ChanceXChange.com: Recycling for the Digital Age

We live in a materialistic age, a capitalist society, and let's face it: most of us have way too much stuff.

Maybe your relatives have a vague idea that you like to read, but their well-meaning gifts of romance novels just don't jibe with your preference for sci-fi. Maybe you still have all your old Celine Dion albums and don't know what to do with them besides use them as coasters... face down, of course. Or maybe, like me, you signed up for the Columbia House DVD club, not realizing they would send you everything except the DVDs you really wanted, and you were too lazy to package them up and ship them back.

ChanceXChange.com offers users the chance to get rid of stuff they don't want, and receive stuff they do.

How It Works

Users list the things they don't want anymore, in categories including Books, Films, Games, Music, and Miscellaneous. Each category has a number of subcategories: Fiction or Nonfiction for Books, DVD or VHS for Films, a wide selection of electronic platforms for Games, and CD or Tape for Music. User-specified categories are also available. Each listing includes the title, author / director / artist / creator, and optional fields for notes, item condition, and an image of the item.

The first two items you list will earn you one free credit. After that, to get credits, you'll have to wait for someone else to decide they want something you've listed. When someone claims one of your items, it is automatically removed from the list of available items, and you receive an email notifying you that someone has requested the item. You send the item, they confirm its receipt, and a credit is transferred from them to you. Now you can find something listed by someone else that you want, and spend your credit on it.

Upsides