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Bartering for goods

AlpineAlpine Registered User regular
edited May 2009 in Social Entropy++
I just saw a commercial for Mighty Taco saying that they will take your old and unused gold and jewelery, weigh it on a scale, and then give you something like 10 tacos for an ounce of jewelery

Is this really what the economy has come to? What are the best things you have ever traded for?

When I was in grade school I traded a bunch of Crazy Bones for a Waynes World game boy game, it was ridiculously hard but I had tons of Crazy Bones so it was worth it

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    JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    man

    tacos are delicious.

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    That is amazing

    Find me a copy of this commercial

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    ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Oh my god! Crazy bones; I totally forgot about those.

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    makes more sense than cash4gold

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    redfenixredfenix Aka'd as rfix Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I'll buy it at a high proice

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    Punsie McKalePunsie McKale Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I traded Street Fighter: The Movie for street fighter 2: tournament edition and godzilla movie

    I won that day

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    AirAir Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    i havent seen slap bands in years

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    DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I'd trade in old crappy gold for delicious tacos.

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    AlpineAlpine Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
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    ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I traded money for an iPod touch on craigslist a while ago.

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    i always traded my little debbie snacks for string cheese in elementary school lunch. i feel like it was an even trade.

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2009
    I'm pretty sure they're not actually taking gold for tacos. It's just a funny commercial.

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    AlpineAlpine Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Its relevance as a discussion starter remains in tact

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    AirAir Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    jokes on them

    tacos arent worth much now but they appreciate exponentially

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Air wrote: »
    jokes on them

    tacos arent worth much now but they appreciate exponentially

    nu-uh, its like a new car, in that once you drive it off the lot, the value plummets.

    (the lot is your butt)

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    M.D.M.D. and then what happens? Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I want some taco bell so bad

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    CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    god, cash4gold is so fucking sketchy.

    You can tell just by watching their cheap commercials. "Send us your gold and we'll mail you a check for what it's worth! We promise! Pinky swear!"

    Of course, it turns out you can almost always get more money for your jewelry at a pawn shop.

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    Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I know this is a joke but you'd be a fool to trade gold for a bag of Tacos.

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    RabidDeathMooseRabidDeathMoose Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Also you'd be a fool NOT to...

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    so i got a $100 gift certificate to chipotle as a best man gift from a wedding two weeks ago. at the moment, the card is down to about $20 D: oh noes burritooooooes

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    Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Quiet or you'll summon the food snobs.

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    vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    god, cash4gold is so fucking sketchy.

    You can tell just by watching their cheap commercials. "Send us your gold and we'll mail you a check for what it's worth! We promise! Pinky swear!"

    Of course, it turns out you can almost always get more money for your jewelry at a pawn shop.

    Putting gold in an envelope and sending it through the mail seems like such a remarkably poor idea to me.

    Especially when it's an envelope that has the words 'CASH4GOLD' or whatever on it.

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    edited May 2009
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    ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Of course, it turns out you can almost always get more money for your jewelry at a pawn shop.

    That would normally make sense but I doubt that's true now. Pawn shops are probably so overloaded they can't afford to buy anything whereas these gold buyers are melting down the jewelry to make money in the booming gold market.

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    MetacortexMetacortex The Prettiest Zombie Coeur d'CoeursRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Air wrote: »
    jokes on them

    tacos arent worth much now but they appreciate exponentially

    You didn't even refridgerate it, you spineless lobster.

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    Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I have two large pill bottles full of gold shavings from my time with a jewelry manufacturer.

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    AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    lostwords wrote: »
    so i got a $100 gift certificate to chipotle as a best man gift from a wedding two weeks ago. at the moment, the card is down to about $20 D: oh noes burritooooooes

    Holy shit, two weeks? Gross.

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    DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    lostwords wrote: »
    so i got a $100 gift certificate to chipotle as a best man gift from a wedding two weeks ago. at the moment, the card is down to about $20 D: oh noes burritooooooes

    Holy shit, two weeks? Gross.

    It's Lost.

    I'm surprised it lasted that long.

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    We have had a more local sort of Cash4Gold for as long as I can remember, so Cash4Gold never really bothered me

    Dude's called Good Ole Tom

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCzAH0y-QU8

    That isn't one of the super sketchy ones, but you get the idea

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    AlpineAlpine Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW8d4oZ_UCE

    I see this like five times a day

    Them and Airport Plaza Jewelers, where jewelery doesn't cost you an arm and a leg!

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    MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I remeber Oliver, he seems to be well for himself these days.

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    jackaljackal Fuck Yes. That is an orderly anal warehouse. Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I'm selling my scrap gold to Al Swearengen for liquor and pussy.

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    in england I traded my kitkat to a kid named Brent every day

    for pogs

    I had a lot of pogs

    I still have a lot of pogs

    sometimes I take them out and look at them and sigh longingly

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    BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I traded a laser pointer for the Goosebump book 'Night of the Living Dummy'

    Also, my dad is a doctor so we'd get a lot of pens and shit with pill names on them and I had some for Viagra. One girl thought it was so funny in middle school and begged me for it. I traded it for a kiss.

    Prostitution++

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