That they themselves have not yet come up with the idea is! It is so simple: Choose your worthless, inconspicuous everyday object, put an advertisement on the Internet, and change is part of everything that you appear better - offers clip, search the house, so roughly.
It works. Kyle MacDonald, a 25-year old unemployed from Canada, has tested it. "I would like on this paperclip with you into the business and they come against something larger or better exchange, for example, a pen or a spoon," he offered at the online portal on Craigslist.
What he got was a pen made of wood in the form of a fish. It was followed by a door handle with nose, eyes and Grinsemund, a camping stove, later a snowmobile, someday an afternoon with rock star Alice Cooper.
At the end - a year and 14 swaps later - gave him one against a minor role in a film by U.S. actor Corbin Bernsen actually a house. Two floors, freshly renovated, in the Main Street in Kipling, Saskatchewan. MacDonald moved there with his girlfriend one.
On its barter rush, he has written a novel, "One Red Paperclip", now translated into German. A bumpy written book. But the idea, the idea is brilliant. Therefore: Do not waste time with reading, coincide with the start swapping.
After Made, won Convertible
Thus, it also Max Raschke, a student from Osnabrück. He adopted the idea of MacDonald - only he wanted no house, but a car. Raschke began with an autograph card of football Ansgar Brinkmann.
Next it went with a cup, a table tennis rackets, Ampelmännchen ... After nine rounds of barter in a few months had come: Raschke could end in his own "Studi cart" set: Opel Ascona Convertible, black, older Year - but not uncool, the device.
Kyle MacDonald: "One Red Paperclip." Paperback Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; 312 pages; 8.95 euros.
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