Can Barter Cash In On Facebook Commerce?

Two applications from WhoWish allow people to trade goods, barter style.

Shopping on Facebook has barely caught on yet, but a startup called WhoWish hopes that barter might be better suited to social media.

WhoWish released an app called CollegeSwap, allowing cash-strapped students to trade textbooks and other college-style items. But the company got hip to the idea that there’s a much broader audience for barter than just kids. And hot on the heels of the first app, the company released another called SwapSquare.

The two apps offer both college students and regular folk the ability to swap what they have for things that they need — or to simply buy the items outright if they have nothing to trade.

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