Swaptree Launches Online Trading Post
Tue Jul 3, 2007 9:50AM EDT
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Over time, we've seen a few web sites pop up as venues for trading DVDs, books, music CDs, and video games, usually one or the other or a few but not all. Of course, you can find them on sites like eBay and Craigslist amid a sea of everything else people are trying to sell. But for out and out trades with no money switching hands, a new web site has launched that aims to be the one-stop trading post online for all of the above: books, music, movies, and video games.
Called swaptree, the site's algorithms do the work for you once you enter the titles of media you want to trade in, as well as the ones you want to get in return. Once you enter what you have, the site's algorithms go to work finding what you can get for your trades. You just enter the UPC codes or ISBN numbers on the items.
Mark Hexamer, Boston-based swaptree's vice president, says you can effect two-way trades as well as three-way trades, which increases the pool for items you can receive when you trade. The site also can search for traders who live nearby.
Using the site is free, but you will have to pay for shipping your items. A nice feature on the site is the ability to print postal service shipping labels right from swaptree. By entering the ISBN or UPC number, the site calculates the weight of the item or items you are shipping. Using the U.S. Post Office's Media Mail service, swaptree says you can mail most things for less than $2.50.
The site is supported by advertising. Swaptree is very well designed, and clearly answers any questions you may have about how it works. If you've got lots of media you'd like to trade, click on over this week and check it out and let us know what you think.
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2 Posted by rvisitacion on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:57PM EDT Report Abuse
Check out iLetYou ( http://www.iletyou.com ), a new online rental community for DVDs and Games that allows anyone to start their own rental store or rent from a variety of stores. iLetYou is about rental instead of swap: it's an easy way to earn money or credit from your DVD or Game collection or instantly rent from reputable stores at great prices, without having to choose to give up ownership.
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3 Posted by david_shuping1999 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:38PM EDT Report Abuse
Swaptree Inc. is run by a couple of Kids working on there HP Laptops, and out of the basement of there MOMS HOUSE. I was a member for a couple of weeks. Spent days adding my items. And had no items in my want list come open. Users want to trade your high value items for there low value items so they can sell the item on Ebay. Site is going to be a gone in a year are so. And there advertisement dollars will be gone. See Ya Swaptree Inc. You can go to Gamestop to be ripped off. At lest then you know you are getting ripped off there.
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4 Posted by andrewpauljones on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:54PM EDT Report Abuse
Last post comes to you courtesy of Thc Clown Guild. Who knows nothing about the formation of Swaptree?.... ...Him (and other suspended users)
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5 Posted by kybub74 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:55PM EDT Report Abuse
Please check out this amazing new music artist. His name is Dustin Smith and his music is great!!!!! You must hear his new song about Myspace called "The Myspace Song." It's really good. Please take just a couple of minutes and check it out. Thank you and please spread the word.
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1 Posted by jason_s_warner on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:29PM EDT Report Abuse
The Swaptree site appears to be live now (a day early) so anyone can sign up.