Teen trades cellphone for porsche
 

http://autos.sympatico.ca/automotive...he-convertible

"Teen trades old cellphone for Porsche convertible
July 19th 2010,

A California teenager has traded a cellphone valued at $30 for a 2000 Porsche Boxster S.

According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 17-year-old Steven Ortiz used the 'barter' section of popular classifieds website Craigslist to slowly trade up to the convertible. He started with a cellphone and got incrementally more valuable items over two years and 14 trades.

Some of the items he traded over the period include a MacBook Pro an iPod touch, a 1987 Toyota 4Runner and more.

This is not a new concept, a Canadian was able to trade a red paperclip for a two story farmhouse over a year in 2005.

"A lot of people don't have money right now, in this economy. So they think, `I really need a new phone, but I don't have the money. Here I have this CD player lying around that I don't use anymore, maybe I can trade," Steven's father Esteban told the paper.

Reportedly, Ortiz says a lot of people ask him if they can trade a cellphone for a car "Yeah. It's not that easy," he replies"

wow, i would like to see the transation he dealt over the years ...

from phone to ??? to ?? to ?? and end up with porsche

haha the title is a bit misleading but wow..

me too!

o.....k............

red paperclip? wtf

lol ive been doing that with ipod touch's
but holy shit a porsche? D:

famous story

http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/...paperclip.html

click on the items, this guy wrote a diary

Alright, time to barter my laptop.
I'll see you all at the 2011 RS summer meet with my 458 Italia.

alot to read but the paper clip one is pretty cool

that's crazy

must be one hella bargainer

lame ass shit

1) cellphone valued at $30
2) trade
3) ?????
4) profit, 2000 Porsche Boxster S

seem easy enough. lol

Only in America. Up here in Canada people are smart enough to know what their possessions are worth.

the guy that trade the red paper clip for a house is in canada. reading pwns you.

so..

what would a green paper clip get me?

Maybe this is how hyde gets his cars

trades random shit for cars

What did he trade for the insurance?

Saw this on the news, the kid actually lost in his last trade value wise, he traded a 1975 Ford Bronco, thats actually a collectors item valued at $15,000 for the Porsche Boxster which was only valued at $9000.

^pwned.

i dont think hes worried about that, he was aiming for the car, not the money


haha when i read the title, i thought he acutally traded a cellphone for the car.. damn