Consulting ads
To start with, you can consult ads by clicking on the link Ads and glance from here through the various categories.
You can also limit your search at the outset by defining your search criteria. The filters allow you to:
- choose a type of ad: Do you wish to look through all ads, or just through for-sale or wanted posts?
- choose a class of ad: What are you seeking? All ads, only a service, a good for rent/hire or a good for sale.
- define the maximum price for your search.
- limit the seller's distance from you in kilometers.
- limit your search to all of easyswap or to a particular group, for instance: "My city" or "My company".
Add an ad
Offering goods or services on-line credits your account with swaps, as long as your identity and in so far your account, have been validated.
- Your account will be credited 3 swaps for the advertising of a new service.
- Your account will be credited 3 swaps for the advertising of a new good to exchange for swaps (out of convenience called sale).
- Your account will be credited 5 swaps for the advertising of a new good to lend for swaps (out of convenience called hire or rent).
Please note: Posting a request for a good or a service temporarily reserves the required amount in swaps, so that you will be able to pay, should a swapper respond to your post. An overview of your potential expenditures is available at all time under: "My account", "My swaps", "Swaps committed".
Thus, a user whose account has not been validated will not be able to set up requests unless they have carried out exchanges which have credited their account with swaps.
On the home page click on "Consult and post ads", choose a category and then click again on the link "New ad". You may also go directly to the Ads page, choose your category and click on the link: "New ad".
Once the form for adding an ad is up, fill out the fields according to your personal requirements and preferences:
Is your ad a for sale or a wanted?
- Select one or more groups: All of easyswap, one group in particular, two groups, or all of your groups, easyswap included.
- Indicate the title of your ad. Be explicit and concise.
- Add a description of your ad, as precise as possible, while trying to respect the models we put at your disposal. In case of an offered service, do not forget to indicate your daily or weekly availabilities.
- Add an image; this can only reinforce your chances to find a taker.
Does your ad concern a service?
- Specify an amount (0 to 64 swaps), while keeping in mind that the average service on easyswap, in terms of physical painfulness and/or intellectual difficulty, is equivalent to 32 swaps an hour. A typical example would be: the intermediate level German course. To get more information about the swap, please consult the "User's guide" to the swap.
- Specify the duration. Attention: If you offer an expensive service for 4 hours for instance, it might be difficult for you to find a swapper having enough swaps on his/her account to respond to your offer!
Does your ad concern a good for hire/rent?
- Specify a daily amount (0 to 500 swaps).
- Specify the duration (1 to 365 days). Attention: If you offer an expensive good for long-term rental, it might be difficult for you to find a swapper having enough swaps on his/her account to respond to your offer!
Does your ad concern a good for sale?
- If so, specify the amount in swaps (0 to 10 000).
Finally:
- Do you agree to deliver your good or your service by your own means or would you prefer for it to be sent by post? For the latter, please add this amount in swaps.
- You are unable to deliver a good by your own means. In this case, notch the box concerned and choose which address(es) is/are convenient. For a good, one address seems realistic, at least if you have this good continually at your disposal. For a service, indicating all or only several of your addresses is accurate.
- Specify the publication date, the given default parameters being the current date.
- Specify a completion for the publication date, the given default parameters being the publication date + 45 days.
- Click on "Send".
Done! Your ad is on-line. You will be able to modify your ad as long as no exchange has been undertaken. From that moment on, it will be impossible to modify the parameters of your ad, until conclusion or cancellation of the undergoing exchange.
