The BBX Way

Barter Lines-of-Credit are immediately available to businesses with consumable Goods, Services or Assets that can be used to boost their business through retail sales to our exclusive audience of barter merchants. Barter Accounts with lines of credit up to $5000TCs in our Barter Currency. We have a waiting audience throughout our network of over 40000 businesses ready to trade with you. BBXchange barter services adds an income stream to your business that actively promotes, advertise and generates new customers for you.

Members with fully upgraded barter accounts get their own personal "StoreFront Barter Store". This is your Web Store within our system for advertise the business goods and services you want other members to purchase from you. Create your own Art Gallery, A Boutique or display special items you want our members to purchase.

When a barter purchase is made, you don't use CASH! Instead you use the value of your Goods or Services, measured and represented by BBXchanges "TCredits". A TCredit is a book value equal to 1 (one) US Dollar in value and tracks your buying and selling within your individual member account.

Using your account is similar to using your "Bank Debit Card" to make purchases from our participating membership. Buying is made easy by electronically deducting positive TCredits from your private numbered account and transferred to the sellers private account. As you sell Goods, Services, Inventories or ??? to other members, the process is reversed and their approved TCredits are transferred into your account, ready to use immediately at the completion of a transaction.

This new on-line version of our BBX Barter Service is designed to provide business owners and individuals that "trade"... a resource where they can find, quick and easy access to barter opportunities! Opportunities where worldwide or locally, member listings of "Classifieds", "Wanted" or "Goods and Services" are posted and exchanges are possible 24 hours a day. Our online system is a pro-active, tracking and accounting system for processing member debit and credit authorizations, providing instantaneous payment or rejection of transactions at the time you want to buy, ('not -waiting for an authorization'), Your sale or purchase is based solely on the buyer and sellers, trade credit worthiness at that time. Since the late 70's, our mission statement remains the same... 'BBX is dedicated to providing the barter industry with everything a trader ever wanted in a Trade Service, without third party intervention, control and excessive fees on your transactions!'...

With a BBX membership, users are in touch with traders throughout the world or right in their local community. With the world wide web now available in the furthest reaches of the globe, BBX's, new 'user friendly' service is available to you, as a professional, or as a novice, right from the convenience of your home or office. BBX puts the world of Barter right at the tip of your fingers!

Legally, Barter is a contract for transferring property. Since a sale can be considered a contract for transferring one's property to another for the consideration of a price, Barter fulfills that contractual obligation between two parties. What sets it apart from other transactions is that it is done without the use of money.

Looking at Barter in its simplest form, each participant trades what he doesn't need to get what he wants. These barter strategies are used daily by small businesses throughout the U.S. as well as a large percent of corporations listed on the New York Stock exchange to reduce surplus inventory, bolster sales, or ensure production facilities run at or near capacity. The US Department of Commerce estimates that between 20% and 25% of all world trade is barter. Corporate barter is now a $20 billion industry. In short, barter continues to carve out an important place in the US and worldwide economy.

How an individual uses business or personal items to get the maximum from Barter will depend on what you have to Barter with, what your needs are and where you want to go with your trading activities. One thing is for certain, once you start trading, you're hooked. This time honored practice of swapping goods for services, rather than buying and selling for cash, is today's fastest growing merchandising technique.

Barter can be used both as a tool to ease cash flow problems or for everything from home furnishings, landscaping, and car repairs to copiers, printing, and travel - plus everything else in between.

For Instance:

• If your businesses forces you to discount sales in order to compete, when you sell your goods or services to a BBX Member, you sell to them on trade, for TradeCredits, at your full retail prices. This way you are spending your products, your inventory or service at a full retail prices even though it may cost you only a fraction of that value to create it!

Another Example:

• What if your are the owner of a Restaurant and at every meal service you have an average of 10 tables that don't produce revenue. By advertising you will accept BBX TCredit payments for dining, new barter business will fill those empty tables with customers you have never done business with, and provide you with TCredit dollars to offset your cash expenses.
  
  What's the actual cost of accepting TCredit dollars for your meals instead of "CASH?" Let's say your cost to deliver a meal is $.60 on the dollar. By serving added new customers at the tables that would have gone empty and produced no income, your sales to BBx members generate $1000 in TCredits. You use $1000 in TCredits income for much needed repairs you normally paid for with "CASH". Bottom line is that your $1000 in repairs had an actual cost $600 and you realized an actual $400 hard cash savings!

What is BBX?
With a BBX subscriber account you have access to the leading edge communications and advertising power of the Internet embodied in Classified Ads, Wanted Ads and a directory listing of Member Goods and Services. Its a forum for listing, viewing and interacting on barter/trade opportunities of real and personal property. BBX positions you to take advantage of the axiom
"somewhere, someone has what you want or need and is willing to trade for it!"
We make it happen for you by putting you in touch with traders throughout the world or right in your local community. With the world wide web now available in the furthest reaches of the globe, BBX's, new "user friendly" service places you on the leading edge, as a professional or as a novice, right from the convenience of your home or office. BBX puts the world of barter right at the tip of your fingers!