The camera went for the first pair of collector sneakers she found. âI reached out, and the guy really helped me understand how to tell if sneakers are real.â Skipper then went on to trade two more pairs of sneakers, which the first trader advised her on. Desperate to get out of the sneaker world, Skipper found a man who had been searching for those $1,000 trainers for a long time, and traded them for a brand new iPhone 11 Max. Demi Skipper as she trades items for valuable sneakers. Photograph: Demi Skipper/Instagram A family of Trade Me fans offered her a red minivan for the iPhone. While it was the most surprising upgrade, Skipper remembers it as the most emotionally difficult. A couple were so inspired by the project that they drove the van 29 hours from Minnesota to San Francisco with their two kids.