Red Paper clip trade

Triggersmob · February 20, 2013, 06:21:20 PM

Quote from: 'Ozcoins' pid='8411' dateline='1361343624'Can you give some idea of a suitable value of an item to trade?
I like the idea of participating, but have no idea what that is worth.

It contains silver, so probably bullion value, about $1.60

Ozcoins · March 03, 2013, 10:29:22 AM

PM sent to Trout.

Australian coin · March 03, 2013, 10:42:03 AM

haha when you get up to $5 I have the perfect thing

trout · March 03, 2013, 12:51:59 PM

Quote from: 'Ozcoins' pid='8788' dateline='1362268762'PM sent to Trout.

Pm sent :good:

Ozcoins · March 21, 2013, 11:42:12 PM

Hopefully there will be an update here soon

trout · March 22, 2013, 10:55:44 AM

Trade in progress :dance2:
We have another 9 months to go before someone gets the results of this trading thread..
To make it fair I recon that everyone that participates in this gets put into a hat and the winner will be drawn from that.
this could be awsome at the end of the year and one lucky member will get whatever was the last trade before Christmas :wavemulticolor:

trout · March 22, 2013, 02:23:15 PM

OK
new items op for trade :ok:
Set of state 2001 50 cent coins.
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Ozcoins · March 27, 2013, 07:15:56 PM

Trout,
Your package arrived today and it was a very nice surprise!
I hope others join in the fun too.

trout · March 27, 2013, 07:34:46 PM

Quote from: 'Ozcoins' pid='10874' dateline='1364373956'Trout,
Your package arrived today and it was a very nice surprise!
I hope others join in the fun too.

I love surprises :wavemulticolor:

trout · March 27, 2013, 09:41:05 PM

only 2 members have their names in the hat so far :dash1:
Each trade = 1 name.
Which means if you do more than 1 trade you get more than 1 name in the hat .
Simple:angel:
Names so far are
Nevol x1
Ozcoins x1

If this takes off I will supply a couple of prizes for 2nd and 3rd places, I am not a tightarse so they will be nice :good:
so come on you mob we have 186 members and only 2 have helped in this endeavour so far, so give this a whirl :ok:
The only thing I will get out of this is the enjoyment of looking at the coins traded before I send them to their new owners and at the end of the year one lucky member will reap the benefits of this trading process.
Just treat it as a sort of a quiz where you have to put something in to get a better prize at the end of the year:yahoo:

keldaw · March 27, 2013, 10:21:08 PM

sorry trout , mate , i just dont have the brains to work out how this goes ,
i have read the rules and the whole forum on this but something is wrong with me , i just cant work it out at all , no idea ,. ,, kel ,,

Ozcoins · March 27, 2013, 10:51:39 PM

keldaw,

Trout offers something for trading.
Whoever likes what is on offer (currently a set of 2001 state 50c) and wants to swap something for them, sends Trout a message with what you would like to swap.
Trout picks the best offer and does a trade.
Then whatever he received in the trade becomes the next item available to swap.
Trout has said that whatever he ends up with at the end will become a prize which will go to one of the participants in the trading.

Its just a bit of fun.

I hope that helps.

It is inspired by the story here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip

keldaw · March 28, 2013, 08:31:39 AM

thanks ozcoins , to easy now i have understood it ..,,

but i am a little confused about all the postage ..
do we send the item to trout when he picks the one he wants , or just hold on to it [ example ] 3 people tell trout they have an item to trade then trout picks the best one , and gets that person to send it to him then the other 2 miss out , now trout offers that item for trade then another 2 people offer up a trade the winner then sends that item to trout and the loser keeps his item , then trout offers that item and so on till christmas time ,, to me that seams like a lot of postage , or am i missing something .. anyway , doesn,t matter i will give it a try..
,, kel ,,

Nevol · March 28, 2013, 10:02:31 AM

Trout could save himself some postage costs, but I think he wants to have the coin in his 'posession' for a while.

Quote(by trout) The only thing I will get out of this is the enjoyment of looking at the coins traded before I send them to their new owners

trout · March 28, 2013, 11:03:32 AM

Quote from: 'Nevol' pid='10926' dateline='1364427151'Trout could save himself some postage costs, but I think he wants to have the coin in his 'posession' for a while.

Quote(by trout) The only thing I will get out of this is the enjoyment of looking at the coins traded before I send them to their new owners

You got me Nevol:angel:
For a bit of postage I get to have a transient collection :wavemulticolor: