After Colin ran a piece on Quirky News about a man trading a penny up to some artwork worth about £2,500, we thought we want a slice of the action.
These posts track our quest take a simple British penny and trade it up in to something spectacular. Will we walk away a penny poorer or help make the world a better place in the global swap shop? We not quite sure how it'll all unfold but we're looking forward to finding out. So come with us for a journey through the world of Craigslist, Gumtree and random strangers with goods to trade.
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Now then, on with the quest. You can track our progress below this intro.
Our quest continues! We started with a penny, trading this for a mini stapler. We then traded the stapler for our latest possession – a VHS recorder complete with 3 videos (Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinnafore, Crash Crazy, and some … Continue reading
What’s a stapler worth? That’s the question we’re asking today as our trading quest continues. We last left off with an advert on Gumtree and Craigslist offering up our stapler pre-loaded with 28 26 (we counted wrong) staples. For a … Continue reading
With the first trade finally out of the way, we now have our next item – and what a beauty it is. A blue Rexel mini stapler with approximately 28 staples already loaded! It’s good to go and hungry to … Continue reading
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and what you have here is no exception. This is the exact moment that we traded up our shiny 1998 UK penny for one tiny Rexel stapler with approximately 30 staples … Continue reading
