By the last few the site had gained quite some notoriety so being part of it suddenly skews all the trades to being highly in his favor.
Honestly, most of the trades are baffling to me. A generator is a lot more valuable than a camp stove. A snowmobile is a lot more valuable than a keg and a sign. I'm not sure there's any insight to be gleaned from this except that people in the early 2000s were willing to make illogical trades at their own expense to be part of a wacky internet thing.
This is about the same time a burned piece of bread was sold to an online casino for $28000. As a marketing expense, perhaps well worth it.
Re:One red paperclip
by simlevesque on Saturday December 26, 2020 @11:15PM
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In Canada people traded with him to become part of the legend.
You can read more about the snow globe on the one red paperclip blog. It still kind of left me scratching my head though: http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/2006/05/one-kiss-snow-gl...