Today’s world revolves around money, but cash in and of itself has no actual value. “It doesn’t feel right when you’re trading with someone and then you’re like, ‘Oh, can you pay for my shipping too?’” She’s spent about $4,000 on shipping so far. While Skipper doesn’t spend any money on trades, she decided early on to pay for shipping. “There’s this 18-year-old guy in London who’s gotten really far, and he’s not even TikTok-famous, but he’s done it on his own, trading with people he knows,” she remembers. Obviously they wouldn’t be so keen to get involved if it wasn’t for the millions of potential customers following Demi’s journey, but Skipper is adamant that anyone can do their own trading project. (The owner of this celebrity card gets unlimited free Chipotle food for a year, plus a catered dinner for 50 people.) Her most recent trade – the three tractors for a Chipotle celebrity card – was offered to her by the fast-food chain after she posted the video about the tractors. Nearly 5 million people follow her on TikTok. Like Kyle Macdonald, Skipper has a large audience. Next was an extremely run- down Mustang, followed by a Jeep, a tiny cabin, a Honda CRV and then three tractors. She again then traded down for a Peloton exercise bike. I’d just traded this really nice Mini Cooper that was probably worth like $8,000, and I pretty much cut that in a quarter.” The necklace’s appraisal value was $20,000, but as she quickly learned, this is not the same as the resale value. She thought it was worth $20,000, but she was quickly told that although it was worth that amount when made, it would only be bought for $2,000. Desperate to get out of the sneaker world, Skipper found a man who had been searching for those $1,000 trainers for a long time, and traded them for a brand new iPhone 11 Max.ĭemi Skipper has traded a hairpin for items including an iPhone and a minivan. “I reached out and the guy really helped me understand how to tell if sneakers are real.” Skipper then went on to trade two more pairs of sneakers, which the first trader advised her on. The camera went for the first pair of collector sneakers she found. So I had to trust that the person I was trading with would send me the camera and lenses,” she explained. “The next trade was really nerve-racking because it was the first one I had to ship. Now she had the eyes of thousands of people on her. Up until this point, her project, named Trade Me, wasn’t well-known. She then arranged to swap it for a pair of Bose headphones, before finding a man on the neighbourhood app Next Door to trade her for an old Apple MacBook.Ī MacBook from a bobby pin: it was a landmark moment. It was the first branded item she received, which made it easier to trade. Then she had to trade outside of her city to meet a couple who exchanged their kid’s old snowboard for a vacuum cleaner. She left the earrings on the porch of a woman keen to get rid of four margarita glasses, which Skipper traded for a vacuum cleaner. And a lot of them are like: I don’t have a trade but I live in this state and I’d be willing to drive your car from here to here, or I have a garage or a safe place where you could keep a trade.” “I get probably 1,000 messages a day on Instagram. People’s eagerness to get involved has been the most surprising thing. She first posted an image of the bobby pin explaining her mission, and traded it for brand new earrings from a woman on Facebook who was excited to take part. “A lot of comments are like, ‘You need to get a job’, and I’m like, Oh my gosh, if they knew I’m working like 12-hour days,” she gestures in disbelief.įacebook Marketplace, Craigslist and Ebay are Skipper’s go-tos. She’s used to early mornings as she’s been working 6am to 2.30pm as a product manager for BuzzFeed. And I can’t trade anyone I know,” she excitedly explains over a 7am video call. Skipper, a self-described “scrappy entrepreneurial type”, was up to the challenge.
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