Trade Me
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| Founders | Sam Morgan |
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| Founded | 1999 |
| Ceo | Jon Macdonald |
| Headquarters | New Zealand |
| Number of employees | 543 |
| Subsidiaries | Tradevine Limited |
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| AB 99 Limited | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 808546 |
About Trade Me
Trade Me is the largest internet auction website operating in New Zealand. Managed by Trade Me Ltd. , the site was founded in 1999 by New Zealand entrepreneur Sam Morgan, who sold it to Fairfax in 2006 for NZ$700 million. Trade Me was publicly listed as a separate entity on 13 December 2011 under the ticker "TME".
TikToker Demi Skipper trades up from a hairpin to a house
Imagine if all you needed to own your own house was a worthless hairpin.
Well that is exactly the feat Demi Skipper has achieved - by Trading Up items on TikTok.
She started the Trade Me Project in May 2020 and swapped various things along The Way , including a pair of earrings, an iPhone and three tractors.
And the 30-year-old, from San Francisco , California, is now the proud owner of A House in Nashville, Tennessee.
Inspired by Kyle MacDonald, who traded His Way from a single red paperclip to A House , in a series of online trades in 2006, Ms Skipper swapped the hairpin for a pair of cheap earrings.
From there, she upgraded to four margarita glasses And Then a vacuum cleaner, trawling sites such as eBay, Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist to find The Right types of items.
Her first few trades were done In Person around San Francisco .
Later trades were made through road trips across the US.
And along The Way , Ms Skipper uploaded videos asking for trades to TikTok and Instagram and explained how her ultimate aim was to get to A House .
The vacuum cleaner turned into a snowboard, to headphones, to a laptop, to a camera.
She then swapped various pairs of Nike trainers before acquiring an iPhone And Then a 2008 Dodge Caravan.
The Vehicle 's owners drove it all The Way from Minnesota to San Francisco - and Ms Skipper's followers grew in number as the story of her Trade Me Project became more exciting.
From there, Ms Skipper got a Mini Cooper Convertible - and a couple of weeks later, she traded The Car for a necklace she thought was worth $20,000 (£15,000), which turned out to be worth less than $2,000.
Free foodAfter a frustrating Two Weeks of searching, Ms Skipper traded the necklace for a Peloton exercise bike worth $1,800.
The Peloton bike was traded up to a Mustang - and by last December, Ms Skipper had traded up to a tiny woodland cabin.
The Cabin became a Honda CRV, then three tractors, then a Chipotle celebrity card entitling her to a year's worth of free food and a catered party.
Ms Skipper managed to trade The Card for a $40,000 trailer with a Tesla Powerwall And Then , finally, she made her last trade by swapping the trailer for her very own house near Nashville.
A video she uploaded shows The Moment she saw her house for the First Time .
More Than five million people have followed her journey.
And in January, Ms Skipper and her husband plan to move from California to Tennessee to renovate their new Home .
Source of news: bbc.com
