The winners of our competition!

May 11, 2012 at 12:27 pm · Filed under competition ·Tagged

The Netcycler team was happy to notice that so many of you participated in our great competition! On Netcycler, you can add things you don’t need anymore and wish for cool items in return! The winners of our competition are the users that added most wishes to Netcycler between April 26th and May 9th 2012.

The more items and wishes are being added, the better the odds for great trades to happen for everybody! And for those of you who haven’t tried out the service yet – simply go to www.netcycler.co.uk and give it a try!

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The lucky winners of our competition are the following users:

The first prize, a 100£ gift voucher to Nigel’s Eco Store, goes to Tina!

The following users will each be awarded with a 25£ gift voucher to M&S Food:

caraleader
Donna
Louis
Parmy
Nina
Pamela
sam
daniel
jollylolly
ashleigh
Jason
Morena
Yann

Congratulations to all winners!

We wish all our users fun moments and great swaps on www.netcycler.co.uk! Happy Netcycling!

 

 

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Wishing competition and £0,50 letter delivery!

April 26, 2012 at 11:48 am · Filed under competition

To thank our active users everyone can now use the convenient Netcycler postal delivery for a special low price of just £0,50 per letter even up to 750g! (A limited time offer)

You can also win prizes worth £20-100 simply by wishing for items!

1. Browse the nice things people offer for swap

2. Make wishes by pressing the Swap -button and offer your own items in exchange by May 9th!

This is the way Netcycler works. You connect the things you offer to the items you want and Netcycler forms the trades for you! Tip: it is better to offer many items as they are alternative choices. But remember to connect the wishes and offers in a realistic way so that you are actually willing to also accept the trade.

Here is what you can win :

  • £100 voucher to Nigel’s Ecostore for the user who adds the most new wishes
  • The next 20 users who add most new wishes will win a £25 gift voucher to M&S Food

Competition rules:

Participate in the competition by making wishes on www.netcycler.co.uk between April 26th and May 9th 2012. Each participating wish needs to be linked to an item you offer on Netcycler. The items you link to need to have a photo as well as the mailing or shipping option enabled on Netcycler. To qualify for the competition you need to make a minimum of three such wishes.

The winner of the £100 gift vouchers to Nigel’s Ecostore is the user who has added the most new wishes.

The winners of the £25 gift vouchers to M&S Food are the next 20 users who added the most new wishes.

Netcycler staff reserves the right to disqualify wishes that link to items that are likely to be uninteresting for other users. The winners will be notified by email during the week starting May 14th, 2012 and their first names will be published on the Netcycler blog.

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Classifying your items makes it easy to select items for exchange

April 19, 2012 at 12:05 pm · Filed under netcycler service

By popular demand we have created a very practical tool for you. On My items you will now find a drop down menu titled “Item class” for each of your items. With this menu you can classify your items into three different groups: Low value, Mid-range value and High value. The classification is not visible to others, it is simply a tool for yourself. Changing the classification of items does not affect earlier choices you have made when selecting items you are willing to give in exchange for a wish.

When combining your wishes with your items, you can use these classified item groups and mark eg. only your low value items as trade objects for a certain item. This facilitates and makes creating wishes faster as you don’t have to go through all your items and separately choose what you are willing to give in exchange. Please remember to consider carefully how you combine your items with wishes so that you don’t have to reject trade proposals later on.

Take a look!

We made a guess for the classification of your items. Go to My items page and make sure  we guessed correctly!

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Spring competition has now ended. Congratulations to all the winners!

April 13, 2012 at 2:29 pm · Filed under competition


The Netcycler spring competition has now ended. Thank you all for participating! We were happy to notice that the competition activated both very fresh users and users that have been registered on Netcycler for a quite a while already.

Congratulations to all the winners! The winners have been notified by email.

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Rates and feedback scores now visible to other users!

April 4, 2012 at 4:08 pm · Filed under netcycler service ·Tagged , ,

When dealing with swapping and trading online we feel it’s of top priority that our users can trust not only the system, but also their trade partners. That’s why we wanted rates and feedback about users’ trade actions to become visible for other Netcycler users, too.

