I remember trading marbles. I traded larger marbles for cat’s eye marbles because I thought the cat’s eye marbles were more beautiful than even the larger multicolored marbles. I clearly thought I got the better deal.
Traded POG’s for candy. Happy with the deal as far as I remember 
as a child, barter snacks with friends.
It was fair. because it felt that way
- As a child, I would often trade cards with other kids. Often it would be an even 1/1 exchange for cards, but if the rarity of a certain card made it have more worth, it could have been a 1/3+ exchange for a single card. We tried to make it as fair as little boys could, and looking back our system seems to be fair enough.
When I was younger??? (back in the day)
I did barter with hockey card that we were exchanging with different values depending on the rarity, I would say for that kind of trade everybody usually get satisfied by the trade because it is too personal.
Secondly, it was curiously money that I still have, but unfortunately, my interest dropped by the time.
In that barters, I get screwed couple times which is probably why I gave up on barter the money.
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As a Kid, I remember trading my spare Premier League stickers with another kid for candys which to me seemed like a good deal at the time as i already had the stickers that i was trading. There was another time that initially sprung to mind but probably not suitable for this forum!!
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As an adult, I have exchanged in a barter transaction by trading an Xbox One for a Playstation 4 with somebody online. We met up to do the exchange although we negotiated online beforehand. I think it was a fair exchange because they are on the same “tier” when it comes to consoles. They were both the newer generation at the same and he had something I wanted, and I had something he wanted.
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I have been involved in barters, young and old. I don’t like barters because I feel like i end up on the short end of the bargain.
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Friend of mine run a car repair shop. My car broke down. My friend repaired my car. In exchange I did some design project for him. I think that transaction was fair because I’ve spent similar amount of time doing a project as my friend repairing the car.
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Back in elementary school our class would collect airsoft bb pellets we found on the playgrounds and in the ballparks. These little spheres varied in many different colors, and some were see-through while others were opaque giving them unique characteristics to each other. We used these collected these and would often trade them with one another. Each color had a different degree of sacristy. White and yellow bbs were the most abundant and many people could find them, these were the base of most collections. Then there were green see-through bbs that were more scarce and looked cool to most, so they were more valuable. Then there were red and blue bbs that were super hard to find and we treated them as the most valuable. Kids would trade bbs for other bbs, and sometimes for cool rocks, or even trading cards. I think that trading bbs for cards was a fair exchange because each part of the transaction gained their perceived value from the interaction. This was one of the first examples of money and barter & trade I can remember as a child. It was fun for the school and it let me see how monetary energy and systems naturally evolve even within the youth.
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1. 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 child I remember being obsessed with trading POGS, Pokemon Cards, Rocks, Marbles, Slot Cars and snacks on the playground. Good times, the 90s were a fun time to be alive haha. I am not sure if understood the value of my transactions back then but I don’t remember ever feeling like I came out shorthanded. I remember really loving my slammers and would only trade them for multiple pogs as a fair trade, or a psychic pokemon for multiple pokemon cards etc. As an adult I still engage in trading in terms of clothes, costumes and accessories.
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I usually traded game cards as a child. I often felt uncomfortable giving away my cards even on uneven trades just because I liked to keep my stuff 
not very good conditions to barter trade…
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As a child i exchanged a hand of lollies for a matchbox car. It was a fair exchange because the ammount of lollies had round about the same value(price) as that toycar.
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I once traded a nickel bag of weed for a haircut with a friend back in high school. It was a fair exchange because he charged $5 for haircuts and all I had was weed on me.
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In our primary school, we’d trade different types of erasers as eraser flipping games were immensely popular for a certain period of times. If the value of the erasers of those involved in the trade satisfies both sides, I’d call it a fair trade as both agreed upon the value of what they have and exchanged with one another
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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 child growing up in Africa I traded coca-cola bottle tops for a self made toy car, the bottle tops were special because they had pictures of football teams and stars and or different winning chances on the back side , they were rare and valuable, and to obtain them you had to drink a whole lot of cola or scavenge there where it was possible to obtain them …
-Both the self made car and the Rare bottle tops had high value among my age-mates / child friends
-Looking back , it was a great trade for me because the self made car I received after the transaction was in a way more valuable than my bottle tops , he used more P.O.W. and there was only one unique self made car … Finite ! and Rare !, whereas my bottle tops were initially made from coca-cola companies which used machines and probably produced a lot of these “rare collectable bottle tops”
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One of many barter transactions i remember was trading sports jerseys for concert tickets. I would get them at discounts and got to see a lot of great concerts. Great memories were made from the hustle.
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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 child, my brother and I were big collectors of baseball cards. We both had our own collections and often wanted cards from the other’s collection. As a bartering system, we would pay each other in cards to do certain chores for each other. In hindsight, paying 1 Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card for the ability to no have to fold laundry for a week seems pretty silly, but it did instill a bit of frugalness that I carry with me today.
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first barter probably pogs first i remeber pokemon. i would trade em all the time many for one holo or vice versa still have em to this day no clue why but i mean someone see’s value in em there still selling on ebay as you read this.
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One barter transaction I had was during a white elephant gift exchange game. I initially received a live freshwater fish in a tank, and I gave it up in exchange for a bottle of liqueur, which I enjoyed more. It was fair to me but not quite fair for the counter-party to take the live freshwater fish that she does not quite want either.
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