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I have pile of DVDs, many new, plenty of CDs, and many books that I need to get rid of and I admit I need help.
Most of these are my own property.
Used to be so easy to sell on half.com, just enter or scan the UPC, condition note, price, list and sell.
Maybe it’s me but listing these items on eBay (app) is a hassle – scan UPC and often at least 10 listings come up, most have some but not all of the correct info in the preloaded item specifics, but it seems impossible to pick a master item.
Weirder still the pictures often disappear, and sometimes I have to re-enter the UPC which was scanned to start the listing. Argh.
Used to be able to list this stuff like lightning, nothing special here just commodity , this is my major death pile, is there a better way or what am I doing wrong? Is Amazon the way to go with this stuff ( please don’t say yes) -
Over here in the UK the majority of dvds are sold by thrift shops at 5 for a £1 (about 1.25 USD). The shop I volunteer in threw out about 200 last week as they were unsaleable, and unrecycleable. There are dvds which are still worth selling though, also I don’t know what the state of the US market is.
The same with cds, plus by now the plastic in the 1990s cases is starting to degrade so many have cracks.
With books, the best stuff is proper how-to-do-it/reference books. For instance I picked up a book on how to replicate Gibson guitar finishes for £1- when I checked sellers were asking £50 for used copies. I bin hardback fiction, even if it’s intelligent.
I have to sort through about 3,000 books, dvds and cds a week at the thrift, so I have a somewhat cynical approach! There’s nothing like sorting through a pile of dvds of Hollywood crap to give you a ‘kill ’em all’ feeling 🙂
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Yeah, the Ebay catalog is garbage compared to Amazon or the way Half was. Even when the ISBN pulls up the correct book, you have to make sure it has the right binding and publication information. It’s wrong a lot of the time, so you have to correct it in your own listing so the buyer knows what they are getting.
I don’t sell as many cds and dvds as books, but I find the catalog information to be better for them when I do list them, if the titles are even available.
You’re probably gated on Amazon for CDs and DVDs. Some books are also gated for new sellers.
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I don’t have a scanner, so I type in the UPC or ISBN into the desktop version, not the app. The picture will disappear if you select anything other than “new”, although I’m not 100% about “like new”. I will often click on the picture, save it to my computer, and then re-paste it after I make the changes.
The process is certainly easier than listing the other things I sell.
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Thanks for the support!
Quickly realizing that the work vs reward ratio on most media is just not worth it. Just went through about 50 books and DVDs on eBay – optimistically could get 5 to 6 bucks ( if I pay shipping) and that’s not worth my time. Donating to the library and moving on.
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Always worth checking what’s in the books besides words, e.g. tram tickets. money, bookplates and other ephemera.
A US bookdealer who writes a regular blog about trading at book fairs thinks that the market is shifting to ephemera away from ye olde leather-bound volumes.
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@antique Frog – you aren’t kidding! Check those books! Scraps of paper used as bookmarks make for great scavenging. Amongst the trasures I have found in books:
– 1960 M&M wrapper (it sold immediately for 10 bucks I priced way too low)
– an old continental airline ticket
– a 1960s European Postal Money order
– Countless Garfield Book marks
– and my favorite – Cash glorious cash
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