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Comment on Music Magpie review by MH

MH — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:43:18 +0000

When Music Magpie first started, they were quite good, the cheques used to arrive within around 7 days, however as time has gone on their cheque posting ability appears to have diminished.

My last order (over 100 CDs) was sent in the beginning of Feb 2010, it is now March over a month later and still no cheque! I have rung them twice and received various excuses but still no joy.

I would be wary of using this company at the moment as it looks as though they are having problems keeping up with their customer payments schedule. It would be interesting to find out if other people were suffering from the same problem? If so, alarm bells should be ringing!

Comment on Music Magpie review by Lara

Lara — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:17:48 +0000

well I’ve seen the ad on tv, and these comments haven’t discouraged me! the things i will be sending are things I was going to give away anyway as they are low value, anything worth over a fiver i’d bother to put on ebay most probably, so i’m gonna give it a go anyway

Comment on Music Magpie review by Panda

Panda — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:47:46 +0000

VERY glad I visited this site before using Music Magpie! Just saw the ad on TV and thought it would be a great way to get rid of about 150+ cds I’ve been meaning to sell – but no way I’ll be using them after reading these comments.
Typical – nothing is ever as straightforward as it seems. Car boot sale it is then!

Comment on Music Magpie review by tim

tim — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:28:48 +0000

Paul

Did you try the number here:

http://www.taggedtalk.com/blog/2009-01-31-music-magpie-review.html/comment-page-1#comment-22975

Just wondering if it works!

Tim

Comment on Music Magpie review by Paul Partington

Paul Partington — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:55:16 +0000

I wish I’d done the simple thing of Googling ‘music magpie’ BEFORE I undertook using them, especially when the first suggestion Google gave me was “rip offs”.

I got suckered in by the cheery optomistic TV ad, thought it’d be easy. Didn’t mind that I’d not get much for the DVDs as well, I’d be clearing out space and at least getting something for them rather than chucking them.
It’s now been 2-3 weeks since their chirpy email telling me they’ve received my DVDs but have they replied to a single one of my emails asking whether my cheque’s going to be despatched any time soon? Have they hell!

I’ve even tried finding out their phone number on Yell.com etc to try and ring them to no avail.

Henceforth donating all my unwanted CDs/DVDs to Oxfam, not these Fagins.

Comment on Music Magpie review by Simon Morton

Simon Morton — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:40:12 +0000

Music Magpie are a cheeky bunch of gits. I sent off 88 assorted cds and dvds, the total I was promised was £100.30. I got the cheque through and it was £1.69 short. Now I know that this is only a few pence, however, considering that they were only paying me 30p for some of my cds, this amount could represent as much as 5 cds. So I called and left a message for them to get back to me, and they never did. I called again and was told that 2 dvds that I sent in were damaged beyond repair. The 2 dvds in question were ones that I had only watched once! How could this be the case? I was also told that since this was the case, they recycled them for free. Well, THANKS man, really appreciate your help with that. Why couldn’t they have sent them back? I was told to read the terms and conditions.
I will not be using this bunch of cowboys again.

Comment on Music Magpie review by Sue

Sue — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:35:42 +0000

I wouldn’t recommend them. A courier collected my items on 3 Feb 2010. One box was processed and I had a cheque by the following Monday. A couple of weeks later I rang about my other box – it was sitting in the warehouse and hadn’t been touched. They found it and processed it the next day BUT I’m still waiting for payment. Have rung and they keep saying a cheque has been sent out – but no sign of it.

Comment on Music Magpie review by Alan

Alan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:00:07 +0000

after reading all of the bad reviews on here as well as some good ones. I am going to reserve my own judgement and not send them my old games which I no longer use, purely and simply because there is just to much negative stuff on here to take the chance although I am not to sure my other half will be to happy about it as they have been sitting there waiting to go for some time. Although when I explain my decision to her and show her this article then I am sure that she will understand. One more thing, if what this article has printed is untrue then why are Music Magpie not suing them for liable?? could it be that there are some facts in this article that are true and therefore they cannot, or that if they do then they will get found out to be some sort of rip off?? Hmm one to think about that just incase you thought of sending your stuff to them and if you do then good luck.

Comment on Music Magpie review by Mike

Mike — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:07:45 +0000

Try http://www.back2cash.co.uk
they’ll buy your CDs and pay you faster. They’ll also buy your non-fiction books. And if you live close enough they’ll collect your CDs and books in person.

Comment on Music Magpie review by mark

mark — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:05:30 +0000

DO NOT TRUST THIS SITE!! THEY PULLING ALL BAD REVIEWS OF THERE SCAM/RIP OFF COMPANY OFF EVERY SITE THEY CAN AND PUTTING REVIEWS BY THERE OWN EMPLOYEES ON TI BUMP SCORES UP!!