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BBU Donates to Cove Center For Grieving Children

Barter Business Unlimited created an adhoc fundraising program this week for The Cove Center for Grieving Children that already has raised over $150,000 for the Connecticut based nonprofit organization. “In Connecticut and beyond rarely has a dry eye been seen since Friday. Our children, friends, neighbors, communities and customers are traumatized by the event that […]

GSN Brings Barter to Cable TV

GSN is getting into the barter business. The cable network has picked up eight episodes of Family Trade, an original series exploring the barter business as employed by a Vermont car dealership. The series will explore the Stone family’s GMC and Ford dealership in Middlebury, Vermont, where founder Gardner Stone will trade a new car […]

Barter Popping Up in Greece

According to an article in the Atlanta Business News, Grecians are ditching the Euro before it lets them down, and many are moving toward and using local exchange currencies. A small but growing minority in about a dozen Greek towns are using an alternative exchange system to help them survive the crisis. That’s been attracting […]