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Obviously you are going to want to have a redistribution center in the USA, since sending to Winnipeg introduces extra cost and delay for customers in the states.
The main problem was that when I tried to enter DVDs for trading, it was rare to get a DVD that I wanted to watch and was a fair trade. Now I'm picky, I will admit. I know what I want to watch and only have time for so many DVDs so I try to watch only the best.
For others, this might work a bit like the back rows of the video store, where you browse until you see something you might like.
Of course, you can only offer what you have in inventory using this system, so users need a way to list their inventory, and check back if a better selection of movies becomes available to match theirs from time to time. I don't want to have to type it in every time. (And there seems to be no way out, except aborting, once you start the trade process.)
TV DVDs are very popular. You ideally want a system which, like Netflix, understand the order of DVDs. When I trade in Season 2 of a show, I almost always want to trade it for season 3. It would be nice to automate this. Of course, the last season is trade for something more random, and likewise something random is traded for the first. Ditto for sequels. Of course an issue is that the more recent seasons are often more valuable (eBay or Peerflix price) than the older ones, and this can create an issue here.
My new personal desire is to include Region 2 PAL DVDs. They are higher resolution than our NTSC DVDs and have become readily available here, and it's also become much more common to be able to play them. Most modern DVD players have gone multiregion, and of course deCSS players are all multiregion.