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If you join a home swap site, your accommodation costs drop to nearly nothing.
IF making money is proving tricky for swap site developers, industry advisers said they believe the traffic can support at least some of the swap sites.
All a person needs to do if he or she gets bad ratings on an Internet auction or swap site is to sign on as a different member and continue to cheat other members.
A swap site like Points.com is a natural outgrowth of the fact that in North America alone, customers have accumulated miles or points in 300 million different customer loyalty accounts, according to Rob MacLean, chief executive of Points International, which operates Points.com.com
But creating work or not, organisational structures and traditional hierarchies are shifting; a small startup like property swap site Airbnb has had lawyers, landlords and hoteliers in disarray, witnessing the power and disruption that an innovative business can wreak on the incumbents in a matter of months.
Kids clothes and toys swap site thredUP will now be catering to dads with the launch of a paternity clothing swap.
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None of the swap sites charge a fee for swaps, but that could change as the market builds.
As for smaller companies, like Joe Barter and other exchanges that have fewer business members, he said, "They're only swap sites; they have no supplier network".
But the challenge for swap sites, as with so many other Internet businesses, is how to turn them into moneymaking ventures.
Web sites bring together "neighbors in solidarity," who help one another with chores or repairs and buy basic commodities in common; on swap sites, people can work out exchanges for things from clothes to household equipment.
WITH a sports card collection that fills his basement and a desire to refine it, Jeff Tidwell, a steelworker in Granite City, Ill., sees potential in swap sites on the Internet.
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