Greenbelt, MD -- November 25, 2009 -- SwapItGreen today announced its latest major release. This new version implements SwapItGreen wallets for fast and convenient payment of transaction fees. New payment options have also been added in the checkout, as well as the ability to buy trading points; and, for a limited time, transaction fees have been reduced.

Details of the new features are provided in SwapItGreen's November newsletter, in the site's FAQs, and in video tutorials on the How Does It Work? page.

Dawn Stevens of FOX 9 Morning News in Minnesota featured SwapItGreen in her October 22, 2009, on-air report, "Virtual Yard Sale on SwapItGreen.com. " Stevens found SwapItGreen to be unique because it's "really trying to help communities recycle." SwapItGreen executive Bill Douglas appeared briefly in the segment, saying "If you look around my house I've always got stuff I've just accumulated and not using any longer. Instead of throwing it away and filling up landfills, why not take that item, put it on SwapItGreen, and someone else probably really wants that item."

The segment aired in the morning and ran again at night. SwapItGreen saw an unprecedented spike in registering new users in Minnesota immediately following both airings.

Blogger SheFindsErin finds SwapItGreen's trading points system "perfect for hagglers." In her October 19, 2009, article"Online Swapping Is The Eco- and Budget-Friendly Way To Get Exactly What You Want," the reporter lauds modern online swapping for its high standards, safeguarding of personal information, and trendy goods.

In the article "Online Yard Sales: Where to Find Online Garage Sales and Cyber Swap Meets," About.com's reviewer Leah French appreciates online yard sales when it's raining or when it's 2 a.m. and you just gotta shop. She particularly likes SwapItGreen's "haggle" feature allowing buyers to offer less than the asking price for any item.

Matt Hickman, blogging for the Mother Nature Network on October 14, 2009, reviews SwapItGreen in his article "Swap Till You Drop": "think of it as craigslist meets a recycling center meets an old fashioned trading post." The Mother Nature Network bills itself as a "one-stop resource and an everyman's eco-guide."

In the Sierra Club's online newsletter, The Green Life, Année Tousseau's blog, "Swapping Your Way to a Greener Life," gives SwapItGreen high marks "because it promotes a give-and-take ethic instead of a 'mine, mine, mine' mentality." Tousseau also likes the distance-from-seller feature in our search results page, enabling potential buyers to look for items that are closer to home.

Tom Kessler of KABC-TV writes about the growing popularity of reuse in his October 13, 2009, online article, "Get on the Road to 'Reuse'." SwapItGreen, he notes, adds "a dash of new technology to make the acquisition of 'previously enjoyed' items seem more like an interactive archeological hunt."

Tim Robinson of KING 5 News in Seattle, Washington, highlighted SwapItGreen in the October 13, 2009, edition of his Save Me Money piece. Robinson reported that he joined SwapItGreen and bid on and snagged a Mozart CD for just 3 trading points. His report included screenshots of the SwapItGreen inventory and was interspersed with on-the-street interviews of Seattle residents who agreed that "a giant garage sale" was a great idea in today's economy. Robinson closed by recommending SwapItGreen as a "cool site" to his viewers.

Greenbelt, Maryland, October 13, 2009 -- SwapItGreen, the nation’s newest online yard sale at www.swapitgreen.com, is giving people across the U.S. the opportunity to find great bargains, keep secondhand items out of landfills, and have fun at the same time. SwapItGreen is an innovative online marketplace where people can buy and sell almost anything, from toys and baby clothes, to computers, MP3 players, jewelry, DVDs, CDs, books and more....

We garnered a feature in L.A. at Home, the Design, Architecture, Gardens, Southern California Living blog of the Los Angeles Times. Blogger Lizzie Garrett, in her article "SwapItGreen, Online Bartering in the Age of Recycling," noted the germination of the idea for the swap site: SwapItGreen's founder once worked at a store where employees and customers were allowed to bring in household items for trade. Garrett also noted three listed items that caught her eye.

18 Visions Green, an offshoot of the web graphic/design firm 18 Visions Design, highlighted SwapItGreen in its October 1, 2009, post titled "Ever Heard of an Online Yard Sale?"

KIWI, a family-focused Web site with an environmentally friendly outlook, encourages parents to "raise children with an eye to the future of their planet." KIWI's reporter Marygrace certainly knows her beat: it appears she scooped everyone else in her salute to SwapItGreen. Her September 29 article, "Swapping Sites," published in KIWI's eNewsletter, urges parents to exchange goods to save money and reduce consumption and lists SwapItGreen as one of her favorite specialty swap sites.