Survival Dispatch Insider Vol. 3 Issue 5: Bartering

You cannot store everything you will ever need. When the money stops meaning anything, you trade for the rest. Issue 5 of Volume 3 is 53 pages on bartering: what to stock, how to deal, and how not to get robbed doing it.

Inside: the rules and risks of barter, from Tim MacWelch; planning a trade like a mission, with a security team out of sight and knowing who you are dealing with; negotiation as a power struggle, how you dress, how you present and why you develop a routine; the list of goods to buy in bulk now for trade later, dry goods to canned meat to chocolate to freeze-dried staples; the first rule of barter club: keep it small enough to carry and secure; the Latvian tractor story and what it teaches about resources and transport; medical items that make the best trade goods, gauze, hemostatics, tourniquets, gloves and electrolytes; and gear reviewed in this issue, including the Bradford Guardian 3 knife, a Gamut overland pack and an Insider-exclusive look at the Seeker 2 Pro flashlight.

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