As a child during lunch I would sometimes trade my dessert for a friends dessert, e.g. fruit by the foot for chocolate pudding. I believe it was a fair transaction because both items had similar value & provided us both with what we desired.
Occasionally I will watch my nieces and nephews, and when my sister and brother in law come home they buy me a blizzard. I believe this is a fair exchange, as getting a blizzard is something I don’t have to go out and get since my sister does it for me.
I can only remember bartering candies with friends. That used to make me so excited as a child!
Being around 10 years old from an immigrant family naive to technology in the 90s amongst other classmates that family’s that were “more with the times” I saw an opportunity. During the times of AOL and net nanny I decided to provide my classmates with content that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to access for exchange for allowance or hostess treats my parents wouldn’t provide. The result ended up in being 10 pounds overweight, a secret stash in my heat register of 2 and 5 dollar bills, and a 2 week suspension from school.
JUST RECENTLY I DID! One haircut for a presale concert ticket. We both attended the show and it was great! I think it was fair trade, my client loves his cut and we both enjoyed the show.
Halloween! I’d trade my Twizzlers and Nerds for some Hershey or Kitkats lols.
Trading your old phone to pay a part of the new upcoming phone at apple is somewhat a barter transaction. There’s different exchange rates based on version of the phone, GBs, and physical condition of the device your trading in to take part of the transaction.
We would exchange buble gum cartoons in the barter exchange. It was tough to exchange for a super rare one. Some kids would ask 10 cartoons for a rare one, which always turned around to be a scam anyway Was it fair? Never. We would exchange old candies that nobody wanted for coca-cola if someone happened to have it.
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I remember When I was to school, my mom made my sandwiches the night before going to school, and she put them in the fridge, so she wouldn’t have to make the sandwich the next morning.
Sometimes, when it was the moment to eat my sandwich was still frozen so I bartered it for soccer cards that I collected in an album.
Trading Pokemon cards, marbles, and other “valuable” goods back in the early days (when not actively competing for them in a certain way).
Alternatively: exchanging homework answers or help with it in return for certain social favors (eg: being invited to certain parties, events or activities). Was tacit most of the time (as that’s what real friends do for one another); however, depending on the situation, there were times when those kinds of discussions/negotiations were actually being held (depending on the person and my level of friendship with them 
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Aside from the above: once traded/bartered the use of one of my old flats for the use of a friend’s car 
The barter standard changed numerous times during my early school days, I remember during my first grade the barter “item” was holding our breath for school cookies, and later on that same year the barter “item” was doing handstands for pickles.
Looking back I consider this a fair system, since as a class we agreed upon the system, and the one who wanted to pay the most had the opportunity to do so.
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i traded a sports card made of platinum for a box of sports cards… fair? yeah mostly… i wish i had the original sports card, but what i got in exchange was a lot more fun to open and evaluate itself. a bit like gambling with a fairer outcome.
When i was a child I made toy numb chucks by hand and sold them. Thinking back it wasn’t worth it because it took a very long time and I have to buy the material.
Now I cook for my friends and in exchange they play music for me. So that’s a good deal.
A barter transaction from when I was younger was trading Pokemon cards. Trading them depending on their looks.
A barter transaction from my adult years has been trading snacks or lunch or something along those lines.
In high school I traded a cheap old dirt bike for a mountain bike and some cash which I thought and still do think was a good deal for me pocketing $400 and now owning a frame that to this day still fetches a pretty penny.
Years later I ended up trading the mountain bike and some cash for a full suspension downhill bike. This again a still believe it was a fair exchange or if anything in my favor. As my bike had only minor upgrades to things like brakes and a decent fork and this guy had decked out his downhill bike from top to bottom, the difference came down to negotiating the amount of cash I would lump on top of my own bike. I was more than happy in the end and road that bike for close to 6 years before I got back nearly all the value I put in from the original deal.
I exchanged a few lego pieces for a different lego pieces. Back in the day it seemed like a reasonable trade.
As children, for example, we collected stickers that could be bought for very little pocket money. They were pictures of individual players from Bundesliga teams. Some of the players were simply more desirable than the others, since presumably in the packages on the part of the manufacturers cared for the fact that the number of stickers of a certain, very popular player were given out more rarely, a fictitious value arose. Kids were willing to offer a higher number of other stickers in exchange for a certain sticker. Supply and demand ensured that the barter was considered fair by both sides. At least most of the time.
I once traded .16 ETH for access to an online academy will have to proceed in order to determine if it was a fair exchange
As a child I would trade my home made fishing sinkers with the older fishermen for bait fish. I think is was a fair trade due to the fact a fishing net would be expensive to purchase when all I needed to do it go around boat yards find the lead and melt it my yard on a fire. Now that I think of it my not of been so fair to my health.
do remember trading hockey cards with friends. We would trade our “doubles” to get cards we didn’t have yet. Some cards were more valuable than others so sometimes you’d need to trade more than 1 card of lesser value for a higher value card.
I once broke my favorite CD… I will not disclose it was spice girls… oops 
I am 6 yrs younger then my brother and at the time he had a job and car. I made a deal with him, I would clean his car if he would replace my precious CD.
I got a new CD he got my cleaning service. Looking back it was a great deal, I had no money, no transportation to get the cd and I loved my brother more for helping me out.
On Halloween I would trade my caramel candy for my sisters Reese’s. It was an easy and fair exchange as I hate caramel and she doesn’t like peanut butter and I love Reese’s so we would each get what the we wanted.