A £30 Vinyl, Books + Media Reselling Project

Big shouts to eBay for existing. It brings so many opportunities. While browsing for things to sell on, I came across a boot sale job lot. These things come in all shapes, sizes and qualities, as you may already know. In the images for the listing, I saw a few bits. Nowt special, but there was enough in there to assure me that I’d at least double my money.

£30 for an assortment of vinyl, books, CDs, DVDs, games, cassettes, tea pots and a few other things. None of the individual products were listed, not that it mattered. They were half an hour down the road, Buy It Now, let’s roll. Gave kiddo a bell, told him I’d be round in an hour, and when I get there, it was wild.

There was a lot more than anticipated and only just managed to pack it all in. As we were loading, he was telling us about how he wanted to get rid of a load of stuff, because boot sale season was done and he didn’t want any of it lingering. Perfect for me, mate.

Totals

The images don't do them justice. There was loads of stuff. In total, this is what I was dealing with.

– Books x99

– CD albums x98

– DVDs x 64

– 7″ singles x125

– PS2 games x5

– Xbox game x1

– 12″ records x69

– Cassettes x25

– Teapots x11 

All in one go, plus some speakers, a projector, a steam cooker, and other bits too.

The Process

Once I get a load of things like this, the process is always the same. It might take a while, but I need to go through each of these steps:

1. Document in inventory
2. Research
3. Group (if needed)
4. List

With so much stuff available, I didn’t want it taking up loads of room in the house. Once I knew what everything was and what it was worth, the relatively worthless things were all put to one side.

In terms of books, DVDs, games and CDs, the first port of call was Ziffit. It’s my trade-in website of choice for media (although subject to change). This time, it turned out to be a perfect starting place. Once I scanned all the bits in, I’d already earned back £22.82. Easy work.

The things that those Ziffit didn’t want were then bundled – so I had a few of collections of books, a few genre-classified CD collections and a handful of DVDs. Each of those were put onto eBay as Buy It Now listings.

I used the same process for the vinyl, but was a bit more careless there. Once I knew what would and wouldn’t sell individually for a decent price (£4 minimum), I put it all together as an auction listing for eBay. It was under-priced, but I got rid of a big box of worthless vinyl, collect only, for £11.35.

By this point, the job lot owes me nothing, and I was a week down the line.

I also threw together my own boot sale job lot of extras that were just too big to keep in the house. They weren’t worth anything as they were, so they got lumped together. This included an old projector, free copies of albums and films from newspapers, a slow cooker,

In the time between, I was busy listing the rest of the stuff. A bundle of Jodi Picoult books, one of Tess Gerritsen books, one of random fiction, a selection of Country CDs, some Pop CDs, a box fiction books. Each of these had more thought behind them, they were priced at the top end of what I could expect (for the condition) and lots of them were flying out.

AS WELL as all of that, I had loads of smaller bits to get through. I’m still in the process, in fact. Quick-win, easy-to-post products come first. Couple Barbara Streisand CDs, Teletubbies DVD, the usual stuff.

The total from a £30 investment has already made me £167.18, and I’ve barely got started. I’m not in a rush to list, so it might take some time, but I will give you an update when I’m done.