Posting CDs

[bumpy]

I have a fair number of CDs that I don't play, so I have decided to sell them off.

Now Music Magpie will buy them, but at a typical 10p I would rather give them to a charity shop.

So when selling through E Bay, comes the thorny question of how much the packaging and postage will cost and also time visiting the local Post Office etc.

What I would like to do is put the CD in a padded Jiffy bag (50p), stick a first class stamp on it and put it in the post box. Is this viable or do I have to queue at the Post office and pay more?

How do you guys do it?

[Spectral Morn]

I have a fair number of CDs that I don't play, so I have decided to sell them off.

Now Music Magpie will buy them, but at a typical 10p I would rather give them to a charity shop.

So when selling through E Bay, comes the thorny question of how much the packaging and postage will cost and also time visiting the local Post Office etc.

What I would like to do is put the CD in a padded Jiffy bag (50p), stick a first class stamp on it and put it in the post box. Is this viable or do I have to queue at the Post office and pay more?

How do you guys do it?

First class stamp wont pay for it. UK post for a single CD would be £1.40 first class, £1.26 second (large letter 250g)+ cost of Jiffy bag and your time. I just weighed and priced it for you.

[bumpy]

First class stamp wont pay for it. UK post for a single CD would be £1.40 first class, £1.26 second (large letter 250g)+ cost of Jiffy bag and your time. I just weighed and priced it for you.

Thanks Neil

I sort of went round that route, but when I look at e bay the typical P&P demanded is about 99p, so I thought I had missed something. How do they do that?

[Spectral Morn]

Thanks Neil

I sort of went round that route, but when I look at e bay the typical P&P demanded is about 99p, so I thought I had missed something. How do they do that?

I don't know, special rates for bulk, another postal service. Make the CD dearer to cover the extra cost.

[bumpy]

Make the CD dearer to cover the extra cost.

Then it wont sell :(

You know, its the jewel box that adds the weight. Without it, the CD and booklets come in well under the small letter rate :scratch:

[JimC]

Long and laborious, but list them and sell them on here.....?

Alternatively, take a decent resolution pic of say 20 at at time of the spines so we can see what they are...........?

If they're in good nick I'm sure we on here wouldn't mind paying a fair price for them, certainly more than you'd get with MusicMagpie.

Jim.

[struth]

Scan them with you phone using discogs. Cds have barcodes...then get a printout to pc as a word file or such then copy that into sales thread.

[Michael loves music]

I buy padded Jiffy bags from Poundland I’m sure it’s 10 for a £1

[bumpy]

I buy padded Jiffy bags from Poundland I’m sure it’s 10 for a £1

Good tip. Any similar deals on the postage?

[Pieoftheday]

I have a fair number of CDs that I don't play, so I have decided to sell them off.

Now Music Magpie will buy them, but at a typical 10p I would rather give them to a charity shop.

So when selling through E Bay, comes the thorny question of how much the packaging and postage will cost and also time visiting the local Post Office etc.

What I would like to do is put the CD in a padded Jiffy bag (50p), stick a first class stamp on it and put it in the post box. Is this viable or do I have to queue at the Post office and pay more?

How do you guys do it?

Many of the eBay CDs I've bought have been in a jiffy bag with a bit of thickish card either side of the CD which seems to restrict damage to the CD case:)

[Michael loves music]

Jiffy bags next to fem fresh in my Poundland look out for them

[struth]

Jiffy bags next to fem fresh in my Poundland look out for them

you into femfresh eh?:eek:

[Michael loves music]

No it’s for ladies

[Len Co]

I find it's good for getting rid of the smell of fish in the kitchen - by the way Michael your picture is awesome! (Or do I means ass-some?)

[Minstrel SE]

My view is that is not really viable unless you just love sending cds off to please people. Most of them will have to be listed low to attract attention so it depends what you have really.

Yes I wouldnt sell them to Music Magpie. Ive been in to their local operation and walked out again...Oh I did sell one which I would now rather have kept...an Ian Dury do it yourself extended tunes.. it flagged up as being worth more as it was rarer and or discontinued...still peanuts though at £2.25...I must have been mad as Im certainly not desperate for that sort of money

It got fluid spilled over the back of the cd so it got put in the out pile. The cover was damaged...I am ocd so it got sold...I think I forgot to rip it though which is daft...I think I even bought it again but the standard version :D

The thing with ebay is everyone will scroll or delete until its down to the lowest price which could be a pound or less plus postage. Its a question of what you will make out of that as ideally you need to make pence on the postage to cover your packing materials and enough on the sale to make it worth your time.

Cds just arent rare enough unless you have some well chosen stuff. Come to think of it I do have cds which would fetch a good few quid including my Fall extended plays...i would never sell my main cd collection though

Then you have to consider a supply of jiffy bags (I have boxes of recycled ones) and the queue at the post office. Depends what you have though...a nice selection of arthouse niche cds will attract the punters :)