Editing Barter (section)

===Features of bartering===
Often the following features are associated with barter transactions:

'''There is a demand focus for things of a different kind.'''

:Most often, parties trade goods and services for goods or services that differ from what they are willing to forego.

'''The parties of the barter transaction are both equal and free.'''

:Neither party has advantages over the other, and both are free to leave the trade at any point in time.

'''The transaction happens simultaneously.'''

:The goods are normally traded at the same point in time. Nonetheless delayed barter in goods may rarely occur as well.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Humphrey |first=Caroline |title=Barter and Economic Disintegration |journal = Man |year=1995 |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=48–72 |language=English| doi=10.2307/2802221|jstor=2802221 }}</ref>  In the case of services being traded however, the two parts of the trade may be separated.

'''The transaction is transformative.'''

:A barter transaction "moves objects between the regimes of value", meaning that a good or service that is being traded may take up a new meaning or value under its recipient than that of its original owner.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Humphrey |first=Caroline |title=Barter, Exchange and Value: An Anthropological Approach |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1992 |isbn=9781316582459 |pages=1–10 |language=English}}</ref>

'''There is no criterion of value.'''

:There is no real way to value each side of the trade. There is bargaining taking place, not to do with the value of each party's good or service, but because each player in the transaction wants what is offered by the other.<ref name=":0" />