Oh boy ... my turn...

I myself lost interest... because of 1 thing!
Tiers not completing on time.. I too did this a couple of times. every swap I ever joined someone was always late...
Yes most of us worked at jobs.. thats why we wanted them in a few days before the deadline...

I think it happened once.... all the flies were in a week early and we got the flies before the deadline...

now think about the price of everything.... its going up...BAD!

Also the quality of flies were getting "suck-ish" swappers just didnt give a crap on what their flies looked like..
there was about 15-20 tiers I always wanted to see in swaps.. I opened a few packages before to get the flies out... a piece of thread would be hanging on the fly.. a quick tug and the whole fly would unwrap.... I always wanted to see new guys in them...

I think a few of us have list on:
who flies sucked....
who always opted out...
who didnt turn anything in...
who was late hitting the deadline (I know I did this a couple of times... working 2 jobs and guiding)
who would set up a swap and ~~NOT~~ return any flies.think this happened once with flies and once with a swap box.

But I think my top reason for not doing swaps anymore were quality and prices of material