Best place to sell couple hundred used DVDs?

Kite2010

Bunnie1982 wrote: »

I personally wouldn't go through Music Magpie, considering they re-sell your items on Amazon and Play Trade anyway, you might as well just do it yourself and make more of the profit.

But if the DVD in question is selling for pennies on Amazon & Play Trade you make more profit selling to Magpie for 30p.

Try CEX as well, or if your town has a local cash generators/convertors it might be popping in there to see what they are offering.

mirko

soolin wrote: »

I recently delisted virtually all of my CDs and DVDs from Amazon and sold them to Music magpie for pennies. They had been listed for at least two years in some cases and every time i checked they were decreasing in price and I preferred cash in hand rather than hanging onto depreciating stock.

It's one of those things where the amount of effort you put into selling it will gain the best price.

I reckon you could get 50p-£1 for a DVD at a car boot, perhaps 40p on amazon, 30p on Music Magpie. *

First option you get wet and lose a whole day, second option means having more clutter in the house, third option gets them out of your hair right away.

* - prices are only illustrative, prices of DVDs can go down as well as... well, down.

wilykit

there's the cost of getting into the carboot and i don't think there are many on at this time of year? i went with music magpie purely for the convenience, i never used them so wasn't really losing out as they were sat there festering making no money anyway!

Crowqueen

I had remarkable success then on eBay but when I sold off a lot of mine I had a number of popular comedy series such as Porridge and Ab-Fab. The best seller was a collection of vintage Basil Brush which sold to Australia for £10 (I originally bought it in a fit of nostalgia for £3 on Amazon). However, I suspect if they are just run-of-the-mill films and suchlike they would be better sold to a dealership. I think I'd have to pay someone to get them to take My Dad's The Prime Minister off my hands, for instance.

The ones that DO usually sell are American TV series box sets - Star Trek, Lost, CSI etc. so they are worth listing and go for upwards of £5-£10. Do a look-through of both your own collection and completed prices first, because those big sets are worth it. I've bid on quite a number of them over the last six months and all of them I've had a lot of competition for. I always check Amazon for successive series of Deep Space Nine and the price sits around the £10-£15 mark, even secondhand.

I have had a copy of series 1 of Drop the Dead Donkey sitting on eBay for a month though. I'll try selling it again after New Year, see whether I can sell it, otherwise I'll probably donate it to Oxfam or something like that.

C-C_3

I usually check prices on Amazon (remember you get your postage credit as well) and any that wont make anything go to boot sale

anxious_mum

I had about 100 DVDs that I wanted to get rid of (for the space) and a load of books too. I went to the local car boot sale, and before I had even managed to get the DVDs out of the car, a bloke offered me £80 for the lot! Obviously, he has a weekly stall there and is happy to stand there freezing his rocks off every week, and would probably have made three times what he paid over a long time period. I was well happy to take the cash and wave them bye bye! I made about £20 on some books and gave the rest to an old guy who had a weekly stall, just to get them off my hands. He was over the moon, bless him!

snoopydog2

this company buys your cds and dvds then sells them on amazon and play.com under the name of zoverstocks for a tidy profit. youd be better selling them yourself

melliott1963

snoopydog2 wrote: »

this company buys your cds and dvds then sells them on amazon and play.com under the name of zoverstocks for a tidy profit. youd be better selling them yourself

Well you didn't think they'd be giving them away did you?

The big advantage is that it saves all the hassle of listing hundreds of DVDs, many of which might not sell, plus the cost of hundreds of jiffy bags, and the trouble of many trips to the post office etc. You also won't get troublesome buyers claiming things never turned up, or saying they were damaged etc.

Personally, I'd rather take a bit of a hit on the cost, and get some of my life back!

iieee

Oh I wondered what musicmagpie did with it all. I've sold them a load of CDs and about to do the same with some DVDs. I am quite happy for them to make a profit on them. I could have made an extra 20p myself on ebay, but they saved me a whole lot of hassle and got rid of the clutter straight away and frankly I just don't have the time unless it's going to be a large amount of money to make it worth it!

EggAndChips

Your bin might be a start :rotfl: