SwapaDVD

I've only been a member for about a month, but thus far I am delighted with the service and the extensive collections available for the devoted movie buff. Before now I had shelves full of dvds which I had no hope of trading or selling, as the secondary sales market is so poor. But now I have traded over 40 films and have received about 15 so far, with many more listed as "Wish List" items that I will receive when those ahead of me in the cue have been fulfilled. Altogether a great find!

I previously had great experience with Swap a DVD. My only problem is I forgot my password and could not get into my account. What I like, is I can access the features to move credits between paperbackswap and swapadvd accounts. Took a while but they got me fixed up. Hopefully the old war movies my husband wanted will arrive and make him happy. I got a couple for myself too.

I send out a bible audio with 8 audio dvds and I got only 2 credits. I emailed the founder of the site and asked a simply question as why did i get only 2 credits for sending out 80 dvds the next time i logged in they said i couldnt login there was a problem with my account. Why is that most all the dvds and books i mailed out was new and i send them out the same or next day

I mailed out a brand new expensive Blu-Ray/DVD set which they claim was "lost in the mail" and they refuse to give me credits for it! I even sent them a receipt as proof that I mailed the package. They are rip off and will not give credits as promised! Do not trust this company! Now I gave away this brand new Blu-Ray and received nothing for it!

They feel free to take any credits you've accumulated and are arrogant, uncaring and unprofessional if you try to communicate with them. They want you to refer people to their site, but if you refer a lot of people (as I did), they will flag your account and steal your credits. They don't take responsibility and don't care if you've been a long standing good member. If you have any credits with this site or their sister sites SwapaCD or PaperbackSwap, you should use your credits as soon as possible, while you still have them, and get out before they rob you!

I ordered sets never got them and swap froze my account took my money and my credits and froze them. Said they have the right its in the fine print you agree to and they give you nothing. Half the dvds i got were damaged still worked but damaged and now im out 24 credits and over 100.00 that i paid in shipping cost. Bad site no help to the customer total rip off

I joined a long time ago and have personally mailed out over 1400 dvds and recieved over 1200. I have almost never had a problem and any issues I have encountered have been quickly resolved. I disagree with every bad review on here. I have received a bunch of new releases and been on the wait list for others. I find the members to be honest and appreciative... respectfully. The club works because we make it work.
I do not think anyone giving a chance and being honest and realistic could possibly have a negative thing to say!

SwapaDVD is an engaging site for people who love movies and like to trade. They have good protections against pirated copies, a very complete list of movies to add to one's wishlist, easy listing of DVDs to trade, mailing label printing, and social interaction functions. My main beef with them is that if you want something a little unusual, you might have to wait a long, long time or may never get it. Criterion DVDs rarely if ever come up for trade, naturally. Nonetheless, though I had to wait almost a year, I did get Zeffirelli's "Romeo & Juliet," and really all you have to do is list it and forget it. They send e-mails when the DVD is available. They have a book-trade and CD-trade site, but I haven't used them.

I love this site... ive been on it for almost a year and have never had a problem... in fact today I just got 12 years a slave for free... and that movie has only been out a few weeks... I was number one of 102 people on the waiting list... I have never had any dvd I mailed out get lost in the mail... I have received box sets and sent out box sets... I got rid of a lot of movies that I couldn't have gotten much for on ebay... great site and its not a scam

I started just about 2 months ago and find this to be an excellent site. When I listed my first 10 DVDs, I got 2 requests. I used my 2 credits to receive 2 DVDs and they came within a few days. The requests for my DVDs has slowed. But I find if I post a new listing, it brings to the forefront and folks might see my old list. By posting every few weeks, I get at least one request. So I suggest spacing out your listing after the initial 10. The cost for sending one DVD is $2.07 or you buy postage from SwapDVD to mail without going to the post office. It's the cheapest way to own a DVD/Blu-ray but sometimes you need patience to wait for the more popular DVDs.

Swap-A-DVD is a great idea, unfortunately, the way it plays out is not good. Simply put - no matter how cheap and readily available a dvd may be in the world of internet retail, you will NEVER get it from Swap-A-DVD. I say this as someone who sent out TWENTY-FIVE dvd's after joining six months ago. Since then, I've received ONE lousy dvd - a public domain version of Bob Hope's Son of Paleface, which I could have bought on Amazon.com or eBay for 3-4 dollars. Granted, most of the dvd I sent out were not especially rare or expensive, but at least half of my list is made up of things that are readily in print and selling at very low prices online. Swap members simply don't post anything even remotely valuable on the site. If you want to waste a lot of money and time - join up, post a bunch of dvds and then ship 'em out. Just don't expect to get anything in return. Think of it as a purely altruistic activity and you'll be a happy camper. Personally, I'd like my dvd's back. Swap-A-DVD blows.

May be an ok site but I won't be using it much because they only allow trading of Region 1 DVDs. So don't look to SwapADVD for titles that never got a Region 1 release or where one of the other region's releases have more features. Their reasoning appears to be "Studies have shown most pirated DVDs are not R1 encoded. Therefore, if we allowed them, we could be sued out of business because lawyers would argue we weren't taking sufficient measures to prevent piracy and were therefore promoting and profiting from piracy." Don't know if the problem is SwapADVD, the laws, or the enforcement of the laws, but here's their nicely worded version:

"SwapaDVD is unable to allow the barter or exchange of any imported DVDs that do not have a verifiable UPC and Region 1 (North America) encoding. Unfortunately, many imported DVDs that lack a UPC are illegal copies rather than legitimately produced titles. Likewise, many illegally produced DVDs have "Region 0" or "Region ALL" encoding allowing them to be played worldwide. If SwapaDVD allows trading of pirated DVDs, we are potentially liable for contributory copyright infringement, a risk we as a company are not willing to take. Because we have no way of verifying the authenticity of individual discs, we must insist that all imported DVDs traded here have both UPCs and Region 1 encoding. Your strict compliance with this policy is required to maintain your account status."

The main problem is not that it's a scam--which I do not think it is--but that in too many instances participants have unrealistic expectations, starting with the notion that there's anything FREE about it: If you already have the credits you can request a posted DVD, but even then there's a 50-cent-per handling fee; if one of yours is requested then you're obligated to pay $1 or more for the postage involved.

I've read complaints that DVDs sent were never received, and the sender was out the cost of postage plus the value of the DVD sent. Did the sender send it by Insured Mail? There's NO recourse from the USPS on ANY package that's lost in the mail if it wasn't insured by the sender--even if an additional dollar is paid for delivery confirmation. (And in the unlikely case that it was sent Insured, the RECIPIENT must file the claim). Since the sender suffers the loss, with no down side to the recipient--except not getting the wanted DVD--there's not much impetus for the recipient to go through the hassle of filing a claim--which is something that USPS regulations won't allow until 45 days have passed since sending--just so the sender (may eventually) get reimbursed.

As for broken DVDs: For garden seed! What can one expect if they follow the SwapaDVD instructions to use one sheet of paper and a piece of cereal-box cardboard as the mailing package just to save a few cents on postage! I ALWAYS send mine in the original DVD case, in a #5 bubble-wrap envelope, and as long as I've been a member I've never had a damaged-DVD report.

In summary, it's an on-line group worth belonging to... but you get what you pay for. If you want total protection from loss or damage in delivery, buy your DVD from eBay (at four or five times the cost)!