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Q I'm used to bartering at flea markets and always manage to get a good deal. But when I tried my tactics at a recent craft show, my friend told [...]

Bartering is a great strategy for saving money. An author traded lectures on writing for a cruise, and a woman traded malamute puppies for obstetrical services. Exchanges such as the Global Exchange Network can help make bartering easier. A list of exchanges is given.

Barter Web sites differ widely in inventory, ease of use, and customer service. Choosing one involves some trade-offs For a few years running, Jim Green would pick up the phone, [...]

Bartering helps small firms get more -- without dipping into their cash In the last few years, Denver optometrist David J. Newman has gotten a new fax machine, carpeting and [...]

Two small, and complementary, revolutions have been gathering momentum - one in the North, one in the South. In the Majority World, people too poor to get bank loans have [...]

By tradition the poet laureate of Great Britain annually receives not only a stipend of £70 but also the value of a tierce (forty-two U.S. gallons) of wine, paid in [...]

You want to trade in your bike for something newer. You roll up to my dealership, paperwork in hand, ready to deal. As part of this transaction, I will inspect [...]

Bartering in the travel and meetings industries is becoming more common. The differing experiences of two companies who tried bartering are discussed . Based on those experiences, conditions to be met in planning a barter are presented.

Since it went on-line last August, the ApexQ database of buy/sell offers for surplus or used materials and machinery has acquired over 1000 subscribers. 'We have over 40 million lb [...]

At The Pigs pub in Edgefield, Norfolk, regular customers have their own way around the credit crunch. A sign in the pub promises, 'If you grow, breed, shoot or steal [...]

Computers, especially personal computers, were catalysts in Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's drive toward perestroika and glasnost. in an age in which IBMS are replacing ICBMS as the mark of advanced […]

Soviets blaze trail toward futures The USSR took the first step toward creating a futures market Sept. 19 with the opening of the Moscow Commodities Exchange (MCE). The brainchild of [...]

Like many other industries, the office furniture segment has felt the effects of a down economy in recent years. In 2001, the office furniture industry recorded shipments of more than [...]

We use money as a simple way of exchanging goods and services. Instead of giving the dentist eight chickens for filling a tooth we give her $50. The dentist can […]

Pierre Renyi says that he has few qualms about arranging elaborate international barters of lumber or meat for his books, but he drew the line at a MiG-23 jet. Renyi, [...]

HONNOVER, Germany (FNS)--Moscow may not have milk or meat, but it's got polypropylene rugs. Mohammed Farid, owner of Egypt-based Oriental Weavers, just returned from Moscow with an $8 million barter [...]

CHELSEA, Mich. -- The Digital Dealers Association (DDA) has announced the availability of DDa Tradenet, an on-line computer trading network targeted at the secondary market. In testing since October, DDA […]