“Some consumers would say, ‘I just sold you this DVD for a dollar, and you’re selling it for two dollars!’” Lauter says. But there’s also security in that secrecy: Decluttr doesn’t want to inspire copycats who are impressed by their margins, or make customers feel ripped off. That’s in part because doing so would violate agreements the company has with Amazon and eBay. This is the one opaque part of its process. Three weeks later, 12 more items had found new homes.ĭecluttr won’t reveal how much my (or anyone’s) CDs sell for, or show any of the individual listings online. I sent in a box of 30 items in late February, and within its first day of arrival, the first CD was sold: Depeche Mode’s Delta Machine was sent back to its native U.K. Photo courtesy of Decluttrįor a world that supposedly stopped buying CDs, sales happen quickly. Honestly, people who are buying off of it right now must be masochists.” He says a better version will be up in a few months.) When a disc is bought, Decluttr buffs it up and, if needed, replaces its jewel case. (Lauter is so embarrassed by Decluttr’s site, which sells 20 items a month, that he refuses to reveal its name: “It’s really, really bad. Items are immediately listed on Amazon, eBay, or Decluttr’s own site for resale. Your package arrives in a warehouse just north of Atlanta, where employees confirm that you sent what you promised. Once you’re done–you need to sell a minimum of 10 items, but there’s no maximum–the system emails you a UPS sheet, which you affix to a box and send off. (There’s a web version too, but the app is more elegant.) Use it to scan the barcodes of any items you’re selling the system instantly tells you what Decluttr will pay.
If you kept a disc but threw away the jewel case with the art inside, you’re out of luck. There’s only one restriction on selling to Decluttr: All media must come with the original artwork. Lauter expects to reach profitability by the end of the year. (The magpie reference only works in the U.K., where people commonly know it as a bird that picks up shiny objects.) Although it’s done very little marketing, Decluttr is already buying 10,000 items a day from people. version’s name to one Americans can understand. expansion this past January they hired Lauter, the one-time CMO of, to head up the operation. Its two British co-founders officially launched a U.S. in 2007 as musicMagpie, and now receives 100,000 items there every day.
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What’s not hot? The widescreen DVD edition of the 2000 X-Men movie he has 416 of them piling up. “We’re paying $5 because they come in and fly off the shelves,” Lauter says. What’s super hot right now? Judy Collins’s 1971 album Living. That makes Decluttr’s prices a sort of Billboard chart for the bizarro second-hand market. The amount it pays you is controlled by a proprietary algorithm, which takes into account how many copies of an item are already in its warehouse, what the item sells for on Amazon or eBay, and how quickly it usually moves. 1 (2000)ĭecluttr then sells your media in a variety of ways, and earns more than a 50% margin. Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers – Live Vol.Frederic Chopin – In Concert Volume 1- Preludes Opus 28 (2001).Carlos “Patato” Valdes and His Latin Percussion Friends – Authority (1976).Photo courtesy of Decluttr The Top 7 Used CDs These are in such demand that Decluttr pays top dollar for them
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