There is a tradition during carnival in Salvador - Brazil called “Sons of Gandhi” where men wear a blue and white necklace which can be traded for a kiss from women. Looking back I thought that was a fair trade and was often happy to participate in this barter transaction. @Yrius do you remember this market exchange?
I don’t remember bartering a lot, I just used to do anything for money, mow lawns, sale items out of catalogs, etc… I thought it was fair. I worked hard and was rewarded accordingly as I was always working towards a goal of something.
During y college times, I used to collect class notes from one of my roommate before the exam date and go to Xerox shop to make copy for other roommate. My other room mate used to study the notes in the night and give it to me next day morning. My room mate used to pay for the Xerox. It is an example of barter transaction. One of the two items involve here is my time and effort for making the zerox copy and other is the copy of the note in used to get next day. In my opinion it is a fair exchange as both of us get fair benefits from this exchange. common question in exam 
Hello, I used to Bart with skateboards Equipment, sometimes u can get wheels for trucks or a deck, im from the DR Caribbean and is was difficult to get cool stuff, I also traded baseball cards.
As a young boy i had a scalextric set and loved it, but by the age of 14 it had sat in a box unused for a few years. My best friends dad kept tropical and marine fish and had about 8 fish tanks of varying sizes in a spare bedroom and they looked amazing. He had a young son who wanted a scalextric and i asked him if he wanted to swap a complete tropical fish tank set up for my scalextric, he agreed and we did the swap. I set up the fish tank and i kept tropical fish for the next few years. To this day i still think i had the better end of the deal.
I remember trading my sister 2 Barbie dolls for her Ken doll. I still think it was a great trade because I had a ton of Barbies.
As a child, I remember trading baseball cards one for one, or even two for one if one of the players was very good or popular. These trades were, for the most part, mutual. I say for the most part, because some trades involved dialogue to convince one person or the other, but all parties would walk away satisfied.
My first barter transaction occur in the school I had some coins from other county as my father travel a lot and give us some and my friend had some balls which we used to play in the free time we had
I gave him 2 Italian coins for 2 balls one bid and one small
I believe it went very good for me I start playing that same date unfortunate my friend realized to late that the coins for us at that age did not value much
When I was a child I have bartered stamps and old coins with my friends.
I am not sure that really worked to my advantage.
Best bartering examples I recall took place at summer sleep-away camps as a kid. When care packages would come in from family or whomever (by mail) the contents were valuable and highly leverageable. Candy, snacks, supplies, etc. were certainly traded among the campers and even staff. Being away at camp was like being marooned on a deserted island; any good that came in had inflated value!
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I cant remember to much bartering to much as a kid, being from a poor background we didn’t have much to barter,I do remember we used to go to the local golf club to find lost golf balls then wait in the car park to sell them back to the golfers, I know its not the same but its a fun memory. and yes it was a good deal. money for nothing… :money for nothing
My first barter transaction was way back in elementary school with another student. He asked me to get him a cup of water. So we made a deal that if I got up and retrieved the cup of water then he would pay me 2 out of his 4 chocolate chip cookies. I liked the deal. Thought it was fair at the time. 
. I did something for a friend and was paid for my services.
I used to have a clothing business and a customer wanted to trade a pair of boots they owned for a pair I had of the same brand. Turned out they got the better deal because the style and the value of the ones they got from me were worth more. I do think it was fair because I agreed to the barter and it is the risk you take with trading.
As a child I used to trade football cards with my class mates. We thought is fair because we believed is fair, it didn’t matter as long as we were happy with the trade.
I remember my first Barter transaction exchanging rare post stamps, besides collecting these stamps I also exchanged them with a couple of friends. Sometimes making a good deal, but also fun to exchange and collecting with my friends
Welcome to the community
My sisters and me traded candy on Halloween.
Omar
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Well as I remember it was a simple trade transaction. One where this was traded for that. In fact as a kid I’ve participated in lots of these transactions with my friends over the years and as I grew up. Even today I will still trade one item for another if I believe its a fair trade not just for myself but the other person in the trade as well. One of my favorite trades was trading a 1967 Porsche 911 for a 1964 Olds F85 For me it was a great trade because of the quality of the trade on both ends and no addition currencies were needed for both to come out smiling in our winning trades!
The barter transaction I’ll share happened when I was a young teenager and involved the trade of playstation games. I had four games I was tired of and over playing and my friend had a fairly new game on the market that I really wanted. We went ahead and did a barter exchange of 4:1 in regards to games and at the time I thought it was a good deal, but taking a look back I felt otherwise. Maybe I ended up on the short side of value with exchange of the games but I was able to play a new game.
I wanted an Iphone. Ik had a Samsung. It was not easy to define if the trade was fair. I really wanted the Iphone. The other person could live with a samsung and was less eager. That brought him in a better position. At the end: my Iphone was older than the samsung. So he did a better job for having a newer smartphone. I had ‘to pay’ more because I was eager to have the Iphone because for me the Iphone was more worth. The barter was very individual which reminds me to a book I am reading now: “Human action by Ludwig Von Mises”.
In college I remember bartering food for homework help or study notes. I didn’t live on campus, so I remember staying on campus with my friends and using their lunch card. In exchange, I typically provided my study notes or sometimes even free books to a class I had taken the semester before. Was it a fair exchange? I think so, no one complained. Besides we were friends so it felt like something i was obliged to do.