Instead of buying or selling, exchange items using an online platform called BarterStreets

You surely might have bought things online via Flipkart and SnapDeal or sold your items on OLX and Quickr, however the website in focus here is entirely different from all these e-comm websites. This new entrant allows you to barter (exchange items) online. Barterstreets is India's first networking marketplace for exchange of products and services. The company went live with their first draft and then shut down for 8 months before they came back targeting students in colleges all over India. In a conversation with Ambuj Singh and Sumit Sourav (the founders) we learnt about their journey through thick and thin.

"We aim to bring back barter. We believe that whatever is useless for you can be useful for someone else. Now, this fulfils many purpose like saving cash, time and also users get to meet new people over barter. For the time being, our target are students especially colleges,” says Sumit, who takes care of Technical part. “Sumit left few good job opportunities and gave his full time in building the website. We have dedicated team with people like Mobashir Nazri who have helped us grow," adds Ambuj. Mobashir Nazri helped the company to get to their first college (NIT Jamshedpur) in Feb this year.



The website was launched in Jan this year after a 6 month beta version. The signup and barter deals happen free of cost through the website and they are providing an additional feature of Network based on locality of the person. We asked them what kept them going and Sumit said, "The idea that we are contributing to something new and unique in the times of e-commerce dominance kept motivating us."

They are a team of 7 people, working with more than 40 campus ambassadors throughout the country. They aim to bring NGOs, give benefits to non-internet users, target flea market and go global as they expand.

As a message for future entrepreneurs, Ambuj said, "Be patient. Remember, there must be number of hurdles which you must have surpass on your own. Always learn from your own mistakes and how you overcame them."

AdalBdal.com- An online Exchange Portal

AdalBdal.com is an online venture based on the lines of the old Barter System. Launched by BK Birla, AdalBdal is an online platform which lets its users exchanges their used products all around the world. Something which is useless and trash for one person can be valuable and useful for another. This platform works on this very principle.

The procedure is very simple. People who don’t want a certain product anymore can simply click its picture and upload it on the site and then search for the product that they need, meet up  with the seller and then simply exchange. It is really that simple.

“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed”. This beautiful line by Mahatma Gandhi which pops up on the front page of the website as soon as you open it helps to reflect the company’s vision.

 

Currently, we are living in a fast paced society which wants more and more from life. We produce more, consume more and in this process we end up depleting the resources which have been made available to us by mother Earth. There are many such products in everyone’s house which are of no use to them anymore but we don’t care about them and find a corner for them in the house. AdalBdal has a mission of stopping this wastage. What maybe trash to you can be a valuable possession for someone else.

 

You can exchange anything on this platform. It could be clothes, electronics, stamps, books etc. AdalBdal holds great similarities to Second to None, which is a Facebook group where people see their second hand items. The only difference between the two is that while on one hand the group works on monetary exchange and AdalBdal works on goods exchange.

AdalBdal.com has an enthusiatic team of five main members which consists of BK Birla, Tom, Jerry, Devi Anupoorna Singh and Sai Gayathri.

The online platform works all around the world and is location aware. As a safety measure, it also has a built in spam protection which makes sure that a person interested in a user’s product will not be able interact unless the user decides to connect with them. AdalBdal is also engaging in social work by sourcing old clothes from the user’s house to NGO’S.

 

AdalBdal.com- An online Exchange Portal

AdalBdal.com is an online venture based on the lines of the old Barter System. Launched by BK Birla, AdalBdal is an online platform which lets its users exchanges their used products all around the world. Something which is useless and trash for one person can be valuable and useful for another. This platform works on this very principle.

The procedure is very simple. People who don’t want a certain product anymore can simply click its picture and upload it on the site and then search for the product that they need, meet up  with the seller and then simply exchange. It is really that simple.

“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed”. This beautiful line by Mahatma Gandhi which pops up on the front page of the website as soon as you open it helps to reflect the company’s vision.

 

Currently, we are living in a fast paced society which wants more and more from life. We produce more, consume more and in this process we end up depleting the resources which have been made available to us by mother Earth. There are many such products in everyone’s house which are of no use to them anymore but we don’t care about them and find a corner for them in the house. AdalBdal has a mission of stopping this wastage. What maybe trash to you can be a valuable possession for someone else.

 

You can exchange anything on this platform. It could be clothes, electronics, stamps, books etc. AdalBdal holds great similarities to Second to None, which is a Facebook group where people see their second hand items. The only difference between the two is that while on one hand the group works on monetary exchange and AdalBdal works on goods exchange.

AdalBdal.com has an enthusiatic team of five main members which consists of BK Birla, Tom, Jerry, Devi Anupoorna Singh and Sai Gayathri.

The online platform works all around the world and is location aware. As a safety measure, it also has a built in spam protection which makes sure that a person interested in a user’s product will not be able interact unless the user decides to connect with them. AdalBdal is also engaging in social work by sourcing old clothes from the user’s house to NGO’S.