463How about 'One Read Post'?
Here's my post, now anyone care to Digg me up? - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+189I've got one black gun. Now hand over your paperclip, and nobody gets hurt.
- LabThug, on 11/07/2007, -6/+168I've got a blue paperclip. Anyone want to trade?
- diggermike82, on 10/12/2007, -16/+133HAHA that's funny! saying you have a girlfriend... ;-)
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -12/+112He will trade up a house for a space shuttle, and then that up to a small island, and then up to a little larger one, and then a country with nukes, then remove his mask! - OH MY GOSH IT WAS KIM JONG ILL ALL ALONG!
- catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -6/+95my girlfriend just said..
"wow, did he actually own the paperclip?"
I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. - beelz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+64yea i do , damn that guy just like the million dollar page
- acrophoric, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51@captainmrarvel.
You are forgetting relative value. A million dollars is worth nothin in the desert but a bottle fo water is worth your life. - InsaneMachine, on 10/12/2007, -10/+55@sanman
That is the biggest action of dig-whoring I have ever seen. You got my digg too. - valan, on 11/07/2007, -5/+48did he really trade from a paper clip to a house? or did people just trade better stuff than they should have becasue of all the publicity and novelty?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+44ill give you a house for that blue paperclip!
- captainmarvel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38No, you're looking at it wrong. The whole thing is about publicity and novelty. How could it be about trading? Trading assumes you're trading items of equal value. How do you add value to a red paper clip? It's a brilliant scheme and the guy deserves credit
- michaelbeckham, on 10/12/2007, -6/+39It would be ironic if he died of a paper cut that could have been prevented by a paperclip.
- cryptoz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32or if he read slashdot
- ripe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32Who owns the original red paperclip now? Bet that one is worth a lot now. He never should have traded it.
- Hootyea, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29Yeah, I'm sure it's worth more than a house now...
- D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26One _red_ paperclip? You, Kyle MacDonald, are a communist.
- attractivetb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27@Hootyeah
With the house values in small town Sask. I wouldn't be surprised:
http://www.pin.ca/gains/default.htm - PhilPrice, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Yes with the book that he will write about it, and his google adsence revenue.
- smellinator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21exactly. If you have a paperclip collection with every color except red.... and all you need is a red paperclip to complete your collection, then you probably value a red paperclip more than it's real value.
And if you value publicity, you may value a house that you own less than the publicity you may get for trading it to the guy. Every trade along the way could have been "mutually beneficial" (or win-win). In fact, isn't all commerce like that? I value the money less than the loaf of bread that I buy. Or I sell Google stock because I value the money more; meanwhile the buyer values the stock more. - Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20or he could get a second paperclip and start trading it until he trades his bills :P
- Chromoly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19It's all about percieved value. Hardly anything he traded for was of equal value to what he had.
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Because you're a failure. That's why.
- echo1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24god you're like the guy from deadwood who constantly tries to sell soap with a prize inside.
- Kazanoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Do you guys know what the problem with this is?
the house is in saskachewan.
Houses in saskachewan are dirt cheap.
People get paid to live in saskachewan. - degree, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Holy *****. They must have annual hot lava floods to have such terrible value.
- Burton1098, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20I think some of the trades came from the publicity linked to the idea. I give the man credit for the work and the idea though. last I had heard, he was up to a year of rent free living somewhere
- InsaneMachine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Or if the worlds largest red paperclip fell on him and killed him
- loveandrockets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17His last few trades were very strange. He traded an afternoon with Alice Cooper for a KISS Snowglobe! WTFBBQ?
- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Kudos to the guy for doing it all. What a great experiment, entertaining too..
Good luck in your house boyo!
Now.. I need a car.. Ah! An old toothbrush! Mmmexcellent...
Jimzip ;D - EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16The scary thing is pcheaven2k is 49.
- ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Dude. VARIABLE speed dial.
- TheCheeks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12yeah it wasnt the best trades, some due to publicity, but hell they guy got a freaking house for a years worth of his time trying to find trades! would you spend some time trading items if you knew youd get a house in under a year? wonder if its completely paid for.
- kenadak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12that site with the house for sale... I hope they sold it by now.... last time anyone touched the site: 06.11.1999 and it's been vacant for a year before that. I wouldn't be surprised if they've lowered the price to one red paperclip.
- alexdagrate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I'm sorry, but how can no one mention that this guy is moving to a house in the middle of goddamn nowhere?! Don't get me wrong, a house is a house, and his accomplish was the journey.
I just think of some of the stuff he has been offered. One guy offered him land by a nice lake resort and some contract work towards a house, but he passed it up since it wasn't a whole house. That would seriously be worth more than this. Also, couldn't someone in a nice warm place offer him something?
Don't get me wrong, the journey itself was an aceivement... but I'd rather have the journey end somewhere else. - Kericr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I'm waiting for his post that says he flipped his house for a free trip to jail for tax evasion. Bonuses include not passing go and not collecting $200.
- StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10WaterDragon:
Are you only allowed by law to visit sites that digg links to, and only at the time that digg links to them? - ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://www.pin.ca/sask/04-1004/default.htm
That's a big house in Kipling... - lukes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10 .. He never said that he was trading *his* penis
- vivarey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yep, now he's pretty much trapped there for life!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Here's an overview:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/07/07/paperclip-house.html
He was trying to trade-up a red paper clip to a house, and 14 trades later he did it. - trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Senator Mcarthy, how you been? Long time, no see...
- loveandrockets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I guess there is something to the "Great Material River" that Nog is always going on about.
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8And another internet tale is born....
- LabRat777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7So he got a free house that he's getting payed to live in? Sounds good to me.
- dustko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The first trader, who owns the paperclip, has the most power in this situation. If s/he has any marketing savvy, the trading could continue, with the paperclip asking even more than a house.
- JJNYC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'm sorry, a 5 bedroom, or even a 3 bedroom apartment in the worst part of the Bronx will run you about 1400.00/month
- saralk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If you're going to factor in travel costs, then you also need to factor in all the press and publicity he got and revenue from advertising he got and the money from the book he will write.
- brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Well he traded the paperclip for a pen, the pen for I think a doorknob, and so on. He actually traded a movie role for the house. Most of the trades were actually pretty fair. Besides, everyone wants their fifteen seconds of fame.
- elephantdog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I hate to break it to you guys, but the taxes are probably more than the house was worth, they have some crazy assessment practices. There are also no jobs in those small towns beyond maybe minimum wage, so if you don't own a farm or some business like a grocery store or gas station you're *****.
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