February Going Well

Hi all...and thanks for following my journey.

February started off really well.  I set some goals for myself and the project, and one was to make two trades this month (totally do-able considering last month).  By the first weekend, I'd made those trades!

I had 5 Mac OSX games posted since the beginning of the project, and someone contacted me through Craigslist about my copy of Diablo II.  Now, if you're not familiar with this game, it debuted in 2000.  In video game years, it's ancient (but a great game!).  The most you'd get for it on Ebay would be $10, if you're lucky.  Someone offered me Starcraft II (an equally awesome, yet much more modern Blizzard game).  This new game could easily pull $40 in a sale.  Now that's a tradeup!

The next day, I met up with Devon, an old friend, who was salivating over my newly acquired iPhone 3G.  He's a graphic design guy, and he agreed to give me $350 worth of his services.  So I drafted up a transferrable contract and we met and signed it.  If I can't trade this, I'll still be able to use his services for my business.

The day after that, I nearly traded this contract!  I contacted Rachel Anzalone, a local life/wellness coach who had a Craigslist post looking to trade for graphic design services (who'da thunk it?).  I was really excited, but we couldn't come to terms.  But I was CLOSE!

Anyway, it's going well so far, and I think we'll get some more trades going.  Thanks for the help, and for following the progress.

If you have any suggestions as to how to make this project work better, I welcome them in the comments or via email (startuptrade @ gmail).

Trade on.

Goal Met, Doubled Even!

January closed with a bang!  I met my goal of one trade, and actually got another trade accomplished on the same day.  Saturday, January 29th, I traded a 32" Dynex 720 LCD HDTV (with admittedly low contrast ratio) for an iPhone 3G in great condition.  I trekked up into western Cleveland to meet Tim for the trade.  I found out it was his son's birthday and the TV was the boy's gift.  Very cool!  He presented it to his son later that day.  Talk about timing...

Not two hours later I met with a young couple from Canton (who graciously came all the way to my place).   They took my old Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook (poor thing has a bad battery, not much of a laptop...) off my hands in exchange for a Briggs and Stratton 1kW gas generator and a jump box (portable battery with clamps to jump your car anywhere).  These are great items to have in an Ohio winter, and I hope they are marketable.  Their combined value new is quite comparable to the new value of the MacBook, but these items are less than a year old whereas my MacBook was over three years...

So, my January goal of one trade was doubled.  I've set a quite feasible goal of two completed trades for the month of February.  The iPhone likely has a recipient, and his offer is quite unique.  I think it'll be cool to see what I can turn it into.

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