Shazam! It's magic.....thanks Traidcraft and Zapper

After my first 'trade' I broke even with some minor office sundries via ebay. 

Then over the last weekend, whilst passing a local community hall, I saw some Traidcraft banners offering fairly traded goods, so I went in. Inside I had a cup of tea and then saw other 'bits and bobs' being sold for another related charitable cause.

A chap on one table explained that he had cleared out some unwanted xbox games, books etc. and would be giving the proceeds to charity. I rather liked the look of a couple of games so I bought the box that they were in......wait for it......for  a £1!

If that sounds a bit mercenary, sorry, I did offer more money- anyway after returning home I went on the rather interesting site Zapper. 

Now I think I remember the founder of Zapper being on a UK television show called Dragon's Den- asking for investment- they got it, hence its website. The idea is that you enter the bar code of either books, CDs or DVDs and they offer to buy it from you. If it's a fair price, you accept their offer and you box it up and drop it off at a local 7/11- free postage and then you just wait for the money to arrive!

I entered a couple of bar-codes- an initial fail as they didn't want some of my old books, then I entered one of the xbox games.Wow, they offered £8 for it and £5 for an utterly uninteresting book!!! I therefore have magically turned......£1 into £13. It is possible!!!

Planning my next 'trade' right now, will £13 turn into £26? Fingers crossed. X


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