Comments on: Trading Post http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/07/trading-post/ Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:22:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Katia http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/07/trading-post/#comment-221716 Katia Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:16:17 +0000 http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=158#comment-221716 <i>How much time and effort are these people exerting to get such advantageous deals.</i> Probably about as much as you'd expend to make the money to buy a Porsche or house and then pay down the loans on them? I'd far rather talk somebody up from a paperclip to a house than bite my nails saving a down payment, then 30 years with a mortgage hoping I don't lose my job and then the house, or up from a broken cell phone to owning a car I will never have the job to allow me to buy. How much time and effort are these people exerting to get such advantageous deals.
Probably about as much as you’d expend to make the money to buy a Porsche or house and then pay down the loans on them? I’d far rather talk somebody up from a paperclip to a house than bite my nails saving a down payment, then 30 years with a mortgage hoping I don’t lose my job and then the house, or up from a broken cell phone to owning a car I will never have the job to allow me to buy.

]]> By: Mike Pike http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/07/trading-post/#comment-189817 Mike Pike Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:04:01 +0000 http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=158#comment-189817 Kudos to American and Canadian ingenuity . Kudos to American and Canadian ingenuity
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]]> By: Jerry Braun http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/07/trading-post/#comment-183833 Jerry Braun Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:20:55 +0000 http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=158#comment-183833 I remember seeing the "One Red Paper Clip" on TV. My son's class tried the experiment - he started with an eraser and ended up with bar of silver bullion. Nice. I remember seeing the “One Red Paper Clip” on TV. My son’s class tried the experiment - he started with an eraser and ended up with bar of silver bullion. Nice.

]]> By: CC http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/07/trading-post/#comment-183777 CC Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:29:41 +0000 http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=158#comment-183777 How much time and effort are these people exerting to get such advantageous deals. I can understand getting a good deal for a trade and the cumulative benefits of systematic shrewd trading, but its hard to imagine getting enough variance in your trades to turn a paper clip which is essentially worthless and ending up with a house in any reasonable time frame. How much time and effort are these people exerting to get such advantageous deals. I can understand getting a good deal for a trade and the cumulative benefits of systematic shrewd trading, but its hard to imagine getting enough variance in your trades to turn a paper clip which is essentially worthless and ending up with a house in any reasonable time frame.

]]> By: Mike http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/07/trading-post/#comment-180963 Mike Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:25:22 +0000 http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=158#comment-180963 I traded up from a free hot tup, to an El Camino, to a small motorcycle (yes, it was up, the Elco need lots of work, but ran), to a boat (with the addition of $150.) I then sold the boat for $700. I just thought it was ironic that I started with something that held the water in, and ended up with something that held the water out. The $700 helped pay for my move...I'm disabled and still in that screwed up area of not being on disability yet (damn you Reagan conservatives.) I traded up from a free hot tup, to an El Camino, to a small motorcycle (yes, it was up, the Elco need lots of work, but ran), to a boat (with the addition of $150.) I then sold the boat for $700.

I just thought it was ironic that I started with something that held the water in, and ended up with something that held the water out.

The $700 helped pay for my move…I’m disabled and still in that screwed up area of not being on disability yet (damn you Reagan conservatives.)

]]> By: FreeB http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/07/trading-post/#comment-179943 FreeB Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:40:32 +0000 http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=158#comment-179943 man man man, i wish i could do something like that....but it takes too long man man man, i wish i could do something like that….but it takes too long

]]> By: SW http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/07/trading-post/#comment-179014 SW Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:01:24 +0000 http://blog.craigslist.org/?p=158#comment-179014 Don't aim too low! How about a nice red bicycle. - S Don’t aim too low! How about a nice red bicycle. - S

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