I’ve read a number of accounts, recently, of people who are reverting to an all barter lifestyle in an attempt to simplify or pacify their modern life. Today I read of a British man who has taken barter to the extreme, giving up on using money entirely at the expense of many modern conveniences. Eighteen [...]
Craigslist has long been a bastion for strange things to trade for, but this is one for the history books. A man in Gilbert, Arizona attempted to trade a used iPod Touch AND a quarter pound of weed for a 32 Gb iPad. Police moved in for the arrest, as you can imagine. Check out [...]
I read an article on the history of barter which included a list of ancient barter problems including: Barter has many difficulties which are briefly described below: 1. Lack of Double Coincidence of Wants: In order for act of barter to take place, it is necessary that the persons with matching requirements are brought together. [...]
For the last six months I have been tracking the industry movements of ITEX. Most of the real action started when Steve White became the CEO. Steve is a savvy marketer and someone with vision. In a conversation with him in March, I learned that his aspiration for ITEX is much larger than the inudstry [...]
Apparently Vegas Vince is right again. WIS 10 in Columbia, South Carolina, reported on the activities of the Barter Company recently, along with some 50′s-esque video reminiscent of Leave It To Beaver that describes barter as a simple quid pro quo transaction. Indeed, the reporter actually says, “It might be a little dated, but when [...]
Sue keeps coming up…over and over…she’s the butt of jokes all over the internet. Even Jay Leno is commenting on the chickens for check ups phenomenon. The question is, can Sue or the barter industry overcome the negative stigma attached to barter? Can we band together and fight the established idea? Can we free barter [...]
I’ve been watching in awe while mainstream media and the blogosphere alike are painting Sue Lowden to be a crazy person. The story? Sue mentioned in a town hall meeting in Nevada that one way to help ease the health care burden would be to barter with doctors. My perception is that she meant to [...]
In San Francisco, a former publisher was sentenced to five months in prison in a tax fraud case. The publisher had failed to report barter related transactions, even though those transactions were being reported to the IRS… Green failed to report at least $400,000 in income, including income from bartering – an exchange of goods [...]
I have seen dozens of articles in the last six months all saying the same thing: if you are going to survive the apocalypse or nuclear war or what-ever-other-cataclysm-we-can-think-of, you need to develop your bartering skills. And while I agree with them, that barter is a skill and that in the event that currency disappears [...]
In my journey to find barter related news, I ran across a lengthy story about backyard chickens and the culture that is forming around the idea of home-production. The article, written by a lawyer who raises his own chickens, describes how the new urban elite want to be self-sufficient, independent, and less tied to the [...]
