Bartercard Australia

4.5
based on 53 reviews

53 reviews about Bartercard Australia

verified email - 04 Jan 2020

If I could I would give less stars. I was a member for nearly 10 years and paid thousands and thousands of dollars in fees and marketing. I was never promoted. When it was time to unfortunately close my business 3 months ago I was given the biggest up yours by them. They did not support my business in any way to promote or sell items to bring a resolution. They said their policy is not to respond to any enquiries for 7 days! Imagine your business where you did not bother contacting your customers for 7 days when they need a speedy solution. I had 28 days to wind up my business and was charged, again, thousands of dollars to close this account. They are rude, non-communicative and have no sense of business. You cannot spend your Bartercard dollars on reasonable business expenses to offset the fees. It is useless and I would encourage no-one to apply. They are all over you to sign up and then nowhere when you need them. Would recommend every business to stay far far away.

verified email - 22 Apr 2017

When I signed up I was told stories that sounded almost too good to be true, I thought i give it a try. Most of them turned out to be lies.
Once signed up I quickly realised that it's not bartercard that will promote my business it's me who will have to do lots of free work to make bartercard work for me, there is little to no support coming from them. Once I questioned this with their staff I got no sense full answers. Using your credits is another challenge and I ended up wasting hours on phone to find someone to accept my credits and you fi nd someone you get generally overcharged and end up paying more than entering them through the open market. All you find is left over trash people try to offload.
My experiences with bartercard was very very bad. Due to the nature of my business I spend one on one time with my clients and I heard of none of any barter card users hahkng anything possitieve to say about this sevice. The general feedback was that they are very delighted to use their credit for something decent as rejection for proper services of other users seems to be a huge thing and that the special offers mainly consist of left over products that other members try to offload at top end prices. I struggle to understand how such business model can survive in today's market. This device is a total waste of time and only focuses on their own business using your business like a leach that sucks into you and bleeds you

verified email - 28 Feb 2017

I feel ripped off by Bartercard who misrepresented quality of suppliers to me. do NOT join. I am so angry I can't be bothered writer a 1000 word essay. Lets start with the fact that very little of any use could be bought with barter dollars and are worth approx 30 cents. Secondly most of their " suppliers" were rubbish and got rid of old stock or did not provide what they said they would using barter dollars. Apart from this, I believe BC are incompetent in every way

verified email - 05 Aug 2016

We recently saved $14,000 on a store relocation and fit out using Bartercard. We offset the cost of moving, new flooring, painting, electrical work, plumbing and security systems all by using trade dollars. We’ll use the cash we’ve saved to add a new espresso bar to the shop next, though we do have the option to cover the cost using trade dollars too. Bartercard has supported our vision and provided an additional channel of advertising, leading to more referrals and a higher-end customer experience.

verified email - 30 May 2016

If used correctly it can help your business cash flow, we use it on restaurants, accommodation. we use bartercard as a marketing tool we buy products and services on trade and use it to sell for cash.

verified email - 27 Apr 2016

www.butterfly-galleries.com
Melbouurne and USA
Member for 20years
Did very well
I started with Ibex

02 Apr 2016

I have been a Bartercard member for many years and continue to enjoy the benefits of enhancing my small business in practical ways. During slow periods Bartercard helps close the gap with monthly sales targets and every now and then a surprise purchase comes our way. Bartercard is my first stop to purchase personal and business goods and services.

31 Mar 2016

I've been a Bartercard member now for 18 months and have found it invaluable to my business. Any empty room is an expensive room in our beauty salon, so being able to offer Bartercard members the chance to unwind and relax using their Bartercard trade dollars, or to purchase gift vouchers to their staff as incentives, not only keeps my rooms and therapists busy, but I'm also able to then use the trade dollars that I would not have had, on necessities for the salon. From printing, signage to even a spa cover, it's really helped my cash flow. I can even take my staff out for meals to brainstorm on Barter. Great!!!

31 Mar 2016

Bartercard gives us access to lead the life we want to lead!
Being an serial entrepreneur with multiple business ventures going on at anytime the last thing we ever do is plan a holiday.
A few years back we purchased a holiday in Vanuatu with Bartercard. The best holiday ever! We stood on a active volcano, dined in exquisite restaurants, snorkelled in turquoise waters and danced with the local villagers.
They are the happiest people in the world.
I want some of that! :)

31 Mar 2016

The thing I love about Bartercard is the opportunity to work with other members who in turn can offer us their services on Bartercard. We have done work for many local members who continue to provide their services to us on Bartercard as well as leading to repeat work with several of them and recommending us to other customers.
This means we can use our trade dollars for holidays, which have been fantastic, we have take trips to Vanuatu twice, Samoa and bought our kids trips to Fiji and Thailand and we are all going to Fiji in May and planning another trip to Samoa later this year.
Bartercard has been great for both our business and personal life but the holidays are the icing on the cake and take all the stress of running a small business away. Thanks Bartercard and especially our great team.

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