Safe swopping

Advice for safe swopping and fair swopping on For Swop.com

ForSwop.com provides people who are interested in swopping goods or services with a platform that enables them to search and make contact. The majority of the members on ForSwop.com is trustworthy. But keep in mind that all swop transaction take place outside this website. ForSwop.com advices you to always to use commen sense. Here is some usefull advice for safe swopping.

General advice for safe and fair swopping
1. Swop in person: You can both see who and what you are swopping. This is the best and most reliable way to swop good or services. So make an appointment with the person you want to swop goods with and thoroughly inspect the goods and check if it meets your expectations. If everything is alrigth swop and you can take the goods home!

2. Use your common sense and trust on your instinct. If something is to good to be true, it probably is to good to be true!

3. Be extra carefull if you swop abroad. This will not happen a lot because ForSwop.com is explicitly made for the US market. But if you do so, take the time to verify all data of the person you are wopping with.

4. Make a clear swop-deal with each other and save all correspondation about it. U can think about saving your emailcontact, personal information contact etc.

5. Before you meet with someone, try to receive as much information as possible about the goods. Ask if the product is authentic and if you can receive multiple pictures. I f something is still not clear keep asking questions. Also tink about questions like, if the goods are (slightly) damaged or if there is decoloration.

If in the end a member of ForSwop.com does not meet his part of the agreement, the inform you local policedepartment about it. (ForSwop.com cannot do this for you) Allways notify us about a possible frauding member sothat we can prevent this member from further use of the website ForSwop.com. Notification can be done via the contactform.

Keep in mind!
ForSwop.com will never ask you for creditcard- or bankaccount information.
ForSwop.com will never ask you to fill out information on a page you cannot reach from ForSwop.com.
ForSwop.com will never ask your password in an e-mail.
ForSwop.com only askes you your password on the pages that begin with http://www.forswop.com/login.html & http://www.forswop.com/change_password.html.
ForSwop.com provides swop enthousiasts a platform to use but is never drectly involved in the swop exchagnge itself.
ForSwop.com will never sent a confirmation of a swop or swop shipment