Barter Business Exchange Inc

Reviews

• ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  I have been accepting BBE at my restaurant since 2007. I also signed up for ITEX around the same time, which I cancelled due to the fact that they screwed up my business listing 2 years in a row, their fees were high, it brought me very little business, and their customer service sucked (I wasn't even listed under restaurants or as a restaurant - just my business name with INC in a random section of their directory with nothing in the title to indicate that it was a restaurant.) What I love most about BBE is that it supports local small businesses and professionals. Nearly all the business I get from them (aside from our Dentist next door who gets a lot of my barter money and also spends a lot) is business that I wouldn't have otherwise received. I use it for things I would have used anyway) Also, the fees are low. BBE clients are some of the friendliest customers we have and the people it and the people at the office have always been helpful whenever I have had an issue. I use it a lot for my business (hood cleaning & grease trap, catering rental supplies, the list goes on) but I also use it for personal use - everything from massages, washing my car, buying jewelry, getting manicures and pedicures at the spa to house cleaning, dining at other restaurants, mechanics, vacation rentals at the beach and the mountains (Balsam Mountain Inn), a lawyer for my husband's speeding ticket, and the list goes on and on and on. Most of the businesses I've used have been great but there are a few I've been more than disappointed in. Not all businesses follow BBE rules so over the years I've had a few problems - an incompetent rude drunk web designer, a dishonest mechanic who inflated his prices for BBE customers, and 2 very rude guests they resolved those issues very quickly by adjusting or refunding my barter money and even calling the two rude guests for me the very next day to let them know they were not welcome to come back to our place, and if they continued to break the rules they would be kicked out of BBE. I'm pretty happy with what I receive from them but I would love seeing more BBE customers walking through my door.
  By Nabila Bahai, January 16, 2018

Photos