Swap Site Update – A Temporary Pause

Hello! We have reopened swaps officially as of this morning. Please see this post for more info: https://www.mysubscriptionaddiction.com/2020/06/fyi-swaps-have-reopened.html

I think the cost of running the swap outweighs the benefit from MSAs point of view. I could be wrong. But I think this is as good a reason as any to “pause it”.

I think this is short sited as not being able to swap away boxes items I don’t need has resulted in me canceling boxes. I’m at an all-time low and have not subbed to any new boxes in the last few months. It’s the new box subscription codes that we use that make the company money. I think the correlation goes unnoticed.

Great so is the swap site going to go the way of the forum?? They’re just not going to tell us and then one day it will just disappear? I already visit this site less than I do when the forum was here; but take away the swap site too and I won’t be visiting MSA again. Most states have reopened, some are in phases, but mail has never gone away or halted because of the virus.

I wish swapping would open up. Let us decide if we feel safe swapping.

Restaurants are open but swapping isn’t?

This site is quickly becoming a joke

I am half inclined to ask my hubs to create a swap website. Being married to a programmer has to have some benefits, right?

I don’t understand the reasoning behind keeping the site closed. There are no guidelines from the government against mailing packages. The post office and every other shipping business is open as usual.
So swaps are unsafe but keep getting subscription boxes is safe? Doesn’t make any sense.
We should stop the engagement with this website until swaps resume. We are the ones that create the success here.

Sylvia, we all got the same update you got about the 30 more days. You can stop commenting this on all of the previous comments. I emailed the new team last night, linked them to this post and asked them to provide an update to everyone, which they have. No need to keep restating this.

Swapping is halted for another 30 days at least.

If there is a product that you want to swap for all you have to do is click directly on the person’s name or avatar (picture) and you will not have any issues sending a swap request.

Liz and the MSA team should show their members more courtesy by providing us with more updates. Very poor communication on their part. This site wasn’t set up out of the kindness of MSA’s heart. They have profited by their followers and the resulting advertising income. I feel like we have been thrown to the curb, all while MSA continues to advertise and post for their vendors.

I was in the middle of a swap when a halt was called. Of course I had sent my end but the swapper never sent theirs. I understood at the time but now with everyone kind of fading away I am guessing I am never going to receive my swap.

Anyone know alternative swapping websites?

Is a bit ridiculous that we are not receiving any type of updates from MSA regarding their plans regarding resuming swapping.

Maybe Liz needs some help. I am a disabled mom of grown boys. I could possibly help.

Looks like no update on swapping. I find myself coming here less and less frequently. Does anyone know of another site that offers swapping? My hoard is unruly lol.

Without the option of swapping, I’m losing interest in not only this website, but subscription boxes in general. A person can only hoard so many unused products for so long.

Even though this post hasn’t been updated and all indications are that swapping is still paused, I have received two requests in the past week. I wondered how that was so, but then figured out that you can click on an item, then the person’s name and from their list of items request a swap. So maybe swapping cannot be ‘officially’ condoned, but for those who wish to, they can still swap? Regardless, I have actually enjoyed the break. I always spent so much time on packaging and on shipping fees and worrying if someone was going to steal it out of my mailbox before it could be picked up, so I have no plans to continue at this point. But for those who are anxious, seems there is still a way to request.

Please please open swapping back up!!

Please unlock swapping!!! We are raring to go!! Thank you!

The radio silence tells me MSA follows the party line of, “we need to stay shut down forever.”

Barter is becoming increasingly important, as people are struggling economically and need to figure out how to get by with less. And doing it through the mail has a built-in quarantining of goods that in-person barter doesn’t. This swap site is a great way to support this community. I’m really surprised swapping is still shut down.

Agree, when can we mail items to each other again? It’s not in person contact, many of us are getting big stock piles that we would like to trade. Much of the country is slowly reopening with precautions in place. Thanks.

I really need to swap. I have to get rid of stuff. You can also schedule a pick up from the mailman