Last time I went to the Flea Market they had a suspiciously good selection of CDs for suspiciously low prices. The lady that was selling them told me they would have a new selection the next week. My thoughts were along the lines of “I wonder whose car did they stole these out of!”
Please tell me I’m wrong and restore a little of my faith in humanity. Where do Flea Markets get their CDs?
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“I wonder whose car did they stole these out of!”
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Heehee, yeeeesh. What I meant was “I wonder whose car they stole these from!”"
A lot of times you’ll see computer made duplicates being sold at flea markets.
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You can tell if they are maybe illegal copies by the packaging (cheaper plastic wrap; cheaper labels), or by the greenish ‘mother of pearl’ coloration on the back of the CD indicating it is a Walmart-variety CD-R.
These are definately real - with the scratches and everything! (Yeah, I bought a couple… how could I go wrong for 5$ CDN each?)
I see ads in the paper all the time offering to buy whole CD collections. I’m thinking they pay a hell of a lot less than $5 each (even in Canadian funny money).
Ask them about trade-ins… they’ll likely take 2-for-1, which obviously can only increase their inventory.
It’s not a common thing, but in my case, I work in an industry where we get hundreds of CDs as promotional items. I can’t get rid of the things fast enough!
Look on the spine. Is there a straight line cut through it, like some one ran it over a table saw? Or is there a round, melted-in ‘dot’ on the spine? Try the barcode across the back. Does it have a line cut through the jewel case along the barcode, or does the barcode have a hole punched out of it?
If it has any of these markings, the CDs were ‘released from stock’ and given out at one point as promos (to TV & Radio stations, or to retail stores, for example).