Sidila is... Like Ebay. Like Craigslist.

Sidila was recently launched to provide a place for those wishing to trade or barter the items they no longer want or need for items they do want and need. In many ways the functions overlap those of ebay and craigslist, but they go one further. They offer the capacity to do a three way trade. This has not been done before on the web, and certainly not by ebay or craigslist.

Sidila also enables a three way trade, something that hasn't been done before. In order to keep the exchange fair, the item that you want to trade must be worth at least 60% of the item you wish to trade for. If you use the regular priority option, there is no fee for listing items on Sidila and a commission is only taken once your item has sold. If you would like more exposure for your items, then there is a fee, but it is much lower than those on other sites. You can check out the fees by clicking on the “Fees” button under the “More” tab. The fees are much, much less than ebay. In addition, trades for school books are free.

There are many advantages to trading on Sidila rather than on the more established sites, like eboay or like craigslist.

• Sidila is a safe way of swopping your unwanted articles for articles you need.
• You do not have to give your real name as there is a mail box system to communicate with other traders. Your shipping address is only revealed once the trade is complete.
• There is a escrow system where payment can be kept until the item has been received.
• As items are being recycled, it has a positive effect on the environment.
• You can buy, sell, or trade goods on the site. In addition, you can give the proceeds to charity.
• If you received an offer you don’t like, you can decline it at no cost to yourself.

Those in business can benefit through being able to exchange excess inventory for raw materials or other goods. Just like ebay or craigslist - only less expensive with more options! Retail outlets can also sell discontinued lines on Sidila at a very low cost. It is also a useful venue to liquidate stock and assets is closing. This is much like ebay and like craigslist, of course, but because it is less expensive and has the three way trade and/or three way barter option, brings a lot more to the table. Remember that trading goods bypasses taxes and allows much better value to be accrued.

With the recent diminishing of assets, more and more people are struggling to remain afloat financially. Not only are jobs being lost, but when work is eventually found again, salaries are not what they used to be.

In short, there’s less and less money going around. And while many people made a lot of money selling goods on sites like craigslist and like ebay, they might now have too many goods and cash is short for most people, so there's not much buying and selling taking place.

On the other hand, many people have many of their items in storage or have even forgotten how much they possess. While garage sales are a good way to get some quick cash, often the cost or buying something new is more than the money gained from the garage sale. So why not trade your unwanted goods for something you really want?

Because straight swops are not always possible because nobody wishes to exchange the exact item you have for the exact item you want, three way trades have a much better way of working. And the bigger the website, the better the outcome. So Sidila offers better options in this way, even though in other ways, it offers many of the same options of sites like craigslist and like ebay.

Let’s say, for instance, you are in need of a piano, a small scooter, and some new items of furniture for the living room. What you have to offer are a small boat that you no longer use, a roomful of clothing that nobody in your household ever wears anymore, two bicycles that nobody wants, and enough toys to start a local branch of Toys R Us. Because there’s such a large variety of goods and people to chose from, the computer will quickly put together a two or three way trade of similar values. This is not possible on sites like ebay and like craigslist.

The benefit of a three way trade is that it increases the chances of a successful trade many times over. The advantage of the trade is that one is far more likely to achieve a better value than if one had just sold the items and then gone to purchase a new one. That’s because having a national database of what is available gives one a far greater variety of goods than is available in the geographical location where one lives. Again, this is not possible on a site like ebay or like craigslist.

So, with three way trades now becoming available on the web, the chances of a better way of getting the goods one needs, and not wasting the goods one has, becomes one more option of improving your lifestyle.