Book exchanges are excellent in OTB clubs, but the cost of shipping makes it unworkable online.
Do you think a book exchange would work?
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Apr 20, 2013
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I am a member of paperbackswap.com, and there are some chess books there already. If people joined that already existing site, we could trade books like mad men.
Cogwheel wrote:
I guarantee people would scam others. :)
definetly
Apr 20, 2013
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#5
Tfulk, I'm guessing the paperbacks you usually swap are worth ~$5-$10 (US dollars). Chess books are often considerably more expensive and more difficult to replace.
SmyslovFan wrote:
Tfulk, I'm guessing the paperbacks you usually swap are worth ~$5-$10 (US dollars). Chess books are often considerably more expensive and more difficult to replace.
i agree, where i live they charge really outrageous prices for chess books.
Apr 20, 2013
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#7
It's not that expensive to mail books via 4th-class mail in the USA.
It's $2.47 for one lb up to $6.19 for ten lbs. via USPS
Hell the standard P+H charge at amazon is $3.99 per order (from the same merchant) I have the first 12 NIC YBs in HB and excellent cond, gimme $5 per book and the exact P+H fee and they're all yours!
I've been thinking about trying to start an informal book exchange on this site. I have a lot of chess books that I don't read anymore, and I suspect others do to. Do you think it would work to have a book exchange? People post lists of books they have that they're willing to exchange. If two people agree to exchange books, then they each pay to ship the book to the other person, with no expectation of ever getting the book back. (Unless they decide to exchange back later.)
Do you think that could work, or would people just abuse it?