Finally a good way to get rid of CD/DVD/BluRay

I'm sure I'm not the only one here who occasionally does a basement/garage cleanout, dumpster dives or visits Curbco and ends up with a bunch of media that you swear you can make a buck on....... only to have it start collecting dust at your house. My wife found this place called Second Spin (SecondSpin.com – The Internet’s Largest Buyer & Seller of Used CDs, Used DVDs, Used Blu-rays & Used Games) that will buy pretty much everything you can throw at them. I think the lowest amount we encountered was $.25 and went as high as $5. You need cases and original packaging as far she tells me, but other than that it's pretty simple. Just enter in the bar codes from whatever you are trying to get rid of, they tell you what they want, you ship it to them on their dime and they pay you after they verify everything checks out. We filled 2 shock tower boxes mixed with music and movies and got $200. It took 25 minutes on our end and about 10 days to see the money. We'll be using them again for sure.

Thanks for the info and pardon my ignorance but what is a shock tower box?

The box a shock tower comes in. Rough guess at size would be 6"x6"x24"

hahaha, and what is a shock tower? ; )

This site looks promising. The lowist I saw for a cd was $.05 though not $.25 I know ill be bidding on alot more of them cd and dvd lots now at the auctions if I can just mail them off to this place.

I came across 100+ CDs in March from what looked like a moving clean out and sent them all to musicmagpie.com. Lowest I got for a CD was .50 and the highest I got was 4.50. Ended up with $131.21 and just sent out another box for $75.46. Only problem with musicmagpie is that it took nearly a month to get the check (I wasn't really in a rush just got a little nervous since I never dealt with them).

@ PTS .. be careful on buying at auctions. They don't take any BMG Music Club CDs or basically anything without a UPC or any promo stamped CDs, although I did throw in a few that had promotional cuts on the side and holes in the barcode and still got my full check.

So did we ever find out what a "shock tower" is?

Why not sell to pawn shops? Around here, they pay $1 for any cd, $2 for any dvd. Just can't be scratched, and it's cash in hand.

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Originally Posted by zito

Why not sell to pawn shops? Around here, they pay $1 for any cd, $2 for any dvd. Just can't be scratched, and it's cash in hand.

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Nearly every pawn shop around here stopped carrying CDs long ago. There's like 1-2 stores that I can think of that still buy/sell used CDs and I'd rather bring to them first but they're extremely selective on what they take. Musicmagpie accepted every readable barcode I scanned.

I'd gladly take $1 CD/$2 DVD if I could get it.

Some interesting stuff in their fine print:

Prices offered on our site are for items acquired for personal enjoyment use only. “Personal enjoyment use” refers to items acquired with the intent of listening, playing, or watching by an individual. Sorry, prices are not valid for overstocked items, excess business inventory items, items acquired with the intent of resale or items acquired for any other purpose.
Limit of two copies per title per customer. (if you'd like us to make an exception, please email us.) This does not override the Personal Enjoyment policy listed above. We understand that you may occasionally have a duplicate copy. If you have more than one copy of a large number of the items you are selling, we do not consider the items to be of “personal enjoyment use” and you need to contact us before sending the items to us.

FYI, in my experience, a shock tower is the carrier or bracket that a suspension shock mounts into on some cars. Some cars with torsion bar systems instead of front coil springs have shock towers.

Great info! Thanks for sharing

Wish there was somewhere I could ship discs without cases!

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Originally Posted by Bear

hahaha, and what is a shock tower? ; )

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I think a shock tower is a replacement tower for car that the shock or strut bolts to.

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Originally Posted by rca987

Wish there was somewhere I could ship discs without cases!

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Make them into windchimes or dreamcatcher, that's where the big money is, sell at your fleamarket.

FYI - Uk based peeps ....I have used Musicmagpie , Zapper and ziffit....The only thing i find usefull is to have all three sites up at the same time and enter barcode and 'copy and paste' between the three sites (£0.18 on one becomes £0.32 on another and £0.25 has been £4.89)With one person reading and the other entering an easy 100+ an hour. For cds works out about £0.38 per disc DVD nearer to £0.50 each.
You can have a bad batch and get lower , but when you get a good batch - happy days.
Cash for clothes is nice earner to £0.50 per kg (Cash payment too - not that i would take the cash and run - No never;))

British - will take the shirt off your back!!!

ive looked into several of these sites that but cds ,dvds, and such but everytime i read the fine print it just doesnt sound very promising

Thanks for posting the site. I have plenty built up as well. Great tip!

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Originally Posted by wadarbr549

ive looked into several of these sites that but cds ,dvds, and such but everytime i read the fine print it just doesnt sound very promising

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Yes lots of small print most of it is the 'you will wait for payment/we will test every disc/must not be copies/cases and covers must be reasonable/only one of each/if they want the disc ETC.....)Just normal ass covering. As is the way in life , they do pay albiet slowly and will discount for copies or damaged goods.
I've only had good dealings with these companies and find it an extra 'money maker'. Can only speak for UK companies but they seem to love repeat customers even offering extra % payments if you leave them alone for a bit of time.

British - find dvds/cds in a skip(dumpster)/clearance toss it on the passenger seat give it a try.(worst tagline ever)