We're zipping along faster than the Road Runner here at SwapItGreen. We've just released a new version of the swap site with something for everyone.

• Meet us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. That's right, we're statusing, tweeting, and hamming it up on the social networks.  Become a fan, a follower, and a subscriber and we'll meet you there...FTW!
• How does it work? We’re featuring tutorials and other videos on YouTube. Check us out on YouTube or just view the videos via SwapItGreen's How It Works page.
• Make your best deal. In our first version, buyers could offer to buy a listed item only at the seller's asking price in trading points. We decided to mix it up a little. This new release introduces negotiable bids. As a buyer, you can offer whatever amount you want...in trading points. We think it's more fun to strategize your offer, considering the number of people who have viewed the listing and who may be your competition, as well as how badly you want the item. Watch as SwapItGreen becomes a marketplace where the forces of supply and demand battle it out and our site currency, the trading point, becomes a fluid but viable unit of trade.
• You have a new payment option. Google checkout is here! We want to see Google and PayPal duke it out.
• Faster than a New York minute. We’ve made changes to the site that will allow us to add servers on the fly to enhance performance as our SwapItGreen community grows.

We hope you like the changes. Let us know on Facebook!

I'm guilty -- when I like what I buy through SwapItGreen, I've been giving an "Excellent" rating but not adding a comment back to the seller. I began to rethink that recently when I received some second-hand feedback on one of my trades. My buyer is a personal friend of my boss, who invited her to join SwapItGreen. (That's a good idea, too, by the way. Grow our community by inviting your friends to join, and gain a few bonus SwapItGreen dollars for yourself in the process.) Anyhow, my boss passed on an email from her friend that said:

I'm a cat collector myself, but at some point I decided I really prefer just a few almost-life-size ones that lounge or snooze (or sneer at me) on tables and bookcases -- cats with cat-attitude, you know -- so I had packed away my small cute ones. This one I decided to list on SwapItGreen because it really could be a treasure to someone -- a nice antique Goebel figurine of a kitten playing with a ball, and it made me feel so good to learn that my trade had found an appreciative home. That has inspired me (1) to hit my closets again, looking for goodies that I have "retired" at some time from one of my collections and (2) to remember that the folks I buy from might also like to know that their old treasures have a new life.