Ranting about swaps

Hello everyone, I hope that your new year started off with a big bang.
I want to rant a little about swaps; I joined a swap group for the first time. I had a fabulous time creating my swap items to trade with others through a hostess. I however was very dissappointed when I received my return swap items. I consider myself a creative crafter I spend quality time on what I make and I pour my heart and creatitivy into each item that I create. I turned in what I consider to be very good work where as when I received the items swapped in return I was so disappointed because the work was poor and very low quality. It seemed as if the others just threw glue on a paper and called it craft. I later learned that the hostess placed me with new crafters and I thought that was so wrong because I assure you that my work is very good quality. I have been crafting since I was a 4 year old girl not to reveal my age but I am well into my years now. I have yet to continue with the swap group that I joined because I feel as though I wasted my time and money on materials and I did not receive the same in kind. I also placed extra goodies in with my swap. I am just saying that consideration is warranted when you consider a swap.