Take the ancient practice of bartering, add the Internet and the economic diversity of the Bay Area, and you get the colorful, chaotic and often improbable bazaar of the Craigslist barter section. I ...

If you want it or need it, God knows it's gotta be on Craigslist. I think of it as another way to save money, to consume less, to recycle and reuse. For all of that and a feeling of camaraderie with ...

A bartering Brooklyn funeral director pulled the plug on his offer to give a construction worker a free funeral. Intense media attention – and a squabble with his landlord – forced Peter Dohanich to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stories abound of bartering during the Great Depression. From the doctor who got paid in chickens to the grocer who clothed his family by trading food for shoes, resourceful folks ...

1. It’s the new national pastime. Okay, baseball still beats out barter. But given the economic downturn, many people are reverting to this ancient form of commerce. Craigslist recently reported that ...

A graduate student trades the bananas he grows to a local café for gift cards. On Craigslist, a beekeeper on Hawaii Island says he wants to swap a Langstroth beehive for a sailboat or greenhouse.

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Cash, check or a cord of wood for that doctor visit? As health care costs climb, old-fashioned bartering has seen brisk growth since the economy soured. Hillsborough, N.J.-resident Robert Josefs ...

— -- Cash, check or a cord of wood for that doctor visit? As health care costs climb, old-fashioned bartering has seen brisk growth since the economy soured. Hillsborough, N.J.-resident Robert ...