April 16, 2009 at 5:00 am by Mike Sowden
Why Buy When You Can Barter? Top 20 Trading Websites
Buying lots of new things seems to be going out of fashion.
It’s not hard to see why – you can’t spend what you don’t have. And while we’d always advocate shelling out for the best-quality, well-priced (i.e. not super-cheap) products, there’s another way to get exactly what you want on a tight budget. It takes a little more effort – but it’s fun, creative, and it’s been popular for thousands of years. It’s bartering.
Products or services, a straight swap or a fierce haggle…bartering is an online boom industry that’s never …
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