I swopped a dolly for an action man tank 
best day ever. Wish all my crypto trades go that well.
This actually made me do some research. I traded a set of 1987 Fleer baseball cards for a game worn nfl football helmet. cant find an actual value on helmet, but the complete set of cards can be picked up for 34.99 on amazon, so I would tend to think I made out pretty well
As children, we would exchange collectible cards. You would go into the transaction if it would increase the value of your deck. This usually tend to be the case for both parties. But at some point it became more of a shares economy of putting cards together and making the best deck.
My barter was, that I Changed a piece of chocolate to some pieces of an apple.
It was very difficult to find out, how much chocolate I had to give for a piece of an apple
I gave a guy my snack so he’d be my friend. Fair trade no I needed to learn to make friends without bribing them.
I exchanged a new bag that I bought with one that my friend had used in fair condition, hers was more functional to me however I think the old vs new was not compensated as it should have been. Either way we both got what we needed out of this transaction.
As a child, I used to trade basketball cards. I don’t remember the exact cards, however, at the time I thought it was a fair trade.
- as an adult I have bartered shoes and looking back the transaction was fair because I exchanged a pair of shoes that I bouht with cash for another pair of shoes that retailed for more cash than my shoes were worth, the reason this exchange was able to take place was because I had the size shoe the other person needed and they had the shoe size I needed.
We bartered Halloween candy with friends after trick or treating. It was worth it because everyone got their favorite candy and let go of undesirable ones.
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Quickly, baseball cards comes to mind. We would trade for other baseball cards, but sometimes the trades involved candy and money for trade. I definitely thought it was fair but I’m sure someone ended up getting swindled at times.
There was this time when a cousin and I would exchange DragonBall Z miniatures from vending machines. That particular day, he wanted a beautiful Cell era Super Sayan Trunk I had bought the day before. He wanted to exchange it against two miniatures that didn’t have anything to do with DBZ. It felt unfair because I thought I had something unique but I accepted anyway. Even 10 miniatures were less valuable than the one I had. The next day I couldn’t help myself but urging my mom to take me downtown at the vending machine. I got my Trunk miniature back. Turned out it wasn’t as rare as I thought it was…
I’ve started bartering more as a a teenager rather than as a kid because I’ve noticed that I could slowly but steadily increase the value of the object that I had if I could manage to pull of good deals in my favour. I’ve started with a playstation 3 8 years ago when it was worth something like 300 euros and I’ve traded it for a 400 euros bike without paying any difference. Afterwards I’ve traded that bike for a PC that was even more expensive and that’s how I turned a 300 euro from a PS3 into 3000 euro in about a year of constant trading stuff. Good times !
In my childhood we used to play in kind of “collection card” with Pokemons. We rolled our bets with this cards and winner take everything that was on the table. I realised that i can be not a player, but a supporter, i trade a unique card that i bought in store and takes for it more valuable things, like someone doing my homework and give me some sweets candies 
Acttualy, right now i can’t say that it trades worth it in kind of value, but it was fun and i enjoyed every move.
I can’t recollect being apart of one. But if I could, I would probably have thought of it as a fair exchange, because of personal value.
I remember that i used to do barter exchanges with my yugi oh cards when i was a kid, also dragon ball, magic, pokemon cards.
I remember i felt good with the deal.
Growing up… we used to play with milk covers. by putting on the same amount of milk covers you wanted to challenge a friend. A stack was made with both parties milk cover amounts. then we would use another milk cover to hit the stack with and which ever milk covers that turned over would be earned by that person that hit the stack.
I used to barter the milk cover caps with my friends which was made by Meadow Gold Dairies.
I once trading my friend 20 milk caps for one custom made milk cap that he made that was heavier so it could flip more caps in challenges.
I think that it was a fair trade because it took me several matches with opponents to get my ROI on my milk caps!
- I bartered 3 trading cards which I had multiples of, to 1 trading card which I did not have. I thought it was a good trade, because I valued this card more than the others, and the money I was paying for cards was less valuable than now, because I had no living expenses as a child.
As a child we used to barter base ball cards with my cousins. Most of the time i felt i made out since i was on the younger side of my cousins so i made out.
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?
- As a kid I would trade my cleaning services for a candy from my mom. I think it was a fair exchange because we were both content with the outcome. I got the candy and my mom got to relax a bit as I washed the dishes
trading pokemon or baseball cards. it was fair in its value of what each user was getting.
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