Swap Sites

Unhelpful to first time sellers - beware scams

Advantages: one of the top 2 market places to sell you products
Disadvantages: email correspondence / questions from buyers gives them access to you private email address

In my opinion one of the shortcomings of Amazon Marketplace is that when a customer asks a question an email is sent to your personal email address. You reply, then the potential customer / scam has your contact details and can then put a scam in place to `mirror' Amazon Marketplace correspondence. Top five tips - from my point of view - first time sellers... * Be careful when replying to email questions as you are giving direct access info to an ...
...momentum of your first time sale. Pause / think. Does anything look odd in correspondence? / Read Amazon info as it will be quoted back to your face. * Esure you check / make sure that the money transaction is in your account on the Amazon site before posting. Take a screen shot of account / funds if in doubt should you have disagreement with Amazon later. * Only deal with a sale to UK mainland. Never overseas (and especially never never NIGERIA ...

DrDavid 28.06.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Amazon.co.uk Marketplace

Ebay for kids

Advantages: not real money, for people of all ages
Disadvantages: double postage,

The swop it shop is an auction website desgined for kids, in my opinion it is almost like an ebay for kids. Basically what you do is sell is put an item up for sale on the site and like ebay you can choose to put it up for auction or put it on buy it now. However, unlike ebay it doesn't cost you anything to put items up for sale on the site. And once you have sold it you earn swapits which is currency which you can only use on this paticular site. ...
...earned to purchase things from the site. Also if you don't fancy selling something on the site you can buy swapits using cash, however you can't convert your swapits back to cash. There are a couple of downsites to the site though you have to pay double postage as you post the product to the company who own swapitshop and they post it to the person who bought the product off you. Also it is quite unlikely that you will find the exact product that ...

mcleism01 11.07.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of swapitshop.com

Review of www.swapz.co.uk

Advantages: Quick, Easy & Free to use.
Disadvantages: Some people can over value their items.

This website came recommended to view by a colleague of my partner, so far it has been nothing but excellent. For those of you who are not aware of what this website is all about, here's a brief idea. Buyers and Sellers of unwanted goods can registar for free and list any item, you can swap for anything, and i mean anything - from CD's to Houses (yes someone actually listed their house to swap!!!) Similar to eBay in that you can search for what ...
...i would say that the people found on here are more trustworthy than those of eBay, mainly because they also have something to sell. We recently swapped a 2.5 Litre Nissan Skyline for a 2 Litre Toyota Celica - the owner of the Celica travelled to us in Portsmouth from Kent, looked at our car, took it for a test drive and left with the car. Easy!!! Unlike eBay you are also not charged to list your items. It's definately worth a look if you've got ...

Carlie86 13.12.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of swapz.co.uk

The Swaps Shut at Swap Hut

Advantages: Sell those unwanted items cluttering up the attic
Disadvantages: Not too many transactions at present

I joined the swaphut a few months ago after following a link from another site, with the hope of selling some unwanted goods that I've been meaning to gather together for a carbooty since about 1973!* For of course this is what swaphut is all about. You add some unwanted items, possibly place a couple of wanted items and then let the punters punt, sorry that was my opinion on the oxford canal, I meant to say then let the puntering, erm, haggling ...
...Easy instructions and some rather sleek, but non-the-less informative toolbars, with every function needed. You've got your information about the site in the "about us" area, you're frequently asked questions in the FAQ area, the registration details in the register area - blahdy blah, ad nausiem. There's also a couple of current offers floating across the page and some information about recently completed swaps, e.g. Tom just swapped his collection ...

wease 24.06.2001 · Read Full Review
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Review of swaphut.com

Things you want for things you don't, part 2

Advantages: swap stuff
Disadvantages: might not get sent in

Webswappers are the new owners of the brilliant (but annoying) swapitshop. They have taken over a wonderful site, which was fun and easy to use and turned it into an annoying load of rubbish. I only registered for Webswappers today after seeing an advertisement on the exquisite Ciao site, and I am already starting to see major faults. There are many swap web site like this around now (Swap CD, swapitshop etc) and this seems to be the biggest and ...
...it is worldwide and you can get imported CD’s for stuff you don’t want. The biggest thing up for swap is a car. ~ What is the deal? ~ This isn’t run like any other swap site I have come across. You don’t work on sawpits of points; you just swap what you want for what you don’t. There is a major downfall because of this though. Example: I have: A piece of paper I want: An Xbox. The people obviously don’t have to swap or anything, but it clutters ...

Tribute 28.03.2002 · Read Full Review
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Review of webswappers.com