Little things excite me, like swaptree

I just initiated my first trade at swaptree.com. If you’ve never heard of this site, it’s a place where you can trade items such as books, music, movies and games.

I had about six newer books I had just thrown in my “garage sale” box when I remembered someone telling me about this. And I don’t know about everyone else, but I never seem to make much money or even sell many books at garage sales. I’d much rather have some new books to read myself …

Anyway, this is how it worked so far: I entered the ISBN code on my books, listed the condition they were in and a list of over 800 possible trades came up. Apparently you can not only make a list of things you have but you can also make a want list – so these things that came up were all from people who want one of the books I have. I must have some good ones!

So now I’m waiting on the other person to agree to the trade. I actually got to pick from a couple different people. But this person was closer, in Ohio. and has done more trades, therefore I thought he/she would be more reliable. Hopefully they’ll want to do the trade with a new person!

OK, so I’m a dork. And by the way, if you’re curious I am getting The Doctor’s Wife by Elizabeth Brundage for trading Marly and Me by John Grogan.