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BEYOND BARTER
The Los Angeles Skills Pool

Why We're Better Than Barter

1. No limit on services used.

2. No bookkeeping.

3. No transaction fees. Meager membership fees.
(Compare our low charges with annual dues of $120 and up, and 6% transaction fees.)

4. Friendlier. Conventional barter is really buying and selling, except that the parties use credits instead of cash.

5. Cheating is virtually impossible. Under conventional barter, participants often feel the need to overvalue what they're offering, to keep up with the other participants who may be overvaluing what they're offering. This is simply not an issue in BEYOND BARTER.

6. No worries that you won't be able to spend your credits. Many participants in conventional barter find they've accumulated credits that they just can't spend, because they don't need what's available. They wind up selling their credits at a drastic discount. Again, this is not an issue in BEYOND BARTER, as we don't use credits.

7. Anyone can join. All you need is a worthwhile service.
The BEYOND BARTER system differs significantly from conventional barter. Our members freely share their services; they don't have to "balance out" what they use against what they give. Members use as many listed services as they want, without limit, at any time.

Even so, members are protected with respect to their own time. Each new member stipulates a weekly maximum number of hours for which she or he is available. So members never give more time than they're comfortable with. However, there's no maximum applying to what a member can use.

In practice, members rarely reach their weekly maximums. If you nevertheless call someone who has reached his maximum, you'll still get the service--just not the same week. Members are obligated to arrange the service at the time of the call.

You'll easily see that BEYOND BARTER has multiple advantages over conventional barter: