Selling a CD-R Album on Ebay

mobile48

I want to sell a CD-R copy of a platinum album on ebay.

I believe it was made before the Album was released and I assume came from a record company.

This is not however a promo release and is not a studio production release (i.e. something coming out of a record studio). Both of these are well collected and sold on ebay.

I will locate a copy of the album to compare but I suspect it will be identical.

Any idea how I can prove this was made before the release of the album?

soolin

mobile48 wrote: »

I want to sell a CD-R copy of a platinum album on ebay.

I believe it was made before the Album was released and I assume came from a record company.

This is not however a promo release and is not a studio production release (i.e. something coming out of a record studio). Both of these are well collected and sold on ebay.

I will locate a copy of the album to compare but I suspect it will be identical.

Any idea how I can prove this was made before the release of the album?

It doesn't matter when it was released, you can't sell it on ebay:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/recordable.html

Policy overview

Only copyright owners or persons authorised to sell the product by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law are permitted to list their products copied onto recordable media (includes items such as VHS tapes, audio tapes, CD-Rs, and DVD-Rs) on eBay. When you list any type of recordable media, you must state your copyright ownership or license to resell these items in your listings.
Make sure your listing follows these guidelines. If it doesn't, it may be removed, and you may be subject to a range of other actions, including limits of your buying and selling privileges and suspension of your account.

soolin

The point is rather laboured as further down on the same page it says:

If you buy an album or recording on eBay that was released by a local band on CD-R, you're not allowed to list the album on eBay even though the band released the album on CD-R, because you're not the copyright owner.

mobile48

Thanks.

I guess I better not call it a CD-R then

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Mrs_justjohn

I think you are asking for trouble by listing it in ebay....

mobile48

Thanks. I will do more research and decide if it is worth the trouble or not.

soolin

mobile48 wrote: »

Thanks. I will do more research and decide if it is worth the trouble or not.

I don't see why you aree ven thinking about it, it cannot be sold on ebay. End of story.