buy back intranet

[houseofvideo]

Hardcopy, your intranet buy back feature is really great.  Two things that could be added to make it a site we would be glad to pay to use would be:
1). a bulk add feature to add multiple barcodes at once.
2). a running tally shopping cart that could then be printed out.

see example here:
http://www.newtownvideo.com/sellDvd.do
or
http://www.secondspin.com/sell/

would this be something you are interested in working on?  thanks you.

[Retrofit]

I totally get where Scott is going with his suggestion.  Once upon a time I used those sites more than this site because I looked up individual movies.  Now when a garbage bag of movies comes in, I count titles and say, "50 movies? $25 bucks"  Pre September I said, "50 movies?  $50 bucks."

I think in a heavy B/S/T business, there is no time to look up individual titles.  Even if you can scan them with a barcode they probably aren't woth looking up.  In my small shop we have a one person crew.  Having that person punch in titles, sometimes you get error messages, sometimes the net freezes, sometimes your looking at a copy of the Best of the 3 Stooges and your thinking, "why am I looking this up at all?"  Thats when I stopped looking up movies all together.

B/S/T movies are titles people don't want.  90% of them are junk.  There will be exceptions to the rule.  I know the collected Friday the 13th movies is worth more than Band of Brothers because the 1st is out of print and the 2nd is owned by everyone.  But those are rare exceptions to the rule.  Last night we bought Panic Room, PLatoon, Mercury Rising, Friday 13th (cooincidence I swear), the Edge, Lorenz's Oil, Like Father Like Sone, Broken Arrow, American Ninja.  $Five Bucks.  I opened them up, made sure they were actually in the case, then said, "Five Bucks."   It took about 20 seconds to close the deal.

Now if there was a way that we could have a website of our own so we could take B/S/T from people on the net, then I would be interested.


Just material to consider,

Chuck

[houseofvideo]

Chuck, if we had 1 store and i worked it most of the time i would do what you do.  We need to standize operating procedures.  I would also like to add that the store that does really, really well with BST where i live does not pay low numbers.  They do not haggle.  They give you their top dollar price every time & the first time and there is no negotiation.  THis store is buying hundreds and hundreds of pcs every day.  Every market is different, but if all you pay is low Buyback prices, most all you are going to get is crappy stuff with low resale value.  Sure you are going to make money off all that crap...