Welcome
Free Giveaways!
Recycle your unwanted goods for free!
Sell your unwanted goods for a small charge
(Introductory offer of �3 credit when you sign-up and confirm your membership)
Advertise for things you want to buy
Welcome, the Xchange site allows people to recycle unwanted things that may be useful to another person locally. These may be unwanted gifts or just things that no longer useful to the owner. Rather than throw these things away, they are prepared to give them away. In this way, we are helping society to be less wasteful and to be "greener".
In addition, you may list items for sale like you would with a classified advertisement on a local paper. We will make a small charge of 10 pence per day for your advertising listing and that is all. No commission or percentage of sale price will be charged.
We will also list a diary of events for the local area and provide links to sites of local interest. There will be an open forum for members to discuss local issues. Finally, we will provide an editorial section where articles of local interest will be posted. These articles will be moderated by our local editors.
In this way, we hope to provide a resource that will allow people to interact with others in their local neighbourhoods.
Searching for recycled items
People who have items for recycling list these with a description (and optionally, photographs). You can see a list of these items by clicking on the "Recycle" link. You can also use the site�s search function by putting in a word for search. This will return a list of items that matches your search term.
How to get an item
If you see an item that may be useful to you, just click on the entry on the list or the photo of the item to get more details. You can then send a message to the owner of the item through the site or contact them directly if they have shown contact details, you can contact them directly. When you contact them through the site, you will have to give them your contact details either a telephone number or an email address.
The rest is up to you to arrange with the giver. We normally expect the recipient to collect the item from the giver�s address.
Listing items for recycling
Before you can list an item, you must become a member of the site. Membership is free and requires you to fill in minimum details. Once this is done, we will send you an email to you and only after you have responded to this can you list any of your items.
In submitting your details, we will require you to enter your county which will determine the locality for your listing. This will also define the local sections that you will access by default. Of course, you may look at other locations but if you wish to post to other localities, you must change your default county.
You can put your address, telephone and email details on to the site�s membership record. We will not display this as a precaution against spammers unless you ask these to be displayed by ticking the display option.
Once you have become a full member, you can list any items for recycle by clicking on the "Add item" tab in the Recycle menu. You should describe the item as fully as possible stating condition. You may also load photographs of the item. The site assumes that the recipient will collect from you but of course, you may vary this. Once you have completed the listing, the item will be displayed on our site as available.
Once you have agreed to a collection from someone, you can change the items status to "Hidden". You can change this back if this falls through.
Listing Items for sale
This is very similar to listing for recycling except that you will need to have credits against your membership account. You click on the "For Sale" tab and select �add item�. If you do not have sufficient credit, the system will direct you to put some credit against your account. This can be done through PayPal using your credit or debit card. Just enter the amount you wish to credit your account and we will add the PayPal charges to it, then direct you to the PayPal site. Once this is complete, your account will be credited with the amount less charges and you are ready to post your advertisement.
In addition to the details for the free recycling, you will need to put in the last date you want your advertisement to be shown. The system will check that you have sufficient credit to proceed. Then, you just list the item and it will appear on our items for sale list and will be searchable by all users of the site.
As an introductory offer, you will receive �3 credit to be used for your adverts when you sign-up and confirm your membership.
Use the site free
For every new member you introduce to this site, when they confirm their registration, you will be given additional �1 credit. The Editors, at their discretion, may award credits for articles published on the site. To submit an article for the News section, write an email with the text of the article to david@m2mn.com with the title "Xchange News Article".
Why use this site?
Not only are the items available for searching by people using our site but all items listed are available to the major search engines.
You have total control over items that you have listed.
Unlike other recycling sites, our items are held on a database so you do not have to send multiple emails and attachments showing your items.
We would like to encourage people to recycle their otherwise usable items rather throwing them away thereby saving energy and minimising the use of land-fill. Also, the recycling service is free.
We make a small charge for listing items for sale and auction which is much cheaper than other online listing or auction sites.
Over time, we hope to make the Xchange local sites an active forum for local participation and interaction thereby making the global Internet local! |