Welcome To Private Trade Dollars

Pioneers in Trade Instruments -- For more than 50 years a few men and women have created and spent their own personal Trade due bills instead of using U.S. Dollars. One person saw another doing it and took it up. One by one, the numbers of users grew - with each one adding a little to the evolving system. Occasionally they would gather at some hotel or church and hold trading sessions - a handful of men and women trading hundreds of thousands of dollars in everything imaginable from jewelry to real estate without using cash. In the process, they developed new ways of doing business that all of us need to know and understand and which for the first time is fully revealed the Portfolio for Using the Private Trade Dollar System. A printed copy of this book is part of the Portfolio is part of each new user’s package. All the excitement, techniques and the tools of this fascinating world of Trade professionals are in your hands.

How One Lives Makes a Lot of Difference -- While many professional traders gained substantial wealth through their Trade activities, almost all of them managed to live like wealthy people. They Trade to travel on the airlines and stay at fine hotels and resorts. They buy fine clothes and dine at 5-star restaurants. They buy real estate and furniture and pieces of art and jewelry. They rarely use cash to see a doctor or dentist or to obtain any of the services for which most of us pay dearly, such as getting our car fixed, our house painted, the air conditioning system repaired or replaced, the lawn landscaped, the children's teeth straightened or eyeglasses fitted. These pioneers discovered the simple truth that except for a few things like taxes, utilities and mortgage payments, virtually nothing is beyond the reach of their own Trade due bills.

New Ways to Buy and Sell -- It is the experience of these pioneers that gave birth to The System that you have more wealth that you ever imagined; and that you are able to buy things you thought were beyond your means. You will find it possible to buy much of what you need and want for 20 cents on the dollar and sometimes for "FREE"; and that the person who sells them to you will in turn get a good deal. This system is one that works for buyer and seller alike. It is a win-win the whole way and that is why it can work for you indefinitely and become a routine way of doing much of your buying.

Will Serve You Well for a Long Time -- The System will serve you indefinitely. Its benefits accrue to you all your life. Having it will make it simpler to propose and affect a trade as the forms will do much of the work for you. Regardless of what you do, you can take the Portfolio and develop a whole new economy for yourself, your family and your business. What you learn and the contacts you make should serve you well for many years. It represents a wealth of information and tools begin trading immediately and develop very early improvement in your cash flow and cash reserves. That is its primary purpose - to show you how to use untapped resources - what we call vanishing inventory - to buy things for which you otherwise would pay cash or not buy at all. You will do so without trading fees or commissions.

My Vanishing Inventory -- When you fully appreciate the magnitude of the vanishing inventories, you will quickly see the opportunities that the Private Trade Dollar System offers. Never lose track of this: take all the product inventories and services inventories that the world successfully markets and know that they do not equal the value of the unused and therefore lost inventories of time, space and product.

IN THE INVENTORIES OF TIME, SPACE AND PRODUCT MORE IS LOST AND NEVER USED, THAN IS SOLD

We all experience vast losses of our assets of time, space or product. Think about that. Most people and most businesses produce more than they are selling. In addition, most can produce more than they are producing with little or no extra costs in overhead. This includes successful businesses and individuals as well as unsuccessful ones. These vanishing inventories represent goods and services people need and want and would buy if more cash were more easily available. We would all gladly trade our own vanishing inventories to get something we need. It is, in turn, a certainty, that what we need is in someone else's vanishing inventory. The System helps users accomplish a simple and logical trade that works for both parties and improves their cash flow.

We All Have Vanishing Inventories -- Virtually every one of us - from a corporate executive to a home bound man or woman who can type or sew, has an inventory. It may be in TIME, or SPACE, or PRODUCT or in combinations thereof. Many of us - perhaps most of us - lose much of our inventory at the end of the day.

We Are All Like a Motel -- Imagine if you will, a motel with 100 rooms and year-round they average 70 percent occupancy. Their average rate for a room is $60. Some nights they are full. Other nights they are mostly empty. They advertise and promote but have difficulty ever getting above a 70 percent average occupancy. In fact, they may even think that is pretty good, and it well may be. But it does not change the harsh reality that this motel has a huge vanishing inventory. Let's look at what this means, while remembering that we are all in the same general boat. What is happening to the motel is what is happening to all of us in different degrees and ways.

