From Herald Tribune:
The IBE negotiates several million dollars in trades in the Southwest Florida every year and its volume is up 25 percent from this point last year, with expectations of greater gains in 2011.
Few things cannot be bartered.
Dental work, attorney’s fees and air-conditioning services are some of the most common items, but vacant land, motorcycles, hotel rooms, concert tickets, advertising space and retail products and services of all sorts are also part of the IBE’s everyday mix.
Unger, with a background in marketing, and Mary Unger — who has been a real estate agent and a human resources director — started IBE as Barter Banc in the garage of their rented home 20 years ago.
