Zwaggle.com: Trade Baby Gear Online

Got lots of baby gear you're not using anymore but you know would be of good use to another family?

Well, you can sell it locally on Craigslist or even on eBay, but here's another web site designed to trade baby items among parents who don't need items anymore and parents who do. It's called Zwaggle, and as Cnet's Stefanie Olsen writes, it takes a modern, social-networking approach "to an age-old practice among parents of swapping clothes, handing down furniture, or borrowing instead of buying."

Started by two guys (neither parents) in San Francisco, the privately funded site launched last year and has 2,000 members so far. The items are traded, not purchased, so the person obtaining an item pays the shipping cost, and the person shipping it prints out a prepaid shipping label from the web site. Zwaggle makes money on a percentage of the shipping costs.

When parents give away items, they get points (or "zoints") toward choosing other items on the site.

Check out the full article below for more info. One of the founders tells Cnet's Olsen that once the membership grows, they hope to open "eco-friendly" drop-off/pick-up points to avoid shipping big items when the trading families live near each other.

Would a site like this come in handy?

LINK: Going Green, One Crib at a Time [Cnet]