Bye…..

We allow customer to pay with their credit cards for the protection of both parties. The renter can release payment to the owner once it’s all done. It’s a safer way to do peer-2-peer rentals in our opinion.

Failed the “do I have to spend too much time trying to understand this test”, I’m afraid.

I would have just sent that comment direct to the site, but you have to register to contact them…

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Never thought the concept was still interesting to people.

And I never thought that thing had more than 6000 downloads!

there’s maybe a lack, beside loans, why not to add a donation offer by item ?

Really promising ! more than lendaround to me

http://neighborrow.com/

I think they target apartment buildings and dorms where people can share books, dvds, etc.

So your hesitant to give up an oscar winner before you are positive you can get an oscar winner back. Since trades dont happen simultaneously, you never are, and therefore never list that oscar winner.

On true trading sites like swaptree, this is a non issue since you give and get at the same time. You are not hesitant to list an oscar winner, since you only have to part with it when you are getting an oscar winner back, at the same time.

But my larger point, is that cant any swapping site, ad on a groups section, so that you can swap with the general public, but borrow from a smaller group you’ve defined – be that family, neighbors or co-workers. I mean its really a basic groups feature with a few bells and whistles necessary to indicate – this item is borrowed.

I dont think a swapping site has to be one and not the other.

I can get pretty much anything I want on Swaptree (I’ve been in since the beta). And once I watch it, or read it, why wouldn’t I trade it for something I haven’t watched or read? I don’t need to own the item if I can always trade for other items I haven’t watched or read.

Maybe there’s a short list of items I want to own and not give away.

Doesn’t the lending model have the same quality issue: If all my ‘new friends’ want to borrow my copy of the latest movie, what good is owning it when I can’t watch it because it’s in circulation? The demand /supply quality issue is the same from what I can tell.

Don’t get me wrong, I totally feel you guys are dead on correct and within full rights of operation!

As you say, “what the industry might want it to be” is where my perspective is coming from.

I know these guys all too well and it amazes me every time how they are always coming up with scenarios to back their madness.

Here, they may say “Well how are these people connected? How do we know they are all friends?”.

While in beta, consider this: tying in something like Facebook Connect (and API) would be an easy way to avoid this bully tactic as likely everyone using your service has an active Facebook account and for the most part, FB friends can prove that the service is mainly upholding the same law the groups may look to exploit.

I have just seen too many times these guys predator the good guys all but to loose the opportunity to advertise new stuff on a site like LendAround to people that are clearly looking for entertainment.

I really hope this works out as I am looking to use the service

In case the FB Connect idea stick:
(Disclaimer: I and my companies waive any claims to mere open opinion given in this post)

Great you can borrow from friends…but isnt that just a simple groups feature that a site like swaptree could add in a week of coding?

Wish all entrepreneurs luck, but not sure i see the difference maker here.

Videoclubs pay their DVD far more than the price paid by an individual, exactly for that reason.

So, really, I do not understand the business model for this new service.

However, we took some serious legal advice in advance, and we’re completely confident that the US Copyright Act allows you to lend DVDs to your friends without fear of breaching anyone’s rights.

(It would be kind of weird if it didn’t, right?)

Check out the relevant Wikipedia page at http://en.wikip...Consumer_Rights for what we think is a summary of what the law actually says, as opposed to what the industry might want it to be!

Then the MPAA gets wind of this thriving community, and quickly goes in for the assertion of rental fees of titles and everyone down to the RIAA will assert that royalties are owed and due…

Its so sad that the MPAA and RIAA will not simply work with these guys but will try to bully them first, back them in a corner, then demand outrageous fees that will simply pillage this good company to its core.

I really hope this doesn’t happen, but in today’s vicious and desperate economic climate, hope went away with the 90’s itself.

-Will
CEO
Kordor Electronics

http://www.inst...s-and-dvds.html

The more the merrier.