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There are a lot of sites, which provide an opportunity to get rid of your old junk, and in exchange you can get the junk from other person who might not need that stuff, but you need it. According to “Swap-bot”:
“A Swap is a group of people that organize on the internet to trade items through the postal mail. Items are usually hand-assembled, cheap (but rich with craftsmanship and care) and can include mix CDs, postcards, crafts, or anything you can think of!”

The sites which provide the place to swap your items are called swap sites. Here are some of the sites which are FREE to join!

1- “Hit Flip“?
They say:
“Europe”s biggest P2P swap platform for media products (DVDs, games, CDs, audiobooks, and books). Our aim is to excite our members by making the swap of media products as easy and cheap as possible. All our members have to do is enter which products they have and which ones they want, and Hitflip does the rest.”

2- Swaptree
(In their words):
“Swaptree is a new and innovative way for people to easily trade the books, CDs, DVDs and video games they are finished with, for the ones they want, all for free. With swaptree, your collections stop gathering dust and can be used to acquire other items you want. By offering to trade a single item, you can choose from thousands of books, CDs, DVDs, and video games that you can receive in exchange. Best part: everything is free, you only pay shipping.”

How it works?
All you need to do is type in the UPC or ISBN code on the back of the item, and the swaptree algorithms figure out which items you can trade for based on your item´s worth. Each item is connected to hundreds or even thousands of other items, ensuring that you´ll be able to find something you´ll enjoy for the item you´re willing to give up.

3- “Swap-bot”:
Swap-bot was created in the summer of 2005 by Rachel and Travis Johnson, a designer and computer programmer. Swap-bot was originally created to be a tool used by blog owners to facilitate mail swaps with their readers.
Swap-bot facilitates internet swaps. It removes the hassle of collecting swap participants and assigning swap partners.

How it works?
Swap-bot collects the names and mailing addresses of everyone involved in each swap.

Then, using a complicated, computerized algorithm, it mixes up all of the participants and assigns the specified number of recipients to each participant. No more stressing over hand-sorting participants.

Swap-bot emails each participant after the sign up deadline to let them know that they can now access their recipient’s name and address. Participants must log back into Swap-bot to get this information. Swap-bot also sends out reminder emails to participants close to the mail deadline.

It is a free to join community.

4- “Swap it shop”:
online swapping & trading community for young people. Members earn virtual currency Swapits for every item they swap and they can also earn Swapits from responsible brands and organisations for activities such as: visiting websites, product purchase, completing research surveys, eating healthy food at school and more.

Young people bank their Swapits and can then spend them on a wide range of new and second-hand items on the SwapitShop website which SwapitShop then post to the winner. There is no contact between members.

More about “Swap it shop”:
SwapitShop community:
The SwapitShop audience are aged six to 18 years old:

• 500,000 registered members
• 10 million monthly page impressions
• 50,000 monthly swap transactions
• 38 minute average session time