November 22nd, 2005

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Peer to Peer DVD Sharing with Peerflix

Richard is trying out Peerflix, which is essentially a (nearly) free floating library of DVDs. He explains the system (which sounds slightly complicated) and does the math:

My theory is that if you can send out 10 DVDs, then you’re likely to have a Peerbux balance of 20-30 which can be good for 10-15 DVDs, and then you’ll only have to pay the brokerage fee of $0.99 per DVD you order. Well, you also have to pay postage on anything you send out, but that’s about 50 cents per disc, as you only send the discs, and not the boxes.

He’s also got some justifiable complaints about annoying search results and user interface issues.

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There’s a similar service at http://www.barterbee.com but there you can also trade video games and music, besides just dvds. I’ve been using it for a few months now and really enjoy it.

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Brad Templeton tried this for a while, he finally ended up not liking it:
http://ideas.4brad.com/node/226

I’m personally pretty happy with the Netflix model, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

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There’s another site like this but it’s free and you can trade dvds, cds and video games…

http://www.switchdiscs.com

jay

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