How many of you trade your services?

[Fred]

I am curious how many of you have trade (barter) arrangements with some of your clients? Not necessarily just massage for massage but are any of you trading massage with other local service providers (i.e. dentists, accountants, personal trainers etc)

-M

 

[DAYZII]

How many of you trade your services?

I barter on a regular basis with my personal trainer and I occassionally barter for other things. I have one client who has a cake business, another who makes healthy baked goods. I'm open to all types of trading as long as it's something that I'm in need/want of.

Angie

 

[lonely_soul]

How many of you trade your services?

We are constantly being asked by our hotel partners to trade chair massage services for their employee events, which highlights one of key issues in trades/barter.

The "list" price on a hotel room is the city approved rack rate, which no one ever pays unless there is a citywide event/convention and every room in town is sold out -- $350 a night and up! But that same hotel room -- often when we want to travel -- is on Hotels.com or some other deal site for 50% or more of a discount from the Rack Rate.

Something that has a variable value -- like a hotel room or plane ticket -- is not usually a good candidate for a trade, unless you are also trading something of variable value. But massage is not one of those things.

We try to trade massages for restaurant vouchers -- the menu has prices that don't change by demand -- and we trade pretty close to $$ for $$ -- an hour of massage = dinner for two. We can use these trades oursevles when we are in town or we use them as rewards for our employees

If we do end up trading for hotel stays, we usually donate them to local charities and pass along the list price as the value of the donation for trade purposes.

 

[goo_head_83]

How many of you trade your services?

I'm probably in the minority. I have never traded services. Seems like it would be difficult matching $$ for $$. I would definitely trade with the hotel though!!!!

 

[MixedMojo]

How many of you trade your services?

Thanks so much for your input. I'm really interested in service for service trading and am currently testing and developing a service trading site with a strict focus on local service providers (within 50 miles), Think craigslist barter section but done right. Again thanks for the input would love to hear from more of you....

1. Do you currently trade with other local services provider?
2. Would you trade more if you had a directory of service providers that were reliable and open to trade?

Best,

-M

Admin,
Im sorry of this is in the wrong section. Please feel free to move this thread to the proper place.

 

[john h]

How many of you trade your services?

am currently testing and developing a service trading site with a strict focus on local service providers (within 50 miles).

Might check with your tax advisor/accountant. Barter is considered income by the IRS, and if you are facilitating transactions, you may be subject to some kind of reporting requirement.

 

[parade of jills]

How many of you trade your services?

I have a friend that is an esthetician and we are going to trade facial for massage

I am thinking about asking a piyo place I go if they would trade dollar for dollar amt on massage vs sessions..it would roughyly be 4 sessions per massage but I want to see how things go first.

 

[Yourasssmells.]

How many of you trade your services?

One of my co-workers from a previous job is a cosmetologist. She only charges half for a hair cut of what I charge for a massage, so she gives me two hair cuts (one for me and one for a family member) in return for a massage. It's still not a totally fair trade, but she usually just wants her shoulders and back worked on and the convenience of not having to drive to a salon and wait is worth the $5 difference in trade.