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Selling an 800+ CD lot: My experience

Repulsed? That's a bit extreme.
I stream very little, but it's a wonderful alternative for being able to listen to something you can't locate otherwise or
preview before an actual purchase.


For the music you claim to be so rare, expensive, and esoteric.
I highly doubt it was ever part of the loudness wars.
That crap is mostly limited to the every day popular varieties.
Your extremely negative view of streaming seems a bit distorted and possibly the result of no hands on experience.
Whatever ____________
Not claiming the style of music i listen is rare, expensive, and esoteric but original , non-remastered/compressed editions of those bands i listen that were released many years ago and are long out of print always hold crazy value ,paradoxically because nowadays thanks to the internet they are more popular than years ago.
 
Come to think of it, I did sell a disc separately from the 800+ bulk sale recently.

I got $50 for a 24K gold CD of Rush's Moving Pictures on MoFi.

I remember getting that one at a rummage sale, where that disc was sitting in a box of others, all marked 6 CDs for $1. And it was in mint condition, of course.
i would recommend adding your collection to discogs and verify if all of it is as worthless as you think,
 
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Not claiming the style of music i listen is rare, expensive, and esoteric but original , non-remastered/compressed editions of those bands i listen that were released many years ago and are long out of print always hold crazy value ,paradoxically because nowadays thanks to the internet they are more popular than years ago.
OK, the original post made me think of very old or classical genre recordings where I oft hear things like that posted.
I would call pop CD's at $100-150 expensive. LOL
I've always found patience and surfing ebay for stuff like that rewarding.
 
i would recomment adding your collection to discogs and verify if all of it is as worthless as you think,
I have a box of 400 CDs left in the basement. My guess is 3 or 4 have real value like the MoFi Rush example. Maybe a couple more. I’d curate before just selling the lot of them.
 
I volunteer at the local library for bi-monthly "book" sales that also include audio-video media. We accept books, CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, audio books and sheet music and sell them for very cheap.

Interesting -- here in St. Louis the library system will not accept donated CDs & DVDs for copyright reasons since they did not pay the artist via new purchase. (This is from some years ago when I tried to give them 100 or so of my CDs.)
 
Interesting -- here in St. Louis the library system will not accept donated CDs & DVDs for copyright reasons since they did not pay the artist via new purchase. (This is from some years ago when I tried to give them 100 or so of my CDs.)
Do they pay authors for books? Seems odd. Just saying.
 
Repulsed? That's a bit extreme.
I stream very little, but it's a wonderful alternative for being able to listen to something you can't locate otherwise or
preview before an actual purchase.
yep i am repulsed by those streaming corporations... a nice vid about spotify
 
I have been struggling with approaching this problem for a while. I'm not sure I can bear to sell my collection in bulk, on the other hand it definitely won't make financial sense as a use of my time if I sell each individually on discogs/EBay.

I recently sold off the bulk of my far smaller DVD/Blu-ray collection as a warm up, and maybe 30% went for a buck or two via ebay, 40% went for a reasonable used price (say 50% of new), 10-20% did not sell and went to Goodwill. Maybe 5% were in the psychologically tricky Jackpot category, where I had frenzied auctions and pleading emails for the item. I sold a few blu-rays for 80-$150 dollars, and one box set for $250+. These are frustrating because they are so memorable and give you the false impression that everything is worth something.

I don't have super mainstream tastes so it's likely at least a few of my CDs would fall into this category.

I was hoping for a bar code driven software system that would allow me to just scan a CD and have it fire up an EBay auction with reasonably complete meta data, but I've looked and nobody seems to have built such a thing that I can find.
 
I was hoping for a bar code driven software system that would allow me to just scan a CD and have it fire up an EBay auction with reasonably complete meta data, but I've looked and nobody seems to have built such a thing that I can find.
As was mentioned before Discogs has such a system but not like a barcode deal, but metadata and sales all from one tab on your browser.
 
Do they pay authors for books? Seems odd. Just saying.

Couldn't tell you. I just moved on to other things. However, this was a decade or two ago so perhaps was tied to the time when the RIAA and others were filing lawsuits left and right against Napster and even individuals for "sharing" music. I can see the library's management and their attorneys being extra cautious about music and videos versus the relationship between libraries and printed material having been well established for centuries. For all I know maybe they now have a different set of rules in place.
 
Couldn't tell you. I just moved on to other things. However, this was a decade or two ago so perhaps was tied to the time when the RIAA and others were filing lawsuits left and right against Napster and even individuals for "sharing" music. I can see the library's management and their attorneys being extra cautious about music and videos versus the relationship between libraries and printed material having been well established for centuries. For all I know maybe they now have a different set of rules in place.
My library takes them and loans them out just like books, here on the coast South of San Francisco. They also have book and CD sales in the parking lot a couple times a year.
 
(In a free market everybody wins!!!)
I'm hoping that one day we can meet and have a nice little talk about this. There was a 'free market' during the Great Depression. Very few people won. The fact of the matter is, a 'free market' only works well if everyone has the money to participate in it. This is not -- and has never been -- the case.
 
As was mentioned before Discogs has such a system but not like a barcode deal, but metadata and sales all from one tab on your browser.
The Discogs app lets you scan barcodes to catalog your collection. Which is how I add my cds, unless they have no barcode, then it's a bit more work.
 
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