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(Unverified)Sep 21st 2006 8:14PM
la la is pretty cool but with two caveats.
1. It's $1.75 per CD since you obviously always have to pay shipping on each CD.
2. All CDs are treated equally. Most people seem to prefer this (or at least they did when I brought it up a few times during beta testing in March). However I think it seriously weakens the value of the service. I made a reasonably sized wishlist with some very common 90's CDs as well as recent CDs, less common 80's and 90's CDs. I quickly found that the only CDs I was getting were really, really cheap CDs (popular 90's CDs that tons of people had but didn't want anymore). Despite the fact that most of the CDs I was sending out were going for ~$6-12 on half.com all of the ones I was receiving I could have got for ~$2-5. Once I noticed this I stopped trading my better CDs on la la and took off all of the cheap CDs from my wishlist. It was the only way I could get fair trades. I've since put my more expensive CDs up for trade on switchdiscs.com because they allow you to "price" your CDs (they recommend you follow amazon's used prices). I think this is a much fairer and more efficient way to barter, although it is admittedly not as straightfoward.
As it is set up now I think too many people use it to get expensive discs off of unsuspecting users. It is also impossible to unload "common" CDs that are less desirable now, because these aren't valued any less by la la than brand new CDs.