A Vanishing Half Million Dollars -- The motel has an average of 30 empty rooms per night and their rate is $60. Let's assume that when they rent a room the extra cost for cleaning it up plus utilities is $10 per night. Their cash loss each night for these unused rooms -- this vanishing inventory -- is then $50 per room or $1,500 for the 30 vacant rooms. On a yearly basis, this vanishing inventory becomes $1,500 times 365 nights for a total loss of $547,500. Year after year, their vanishing inventory exceeds a half million dollars.

"Wow, why don't they do something?" -- In some cases, motels will do something about it, by issuing due bills or gift certificates valid for room occupancy on a space available basis. This guarantees that they will never substitute trade business for cash business. In return, the motels will acquire a wide range of goods and services, such as advertising, printing, air conditioning services, carpet cleaning, legal services, computer repairs, etc. The effect is a major improvement in the motel's cash flow. Yes!

We Are All Like the Motel -- Not that you have such a large vanishing inventory as a motel. It is that the principles and ingredients are similar for all of us. We all have assets of time, space or product that are constantly being unnecessarily lost, and for most of us, these losses are much greater than we would ever imagine.

We All Need Trade -- To better survive and prosper in the modern economy, there are few things that will be better to have than your own due bills for making purchases and taking advantage of unusual opportunities that are always coming along. In the great inventories of others, rest great opportunities for you. There is dental care and eye care, there are window treatments and car repairs, there are vitamins and cosmetics, the services of an attorney, an accountant to do you taxes, a day care center and a summer camp, music lessons and dry cleaning, printing and advertising, new carpeting and a vacation. Most individuals and businesses have large silent losses every day from their inability to get maximum benefit out of their available inventories of time, space and material products. When you become involved in trading, most if not your entire vanishing inventory is marketed in a way that adds to your cash flow. Just imagine, for a moment, the amount of your cash that could be preserved through in the years ahead.

Vanishing Inventories Are Wherever We Look -- The nation's vanishing inventory, with a value in the trillions of dollars, and seen wherever we look, is the fuel of a trade economy. Those who understand its significance and take advantage of it have a clear opportunity to add new dimensions to their business activities. Let us spend a moment and define again, what we mean by inventory and more specifically, vanishing inventory.

It Is More Than What We See in the Store -- Most obviously, if you deal in nuts and bolts, those boxes on the shelf constitute inventory. However, inventory goes far beyond that. Inventory is whatever you have or can get or can do to make a sale. Whether we are General Motors and sell cars, or Jane Doe and sell T-shirts at the flea market -- our inventory is our assets that are available for us to market to others. Our own personal time from 9 to 5 represents our inventory. Space available for economic activity represents inventory. A machine that can do work is inventory. Our ability to make something or create something. That is our inventory. Last and perhaps of least importance, our products on hand -- that too is our inventory. We are all different and have different assets and talents and contacts. Nevertheless, all of us have assets that are disappearing with every sunset. Take these inventory examples and visualize how they can so easily become vanishing assets:

A PARKING GARAGE - Here the inventory is space and time. A parking space not occupied becomes part of the vanishing inventory at the end of the day;
A RETAIL STORE - Here we see the most obvious of all inventories - products on the shelves; some items will go out of date while the store may have bought too many of other items. These will become part of the store's vanishing inventory but one that could be saved with;
A PROFESSIONAL - His or her inventory is time. Most professionals have unused hours on many if not most days as competition among professionals is usually very intense. Many professionals, especially in bad economies, are without cash customers much of their day.

Less Obvious Inventories -- These examples above are obvious and we all see and understand those types of inventories. However, we all have less obvious resources that we pass over in the cash market that take on dramatic significance in the world of trade. Nevertheless, what, for example, about the person who has the contacts and ability to buy a product at an unusually low price to its normal retail price? Is having those contacts and that ability any less of an inventory than a lawyer's time? Not at all. This is clearly an asset and all too often part of our vanishing inventory. While the lawyer can market an unused hour at day's end for Trade, so can you market your unused contacts and abilities in trade to make purchases otherwise requiring your cash.

An Example -- There is a man in Florida who imports carved coral furniture from Haiti. These very attractive pieces are mostly pedestals, tables, ornaments and lamps and they bring very high retail prices - typically 10-20 times what they cost to have made in Haiti. If we had access to such products, I could easily trade them for almost anything I might need -- restaurant due bills, auto repairs, window treatments and carpet for the home. The final wholesale cost, including shipping, might be less than twenty percent of the retail trade value. There are unlimited opportunities like this. All we have to do is seek and find.

