Independant article on swap sites

newschmoo

Just been reading this article on swap sites. It is really quite interesting

http://money.independent.co.uk/personal_finance/invest_save/article1089645.ece

Funny they say bartering is back I thought it never went away. I have been using one of these sites: eswapit.com as suggested by green pixie for quite a while now. However as the guy from the site says in the article whatever your online trading method you have to be prepaired for the risk.


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freebie_junkie

when you swap over the internet you have to remeber that youre swapping with a stranger and however nice tehy may sound in pm's you still dont know them. ive done about 40 swaps on bob's and have not recieved anything once and have recieved a used item even though i was told it was new once, you just have to take it on teh chin or not swap.

dobbiesloan

freebie_junkie wrote:

ive done about 40 swaps on bob's and have not recieved anything once .

You need help urgently. Being conned once is bad going back a second time is stupid but to do it 40 times is undiscilble.
Have you informed the police? What action have they taken?

(wearing my nice hat for this reply)

rackstar

I think they were saying they had not received anything ONCE. Which isn't quite so bad!

dobbiesloan

rackstar wrote:

I think they were saying they had not received anything ONCE. Which isn't quite so bad!

Maybe they maen only ONCE have they not received something .

freebie_junkie

dobbiesloan wrote:

You need help urgently. Being conned once is bad going back a second time is stupid but to do it 40 times is undiscilble.
Have you informed the police? What action have they taken?

(wearing my nice hat for this reply)

i love to be called stupid, please keep it coming.....

let me rephrase it: ive done 40 swaps and once i recived nowt (the member conned a loada peeps and was banned) and another one occasion i recieved a used item when eth woman told me it was new.

do you now understand?

and btw no i dont need help urgently, have you informed teh police? coz i havent.