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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur's Online Swap Meet SwapThing Pins Hopes on Bartering
04-15-2006, 09:07 AM,
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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur's Online Swap Meet SwapThing Pins Hopes on Bartering
Quote:Being flat broke gave Jessica Hardwick the inspiration to launch a business that encourages consumers to swap before they shop.

Hardwick is the CEO of SwapThing, a 15-month-old Internet start-up that is playing David to eBay's Goliath by giving its 40,000 members a new way to buy and sell online.

SwapThing lets member post items they want to sell, or to barter. The proprietary software developed for the site helps someone who wants, for example, to trade baby furniture for size 6 business suits, find someone with business suits who is looking for baby furniture. The site charges $1 for each swap or sale conducted through the site....
Quote:The start-up costs for the company were $150,000...

full article: http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr...WVlRUV5eTI=
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Re: Silicon Valley Entrepreneur's Online Swap Meet SwapThing Pins Hopes on Bartering
site's logo Wrote:my thing for your thing

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3.5 million items
less traffic than Bidville
$1 fee

I don't have enough time to spend it listing items that will sit for the next 10 years.
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Re: Silicon Valley Entrepreneur's Online Swap Meet SwapThing Pins Hopes on Bartering
Not everything has a $1 FVF.  Swapping/Selling services has a $10 FVF.

http://www.swapthing.com/corporate/pricing.jsp

Quote:The transaction fee for service swaps is higher than that for item swaps based on the assumption that after contact information has been exchanged, a relationship will be formed between both parties and they will no longer need SwapThing for future transactions. Basically, you are acquiring a new customer for $10.

As a seller I prefer fixed price where the buyer pays at the time of purchase with a credit card.  As a buyer, I found this site's listing pages to be annoying last year and they're just as annoying this year.  Tongue
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"

"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site.
best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011
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