is it worth trying to sell used DVD/ CD cases on eBay?

Spoonie_Turtle

Emmia said:

soolin said:

Emmia said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

If feasible maybe you could advertise them for free on Facebook marketplace, local Facebook groups, Olio, maybe even Gumtree?

Or depending on where you live, maybe leaving them outside with a sign 'free empty cases, please help yourself'?

[ - The question marks are to indicate that I don't know whether any of those are feasible for you, not indicating that they are questions expecting a response.]

(In the past a library might even have taken them to replace any damaged cases, but maybe not now.  Our local library didn't even want thin cardboard for their children's craft activities in the school holidays.)

This is really fly tipping.

I know you're trying to re-home the cases, but just leaving them outside (note or no note) isn't really disposing of them properly.

I don’t think it was suggested that they just be left abandoned. It is very common where I live in a big town to leave things at the end of the drive, or edge of front garden with a note to help yourself. I’ve moved on quite a few things that way, large toys, household items, even some handbags, in fact if it stays dry I’ll be doing the same again next week as my charity shops rarely take donations now.

I’ve also taken acquired a few things this way, a lovely little desk that just fits in the hobby room, a tool trolley and several large garden toys, plus all manner of plants, indoor type and outdoor. 

I live in London and the same thing happens, our council has fined people for flytipping for doing just this.

Could it depend on where exactly they were left?  E.g. on the public pavement vs at the edge (but still inside the boundaries) of one's property?

soolin

Emmia said:

soolin said:

Emmia said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

If feasible maybe you could advertise them for free on Facebook marketplace, local Facebook groups, Olio, maybe even Gumtree?

Or depending on where you live, maybe leaving them outside with a sign 'free empty cases, please help yourself'?

[ - The question marks are to indicate that I don't know whether any of those are feasible for you, not indicating that they are questions expecting a response.]

(In the past a library might even have taken them to replace any damaged cases, but maybe not now.  Our local library didn't even want thin cardboard for their children's craft activities in the school holidays.)

This is really fly tipping.

I know you're trying to re-home the cases, but just leaving them outside (note or no note) isn't really disposing of them properly.

I don’t think it was suggested that they just be left abandoned. It is very common where I live in a big town to leave things at the end of the drive, or edge of front garden with a note to help yourself. I’ve moved on quite a few things that way, large toys, household items, even some handbags, in fact if it stays dry I’ll be doing the same again next week as my charity shops rarely take donations now.

I’ve also taken acquired a few things this way, a lovely little desk that just fits in the hobby room, a tool trolley and several large garden toys, plus all manner of plants, indoor type and outdoor. 

I live in London and the same thing happens, our council has fined people for flytipping for doing just this.

I’d like to see them try and fine me for leaving my things on my property? That would imply that my car parked on my drive is also liable to a fine if I put a for sale sign on it? 

A brave neighbour in an adjoining road (brave because we get a lot of casual theft here) has those light up reindeer on her front lawn, I imagine the press would have a field day if that resulted in a fine, or my neighbour down the road who has a fox safe box and gets those milk and more type deliveries several times a week. 

Emmia

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Emmia said:

soolin said:

Emmia said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

If feasible maybe you could advertise them for free on Facebook marketplace, local Facebook groups, Olio, maybe even Gumtree?

Or depending on where you live, maybe leaving them outside with a sign 'free empty cases, please help yourself'?

[ - The question marks are to indicate that I don't know whether any of those are feasible for you, not indicating that they are questions expecting a response.]

(In the past a library might even have taken them to replace any damaged cases, but maybe not now.  Our local library didn't even want thin cardboard for their children's craft activities in the school holidays.)

This is really fly tipping.

I know you're trying to re-home the cases, but just leaving them outside (note or no note) isn't really disposing of them properly.

I don’t think it was suggested that they just be left abandoned. It is very common where I live in a big town to leave things at the end of the drive, or edge of front garden with a note to help yourself. I’ve moved on quite a few things that way, large toys, household items, even some handbags, in fact if it stays dry I’ll be doing the same again next week as my charity shops rarely take donations now.

I’ve also taken acquired a few things this way, a lovely little desk that just fits in the hobby room, a tool trolley and several large garden toys, plus all manner of plants, indoor type and outdoor. 

I live in London and the same thing happens, our council has fined people for flytipping for doing just this.

Could it depend on where exactly they were left?  E.g. on the public pavement vs at the edge (but still inside the boundaries) of one's property?

