Trading Up for Charity

[robanna]

You may have heard about the guy that started with a red paperclip and traded up to a house. It's based on a kids game called 'Bigger or Better.'

Well, I have an 014 o-ring that I'd like to trade with you for something bigger or better. I'd like to stick to scuba related items will be open to anything.

I'll keep trading until I get 'the house.' I'll sell it at auction and give the money from the auction to a charity in the name of the person that gave it to me. There choice of charity, too.

Since shipping would bankrupt me, what I have in mind is a virtual trade to me and you ship the item to direct to the person that trades with me.
Example: Someone trades me a mask for the o-ring. That person holds onto the mask until I someone trades a pair of fins for the mask. At that time, I'll send the first person the o-ring. When someone trades a tank for the fins, the first person will send the mask to the person with the fins, and so on...

So, if you have something bigger or better, post it here and lets make a trade.

[Black-Gorrilla]

i dont think this is gonna work... just seems to messy..

is a snorkel keeper better than a o-ring?

[robanna]

How do you think I could 'clean' it up?

[mwhities]

Originally Posted by Black-Gorrilla

i dont think this is gonna work... just seems to messy..

is a snorkel keeper better than a o-ring?

No, no it's not.

Michael

[Black-Gorrilla]

Originally Posted by robanna

How do you think I could 'clean' it up?

this is something that will turn massive if it does pick up, and then it will be very sloppy, mainly because you will have 100+ people trying to trade each other... just my 2psi

[robanna]

you will have 100+ people trying to trade each other

They'll be trading with me, but I'll never physically have the item which means they'll ship their item to someone else.

[gtjason2000]

I'm confused.

[robanna]

I'm confused.

Trade me something for the o-ring. I'll trade that for something else and so on until I've gotten something big in trade. I sell that item and donate the money from the sale to a charity in your name.

[rubberduck]

it could work but then if other people start trading up is where it will get very messy.

As long as the trades are just with you it should work.

[yankeefan21]

I'm not going to trade you fins for an o ring then have to pay to ship my fins to some dude in Guadalajara. That's where I see this falling apart.