Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Old CDs and DVDs to sell? Let Music Magpie swoop in and carry them off for cash
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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I just sold an X-box game of my son's at CeX up in Wood Green. They gave me £6 cash (though I could have had a bit more in exchange vouchers) and immediately stickered it for sale at £15! Not a bad mark-up.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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I agree with CF below. Nobody's old CDs are going to be melted down en mass for the plastic content.
There's only one possible reason that Music Magpie will buy these and that's because they know they have ready buyers elsewhere and they will make a turn (same with We Buy Any Car and gold jewelery buyers).
Selling direct to a private buyer (even via eBay) who wants them, should realise a better price.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fowler on
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If you sell stuff to Music Magpie or similar sites it will be easy, but you will get about a fifth, at best, of what you would get if you sold the same stuff yourself on Ebay. If you're just trying to shift a couple of old Best of Frankie Avalon CDs, OK. If you're clearing out 50 real CDs (even from such much-maligned bands as the Eagles), then sell them yourself on Ebay. It will provide you with a good wad of cash to buy all the Christmas trash that the supermarkets are already trying to ram down our throats. Which you can then sell on Ebay in January 2013....Doncha love recycling?
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Permalink Reply by Anette on
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The days of being able to get an ok price for CDs are over I'm afraid. I've got TONS of old Cds to sell, about 10 boxes I would love to get rid of. I have been thinking about giving this one a go, and I will once I get round to it.
Maybe I should have a car boot sale..?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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........or a HoL CD/DVD exchange night at the Salisbury/Garden Ladder? Mebbe link it to one of the film nights starting at The Salisbury soon?
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That's not a bad idea!! I'd perfer to sell mine though, it's nearly 20 years of working in the music industry there, and I just don't have the space! Exchanging it for more stuff is not ideal. If I can sell some, I'll be REALLY happy! Any chance the Salisbury will let me have a market night?
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I think Hugh's idea of a local exchange/trade/sell night for CDs (and maybe DVDs or those old videotapes?) would be good. Second-hand CDs are still worth something, but the only way, as I said before, to get a halfway decent price is to sell them yourself on Ebay. Or, Anette, if you have lots, get a seller account on Amazon and sell them there. Amazon will take a "cut" of about 15%, but in return you get a huge "shop window" in which to display your wares. If you want to see if it might be worthwhile, just go on Amazon, put in the names of some of the stuff you are offloading, and see what the prices are. And don't be put off by all those things on sale at one penny - you make the profit from the postage&packing charge. Same with books. As for not using any proceeds to get more stuff to take up space: surely you've transferred all the music you want from those CDs onto digital files, which don't take up any room?
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I don't find the Amazon marketplace to be very god for CDs. They don't go quickly, and its a pain in the arse to have to send them out. I'd rather sell in bulk for less money and less hassle.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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I read recently that the one penny sales on Amazon are from dealers who get better rates the more items they list - so it's worth their bulking out sales with zero- or low-profit items. The fixed postage, c £3, means they will usually make a small profit if they have a trade postage account.
And the mystery high prices - how do non-mint secondhand copies of books end up costing ten times more than new identical books? - is because of a weird auto algorithm where prices are repeatedly compared and slightly increased, between several copies of the same thing, and it spirals up to those odd rates.
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If you sell more than a certain number of items per month on Amazon, you can pay part of the cost (to Amazon, for their "cut") as a fixed monthly amount, so the more you sell (even at a penny, making your small profit from the postage and packing charge, which is fixed by Amazon) the more items you spread that cost over, and you can afford to sell books at a penny. I don't know about your other point about cost of secondhand copies. I suspect it just has to do with rarity. If a book is long out of print, and there are only one or two copies being offered for sale, then that will push up the price asked.
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