Sunday, December 20, 2009

Unique Trading Game: From One Red Paperclip to a House

A blogger called Kyle MacDonald is attempting to accomplish a alternation of up-trades from one red paperclip to a house. His latest account up for barter is a recording arrangement for a abounding album at a celebrated Toronto recording studio.

Montreal, QC -- Kyle MacDonald saw one red paperclip on his desk, took a account of it and put it on his website, oneredpaperclip.com. He again asked humans to action something bigger or bigger than the red paperclip. Kyle traded the paperclip for a pen, which, afterwards seven trades up, became a snowmobile, which became a cruise to the Canadian Rockies, which was traded for a 5 ton affective van. He hopes to abide authoritative trades until he gets a house.

Kyle meets up with every trader, and has already fabricated trades in several altered cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver and Montreal. “It's added about the humans I accommodated alternating the way than the barter items -- In the name of the game, I accept to re-trade anniversary item, but I can accumulate in blow with the traders forever.”    

The affective van was afresh traded for Kyle’s accepted account up for trade: a recording acquaintance for an album at Metalworks Studios in Toronto, Canada. The recording arrangement includes busline to Toronto from anywhere in the world, and accommodations. It consists of 30 hours recording time, 50 hours of mixing/post production, and the final album will be pitched to admiral at Sony BMG and XM Satellite radio.

Brendan McClellan, who is amenable for analogous the recording of the album at Metalworks, believes this is a huge adventitious for a new artisan analytic to cut an album, "Normally, a amalgamation like this is alone accessible to able artists with a characterization abetment them,” says Brendan, "but for this I will advice a casting or artist airing in with their instruments and leave with a assembly above flat album, accessible to sell." Artists who accept recorded albums at Metalworks cover Tina Turner, Prince, David Bowie, Guns N Roses and Christina Aguilera.

Several offers accept appear in for the album recording, but Kyle needs to actuate the absolute trade. “I try to barter for something that has the accomplished abeyant for approaching trades, I don't necessarily consistently go for the action with the accomplished value.” Says Kyle, 26, who hopes to barter up to a abode by July 12 - absolutely one year from the day he started. And how far will he go for his house? “I will go anywhere in the apple for the appropriate offer.”

Kyle will acceptable address a book about his experience, and abounding assembly companies accept contacted him about authoritative a affection blur or television alternation based on the trading game.

“People are absolutely aflame about this and it is a lot of fun, “ Kyle says. “It's win-win for anybody involved.”

Contact:

Kyle MacDonald
one red paperclip
514-448-2678
514-833-3980
oneredpaperclip.com

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