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Bartering Basics: Determining Fair Value for Successful Trades
Bartering Basics: Determining Fair Value for Successful Trades
Bartering Basics: Determining Fair Value for Successful Trades
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Bartering Basics: Determining Fair Value for Successful Trades

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"There will be a twin year [2020] from which will arise a queen [corona] who will come from the east [China] and who will spread a plague [virus] in the darkness of night, on a country with 7 hills [Italy] and will transform the twilight of men into dust [death], to destroy and ruin the world. It will be the end of the world economy as you know it." Nostradamus Quatrain, 1561

Are you ready for a world where barter and trade are the primary ways we survive?

Introduction to Book

Chapter 1 - The History of Barter
Trade Routes
The Silk Road
Trading Posts
Events that Drive Barter Activity
Trading During Plagues and Natural Disasters

Chapter 2 - What You can Barter or Trade
Goods for Goods
Services for Services
Goods for Services
Services for Goods
Garden Produce for ...
Trading for the Use of ...

Chapter 3 - How to Establish Value
Equal Value Transactions
Putting a Value on Fruits & Vegetables
Putting a Value on Service Skills
Putting a Value on the Use of ...

Chapter 4 - Establishing a Barter Baseline
Creating Your Own Database of Barter Values
Finding Trade Items of Equal Value
Inferring Local Rates

Chapter 5 - Other Things to Consider
Food Shelf Life
Food Expiration Dates
Taxes

Chapter 6 - How to Get Started
Negotiating a Win-Win Transaction
When to Walk Away from the Trade
How to Terminate the Trade
Unexpected Results

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LanguageEnglish
PublisherBrenner Information Group
Release dateMay 1, 2020
ISBN9780929535258
Bartering Basics: Determining Fair Value for Successful Trades
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Robert C. Brenner

Robert Brenner is an engineer, scientist, educator and business owner with graduate degrees in electrical engineering and management. He is a retired U.S. Navy officer and completed eleven nuclear submarine deployments. He also worked in the defense industry and is a ecognized pioneer in microelectronic research and development.   He is the author of 64 books including Power Up! The Smart Guide to Home Solar Power; How Solar Works, Backyard Solar Applications, Bigfoot Encounters in Michigan's Thumb, Electronic Connectors, Supernatural and Strange Happenings in the Bible, Pricing Tactivs, Descriptive Language for Writers and Speakers, Describing Action, and The Metaphors of Like. He also wrote over 275 articles on business and computer applications.   He has been a guest speaker at national conferences and symposiums and taught at the high school, community college, university, and graduate school levels. A futurist, he enjoys the challenge of research and is currently sharing his knowledge with business and home owners worldwide.

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    Bartering Basics - Robert C. Brenner

    RESEARCH NOTES

    Bartering Basics

    Determining Fair Value

    for

    Successful Trades

    by

    Robert C. Brenner, MSEE, MSSM

    Copyright 2020 All rights reserved

    Author’s Research Notes

    Brenner Information Group

    ISBN 978-0-929535-25-8

    Published in the United States of America

    Smashwords Edition

    April 2020

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    INTRODUCTION

    CHAPTER 1

    The History of Barter

    Trade Routes

    The Silk Road

    Trading Posts

    Events that Drive Barter Activity

    Trading During Plagues and Natural Disasters

    Bubonic Plague and Trading

    Coronavirus and Trading

    CHAPTER 2: What You Can Barter or Trade

    Goods for Goods

    Services for Services

    Goods for Services

    Services for Goods

    Garden Produce for …

    Trading for the Use of …

    Examples of Trades that Pleased Both Parties

    Acts of Kindness During Disasters

    CHAPTER 3: How to Establish Value

    It’s in the Eye of the Beholder

    Equal Value Transactions

    Normalize to a Common Reference

    Express as a Percent of Minimum Wage

    Calculate Using Published Price Lists

    Putting a Value on Fruits & Vegetables

    Putting a Value on Service Skills

    Minimum Wage

    Determining What Others are Being Paid

    Industry Standard Wage Data

    Salary Tracking Pay Scale Surveys

    List Service Value Based on Minimum Wage

    Value Your Time

    Putting a Value on

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