Books, games, CDs, & DVDs
Jul 29, 2008 19:59:32 GMT -5
Post by bdbdbd on Jul 29, 2008 19:59:32 GMT -5
I'm not selling anything, technically, but hear me out.
I don't know whether or not anyone would be interested in this, but a friend of mine, more the wife of a friend, turned me on to a couple of rather neat "Internet trading" sites. They work differently, so I will describe them separately, but in essence if you have clutter (as I do) you can get rid of it and acquire other people's clutter that you'd rather have. You have to pay to ship your stuff out, tends to be between $2 and $4 an item depending (hardback books cost more), but even that's cheaper than buying the same stuff on eBay generally.
*PaperbackSwap - PaperbackSwap (and it's sister sites DVDSwap and SwapACD) lets you list all those books on your bookshelf you have no intention of reading (or watching, or that you copied and can be rid of the hard copy
) and, as people come by and decide they want said item, you mail it out to them. For every item someone requests from your list and you mail out you get to chose an item from the database of items other peoples posted items. You also get two free books for the first ten you post or can buy "credits" for $3.45, about the price of mailing a hardcover I guess.
*SwapTree - With SwapTree you trade with specific people. You set up your list of things you're willing to part with (this one deals in books, DVDs, CDs, and Games on one list) and a second list of things you want. The system then compares your want list with other peoples have list and when it has matches it presents them to you and you can decide if you'd like to initiate a trade or not. The very neat thing about this site is their "three way trades" where you (A) can send something to someone (B) who sends something to yet another person (C) who sends an item to you (A). I didn't even realize my second swap was one of those until later. Of course other people send you trades as well--only for things on your list--and you can accept or cancel them.
I was reluctant to do it when I was first told about it, but I listed some stuff on SwapTree that I literally (in the non Gorilla Monsoon sense of the word) forgot I had because they'd been sitting in boxes and actually found some good matches.
If anyone does join PaperbackSwap, my username is bdbdbd and I would appreciate the referral. Though I'm not sure if it gets you anything.
I don't know whether or not anyone would be interested in this, but a friend of mine, more the wife of a friend, turned me on to a couple of rather neat "Internet trading" sites. They work differently, so I will describe them separately, but in essence if you have clutter (as I do) you can get rid of it and acquire other people's clutter that you'd rather have. You have to pay to ship your stuff out, tends to be between $2 and $4 an item depending (hardback books cost more), but even that's cheaper than buying the same stuff on eBay generally.
*PaperbackSwap - PaperbackSwap (and it's sister sites DVDSwap and SwapACD) lets you list all those books on your bookshelf you have no intention of reading (or watching, or that you copied and can be rid of the hard copy
) and, as people come by and decide they want said item, you mail it out to them. For every item someone requests from your list and you mail out you get to chose an item from the database of items other peoples posted items. You also get two free books for the first ten you post or can buy "credits" for $3.45, about the price of mailing a hardcover I guess.*SwapTree - With SwapTree you trade with specific people. You set up your list of things you're willing to part with (this one deals in books, DVDs, CDs, and Games on one list) and a second list of things you want. The system then compares your want list with other peoples have list and when it has matches it presents them to you and you can decide if you'd like to initiate a trade or not. The very neat thing about this site is their "three way trades" where you (A) can send something to someone (B) who sends something to yet another person (C) who sends an item to you (A). I didn't even realize my second swap was one of those until later. Of course other people send you trades as well--only for things on your list--and you can accept or cancel them.
I was reluctant to do it when I was first told about it, but I listed some stuff on SwapTree that I literally (in the non Gorilla Monsoon sense of the word) forgot I had because they'd been sitting in boxes and actually found some good matches.
If anyone does join PaperbackSwap, my username is bdbdbd and I would appreciate the referral. Though I'm not sure if it gets you anything.