Music Magpie - warning

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Post 685691 by Gold 'N' Brown on 2014-01-30 22:51:13

I shall choose my words carefully..... If anyone is considering using Music Magpie to sell stuff, then I would strongly encourage you to check their Facebook page and also Google and read the various review websites first. Why am I posting this here? Simply because I know that not everyone would think to check them out first, and many would go by face value and trust that a well know (i.e. well marketed) company would be trustworthy, so I see this as doing a courtesy towards fellow like-minded people. Quite simply, the running theme is that when they receive your order, a percentage of items may be deemed by them to be missing, damaged, faulty, etc etc. Whatever the term used, the outcome is that they may not pay you for those items, but they also won't return them either. This is stated in their T&Cs, and hence they are protected. Speaking personally, even understanding those T&Cs, I never for a second suspected that any item would be rejected as all were in acceptable or perfect condition and accounted for as they were packed. For those many people that have experienced this, the common theme again is that the rejected items are those that were of the highest value in the order. So that's it in a nutshell. Yes they offer a convenient service, but their T&Cs mean that you could effectively be handing over your property for free for them to then profit from, and in that respect you may as well just donate your items to charity instead. Proceed with caution.

Post 685692 by JamesT5 on 2014-01-30 22:55:51

I thought this was common knowledge? These companies have all sorts of sneaky ways to make a few extra quid out of people.

Post 685693 by p fandango on 2014-01-30 23:00:14

i class "we buy anything" companies like that in the same league as payday loan companies, i wouldn't even think of using them

Post 685694 by Gold 'N' Brown on 2014-01-30 23:02:35

Yeah, well everyone who knows something thinks that what they know is common knowledge :gossip: I usually check things out before I enter in to something like this. I usually research purchases to the nth degree. But we all have our off days. By posting this I'm making common knowledge even more commonerererer. :icon_soap

Post 685707 by MIKESC70T5 on 2014-01-31 00:04:11

[QUOTE=JamesT5;685692]I thought this was common knowledge? These companies have all sorts of sneaky ways to make a few extra quid out of people.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Gold 'N' Brown;685694]Yeah, well everyone who knows something thinks that what they know is common knowledge :gossip: I usually check things out before I enter in to something like this. I usually research purchases to the nth degree. But we all have our off days. By posting this I'm making common knowledge even more commonerererer. :icon_soap[/QUOTE] I didn't know anything was dodgy with them, but I've used them on 3 occasions and never had an issue.