Selling cds

missile

I had a large collection of Computer games, DVDs and CDs. It was quite onerous to photograph each item and list on eBay and Gumtree. I had very poor response. Sold a few items, but it was not worth my time & effort. I probably spend most of the profit on fuel taking the items to my nearest Post Office.

I was pleased to sell the rest to Music Magpie.

Compo88

I managed to sell half of my 300 CD collection at a car boot sale. Then sold the rest as a job lot on Gumtree. I was pleased with cash I got for them :-)

EdwardB

Copy them to a PC and then move them from garage to attic!!

Not a good idea to put them on auction, it is time sensitive.

You need a buyer who is looking for your specific CD and if it is not available they they pay.

You might bundle them in 5 or 10 by genre, stick them up at £10 to £30 on a 30 day buy it now, ebay costs you 15% of total inc postage with paypal.

The only person willing to pay is going to be a collector.

Gumtree, owned by ebay, is free to list

With your effort I would ask myself "is this worth my time"

Freecycle.org can be used to give them away.

bxboards

I have a pretty large CD collection and I like to have an actual tangible product whether it be books or CDs etc. Music Magpie is great for buyers, but must be horrendous to sell to if they can post an item out for about 1.20-1.50 ish. They must literally be paying pennies?

I've bought 3 or 4 CDs from Ebay over the last month, and have paid around 1.80 to 2.40 on average, these were from private sellers.

Personally I would not be dumping my CD collection - everyone did that with their record collection, and buy them back at silly prices now, when all they are are digital files pressed to vinyl nowadays. They'd been better off sticking with the original anologue records.

SpammyTheSpammer

Yes
Chuck them in the bin

Green_hopeful

I use Music magpie to check if they are worth anything. If they come up as 50 pence or more on music magpie I check them on eBay and list them individually. The rest go to Music Magpie and I am ok to let them go. The last time I did this with a mix of CDs and DVDs I got £17 for 100 from Music Magpie and another £60 for selling about 10 on ebay. The ebay ones mostly go quickly. Listing low value items on eBay is not worth the bother.

mirko

Gladly sold approx 100 CDs to music magpie for £18.03 last week.
Way less than I paid for them. But I hadn't listened to them for years so why am I keeping them? Probably happier to remove the clutter than I was to receive the cash.

EdwardB

Green_hopeful wrote: »

I use Music magpie to check if they are worth anything. If they come up as 50 pence or more on music magpie I check them on eBay and list them individually. The rest go to Music Magpie and I am ok to let them go. The last time I did this with a mix of CDs and DVDs I got £17 for 100 from Music Magpie and another £60 for selling about 10 on ebay. The ebay ones mostly go quickly. Listing low value items on eBay is not worth the bother.

Thanks for informative post.

Out of interest what sort got decent money on eBay?

When you consider your effort for MM and getting just 17p a disk I would rather give them away on Freecycle or donate to local charity shop, real eye opener.

I guess it depends on how you value your time.

My attitude to putting stuff on ebay is to first run it on ebay in case someone just happens to come along, then same thing for a month on ebay on a buy it now.

I have an ebay account where I donate everything to charity, you actually have to donate at around 80% with tax declaration to cover paypal fees and postage. I managed to donate over £1200 which felt good.

Freecycle is so practical for stuff you can't sell, no downloading of an app to scan cd's, just put up an ad, choose someone and arrange a time.

Worrierwalker

Maybe your local charity shop would take them. I also find at car boot sales people love going through cds . I've sold several that way at 50p-£1 a time.

Soulpride

I've had great results using the marketplace on Discogs.com. This is only a good option if you're happy for them to trickle away over a period of time, not if you want to get rid of them all immediately.

Decent website, app, has a barcode reader so relatively painless building your inventory.
Tells you the median average selling price for any CDs/records etc based on sales data when youre adding anything to the marketplace. So an incredibly easy way to ascertain the market value of your CDs. And you're selling to a global community of music lovers.

Once they're on sale they're up forever, you don't have to keep relisting. Just put them up and forget until someone orders them.

Discogs takes 8% fee, and you have paypal fees on top of that.
I had ~75 CDs to sell, it took about a year for them all to go, I easily cleared £100 after fees. In comparison music magpie offered me about £20 for the lot (and that was with some 30 DVDs thrown in).

I'd say if you're on the fence about selling your CD collection do it as soon as possible though, the value of CDs will keep going down except in some VERY rare cases. There will be no resurgence like there has been with vinyl records, for multiple reasons which I can't be arsed to type out

Cheers and good luck