Originally Posted by BellaBoo
All it takes is one bidder. Long before the internet a college kid placed a small classified in several upscale business magazines saying poor college student struggling, please send me just $1 to help me stay in college. The boy received over $2 million dollars and he did finish college.
That was a much smarter kid.
He realized it's easier to get someone to part with a buck than the impossibility of anyone spending $1.5mil on this listing.
Sort of like the trading a red paper clip and ending up with a house. ;-)
http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/...p-project.html
http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/
Genius!
I don't know if he even went to college, but now, according to his CV, he is the world's foremost expert on trading red paperclips for houses.
How many of us can say that?
:mrgreen: