Do you have books, movies CDs or video games that feel snubbed — you know, the ones that you loved to death or never even liked to begin with, and then stuck on a shelf to collect dust?  Did you know that there is a social network dedicated to the welfare of your media?

Swap.com is essentially a social network dedicated to finding good homes for your unwanted books, movies, CDs and video games and connecting you with the items that you do want.

After sites like craigslist, Freecycle, and Netflix gained popularity, college friends Greg Boesel and Mark Hexamer created Swap.com in 2007 with the concept of peer-to-peer fair trade in mind.  Boesel and Hexamer, who both happen to be math whizzes, developed a system that places a value on an item as soon as it enters the Swap.com system.

Within 60 milliseconds, a Swap.com user can not only find out the value of his unwanted item, but find items with equal value from other users that his unwanted item can be traded for.

How Swap.com Works

• List the books, CDs, movies, and video games that you want to trade, noting its UPC code or ISBN and its condition.
• Swap.com will show you all of the items that you can receive.
• Once the other traders accept, the trade is complete.

Similar to useful up-and-coming sites like NeighborGoods.com, which assists users in finding local services and reviews, Swap.com’s mission is to help people satisfy their wants in a modern, resourceful way.  For $.50 to $1 per transaction you can satisfy a want (buying media you do want) and a need (getting rid of media that you don’t want).

Swap.com is the modern, eco-friendly and fair way to trade online.

The site gets a few bonus points for humor, too:

Items not available for swapping include: Your husband, your mother-in-law, the cat, anything in the box buried underneath your bed, and the 1970s green-and-orange fabric chair in your basement.