Here are barter comments from companies out in the trenches—the impartial real world—that you and I deal in, day in and day out. The marketplace always tells a story, here is the feed back we (BarterNews) have recently received.


BarterNews Reporting Very Helpful

Dear Sir,

I’ve been reading the Barter reports of yours and I find bartering quite interesting. I believe that bartering has not evolved in the Greek market yet and I would be interested to deal with.

I am 46, married with two children and a working experience of more than 20 years mainly in sales and marketing.

I am interesting in receiving your reports regularly in order to learn from it.

Thank you and all the best.


NPR Wants To Discuss Alternative Currencies

Hi there,

I am from NPR, I wanted to get in touch with you for a piece we’re considering doing on currency laws. It stems from the news item about the Liberty Dollar, an alternate currency that some guys were making that was just shut down by the federal government. We have a bunch of questions about alternate currencies, hopefully you can help us answer them or at least you can point us in the direction of someone who can. Please give me a call at your earliest convenience so we can discuss further. Thanks.

New Book Coming By Bernard Lietaer

Dear Bob,

I am finishing a new book entitled “Of Human Wealth” that should
appear early next year, and would like to update the following data
which I got from Barter News a few years ago… Sincerely, Bernard


Dollar’s Fall In Value And American Companies Increased International Business

Good Morning Bob….

I have an interesting story developing within the company that I think could make for an interesting reference point if you are working on any stories regarding American businesses taking advantage of the weakening dollar.

Over the past year, Allied Steel Buildings saw a dramatic rise in Canadian business, and is now seeing that growth shifting in to Central and South America as well as overseas in Europe and the Middle East (especially in the markets for aviation structures). This international growth has been in tandem with the weakening dollar, and overseas customers are beginning to strongly take advantage of the situation.

If you are working, or will be working on a story about businesses that are surging in the wake of a sagging domestic currency, feel free to get in touch with me and I can get you any relevant info or interviews you may need.

Direct or Indirect Trading, Advantages & Disadvantages With Both

In looking over some old issues of Barter News, I came across an
article “Which is Better, Direct or Indirect Trading” I thought that
the most important reason of all for trading was
” to save cash.” Is this not so? Thanks for your help.

You Should Make Introduction

Dear Bob,

I noted messages in Barter New Blog from people in China.
They should be put in touch with Sun Xi who runs the Beijing Barter company.
He hosted my visit last July.

Hope all is well,
Tom Greco

From China, One Man’s Observations

Bob:
The winds of change carried by the sands of time…It doesn’t look good from
cyberspace (according to) banking editors, prices will rise, bonds will fall.
Here in China, prices are going up, but the citizenry know how to control
their spending habits. There is however a lot of debt paper here in China.
People small families and large financial groups in real estate are way over
extended. More consolidation, but it won’t be enough for the first hit.

My wife lived through the Cultural Revolution, when there were no fridges!
Hard to believe! in 1969-70. We trade petroleum products and are opening up
barter systems in this commodity. We normally accept bullion and stocks
to trade upwards of 43.5 million minimum of petroleum product equal to about
100,000 MT’s of the type chosen.

We have been discussing how to leverage our ideas into your system, but
fear that such a outward statement may cause panic in certain markets that are
nominally traded with the US petrodollar. Now talk is in progress to create
a EURO traded petro-dollar through the Kuwait/Qatar principality. But that is
a year away.

What OPH (our company) does know is that creative trading in barter will be
an event horizon very soon. We foresee a cold winter ahead and hope that
those unable to put dollars aside for the heating bill, will have to develop
some deal way with the fuel oil companies. Credit won’t work. So what to do?
It brings back a memory of the time when our home in Connecticut with its
inefficient oil burner, ran out of oil and we forgot to pay the bill.

My dad who was with MS and living in that big modern Frank Lloyd Wright home
woke up blue. I threw on the blankets, called the fuel oil company, telling them
that we have a check for them to pick up. The oil arrived and the heat went on.

Dad told a story: “when you were a baby and we were living at the cottage on
the river, one snowy cold night, the fuel oil gasket froze and I had to take
you from the crib all blue and put you into the bed with mom. I then went outside with a blow torch and defrosted the pipe line.”

Trying times are ahead and it would be best that you have a forum set up on this.
I did not see one yet, but when you do, I have a lot to say there.

Yours in Beijing, China

Strategies and Business Development in China, OPI

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