Let's Make A Deal

There's an article in today's LA Times announcing it's a boom time for bartering.

There are sites such as TradeaFavor.com, JoeBarter.com, and Swapthing.com for general bartering and niche sites like PaperBackSwap.com and Peerflix.com.

Of course, you could always go with the trusty Craigslist for bartering on the local level. (Apparently Craiglist had 148,097 listings in the barter category in Sept. up from 83,554 a year ago.)

So what do you think? As the economy shrinks and budgets tighten, are you open to the idea of swapping goods instead of greenbacks?