It’s the new year and time to write a list of resolutions that you will undoubtedly follow for about a month and then procrastinate over for the next 11 months. Whether it’s joining the gym, dumping your partner or quitting your job.. it’s February – had any joy so far?
Maybe a slightly easier step to make is to sell all of your old DVD/CDs that your mum, partner or whoever, has been asking you to get rid of for the past god knows how many years. Apparently it’s tat, but please…how can a limited edition copy of Shed Seven’s Maximum High ever be called tat?! However, if you haven’t listened to that Now album in six years, wouldn’t it be an idea to get rid of it before physical media is completely worthless?
Source:Official WebsiteOnce you have decided what you are willing to let go of, what is the best site to use? Who offers the best price and how easy is it to send off your stock? There are various sites like Musicmagpie.co.uk, Zapper.co.uk and Ziffit.com who offer a similar free postage service and allow you to trade a variety of different media. Zapper even has an easy to use app where you just scan the bar code using your phone. But most of these sites offer ridiculously poor prices. For example, comparing Arcade Fire’s latest album Reflektor that cost around £9.99 just a year ago, the price currently offered can range from £1.71 on Musicmagpie up to £2.16 on Zapper. If you go for a slightly older album like Noah & The Whale’s excellent Last Night On Earth that cost £7.99 in 2013, the price can be as low as 24p on Zapper and 39p on Ziffit. As for classic albums like No Doubt’s best seller Tragic Kingdom you can be offered as little as 19p with Ziffit and up to 30p with Musicmagpie. To be fair most of your amazing collection you have worked so hard on, will probably be worth less than 10p a unit.
Source:Official WebsiteIs it worth it? It’s obviously down to how much you care about the product and if you don’t mind losing 95% of what you originally purchased for the CD. After comparing over 50 CDs the best site for cash is Webuydvds.co.uk who on average seem to give the best value. Arcade Fire’s Reflektor is bought at £2.39 and Noah and the Whales’ Last Night On Earth is 46p – nearly double the price than other online buyers. If the price of a CD exceeds more than a pound, then it’s worth checking on its price on Ebay.co.uk or Amazon.co.uk as that usually means it’s an ‘in demand’ album that you can sell for a lot more on their sites.
Another decent shout is Cex.co.uk. The site maybe less user-friendly as you can’t type in a bar code so be careful that you are looking at the right version of your cd and not a limited edition version .This can be harder when they don’t have a lot of album images available. But what Cex does offer is a chance to trade your goods for instore/online vouchers where they can sometimes double the cash price. I traded in 20 DVDs in exchange for an Xbox One game.
So once you have given yourself a minimum selling fee, open Webuydvds, Cex and Ebay and compare how much you get on each site. Like me you may find yourself scratching your head at some of the random pricing, but the more a site has in stock the less they will buy for it, so a random album that you forgot you even bought will sell for more than say a Snow Patrol album. It’s a decent way to eat up a Sunday afternoon and nice little earner.
Make sure that you have some spare cardboard boxes as most sites will pay for the postage but they wont offer a means of transporting them and any cracked/scratched discs will be returned to you. They are pretty evil with this, if they have an excuse to not pay for it, they wont.
Finally with all that new space you now have a place for pictures of your loved ones – lovely.
