During the current economic climate people are rediscovering the advantages of bartering and swapping. Using items they have or skills they can offer in exchange for what they need can be a great money saving option.
My most recent bartering experience was with my buddy to till my garden. When he was done we gave him a package of steaks from our freezer. We were able to plant our garden and he got a nice meal. If what you are looking to barter or trade for is not available from friends and family here are some online options you can try.
Craigslist has a section devoted exclusively to bartering. Just post what you are looking for and what you have to exchange.
Swap Treasures – Swap, barter, buy, and sell goods and services.
U-Exchange – Barter services and items and trade everything from houses to motorcycles.
Favor Pals – Swap services with others. If you know what you want but not what to give they offer a “hints list” of ideas.
UISwap – Buy, sell, trade, barter and swap…with live chat.
Swap At Home - Post items you don’t want anymore for coupons then use the coupons to get items you want.
Trade Attic – Register with them to buy, sell and trade your stuff.
Barter Quest - Post what you have and what you want and they will try to match you with others.
Swap Online – This site is purely for trading and bartering your services and items.
Labor Trader – Buy, sell or trade local services.
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i just love using favorpals.com! there is nothing else like it!
ReplyDeleteWhitewilly.com is very cool as it allows you to barter for things you dont want to get what you do want in a single click. Unaccepted offers are actually more valuable sometimes than accepted offers and its free while in beta.
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there is a new site coming it is still in Bata
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This bartering site has just integrated Facebook and Twitter - a very friendly social network for swappers.
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and anyone who wants to start their own barter club, check out curomuto.com to setup a barter site. barter helps all us small business owners!
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ReplyDeleteHello all, Try this new Barter, Buy, or Sell site that just launched. Its www.Javotrade.com
ReplyDeleteHey, I just looked at that new barter site Javotrade.com Listed some things there. It was very easy to use. Thanks for telling us about the new site.
ReplyDeleteHi, also tried a few of the sites. Barterquest.com is definitely in the first ranks for trading goods and services. Cannot say much about the real estate section. Any experience with that?
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ReplyDeleteSwaphog.com is a new one that seems like a safe way to swap your higher ends electronics as well as games and other gadgets.
ReplyDeleteI've switched over to bartering recently for most of anything I can get without having to shell out cash. There are a couple sites out there to use, to connect with people who are looking to trade/swap items or even services (carpentry work for auto work, etc). One of the sites I use is Baarter.com - http://baarter.com
ReplyDeletein this world of so many barter sites, here's a search engine which lets you search multiple barter sites at once. makes it easier to find what you're looking for without checking each barter site individually.
ReplyDeleteI saw on the news a few weeks ago about a website where you could work for what I think they called barter bucks. You put in one hour for one buck. You then in turn could use the bucks for an hour of labor from some else on something you needed done.
ReplyDeleteDo you have any idea what website that was. I've googled and yahoo'd but can't find anything.
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Great website! I actually came across another great barter website its called www.Barterwiser.com
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip on www.barterwiser.com. Very cool site. I like that when posting an ad, you can easily select from a dropdown whether you are offering something or needing something. Really makes it easy. It also makes it easy to see who is offering items and who is needing items whith "Offer" and "Need" appended right to the ad title.
ReplyDeleteI've got a free website where you can trade for art and odd objects. You just have to submit something odd or arty and tell me a story: http://www.bartersauce.com.
ReplyDeleteI am searching for a good reliable barter/swap community. My preference is swapace.com (good reputation, established, an Australian company) and viaswap.com (a 'starter' company based on my native country Canada). Did anyone heard of any of these two? Thank you for your help.
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ReplyDeleteif you don't verify, it's pretty useless
Anonymous is right. It is useless if you don't verify.
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ReplyDeleteIt's a free service trading barter site with no registration required even. It's so simple and organized that you can find whatever you want. No businesses are allowed, however. The site was designed for the betterment of humanity to help the working class man & woman, hehe.
Check it out!
Swapmamas. Com for mamas and kids stuff etc great site
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I checked out www.this4that.biz
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I can barter my things and also set up a profile that allows me to add my blog to sell my other stuff for cash.
best of both worlds. www.this4that.biz
My favorite site is www.barterquest.com
ReplyDeleteTraded my nissan to family van in just few days.
I found this website where you can do favors in exchange of Favor Points which you can use to obtain other favors from anyone alse in the world:
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In this way you are not forced to pay the favor back to the same person.
Check out http://swapstorm.com
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ReplyDeleteMost of the bartering sites listed are services rather than tools. They make you PAY CASH to TRADE? I thought the point of trading was to not have to spend cash??
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I found a new site that looks like it may have some promise, looks like it is going to be a portal site for bartering. www.BarterCentral.ca
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