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Charity Shops - CD's galore!
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When I visit a new place/ area, I always enjoy looking through the various charity shops in the town.
Last week I bought these following albums:
Cream Summer 2006 - £1.99 (Oxfam)
Pure Garage 2000 - £1
Cream Anthems 2007 - £3
Running Trax (2010) - £2.75
MOS: Anthems II (2008) - £2.75
Kiss Hot Joints 2 - £1
Does anyone else find any bargain music in charity shops?
Last week I bought these following albums:
Cream Summer 2006 - £1.99 (Oxfam)
Pure Garage 2000 - £1
Cream Anthems 2007 - £3
Running Trax (2010) - £2.75
MOS: Anthems II (2008) - £2.75
Kiss Hot Joints 2 - £1
Does anyone else find any bargain music in charity shops?
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The Best of Euphoric Funky House Breakdown - £1.99
Funky House Anthems (Mixed by Phats and Small) - £1
Trance Nation (1999) - £1
R&B Yearbook 2006 - £1
They also had a copy of Kisstory but disc 2 was missing so I left it behind!
Albums I'll generally price at either £1, 1.50 or £2 depending on artist and title, and in some cases which edition it is. Copy of Adele's "21" came in a couple of months back, got £3 for that. Remastered version of Rolling Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request" went for a fiver. Film soundtracks I'll generally price at £1 but had a copy of Queen's Flash Gordon soundtrack which went for £2. Doubles I'll normally put out for either £1.50 or £2. Singles generally 50p but I'll watch out for stuff that I know to be a bit rare and price it higher accordingly. Couple of Beatles singles which went for £4 each for example. We also had a cd copy of NOW 4 come in which went straight to ebay.
I check every single donation that comes in, muti disc sets with one or more discs missing I'll generally bin but sometimes I'll put them out at a reduced price and mark them as 'disc 2 missing', etc. If it's a box set with the discs in individual cases inside a larger box I'll sometimes sell them seperately.
As with dvds you soon get to know which albums have hundreds of copies floating around on the second hand market. Blue, S Club, Madonna, Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson 'Breakaway', Kaiser Chiefs "Employment", Jamelia, Mariah Carey, Gwen Stefani, J-Lo are among those that just keep coming in time and time again. As to unsold ones we rotate the stock around periodically and discs that have been on sale longer than a specific period are sent to another branch for them to try and sell.
They had a box set of "The Sopranos" in one of mine and they wanted the same price as Amazon.
Mary Portas has a lot to answer for!
Thinking about it, I wonder where they get their stock from? Charity shops? They wouldn't make a profit, surely?
Retailers can buy through such sites? I hadn't realised. Thats interesting, thanks for the reply
That CD is so rare. I would love to have a copy of that but as you probably done your homework, your best bet is putting it on Ebay as it regularly gets over £300 each time on there.
I would think condition matters too? A copy scratched to bits which jumps surely won't bring £300+?
I would imagine they deal with the company direct, rather than buying through their website. I can only think that's where they (Poundland etc) source the CDs from.
More Than LIkely, heres one that went recently on Ebay for £250 and has a few scratches on it.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Now-Thats-What-I-Call-Music-4-CD-MEGA-RARE-PATENT-PENDING-/130896787736?pt=UK_CDsDVDs_CDs_CDs_GL&hash=item1e7a0e7918&nma=true&si=rglEvy5SlO57J%252FZrgTS1pFoubP0%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
Its so rare that the box has a patent pending symbol. Now 4 was very much a test for the market and was best of selection as the tape/vinyl edition had double the amount of tracks. The next time Now appeared on CD was Now 8 and both Now 8 and Now 9 was a single CD affair, it wasn't until Now 10 before everything was the same across all platforms.
One problem is that when you do get something that's worth a lot come in there's usually not much point in displaying it at an inflated price because only collectors or those in the know will know its true value, regular customers will just think you're taking the mick. Sometimes I'll add a note to the item indicating how much it would cost to buy from Amazon,Play etc, so that people have an idea of why we're asking more for it, as you do get the 'this is supposed to be a charity shop' line thrown at you every so often.
If I saw a Now 4 in my local charity shop, in good condition, priced at £5. I'd give them £20.:D