The items were on the pavement and a wall marking the property boundary. I presume the pavement items attracted the fine.  But it's a fine line..  if a stack of cd cases blew/was knocked over onto the pavement that were on the edge of someone's property that would be littering. 

These are redundant CD cases so could be seen as rubbish. 

GDB2222

Spoonie_Turtle said:

If feasible maybe you could advertise them for free on Facebook marketplace, local Facebook groups, Olio, maybe even Gumtree?

Or depending on where you live, maybe leaving them outside with a sign 'free empty cases, please help yourself'?

[ - The question marks are to indicate that I don't know whether any of those are feasible for you, not indicating that they are questions expecting a response.]

(In the past a library might even have taken them to replace any damaged cases, but maybe not now.  Our local library didn't even want thin cardboard for their children's craft activities in the school holidays.)

Nooooooooooooooo! Never advertise anything free on Facebook. It attracts every insane, time wasting idiot on the internet. Advertise for a low price and allow yourself to be beaten down to nothing as long as they take all of them.

soolin

Emmia said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Emmia said:

soolin said:

Emmia said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

If feasible maybe you could advertise them for free on Facebook marketplace, local Facebook groups, Olio, maybe even Gumtree?

Or depending on where you live, maybe leaving them outside with a sign 'free empty cases, please help yourself'?

[ - The question marks are to indicate that I don't know whether any of those are feasible for you, not indicating that they are questions expecting a response.]

(In the past a library might even have taken them to replace any damaged cases, but maybe not now.  Our local library didn't even want thin cardboard for their children's craft activities in the school holidays.)

This is really fly tipping.

I know you're trying to re-home the cases, but just leaving them outside (note or no note) isn't really disposing of them properly.

I don’t think it was suggested that they just be left abandoned. It is very common where I live in a big town to leave things at the end of the drive, or edge of front garden with a note to help yourself. I’ve moved on quite a few things that way, large toys, household items, even some handbags, in fact if it stays dry I’ll be doing the same again next week as my charity shops rarely take donations now.

I’ve also taken acquired a few things this way, a lovely little desk that just fits in the hobby room, a tool trolley and several large garden toys, plus all manner of plants, indoor type and outdoor. 

I live in London and the same thing happens, our council has fined people for flytipping for doing just this.

Could it depend on where exactly they were left?  E.g. on the public pavement vs at the edge (but still inside the boundaries) of one's property?

The items were on the pavement and a wall marking the property boundary. I presume the pavement items attracted the fine.  But it's a fine line..  if a stack of cd cases blew/was knocked over onto the pavement that were on the edge of someone's property that would be littering. 

These are redundant CD cases so could be seen as rubbish. 

That’s different, where I live people leave things on their own property, not on the pavement. With the handbags I recycled I had a large but shallow box (a fruit box )  , I put them in there , as I will with the small toys etc that I’ll be recycling next week. The green fingered plant person that does such lovely plants has a small table (with a sign saying please leave the table) and that sits on her property with the plants above and below it. 

I keep a couple of nice clean fruit boxes just for this purpose as I recycle a lot this way as I’m on a busy walkway to 2 primary schools and a church. The glass vases , tea sets and bowls I recycle go well with the church people, the odds and ends, toys, bags, small ornaments etc go well with the school parents. 

soolin

GDB2222 said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

If feasible maybe you could advertise them for free on Facebook marketplace, local Facebook groups, Olio, maybe even Gumtree?

Or depending on where you live, maybe leaving them outside with a sign 'free empty cases, please help yourself'?

[ - The question marks are to indicate that I don't know whether any of those are feasible for you, not indicating that they are questions expecting a response.]

(In the past a library might even have taken them to replace any damaged cases, but maybe not now.  Our local library didn't even want thin cardboard for their children's craft activities in the school holidays.)

Nooooooooooooooo! Never advertise anything free on Facebook. It attracts every insane, time wasting idiot on the internet. Advertise for a low price and allow yourself to be beaten down to nothing as long as they take all of them.

