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The return of the Barter

with cashflows getting tighter and peoples pockets getting shallower. Now would be a good time to return to the concept of bartering.

Obviously it needs to be balanced with a good cash income, but the reality is bartering works. I can say that first hand as i am often designing sites in exchange for services and / or products. Works like a charm.

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John Kelcher

John Kelcher

02:02 PM, Thursday 26 February 2009

"Barter is smarter. It is an older system than a cash economy and has many advantages. Under a barter system there can be no amassing fabulous wealth, or hording or funding wars. There's less room for speculation and there is no financial usury. It can be formal like the P.L.E.B.S system I used to belong to, or slightly more corporate like bartercard or completely informal as neighbours, friends and family. Barter tends to be local goods and services and is just what the doctor order..."

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