Strangest Ecom deal youve ever done?

eg ill swop 4 horses for that painting on your site

[Essex_boy]

Just completed a deal for a smallish amount the buyer couldnt pay me with a UK cheque and didnt want to send cash through the post... So I suggested that she send me the same value in sweets!

At least I think thats what they are, I cant read the wrapper, I hope they are not horse laxatives..

Any way they taste fine.

[GarryBoyd]

I have a set of plans that are rather hard to find listed on my site. I only sell them locally, for the photocopy charge. But I get enquiries from around the world for them. I cant be bothered doing a customs declaration etc so I tell them I will send them as a gift if they send my son a gift from their country.
Got games and toys from Canada, Wales, India, Israel that way. Dunno about taking sweets tho.

[Essex_boy]

Makes the web a great laugh though doesnt it!

you never know what youll get.

[dmorison]

If they're disgusting let the tax man have his 40% ;)

[dragonlady7]

I like the idea of bartering. I've bartered things before; it seems a good way of doing business if everyone's up front about it. :D

Exotic candies are the best! I found an international grocery store near where I used to live, and for Christmas last year I gave my entire family and all of my friends strange things I found in the grocery store. Which is cooler than it sounds-- there was Thai ramen, Jamaican soft drinks, Chinese tea, Japanese candy (the best in the world, I tell you, and also, the most bizarre), Puerto Rican soup packets. I also handmade a bunch of cookies, including some very difficult Latvian piparkukas that I was very proud of. :D

But that's a little off topic.
Bartering over the Web seems a very good idea when currency is too hard to deal with. ;)

[Essex_boy]

Dragonlady, cool shop do they have a URL?

[dragonlady7]

I don't know if they do-- I looked them up once online and their Internet presence was mostly news articles about how their main location may be replaced by a Target soon. :(
They're called Foodmart International and the locations I know about are in Jersey City, NJ (newport area) and in Spring Valley, NY.
They're like a giant warehouse, somewhat poorly organized, with everything from live fish to freeze-dried octopus to entire bamboo shoots and whole sugar canes to soup packets from anywhere you want. They have / had European things-- Weetabix, Lucozade, Turkish Delight, Greek feta, Ribena, tinned goods from Poland and Lithuania-- and tons and tons of Carribbean and Asian things. Which makes sense, given the high immigrant population of the area-- most of the shoppers were certainly not long in this country, and i heard more languages there than you could shake a stick at.
My favorite thing was a Filipino instant breakfast hot cereal, but it made my boyfriend break out in hives, so we couldn't eat the rest of the package. I gave it to my mom and she thought I was weird. :(
But, she already thought that.

So, I'd certainly be amenable to people paying me for small things in exotic goods! That would be awesome.