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Shoot to Swap! How to Take Better Photos of Your Haves & Wants

Hello Swap Peeps, It’s Amy, your resident Swap Snob, here to give you a quick lesson in photography and to help you make the most of your swap items. Let’s face it: we live in a visual world. Your product photos are what attracts people to your items and profile. The better they look, the [...]
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Score Jason Wu & Other Designer Collabs on Swap.com

This past Sunday, as millions around the world prepared for the Super Bowl, fashion lovers everywhere had one thing on their minds: scoring a coveted piece from the latest designer collaboration, Jason Wu for Target. For weeks (if not months), bloggers and editors across the globe debated which pieces from the Jason Wu for Target [...]
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Winning! 2 Lucky Swappers Listed Their Way to $1K

Phew! January was a complete whirlwind here at Swap.com, where we swapped up a storm all month long for World Swap Day, both online and in person. Our expert swapper-judges are on a first name basis with the folks at the post office, because we couldn’t help ourselves from getting in on the swapping action, [...]
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Swapping for a Cause: World Swap Day

Happy World #SwapDay, everybody! To celebrate, we're offering up some very special items today in exchange for donations to Goodwill's Fresh Air Camp.
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In the Swaplight: Do the Swap with Yoplait Light

Simple, healthy food swaps and recipes using Yoplait Light yogurt in place of higher-calorie alternatives, like mayo & sour cream, with personal stories from Melissa Massello of The Swapaholics at Swap.com.
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Picking Up Something New (By Swapping) in 2012

The new year has all of us thinking about ways we can improve in 2012. And while I’m the first to admit I’ve fallen the yearly phenomena of making classic New Years resolutions, I’ll also be the first to say I’ve often fell short of my pie-in-the-sky ideas for personal improvement. It always seems that [...]
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Kicking Off Your New Year’s Resolution, Part II

It’s kind of funny that I’m the one writing about New Year’s resolutions, considering that I haven’t made one myself in, oh, probably ten years. It’s not that I don’t like resolutions or anything, it’s just that I find most tend to get pushed to the side. In my experience I’ve found that as we [...]
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Emulating Childhood: Vintage Gaming on the Swap.com Market

I’m a total geek when it comes to video games, and, like everything else in my life, if they’re vintage, even better. When I was growing up, my brother and I spent every Saturday afternoon after sports practices and competitions playing and beating video games together — and still do when I go to his [...]
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Swap.com’s List Your Way to $1K Giveaway

We’re so amped for the first ever World Swap Day on January 21st, 2012 that we wanted to get you in on the excitement now by announcing our first ever Swap.com Market contest: the List Your Way to $1K Giveaway! All you have to do to enter is list everything you have to swap on [...]
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Kick Off Your New Year’s Resolutions

Congratulations, you’ve almost survived another year! And with the 2012 right around the corner, it’s time to start those New Year’s Resolutions. Now, we all know that New Year’s resolutions are often made and broken within the first month of the year. But this year, we want you to think of a resolution that you [...]
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