Pleasantly surprised (but confused) that Music Magpie has paid me the full offer price for every item in a large box of CDs and DVDs I sent them. I was expecting about 75% because in the past they've been very strict on condition and I know for a fact that some of the things I sent in were in less than perfect condition (broken cases/scratched discs etc) and in those cases I was just using them as a convenient disposal method, not expecting them to pay out. Maybe they've changed their policy and have realised that since their slogan could well be 'Music Magpie: guaranteed equivalent to or marginally better than a kick in the teeth' in terms of offer amount, they may as well pay the full offer price regardless of condition for the sake of good (or better) will. Or maybe they've decided that it's more cost-effective not to bother with condition checkers at all because it takes a long time (especially given the above point about the offer price) and just treat it more like a lottery... the way penny booksellers do on amazon; I think that's the approach I'd take if I were in their shoes. Anyway I'm a happy bunny; in full declutter mode that's £40 for a box of space, and made better because they even sent a courier to pick it up free of charge. Now I'm going to have fun on Amazon Music spending that money on re-aquiring some of my favourite tracks from the CDs I've decluttered as single MP3s (and before you ask, when I decluttered the CDs that meant removing their ripped tracks from all my devices as well... can't sell the CD and keep the MP3s of it... it would be, IMO unethical... but that's just me
); no point in keeping an album if you only like one or two songs on it. So this should be fun

