Swap Spotlight Archive

  • Swaptree Sees the World, and Swaps for it

    Swaptree Sees the World, and Swaps for it

    If you’ve been following Swaptree on Facebook you know we’ve been very busy traveling the world and finding new things to swap for. Sure, we still swap our books, CDs, DVDs and video games – after all, a girl needs her bag of fun when flying all over the world – but we’ve picked up [...]

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  • Swaptree’s ‘Storybook Ending’

    Swaptree’s ‘Storybook Ending’

    Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, in a land called "Bahston", the Swaptree team spent a summer working on new member initiatives and adding new products to our platform. The initiatives launched earlier than planned, thanks to an upsetting basketball game against the LA Lakers...

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  • Swaptree Asks: What Book Would Stop the BP Oil Spill?

    Swaptree Asks: What Book Would Stop the BP Oil Spill?

    Here at Swaptree, we're very eco-conscience and work hard to help promote a fun and healthy eco-friendly lifestyle. Swapping is eco-friendly, after all. Like most of you, we're distraught over the BP oil spill in the Gulf and while we work on our end to help the clean-up efforts, we took to our Facebook and Twitter pages to ask a very important question:

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  • Swaptree Announces $6 Million Financing

    Swaptree Announces $6 Million Financing

    Swaptree.com announced a $6 million round of financing, and welcomes Jeff Bennett as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company.

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  • Russell Brand to host ‘Buy Love Here’ swapping event

    Russell Brand to host ‘Buy Love Here’ swapping event

    Russell Brand is joining the Swap Movement. The comedian and actor is scheduled to host ‘Buy Love Here,’ a swap-meet-type event on Thursday, May 27, in Los Angeles. Buy Love Here attendees can bring used goods and trade them for anything from clothing to electronics. The event is a “social experiment” that will create a [...]

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  • Leading the Swap Movement…

    Leading the Swap Movement…

    It is sure great to say hello to all of you today in this post on “Swapping Ideas,” our Swaptree blog. I have been involved with Swaptree as a user, advisor, board member and now, I’m moving to the role as CEO.  (You might have seen the news in the article that appeared in the [...]

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  • Money Saving Swapping Tips from ABC News

    Money Saving Swapping Tips from ABC News

    Tara Goldenberg, of Northeast Philadelphia, loves cookbooks and says she could easily spend hundreds of dollars at the bookstore to add to her collection. But instead, she gets her books from Swaptree.

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  • LIVE! From the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

    LIVE! From the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

    Swaptree invaded the UCLA campus last weekend and took part in the very busy, and very big, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. As we gear up for Book Expo of America in New York (May 25-27), here's our recap of what went down in LA...

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  • Swap Spotlight: Disney Puts ‘Green’ Books Online for Earth Day

    Swap Spotlight: Disney Puts ‘Green’ Books Online for Earth Day

    It's a small world, after all. In honor of Earth Day's 40th anniversary, Mickey and the gang are gearing up for a celebration and highlighting Disney books with an environmental message.

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  • Swap Spotlight: 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners

    Swap Spotlight: 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners

    Not sure what book to read next? The Pulitzer people have some suggestions for you.

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