Lake County Teen Starts Online Trading Site
Swapidy allows traders to swap items like books and video games and have them verified.
Do you have a video game or book that you don't need anymore — and another video game or book that you'd like to own? A new website launched by a Libertyville High School graduate may be able to help. Adam Ahmad, 18, just launched a site called Swapidy, where people can swap goods with others. "You can stay in your house and literally trade with anybody nationwide," Ahmad said. "That's the real beauty of it." Ahmad said his inspiration to create Swapidy came from his experiences with using online classified advertisement or auction sites during his previous entrepreneurial adventure. When Ahmad was just 11 years old, he loved playing on the PlayStation Portable (PSP), but his parents were not so fond of continually buying him new games. …
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