Bartering & Trading

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I need some help. I'll soon be working on a radio story about people who have bartered/traded in liu of using a monetary exchange for goods &/or services. For the purposes of the piece, it should be Chicago specific. Does anyone have any ideas/leads? I have a couple, but if there were more, it could make this a really neat piece.
Thanks!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

you need to find some hippies. Take some deodorant to swap with them, maybe for drugs

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

YOu might get something out of craigslist.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Gutter punks.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

no seriously. i have a doctor that traded a new roof for a boob job...a dentist that traded a root canal for a painting ...

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine, now sadly gone, once successfully chatted up his dentist's office manager. After they had been going out for several months she (the office manager) got in to dispute with the dentist. Before quitting she destroyed my friend's billing records. He used to say he should have pulled her with the line, "Will have sex for dental work."

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

this guy i know who's a pretty good fashion photographer got free tooth implants from some dentist in exchange for taking hot photos of his wife

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe the little town of Tomales in Northern California still has a token system in operation. I went out with a girl there for awhile and she used tokens at the video store.

― andy, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

what is this token system?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it involve using small metal discs which hold intrinsic value that you exchange for goods, hmm? It'll never catch on.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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