Funniest trade you ever made/What non-card items did you get or recieve in trade

[Republicaninmass]

I traded some empty sweet caporal packs for a 1909 Presidential (taft/sherman) ash tray. I always found that one kind of funny

[Leon]

I have traded pre-war cards for legal services .

[T206DK]

I paint and sculpt miniatures for various game and model companies around the world. I currently trade painted military miniatures to a model collector in England for T206 cards he finds there. It's worked out pretty well for me.

[Jay Wolt]

When I had a card store, a customer who was a pizza delivery guy at night
proposed a trade for a Roger Clemens Topps rookie for a pizza dlvd that night.
Since I needed dinner and ya can't go wrong w/ pizza...I accepted.

[thekingofclout]

Back in the '77-'82 range, I would trade cards for concert tickets with a guy that had a ticket agency here in So Cal. He was from New York and was a big Yankee guy.

I remember seeing The Who, Queen, The Cars, Beach Boys, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt, and plenty more... Good times.

[FrankWakefield]

I accepted some ball cards as payment toward legal fees years ago. The client had seen some baseball stuff in my office, he brought cards along on his last office visit and offered some cards toward his fee.

Went to a show and bought a matted, unframed piece that had a photo of Fred Snodgrass and his autograph on a 3x5, bought it for $15 after a bit of haggling, years ago. Sold it to a fellow collector a few days later for $20, he'd been with me when I bought it for $15. Then I bought it back from him about a month later for $25. He'd thought he didn't have his autograph on anything, I thought I did, we were both mistaken at the time. I keep thinking I might get a new matte cut that would accommodate the photo, autograph, and a T206.

[prewarsports]

When I was a teenager in the mid-1990's I got into a car wreck when my Jeep Cherokee slid off our driveway on some ice and hit a tree (happens all the time in Maine). It was about $500-$1000 worth of repairs and I traded ALL the repairs to a mechanic that I found out was a card collector for a 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan rookie. When that card went through the roof in 2000-2001 I thought I had made a bad trade but is retrospect now, I think it was pretty good on my end. I remember it being Mint but I am sure it was only in the 6-7 range.

Also, not really a "trade" but when my current wife and I were dating in college (late 1999) and I was broke, I took my nicest item I owned and put it on ebay and told her that whatever it went for would be what she could spend on the diamond for her engagement ring, I had already bought the band. I figured about $1000 and she had been looking at diamonds in that range, it was an 1889 Spalding black band trophy bat issued to a team with all the names of the players painted on the barrel etc. She watched with GREAT interest and it closed at about $2000 so she got herself a little bigger diamond. It was a good trade.