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Thanks for the feedback! I was thinking about being the "middle man" basically because shipping comic books has the problems you exposed. For example: - if I
by botolo86 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback!
I was thinking about being the "middle man" basically because shipping comic books has the problems you exposed.
For example:
- if I have 10 comics to swap, it may be that I will have to swap them with different users and having multiple shipments would not make sense
- comics can get damaged if not packed carefully. While this website would target comic book fans (who know how to properly take care of comics, shipment, etc.), the "middle man" would help in assuring that these comics are in good status.
I was looking at paperbackswap.com, it's a beautiful example of swapping system. Users post their books. When someone requests a book from them, they ship the book and receive 1 credit. With that credit, they can get a book from another user.
- sid6376 16y agoThanks for pointing me to the site paperbackswap.com. This is a really cool idea, specially how it manages book transfer and the concept of book credits. I think the middleman option is not very scalable and you should look at other options. The reputation concept suggested before does seem like a good idea. To make sure that a user is shipping high quality comics you may introduce the concept of deferred comic credits, until another user ratifies that this user indeed ships high quality comics. Good luck!!
- botolo86 16y agoGreat feedback! Yes, definitely a reputation system would work and help users. For the shipment problem (the fact that shipping just one comic may not make sense), a solution could be to allow users to specify in their preferences the minimum amount of comics they want to ship. For example, I may choose 5 comics and then the system will match me with another user only when this other users would like to receive 5 of my comics...so that I can ship all these comics to just one user.