Thought I'd have a bit of a de-clutter over Christmas and turn some unwanted items into cash.
Having been a regular on 'MoneySavingExpert.com' for a few years, I had picked-up one or two tips on who are good and who to avoid.
First-off, having run some CDs through 'Music magpie' a year or so back, I knew they were on the cheap side when it came to pricing items, hence not sending the discs I'd entered in the original 'go'.
This time around, I had come across 'Zapper'. Now, having loads of books to dispose of, and books being one of the items they purchase, I scanned-in about 90 book barcodes and got offers on 7 books. This was below their 25 item minimum, so I added a few CDs, but still only had 15 items, so left it at that. One of the books, 'Viz - The big one' was being priced at over £4.00, This was way more than the 50p it cost me from a carboot sale, so I was well-chuffed.
Yesterday, I dragged a box of DVDs out and decided to add them to the Zapper list (Zapper saves your list for you until you are done). As my original list was over 7 days old, I had to do a refresh, and was disappointed to discover my Viz annual was now only worth 79p.
Still, at least I had enough DVDs to get over the 25 items needed.
Out of 65 DVDs, 46 were accepted.
What I did then was to return to 'Musicmagpie' and scan-in all the non-accepted DVDs and they offered a price on the lot. As I had the scanner set up, I ran the whole box of stuff for 'Zapper through 'Musicmagpie' and found to my gain that some of the DVDs and a couple of CDs were fetching higher offers on 'Mm' than 'Zapper'.
These were soon removed from the Zapper list and added to the Mm pile.
I reckon by scanning everything into both sites and then comparing the prices offered, I have gained around £2.50 extra cash for very little extra work.
So, it looks like if you want to really make decent money, you have to make-sure to scan in to more than just one service. Thinking about it, I could have also tried 'CEX' and 'Mozuma' had I had the time.
Anyway, the Zapper box went freepost today and the Musicmagpie will be going-out Monday.
I will have to update on how many items got through each company's inspection process and how fast I they paid me.
UPDATE
Today, I got an email from 'Zapper confirming my items had passed QC and a cheques is on its way. That just leaves 'Musicmagpie'
UPDATE 2
Yesterday I had an email from Musicmagpie, my cheque is on it's way, so both companies turned-around the sent items really quickly.
2 comments:
That's great!
What type of scanner did you use? Was it android phone/iPhone or hand held scanner?
Where did you buy it from? Are they recommended products?
How easy is it to do? Would definitely be interested in trying this myself.
I actually paid £17 for a proper barcode scanner off of eBay. It has saved me way more than this in the time saved when scanning codes into eBay, Amazon, Play etc.
It also eliminates the chance of getting a number wrong.
It is easy to use, just point, press the trigger and bingo!, the number appears in the box on the screen.
Being a USB device, it integrates into Windows without any issues, so no need to worry about drivers.
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