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swap Archive
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Boston to Austin: Adventures at SwapLulus Texas #SXSW
For the second year in a row, we headed from Boston to Austin during SXSW to sponsor the Texas Style Council Conference and host an opening night clothing swap for 250 of our favorite fashion & lifestyle bloggers. This year, we partnered with Lulus.com for a fun & fashionable night of swapping, where each blogger [...] -
#Swapportunity on the Market: Do the Swap with Yoplait Light
As everyone’s grandparents seemingly told them at some point in their lives: know-how will only get you so far in life, then sometimes you need the right tools for the job. We’re thrilled to have such amazing know-how featured on Swap.com this month, with new daily lifestyle swapping tips from our friends at Yoplait Light [...] -
We Put the Pin in Swappin’ – Follow Us on Pinterest!
Swappers, by nature, are a bunch of trendsetters (hello, swapping/sharing is the lifestyle trend right now!) and every trendsetter we know is on Pinterest — so now we are, too! We unofficially started using Pinterest about six months ago, with boards for the “Swapperazzi” — where Swap.com staffers share the best swapped fashion and swap [...] -
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 [...] -
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 [...] -
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 [...] -
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 [...] -
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 [...] -
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 [...] -
A Holiday Gift: New Features on the Swap.com Market
As we head full swing into the holiday season we’re especially thankful for all the swappers in our community who have provided some really great feedback, to help us to make the new Swap.com Market better and better, each and every week. What may seem like small changes around here are just a sampling in [...]