Preparation - Just bring your items to the Newport High School central commons. There will be signs directing you to the appropriate location. We will have inventory cards for you to fill out. There are directions for filling them out on every table. Volunteers will answer questions as necessary. Some of our volunteers can provide pricing recommendations. Volunteers will then separate the inventory form - receipt (to you), tag (on the item) and the card (in our inventory mgt system) and put the gear in the appropriate place on the floor.

If you have more than 50 items, send a note to don@skiswap.info to pick up inventor cards in advance.

Ski/Snowboard Shops - Prior arrangements must be made before coming to the swap. If you come ill prepared the day of the swap, we reserve the right to turn you away. Click on the Shops menu for more info. The Snowsports Shops are a critical element of the swap. They provide only 60% of the equipment but over 90% of the technical sales help to the swap customers.

Note 1: We created and used a secure web registration capability. You register as a seller and then register all of your gear from your home computer. You will also be able to print an inventory list. When you come to check in your gear at the swap, the tags will be preprinted and ready to put on your gear. After we account for all sold gear, you will be able to see what sold and what didn't on the web site.

Note 2: The swap as grown to a size, over 3100 individual items consigned, over 6,000 shop consignments and over $370,000 in sales that we simply can not properly do all the accounting and check writing by noon on Sunday. Evidence of that was our running late the last 3 years causing great inconvenience to many folk. So this year we will be electronically registering all sellers and then sending checks during the week following the swap. If we can also get the system in Note 1 implemented then you can also check to see whether there is any gear that you need to pick up and perhaps avoiding even coming back on Saturday. And also perhaps deciding to let us donate those remaining pieces to charities.

Thank you for participating in our swap whether helping, buying, selling or all three. We will do our very best to make this a good experience.