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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?
-------------------- Bill Wood Bill Wood, Sign Artist 3628 Ogburn Ave., NE Winston-Salem, NC 27105-3752 336-682-5820 Posts: 397 | From: Winston-Salem, NC | Registered: May 2006
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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.......
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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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...
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-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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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.
-------------------- Dale Feicke Grafix 714 East St. Mendenhall, MS 39114
"I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me." Posts: 2963 | From: Mendenhall, MS | Registered: Apr 1999
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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.
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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furniture, auto work, concrete work, a 10x24 storage building, a whole line of stihl power equipment, uncontested divorce
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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...
-------------------- Michael Clanton Clanton Graphics/ Blackberry 19 Studio 1933 Blackberry Conway AR 72034 501-505-6794 clantongraphics@yahoo.com Posts: 1736 | From: Conway Arkansas | Registered: Oct 2001
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""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3485 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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-------------------- Bill'n'Annie Davidson Heathcote, NSW, Aus. my Aussie wife, a Toohey's Old, my Holden Ute, Retired from the rat race! Posts: 309 | From: Heathcote, NSW, Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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IRS has larger problems right now than worrying about who is bartering what
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hehe all i saw at first was A$$ gas and about died laughing.
I traded a sign for 500 cash and a new watch.
-------------------- Charles Borges de Oliveira Borges Lettering & Design Snohomish WA Posts: 352 | From: Snohomish WA | Registered: Mar 2003
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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.......
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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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.......
""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3485 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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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.
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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.
-------------------- Donald Miner ABCO Wholesale Neon 1168 Red Hill Creek Dobson, NC Posts: 842 | From: North Carolina | Registered: Apr 2006
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