Trade Your CDs for an iPod
Submitted by jim on Fri, 08/19/2005 - 11:21
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So I got a used CD in the mail today from an Amazon seller, and pasted across the back of the box was an offer: send this company 300 used CDs, and they'll send you back a free iPod loaded with all the ripped tunes from the CDs, plus backup DVDs of the ripped music (they keep the CDs and sell them overseas). Kinda hard to imagine the ripping and DVDing is legal, but still pretty slick. "Limited time offer. References furnished upon request." Anyway, presenting iPodMeister. Could be a scam; I have no idea. Deal at your own risk. Still, it was a curious enough idea to catch my eye, even if I personally still want to hang onto my CDs.
i actually went through with this deal. i have thousands of cds so i figured losing a few hundred for a new ipod was a pretty sweet deal. anyway, the whole process only took a few days. they send you ups stickers and you send in your cds, i guess they go through some screening process and once that gets cleared they send you which ever ipod you want. it's better than selling your cds, this way you don't lose your music. everyone should at least check this deal out, i feel like i saved 300 bucks.
Damn the iPod. It's so sexy and popular, but I don't want to be forced to use iTunes. I just want my digital music player to show up as an external hard drive when I plug it in, copy my tagged MP3 and FLAC files to it, and have the thing play them back to me with good sound quality, plenty of volume, and slick controls. And I can wait until they cost less than $400.
So what's an IPod? do I want one? Do I need one?
Ok only half kidding. But my wife would be very very excited about this offer... if I showed it to her. An easy way to get rid of my CD collection. Now it says you have to give 600 CD's. I still should be able to get about 3 free IPODs though....
I wonder if there'd be enough interested people to set up a "free iPod conga line" at Listology since this one is dead. It's pretty easy to get a free iPod if you have enough people who all want free iPods and are willing to work together.
Not I. I never like dealing with those trial offer type things. It's always more trouble than it's worth, even if a free iPod is tempting.
Too bad I didn't think of this before I loaded my iPod myself. All those hours out of my life...gone forever.
Sounds like it would be a good deal for them...If they sell the $300 cds for an average of $5 each, that would be $1500, minus the cost of the ipod, under $250, minus the time - paying someone $12 an hour to do the burning $300 or so (would 300 cds take 25 hours to do??? ...multiple computers, drives etc. would speed things up). They'd profit by about $1k per each transaction when all's said and done. Who knows? Certainly not a benefit for the recording artist though. An interesting concept nonetheless...
...found an interesting article about the free iPod, and iPod loading services here.
Cool, thanks!