David Wallach of IRTA was quoted in the Miami Herald on Monday. IRTA president David Wallach has seen membership jump 15 to 20 percent in the past year, whereas normally it increases 5 to 8 percent annually. “Businesses are looking for ways to survive,” Wallach said. “If you have excess capacity to do it, why [...]
As part of a customer service segment, the THV news in Little Rock, Arkansas reports on the best use of barter, specifically U-Exchange. Check out the video for the full story.
I’ve been milling over whether to write a piece on the current trends in the barter industry and my predictions for 2010 and the industry for a couple of weeks. It seems there is enough movement in the industry right now to write something not only coherent, but informative, and perhaps be a little prophetic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
NYDailyNews.com today contributed to the frenzy of barter related news stories with another list of how-tos and where-tos. This time the list is longer than most of the others. Sites like BarterQuest.com, SwapTree.com, U-exchange.com, SwapTreasures.com and TitleTrader.com let you swap almost anything online. PaperBackSwap.com and BookMooch.com are great for trading books; SwapStyle.com, ClothingSwaps.com, DignSwap.com and [...]
CBS Channel 4 in Denver picked up a barter related story spotlighting barter industry new-comer U-Exchange. U-Exchange.com is a currency-less barter classified system, which pairs buyers and sellers in barter transactions. While not a particularly novel idea (Craigslist has been doing this for years), U-Exchange has been able to claim 1 Million page views per [...]
