A year on...

So today, out of the blue, I was phoned by the BBC to do an article for them again. If truth be told, I haven't done anything about the challenge in a year exactly! The watch is collecting dust in my room on the Isle of Wight and I am now in Oxford at University!

But that one phone call has got me thinking... should I start it up again? It was a pretty good story, or will it never be as good as it was? A one hit wonder if you like?

The blog is called biggerandbetteriow... Isle of Wight, so that would have to change but could I pull it off again?

What do you guys think?

Hindsight is a wonderful thing!

So it has been a month since I made the silly trade of the ring to the watch. After finding out the ring was worth up to £500, I now have found that the watch is on sale to £70 at one store. So overall I have mucked up.

I think the only way would be to quickly trade the watch to something easily tradeable (an iPod for example) and then try and work my way up again.

However at the start of my challenge I was always asked "When do you intend to stop the trading?" and I would answer "When it stops being fun." Well... ladies and gentlemen the fun as gone out of trading so I think I am going to give the challenge a break for a while, UNLESS I get an offer very soon (and I will consider ANY OFFERS now!)

The watch is lovely, brand new - brilliant present for your girlfriends/mums/wives! So unless I get any offers this will be my last post for a while.

Thank you all so much for following my progress and I am afraid I did not make it to a house but it was fun while it lasted!

Damn and Blast!

After the excitement of yesterday I have had some annoying news today. My jeweller expert emailed me today saying that the lady who swapped the watch with me came to see him today. She bought along the ring that I had to have it valued... apparently it was worth about £500!!! Damn and blast.

So basically what I have done is traded a £100 item for a £500 item and then traded that for a £200 item. So overall I am up but that ring could have been worth a lot more in the game.

Let's hope for a quick trade of the watch (although I have had no real offers for it yet.)

I am stupid sometimes.

The watch.

What a completely crazy day in this game of Bigger and Better. As soon as I put the adverts online for the ring I was snowed under with offers coming in! But then one came in that caught my eye.

It is a ladies Rotary watch originally worth £185. It is a really nice watch and I know that people will want this (let's hope anyway!).

So after only 2 hours with the ring, I now have a watch. It is brand new and still in it's box. Open to offers as per usual!

The Ring.

I am the owner of a 9 carat gold ring with 7 diamonds... cool eh?

After the article in the County Press I had a lot more interest for the bike. Offers of a couple of sofas, weight bench and a phone but none of them worked out in the end. Then a lady on Facebook messaged me about the ring. Her ex gave her the ring 3 years ago and was just sitting a draw. So the swap was perfect for her and a good swap for me as the end is now going again. We proposed the swap (see what I did there ;) ) and the rest is history!

Over a month passed with the bike and to be honest I lost the sense of fun and excitement about my challenge but now I am back!

I am looking for any offers for the ring... game on.

New interest!

The article in the County Press has really kicked things off again! Firstly a massive thankyou to the County Press, the article was great (only found 1 mistake!!) and the picture was massive.

I have got interest from some freelance journalists in Portsmouth who are going to phone me up next week for a chat. This would be incredible as that would be for the national newspapers! Also interest for the bike has risen...

I have had offers of an Xbox Kinect, a weight bench with weights along with others. The main positive from the article is that it seems the game is back underway!

Anyway I have news about my Gap Year to Malawi. I fly out on 2nd January 2012, which is only 114 days time... excited!

The Article!

I have made it to the IWCP Website and I will be in the paper on Friday!

http://iwcp.co.uk/news/news/africa-is-the-target-for-trader-david-40546.aspx

Anyone who is interested, I still have the red mountain bike.... it is a Saracen Hazzard 7005 Mountain Bike, Red/Black, 24 Speed Twistgrip Sram 3.0 gears, with disk brakes.

I am open to any offers to please email me at biggerandbetteriow@gmail.com or d-a-v-i-d@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks to the County Press!!