Selling CDs and old phones

michaelaem

Does anyone have experience of selling CDs and old phones? Where is the best place to sell and are they trustworthy. I see a lot have caveats so I’m wondering if once they have your stuff they try to haggle?!

MalMonroe

MusicMagpie.

You tell them what you've got to sell, they'll offer you a price. You can accept or decline. If you accept, they'll email you a label, you pack up your stuff and then stick the label on the parcel and they will arrange to collect it. They don't charge for collection and it's all very safe during coronavirus times. 

I've used them a few times and have found them to be very honest and reliable. As soon as they get my stuff they pay into my paypal account. They don't haggle. If you don't like the price they quote you don't have to do anything.

Never had any trouble.  https://www.musicmagpie.co.uk/

lincroft1710

Posters on this Forum have had both good and not so good experiences with Music Magpie, but they seem to be definitely worth trying. Just remember that a lot of people are offloading CDs, so if MM already have a huge stock of your titles, they won't be offering much 

coffeehound

Music Magpie sell CDs on eBay, so you can see on there what things are actually selling for.  If you have the time, you could sell yours directly on eBay and get the market value, but it's a lot more work.

droopsnoot

lincroft1710 said:

Just remember that a lot of people are offloading CDs, so if MM already have a huge stock of your titles, they won't be offering much 

You're not wrong there - on a whim I put a few DVDs in the site just to see what I'm offered, and I don't think anything was more than a pound, box sets included. That said, I think CEX or perhaps Cash Converters were offering 1p each, regardless of what the title was, because they've got so many already. So better than that, but still not much.

Jenna_Appleseed

MalMonroe said:

MusicMagpie.

You tell them what you've got to sell, they'll offer you a price. You can accept or decline. If you accept, they'll email you a label, you pack up your stuff and then stick the label on the parcel and they will arrange to collect it. They don't charge for collection and it's all very safe during coronavirus times. 

I've used them a few times and have found them to be very honest and reliable. As soon as they get my stuff they pay into my paypal account. They don't haggle. If you don't like the price they quote you don't have to do anything.

Never had any trouble.  https://www.musicmagpie.co.uk/

Or if you're sending via Royal Mail, they email you a qr code that you have to scan at the post office and they'll print out a prepaid postage/address label.
eta: cex no longer accept cds.

puzzlecat

We recently sent CDs to Music Magpie and the amount received was less than quoted. We thoroughly inspected everything before sending so we knew there was no damage. On checking the list they had labelled several of the CDs as not being included - all of these CDs were definitely included and I immediately realised what the issue was - as part of the artwork the barcode in a different place on the cover, either along the spine or at the top of the back case. These were the most expensive of all the CDs we included and we had quite a few in a similar style as they were by the same artist. I was pretty annoyed as they obviously didn't bother putting the effort in and then lied... so I emailed and they immediately sent us the additional money. However I probably wouldn't bother again as I didn't feel like I trusted them after that! 

_theinsider

As above, a service like Music Magpie makes it easy, however, the amounts they offer are tiny. If you do have anything rare and get a half decent offer from them then most likely you can sell it on eBay for a much better price yourself. If you just want to get rid of a load of old stuff as easily as possible and want a bit of cash then Music Magpie or similar is the way to go.

ivtechcivic

Ebay. 
-Take pictures of the phones and cd from different angles and looking clear. 
-Make sure you put down the description based on any cracks, damages, scratches etc so buyers can be aware. 
-When sending the item via post, anything above £20 you should send as 2nd signed for.
-£15 and below can be 1st Class. If you are a new seller, you need to ensure everything is signed for delivery so you don't get ripped off or bullied.
-beware of fees once your item is sold. PayPal fee and Ebay fee! You sell an item for £10, you are likely to get back £7-8.
-to sell faster, click on Seller will pay for Postage so that delivery is free for buyer. Not favourable but sells your item faster

Emma_N

I watched a really useful comparison video on YouTube. I don't think I can post the link but search for 'Selling CDs to Music Magpie, Ziffit & others - How much do they pay?'

Coffeekup

My one time experience, read on if your interested... I had a vast collection of DVD's (300 ish) and a few cd's I no longer needed or wanted.
10 day's ago I sat down and download (on my phone) music magpie, zapper, ziffit and eBay to start scanning barcodes. My notes...

Music magpie bought the vast majority (around 60), but paid the worst of the 4.
Zapper bought around 40 dvds all in all and paid slightly better than MM.
Ziffit on the other hand paid the most, however they was only Interested in rarer stuff and they ended up with about 20 DVD's

eBay didn't want to seem to take anything so they got nothing.

I obviously sold the DVD's to the highest bidder, but there was alot of variances between the 3... MM would pay a penny for one, zapper would do 20p and ziffit stuck their neck out and went 38p this happened on numerous occasions.

Stupidly out of interest I typed the barcode number into the web page based versions of the apps and they paid on average a few pence more per DVD. So deleted my App baskets and did it through the website's (which looking back wasn't worth my time for 20-50p more per site.)

12 day's later.. what did I earn?
MM said they pay me £7.58, but actually paid me £7.35.
Zapper said £10.61 but still haven't been paid.
Ziffit said £10.82 but still haven't paid.

What about the other 150 DVD's you have?
60 or so will go to charity shops if and when they open up again. The rest according to eBay's sold/completed history sell for £2.50+ which after postage will make me a minimum of 80p+. Now I have the joyous task of listing them and waiting for them to sell.

EDIT: update - 26th of February : monies from ziffit and zapper have been the 25th and 26th, 16/17 days wait for it. They paid what they quoted too. I heard stories of people being underpaid so I checked and double checked conditions of DVD's and the case's before I packed and sent them off.