MX123 Video Contest: Vote now!

Chris Janota, mx123.com

Announcing our MX123.com Video Contest.

VOTE NOW 

 

The voting has begun but its not too late to enter a late video entry! (see below)

Prize: $150 awarded to the 1st prize with the highest number of votes.  A public vote is now being taken on this blog.  The vote will last from November 15th 2011 to December 8th 2011.   In addition ALL entries were paid a transaction bonus when the video was submitted with a regular sell order. 

All video submissions are included in the voting.    

Current enties:

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5 (Late entry)

 

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LATE ENTRY?

The Video requirements:  Any video mentioning mx123.com.  The Video needs to be uploaded to any publicly available video sharing website. (Youtube, Facebook, Photobucket, Flickr, Vimeo, Yahoo Video, etc.)   The topic does not have to be about mx123.com, only a mention of mx123 is adequate to qualify.  

TIPs:  MX123.com will not be voting for the winner so the video does not need to be flattering to us.  Here are some ideas for your video:

• Let’s see your dvd collection.  What rare titles do you have?
• Where do you store your collection? Any unusual storage ideas?
• Rare titles?
• Here are my favorites:  What do you do with your dvds or video games that are too cheap to sell?  Coasters?  Shooting practice targets?
• Are there any charitable foundations you donate your DVD and Games to?
• Why are you selling your collection? Upgrading to blu-ray? Converting to digital?  Content using Netflicks?

Be natural and make this fun. Whatever is fun for you is good to qualify.  Just make it entertaining and give us a mention. The bizare videos usually make it to the top. 

Personalize it. We would love to see you!  A simple online transaction on how to sell your DVDs can often be dull material so one of the ideas above might be the best. 

Maximum video length is just one minute

submit to  dollarbonus@mx123.com

Earn a bonus! Tell your Friends about mx123

By Chris Janota, mx123.com

Earn a bonus on your payment when you spread the word about MX123.com. First complete your sell order on our website. Second, spread the word about MX123 on any social media sites. Third, send us proof of the post you made.

For example you could make a short Youtube video of your mx123 transaction with your mobile phone camera earning you $20.  Then post that video to Facebook for another $3.     

 More info.

 

Get FAST mx123 prices: FREE mobile phone app

By Chris Janota, mx123.com

This FREE mobile phone app provides FAST mx123.com pricing
on DVDs and video games by turning your mobile phone’s camera into a barcode scanner and accessing our database.

It’s great to use at library sales, thrift shops, and garage sales to quickly determine value and profitable resale opportunities. Or just to manage your collection. 

For more information view the video or visit MediaScanner at http://mediascanner.navigapp.com

New mx123.com fundraising opportunity

Raise Funds for Your Organization by Collecting DVD, Book, and CD Donations.

By Chris Janota, mx123.com

MX123.com is now offering a perfect way to raise money for a non-profit, children’s group, sporting team, or school organization by sponsoring and helping you organize a Media Drive.  Most households have piles of old DVDs, books and CDs that are just sitting collecting dust and our fundraiser puts those unwanted items to good use.

Collecting donations for your Media Drive helps address your school fundraising needs, sets a good example about reuse to our kids, and could mean significant tax savings for the donor. Clearly a win-win-win.

Visit our new fundraising site.

Get a Barcode Scanner!

2. Just $34.95 to buy. $9.95 to rent

This economical FG8100 barcode scanner is highly recomended by MX123 to quickly and reliably input UPC codes.  Plug the scanner into any USB port of your computer to quickly scan your items.

How to get one:
1) Make payment through Paypal or credit card with the “buy now”
button on this page. Then we will ship it Priority Mail to your door!

2) Plug the scanner into any USB port of your pc computer to quickly
scan your items.

3) If you choose to rent it, simply return the scanner along with your
shipment and get a $25 credit to your sell order.

Historical Pricing for DVDs and Games

By Chris Janota, mx123.com

Here’s an interesting new feature we just added.    You can now view our historical buy prices for each item in our database.  You can view what we have paid  going back to 2006 for some items.   We randomly selected these historical dates and plan to add more dates soon. 

 

This data is found under each items specific details page at mx123.com.

New Expedited Sell Option

We just unveiled a new expedited selling process geared towards dvd, video game, cd and book sellers  that allow you to sell items without loading upc numbers into our website.  This new expedited checkout still locks you into the prices quoted on our website for that day.  NOTE: This new sell cart is OPTIONAL.   This method will not create a price list like the original method does that can be useful in determining what items to sell.

New video: R.I.P. Joe Giggles

By Chris Janota, mx123.com

The Joe Giggles clown head was stolen out of the MX123 van yesterday. A reward is being offered for infomation leading to the recovery of the clown head. Video: Remembering Joe: He loved his DVDs

How to Care For Your Burnt Media

It has only been in the last few years that many digitisation projects have taken a serious approach to digital preservation.  In that time CD-R quickly become the most common optical media for preserving digital images. More recently there has been a move towards DVD-R due to the additional space that it offers.  The popularity of both these media is largely due to their ease of use and low cost.  However during this time, there has been a steady flow of worrying reports of ‘lost data’ or ‘unreadable disks’, which has lead to the reliability of laser-burnt media being questioned.

Much of this worry has been centred on the choice of disc manufacturer and the construction method used to create the disc.  Of course a project should always buy the best and most reliable discs it can find. However, it should be remembered that loss of digital data stored on optical media is far more likely to be caused by bad storage rather than by badly manufactured discs in the first place.  Optical media can provide reliable back up at a reasonable cost as long as great care and attention is paid to storing them correctly.

Disc quality, the type of dye used on the underside of the disc, storage method, storage environment and what you use to mark the disc all have their effect on the disc’s shelf life. For example, only a felt-tip water based marker on the label side of the CD-R should be used, ideally on the clear inner part near the center. Permanent markers (like Sharpies) should be avoided. Paper labels should always be applied to the jewel case, never to the disc itself. While manufacturers may sell circular adhesive labels, solvents in the paper, adhesives or inks can all degrade the disc. Uneven application of the labels can also cause read/write errors or even damaging the player itself.  

Please note that it is illegal to make a DVD of commercially produced material or material otherwise protected by copyright. This includes MP3 files, videos, TV shows, etc.

New video: how to sell your video games

Professional gamer Joe Giggles the clown makes an appearence on talk show MX123 and shows how easy it is to sell your used video games.