No more Amazon and ebay, here comes Swaptree - swap items for free
Swaptree is an amazing service. It is a new and innovative way for people to easily trade the books, cds, dvds and video games they are finished with, for the ones they want, all for free. With swaptree, your collections stop gathering dust and can be used to acquire other items you want.
All you do is list stuff you want to get rid of, create another list of stuff you want and, with any luck, you can make a few successful trades. You first notice that Swaptree is different from other systems when you enter an item that you’re putting up for trade. Swaptree shows you exactly what you can get for it. Enter more items, and the list of things you can get expands. I am looking forward to joining its network.
Swaptree is founded by Greg Boesel and this site is now creeping out of superstealth mode with a new take on e-commerce. Its high-tech bartering system lets consumers get the goods they want without paying a dime. This is not the first website to try online bartering, Peerflix, Bookins, and La La help people trade movies, books, and CDs, respectively, while SwapThing lets users combine goods, cash, and services.
“Swapping is a much simpler transaction,” says Scot Wingo, CEO of ChannelAdvisor, which helps companies sell on eBay and other sites. “You get the same result as you would selling a videogame to some guy in Maine just to get cash to buy another game.”
And the most important question - How does Swaptree make money? … Well It’s planning to survive solely by selling ads.
So you think SwapTree will take off some of the amazon and ebay customers and affect there business … you can leave your comments - what do you think of swaptree and will it survive? …
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cool site. I’ll have to give it a try.
I don’t see it impacting ebay all that much (how many of ebay’s transactions are centered around books or CDs). Amazon, on the other hand, could feel a real pinch if this thing takes off. This is their bread and butter. If you can buy new, buy used or just get it for free, seems like an easy choice. This will be an interesting one to watch.
That is true … ebay might not be affected too much.
Swaptree is getting a lot of marketing by word of mouth too via schools and college campus … and swaptree marketing team is doing a good job there as that is there core audience.
Lets see how the marketing goes in the long run … most of the bartering based sites have not done too good in the past though.