Hifunda Barter Help
Page
Barter
is often
regarded as an old-fashioned means of exchange that was superseded
because money is far more efficient. After all, in a monetary
system an apple grower who needs shoes simply has to find
a cobbler. In a pure barter system the apple grower would
have to find not just any cobbler but one who happened to
want apples at that time. However the inconvenience of barter
was just one factor, and in most places was probably not the
most significant one, in the origin of money.
Barter
and money are not necessarily completely incompatible. One
of the most important improvements over the simplest forms
of early barter was first the tendency to select one or two
particular items in preference to others. This is because
that the preferred barter items became partly accepted because
of their qualities in acting as media of exchange. Although,
of course, they still could be used for their primary purpose
of directly satisfying the wants of the traders concerned.
Exchange
an item
You
can exchange an item by entering this section. You get a category
page, clicking on any one of which you can access its respective
sub-category. Clicking on a sub-category, you access the form
where you have to state the item details / description, value,
quantity, location etc including your user name and password.
You also have to fill up a section for exchange preferences
wherein you can enter upto five preferences you are looking
for in exchange of your item. The utility of this section
is that it gives you an opportunity to state your preferences.
Here you can mention the items according to priority and give
their respective details. Please try to be as specific as
possible. After filling the entire form, submit it and your
item gets added to our list for others to view.
Hot
Items
Click
on any item in the hot items section. You can view item details
for that particular item.
Search
for an item
If
you want to search for any specific item, click on category
and after that its respective sub-category. Now you get a
list of items which is followed by the item details of the
product you are searching for. You can also search in for
the item of your choice through our Barter Search.
Barter
Search
In
every page you get a barter search box, where you can search
for any item of your choice. It searches the entire site and
displays the item listing that matches your search.
Alert
Notification
Whenever
you reach any sub-category page, you get an alert notification
box. Here if you enter the sub-category of your choice and
submit, you will get a mail every time whenever any item is
added to that sub-category.
