This time from Swap.com, which is probably the best of the internet only barter websites, a demo video on YouTube that has great information, but is so dry and boring I almost didn’t watch the whole thing. Swap.com really does have a great little model and provides some really cool features, but the presentation in [...]
I’ve been milling over whether to write a piece on the current trends in the barter industry and my predictions for 2010 and the industry for a couple of weeks. It seems there is enough movement in the industry right now to write something not only coherent, but informative, and perhaps be a little prophetic [...]
On January 15th I published a story as part 2 of an experiment to trade a brand new computer and some furniture to anyone that wanted it. I posted the items on Craigslist, U-Exchange, BarterQuest, SwapTree, and PayMeWithAChicken. I used the same descriptions, the same pictures, even in the video I tried to post to [...]
I am uncomfortable calling this part 3, so part 2.7 of the battle of the internet barter sites it is. This is an update to part 2. In part 2 I posted items available for trade on four different websites. One week later, I have this to report: Craigslist generated no responses aside from the [...]
Finally, the battle continues! Part 2 of the battle: posting items to trade. I’ve been meaning to write this piece for a month and a half, but with the Holidays and the year end, I haven’t had the time I’ve wanted to dedicate to this piece. This morning I spent 4 hours going over the [...]
In this week’s version of our video podcast, we take on Merchant’s Barter, ITEX, and SwapTree.
With new sites popping up all the time, the internet-only barter competition is heating up. In this series of articles, I pit the top five internet barter sites against each other for the grand prize: recognition and kudos from our site! Our battle will have a number of rounds of judging: domain names, sign up [...]
NYDailyNews.com today contributed to the frenzy of barter related news stories with another list of how-tos and where-tos. This time the list is longer than most of the others. Sites like BarterQuest.com, SwapTree.com, U-exchange.com, SwapTreasures.com and TitleTrader.com let you swap almost anything online. PaperBackSwap.com and BookMooch.com are great for trading books; SwapStyle.com, ClothingSwaps.com, DignSwap.com and [...]
