Exchangehut

Exchangehut.com 1 is an online forum for college students to buy and sell sports tickets, used textbooks, concert tickets, CDs, DVDs, electronics, furniture and anything else a student could want to buy or sell at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was started in 2003 by a student who was tired of paying too much for his textbooks. In 2005, it was bought by two other Wisconsin students. It is much like ebay, except students buy and sell directly to and from each other. Exchangehut takes a small fee for this service, yet students save an average of $255 on textbooks per semester of use. Exchangehut is expanding to other college campuses and to other items so that it can compete more favorably with ebay and other auction websites.