Re "I'll Fix Your Computer if You Paint My Office" (June 23), which described the use of bartering by individuals and small businesses: Having been a consultant for many years, in the few instances where prospective clients have suggested bartering, I quickly discovered a fundamental fact -- they wanted to "buy" my services at wholesale, and "sell" theirs at full retail.
The disclosure by StarMedia, whose revenue last year totaled $60 million, comes after it was criticized for other accounting practices, like the waiver of $10.4 million of loans to top executives in the second quarter and the use of bartering to account for about a quarter of all sales.
Since Syria's currency is now worthless, much of the day-to-day business is conducted through use of a barter system.
Many of us are used to bartering, swapping or trading.
Some of them have even been used to barter for furniture, wine and new cars.
Ideally, the foods should be shelf-stable, require no refrigeration, and even more ideally should be easy to use for bartering purposes in the event of emergency.
Traditionally, more than 95% of cashmere from Ladakh has been used for barter with or sale to traders from the neighboring Kashmir region under a treaty with the erstwhile kingdom of Kashmir dating from 1684 (Rizvi 1999).
The earliest Chinese coins are small bronze hoes and knives, copies of the tools that previously had been used for barter.
He used to barter with the Aymara Indians, whose pastures lie north of the village, trading fish for potatoes and quinoa straight from his boat.
And that reinvention was something of a revolution, and one that speaks directly to us, because the way they used money, instead of barter or a straight equivalent in precious metals, required both buyer and seller to accept the abstract idea of value.
This could be accomplished with the infusion of a global, resource-based civilization where all goods and services are available without the use of money, credit, barter or any other form of debt or servitude.
