Not if bartering consultants can help it. A small but growing number of consultants see barter as the next frontier in the secondary finance market, a burgeoning field that features non-traditional transactions, including derivatives, smart cards, and cybercash. Kids do it all the time. This sort of deal takes place daily on the playground.
Adults have their version.
You see these offers advertised daily in the classified sections of your newspaper. A more organized form of retail barter uses retail exchanges. These barter exchanges are not unlike stock markets. Brokers take a percentage of each transaction, allowing people to swap cars, horses, boats, farms, jewelry and just about anything imaginable. Corporate barter is a little more complicated.