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In Reply to: RE: Great story... posted by mkuller on July 29, 2015 at 09:52:55
.... the same guy who bought my LPs!!!
He used to own a record selling business but went out of it years ago and now has regular employment. However he had built up a circle of contacts who keep pestering him for more recordings.
The collection was sold for a song - about $2.50 each but I just could not be bothered with e-bay and, sadly, none of my children nor grand children are interested in classical music, so I took the easy option. Not that I'm immediately rich as he has been given terms to pay over 5 years.
He had to make a significant effort to get them - hire a van, spend a day driving to Melbourne, then take the ferry overnight across the water to get to this island state. But he also took back two surplus pairs of electrostatic speakers and a few other items so cleared out more than the CDs. Tasmania is a lovely place to live but its relative isolation comes with heavy freight costs making selling those speakers a difficult proposition to say nothing of the headache packing them. BTW the sale of the speakers was not on the agenda or discussed before he got here.
A nice guy, he stayed here for two nights and loved playing canasta, as my wife and I do. He is a competitive player but yours truly triumphed both evenings although I must confess it was more good luck than superbly skilled playing. Still great fun :-)
What can be more subjective than music? It reflects our individual tastes, says he enjoying many thousand albums on a Meridian Sooloos Server.
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...selling CDs for $2.50 each as about as much as you could possibly get today particularly for a whole collection.
Special ones might have sold for more but a lot would go for $1 or less.
Last time I went to Amoeba in SF with my "bag o' CD's" (a couple of weeks ago), I got less than $1.00/CD IN STORE CREDIT! And, believe me, my CD's are immaculate. :-(
The buyer was kind of apologetic, but said they just have too many CD's right now.
So, yes - but my estimation, John did VERY well!
...I took about 30 CDs, a couple of MoFis and a few other audiophile remasters - $10 cash or $20 credit (I took the cash).
The irony is their CD bins seemed pretty empty and they had none of the classic rock CDs on my list I was looking for.
I think they are on their last legs buying and selling used CDs.
I was down at the Hollywood Amoeba last weekend, first time as I'm closer to the City, and they had all kinds of CD sales going on.
I picked up a half dozen good selections on LP.
See ya. Dave
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