Car2go, a Daimler initiative to increase fleet usage by making minute to minute or hourly car rentals available in highly populated urban areas, struck a barter deal with the city of Austin to help ease parking costs. Austin City employees will have access to the vehicle inventory of car2go in exchange for 20 parking places. [...]
Continue →Bartercard Britain was featured in a barter related story on the UK news site, the Daily Mail. The article showcases a number of Bartercard members and successful traders.
Yvonne Hill and her husband Stephen, 55, joined Bartercard seven years ago shortly after taking over the 24-bed Hotel Penzance and The Bay Restaurant.They hoped that bartering would [...]
Continue →According to highlights in the SEC quarterly filing, IMS in the previous 9 months has accomplished:
Employee costs were reduced by more than $1,300,000 compared to the first three quarters of 2008.
Total Liabilities were reduced by more than $1.5 million compared to December 31, 2008.
Net income from operations improved by more than $1,100,000 over the [...]
In an SEC filing November 12th, ITEX, one of the two publicly traded barter exchanges in the United States, disclosed closing a 1 million dollar credit line increase with US Bank, effectively giving ITEX a 2.5 million dollar revolving credit line. According to the filing, the loan
will be used exclusively by the Borrower for working [...]
Ruffin Trading Company of Georgia is initiating a new program: a community currency. For ten years Ruffin has been leveraging building materials in a barter arrangement. In response to the poor local economy, Ruffin is advancing a new community currency model created to integrate barter exchanges and the community currency called, “Unity Currency”. Some of [...]
Continue →Drug dealers are making the best of the down economy by engaging in barter. Not for guns, not for drugs, not for food. Drug dealers are bartering for borrowed cars. Here’s how it works: a drug dealer needs a car and trades a dose to a user for use of their car for a short [...]
Continue →EDGAR-Online,the leading commercial provider of free and premium access to U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) filings and related business intelligence on the Internet, (EDGR) filed their Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-09-30. The report shows a decrease in barter advertising expense. See the full report at http://www.gurufocus.com/StockLink.php?type=sec&symbol=EDGR&date=2009-11-16&report=10-Q
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In another weekly press release from HE-5 Resources Corp, the company finally manages to say something concrete and real. The company is finally rolling out products related to barter:
We have now begun the final sequence to become operational and building revenues in our new business endeavor the “Trading Barter Bank”. The sequence was initiated last [...]
The Barter Exchange Trainers, a training group exclusive to the barter industry is offering a new online course in networking. A combination of web resources, video, audio and written instruction, the program suggests that networking is one of the most effective ways a barter exchange owner can increase membership. Get the full details at http://bit.ly/1qI1bp
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BarterQuest, the online barter classified company, has added a number of new categories and features to respond to the conservation and “green” movement. New major categories like “Environmental” will now include specifics like car pooling and trade of green services.
Additionally, tags and designations for eco and green friendly goods and services will be available for [...]
