Category: Talent Exchange Tips

The Talent Exchange is a community using a range of non-monetary exchange methods to exchange what they can provide and do for each other. As such, it embraces trust, honesty, respect, care, personal responsibility, mutual aid and a cooperative spirit. As we know, this is the opposite of what is common in the regular money economy: lack of […]

Most transactions on CES are entered by sellers, who rely on buyers providing the correct information about their accounts. Sometimes buyers’ handwriting is so bad that sellers enter the wrong account number into the transactions form on the website. And sometimes buyers have the wrong account number in their heads and repeatedly give it out. […]

Fairly often members report being unable to change their passwords or being locked out when they have changed their passwords. They go to the reset password function at the login box, change their password and then find they can no longer log in. This tends to happen more often with the mobile site. This kind […]

Some providers (sellers) are tardy in entering their transactional information and this can cause consternation for those who received from them (buyers). When sellers take a long time to enter their transactions, buyers are placed in a position of not knowing what their actual balances are. While this has been partly rectified by buyers now […]

Frequently, the Administrator is asked by CTTE users to update their email address or some other detail about their account. The CTTE is not a mailing list; it is a trading platform much like your internet banking account with your regular bank. You can’t simply send an email to your bank asking them to change your details. […]

Many new users find the CES website difficult to use, and this puts them off they say. It is true that the CES website does appear complex at first, especially when entering that first trade. There seem to be so many options it can put one off for good! If this has been your experience, […]

Every now and then we are compelled to write something about the increasing use of Rands in the Talent Exchange, in order to reset things and prevent the takeover of the Exchange by this plague! The object of the Talent Exchange is to create a ‘noconomy’, an alternative ‘economy’ that does not run on money, […]

Quite frequently questions are put to the CTTE Admin or membership asking why there are no markets in a particular area or why the focus of activity is in certain areas and not others. Most of us are so familiar with hierarchical organisations that we assume the CTTE must also operate according to this organisational […]

Are you new to the Talent Exchange? Have you just done your first trade and are wondering how it gets recorded? In the Talent Exchange, it is normally the seller who enters the trades. This is because buyers do not ‘pay’ sellers, in the sense of giving something in return for what they have received. All that needs […]

Regularly we receive requests for advice on trading with CES users from or in other exchange groups, either in South Africa or abroad. This has several angles: providing goods and services to CES users from ‘out-of-town’ receiving goods and services while ‘out-of-town’ trading with users on other exchange networks 1. ‘Selling’ to users not from […]