Online swap sites let users trade CDs, DVDs, games

[mandy]

Article discusses new swap sites LaLa, BarterBee, TitleTrader, and Peerflix

If compact discs are practically obsolete, imagine what used CDs must be worth. Some new Web sites are betting the answer is something.

The sites, with names like Peerflix, BarterBee, TitleTrader and Lala (which launches Tuesday), are aiming to give consumers a second lease on life on their CDs, movies and video games by allowing them to trade them for better ones. In the age of the iTunes Music Store and digital devices like the iPod, the sites are making an unusual gamble: that downloadable media won’t displace people’s collections of CDs, DVDs or shrink-wrapped video games anytime soon...

Instead of receiving cash in exchange for, say, a copy of the Who’s “Quadrophenia,” members of the new sites collect points that can be used to buy other CDs, or other media like digital video discs, from fellow members. For now, Lala lists only CDs, while Peerflix focuses on DVDs. Other sites, like BarterBee and TitleTrader LLC, let people swap between categories – a movie for a video game, for example...

full article: http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgaze...080233.htm

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