SwapTree lets you trade books, music, videos
If you have some deadwood you need to unload, here's a new service set to launch July 4: SwapTree. It lets you trade books, music and videos.To use it, you type in ISBNs or UPCs to compile two lists:
- A trading list of the items you want to discard
- A want list of items you'd like to have. You can do this by importing your Amazon wish list or by clicking on things at Amazon directly.
SwapTree won't charge any commissions or fees for the trades, you'll just have to pay for shipping. The company plans to make all its money from advertising on the site.
SwapTree is in private testing now. It will be interesting to see if it gets enough users who list enough items to make it worthwhile to participate.
posted by Steve Weber at 6/28/2007
3 Comments:
Paperbackswap.com has already been doing this (well) for some time. You can swap cd's at their sister site, "swapacd.com." I recommend checking them out.
I've gotten rid of a lot of nonselling low-end books on PBS over the past year, but it's good to know about a place to put videos.
My favorite place to swap books (audiobooks, too) is BOOKINS (www.bookins.com). Pretty soon they will allow swapping of DVDs, too. The terrific thing about the site is that when someone requests one of your items, you do not have to pay for postage, but can print postage right from the site, and the person requesting the book pays a flat shipping charge. I only pay when I request a book...so if you just want to get rid of things, you'll never pay a nickel to do it -- that's paid for by the recipient! Of course, if you're a book lover, there are plenty of gems to find, too : )
Check out the site -- it is very easy to use.
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