I mentioned awhile back that I joined PaperBackSwap.com. So far my experience has been very positive! I’ve received several books already and they are in great condition, and sent out a bunch of book and even though I chose not to do the Delivery Confirmation thing, they always reach their destinations with no problems. It’s been two months already, and I have more books than I can read! I’ve got 5 books that I need to finish already! A couple of those aren’t from PaperBackSwap, but the point is that I’ve got loads of books and I haven’t had to pay for one of them! It’s great! Today I added a bunch of books that I had bought while I was in FYP at Kings’ (my first year of university) and I was amazed at how many of them were on other’s wish lists! I might be getting a boatload of credits over the next few weeks. It’s so great because I’m getting something of equal (or more) value. Not really on a price scale, but old books that I wouldn’t be able to sell for what I paid for them, I’m getting books that I can get use out of.
So I decided to take it to the next level, and joined the sister site, SwapaCD.com. I posted 38 CDs already. (Yeah, I have a few… but some are Mike’s.) I probably even have more CDs that I could post but I’m experiencing that “I haven’t listened to it in eons, but I can’t let go!” syndrome. But there are newer CDs that I do want and trading old for new just makes so much sense. I can’t wait until they start up their DVD site which I hear is coming through the pipeline. I’m excited! I did manage to sell a bunch of DVDs with eBay and Half.com, but when it comes to DVDs hardly selling for 99 cents it’s just not worth it to bother. I’d rather get new DVDs that I want, and just keep up the trading cycle.
If anyone wants to join up, you can list me as your referral with meags.spinney [at] gmail.com.
Maybe I should go to this site and try to get rid of a lot of books I had bought for my Classical Literature class. I can’t get rid of them here. Do you know if they take plays too?
They don’t take Canadian people yet, but I’m sure they do take plays. I’ll keep a look out and let you know when they expand to Canada.