Buying and Selling at Sound Exchange - The Marketplace
A word about our pricing is in order. Nearly 75% of the items in our stores are purchased from the public. We try to buy everything possible. As long as we feel that there are buyers for a title we will consider purchasing it for stock. Knowing which items to purchase, knowing how much to pay for an item, and how much to sell an item for is something to which we pay a great deal of attention. It is a complex process that tracks all buying and selling activity for an item in our stores as well as using input from other large websites. This goes a long way to insure that we purchase the right stuff at the proper cost and sell it for the right price. Please understand that some titles take a long time to sell. It is very often the case that the items that we purchase today will not sell for many months, and sometimes it takes a year or more. This can affect our offer, particularly when we already have the item in stock.
In the near future we will be providing a tool on this website that will enable you can get a good idea of the interest that we have in your specific items.
Buy, Sell, and Trade Policy
Typical Pay Ranges for Used Merchandise:
It is essential that you understand that our buying customers are the ones who ultimately determine what we buy and how much we pay. “Supply and Demand” determines our buying and selling prices. CDs, DVDs, Video Games, and books can be brought into any store at any time to sell (except for the last 15 minutes before closing). LPs and stereo equipment must be brought in and dropped off for proper evaluation. Evaluations are generally completed within 24 hours in Tampa and Brandon. Pinellas drop-offs are evaluated weekly. Dropped off items must be picked up within 3 days from the time you drop them off in Tampa and Brandon, and within three days of evaluation in Pinellas.
A range of $1 to $5 is offered for most CDs. Exceptions can occur on both ends of that range.
A range of $1.00 to $6.00 is typically offered. Certain high-end DVDs and box sets can bring a little or a lot more.
A range of $.25 to $2.00 is typically offered on LPs that we can use. Certain "collectible" titles can command a higher price. In order for Sound Exchange to make an offer on your LPs, they must be in excellent condition, be titles that our customers want to buy, and currently not be overstocked. 45rpm records with paper sleeves and 12" singles are typically $.25 each, but can be more.
Classic stereo equipment such as turntables, amplifiers, receivers, reel to reel tape recorders, and speakers from the 1950s to 1990s will be considered for purchase. We are looking for better quality items in very good or better appearance, and that work properly or will take minimal effort to fix.
A range of $1.00 to $8.00 is typically offered. Certain high-end games can bring a little or a lot more.
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Arrange in-store pickup at any of our three locations by ordering online or calling your preferred store location.
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Within 1-5 days your items will be available at your preferred Sound Exchange location.
Select Browse or Search to view the inventory of your selected pickup location. You may also extend your view to include the other stores. You may also view the inventory in our huge warehouse of new items. If desired, items may be placed into your Shopping Cart when you want these items ordered and reserved for you. Also, selected items listed may be “Bid” on.
Select Pending Arrivals to view those items that are in our 15 day Hold bin. By Florida law we must hold all items that we purchase from the public for Cash for 15 days. You may identify items that you have interest in and can request that an email be sent to you on the day that they become available for sale.
Many items must be held for 15 Days, but not all items. So don't assume that every item in our stores will appear here first. Some items can be found immediately in New Arrivals or via the Browse feature.
Select New Arrivals to view only those items that have arrived recently and are available for sale. You may place these items into your Shopping Cart.
When using Search Warehouse you are viewing an entirely different inventory from any of the three store locations. The Warehouse contains only New titles for CDs, DVDs, and LPs, (no Video Games or Blu-Ray at this time). You may enter data into the Artist, Title, or UPC fields. Use the same rules that you use for searching the Store inventory. Any items with an exact match to all data entered will be displayed.
When ordering from the Warehouse please plan on one to three days for delivery to the store of your choice. You will be notified via email of its anticipated arrival time at the designated Delivery Location.
Select Want List to view a huge list of more than 550,000 titles. When you select a particular title we will tell you if we have it in stock, New or Used, or whether it is orderable as a New item, or that you can place it on your Want List. When we acquire a copy of a title that you have on your Want List (at any of our locations) we will advise you via email. This means if you have placed a title on your Want List you will get first shot at it. So put all of the Sound Exchange stores to work for you!
Here's an opportunity to save a little extra! You must be logged in to make an offer so do that now at the top of the page. Offers will be accepted or rejected immediately upon entering your offer. Accepted offers will be added to your shopping Cart. You get two tries to bid successfully on the item. If both of your bids are rejected you will not be allowed to make any more offers on that item.
Select Budget DVDs to view the current list of movies that are located in our budget bins. These titles are $3.99 or less. Budget bin titles require you to come into the store and find them yourself and are not orderable via this website. We just want to show you what great stuff we have for very low prices!
Genres include styles of music like Rock, Jazz, and Country. Keep in mind that we have split the Rock and R&B sections into two genres. Classic Rock and R&B is where you will find most Artists from the 50's, 60's and 70's. Whereas most newer and current Rock and R&B Artists will continue to be found in Pop/Rock.
When choosing to shop by Genre you will only see those Artists that are in that particular Genre. Care must be taken to not exclude some Artists that may not be in the Genre that you expect them to be in.
UPC (Uniform Product Code) is the number just below the barcode on an item. Searches by UPC will return only items with an exact match for the UPC entered. Searching by UPC can be very helpful in distinguishing between various versions of a work. As an example, Elton John's Greatest Hits has nearly a dozen UPCs associated with that title. Some UPCs are for the standard release while others may point to Imports or Remastered versions, or Bonus Tracks, etc.
When referring to Video Games, genres are the game type like Playstation 2, Wii, and X-box. Select one so that you know what game type you are viewing.
ABOUT RECORDS: Unlike a lot of other things, old records generally aren’t of much value. Records are more like old newspapers and magazines in that regard. However, some old records are of interest and can bring a modest sum. Even fewer old records are really worth something. Rare, valuable records are just that: rare. It is also difficult to identify a collectible record from a re-issue as they appear nearly identical. Beyond that, buying and selling old records is as much an art as it is a science with regard to how much it will sell for. Many records that we buy we have never seen before. We take our best guess based on our decades of experience and hope that we pique the interest of one of our record collector friends.
Record Price Guides and the Internet – If you ever find an old record Price Guide book, throw it away. In our experience they are worthless in terms of determining monetary value, although they may be of some informational value. We have many old price guides sitting in the closet. Also don’t place any value onasking prices on the internet. They are just that: asking prices. Anyone can ask any price and is not representative of what something is worth. What you should seek for guidance is what something actually sold for. Selling prices are of interest as a general guideline, but truly only represent what one buyer was willing to pay to one seller for one specific item. The item, the buyer, and the seller are never the same from transaction to transaction. We see things that normally sell for $2.00 sell for $20.00 sometimes, and $20.00 items sell for $2.00 sometimes. There are things that are not apparent that affected the sale. So take it all with a “grain of salt”.
The internet is a crazy place. Sound Exchange does not sell records on the internet. There is good reason for this: It is not worth the time and the hassle! (And we know what we are doing).
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