We are sunsetting the Swappa Boneyard. We will stop allowing new listings during the first week of August, then will give time for existing listings to sell or expire.<\/p>\n
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If you don\u2019t know what the Boneyard is, that\u2019s okay, it\u2019s probably because we\u2019ve never really advertised or promoted the section of the site. If you are aware of the Boneyard and have bought or sold there, then you probably understand why we are discontinuing the offering.<\/p>\n
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When we launched the Boneyard in 2014, we wanted to offer a place for users to buy and sell items that couldn\u2019t be listed on our primary marketplace. Being that Swappa (especially at that time) specializes in phones and has a strict \u201cno junk\u201d policy, the Boneyard quickly became a hub for broken and damaged mobile devices that didn\u2019t fit our \u201cfully functional, ready for activation\u201d requirements.<\/p>\n
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This included phones with water-damaged and cracked screens, old mobile hardware like flip phones and mobile accessories, but also blacklisted and financed devices. The Boneyard was meant to be a place for legitimate sellers to list devices that didn’t meet our stringent marketplace criteria. However, without Swappa\u2019s usual moderation efforts green lighting sellers and the goods they were listing, some sellers were taking advantage of the unmoderated service to sell things that shouldn\u2019t be bought.<\/p>\n
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At Swappa we pride ourselves as being a safer marketplace than eBay and Craigslist, and without strict moderation, the Boneyard turned into the Wild West. While most users of the service understood the rules, there are abusers, and we have decided that maintaining our Boneyard doesn\u2019t align with our goal to connect users with functional, ready-to-use tech.<\/p>\n
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Since first launching the Boneyard the main Swappa marketplace has expanded to a far broader catalog with categories like laptops, tablets, home tech and video games. And our moderation and support services have continued to improve from already the best to even better. While the Boneyard won\u2019t be a part of ongoing offerings, we invite you to continue buying<\/a> and selling<\/a> with confidence on Swappa.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are sunsetting the Swappa Boneyard. We will stop allowing new listings during the first week of August, then will give time for existing listings to sell or expire. If you don\u2019t know what the Boneyard is, that\u2019s okay, it\u2019s probably because we\u2019ve never really advertised or promoted the section of the site. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":3336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[90],"products":[],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-site-updates","tag-boneyard-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"products","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/products?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}