Tell me about it, I’ve moaned several times on here about my own experiences hence me now tending to use the ‘help yourself’ method. I think people ask for these free things and because it’s free they don’t really care about mucking the ‘seller’ around. I know on social media there’s all sorts of viral posts (mainly US stories) one of which is of someone moaning that they wanted something else added to the free item to make it worth their while collecting, and I’ve actually had this happen to me. I replaced my printer with a different one which was smaller and had more functions, the new printer didn’t come with one of the leads so I kept the one from the old printer. I clearly mentioned that in advert and had several people ask for the printer and when I reminded them they would need to buy a lead if they didn’t have one, became quite unpleasant as I was wasting their time, one person even demanded I either go and buy a cable to replace it or give them enough money to buy one themselves. I removed the advert and just put the printer on my drive, with a note saying this cable wasn’t in the box, and it went in a few hours. 

dinosaur66

where i live i throw away a black refuse sack of old cds and dvds everyweek

and alternate weeks i use the pink refuse bags and equally in all of them will be dvd and cd cases

never had any left by the refuse collector 

i have at least a thousand bradley walsh brand new and sealed cds and same in dvds from keep fit type dvds all new and sealed from singles to doubles and trebles and anything i sell on ebay or discogs secondhand gets put in a brand new case and the old case gets thrown in the bin.

never would attempt to sell them as 99% of dvds even with films in are worthless  

dvds that do not sell on ebay that i get in bulk i take to a homeless dvd /cd charity shop in brentwood that just specialises in media

GDB2222

soolin said:

GDB2222 said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

If feasible maybe you could advertise them for free on Facebook marketplace, local Facebook groups, Olio, maybe even Gumtree?

Or depending on where you live, maybe leaving them outside with a sign 'free empty cases, please help yourself'?

[ - The question marks are to indicate that I don't know whether any of those are feasible for you, not indicating that they are questions expecting a response.]

(In the past a library might even have taken them to replace any damaged cases, but maybe not now.  Our local library didn't even want thin cardboard for their children's craft activities in the school holidays.)

Nooooooooooooooo! Never advertise anything free on Facebook. It attracts every insane, time wasting idiot on the internet. Advertise for a low price and allow yourself to be beaten down to nothing as long as they take all of them.

Tell me about it, I’ve moaned several times on here about my own experiences hence me now tending to use the ‘help yourself’ method. I think people ask for these free things and because it’s free they don’t really care about mucking the ‘seller’ around. I know on social media there’s all sorts of viral posts (mainly US stories) one of which is of someone moaning that they wanted something else added to the free item to make it worth their while collecting, and I’ve actually had this happen to me. I replaced my printer with a different one which was smaller and had more functions, the new printer didn’t come with one of the leads so I kept the one from the old printer. I clearly mentioned that in advert and had several people ask for the printer and when I reminded them they would need to buy a lead if they didn’t have one, became quite unpleasant as I was wasting their time, one person even demanded I either go and buy a cable to replace it or give them enough money to buy one themselves. I removed the advert and just put the printer on my drive, with a note saying this cable wasn’t in the box, and it went in a few hours. 

I remember putting a fully functioning laser printer on the grass in front of the house. With toner and all leads. Within 30 minutes someone had decided to open it up in a way that it wasn’t possible to open it. They then left it, smashed, and I put it in the bin. 

RFW

soolin said:

GDB2222 said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

If feasible maybe you could advertise them for free on Facebook marketplace, local Facebook groups, Olio, maybe even Gumtree?

Or depending on where you live, maybe leaving them outside with a sign 'free empty cases, please help yourself'?

[ - The question marks are to indicate that I don't know whether any of those are feasible for you, not indicating that they are questions expecting a response.]

(In the past a library might even have taken them to replace any damaged cases, but maybe not now.  Our local library didn't even want thin cardboard for their children's craft activities in the school holidays.)

Nooooooooooooooo! Never advertise anything free on Facebook. It attracts every insane, time wasting idiot on the internet. Advertise for a low price and allow yourself to be beaten down to nothing as long as they take all of them.

Tell me about it, I’ve moaned several times on here about my own experiences hence me now tending to use the ‘help yourself’ method. I think people ask for these free things and because it’s free they don’t really care about mucking the ‘seller’ around. I know on social media there’s all sorts of viral posts (mainly US stories) one of which is of someone moaning that they wanted something else added to the free item to make it worth their while collecting, and I’ve actually had this happen to me. I replaced my printer with a different one which was smaller and had more functions, the new printer didn’t come with one of the leads so I kept the one from the old printer. I clearly mentioned that in advert and had several people ask for the printer and when I reminded them they would need to buy a lead if they didn’t have one, became quite unpleasant as I was wasting their time, one person even demanded I either go and buy a cable to replace it or give them enough money to buy one themselves. I removed the advert and just put the printer on my drive, with a note saying this cable wasn’t in the box, and it went in a few hours. 

Our local Facebook group seems to have everyone well trained, so we (mostly my wife) use that rather than marketplace. We've had a few things to give away and arrange collection. We usually just leave them in the porch in a bag/box and tell them to pick them up. Non collection is quite rare.