Plan B - How much to rip all your CDs to a harddrive?

[NickFitz]

Can you imagine all the different customers CDs got mixed up though! Imagine they all landed on the floor in a huge pile. Disastor!!

When you're collecting the CDs from the customer, get them to watch as you punch a hole in each one and attach a tag with a cable tie. That way they can be sure they'll get the same one back.

(Obviously you can't use the existing hole in the CD, as then it wouldn't fit on the spindle.)

[aussielong]

When you're collecting the CDs from the customer, get them to watch as you punch a hole in each one and attach a tag with a cable tie. That way they can be sure they'll get the same one back.

(Obviously you can't use the existing hole in the CD, as then it wouldn't fit on the spindle.)

Wouldn't even need to do that. Could simply write the owners mobile number on each of them with indelible marker.

[Spacecadet]

Wouldn't even need to do that. Could simply write the owners mobile number on each of them with indelible marker.

When I was a kid the police were quite keen on stamping peoples postcodes on the bottom of owners bikes so that the bike could be returned if stolen (if the police actually found it that is!)
Anyway, all it consisted of was a box of short metal rods with a letter embossed on the end, the letter end was presented to the bike and then the other end struck hard with a hammer, thus leaving a mark on the bike in the shape of that letter.
Anyway, you should be able to pick up these kits for next to nothing and you can mark the CD's with the customers details with those.

[Spacecadet]

Can you imagine all the different customers CDs got mixed up though! Imagine they all landed on the floor in a huge pile. Disastor!!

This is why you work in IT and not Business

Any apprentice candidate will tell you that you should offer a CD digitisation and disposal service. After all once the CD's have been copied to a drive who needs the actual optical media anymore?

Of course the CD's can be disposed of in cash converters next door

[xoggoth]

Has anyone tried hurling a CD off Clifton suspension bridge? If you did that with half an LP it was great, they flew slowly down twirling round and round like bats.

PS It always seems a shame to throw CDs away. There should be a use for them as they look so nice and shiny. But apart from cheap beer mats I can't think of anything.

[DimPrawn]

Has anyone tried hurling a CD off Clifton suspension bridge? If you did that with half an LP it was great, they flew slowly down twirling round and round like bats.

PS It always seems a shame to throw CDs away. There should be a use for them as they look so nice and shiny. But apart from cheap beer mats I can't think of anything.

I have stuck several CDs low down to a fence in a shady part of my garden which reflects sunlight onto the normally shaded flower bed. The extra sunlight makes plants that usually grow in full sun to thrive in the shady area.

[Sysman]

Has anyone tried hurling a CD off Clifton suspension bridge? If you did that with half an LP it was great, they flew slowly down twirling round and round like bats.

Not CD's or Bristol, but a chappati left over from the previous day flies well off the top of Malham Cove:

PS It always seems a shame to throw CDs away. There should be a use for them as they look so nice and shiny. But apart from cheap beer mats I can't think of anything.

Don't use your own microwave for this but you cn use them to study the Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Microwave Excitation of Compact Disks. They make a pretty good light show in the process.

[lukemg]

I doubt the one client a quarter that this business is likely to get will leave much opportunity for the disaster described.....and for that reason I'm out.

[EternalOptimist]

I'd slip in a few pictures from Gary Glitters collection, then blackmail them forever.

I'd target bankers, politicians and trainspotters

[RichardCranium]

My Dad hangs CDs from bamboo canes by string over his fruit & veg as bird scarers.

I don't know if they have to be specific CDs, but he likes a lot of brass band music and Wagner and Joe Loss and I suspect the birds aren't keen on that.