Best place to sell games/DVDs?

Purleygirl

Yes car boot sales or an ad in your local supermarket or newsagent. Make the ad look eye catching and keep your phone switched on. Anyone coming over can see too if it works or not, sometimes puts people off at boot sales. Got rid of heaps of stuff from sticking ads in shop windows. Good luck.

dktreesea

blizeH wrote: »

Hi,

I'm hoping to have a big clearout of my old games, DVDs, blu rays etc but not sure where the best place is... from a quick look around I'd say:

Music Magpie - offers a very quick and easy service but consistently offers a very low amount for each item
Cex - great if you want to trade, but the cash values aren't great
Amazon/Play/Ebay - seems to be the best option in terms of the amount you get, though not sure if the hassle, plus fees/petrol/postage costs etc make it worthwhile

Which do you guys use? Ideally I want to get as much as possible, but if it involves a lot more hassle for a small amount of extra money (that a trip to the post office could easily negate) I may need to re-think and go with one of the easier options (ie Cex)

Thanks

Thanks for posting your thread. I had never heard of CeX until reading this thread. I've got games to sell. Some of the prices they buy for are better than what one could get on Amazon. And way better than what they would go for in the market.

mulberrytree

I would use eBay personally- sold loads of DVD bundles on there before.

I call it £2 per DVD, £3 per blu ray (£3 per DVD, £4 per blu ray if they are new releases) and then I send by courier (usually £8 or so insured) and they have always sold within 24 hours. Usually a bundle of £20/30

With games- search the game you want to sell and price match. For example if you are selling the Sims 3 and there is a copy on there for £6 with free postage- sell yours for £5.99 with free postage.

gb12345

obiwanzamora wrote: »

You can use spam.co.uk to compare trade in prices across dozens of retailers to find the best trade in price. You can even compare estimated sale value if you were to sell directly through Amazon, Ebay or Play.

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dl5543

WeBuyGames https://www.webuygames.co.uk is pretty good.

Smarter_and_harder

We've just done exactly this and had only heard of music magpie, but on a different thread we were recommended to also put the barcode into zumu.co.uk and ziffit.co.uk (I am not affiliated to any!).
It's a bit of a mission to pit the same barcode in three times on the different sites but a bit of patience and a lot of 'copy and paste' meant we got the best deal for each one. Some games and DVDs that would have got 35p on music magpie and 12p on zumu got £1.50 on ziffit, and that went three ways! Time consuming but worth it we found - we're 55 quid better off for it!
Good luck!

shabbadoof13

This area is making money can be a nice little back burner if you go to say car boots and pickup CDs/DVDs/Games for pennies

Kite2010

shabbadoof13 wrote: »

This area is making money can be a nice little back burner if you go to say car boots and pickup CDs/DVDs/Games for pennies

But it's selling those cheap CDs/DVDs/Games for a profit (and remember to declare the profit to the tax-man as your acting as a business buying to resell) which is the hardest part.

A rare CD/DVD/Game might be worth £25 on Amazon, but it might take months for it to sell if at all.

FinanciallyUnsavvy

I would urge anybody to check going rates on ebay and Amazon for their items - especially games - before trading them into Cex/Game/Music Magpie etc.

I'd generally avoid Music Magpie altogether. It may be the quickest way to do things, but with a bit of time to list your items on ebay you could make a LOT more money.

Sometimes the trade in prices of games in CeX/Game are reasonable and for the margin, its best to trade in rather than listing for sale online thanks to postage/fees etc., but sometimes you'll be surprised how much more you could get on ebay. There's quite a lot of games that hold their value, and if you're not so savvy with video games you may not realise just how sought after some games are. Always check ebay completed listing and Amazon marketplace listings before you agree to a 50p trade in price!!

Kite2010

FinanciallyUnsavvy wrote: »

I would urge anybody to check going rates on ebay and Amazon for their items - especially games - before trading them into Cex/Game/Music Magpie etc.

I'd generally avoid Music Magpie altogether. It may be the quickest way to do things, but with a bit of time to list your items on ebay you could make a LOT more money.

Sometimes the trade in prices of games in CeX/Game are reasonable and for the margin, its best to trade in rather than listing for sale online thanks to postage/fees etc., but sometimes you'll be surprised how much more you could get on ebay. There's quite a lot of games that hold their value, and if you're not so savvy with video games you may not realise just how sought after some games are. Always check ebay completed listing and Amazon marketplace listings before you agree to a 50p trade in price!!

Depends how urgently you want the money, ebay completed listings will give you a rough idea on the demand (if any are selling), but a game could be on Amazon marketplace for months without selling