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  • The Esoteric Pony Express

    shop and swap until you drop!
  • Founder: PonyXpress

    exchange, Trade, barter, pony express,

  • Who We Need

    Anybody with anything, who is willing to trade in order to keep the concept moving in the general direction of the end exchange. It works a little like www.swaptree.com did in the earlier part of this century. If you read the book One Red Paperclip, it could go a little like that as well. No money is ever exchanged - just stuff.

     

    We could really use having someone set up an exchange database of some kind. Now that the algorithims are ever so improved over what we had ten years ago, this should be shild's play for one of you geniuses! 

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  • Mission
    We network to form a ginormous new fangled eBay where through a series of exchanges someone from the east coast can give a gift to someone on the west coast via a series of face to face exchanges made countrywide until the final swap is done on the end. It's an esoteric pony express because though someone may want to send a bouquet of flowers to their mother, what happens is a bouquest of flowers might be exchanged for a meatloaf, which gets exchanged for a bale of hay, which becomes a pair of shoes, etc etc noodling its way throughout the countryside ever getting closer to the end recipient, wherein the final exchange is made, maybe a book for a bouquet of flowers.
  • What we can accomplish

    • Bartering reduces our consumption footprints. To the extent that we succeed we will reduce the consumption of raw materials while providing for the needs and wants of a large number of people. Perhaps BookMooch, a book trading site from the early years of the 21st century can serve as a model.

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  • Discuss this superstructure
    • I can see this working really well on a local scale with face to face interaction and agreement - this sort of stuff is going on all the time, particularly in rural areas, and helps build further trust and establish networks and contacts. I guess a challenge is how it could work over greater distances (non face to face) in a world where trust is potentially less easily given and the items or services are less easily traded (presumably the New Pony Express can come into play here?) - for example, what if I wanted to send flowers to my mother who was hundreds of miles away? I guess money could change hands to jump the distance, then go back to bartering nearer the destination, but would be great to have a barter only solution... Magp13.
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