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Thanks 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 thin

by sid6376 16y ago

Thanks 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 ago
Great 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.