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Now that I have all my music on my computer, I have a rather large collection of mostly classical CDs sitting around that I would like to sell. I'm open to selling them one by one or the entire collection at once. Amazon Marketplace seems like an option, but I do not want to have to list them one by one. Can my purchasing a barcode scanner get them listed quickly? My sense is that the market for selling them is poor, and I do not want to invest a lot of time listing them if they will not sell.
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"Humility is the true mark of genius. Just get used to it."
-Anonymous
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I sold mine on Amazon about ten years ago and did pretty well, so the time spent packaging, addressing and mailing them off as orders dribbled in (over 3 month's time) was worth it. Bulk mailers will cost a certain amount, even more if buy individually. Every international order requires tedious filling out of customs forms and breathing in tubercules at the post office as you listen to geezers spend 20 minutes telling the poor clerk that the line would move faster if the Govt wasn't running the post office.Considering what CDs go for now, I'd sell in bulk.
Edits: 10/21/16
"Now that I have all my music on my computer...."
I've heard sad tales of folks who have sold off all their CDs after the music was ripped to disk. Hope you maintain multiple backups that you actually test now and then. ;-)
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"Humility is the true mark of genius. Just get used to it."
-Anonymous
Your best bet is to find a local reseller and sell them in one bulk lot. I sold a few thousand cds years ago one at a time on ebay (one cent auctions). It took me about 6 months of my time and I netted about $900. If I had to do it again I would seriously consider just donating them and taking the tax break from it.
I sold +_ 2000 cd's/sacd's about a year ago, very cheaply 2-4 $ a piece
I had about 1000 left which I donated to a charity.
I think that today it would be even more difficult to sell them.
Glad I did.
I discussed selling my classical CD's with a "re-sale" shop in town. I was told that demand for classical was low and that they would pay $1.00 per CD unless it was something special. They also said the demand for late 20th century music was higher, which surprised me. I suppose there is a glut of Beethoven's Fifth but not too many copies of John Cage's "Four Thirty-three".
You might be better off donating the collection to a local high school music department and taking a charitable write-off.
I married the perfect woman. The downside is everything that goes wrong is my fault.
Edits: 10/06/16
unless I'm down to my last nickel. Forget having to sell off 2000 discs, perhaps one by one and driving down to the post office and dealing with the whole 'did it arrive yet?' thing.
I've got a lot of OOP CDs, SACDs and even LPs/45s that I'll never find again.
If you're buying that TINY HOUSE and downsizing to 500 sq. ft., I can see dumping a large collection, but I'll never sell my software. I'd gladly ditch all of the stereo stuff before I even pass the thought.
Chris
Plus 1!
And you should give that chicken a break.
Jeremy
+2.
I have a small stash of about 25 BMG Music Service popular title classical CDs that I never listen to that will likely wind up becoming Frisbees or tossed in the trash someday when I retire and relocate.
Unless of course someone discovers that they sound so much better than the 'regular' version in which case I should be able to retire on the proceeds from the sale of them plus the rest of my BMG Music Service collection.
For a small fee, I'll put them in clean dry storage for you. In the event that your hard-drive crashes and you need to rip them once again, contact me right here at the AA 24 hour hotline service.
So send them over. I'm waiting.
... because someone here is going to discover a new ripping tweak that is *OMG* the best thing since sliced bread and single-ended tube amps and you're going to be out of luck...
Plus the whole legal/moral issue.
Technically it's stealing. ;)
Cheers,
Presto
I downloaded some illegal music about 10 years ago. I felt guilty and removed them from my collection, but a few weeks ago I found digital copies of all this classical music and did not want to have to re-rip it all and added them back to my collection. However, I emailed the RIAA and told them I wanted to pay restitution to the artists. They never got back to me. I'm a devout Catholic and I also went to confession and told the entire situation to a priest and he told me to sit back and keep waiting for the recording industry to contact me.
Anyway, all these CDs are taking up a lot of space and I want to unload them if I can, perhaps give them to charity.
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"Humility is the true mark of genius. Just get used to it."
-Anonymous
If you have Opera discs and other classical vocal music I might be interested. You can then donate $$ to your favored charity.
PS chamber music too.
;-)
If you are picky about legalities, you are not supposed to retain a copy of the music (server or otherwise) if you sell the original CD. Now, lots of people do that, but not sure how wise it is to publicly announce one's willful infringement.
...you never know when your hard drive might crash. MLSSTL has a very valid point.
There has been a concept called "backups". Ever heard of that?
As for me, I maintain five offline copies in either inexpensive USB thumb drives or hard drives
Disk is really cheap these days. There is no excuse for not backing up your Music Library. You should never have to go back to the actual CD.
Cut-Throat
i sold my whole collection, near 2000 CDs, in a few months; i divided them into genres:
opera, chamber music, instrumental, symphonies, concerts, jazz, rock, etc.,
then i listed all CDs in each genre by using the info already contained on iTunes for each CD,
then i advertised each list with a global price for it; to add the list in PDF to each advertisment is easy,
depending on the place you use; i used the AA trade section as well...
i still remember selling all my operas (600 CDs) to a guy in Barcelona and all my SACDs
(about 300) to a guy in Australia!! but you will need to pack them very well protected,
and some patience...
good luck! paco
scruffy-
think about dividing them into lots od 25, 50 or 100 CDs, per lot.
List them here, as well as, Audiogon.
and make sure you put them together by the genre. I would be interested in Opera and other classical vocal repertoire.
She's sold about a dozen or so. She usually tries to price them in the middle of the existing listings. You're right that CD's do not sell very fast at all, but in my wife's case, all her CD's eventually did sell. (And I'm talking about a time frame of a couple of years, so, from what you say, maybe selling your CD's on Amazon is not for you.)
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