In a two year barter experiment, Steven Ortiz, 17, traded an old cell phone and kept trading and trading until at the end he manouvered his way in to a Porsche Boxter. According to the original ABC report, ” But all this took a lot of time and effort. “A lot of my friends are [...]
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 [...]
According to the New York Times, Craisgslist CEO Jim Buckmaster indicated that the site sees over 200,000 new barter listings per day and has had a 10% increase since February of 2009, and a 100% increase since 2008. He explained that the “stupendous” growth rate had cooled along with the worst of the economic crisis. [...]
On January 15th I published a story as part 2 of an experiment to trade a brand new computer and some furniture to anyone that wanted it. I posted the items on Craigslist, U-Exchange, BarterQuest, SwapTree, and PayMeWithAChicken. I used the same descriptions, the same pictures, even in the video I tried to post to [...]
I am uncomfortable calling this part 3, so part 2.7 of the battle of the internet barter sites it is. This is an update to part 2. In part 2 I posted items available for trade on four different websites. One week later, I have this to report: Craigslist generated no responses aside from the [...]
In what registers as a 11 on our scale of weird-things-to-trade-o-meter, an ad on Craigslist advertises a left testicle available on barter in exchange for Super Bowl Tickets. High capacity, O negative, well traveled, well maintained, larger than average, only used for @ 22 years! (was in storage before that) 1 available! History of producing [...]
Finally, the battle continues! Part 2 of the battle: posting items to trade. I’ve been meaning to write this piece for a month and a half, but with the Holidays and the year end, I haven’t had the time I’ve wanted to dedicate to this piece. This morning I spent 4 hours going over the [...]
The Food Channel released their top ten trends in the food industry today. Number nine on the list was bartering. According to their site, the anticipate an upswing in direct and organized trade as cooks and restaurants attempt to fill empty seats and keep doors open. In fact, BizXchange and Craigslist are specifically mentioned in [...]
With new sites popping up all the time, the internet-only barter competition is heating up. In this series of articles, I pit the top five internet barter sites against each other for the grand prize: recognition and kudos from our site! Our battle will have a number of rounds of judging: domain names, sign up [...]
Paul Garrett of IMS was interviewed, along with a number of IMS clients, for a barter expose in the New York Times over the weekend. Along with the normal explanations of barter currency and exchanges in general, the article highlights some member experiences with IMS like this… With trade dollars, she said, she has bought [...]
