Yes, we are an Australian wide Barter Bank Service, with services and goods available to Barter throughout various States and Territories in this nation.

Yes, you can use your a Touch of TLC Barter Bank Community Membership Card Australia wide but you must provide your Community Membership Card as proof when you are bartering, including outside your home State or Territory.

You do, so you create the opportunity to generate barter agreements that suit you and that place appropriate value upon your service or goods.

You place your own value on your service or goods, meaning that you can negotiate a barter agreement that is comparable in value to the value of the service or goods you are bartering for. To give an example, you may be wanting to have some small renovation undertaken on your property and so you look in the directory for a builder or handyman. You yourself may be a hairdresser and so you calculate between you, based on reasonable market price, that the work you need done is equivalent to the cost of six haircuts. Subsequently, you agree to barter the six month’s supply of haircuts for the small home renovation job. Alternatively, you may be a cattle farmer and your goods listed in the A Touch of TLC Barter Bank e-Directory is beef. You would like to organise a cleaner to come into your home once a fortnight and so you contact a Cleaner listed in A Touch of TLC Barter Bank e-Directory and negotiate a supply of beef in return for fortnightly house cleaning services. To provide a third and different example of once off bartering, you may be short on food, including fresh fruit and vegetables and so you look in A Touch of TLC Barter Bank e-Directory for a fruit and/or vegetable grower. You contact them and offer to provide them with one music lesson in return for one carton of fresh fruit and vegetables. At all times you maintain the right to place the value you deem is appropriate on your own goods and services.

It is at each Members discretion if they choose to barter with another member or not, on every occasion. Some Community Members may be willing to barter their services or goods with you out of generosity, knowing that there may be a time when they require a service or goods and the Member they are wanting to barter with may not want or need their own services or goods on offer. The Member retains the right to decline or to come to an agreement on barter of any services and goods with each individual offer.

We recommend that you consult your Business Accountant about this for your own clear direction and peace of mind. If you do, you can inform them that you do not think you are required to pay any tax because A Touch of TLC is not ‘an Exchange’, a ‘Barter Exchange’, a ‘Trade Exchange’ or a ‘ Countertrade Exchange’. Be sure to advise them that A Touch of TLC does not operate in units, credits, trade dollars or barter dollars. Neither do we provide you with a Trading Account for the purpose of recording your transactions or debiting any fees. Nor do suppliers receive any credit of fees into a Trading Account. After informing them of these things, then you can tell them that you are not receiving any payment for your service, you are simply exchanging your service or goods with another as a once off, or on an ad hoc basis.

No, A Touch of TLC Barter Bank Community Membership Cards must be in an individual name, though your Business Name will be listed in A Touch of TLC Barter Bank e—Directory.

Yes, you are entitled to claim back your Community Membership Joining Fee on Tax as Advertising expense for your Business, given that your Business Name and a description of the Service you offer will be listed in A Touch of TLC Barter Bank e-Directory and distributed to all A Touch of TLC Barter Bank Community Members Australia wide twice a year.

A Touch of TLC Barter Bank e-Directory is issued twice a year, on 1st March and 1st September annually.

Your A Touch of TLC Barter Bank Community Membership Card will automatically be posted to you at the address you provided on your Registration Form. You will receive this within 7 to 14 days of payment and Registration Form being received and processed by our Office and depending upon Australia Postal Service to your area.

You will receive your A Touch of TLC Barter Bank e-Directory by email to the email address you record on your Registration Form. You will automatically receive updated editions of the e-Directory on 1st March and 1st September each year, unless you advise that you no longer wish to receive the updated latest edition.

A Touch of TLC Barter Bank Community Membership Card is required to be displayed upon each barter agreement you are involved in. Subsequently, you will require your Community Membership Card to continue bartering in A Touch of TLC Barter Bank Community. A replacement card can be provided at a cost of $50.00 should you lose your original A Touch of TLC Barter Bank Community Membership Card. Please note, your replacement card may not reflect the same Class (Gold, Silver or Bronze) your original card was depending upon card availability at the time of issue, though at all times we will endeavour to attempt to replace your card with one exactly like you previously had.

Any unethical service should be reported directly to A Touch of TLC by email. Please ensure that your email subject is titled “BARTER BANK COMPLAINT Members Name (then type the members first and last name)”. Any complaint that does not have this title in the subject line is not guaranteed of being attended to, as it may easily be overlooked.

Should you receive three strikes against your name for unethical bartering, you will be contacted by the management and advised that you are being removed from A Touch of TLC Barter Bank Community and the subsequent A Touch of TLC Barter Bank e-Directory. You will be removed from the community without refund regardless of how long you have been a member of A Touch of TLC Barter Bank Community for. All A Touch of TLC Barter Bank Community Members will be advised if someone has been removed from A Touch of TLC Barter Bank Community for unethical bartering and advised that they are no longer permitted under the Terms to barter with that person even if that person attempts to do so.

Yes. You can complete the Membership Registration Form provided on this Website and upload and select your preferred payment method, then make that payment online, to become a member of A Touch of TLC Barter Bank today.