Why trading goods for services is making a comeback 12 Articles

by Colette Georgii

Trading Goods for Services is Making a Comeback Bartering is a system of trading for goods or services. Bartering and Barter Clubs have been around for a while. The first Barter Club started in Ithaca, New York in the ...read more

by Rachelle de Bretagne

Why trading goods for services is making a comeback With the tax-man getting involved in everything we earn, it is hardly surprising that people are reverting to a time when services could be swapped for goods. In coun...read more

by John Graham

Bring back old time bartering? Doesn't that sound a wonderful idea, exchanging your fresh produce for a few piano lessons for little Katie, and caring for your neighbor's garden in exchange for twenty gallons of gas? In ...read more

by A.W. Berry

Trading goods for services is a legitimate form of business enterprise recognized by the United States Internal Revenue Service and other international federal regulators. What's more barter, has existed throughout the his...read more

by Mak

In olden days in Indian sub-continent and many other part of the world there was Zamindar or very rich persons owning lots of agricultural lands. They needed labor to cultivate those land to produce food grain, fruits, veg...read more

by Marco Angioni II

You may have participated in this kind of transaction in the past. Basically, you purchase a good from some one and instead of paying cash for that good, you offer your services as compensation for the good. Of course th...read more

by Cynthia Smith

I live in an economically depressed area. When I moved here and opened my business, I had no idea that I would find myself trading car repairs, vet services and even cosmetics for my services. In this small rural area, i...read more

by phlegmatic

To barter involves trading goods without the use of money. Modern economies operate efficiently because they use money instead of being forced into bartering. The problem with an economy based on barter is matching u...read more

by Susan Hibberd

As the economy slows down, and inflation rises, people start to look at alternative ways of getting the things they want. One of the best of these is trading services. In Britain, there is a system called LETS(Local Exc...read more

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by Eileen Hughes

Whatever you call it, trading goods for services, or helping one another. I believe it has been effective for generations, and therefore is not making a so-called comeback. Personal values vary; you may think a ring is w...read more

by Violet Fortune

Today, there is no such thing as hard cash - the dollar, our basic medium of exchange, used to be backed by gold; it is now backed by air - when you pay cash for something, you're paying air! Yes, what you have in your ...read more

by Glenda K. Fralin

Money values change with the ups and downs of world economy. People value does not change, nor does the value of trade. Here in the Heartland of America, farmers and trades people have been exchanging good for service...read more