From one red paper clip to a skidoo!? [Archive]

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gman

Dec 10th, 2005, 12:20 AM

http://zane.typepad.com/ccuceo/2005/12/one_red_paper_c.html

Escape Velocity in its post, One Red Paper Clip, profiles Kyle. Kyle wants a house. But all Kyle has is a red paper clip. But Kyle's smart. So he trades his paper clip to a vegetarian who had a fun fish pen. And he kept swapping stuff until 4 transactions later he had 1000W power-generator.

Kyle still wants a house.

But now Kyle has a website with 10s of thousands of visitors every day. And he's got sponsors; And he's going on talk shows; and the NY Times is interviewing him.

All this from:

One Red Paper Clip. And a willingness to be creative.

http://www.oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

hyperion

Dec 10th, 2005, 12:26 AM

Interesting, but I still don't get it. People seem to be doing it just for the publicity..but maybe he thought of that when he started with the paper clip.

felixdd

Dec 10th, 2005, 12:45 AM

Interesting, but I still don't get it. People seem to be doing it just for the publicity..but maybe he thought of that when he started with the paper clip.

It's kinda like that secret item sale thing we had going on last year...where UrbanPoet started, I was 2nd...etc.

Who has the package now anyways?

Dirty_Larry

Dec 10th, 2005, 08:32 AM

useless thread!

Headhunter

Dec 10th, 2005, 09:27 AM

It's interesting as a guy's blog, but how did this get on the news? :confused:

gman

Dec 10th, 2005, 11:48 AM

useless thread!
Yep! You got the idea. You will beat that guy by start trading a useless thread to get a house.

NDman

Jun 15th, 2006, 11:38 AM

And now he's getting loads of publicity (talk shows, radio interviews, etc etc), and he's doing well! Global news even did a coverage on that last week

Mehrtens

Jun 15th, 2006, 11:48 AM

They showed this guy on the news, it's old stuff.

drucillica

Jun 15th, 2006, 11:59 AM

Brilliant!!

tyleratwork

Jul 8th, 2006, 02:33 PM

Well, he did it. "on July 12, 2006 I will trade with the Town of Kipling Saskatchewan for a house located at 503 Main Street." http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

CSR

Jul 8th, 2006, 05:16 PM

I remember when I was small, I traded my crappy hockey cards until I had a good set..... by ripping other ppl off. haha

jayisthebest88

Jul 8th, 2006, 06:01 PM

damn it..Why didnt I think of this :mad:

blainehamilton

Jul 8th, 2006, 08:48 PM

Excellent work!! Kipling is actually a pretty nice farming town, my mom grew up in Stoughton, which is about 20 minutes to the southwest of Kipling.

That is so cool all the popularity the town is getting out of this. Red Paperclip Day, with Corben there too to pick someone for the new role. Awesome!

http://www.townofkipling.ca/welcome.htm

blainehamilton

Jul 8th, 2006, 08:58 PM

http://www.1redpaperclip.com/news/Page01.pdf

Here's the story that let the cat out of the bag!

blainehamilton

Jul 8th, 2006, 09:05 PM

Looks like they are throwing a huge party at the house to celebrate for the long weekend.

Looks like a possibility Alice Cooper might show up too...

Even Dick Assman has been invited! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Assman

Might be interesting to see if they could get Letterman there too since he was the one who discovered Dick...

corrupt123

Jul 8th, 2006, 10:15 PM

So he got a midsized house in a small town in Sask?

Anyone got a ballpark figure on the value of the house?

I'm sure it was fun and great and all, but add up the costs and hours, and he probably could have just bought the place :|

S_G

Jul 8th, 2006, 11:00 PM