Glyde is an online marketplace for books, CDs, DVDs and video games. It pitches it as an easy site for sellers, but the trade-off may be profits. The idea is to avoid the depersonalization of big online retailers and here users can interact directly with each other. As a result, site users engage directly and the transactions that are carried benefit from the fact that the company offers pre-addressed and pre-stamped envelopes. There are also no fees for using the site, so that it is the users the ones who are getting the best deals indeed.
Glyde.com has a nice selection of products in a variety of genres. There is a drop down box that allows you to search products by genre or by game console. You can also click on “See All” so that you get a bookshelf view of these products rather than the ticker version.

This site is easy to use, both for buying and selling. If you’re looking for a title, simply click on “buy” and then search for the book or movie you’re looking for. But the truly wonderful thing about Glyde is how easy it is to sell your used books. Glyde radically simplifies the entire selling process from listing to payment. Anyone with access to the Internet and a mailbox can sell online in seconds by entering the title, selecting the image and clicking the condition.
Moreover, in  the inventory system, you can build your shelf of games and movies, and not only is it easily navigable and full of good info, but you can just flag anything as ’sell’ and it instantly goes into the site to be sold, for whatever price you set.
When you list an item for sale, there are no upfront fees. When the item is sold, Glyde gets 10% of the sale price plus the cost of a mailer. They send you a pre-addressed, pre-stamped Glyde mailer. You just put your sold item in the mailer and pop it in the mail within 24 hours


Another interesting wrinkle is that Glyde isn’t depending on eBay-style feedback from buyers to assess the quality of sellers. It can track whether the seller actually did ship on time, for example, and its algorithms can favor faster shippers in product listings

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Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 10:59 am | by Kur-nia-one |