One red paperclip

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The paper clip originally used by Kyle
The house he ultimately exchanged

One red paperclip ( German  a red paper clip ) is a website as well as the success story of Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald , by barter from a red paper clip arrived starting in the possession of a house, as a result of exchange series within a year.

MacDonald was inspired by the children's game “Bigger, Better”. His website gained considerable attention in the course of the barter action recorded on it. "A lot of people have been asking how I've stirred up so much publicity around the project, and my simple answer is: 'I have no idea,'" he told the BBC. In German: "A lot of people have asked how I got so much attention for the project. The simple answer is: I have no idea."

Kyle MacDonald was born in 1979 in Port Moody , a suburb east of Vancouver , and lived in Montreal with his girlfriend Dominique for years . Now he lives with her in the house in Kipling , which he received over the course of 14 exchanges. The young Canadian wrote down his experiences in his book “One Red Paper Clip”, which was also translated into German. His barter is often referred to as "the craziest internet barter in the world".

course

MacDonald made his first swap, a red paper clip for a fish-shaped pen, on July 14, 2005. He achieved his goal with the fourteenth trade, a film role for a house. Below is the complete list of transactions:

  • On July 14, 2005, he traveled to Vancouver and exchanged the paper clip for a fish-shaped pen .
  • On the same day, he traded the pen for a hand-made ceramic doorknob in Seattle, Washington.
  • On July 25, 2005, he traveled to Amherst, Massachusetts with a friend and swapped the doorknob for a grill.
  • On September 24, 2005, he traveled to San Clemente, California and traded the grill for a 1000 watt generator on a US military base.
  • After the generator was seized by the New York Fire Department, it made a second successful attempt on November 16, 2005 in Maspeth, Queens, to exchange the generator for an "instant party". This consisted of an empty keg, a voucher to fill the keg with a beer of your choice and a neon neon sign from Budweiser.
  • On December 8, 2005 he exchanged the "instant party" with comedian and radio presenter Michel Barrette for a snowmobile.
  • Within a week, he swapped the snowmobile for a three-day two-person trip to Yahk , British Columbia, in February 2006.
  • Around January 7, 2006, he exchanged the trip for a pickup truck with a body.
  • Around February 22nd, he exchanged the pickup truck for a record deal for a CD with "Metal Works" in Toronto.
  • Around April 11th, he swapped his recording deal with Jody Marie Gnant for an annual rental of a room in her home in Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Around May 26, 2006, he exchanged the annual rent for an afternoon with Alice Cooper .
  • Around the same day, he exchanged the afternoon with Alice Cooper for a fan article from the band Kiss: A snow globe, which only existed five times in the world.
  • On June 2, 2006, he exchanged the snow globe with film director Corbin Bernsen for a role in the film Donna on Demand .
  • On July 5, 2006, he exchanged the film role for a newly renovated, two-story farmhouse in Kipling, Saskatchewan , as well as the lifelong honorary citizenship.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Man turns paper clip into house , BBC News . July 11, 2006. 
  2. ↑ From paper-clip to house, in 14 trades , Across the Sound (July 1, 2006)

literature

  • Kyle MacDonald: One red paperclip. Offer a paper clip - look for a house. The craziest internet barter in the world. Translated from English by Katy Albrecht. ISBN 978-3-596-17650-2

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