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Bartering services crop up amid tight access to cash

Christopher Fuentes, a self-described "computer geek" from Massapequa Park, first got the idea to barter his computer know-how when the stock market crashed in the fall and newly unemployed friends were asking him for lessons. "I thought: Let me put an ad on Craigslist to see if anyone else wants to do this," said Fuentes, 25. Turns out they do: In return for computer lessons, he's gotten baked...

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