05 Mar 2006

Peerflix

peerflixPeerflix is a service that lets you trade DVDs you own for DVDs you want. They do not rent or warehouse DVDs themselves. They coordinate trades between regular folks. The regular folks mail the DVDs directly to each other, and Peerflix collects 99 cents per trade (Once you factor in postage, this works out to around $1.40). These are real trades – you own the DVDs you get, and can choose when, or if, you trade them further.

It isn’t perfect, of course. There’s a question of selection (although Peerflix recently claimed that they have 150,000 people trading 250,000 titles, so they seem to be reaching critical mass.) Also, forget 1 or 2 day delivery. You’re at the mercy of the promptness of whoever is sending you the DVD you want…” read more on Chapel Perilous

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