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Trading up, from a Cloudberry to something really fancy!

Hey all,

I want to try an experiment.

Do you know "One Red Paperclip"?
It's the true story of a canadian man who went from a red paperclip to a house, simply by trading for bigger/better things.

So yeah. I got a pleasingly tart Cloudberry, and I want to trade you this cloudberry for something bigger or better, maybe  a Coffee or a Pair of Lips, or access to a wood tree in Groddle Meadow.

I'll stop the trading when I get a house in Alakol but I like my bog house in Kalavana so perhaps something at least equally fun to have, like a complete cubimal set.

Since Kake's offer for a 12-week subscription for weekly baby animals*, I now accept "service" trade offers. I also accept group bids, but I prefer to deal with one frontglitch for the sake of practicality.

Hope to trade with you soon!

TRADE HISTORY

• One Cloudberry for 5 Yellow Crumb Flowers, from Coolbettycakes
• 5 Yellow Crumb Flowers for a Musicblock DB-5, from acreditando
• A Musicblock DB-5 for 100 Chunks of Sparkly,  from Meridian
• 100 Chunks of Sparkly for a 12-sided Die, from Kake
• A 12-sided Die for a Walloping Big Diamond, from Daffy
• A Walloping Big Diamond for 24 Earthshakers, from TK-855
• 24 Earthshakers for 3 Extremely Hallowed Shrine Powder, from Opportunity
• 3 Extremely Hallowed Shrine Powder for a 12-week subscription for 3 weekly baby animals*, from Kake
• A 12-week subscription for 3 weekly baby animals* for 4 Cubimal Boxes, from Kookaburra
• 4 Cubimal Boxes for a 12-week subscription to papernaut's Surprise Care Package of the Week, from papernaut

What exactly is papernaut's Surprise Care Package of the Week? Each weekly package will have an approximate value of 3000c. The holder may make specific requests, but the package will always contain surprises.
The subscription begins upon papernaut's reception of the contract.

* WAIT, what was that thing about subscription for baby animals?
Instead of proposing to trade one item, Kake offered to send 3 baby animals and the food needed to grow them to adulthood, every week for 12 weeks. This offer is open to group bids : Kake can send the baby animals to different people every week given enough notice. This offer has an approximate value of 16 000c and a worth of exactly eleventy hundred thousands units of Awesome.

Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • This is a great idea!

    For it to be totally above-board, you should promise to give the final most valuable thing to someone totally random instead of keeping it.  

    That would make this the best idea ever. :)
    Posted 14 months ago by Paddy Pablo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Items mined using Earthshakers is a wash, since I have the skills and resources to make more as I need them. While it might seem that I lose on the initial transaction, I can recoup quickly with more Earthshakers & mining (plus the added possibility of gem drops).
    Posted 14 months ago by TK-855 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *bump*

    To clarify my previous message, I said Yes (double negation = yes) to Kake's offer of weekly animals, once I get her coupon/contract/IOU Note she'll receive the 3 EHSP :)

    Oh, and group trades are possible, you can invest now to get weekly animals!

    I wonder now what I'll trade for that :)
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Paddy Pablo: that would be awesome, wouldn't it? or perhaps, instead of someone random, I should share the final prize with all the people who traded with me :)

    @TK-855: what's cheap for some is precious for others... Earthshakers help miners who don't have all the cocktail crafting skills ;)
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Balatik: Right, I understand that - to a younger Glitch or a one without Blending (it's the Flaming Humbaba that's Cocktail Crafting), an Earthshaker is a nice boon. To a Glitch who has the skill/resources to make more with a small investment of time, it's still valuable, but in a different manner. Kind of like the difference between potential and kinetic energy.

    Or, rather, it's a way of looking at how we place value on things not only in a game economy, but IRL (often enlightening, but sometimes difficult/disturbing to look at).
    Posted 14 months ago by TK-855 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @TK-855: oh yeah, blending... my bad :D

    When we get down to it, everything in Glitch depends on the time we are willing to spend. If you wanna get rich, you gotta spend a lot of time mining with Mining 1, less time with Mining 4, even less time with Flaming Humbabas (because you won't need to get out and get stuff to eat)... Time is the essence :)
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *bump*

    so, no one's interested in 12 x 3 baby animals?

    If I don't get a reply in 6 days I'll end the project. I might bump this thread once every day though (except if the admins tell me it's not to be done). Someglitch might offer a good trade :)
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wonder what would be offered? Personal chef services for x weeks? Personal ordering services (like get x of some item) for x weeks? Well, I dunno if people can top 36 baby animals.
    Posted 14 months ago by Alcie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'll give you 4 unopened cubimal boxes for the animal contract.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Kookaburra: OK, that's a deal!
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Alcie: it would be interesting to get more offers for services, like the animals!
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The current trade is 4 Cubimal Boxes!

    Make your offer!
    You can trade objects and possessions, but also "services", like Kake's Subscription for Weekly Baby Animals! And if you don't have enough resources, don't hesitate to get together with your friends and make a group bid :)
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well phooey, I was going to offer up my 10,000 Meadow house, since they WERE all sold out and WERE in high demand, but then I realized that a whole bunch more were added, and then the whole plan imploded :(
    Posted 14 months ago by Cupcake Subscriber! | Permalink
  • :) @ Cupcake
    Posted 14 months ago by Pirate Apples Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'd like to introduce a little uncertainty into the mix. For the four cubimal boxes, I'm offering a 12-week subscription to papernaut's Surprise Care Package of the Week.

