To get to this point, Mr. Wood became an expert scavenger, a deft barterer and an experienced arm-twister. |
Shel Horowitz, a marketing consultant from Longmeadow, Mass., and a frequent barterer, says he often asks people whose products or services he is buying whether they are interested in bartering. |
For a representative of the Proletariat, he was an excellent barterer. |
But being a neophyte barterer, I was surprised, once I started checking around, at the deals some friends, and friends of friends, have negotiated. |