Filed under: iPod Family
Trade your CD's in for an iPod
Getting
a brand new iPod for the price of your old CD's sounds like it is too good to be true, but Millennium Music of
Charleston is doing just that.45 CD's will get you a 512 Shuffle, 110 nets a 4 gig Nano and 175 are needed for a 60gig iPod. Now, before you go off and buy 175 used Yanni CD's for a nickel there are certain Quality Criteria that must be met in order for Millennium to accept the CD's.
Overall, it sounds like a good way to get an iPod, though if you don't have your CD's any more how do you get music onto your iPod (yes, that's a joke)?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Carlos said 12:54PM on 12-29-2005
This sounds interesting. Any positive feedback from people who have tried this? I have a box of CD's that I was dragging off to sell but I might give this a try if it is legit.
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Mathew said 1:03PM on 12-29-2005
wow... sounds like a crap deal.
If you've ever been to a used cd store to trade in your old disk you know that they are going to try to lowball you and give you about a dollar a disk...
I'd not send my CD's to some stranger who is going to do the same AND yo have to give them your credit card.. so you can pay for them to send it back to you if you dont think its a fair choice or they just keep the CD's at their own property after 15 days...
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teletran2 said 3:19PM on 12-29-2005
this is a good way to get rid of all ur embarassing music choices when u were younger. i knew i was holding on to my HI-5 discography for a reason...
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Jay Welshofer said 4:46PM on 12-29-2005
This won't last... if you sell your CD you no longer have legal rights to the music. So go ahead and trade in the CDs for the iPod, but *technically* you can't keep any of the music.
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Jay Welshofer said 4:48PM on 12-29-2005
CDs. CDs. Please see:
http://www.angryflower.com/aposter.html
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Nathaniel said 7:59PM on 12-29-2005
I go to College of Charleston. I walk past Millenium Music nearly every day. I've seen the sign and always been curious...but I already have an iPod.
It's a nice store though. Live concerts and an amazing classical music section.
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Penginkun said 3:31AM on 12-30-2005
"This won't last... if you sell your CD you no longer have legal rights to the music. So go ahead and trade in the CDs for the iPod, but *technically* you can't keep any of the music."
What does that have to do with anything? You don't have to make a copy of a CD before you sell it. Certainly you COULD do that, but nobody says you have to in order to take advantage of this offer.
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Lewis said 8:11AM on 12-30-2005
I sent the link along to my brother in Charleston. He might be willing to try it. I'll post here if he does.
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Brady J. Frey said 12:16PM on 12-30-2005
I'd be interested to know if it's valid or not, as well -- hell, I just may give it a try:)
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Lewis said 3:17PM on 1-03-2006
My brother traded in 140 CDs, and is now the proud owner of a 5G 30gig iPod.
He had to wait about a week for them to judge which of his CDs were good enough to trade-in. But they took the majority of them, and sent back the ones they didn't want.
All-in-all, he was very pleased with the experience.
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