Swap your stuff with real people who want to swap their stuff, all for free.
Most people arrive with one pile of something rather than a general urge to declutter. Each of these is a page about that specific pile — what is worth listing, what is not, and what it can realistically get you on a barter marketplace.
Barterama is a swap site, not a shop with a swap button bolted onto it. You are not selling into a void and waiting: the match has to work in both directions before we show it to either of you, which is why there is no inbox full of people offering you things you do not want.
Photos, condition, and whether it can post or needs collecting. You never set a value. We work out a band from what the thing is, how worn it is, and how many people are currently after one.
As loose as a category or as exact as a model. A dial shows you what each degree of fussiness costs you in waiting time, before you commit to it rather than after.
When two wants line up we propose the trade and show you how evenly it balances. If there is a gap, a small extra item closes it. Both of you hand over inside the same window.
Nothing here carries a price, because the moment it does this stops being a swap and starts being a shop. A barter marketplace only works if two unlike things can be compared without a figure, so every item sits in one of twelve bands, and a trade is balanced when both sides land near each other.
Both of you hand over inside the same window, so neither is exposed longer than the other. If your date does not work, propose a later one and the clock pauses. Going quiet is the only thing that counts against you.
We do, and we show our working. You can tell us what it cost new, which helps when we have never seen the product before. You cannot tell us what it is worth now, and neither can anyone haggling with you.
No, and not as an oversight. There is no balance, no wallet and no card anywhere in this. A gap is closed with a small extra item, or the trade goes ahead as it is, or it does not happen.
Reviews only exist off the back of a completed swap, so a rating with nothing behind it is impossible. Messages are checked before they send, and an item nobody can value is never used to balance anything.
There is something in your cupboard you have not touched in a year, and it is somebody else’s missing piece.