Teen Trades up on Craigslist from Phone to Porsche in 2 Years
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Re: Teen Trades up on Craigslist from Phone to Porsche in 2 Years
#2Reminds me of my pokemon card days in elementary school. I started with ~5 cards a friend gave me and somehow traded up to a deck of 400-500 with a decent amount of holographics too.
The only time I ever bought cards were a couple booster packs, but that was after I already had 200 some.
Good times.
The art of trading comes from knowing that value is relative, you just need to find the people who want what you have more than others.
Re: Teen Trades up on Craigslist from Phone to Porsche in 2 Years
#3It was alarming to read that people tell him he is a con artist. He's a good businessman.
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#4He spends five to six hours a day on his i-Phone scouring the website for good deals.
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#5I wonder if he has each trade he made published somewhere. It would be interesting to see the exact progression trade-by-trade.
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#6This guy went from a paperclip to a house: http://www.oneredpaperclip.com/about/.
A couple of my friends actually got a barbecue from him off of Craigslist. Sadly, I think the transaction only involved money.
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#7It was alarming to read that people tell him he is a con artist. He's a good businessman.
He's a businessman, but whether or not he's good is a question for debate. Most people working the same hours have a higher income. Do the math, if the Porsche trade represents all of his "income" from bartering he made $3.6 an hour, if it represents half of his income then he made minimum wage.
It's interesting, and somewhat novel, but hardly astounding or terribly impressive.
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#8He spends five to six hours a day on his i-Phone scouring the website for good deals.
That sounds kinda crazy. 5-6 hours daily for two years could have easily earned him money to buy a Porsche, for cold cash.
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#9This guy went from a paperclip to a house: http://www.oneredpaperclip.com/about/ . A couple of my friends actually got a barbecue from him off of Craigslist. Sadly, I think the transaction only involved money.
the red paper clip guy actually hired a pr firm to help him gain publicity and achieve his goal (I knew a guy at the pr firm he hired)
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#10He spends five to six hours a day on his i-Phone scouring the website for good deals.
That sounds kinda crazy. 5-6 hours daily for two years could have easily earned him money to buy a Porsche, for cold cash.
That's what I thought. But I doubt he actually spends that much dedicated time. Rather he's probably multi-tasking, checking in periodically over the course of 5-6 hours.
I bet he's mastered some important negotiating skills.