Turn unwanted CDs into cash

[Wozza]

I have 1000s of unwanted CDs at home.

Been meaning to do a car boot sale for years, but can't be arsed dealing with CHAVS.

eBay/Amazon marketplace etc not worth hassle as you'd have to send one out at a time. Zzzzzzzz.

Anyway, just been recommended this amazing site/service...

Selling your music CDs DVDs and games? Sell for cash the best prices paid

You enter ISBN number and it gives you a quote for each CD (or DVD/game). They supply postage page envelopes too.

This is how it valued four CDs sitting in the office:

Radiohead - Airbag/How Am I Driving? £0.91
Roni Size - New Forms £0.30
Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'N' Roll £1.80
Various Artists - XFM Presents This Is Music £0.50

We reckon 50p a CD would have been acceptable, so this looks like a WINNER to me.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Thats very good!

 

[Uncle C]

Excellent site. I've got quite a few redundant CDs and it saves messing with e bay and paypal.

 

[Pablo]

Brilliant site! Was just thinking of selling some CD's, cheers Wozza!

 

[Mellotron]

Quality, will be using this.

 

[wizo7]

cheers for this mate...have loads of unwanted CD's

 

[Skint Gull]

This isn't having a go at anyone cos obviously it appeals to a lot of people but I don't really get the idea of selling CD's? How can getting less than a quid for each CD be worth bothering with?

Selling say 200 CD's that have cost you somewhere between £1000 to £2000 for less than £200 seems a bit pointless to me. I've still yet to find a copied CD that sounds as good as an original on a decent system.

 

[Pablo]

This isn't having a go at anyone cos obviously it appeals to a lot of people but I don't really get the idea of selling CD's? How can getting less than a quid for each CD be worth bothering with?

Selling say 200 CD's that have cost you somewhere between £1000 to £2000 for less than £200 seems a bit pointless to me. I've still yet to find a copied CD that sounds as good as an original on a decent system.

I have my laptop hooked up to my sound system and with having all my music on said laptop, my CD collection has become a bit dusty to say the least! I will be keeping the odd few, but rather than let the others rot away I may as well make some money!

 

[Highfields Seagull]

This isn't having a go at anyone cos obviously it appeals to a lot of people but I don't really get the idea of selling CD's? How can getting less than a quid for each CD be worth bothering with?

Selling say 200 CD's that have cost you somewhere between £1000 to £2000 for less than £200 seems a bit pointless to me. I've still yet to find a copied CD that sounds as good as an original on a decent system.

Personally, I've got loads of duplicate CDs cluttering up the house - they were in both mine and the missus' separate collections.

 

[Wozza]

This isn't having a go at anyone cos obviously it appeals to a lot of people but I don't really get the idea of selling CD's? How can getting less than a quid for each CD be worth bothering with?

Selling say 200 CD's that have cost you somewhere between £1000 to £2000 for less than £200 seems a bit pointless to me. I've still yet to find a copied CD that sounds as good as an original on a decent system.

Because I only cherish 10% or so of my collection (which I'll keep).

As for the rest, space and cash is more important than sound quality.

 

[Mellotron]

Because all my music is copied onto an external hard drive, my cds are completely useless to me. Might as well get £300 odd for them.

Also Copied CDs sound EXACTLY as good as original CDs if they're burned at the same speed.

 

[Uncle C]

I've still yet to find a copied CD that sounds as good as an original on a decent system.

Keep looking then. If a CD is copied using EAC software (Exact Audio Copy) on to a hard drive as a wav file, then no info is lost.

Better still if you can play direct from the hard drive via say a firewire connection to a dedicated DAC using software shown to eradicate jitter then this will improve the sound over any top end CD player I know.

 

[Uncle C]

Because all my music is copied onto an external hard drive, my cds are completely useless to me.

Hope you've got your collection backed up. Its a painful experience loosing you entire CD collection in one hit.

 

[Wozza]

I have double backup, inc one hard disk at my parents' house. </anal>

 

[Skint Gull]

Guess I'm just Old School then but I'd rather have the actual CD that I could play on any device I wanted at any time

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I have 1000s of unwanted CDs at home.

Been meaning to do a car boot sale for years, but can't be arsed dealing with CHAVS.

eBay/Amazon marketplace etc not worth hassle as you'd have to send one out at a time. Zzzzzzzz.

Anyway, just been recommended this amazing site/service...

Selling your music CDs DVDs and games? Sell for cash the best prices paid

You enter ISBN number and it gives you a quote for each CD (or DVD/game). They supply postage page envelopes too.

This is how it valued four CDs sitting in the office:

Radiohead - Airbag/How Am I Driving? £0.91
Roni Size - New Forms £0.30
Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'N' Roll £1.80
Various Artists - XFM Presents This Is Music £0.50

We reckon 50p a CD would have been acceptable, so this looks like a WINNER to me.

I'd give you £2 for the Sabbath if its good nick.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Because all my music is copied onto an external hard drive, my cds are completely useless to me. Might as well get £300 odd for them.

Also Copied CDs sound EXACTLY as good as original CDs if they're burned at the same speed.

I'd still miss my record collection though. Getting a load of mates round and playing music just aint the same with mp3s.

 

[Uncle C]

Guess I'm just Old School then but I'd rather have the actual CD that I could play on any device I wanted at any time

Thats a good point, but most of my alternative listening devices (PC, car etc) are not that fussy about sound quality.

 

[Skint Gull]

Thats a good point, but most of my alternative listening devices (PC, car etc) are not that fussy about sound quality.

That's just it, my car has a mint BOSE system and although most birds wouldn't pick up on it, there's a distinct difference between an original and a copied CD in terms of the quality.

 

[Wozza]

I'd give you £2 for the Sabbath if its good nick.

No, because it's not worth my time sending it out.

Also, it's not actually mine...