Paperback Swap
Mar. 31st, 2015 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nx74defiantI went with the ala carte member ship for now.
My thoughts on the change:
Not enough notice. 2 weeks if you were in the first batch notified.
No notice on the home page.
Bad job communicating, needed a link on the home page.
No "grandfathering" for people with large credit balance, or option to use them for PBS money.
The changes
Bigger wish list - not something I really need.
Friends able to see reminder list and post the books to you - I don't necessarly want those book right now. When I printed it the reminder list was 50 pages long.
Changing to "Directed Delivery - When multiple copies of a book you order are available, we’ll determine the most expedient route to you."
I've seen no relationship between how far a book has had to travel and how fast it makes the trip. Media mail is handled low priority. The routes can be quite amusing to watch when the shipper has done the PBS postage and you can watch the little truck. I've had things from near by states take a long time, while other books rush in from the coast. So I see no advantage to it. In FIFO eventually I'll move to #1. Under the new system my book will be requested if I happen to be the closest one. My transaction maps shows a lot of action on the east coast, now those request would go first to the other members on the coast.
Some say it still saves money, some doesn't.
For me it wasn't saving me money. Before PBS I mostly got my books from the library. Only buying a few keepers.
My thoughts on the change:
Not enough notice. 2 weeks if you were in the first batch notified.
No notice on the home page.
Bad job communicating, needed a link on the home page.
No "grandfathering" for people with large credit balance, or option to use them for PBS money.
The changes
Bigger wish list - not something I really need.
Friends able to see reminder list and post the books to you - I don't necessarly want those book right now. When I printed it the reminder list was 50 pages long.
Changing to "Directed Delivery - When multiple copies of a book you order are available, we’ll determine the most expedient route to you."
I've seen no relationship between how far a book has had to travel and how fast it makes the trip. Media mail is handled low priority. The routes can be quite amusing to watch when the shipper has done the PBS postage and you can watch the little truck. I've had things from near by states take a long time, while other books rush in from the coast. So I see no advantage to it. In FIFO eventually I'll move to #1. Under the new system my book will be requested if I happen to be the closest one. My transaction maps shows a lot of action on the east coast, now those request would go first to the other members on the coast.
Some say it still saves money, some doesn't.
For me it wasn't saving me money. Before PBS I mostly got my books from the library. Only buying a few keepers.
