Sellings CDs?
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I have a lot of CDs but wanting to sell some to get money towards clothes 
anyway decided on about 1/3 of them that i want to sell so about 100 cds i reckon.
Tried music magpie a few months ago but only got offered about 30p for most things and it seems a shame to sell them at that.
also with ebay most people offer free postage but if i put them up for say £2 each by the time i've got the packaging stuff and paid for ebay and to post them i'd probably be left with about 50p at the most.
not expecting to make a huge amount from used cds obviously but does anyone have any better ways to sell them than those sites?
thanks
anyway decided on about 1/3 of them that i want to sell so about 100 cds i reckon.
Tried music magpie a few months ago but only got offered about 30p for most things and it seems a shame to sell them at that.
also with ebay most people offer free postage but if i put them up for say £2 each by the time i've got the packaging stuff and paid for ebay and to post them i'd probably be left with about 50p at the most.
not expecting to make a huge amount from used cds obviously but does anyone have any better ways to sell them than those sites?
thanks
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I stopped buying CD's (gone to mp3) but I did keep all the old CD's in a wallet like this, simply as it wasn't worth selling them - threw away the cases to save space
http://www.internetbusinessmart.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/CD-wallet.jpg
That's right. I have a box of over 200 CDs which I never play (everything has been ripped) but when I have looked to sell them they really haven't been worth anything at all. What I have seen is people trying to sell their entire collection as a job lot on Ebay but even then you'll only get a few pence each for them. Something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Job-Lot-150-Top-Albums-Big-Names-All-Listed-/111469045395
It would probably be less hassle just to take the whole box down to a charity shop.
It will cost you more to get rid of them than is worth your hassle
Even if you left them outside your house for free some of them would never go
so assuming you have no 'rare' stuff you'd probably be better off buying mini clock motors and flogging them as decorative clocks
Also, I'm sure you will realise that if you sell the CD you'll need to delete any rip to mp3 you've done of them, or else you'll have the copyright theft people making a scary advert about you.
Bit of a step down...
unless you're an audiophile then the step down is minimal.
and if you are that much of an audiophile then CD is also not the preferred media either.
If you sell the CDs then surely your rips aren't technically legal?
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Technically speaking ripping the CDs to MP3 was illegal in the first place - such acts won't be legal until next Wednesday.
"The Copyright and Rights in Performances (Personal Copies for Private Use) Regulations 2014" was passed in July and comes into force October 1st 2014.
Yes but morally there really isn't anything wrong with this even now as long as the CDs have been paid for and still owned. It's completely different of course to rip them and then sell the CDs.
I wouldn't say I am an audiophile but I can notice the difference. I don't mind MP3 on a portable player but on room speakers I want a 'fuller' sound quality on music that I like.
Erm, morally nothing wrong with it except it was against the law. I know what you mean, the law was wrong and it was officially reviewed and found to be "unfit for purpose" and format shifting was found to be a "reasonable expectation" - this is why the law has been changed to something much more sensible from next week.
The bonus is, the law is back dated and makes any format shift copies you made previously now legal, just as long as they are within line of what would have been allowed had this new law been in place at the time.
And yes, the new law does specify that the source legal copy must be "permanently owned" by you - this rules out keeping copies of flogged CDs and also making copies from streaming services (so taping off the radio is still illegal).
In which case I'll just managed to err..."lose" the original CDs. If someone wants to give me some money for an something entirely unrelated then that up the them.
Yes, I know it is technically naughty but this kind of thing has been going on for decades. Even know you can go onto Amazon and download the MP3 version of an album for free for a CD which you may have bought a decade ago and don't currently own.
that's a pathetic attempt at trying to justify anything!
"but murder has been going on for decades, yes it's technically naughty but go on.. turn a blind eye just this time"
So everything you said in your post basically agrees with what I said? To summarise what I said: copying is okay if you've paid for the CD and have kept it but not okay if you sell the CD on.
Think yourself lucky, I have over 1000, now virtually worthless. All that money down the pan!>:(
If you want to live your life by those highest standards of the law and morals then that's up to you. I can only presume that you have never done anything even slightly illegal in your life and got away with it.
I'll admit to have to having some music which I don't legally own. Should I hand myself into the local police station?
i never claimed to be anything.
i was merely saying that using that line as a defence was pretty pathetic.
my music library as around 80GB. i'd say around 10% of it was purchased legally (and still owned).
the rest was downloaded via torrents.
however i know the illegality of it and don't try to justify it by means of any excuse.
my movie library is just short of 2TB and less than 5% of that is legally sourced.
i make no excuses for wanting content without paying for it. it's theft. it's illegal.
as a final note though, shouldn't everybody try to live to the highest standards of the law and morals? surely that's a given??
How is it down the pan? Surely at the time you bought them you listened to and enjoyed them.
I never bought a CD with the hope i could sell it in the future, I bought it because i wanted to have it to hand whenever i wanted