bargainguy
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We're packing our house in preparation for a move. That means I had to come to terms with my 800+ CD collection, as it was not coming along.
All my discs have been archived to FLAC files, so I don't need the physical copy anymore. But there is residual value in the physical copy, so why not sell them?
The question became - how do I sell these discs? Do I do it one at a time? Do I sell in bunches? How does this work?
Recently I came across a fellow who buys and resells discs for a living. Didn't know that was a thing!
Told him my dilemma. He says: Sell them all in one lot, and take a huge hit just to get rid of all of them at once. This is what resellers are looking for.
For an 800+ CD lot, he suggested a price of $300. This assumes all the discs are in good order, not missing, mismatched, duplicates, scratched up, etc.
So I constructed a Facebook Marketplace ad. Took a couple pix of the whole lot and posted.
Some interest, but people wanted to know exactly which CDs they were getting. So I switched strategies and put all the CD's in 10 boxes, then took pix of each box so all titles were clearly visible.
That's when interest really perked up. But here's the strange thing - the people who showed interest were not resellers, but instead regular folks just wanting to add to their collection.
The fellow who purchased them today already amassed a collection of 6000+ CDs. But he had specific interest in some of the bands I had near-complete collections of.
So I prepared the lot with resellers in mind, but in the end sold them to someone who just really wanted the music, not a profit margin.
Don't know if this will help anyone here with their music dilemma, but it worked for me.
All my discs have been archived to FLAC files, so I don't need the physical copy anymore. But there is residual value in the physical copy, so why not sell them?
The question became - how do I sell these discs? Do I do it one at a time? Do I sell in bunches? How does this work?
Recently I came across a fellow who buys and resells discs for a living. Didn't know that was a thing!
Told him my dilemma. He says: Sell them all in one lot, and take a huge hit just to get rid of all of them at once. This is what resellers are looking for.
For an 800+ CD lot, he suggested a price of $300. This assumes all the discs are in good order, not missing, mismatched, duplicates, scratched up, etc.
So I constructed a Facebook Marketplace ad. Took a couple pix of the whole lot and posted.
Some interest, but people wanted to know exactly which CDs they were getting. So I switched strategies and put all the CD's in 10 boxes, then took pix of each box so all titles were clearly visible.
That's when interest really perked up. But here's the strange thing - the people who showed interest were not resellers, but instead regular folks just wanting to add to their collection.
The fellow who purchased them today already amassed a collection of 6000+ CDs. But he had specific interest in some of the bands I had near-complete collections of.
So I prepared the lot with resellers in mind, but in the end sold them to someone who just really wanted the music, not a profit margin.
Don't know if this will help anyone here with their music dilemma, but it worked for me.