Over the last twenty years I’ve been involved in organized barter at every level. I joined the local exchange as a retail store owner. Later when I closed my store, I used barter to liquidate my inventory and joined the exchange as an employee in the accounting department. Later I moved to a brokering position, and eventually came to manage the local office. Unfortunately, barter began to change into a mechanism more focused on national trading then the local business. The local office was sold to a regional group that in turn was sold to a national conglomerate. I’d have to say that was more of a mutation than an evolution. When the focus moved to national businesses, the local elements were lost, the networking and camaraderie were gone, and the local trade opportunities began a steady decline into eventual oblivion.

Our mission is to bring back the small local barter exchange and once again provide you, the members, with an effective and affordable method of exchange here on Cape Cod. Barter is a time proven effective business model. I will apply my personal dedication, experience, and enthusiasm to making it work again. I have partnered with New England Trade, the best locally run exchange in the Northeast and a group that never lost their local focus while other exchanges sold out to the national barter exchanges. I invite you to try us and allow us to earn your business and trust. It cost you nothing to join and you have everything to gain.
Hear Larry interviewed here for Cape Cod Internet Radio