Dead opossums, and other strange things you could be swapping on Bunz Trading Zone
BY STEVE KUPFERMAN
FEBRUARY 23, 2016 AT 2:26 PM
http://torontolife.com/city/life/bunz-trading-zone-opossum/
Bunz Trading Zone, an unlisted Facebook group where users can barter their stuff for anything except money, has become Toronto’s worst-kept secret. With over 30,000 users on Facebook and a claimed 12,000 on the new Bunz iOS app, the group generates dozens of new postings every day, most of which are attempts to swap mundane items like kitchen appliances and used clothing. Still, more eccentric trades are commonplace, with people exchanging opened packages of birth control pills, half-eaten foodstuffs and even dead animal carcasses. It’s currently impossible to join the group without administrator approval, so here, for those on the outside, are some highlights from the past few weeks, some of them potentially NSFW:
Dead Animals
The trade: This post didn’t lead directly to a trade. But later that same day…
Dead Opossum
The trade: The yoga instructor and amateur taxidermist who made the post seeking dead mammals snapped up this unlucky critter in exchange for a chocolate bar.
Nintendo 3DS
The trade: In exchange for the 3DS, this Bunz user agreed to deliver coffee to someone at their office for a month.
Birth Control Pills
The trade: The user accepted three subway tokens.
Pizza
The trade: Someone exchanged a tall can of beer for this.
A Boat
The trade: None yet, but there have been a number of offers, including a Jeep Grand Cherokee, a trip to Australia, and free movie-production services.
Mannequin Heads
The trade: The user couldn’t find anyone willing to take all of the heads, but someone gave her four tall cans of beer for one of them.
Intercity Key Delivery
The ask: When a Montreal-based designer forgot to give keys to her catsitter before she took off for Toronto, she decided to canvass Bunz for a lead on someone travelling in the opposite direction.
The trade: Bunz itself didn’t lead to a solution, in this case, but the user was able to find someone through another online group, who delivered the key in exchange for a used Montreal monthly transit pass.
The trade: Bunz itself didn’t lead to a solution, in this case, but the user was able to find someone through another online group, who delivered the key in exchange for a used Montreal monthly transit pass.
Massive Collection of VHS Pornography
The trade: None yet, but the user is in negotiations for a Bluetooth speaker.
Bag of Used Dildos
The trade: In exchange for her dildo collection, the user accepted some frozen pizzas.
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