04-14-2006, 08:18 AM
Quote:The site, which looks remarkably similar to a prototype Bloom sketched on notebook paper four years ago with Elias, trades only one-for-one items within the same category--CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, video games, audio books or paperback books. No item (for example, a seven-disc DVD set of the first season of the television series "24") is worth more than any another (say, a DVD of Peter Jackson's "King Kong").
Traders using the site determine the relative value of an item by choosing to swap or not. No one is ever forced to make a trade, Elias noted.
Each trader pays Zunafish $1 through credit or debit card for each trade. The site then calculates the postage costs and creates addressed mailing labels that can be downloaded and printed out. Each trader, Bloom said, is responsible for paying the postage and mailing the item promptly....
full article: http://news.com.com/Read+it+Watched+it+S...60778.html
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Regi the PostgreSQL Cheerleader may find this bit interesting. :twistedevil: I was greeted by the following message on Zunafish's home page:
Quote:Warning: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL: sorry, too many clients already in /web/ms2/includes/dbconn.php on line 37
Warning: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL: sorry, too many clients already in /web/ms2/includes/dbconn.php on line 38