The Music Magpie and Your Shiny CDs, DVDs and Games
Hands up if you’ve sent off any of your CD’s, DVD’s or games to Music Magpie. Keep them up if you got what you were promised money wise. You did? Really? Well, consider yourself one of the lucky ones.
To say I’m a little peeved at this particular site is putting it mildly. My grandaughter has been raving for weeks wanting to sell off some of her xbox games along with some older DVD’s. Finally we went online to music magpie and listed the barcodes to see how much they were willing to pay.
The average was about 30p, though they did offer over £6 for one particular xbox360 game. Of course, Betsy was more than a little excited. This was a chance for her to get some money as well as get me off her back for the space taken up by sooooooo many cd’s and dvd’s that she should really consider opening her own shop!
Fast forward to reading their ‘terms and conditions‘. (Lucky for her she has a grandma who knows a thing or two about how people operate on the Internet. 
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For those of you who don’t bother reading terms and conditions, START. Seriously, you can save yourself a lot of aggravation just by taking a minute to read what it is you’re letting yourself in for.
Anyway, back to the terms you have to agree to before music magpie will buy your old cd’s and dvd’s from you.
First off, let’s look at this line:
Payment is made based on the value offered at the time of transaction only and is subject to CDs, DVDs and Games passing our quality checks
Sounds reasonable enough. After all, you can’t expect them to shell out the 30p if your CD is scratched to hell. Unfortunately, after listing several reasons as to why your item might fail their quality inspection, they then come up with:
Where items are rejected for any of the above reasons the MusicMagpie decision is final
followed by:
Items that fail the QA process or that have not been included in the original trade cannot be returned under any circumstances and will be recycled responsibly.
So you send off your CD’s, DVD’s or whatever, they decide the items don’t meet the quality standard, you have no say in that decision, and you don’t get your items back!
What am I missing here? Is it ok for them to steal my goods simply because they put in their terms of service that they will do so? I’m not a lawyer but I’m presuming they’ve taken legal advice and that it really is ok for them to steal from the public because by sending them your stuff you’ve agreed to the terms listed.
Needless to say, Betsy didn’t send them any of her nice, bright, shiny objects. And if the rest of the British public has any sense, they won’t be sending them theirs either.
Photos to Art
