Music magpie? Selling cds-is it worth it?

[Mollie53]

Has anyone used this for getting rid of old cds? Time consuming?

You get pennies to be honest. Literally 1 or 2p for some cds. The most important got was £3 for something they then listed for £60. You might be better off sticking them on Ebay as a bundle.

oh no, its either that or just donating everything to charity

Great for buying them them though.

Last time I sent a large batch off I got about £13. Some will be worth a few pounds, but most are pence. If you've sufficient quantities it's worth it. And if you already want to get rid of them somehow!

Looks like the lesson from that is that if you find anything that they offer more than a few pence for, look at the sale price on eBay and list it on there instead.

Otherwise accept pennies per item or don't bother, looks like they're currently more or less worthless.

Could also be worth looking on ebay to see what's sold for more than a trivial amount of money and see if you have it. But that's probably easier said than done as I've just looked and there appears to be some weirdness going on with a suspiciously large number of seemingly random CDs selling for £999 or others with £1732 delivery charges from the US, so unlikely to be actual sales.

I have found music magpie to be very unreliable. They reject a lot of items or claim you haven't sent them in and somehow it always seems to be the more expensive items in the trade... Better to go to CEX or somewhere similar and trade in person. Or car boot/table top sale or a massive job lot on eBay.

A lot of charity shops don’t take CDs or DVDs as we found doing a house clearance after a death.
We sold approximately 500 DVDs to Music Magpie for £82 and it was actually quite easy. We were just glad to have them out of the way. They wanted so little for the CDs it wasn’t worth the effort so they went with the house clearance company (presume to the tip).

We did it and you could scan the barcodes using your phone. We hadn't listened to the CDs in years, they were just in boxes taking up space and we listen to music on a streaming service like most people.

I just wanted them gone so didn't really care if my Deacon Blue album was only worth 95p. Even if you donated them to charity someone may buy it for £2 and sell it for £10. I didn't want to be faffing around with selling individual CDs on Ebay, packaging them and posting them off.

It worked for us, nothing was sentimental except some children's CDs that we listened to in the car with the children. My car was broken into once and they left every CD clearly they didn't have the same music taste as me