Shameless Plug: Swaptree

One of the things I discovered this spring was http://www.swaptree.com/. Its a website where you trade your gently used Books's, CD's, DVD's, and Video Games. I found it through Ideal Bite ( A shameless plug nominee). It was saying its a lot more green to trade used Books then buy a new one. I saw "swap CD's" and I was hooked.

So far I've traded (4 individual trades total):

• 2 Books (I'm offically over Kurt Vonnegut.. so it goes :P)
• 3 CD's ( I usually only buy the CD's upload them into my ipod, and then they sit collecting dust)

for

• 1 Book (Wicked, maybe if I own the book I'll actually read it)
• 4 CD's ( yay for more Coheed and finally owning some Norah Jones) and all it cost me was shipping.

What you do is you make 2 lists: Things you have (they use the Code # to determine that you indeed have it and it is a legal copy, yes you need to have the case) and Things you want.( you can upload your amazon wishlist or just search like I do) When someone else has a then you want and wants a thing you have. Swaptree notifies both parties and a trade can be made. It does multiple person trades too.

The only problem I have is.. I dont have enough THINGS to trade. I have a 3-1 ratio of things I want to the things I have. Maybe I'll buy a new CD ( most of my CD's are at least 9 years old) of music I want and see how many trades I can get with it. I also dont really want to swap books or games, because I enjoy having an extensive library. I dont buy DVD's unless I REALLY like the movie.

So.. if you have a bunch of old movies that you dont want anymore or CD's that your Ipod has rendered useless.. you should try it.. oh and look me up.. you can have friends and stuff here

My Screen name... Pheldda