�One Red Paperclip� Book Published
The 25-year-old
Montreal resident, Kyle Macdonald, who went on to fame after he
decided that selling shock absorbers wasn�t his future, has written
his story in the new book, �One Red Paperclip.�
When his
decision to leave Table Shox (selling shock absorbers for restaurant
tables) he got serious and sent off resumes in a quest for another
occupation. It was at this moment that he got the idea to take one
of the red paper clips (binding his resumes together) and trade it
on the Internet for something bigger and better...with the idea of
eventually bartering up to a house.
His story
covers the 14 steps taken before acquiring a small house in Kipling,
Saskatchewan (Canada). What his journey shows is that a market
exists where the participants have neither a strong desire for the
items they bartered for, or a wish to convert the items into cash.
In this case
the barter�s goal, it seems, was to become better known, part of a
great story. With the exposure on the Internet, this book, and the
upcoming movie deal with DreamWorks, I�d say they accomplished what
they desired.
