Moral Conundrum: Selling secondhand CDs on e-bay vs selling secondhand downloads on e-bay

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So, I'm in the process of selling off various stuff from my collection, and it's all going reasonably well.

Now, imagine the scenario.. I have a CD single, let's say the White Stripes "My Doorbell". I put it on ebay, some people bid, it gets sold, and customer is happy.

Now imagine that when I bought the CD single, I bought the download instead. Price was the same, in fact more expensive as there was only one track. I put it on e-bay, and get sued to trousery by the irate music biz.

The moral of this story is: Wouldn't the music biz love to close down the 'second hand' music market?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)

This is an interesting idea.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

Some country artist, I think Garth Brooks, attempted to ban selling second hand CDs a few years ago in the US. Or at least that's what I read somewhere.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

yeah that was Garth. Greedy fuck. If his music didn't suck, people wouldn't be selling off his CDs.

Sell downloads by "selling" a jewel case that currently holds a CDR. The jewel case comes "as-is".

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

i actually taped something once and sold it on ebay. i thought this would make me less of a target than if i had put it onto cd.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

did it?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 13 October 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i don't think anyone pays any attention to the cassette listings. i might do it again. i didn't make much money on it though. i get too scared to sell promos. i had a promo get yanked off by ebay once. it's so tempting though. i don't have any moral dilemnas about trading promos in at the record store and i don't really have any about selling them on ebay. as long as you aren't bootlegging. i figure, i have one copy of something that i don't want, and a fan will end up with one copy of something they do want and they will rave about it and brag to their friends and create a stir about an album that nobody is even talking about yet. i think labels should sell promos from time to time on ebay. just as a marketing device. hell, maybe they do. what do i know. same idea as leaking a single for download.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 October 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

oh, and the thing i taped was a promo, but it was an old promo. like, 7 or 8 years old. i actually got the idea from ilm. i started a thread on this thing and nobody had ever heard it, so i figured it was a good bet that other people hadn't either. it was more of an experiment than anything else.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 October 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

i sold a hard drive with 180 GB of mp3s on it. I didn't get much more than I would have if the hard drive was clean, though.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Do you ever get promo box sets?

― white boi, Friday, 14 October 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

What about the guy selling the Hipster iPod from a few months back?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

he got the chair

― vacuum cleaner (electricsound), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

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