To cope with high prices and the lack of good-paying jobs, some residents are going to establish a bartering system to exchange services and goods. If interested, sign up at the bartering table at the North Side Farmer's Market on Saturdays starting July 15.
Try signing up for the Free Cycle group on yahoo:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreecycleYoungstown/
This group already has over twelve HUNDRED members......
Freecycling is not the same as bartering.
Technically the list does not allow TRADES of any kind.
If you do, you will be scolded.
It is all giveaway.
They do allow discussion of services offered on their companion bulletin board
http://freecyclingyoungstownoh.myfreebb.com/viewforum.php?f=3
There are other lists that do allow trading.
NEOHOTSPOT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEOHotspot/
NEOCHEAPCYCLE http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NortheastOhioCheapcycle/
MAHONINGVALLEY TRADING POST http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MahoningCounty_TradingPost/
( I am the moderator of MV Trading Post)
Should we put a barter board on this forum?
I'm all for putting a bartering board on this forum.
There is also a bartering and free section on Craig's List. http://www.youngstown.craigslist.org
I think a bartering forym on this board is an EXCELLENT idea!
One of the things that makes this country great is our free capitalist society and free trade, etc.
Allan
:)