What was the first bargain?

beltdrive on 20/12/2024 - 15:13

Any bargain historians? What was the first bargain in recorded history?

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    • jv on 20/12/2024 - 15:23
      +15

      Only 4 upvotes…

      OP should have been banned…

      • Drakesy on 20/12/2024 - 15:51
        +3

        JP wanting the penalty box for christmas.

        vgood

      • Aureus on 20/12/2024 - 18:06
        +3

        Looks like one of those upvotes are from a sockpuppet account. 😲

      • donga100 on 20/12/2024 - 20:12
        +3

        OP should have mentioned it was their first time posting and to go easy on them.

    • jv on 20/12/2024 - 15:27
      +6

      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/2
      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/4

      Looks like the first serial spammer on OzBargain…

    • xylarr on 21/12/2024 - 09:24

      Can't be sure, but it says the deal might be out of date. Can someone confirm?

  • jv on 20/12/2024 - 15:22
    +1

    What was the first bargain?

    gold, frankincense, and myrrh

    • fantombloo on 20/12/2024 - 16:41
      -3

      Preceded by having a biological kid without a sexual partner.

    • iminabrons on 21/12/2024 - 12:52

      Nah. I prefer the one where you can do whatever you like to whoever you like/hate no matter how evil and you still get a free pass to the Great Beyond if you "Kiss the Ring" before you die. What a Deal!!!

  • Some Human on 20/12/2024 - 15:24
    +3

    Would probably have to be the free cooking fuel the cavemen took advantage of when lighting struck a stick and made fire.

    • freefall101 on 20/12/2024 - 16:35
      +1

      A million years later we have an ozbargainer trying to use their free gas to heat their apartment as a cost saver. Some things never change.

      • donga100 on 20/12/2024 - 20:10
        +2

        Free park bbq too.

  • Gdsamp on 20/12/2024 - 15:24
    +2

    The earliest known use of the word "bargain" was in the Middle English period, around 1375, in English Wycliffite Sermons. The word comes from the French word bargaigner.

    It is an open foly to bargayne wiĂž preestis for siche preier.

  • holdenmg on 20/12/2024 - 15:24
    +3

    Details are sketchy…

    There was Adam, Eve, an Apple and a Snake.

    This is pre-ACL stuff. lol

    • MS Paint on 20/12/2024 - 15:25

      Lol and I bet the snake could talk

    • jv on 20/12/2024 - 15:26
      +5

      an Apple

      and there started the first fanboys…

    • bargaino on 20/12/2024 - 15:32
      +3

      Genesis 25:

      31“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

      32“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”

      33“Swear to me first,” Jacob said.

      So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright. 34Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

    • djkelly69 on 20/12/2024 - 16:25
      +1

      This is pre-ACL stuff.

      Ahh, so under the TPA..

    • TheRealCher on 20/12/2024 - 18:16

      1Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
      2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”
      4“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
      6When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
      7Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

      probably the first big ripped off bargain…

  • MS Paint on 20/12/2024 - 15:26
    +3

    Fun fact. The third item ever posted was taken down due scotty spamming his own site.

    • MS Paint on 20/12/2024 - 15:58

      First Forum Post: Melbourne : 40% off at Adidas Bourke St for Family & Friends

      Forum post deleted. Post as a deal.

      How times have changed.

  • cashless on 20/12/2024 - 17:29

    Noah did the first BOGOF with his animals

  • sharkyoz on 20/12/2024 - 18:01

    A mammoth skin purse

  • TheRealCher on 20/12/2024 - 18:32

    if we're really going to get into first "known" bargain, it was enkidu, created by Anu in response to humans pleading for something to be done about Gilgamesh - https://sacred-texts.com/ane/eog/eog03.htm

    there was a bit of booty and then a bit of wrestling

    https://sacred-texts.com/ane/eog/eog04.htm

    and then there's missing parts:
    About a column and a half of the beginning of the Old Babylonian version on the Yale tablet are so broken that almost all the text is lost. Gilgamish and Enkidu have now become devoted friends, thus strangely stultifying the purpose for which Enkidu was created, and now is set afoot the great expedition against the famous Cedar Forest guarded by the Ogre Humbaba.

    https://sacred-texts.com/ane/eog/eog05.htm

  • mapax on 20/12/2024 - 20:17

    Wasn’t this topic posted the other week and deleted?

  • pegaxs on 20/12/2024 - 22:43

    Well it certainly wasn’t that guy that complained about the quality of his copper… That was not a deal and he let the merchant know he was displeased.

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