If you want your sellers to buy from you try selling them what they need

[Orpichukwu]

By trying to make yours attractive, try not to make yours too cheap because if you think you're doing buyers a favor by making your commodity too cheap, you are only reducing the value of the products you have, and people prefer to buy some particular products that are more expensive because they associate the expensive price with quality. You also need to try not to look too desperate.

Well, how you treat your customers depends on how you view them; the idea of making your product cheap and chasing customers aware varies based on the class of the customers. As long as the product quality is high and top-notch selling at a fair price where you as the seller also cover other costs and still remain in profit, it is considered the best to me. Personally, I can walk a few miles away to buy something where the cost difference is less than 2 cents because I see that seller selling cheap as more considerate than the one in front of my home.

[Cryptohygenic]

If you want your sellers to buy from you try selling them what they need, if they already have other sellers then make yours more attractive.


Let's assume you want to become an online seller on a peer-to-peer Bitcoin Marketplace, and one of your main concerns is "who will my stuff" or "can I sell fast enough",  then you have an idea— you decide that instead of buying things with fiat currency from local sellers who hardly consider buying from you, you will be better off converting that fiat currency to Bitcoin to buy from local Bitcoiners who will also buy things you sell. You look for sellers on the marketplace who sell things you frequently or occasionally buy, and then ask them the kind of things they frequently or occasionally buy in order to supply them... But under the condition that you would mostly buy from them if their products/services are top notch (good quality) and more competitive or attractive than your former sellers, and you likewise promise thesame thing. And then you start buying from these peers and they start buying from you after comparing prices and quality of your stuff with their former sellers'

Your take?

In a case when the dealer or your supplier is not in need of your products and you need theirs to buy and stock your store according to your customers demand what will you do? I trust you can not give them the conditions that they must buy from you before you buys from them and you can not either ask them to diversify into another product of your need conditionally.
Except it has been reviewed by their market team and management and find out how profitable they would be if they venture into it because I am sure they can not afford to loose while you profits.

[Gozie51]

Does trade by barter business still working in the businesses now?, I don't think so because people and businesses now are only fully into what could give them money by selling the product or commodities they have on there shops so actually it depends on what a person is doing as a business before a trade by barter could be assumed effective on that business line.

Just for knowledge sake, I heard that there are still some remote villages in Nigeria that still do trade by barter, though not in full scale. They do it within themselves at the market square with understanding. For instance, if a buyer comes to the market with rice and less cash, they can exchange the rice with other commodities like plantain, beans, yam, fish, meat etc from the seller and then use the cash to buy more things needed. So trade by barter still exist in such remote villages in Nigeria from what I heard of certain villages.