giving the toy which you don’t use anymore ant taking the same from another kid (his toy which is bored for him). toy are different values but basically both sides are happy for transaction
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when i was young i traded a skateboard for a cool band t. it was a fair exchange since the board and shirt where a bit older. plus i got a sick band tshirt.
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I traded an old riding mower for a newer push mower. It was fair because the riding mower had problems (it was traded to a repair shop) and I wanted the push mower.
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Well, since services probably fall under this category too… My neighbor used to walk my dog while I was at work, and in exchange I would supply her pups with dog food.
Does anyone remember the story about the red paperclip traded for a house (eventually)?
I once heard a whole radio show on NPR about how each trade was a barter up until the guy actually had a house:
NPR 6 minutes: From a Paper Clip to a House: Bartering on the Web
And all he started with was one red paperclip. 
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Exchanging food for a soccer ball,
Rice and fir.
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I remember trading Magic the Gathering cards as a teenager - exchanging wizards for dragons or something like that 
Trades were mostly fair since the rarity of each card determined its utility. However, some cards would have utility far exceeding their rarity and if you didn’t know about this, you could be easily cheated out of a valuable card. So there knowledge mattered a lot!
Did same trading but with the pokemon stickers from the chewing gum pack. It was very popular in Poland back in 2002 I guess, or even earlier.
As a kid I traded repeated dragon ball stickers with my cousins so that I could obtain missing stickers to complete the album. If a sticker was an hologram, I would ask for more than one normal sticker because it was more special and rare. I think they were fair exchanges. I also recall trading pokemons with my brother in the game boy color, it was fair because some pokemon did not appear on the blue version so I got them from his red version.
In my teenagers I played guitar and I lost my only plectrum. Called (wired eheheh) to a friend and asked if he had a plectrum to spare. He said he could give one if I will give my twisted Sister poster. After negotiations, he gave me 5 of them for my poster.
So the items are Twisted Sister and a guitar plectrum.
I was happy, got the good price since the Twisted Sister turned to be old-fashionable…started to listen and play Testament and Slayer:D
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When I was 10-12 years old I played with Pogs. Yikes, but my friends and I played a lot. Some of the slammers and torpedos that we played with were pretty valuable and had pretty cool designs. My friend had a slammer that had finger holds and a sweet holographic picture of Deadpool! Oh yeah. Well, I had a torpedo slammer that he really wanted, so we traded. He wanted a little more so I gave him a few of the paper pogs as payment.
I sold those awhile ago, when pogs still had a bit of value. But at the time, my torpedo slammer was worth more, I wanted that Deadpool one though. Still a fair deal.
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At my home, we have roughly 3-4 dozen chickens for the sake of eggs. Last year, we traded a few dozen eggs to a friend for the privilege of harvesting from their pear and apple trees. This seemed to us to be a fair trade because our own fruit trees are still too young to bear, and fruit from the store costs a good deal more than we would have received for the eggs if we’d sold them. It seemed good to our friends because they got an immediate benefit out of the deal (eggs) instead of having to spend time harvesting the fruits themselves, which they were not inclined to do for various reasons.
Back in primary school, we traded lots of stickers. And there was even some kind of economy with exchange rates involved. Meaning you had to pay a least 2-3 standard stickers for the glitter ones and the most worth being the plush animal stickers which cost around 10 standard or 3 glitter stickers.
Great memories 
And yes… i think it was a very fair system as every trade implied agreement of two parties.
In elementary school I used to barter Disney collectible cards for candy. Didn’t realize at the time that I had a hologram card that was worth $5 (a fortune for me as a kid lol) and I had traded it for gum. 
Also used to trade my extra pencils for papers.
At the start of lockdown I traded a bag of tobacco for a throwing axe, it seemed like a good trade at the time as the world was becoming more apocalyptic by the day.
Looking back I feel that exchange was fair and I am happy with my returns as i have now given up smoking so tobacco doesn’t hold any value for me and I still have my axe.
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As a little boy, my trades always were some kinds of collectible toys. Marbles and collectible cars were the most favorite exchange. Sometimes it was a fair deal, until I got bored and wanted my traded toys back
I upgraded my pc and offered the old hardware for free on a tech website, because I didn’t want different people at my door haggling about the price of each part. The guy that came to pick it up gave me a €20 gift card anyway.
I think it was a fair exchange as it was worth much more. So, I got a giftcard and he feels like he doesn’t owe me anythiing.
More importantly, the wifey was happy, because I managed to free up some space.
Great exchange.
Describe a barter transaction that you’ve been a part either as a child or adult.
List the two items in the barter transaction and, looking back, did you think it was a fair exchange and why?
Premier League stickers for the sticker books. If you had all players from one team but still missing the “shiny” sticker you would offer swaps with people. You may have duplicates of players you no longer needed and they may have duplicates of the shiny they no longer need. As a shiny was harder to come by it held more value so I would swap up to 5 stickers in order to get this shiny and complete the team. It was a fair exchange for both parties as they would fill up to 5 missing stickers and I could complete my selection. 5 stickers of smaller value = to 1 sticker of higher value was well worth it.
Describe a barter transaction that you’ve been a part either as a child or adult.
I traded baseball cards when I was a child.
List the two items in the barter transaction and, looking back, did you think it was a fair exchange and why?
Sometimes I could trade one card for another depending on the players but other times I would have to trade more cards to equal the value of 1 player
I used to barter with my sister when were children. There were chours which we had to do and we use to negotiate times and swap jobs in order to watch tv programmes that we liked that were on at different times. As childish as this was it illustrates a basic principle of the cost of services which are evaluated on various bespoke factors. Also it illustrates the use of contracted work and requires negotiation to reach a compromise.
I definitely remember trading different types of Halloween or Easter candy for Reese’s peanut butter cups. Because obviously they are the best!
I also remember bartering while on a Boyscout wilderness survival trip. It was in a forest near the coast and had been raining all day. Somehow we managed to get a fire going with a few matches and we traded burning logs for branches and vines for our shelter. Great trip, but still pretty wet and cold!