lala.com -- Used CD Exchange
I've been using lala.com to trade used CDs for
the past few weeks. It's cool!If
you're like me, you've got lots of old CDs that you never listen to any more.
On lala.com, you list all the CDs you have but don't want, and also list all the
ones you want but don't have. If somebody wants one of yours, lala lets you
know, and if you want you can drop it in the mail to the person who wants it.
It's out of your hair, and somebody else has something they
want.On the other hand, if somebody
has something on your list, they mail it to you, and you pay lala $1.50. (They
say $0.50 to cover postage, $0.20 to the artist traded, and $0.80 to them for
running the thing.)This morning I
managed to get rid of "She's the Boss" by Mick Jagger. (What was I doing with
that?
Yuk!) One CD that's been clogging my collection for 23 years, inflicted on an
unsuspecting Stones fan at no cost to
me.When somebody sends a CD I want,
lala bills me $1.50. That's a fair price for a used CD, and I'm getting obscure
stuff that you can never find, like Syd Barrett, Marc Almond, The Sugarcubes,
and The The. So crappy CD + $1.50 = New
CD.I suppose the unscrupulous might
even trade CDs they want to keep after they duplicate them -- but for the most
part I suspect we all have so many hated CDs that that's hardly
necessary.If you want to try it, send me an email . If you sign up
through my invite, I get a free t-shirt. (And Lord knows
that's
what I need more of. Ugh.)
Filed Fri - June 30, 2006, 09:24 AM in
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