I opened my sign trailer at a flea market one saturday morning and a lady ask the price of my auto tags.Here response was that she had spent about all her money.I said to her...no problem, I'll trade you an auto tag for that cantalope.Yes she traded,I was happy...she was happy.Have you ever traded your work for something you really wanted?
Posted by Sonny Franks (Member # 588) on :
I've swapped for dental work, bicycles, sex, audio equipment, a helicopter ride, tools, tires, beach house rental and I even bartered 4 large sandblasted signs for a 19' Bayliner ski boat years ago. Never a cantaloupe, though.......
Posted by Bob Peach (Member # 2620) on :
sex?
Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
Figures you'd pick THAT one out Bob.
Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :
hahahah Sonny thats a good one. Now I know where the Red came from. A$$ gas, or grass no one rides for free. Let the trading begin. I can see this one is going to be a good post...
[ March 19, 2011, 04:46 PM: Message edited by: FranCisco Vargas ]
Posted by Sandy Baird (Member # 4773) on :
I traded a small carved sign for half a 2001 PT Cruiser a couple of months ago.
Luckily, they where willing to sell me the other half.
monk
Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
We traded two used, but nice, lighted sign cans (and new faces) for an old Ford boom truck. The truck was pretty wore out, but the boom was great. So we cut the boom off, and put it on our good truck; put that manual boom on the old Ford; and then sold that to someone else.
Pretty much work involved, but no sex. Oh well, everyone was still happy.
Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
Hot Tub!!
Posted by Sonny Franks (Member # 588) on :
Dale, that's the bottom line - if everybody's happy......
Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
I trade signs all the time for dollars Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Traded a wall lettering job for a paint job on my old Chevrolet shop van.
Traded some signs for a stereo system in my house and truck.
Lettered a van for the sun roof in my '64 Panel.
Cripes, I could go on and on.
Posted by bruce ward (Member # 1289) on :
furniture, auto work, concrete work, a 10x24 storage building, a whole line of stihl power equipment, uncontested divorce
Posted by Michael Clanton (Member # 2419) on :
A couple of "quicky" murals for a drum set, some screenprinted shirts for a 1987 VW Cabriolet, some logo work for a commercial heat and air unit for my shop...
Posted by Joy Kjer (Member # 3026) on :
Designer jewelry with gold, silver and pearls, grass fed beef and lamb, beets.
Posted by stein Saether (Member # 430) on :
Barting is legal here as long as it accounted for in the books and AVT is paid, if not it is punishable
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
who keeps track of trades and cash?
Posted by Rick Beisiegel (Member # 3723) on :
In Michigan, food is non taxable. No barter guilt on that cantalope.
I have been known to trade work for money on occasion.
[ March 21, 2011, 01:11 PM: Message edited by: Rick Beisiegel ]
Posted by Bill Davidson (Member # 531) on :
Hello folks............
I'm with the IRS!
Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
snow removal
tree trimming
Posted by bruce ward (Member # 1289) on :
IRS has larger problems right now than worrying about who is bartering what
Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
That's ok Bruce, Once it's on the internet, it's forever, so when they have the time, they'll get back to you lol
Posted by Charles Borges de Oliveir (Member # 3770) on :
hehe all i saw at first was A$$ gas and about died laughing.
I traded a sign for 500 cash and a new watch.
Posted by Mike O'Neill (Member # 470) on :
Admitting guilt in a public forum about tax evasion??
There are taxes owed on that cantaloupe... lol
Posted by Bill Wood (Member # 6543) on :
OH NO...I ATE IT..I HAD A LOSS...THE EVIDENCE IS GONE!
Posted by Sandy Baird (Member # 4773) on :
I traded signs with a guy who cut me off driving yesterday. We both seem to think that the other was number 1.
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Nope...never traded for anything. All legit. Checks, receipts, paperwork to prove everything.
I can't believe some of you guys would want to cheat the government out of what you owe.
Posted by Sonny Franks (Member # 588) on :
Yeah, me too, Ray. Accurate accounting and reporting of everything, everytime. I might have underestimated slightly the value of that roll in the hay for a race car lettering job, but that's more of an inflation issue.
Sandy, it sounds like a Mutual Admiration Society meeting.......
Posted by Rene Giroux (Member # 4980) on :
I'm not about to write a list here ( looks like Sunny's...) and I do admire someone like Ray who beleives in an ideal world where taxes are well managed and spent but that's the thing, it is not a perfect world and just like "respect", taxes and government should not be a one-way street.
So when I see what they do with most of what we send off.....I go hmmmmmmm maybe.......
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
I traded my sanity for a career in the sign busniess Posted by Rick Beisiegel (Member # 3723) on :
Wayne
I think you got took!
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
Tell me about it! Posted by Mikes Mischeif (Member # 1744) on :
Beef, & a space in someone's field for my own sign to to sit.
Posted by Craig Sjoquist (Member # 4684) on :
I've traded alot, makes sense to me if I'm going to spend a $100 cash I best have made $400 or more and have a $100 in my pocket a trade only needs how much it cost to do the job easy choice.
Posted by Donald Miner (Member # 6472) on :
I traded a 4'x8' D/F plywood sign for a paint job on my 74 type 4 VW. We both felt like we got a good deal. Cantaloupe? Never, that is one fruit I can't handle in more ways than one.
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
![[Rolling On The Floor]](graemlins/rolf.gif)
![[Wink]](wink.gif)