Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Greeks Take Up Bartering After Trade With Troika Bites
(Sputnik) An online version of the agora is reinventing the age-old bartering system in Greece in response to the economic crisis and introduction of capital controls in June.
A website where you can trade unwanted buttons for olive oil or some feta cheese for a new shirt has sprung up in Greece where everything including the kitchen sink can be bartered for.
Tradenow has more than 20,000 members who operate on a points based system to barter for anything from goji berries to an apartment in Athens or a plot of land for sale on a Greek island.
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