Bartering reaches back to 6000 BC with the Mesopotamian people that traded goods before currencies were invented. Bartering is defined as “the process of obtaining goods or services by direct exchange ...

Ah, Passover. The Jewish holiday that epitomizes them all: a formal meal (the seder), family flying in from all over the place, copious amounts of drinking (four glasses of wine!), and traditions ...

With today’s slowing economy, consumers and small businesses have been increasingly inclined to utilize the age-old tradition of bartering. The concept of trading goods and services without the ...

Trading your expertise for the skills of someone else is a great idea for cash-strapped businesses. But bartering can go sour – and herein, I share some tips I wish I hadn’t learned the hard way.

Remember when you were a kid on the playground and you swapped your peanut butter and jelly sandwich for your friend’s Oreo cookies? Well, “grown-up” bartering works the same way. The “value” of the ...

In today's economy, small business owners sometimes look to the oldest form of commerce – the exchange of goods and services, or bartering. The IRS wants to remind small business owners that the fair ...

Bartering is the trading of one product or service for another. Usually there is no exchange of cash. Barter may take place on an informal one-on-one basis between individuals and businesses, or it ...