Tag: swapping

Collaborative Pioneer Interview Kate Luckins of The Clothing Exchange

Kate Luckins is the founder of The Clothing Exchange, a company that allows people to swap clothes online on its website or during the series of swapping events they host across Australia. In this interview Kate brings us all back to the day The Clothing Exchange began and where she sees the company going next…. Read more

Rise of the Barter Economy in Toronto

With the Canadian debt-to-income ratio hitting a record high of 163% and average consumer debt of $27,000, it’s no surprise that more Canadians are utilising barter—a 12 billion dollar industry in North America. The Toronto barter scene, for example, is buzzing as swappers exchange everything under the sun: financial consultations for hotel stays, photography for… Read more

Study: The Consumer Potential of Collaborative Consumption

The collaborative consumption space has grown rapidly over the past years—and further growth is expected. Few projections, however, have been made on the future growth potential, despite its relevance to entrepreneurship, policy, law, media, and business. To fill this gap, ShareNL developed a survey based on previous research, which measures consumers’ willingness to take part in… Read more

Fribi is a fun and social way to give, get or swap anything from anyone, anywhere

10 questions for Marta Nowinska, founder of Swapsity

The easiest way to explain Swapsity is … a Canadian swapping economy that lives both online and offline. The site enables people to trade pre-loved things, talents and time or share their rarely used stuff. We also stage large-scale swap meets where the community comes together to swap and actively participate in Collaborative Consumption, live… Read more

Kiple is a South Korean children’s clothes swapping community

Shop and swap 4 Baby is an Australian online swap shop for children’s wear

Descola Ai is an online service that makes it easy to rent and exchange goods and services between friends, families and communities

10 questions for Jess Ratcliffe, founder of GaBoom

The easiest way to explain GaBoom is …a peer-to-peer video game swapping website. Members list the games that they want and the games that they have to swap; GaBoom then matches members together who can make a swap and offers a simple and secure way of posting their games to one another. The idea came…from… Read more