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Barterpalooza
In New York, a caterer is offering services for free in exchange for new carpeting for her home. An Alaskan drywall laborer is looking for “what you got you don’t need” in return for his services. In hot, hot Phoenix, an air conditioning contractor is seeking services in auto repair, landscaping or carpet cleaning, for which he will barter his own trade.
Currency isn’t going out of style, but in the Recession, new old ways of trade are coming back. In the Depression, barter was a key form of business and “People with skills in high demand did especially well.”
Today, bartering ads on Craigslist are up 100 percent from last year, according to the company.
As we wrote last month:
As the downturn continues, more people will be bartering their skills, and some will even be able to turn those skills into lucrative businesses. People with a knack for specialty gardening can gain bartering leverage by producing hard-to-grow herbs and organic vegetables. Those who know foreign languages can trade on translations skills. Smart folks will be thinking of both what they enjoy doing and what they imagine might be in demand in their particular region.
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