iPodMeister – Exchange used CD’s and DVD’s for iPod Nano, iPod Touch, iPhone 3G/3Gs or a Hard Disk Drive!

Posted by Abbas || November 18, 2009 || (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)  Loading ...

Internet is an amazing place. Here you meet people with the brightest of minds that come up with the most creative concepts. While quite a few of these concepts have a mass appeal only few manage to show impressive numbers on the balance sheet at the end of the year.

The concept we are going to discuss today falls into the category where only few manage to get you excited about the concept and keep the excitement alive when it comes to seeing the records at the end of the year.

iPodMeister operates on a very interesting business model of exchanging used CD’s and DVD’s for iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPhone 3G/3G S and HDD’s.

Users interested in exchange are supposed to send an e-mail to promo@ipodmeister.com with the following information to receive free Fedex shipping labels. (Don’t even spend on shipping)

• First + last name
• Complete address
• Phone number (required)
• Number of CDs and DVDs in each box
• Number of boxes

Once the boxes and labels arrive, just put the CD’s or DVD’s and ship it back. Users will receive the exchange item as per their request or based on the exchange chart.

Senders should also be careful with the quality of the stuff they are sending in. Company requires the senders to make sure they qualify before they send their material in.

Here are few of the things that will get your stuff disqualified

• We do NOT accept CD singles or radio edits.
• We do NOT accept CDs that have been put in albums or case logic binders.
• We do NOT accept compilations, from stores such as Virgin Records, GAP, Victoria’s Secret, etc.  We do accept CDs issued by Time Warner or Starbucks.
• We don’t take CDs which have your initials written on the CD/Cover Art or bear labels or stickers.

Click here to read more about eligible CD’s

Users who send music to iPodMeister can also request a digitized version of their music. In this case senders will receive a set of back-up DVD’s of original sound tracks they sent in. But you will have to shell out more CD’s or DVD’s than you otherwise will.

See the following chart to see how many CDs or DVDs will get you an iPhone, iPod, Touch, etc..

Click to enlarge

You can even make up by paying if you are falling short of DVD’s or CD’s. For example if you want an iPhone 3G S 32GB and only have 300 CD’s you can make up by paying $1 per CD, in this case you would end up paying $50 with 300 CD’s to get an iPhone.

You can pay for up to 50 CD’s or DVD’s only, not more than that.

I don’t know how legit the service is but I haven’t seen anyone complaining or alerting about the service on any online forums or blogs.

I decided to call on the number mentioned on the site to know more about it and if you thought just the concept was interesting, read further to know about the interesting stuff that goes on in the background.

I talk to Kris, founder of iPodMeister. Kris was kind enough to share some background information about iPodMeister.

iPodMeister is a student effort and it was formed to help the involved students pay off their educational expenses without taking a loan. There are about 6 students involved (core-team) from institutions like Queens College, LaGuardia, NYU, Colombia, etc..

That’s the core team – 6th member is behind the camera I guess! (click to enlarge)

Once the CD’s/DVD’s are acquired from the senders they are packed in the containers of at least 20,000 CD’s or DVD’s each and shipped to countries like Jamaica, Ecuador, Colombia, Italy, Switzerland, Europe, Tiwan, Korea, etc.. where these CD’s and DVD’s are sold for a cheaper price and still manage to make enough profits to keep the cycle running.

iPodMeister has strong ties with the buyers in several countries which keep the business going. According to Kris, iPodMiester has shipped thousands of containers to the countries listed above and they are still going strong.

Overall its an interesting concept that appeals to the masses. I will give it a try soon, click here If you are interested too.

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