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Originally Posted by erickajm  Hmmmm... so, would it have been different if she had posted for sale, bounce houses.. sold them and then bought the yorkies with the money she made from the sale?
Bartering is completely normal. Businesses will barter services, i.e.. when I had my tanning salon I would trade for hair services... and before you say it, I am not trying to compare a yorkie with tanning or apples to oranges but then again, breeding is a business and so are bounce things..whatever they were.
I realize I may be opening up a can of worms once I push submit but this is going to be another one of those posts where everyone jumps on the bandwagon of why and why nots... everyone that followed Emma's post knows what kind of a person that was... but what if someone else on here had posted that... Personally I don't think I would ever barter with Zoe's babies but what if there was a person that you approved of and this person happened to have something that you've been looking at but just didn't have the cash readily available?just being the devils advocate.  |
I would have to agree and disagree with you to some point. Yes, bartering is part of business and I do not see anything wrong with knowing someone and exchanging business with an acquaintance. But you go on line and say that you would give a living thing away in exchange for a toy?
The only reason that I even remembered this post was because of a little controversy in the Rescue Forum this morning. There was a cross post from a Craigslist.com ad from TX that someone (not this same breeder) was willing to trade 2 Yorkies for a Wii game for her kids. People who posted to the thread were outraged and it made me remember this particular post. When I went to look for it I was shocked it was Emma's breeder who was trying to trade a Bounce House for a Yorkie!