Perry has traded me 12 brand new, still in their boxes, double-headed gumball machines (with stands) for the subscription to trade-ideas. Thanks Perry!
Here is an opportunity to start (or grow) your own vending business - with 12 new machines. If any readers would like to offer a trade for these machines, email me and let me know. They are currently located in San Diego, CA.
Also, if you don’t have any ideas for a trade, but would still like to help out - any publicity that you can direct this way would be very helpful - thanks!
I started with one blue paperclip and will continue to trade things until someone trades me one share of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-A). Here is a picture of the trades so far:

The Liberty Vending Catalog brochure lists a “Double Head Machine with standâ€? priced at $299. Twelve of these would be about $3500. For the purposes of this estimation, I’ll say their value is half that - $1750. I bought the paperclip at CVS - it was one of a box of 45 vinyl coated giant paper clips, that cost me $1.49. That would give the single blue paperclip a value of about 4 cents.
So I have traded the paperclip to the vending machines for a profit of about 4,374,900%. One share of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-A) is currently priced at $106,000 and the gumball machines are about 1.65% of this value. So I will need to get about a 6000% return on trading these gumball machines in order to achieve my goal. I’ve already returned over 4 million percent on this project so far, another 6000 percent shouldn’t be too hard, right?

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