Having a look at your trade partner’s reply rate, acceptance rate and feedback will provide you with valuable information on how quickly he/she reacts to trade proposals. It also tells how efficiently he/she has combined items and wishes.

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Picture: When you find an item on Netcycler that you are interested in, click on the Show item details-link. Then you will see the item owner’s rates and overall feedback score.

The system also helps you track down your own actions and feedback on Netcycler. Optimising your trading actions and the balance between your offers and wishes will improve your overall rates and feedback. Thus it will lead to more and better trading options for you – simply because the other users know they can trust you!

Keep in mind that a trade on Netcycler might include up to four other people through a trade ring. So for example canceling a trade might not affect only you, but also several other users can become disappointed. It also lowers your acceptance rate.

Our definite goal is to provide excellent trading opportunities for all our users – we would like to see as many of you as possible doing great trades on www.netcycler.co.uk!

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Let the sun shine in!

April 3, 2012 at 4:41 pm · Filed under netcycler service

Happy Easter!

Now as the first rays of spring sunshine have warmed us up a bit and Easter is just round the corner, a little bit of spring cleaning might come in handy. You probably know the feeling when looking into your cupboards and drawers: the colours of the clothes you just bought last year don’t please your eye anymore, the sporting equipment you bought on sale might still remain unused in its original package and some of your home electronics might have already been upgraded to a newer model. Not to mention all the books you’ve already read – are they just gathering a thick layer of dust on your shelves? Sometimes it feels good to get rid of things you simply don’t use anymore.

On the other hand, spring time is also a nice moment for doing some shopping: new clothes, new fashion, new interior design!

We’ve created a very special system for you that will help you get rid of the things you don’t need anymore and getting all those lovely things you really want in return! And this is possible even without spending a single penny!

You can simply add things you don’t need anymore to Netcycler – either for swap, for sale, give them away for free or for donation! And then you can start browsing items on Netcycler and wish for things you want in return – you can either get them for free, through a swap or buy them!

Because Netcycler is based on a clever trade ring system, the odds for a good trade to happen is up to 400 times bigger than in a traditional one-to-one swap!

So, what are you waiting for? Have fun swapping and shopping on Netcycler!

The entire Netcycler team would like to wish you a happy and relaxing Easter!

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49 cool prizes to win on Netcycler!

March 21, 2012 at 5:00 pm · Filed under competition ·Tagged

Do you have DVD’s you’ve already watched? Books you won’t read again? Kids’ clothes or sports equipment that is too small? Now we have two fantastic reasons for you to offer your secondhand items for swapping on Netcycler:

  1. You can get what you want from Netcycler if you have nice items to offer for swapping
  2. You have a very good chance to win nice prizes by adding new items before April 9th

Here is what you can win:

Nigels Eco Store logo
  • £100 gift voucher to Nigel’s Eco Store for the user who adds the most items
  • The first 7 users who add at least 30 items will win a £50 gift voucher to Nigel’s Eco Store
  • The first 41 users who add at least 15 items will win a £25 gift voucher to M&S Food M&S Food voucher

Spring competition rules: 

Participate in the competition by adding your items on offer on www.netcycler.co.uk between March 21st and April 9th 2012. Each participating item needs to be offered for swapping, and each item needs to include a wish for another item (or multiple wishes for several items) on Netcycler. The participating items may also be offered for sales in addition to swapping. To qualify items need to include a photo as well as a wish for another item in Netcycler that you are willing to swap your item for.

The winner of the £100 gift voucher to Nigel’s Ecostore is the user who has added the most new offers for items they are willing to swap.
The winners of the £50 gift vouchers to Nigel’s Ecostore are those 7 users who first have entered a minumum of 30 new offers for items they are willing to swap. The participation time is determined by the 30th qualifying item the user has posted during the competition period.

The winners of the £25 gift vouchers to M&S Food are those 41 users who first have entered a minumum of 15 new offers for items they are willing to swap. The participation time is determined by the 15th qualifying item the user has posted during the competition period.

Each person can win only one prize (for the highest competition category they qualify for). Netcycler staff reserves the right to disqualify items that are likely to be uninteresting for other users. The winners will be notified over email during the week starting April 9th, 2012 and their first names will be published on the Netcycler blog.

