Welcome to Swapping Ideas
Swap.com is leading the swapping movement both online and in communities around the world. We bring people together to swap their stuff through our website, mobile app, local events, homes, schools, and co-branded partnerships.
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Swap.com Mobile is a free iPhone is app that lets you scan items into your HAVE and WANT lists, manage your account, see what you can get for your stuff, and participate in swaps.Donate to Swap4Schools
Did you know teachers often end up buying their own classroom books?
Our swap community donates items for free!
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Community Archive
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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, [...] -
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. -
Swap of the Day: Bartering in Modern Greece
In Volos, Greece, it looks like the ancient method of barter may be trending towards the new way of life. As a response to the sky high unemployment rate in Volos (approximately 20%), a small town of 100,000 people in debt-ridden Greece, many have turned to a formal non-profit bartering network. Volos is only one [...] -
Make Sure You Know Where Your Charitable Donations Go
Certainly you’ve seen the bins around town that allow you to drop off your old clothes and go. Perhaps you’ve even donated through those bins before. Presumably, the clothes make their way to a charity in need. But do you really know where those clothes end up? Most likely this isn’t even a question you have [...] -
4 Ways to Get Involved in the New Sharing Economy
Chances are if you’re reading this you’re hopefully already participating in what has been deemed our new “sharing economy,” and share a resource with neighbors, or barter and swap your stuff for other goods. The advantages of participating in such an economy are indisputable. Sharing saves money, time, and wastes a whole lot less in [...] -
Swap4Schools: Matching Community Haves with Schools Needs
During these difficult economic times funding for public schools has been tight. Budgets have been cut, libraries have become woefully out of date and teachers are resorting to buying their own classroom books and other resources. Recognizing that the nation’s public schools are facing a drastic shortage of supplies, we’ve leveraged our online swap marketplace [...] -
Swap of the Day: California Town Holds Monthly Swap Events
The sleepy Northern California town of Mount Shasta has taken the swapping lifestyle to heart, holding monthly swap meetups where residents can come to exchange handcrafted goods, homemade foods, garden produce and even intangible goods like their skills. Like many around the country, the town of Mount Shasta was initially drawn to holding swapping events for the enormous ecological [...] -
Swapper of the Month: The Avid Booklover Alenya
The team at Swap.com has the privilege of meeting and interacting with some of the most awesome and genuine people you could ever have the pleasure of knowing, both online and off. That’s why we are shining the spotlight on some of our best and brightest community members with our Swapper of the Month feature! [...] -
Swapping Tunes LIVE With Turntable.fm
Music fans just love the feeling they get when they can share their new favorite song with a friend or loved one. There are a lot of websites that focus on new music discovery, but none up until now that have captured the experience of swapping favorite tunes with someone in real time. Now thanks to Turntable.fm [...] -
Swapping Should Be FREE – So No More Transaction Fees
Swap.com has helped our members save nearly $13 million by swapping for items instead of purchasing them new. We have expanded rapidly in the last year including the introduction of Swap.com Mobile, Swap Local and Swap Events, helping us to expand in many ways in the U.S., and now abroad. Today we are on our [...]