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Squeezed By Economy, Shoppers Become Swappers

Houston Chronicle/Chron.com (Newspaper) - 5/19/2009 by By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Business Writer
While many swaps are organized between friends and neighbors, Web sites like Swaptree.com and Paperbackswap.com help people trade old CDs, books and video games online. Totsswapshop.com, meanwhile, connects people who want to trade kids' items from clothes to nursery furniture.