So you’re ready to build a swap! After you’ve found an inventory item you’re interested in within the Marketplace, you can start a swap by clicking on Stock Swap or Cash Swap on that listing. For more information, check out Guide 3. For the purposes of this guide, we’re going to build a Stock Swap.
Once you’ve clicked on Stock Swap, you’ll go to a swap page where you’ll see a number of panels. Let’s start with the first section. Within the area highlighted by the red box below, you’ll see the components of your swap. So far, this swap isn’t equal because we haven’t added anything to it yet. As you add products to this swap, they’ll appear on the appropriate side of the swap.
Take note of the orange button at the bottom left—this is where you can add a message to your swap. You’ll be able to add a message each time you send a swap and during the process where you review, accept, counter, and decline swaps.
The next section of the page is important, the Swap Overview. This is where you can see the current balance of the swap. In this case, the swap is being proposed by Republic of Texas Firearms, and it’s going to work out very much in their favor if accepted. In the upper left and right-hand corners you can see the running net value for each party.
Within the boxes, you can see the total combined value of all inventory you’ve included, all they inventory they’ve included, and any cash made to even out the transaction. Cash can only be swapped in one direction on FFLStockSwap.
Let’s even this swap out by scrolling down to the next section, which shows your inventory. To add items, click on the orange “Add Item” button below the product. For this swap, we’ll add the Kimber and the Walther you see in Republic of Texas’ inventory.
Now that we’ve clicked on Add Item below each of those guns, they appear in the swap above—only now the swap is uneven the other way. If you look at the Swap Overview, you’ll see that the swap is now out of balance by $156.99. Now we have two options—we can either try and find inventory to even this out, or we can add cash. To keep things easy, let’s add cash.
To add cash, we clicked in the box on the J3 Gunsmithing side of the swap and typed in 156.99 – no dollar sign needed. We also added a message below letting J3 Gunsmithing know that if they have something they’d like to swap in place of cash to let us know.
What’s next? We’re ready to click Propose Swap and then wait for the other party to review what we’ve offered.
