My philosophy
I made a lot of swaps by internet in past, but often I received specimens inferior than mines both in quality and in quantity. The main problem is that it's difficult to agree themselves about the minerals' quality without to see them. Another problem is that nobody wants to send minerals in advance because is afraid to lose his specimens or to receive bad quality materials. For this reason everybody doesn't send the best minerals in advance and the swap's quality is low.
For all these reasons I want to put limits on my exchanges activities and I 'd prefer to sell my minerals. I can still exchange my minerals only if you can show me your specimens. Furthermore I'm only interested in Italian or alpine minerals.
You can see in my lists that my prices are generally honest and low. I can do it because I don't partecipate to minerals shows as dealer and I have not expenditures to recover. To sell minerals is not my job, I do it only to buy specimens for my private collection.