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ExchangeHomes.com Home Exchange finally has a Resources Page in place containing links to several extremely useful travel oriented web sites. Should anyone click these links and make a purchase, ExchangeHomes.com will receive a small percentage. I plan to retain a mere 5% of whatever the page earns to cover administrative expenses and the remaining 95% […]

We’ve had a few issues lately with unhappy home exchange Associate Members, emailing to ask why their memberships have disappeared. They have attempted to log in and received a “Membership Not Recognized” error.
Since adding the Associate (free) level of membership, we’ve been stringent in our requirements that everyone using the option provides us with true […]

We’ve recently been contacted by a tv production company (the first this “season”), asking if we could put them in touch with two sets of members about to embark on a home exchange, between either the USA and London, or USA and Paris. The tv company is based in New York so they would definitely […]

Last week we heard of an unfortunate incident whereby an ExchangeHomes.com member is urgently seeking a replacement home exchange to England, preferably the west country.
They need an exchange between Saturday September 6th, 2008 and Saturday 20th September. To see their listing, click >> Here Any arrangements don’t have to be simultaneous because their exchange property—located […]

When, early in February, we went on-line with the major overhaul to our web site, we bowed to pressure from many members and visitors and introduced a two-tier membership system, effectively allowing non-publishing—or “Associate”—members to initiate contacts with members who paid to list their homes for exchange. We did however exercise an important constraint that […]

I’m puzzled. Why would someone spend what has to have been a significant amount of time compiling a home exchange listing, edited it at least a couple of times, added several nice photographs, then not pay to display it?
Even more puzzling—when I’ve emailed them to ask if they didn’t understand that payment of a fee […]

Recently I’ve noticed a few negative conclusions an associate company has arrived at regarding multiple year and lifetime memberships. I agree wholeheartedly with every observation she has made, unmanaged and unsupervised any membership that extends beyond an initial year can quickly become outdated, both in its descriptive text and the published home exchange dates. More […]

Yesterday our latest  Newsletter, (The December / January edition), was distributed to our mailing list. I was dismayed this morning when I viewed the list of non-deliveries—
A total of 189 emails had bounced for the following reasons:

Non-existent address— 88
Mailbox Full— 57
Blocked by ISP— 29
Other— 15

All these have […]

A problem I’m currently encountering with an Internet business has given me pause to think about the whole spectrum of home exchange agencies. The business I’m battling with is a “hobby” business, run by the wife of a recently retired sporting super-star. He has a web site and his wife has added a spin-off, selling […]

Today I continue with an ongoing series of posts covering all the major features included in our pending ExchangeHomes.com  web site upgrade.
In part three I will cover a major change to the web site that will allow registered members (both Full and Associate) to rate any member with whom they have already completed a home […]

Today I continue with an ongoing series of posts covering all the major features included in our pending ExchangeHomes.com web site upgrade.
Today I will concentrate on how your photographs will be displayed on the new web site—
Currently, members are limited to a maximum of six photographs. The new web site will have no limit. Members can […]

As ExchangeHomes.com moves toward the unveiling of a MAJOR home exchange web site upgrade, I think the time has arrived to begin revealing exactly what both members and visitors to the site can expect to find after the launch. To achieve this, today begins a series of posts covering most of the upgrade’s features.
In […]