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Now there are two categories for your items!

March 20, 2012 at 2:13 pm · Filed under netcycler service ·Tagged , ,

Offers and Savings

Lately there have been many new features and improvements on Netcycler to make your Netcycling experience even better! You may have noticed that on your My items page your items are now divided into two separate categories:

  1. My offers are the things you want to trade actively (sell, swap or give away for free)
  2. My savings are the things you don’t want to trade at the moment

Adding items on Netcycler leads to getting items you want

All of your items are visible to other users and anyone can make wishes for both the Offers and the Savings on your account while browsing Netcycler. But others can make trade proposals only to the items you have decided to have actively on offer (the items in Offers). The items in the Savings do not display the owner of the item. If and when you decide to move an item from your Savings to your Offers, some other users may already have made wishes for it and you can make a trade proposal on their items. And that means fast swapping as soon as you feel like it!

On your My items page you can see all the items you have on your account. If others have wished to get your item you can see a link <Browse what I could get>. That way you know which items you could trade your items for even before you actively want to make them available for trading.

If you have made trades with others, you might have noticed that some items just “pop up” in your Savings automatically. These are items that you have received in trades or for free on Netcycler. Previously, these items just disappeared from the system. If you have less than ten items that you have received in trades or for free on Netcycler, the items were automatically transferred to your Savings in mid March.

Deleting items on Netcycler

Naturally you can and also should completely delete your uploaded or received items from the Netcyler system if you don’t have the items anymore. However, we strongly recommend keeping all the items you own on your Savings as the need for different items changes over time, and it is very easy to move items from your Savings to your Offers (and vice versa) whenever you want to.

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Would you like to become an Expert?

March 14, 2012 at 11:36 am · Filed under netcycler service ·Tagged ,

Netcycler Expert badge logo

The more active swappers there are on Netcycler, the better the odds for great trades to happen for everyone.

That’s why we want to reward our active users by awarding them badges of different levels. Each completed trade will take you closer to a higher badge level. If you have at least one completed trade, you will get the Green badge. After five completed trades, you’ll be awarded the Bronze badge. Then come the Silver, Gold and Platinum badges. The Generous badge goes out for all those who have given away at least ten items for free. So when you see other users having a badge in their profile, you can trust that they have already done some successful trading on Netcycler!

Currently, the highest badge level is the Expert badge. The Netcycler Expert knows the service inside out. The exact formula for becoming an Expert is top secret, but we can reveal you that it includes for example swapping in trade rings, using the postal service, giving away items for free, inviting friends and… well, why don’t you find out more yourself what it takes to get there?

A Netcycler Expert has gained great Netcycling expertise and experience, and thus an Expert can also be considered as a highly reliable trade partner.

The greatest reward Netcycler can offer you is, however, all the cool items you can get in trading on our service, the money you will save and the fun you will have! We wish you great swapping experiences on Netcycler and look forward to awarding the Expert badge to all our active users!

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Netcycler on the go!

March 7, 2012 at 9:17 am · Filed under netcycler service ·Tagged , , , , , ,

Using Netcycler to trade your items is more versatile than ever. Our website now works well on mobile browsers, and our long awaited Android app has been released.

Try the new Android Netcycler Express™ app

- Use the app to take pictures of items you want posted on Netcycler
- Netcycler Magic™ automatically places your item pictures into the correct categories (usually within 24 hours)
- Use your mobile browser to indicate the condition of the items on Netcycler
- You can also use your mobile browser to shop and swap on Netcycler

You can get the app here.

The Netcycler Express™ app is also available for iPhone and iPad

- Use the app to add your item pictures to the suitable categories
- Adding books is especially easy with bar code scanning
- You can use Safari to browse items and to make trades

You can get the iPhone app here.

On other smartphones you can use Netcycler with a mobile browser

- Use the phone to take pictures of your items and use the phone’s browser to add the items on Netcycler
- Use Netcycler in the normal fashion with your phone’s browser
- You can also use Netcycler Magic™ to place your item pictures automatically into the correct categories (usually done within 24 hours)

Use your phone’s browser to go to www.netcycler.co.uk

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