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Swapping bottles from your cabinet

Any bottle in your cabinet can go into a swap. You don't need to list it, and it never goes on the market.

It starts in a chat​

Swaps happen between two people talking. In any conversation, above the message box:

  • Propose a swap opens an offer. Choose what you'd like from them (their listings, or cabinet bottles they've shown you), then what you'll give (your listings, or anything from your cabinet).
  • Show my cabinet lets the other person see your cabinet: all of it, or only the bottles you tick. You can hide it again at any time.

In My Cabinet, each bottle has two choices:

  • Mark willing to swap. No photos or listing needed; the bottle stays at home and is never for sale.
  • Swap publicly. You list it the usual ScentSell way (photos including the nozzle-off photo, fill, condition, batch code, our review) and it appears under Checked bottles on the Swap page for everyone.

Who sees your willing bottles​

The first time you mark a bottle willing to swap, you choose who can see your willing bottles:

  • All signed-in members. They appear on the Swap page under From members' cabinets, where any signed-in member can open one and tap Ask to swap. Visitors who aren't signed in don't see them.
  • Only people I'm talking with (the default). They show inside your conversations and swaps, nowhere else.
  • Anyone. They appear on the Swap page for everyone, signed in or not. A visitor can look; they have to join before they can ask to swap. A bottle whose value rests on a price you gave yourself shows the label Owner's price (or Owner says rare) until ScentSell has looked at it.

You can also choose for one bottle at a time. On the Swap page, under From members' cabinets, the bar above the list shows Yours up for swap with Manage. Manage lists your bottles as members see them. Tap Change who sees it on a bottle to pick for that bottle only. Your own bottles also sit in the list on the Swap page, marked Yours, so you can see how they look to others. You can still invite one person to look at your whole cabinet, or a selection, from a conversation.

The Swap page is one list. Checked bottles and cabinet bottles sit together, and every row says which it is: a green Checked tick, or a From a cabinet label on a tinted row with the house's initials where a photo would be. All / Checked / From cabinets at the top narrows the list. Search, sort and Filters (notes, price, family, house, size, fill) apply to both kinds. To see only Australian houses, open House in Filters and tick Australian houses.

Only bottles with a value are on the Swap page. Each one shows its size, how full it is, its condition, who owns it and what they have completed on ScentSell, and its swap value. Under the value is what the value rests on:

  • Shop price. Worked out from what the perfume sells for new.
  • Owner's price. We hold no shop price, so it is worked out from a new price the owner gave. Not confirmed yet.
  • Owner says rare. The owner says it is rare or discontinued and gave their own price. Not confirmed yet.
  • Price confirmed. ScentSell has looked at the price the owner gave.

Every bottle in this section is not checked: ScentSell has not handled or photographed it. Either of you can ask for the full ScentSell check before anything is posted. A member ScentSell has marked as trusted shows a Trusted swapper tag.

You can change this at any time in Settings › Privacy, under Swaps, or from Change who sees it on the bottle. Your phone number and email are never shown either way.

Tick the bottles you'd swap​

In My Cabinet → Bottles, every bottle of yours has a small Swap tick. Tick one and we value it first (below), then it is up for swap. To do a few at once, choose Pick for swap (on a phone it is under the ⋮ button), tick the bottles, then Put up for swap. Tick again to take a bottle off. You choose which bottles; nothing else in your cabinet changes.

A quick value first​

When you put a cabinet bottle up for swap, you value it with the same form you use to list a bottle for sale. Only the photos are left out.

You fill in the same four parts: size and fill level, condition, box and cap, and today's retail price (the retailer, the price, the link, and whether it is rare, discontinued or not sold in Australia).

We work the value out the same way as a listing: the retail price, less the second-hand reduction, for how full it is, less a little for a missing box or cap or heavy use. If we know a lower price for the same size at an Australian shop, or what it has sold for on ScentSell, the lowest one is used.

You can't type the value in yourself, and nobody else can. The other person sees the value and how full it is. If the bottle changes after that (you use a good deal more of it, or correct its size), the value is cleared and you value it again before it can go into a swap.

If they ask for one of your bottles that doesn't have a value yet, you add it before the swap can be accepted. Nobody says yes to an unknown.

Direct, or the full ScentSell check​

Swaps start direct: you agree it between you and post when ready.

Either of you can tap Ask for the full ScentSell check at any time before anyone posts. Each cabinet bottle then gets the same check as a listing (photos, including the nozzle-off photo, and our review), and nobody can post until it passes. Once asked for, the check can't be switched off, and it carries through any counter-offer.

When the swap completes​

Each bottle leaves the giver's cabinet and lands in the receiver's, marked as from a swap for them to confirm. If they already have that perfume in their cabinet, their existing entry stays. The usual A$4.99 swap fee applies to each member.

From your own AI​

If you use ScentSell from Claude, ChatGPT or another AI (free for members), it can do the same: list your cabinet, value a bottle, show your cabinet to someone, offer a swap and ask for the full check.