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Here at SBC, we love to share the great experiences that our members have with barter. The following is a guest post by Rob Gates of Gates Marketing.
“I’ve been involved in barter for about 28 years now. Sometimes heavily, sometimes forgetting all about it for months at a time.
About three years ago I had the joy of meeting Satan's oldest daughter. She was the attorney representing my wife who had decided that she no longer desired the pleasure of my company and did a remarkable job of finding and freezing every bank account and credit card I had. The one and only thing she missed was my barter account.
Prior to that I had always used my barter funds for nifty self indulgences. Diving trips to the Caribbean, expensive dinners, jewelry for Christmas gifts, things like that. Suddenly I found myself in the rather awkward position of living on my barter. Amazingly enough it not only worked but it worked surprisingly well.
They found me a hotel to stay at, loaded me down with gift cards and coupons for food and laundry services and basically provided everything I needed to live in reasonable comfort for the thirty days it took to get a court hearing to be granted a small allowance to live on.
Once I got my allowance I was able to rent a small house in the ghetto. It would have been a miserable place to stay but once I bartered an electrician, plumber, exterminator and alarm company it was reasonably nice. After that I bartered for furniture and dishes and I was good to go.
Today my life has stabilized and I'm back to living well but I learned two very important things. The first is that you can barter anything; the second is who comes through when the chips are down and who doesn't. Key members of SBC were a part of the organization that came through for me when I needed them. Now that they've opened their own exchange I expect great things from them. Of course the fact that they found a motorcycle on barter for me about 10 minutes after they opened the doors probably has something to do with those expectations!”
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“I’ve been involved in barter for about 28 years now. Sometimes heavily, sometimes forgetting all about it for months at a time.
About three years ago I had the joy of meeting Satan's oldest daughter. She was the attorney representing my wife who had decided that she no longer desired the pleasure of my company and did a remarkable job of finding and freezing every bank account and credit card I had. The one and only thing she missed was my barter account.
Prior to that I had always used my barter funds for nifty self indulgences. Diving trips to the Caribbean, expensive dinners, jewelry for Christmas gifts, things like that. Suddenly I found myself in the rather awkward position of living on my barter. Amazingly enough it not only worked but it worked surprisingly well.
They found me a hotel to stay at, loaded me down with gift cards and coupons for food and laundry services and basically provided everything I needed to live in reasonable comfort for the thirty days it took to get a court hearing to be granted a small allowance to live on.
Once I got my allowance I was able to rent a small house in the ghetto. It would have been a miserable place to stay but once I bartered an electrician, plumber, exterminator and alarm company it was reasonably nice. After that I bartered for furniture and dishes and I was good to go.
Today my life has stabilized and I'm back to living well but I learned two very important things. The first is that you can barter anything; the second is who comes through when the chips are down and who doesn't. Key members of SBC were a part of the organization that came through for me when I needed them. Now that they've opened their own exchange I expect great things from them. Of course the fact that they found a motorcycle on barter for me about 10 minutes after they opened the doors probably has something to do with those expectations!”
If you’re in the market for exceptional mailing lists, mail assembly/processing and advertising design, contact Gates Marketing at 770-455-9662.