    Each package will be worth approx. 3000c, with value calculated based on vendor prices (or average auction prices for items not available through vendors). The packages will contain assortments of food, drinks, powders, seasoned beans, gems and other goodies. The recipient may request particular items, but there will always be some surprises.

    The total value of the subscription is 36,000c.
    Posted 14 months ago by papernaut Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I got my first babies from Kake!  They are sooooo . . . adorable.  The next 12 weeks each will hold 3 tiny smiles for me. :)
    Posted 14 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @balatik: splitting it with the people who traded with you would not be quite as cool as giving it to someone random, but the promise of that split would be a great way to incentivize participation :)
    Posted 14 months ago by Paddy Pablo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @papernaut: OK, I'll take that trade of a 12-week subscription to papernaut's Surprise Care Package of the Week for the 4 cubimal boxes :)

    @Cupcake: sadly I might choose not to accept specific houses (esp. Meadow Cottages), because the current system doesn't accept the transfer of ownership... I'll have to think more on that though.

    @Kookaburra: haha, I'm happy you like it :)
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Balatik, what I'd do is send you the 10,000 currants, sell the house and then immediately message you with the link to the real estate listing so you could buy it.
    Posted 14 months ago by Cupcake Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @balatik: Awesome! Now we wait for someone to offer you a 50K home, or to turn you into the 12th Giant.
    Posted 14 months ago by papernaut Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @papernaut: hahahaha yeah, that would be sweet ;)
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *bump*

    The current trade is a Subscription to papernaut's Surprise Care Package of the Week!

    Each weekly package will have an approximate value of 3000c. The holder may make specific requests, but the package will always contain surprises... The total value of the Subscription is a whopping 36 000 currants!

    Yay!
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For those of you wondering what kind of currant value to assign to opened cubimals (something mentioned in this thread near the beginning), I posted this last night in another discussion.

    List of Cubimal prices:
    www.glitch.com/forum/genera...

    It calculates the relative value in currants of the different kinds of cubimals based on their rarity (from a sample size of 600+ cubimal boxes).
    Posted 14 months ago by Paddy Pablo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would suggest a two hour party funded by a person in exchange for the surprise packs.
    Posted 14 months ago by Paxton Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Paddy Pablo: wow... that's some really hard work :D
    Now I see the dream of getting a full set of cubimals is going to stay a dream... I don't know how I could trade up to 700k currants :D

    @Paxton: ooh yeah good idea, Party Packs are a good high priced trading commodity...
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Reading the post about the new Icons of the Giants, the set of all 11 of them is evidently also worth about 700k.

    "Worth" of course is relative, especially for items that can't be properly auctioned. :D
    Posted 14 months ago by Paddy Pablo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Paddy Pablo : yeah, it's harder to quantify the total worth of that kind of thing...
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *bump* No-one for the Subscription to papernaut's Surprise Care Package of the Week?
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Let me bump this up for you. I'll play!

    Are you willing to trade for a Nylon Phool Party Pack?
    Posted 14 months ago by ping Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I sadly wait the next step, even though I can't come up with a good trade.
    Posted 14 months ago by Darius Atrepes Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My offer (for the care package subscribtion)

    "Buddy Welcome to Glitch Housing Pack thing" (im not the one for the fancy names)

    1x 30.000c House (obviously not the house itself... more like the money :)
    1x GardenGnome
    1x all relevant Papers
    3x Tree Beans
    18x Crop Seeds
    1x Bag of mixed tools
    Posted 14 months ago by Jeffrey Goines Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've an idea what the top item should be...

    Try to reach a full set of Icons.
    Posted 14 months ago by ICountFrom0 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ouch, I'm away for two days and I have two excellent propositions...

    ping's Nylon Phool Party Pack is great, because it's a fixed-price thing, but its value is kinda lower than the current value of the current trade...
    Jeffrey Goines' Buddy Welcome To Glitch Housing Pack is a great idea, but I'm afraid I might not be able to trade it up : it's a pack directed at someone without a house, and at this level of trading (around 30,000c) it's mostly people who have already a confortable life... someone willing to trade up from that pack would already have the means for a house and all that, no? Perhaps it's a pack made to be donated?

    I can't decide which to choose yet. Perhaps you could help me with your opinion :)
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Perhaps ping could be persuaded to throw in a couple of taster packs for other parties too?  I agree you might have trouble trading the housing pack.

    I'm really enjoying seeing how the trading is going, and I'm kinda hoping that someone will start another one when this is finished.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kake Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hah! I am usually easily persuaded, but... where's the fun if every trade is a no-brainer? :D
    So, I won't this time.

    Decisions, decisions, decisions.... ;)
    Posted 14 months ago by ping Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ping: I'll take your offer.

    @Jeffrey Goines: I'm really sorry, I won't take your offer, for the reason that follow :
    Even though yours is the most interesting value-wise, I won't be able to continue tu trade further, because I won't be very much online in the coming week or two.

    @Kake: by the way, you can start a new trade ;)

    So yeah, i'll take the Nylon Phool Party Pack and throw the raddest party ever! All of you will be invited, I don't know when I'll throw it though... I'll post here when I know!
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Heh, I have too many things on my plate already — don't want to add an extra responsibility :)  But if someone else wants to start a new trade then I promise I will participate at least once.

    I love the idea of blowing all your gains on a party!
    Posted 14 months ago by Kake Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Kake: yeah, I guess I have to do it :)
    Posted 14 months ago by balatik Subscriber! | Permalink
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