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Menendez said the position gave him access to wall phones, and used the position to help him barter or gain favors.

There’s also a bartering and swap group where folks negotiate clever exchanges: “I have an unused air fryer. You have an unused desk chair. Want to swap?”

They wanted to barter their old clothing, but that was a sticky prospect in Los Angeles — the scene is riddled with suspicious stares from thrift store employees and digital cold wars with teenagers on Depop.

"I think there was a lot of bartering," captain McIntosh says, "trying to get good deals, where we'd get breakfast and tea included."

Scholars suggest that some of these human remains were bartered items or gifts, but others may have been taken away without the consent of their owners.