The Direct buy process will be similar to the Swap item process.  If you buy a product directly (rather than trade), you simply choose the product(s), enter the purchase price in the "cash" field, and then click on the "Propose" button.

Brief Description

Our optional escrow system serves as insurance that you either get your trade or get paid.  If used, the trade starts as a purchase, with the payment "frozen" in an escrow account.  If both users confirm that they received the other person's trade, then the money is returned to them.  If one user sends their item and other does not, the user who did send their item receives the other user's escrow payment and also gets their own escrow payment back; the trade essentially becomes a sale.

**NOTE:  Be sure to ship your item with a trackable method to prove that it was sent and delivered!  Without proof of shipment, and if the other user does not receive your item, you may lose your escrow payment.

Details

CareToTrade.com provides users with escrow payment options to help projects get completed smoothly. Members can set aside a specific amount of money into an escrow account on CareToTrade.com. Both users can then view the payment in the escrow account, but only the Owner can transfer the money from the escrow account to the other Member.

If the project gets completed, the escrow money will be returned to the owner who makes the escrow. If the project is cancelled amicably, the Service Provider can cancel the escrow payment and the money will return to the Service Buyer's account. If there are any disputes over a project, CareToTrade.com staff must be contacted before any money can be moved from the escrow account.
CareToTrade.com encourages its users to send and receive money with the escrow system because it's a great way to make sure everyone gets what they want from a project.
To manage your escrow payments, login to your account. The escrow menu is underneath the project list.

Contact us if you have any questions about Escrow Payments.

Brief Description

Register for free and then login.  Then choose "post ads."  Each category has free options to post ads, and real estate ads have a small fee.  There are no other charges unless you choose to insure your trade with the optional escrow system.  People can make you offers, or you can offer your item to others - on each ad, there is an option to make an offer.  You can make offers, reject them, or make counter-offers.  You can offer multiple items or cash differences for items with values higher than yours.

Details

You will perform swapping step by step. When a step is finished, the next step will be enabled.
Step 1: Post items to Ads list
The only requirement to start swapping is that you have items listed on My Ads. If you don't have any items listed the other swapper won't be able to select items from your store to swap with.

By posting more ads you are letting other swappers know what type of items you are looking for. The more ads you have posted and Items you have listed - the better chance you have of swapping with other users.

Step 2: Find the item you want
Enter keyword of item you want, choose its category and click Filter button. Choose item you want and view its detail.  Click on "Make an offer" button then you will be navigated to the Swap item form.

Step 3: Negotiation
In the Swap item form, click on "List more items" link to choose product you want to swap and then click "Add to basket" button, all of selected items will be on your screen. Drag each selected item and drop it in one of the sheets to be ready to swap. Do the same with other items. You can also input necessary cash amount.  Once you have proposed a swap, the Swap Negotiation process begins when an email is sent to the owner of the item/service notifying them of your proposal. After the proposal has been reviewed, you will be notified of the owner's intent to accept, counter-offer or reject.
- "Accept this swap": when you are the person who makes the offer, you will already accept the negotiation and wait for the owner to accept your offer. The owner will receive a Swap Offer Notification email. If he/she accepts, you will receive a Swap Offer Accepted email. By click on the Transaction ID included in the email, you will open the transaction and continue the next step which is Escrow money.
- "Counter offer": after offering and receiving Swap Offer Notification email, both you and the owner can click 
"Counter-offer" button to make another selection for the current transaction. You can negotiate until the transaction is accepted.
- "Cancel": you can cancel the transaction in case there is no answer from the owner. The owner can also cancel the transaction when he/she does not accept your offer. When "Cancel" button is clicked, there will be a confirm message to ask if you really want to cancel, if you click "OK, you will cancel the transaction. When both of you agreed, no one can cancel the transaction except the website administrator.  In this case you can contact the website administrator to change the transaction status.
The Swap Negotiation process continues until an offer has been rejected or accepted and payment has been confirmed.

Step 4: Escrow money
When you want another person to carry out swapping and move the item/money to required person, you must escrow the amount of money. If the negotiators agree and after the items have been received, he/she confirms the transaction is completed, this money amount will be returned to your account. The user's money account and payment will be explained in the Money account and payment section. The escrow money process will be as follow:
When your offer is accepted, you will receive a Swap Offer Accepted email. By the transaction ID in the email, you open the transaction and perform escrow by clicking Escrow link at the left of the Transaction status table. A form where you can transfer money to an escrow account will be displayed, from here, you choose transaction ID, select payment method and input escrow amount then click Next button to confirm escrow. If there is nothing need to be changed, click Escrow button, if need to change something, click Back button. When Escrow button is clicked, balance of your account will be subtracted and the subtracted amount will be transfer to Escrow account which is managed by website administrator. Until the transaction is confirmed as completed, the escrow amount will be returned to your account.
Through the negotiation, partners can send message to each other via our messaging system. The address characters (such as: @, com...) will be hidden so that the receiver can not read. Please don't input the address characters.

Step 5: Complete and feedback
Both of you can confirm the transaction completed after accepting escrow of the partner, then send feedback by evaluate the partner and send message to him/her.

Swap Process Steps:

   1. Post Items for Trade or Sale
   2. Find an item you are interested in swapping
   4. Click on the “Make an offer” button to initiate a swap
   5. Fill out the Swap Item form.
   6. The other swapper will receive your invitation to swap and decide if they wish to swap with you.  They can counter-offer or reject.
   7. You will receive emails letting you know if the swapper selected items from your store to swap

Another way to post an item is to create the product in the store.

Step 1:  create your own tradezone
In order to create your own tradezone, please sign in with your pre-created account. After signing in successfully, click on the "My profile" link on bottom right to view your profile. The member option left menu contains functions that enable you to manage your resources on our website.  Click on Tradezone management, the sub-menus will be dropped down, choose Tradezone info and read the text: "You haven't yet created a tradezone. Please click here to create your own tradezone.." In the main screen, click on the "click here" button. “My tradezone” page will be displayed with fields which allows you to upload image and fill data, then click submit and your tradezone will be created.

Step 2: Create product
You can not create products or add a product from your Ads list into your tradezone. From left menu, click on "Tradezone info" under "View tradezone" sub-menu, there will be a sub-menu dropped down, choose "Create Product" to add a product to tradezone. Choose sub-category for the product and input data to required fields then click "Submit" button. The product will be created and click on "Product in tradezone" link to check the created products.

To post an ad, click on the "Post ads" at the top righ (you must register and/or login first). Then you can choose product type, category and other info  for the product.  You can upload an image and click the "attach" button,and choose "make default" for the image you want to display first. Then choose the package you want: Each package will have a different feature such as display style (Bold, background), live time on our website, number of images, display position, etc.  Finally, check the "I accept the User Agreement and Privacy Policy" check box and click submit. After submitting successfully, the item will be on your advertising list where you can edit or put it into your store to manage easily.
Please click here to view advertisement package price applied to each type of item.