Yes, it's really free. Well, sort of. Your only expense is paying for shipping of the item you're sending. There are no fees to list items or trade items.

Use the post office's Media Mail service and you can send almost everything for less than $2.50. Print the mailing label from your computer and put your item in the envelope. Then place it in your mailbox and you're all done. (Since you're going out anyway, would you mind taking the trash with you?)

You don't. We do. Or we should say, our super smart algorithms do.

With swap.com's multiple-way trade algorithms, we instantly show you thousands of items that you could receive in trade for any item you've posted. Why do we take you out of the equation? So you don't spend time searching for potential trades, negotiating a trade with another user, or messing with some sort of point system.

Just list the items that you have to trade and swap.com will show you what you can get for them. Done.

Absolutely not.

Much like every 'legal' person has a social security number, every 'legal' item has a UPC or ISBN number that identifies its legitimacy. All you have to do is locate that number and enter it into the system. Each number is associated with a list of qualities (edition, release date, version, paperback, widescreen, etc.) so you can be sure what you're swapping is exactly what you want.

Yes! Everything is up for grabs at swap.com. Take the CDs that you never listen to and trade them for movies, or grab the book that you never read and turn it into a video game you can take on next weekend.

Start by listing what you HAVE, and we'll tell you what's available to SWAP.

If someone wants your item, we'll send you an email letting you know a trade has been requested. Trade requests will be e-mailed directly to you. You can also log on to your swap.com account and view any pending trades in the upper-right part of the screen under My Trades.

You are responsible for paying shipping on the item that you are trading. There are two ways to do this:

1. Go to the local post office.
2. Print out a label from swap.com. If you choose to print out a label with us, you'll need to provide us with your credit card so that we can bill your account accordingly for the postage that you print. Postage is determined based on weight of the items you're sending.

We take our swaps very seriously and we hope our members do, too. That's why we rely on you - the trader - to provide feedback on your experience, including the person you traded with.

Similar to eBay and Amazon.com, after every transaction the members involved provide feedback on each other. Factors that are considered when rating another member include how fast they shipped the item, the quality of the item shipped and whether the condition of the item was as they described. You can view a member's rating when we notify you that a trade is available.

Don't worry - if you don't receive a item you were promised, swap.com will get involved. Just let us know.

We take pride in our excellent privacy and safety policies. Visit our privacy section for more information.

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Yes, you can rest assured your personal information is completely safe on swap.com. You can browse our site confidentially and anonymously, but as soon as you're ready to trade we will need some information. Don't worry - in accordance with our partnership with Muze, your information will not be handed out to third-party vendors or advertisers, and nothing you provide us will ever been shared with other members of the site.

Muze doesn't collect your personal information however, it will log your IP address. This is only done for statistical reasons - we like to get a sense of how long our members stay on the site, the various sections of the site that are most popular, and what pages aren't frequented as much so that we can make changes for a better user experience.