Where to Turn -- This first place to look, and usually the easiest place to begin your trading activity, is in the product or service where you currently earn a living. Make sure that you get maximum sales possible for the products you have purchased for resale and the maximum revenue from expenses and personal time you incur from yourself and employees, and also from rent and equipment. These all represent your inventory. If you are occupying more space that you are using, then you have a vanishing inventory of space. This is money lost at the end of each day. The Trade system we have mapped out in the Portfolio, you will help you discover how to find and market vanishing inventories while adding to your cash in the bank.

Finding Your Trading Inventory

Look first to the regular products you have on hand, or the business services you provide customers; identify any vanishing inventory of time, space or product and act quickly to stop the loss by utilizing these assets to obtain goods and services you otherwise will pay cash to get;
If your markup is strong, look to buying more of your regular products to supply trading customers;
Seek new products to acquire specifically for trading where a high markup opportunity exists;
Do you have a talent not being utilized and some time available? Such as decorating or landscape planning, desktop publishing, tutoring, furniture refinishing or picture framing?
Do you have things you no longer want? Such as a vacation timeshare, a used car or boat, a piece of real estate, an antique piece of furniture, some machinery or equipment? Any of our "don't wants" might be someone else's prized collectable;
Are you or some family member an artist? All types of art offer excellent trade possibilities. Very few people ever own enough art. Or do you know an artist? Be his or her agent and trade the art to the benefit of you both

The System will help you develop ways to use any of such assets in consummating trades that will give you more of the products and services you need and want while at the same time preserving your cash. In many circumstances, the products and services you acquire with Trade are "FREE" since you bought them with inventory that was about to be lost. In any case, your Trade instrument allows you to buy at whatever your own wholesale buying power is for products and services you offer.

If It Is There, Use It

If you have a vanishing inventory - save it.
If you have a low wholesale cost of product - use it to improve you life.
If family members have talents that are under used - start using them through Trade.
If you provide a service but cannot get enough cash business, then get the business through the use of Trade. Virtually any product or service available to you that cannot reasonably be moved in the cash market can be moved - to your great benefit - in the alternative economy.

When you possess any of these assets and do not act, they will be lost to you in your vanishing inventory. When you take something you are going to lose and trade it for something you need or want, you have essentially obtained something for nothing. Such opportunities can be available to you throughout the future.

Inside the Portfolio -- Your own personal trading manual offers the guidance and instructions and tools to make trading an efficient and valuable addition to your regular business activity. For some, the benefits will be so striking Trade will become the principal thrust of your business activity. For most, the manual will be a lifetime companion in support of your business and a key factor throughout the future in helping to increase your cash flow. All it requires is some initiative on your part.

Trading Certificate -- This is your due bill that you give out when making a purchase. It is your promise to pay with certain goods and or services that are specified right on the certificate itself. The certificate is so designed as to contain all the information needed for the trade. No other bookkeeping by either party is normally required. The person you trade with gives you his product or service; in turn, you fill out your due bill and give it to him. When they in turn obtain their goods or services from you, they give the due bill back to you and it is voided, like a cancelled bank check.

Customized Trade Instruments -- It is remarkably easy to customize your due bills, gift certificates and trading proposals with the Portfolio. You can print and carry a wide selection of denominations. One piece might, for example, fit the cost of a particular service or product you have available in your own inventory. Others might be for large denominations to take advantage of opportunities that come along.

Trading by Organizations -- The System puts forth a program whereby traders band together in a group or club to achieve enhanced trading opportunities. The group can be especially helpful for those who enjoy working with others, as its social atmosphere will be attractive to many. Being associated with a group does not conflict with or interfere with your independent trading. On the contrary, each activity will aid and broaden the other activities.

It Is More Than What We See in the Store -- Most obviously, if you deal in nuts and bolts, those boxes on the shelf constitute inventory. However, inventory goes far beyond that. Inventory is whatever you have or can get or can do to make a sale. Whether we are General Motors and sell cars, or Jane Doe and sell T-shirts at the flea market -- our inventory is our assets that are available for us to market to others. Our own personal time from 9 to 5 represents our inventory. Space available for economic activity represents inventory. A machine that can do work is inventory. Our ability to make something or create something, that is our inventory. Last and perhaps of least importance, our products on hand -- that too is our inventory. We are all different and have different assets and talents and contacts. Nevertheless, all of us have assets that are disappearing with every sunset. Take these inventory examples and visualize how they can so easily become vanishing assets:

Money Making Opportunity -- There are almost limitless ways of using Trade to gain many of the things you need and want and in the process actually improve your cash flow.