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SELLING IT ALL

Hi, all: I am in East Texas. My husband has so much equipment I can’t even spreadsheet it all. He is now in a nursing home with dementia and will not be coming home. I want to sell all the equipment, and am a motivated seller. Some of the brands: Marantz, Bryston, Linn Klout, Linn Kairn, Linn Magic, Linn Keil, Parasound, Theil, Klipsch, Polk Audio, Cambridge, Audio Research. Then lower end stuff like Sony, Yamaha, Onkyo, Teac, etc. Miles of cables/interconnects (Audio Magic, Audio Quest, Toslink, and others -- hard to inventory. Best ones are not on this list because they are behind equipment.) Lots of power wedges. DACs, power conditioners, and misc. other stuff like racks.
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bastereo
kingbarbuda
515 posts
 
I do not recommend The Music Room (TMR). They are a middle man so they give no where near Audiogon Bluebook value or eBay sold listing value for your gear. I have gone to them twice looking to do a deal with them. Others apparently like them. I guess they are ok if you don’t care about fair value and just want someone to give you something to take your gear from you. But for me, I much prefer selling my gear myself. I agree with the recommendations of posting for free on usaudiomart and specifying local pickup. Sorry to hear about your husband, OP. My father in law went through the same battle. 
p_s
22 posts
 
You clearly understand that this is specialized equipment, and a dealer or estate broker is going to eat a big chunk of your proceeds.

*If* you aren't in a huge hurry and you want to maximize your profit here, you're best off finding a relatively bright college kid who you trust (do you have someone like that in your network?).

Have him or her value this stuff using Audiogon's bluebook and eBay's completed auction listings,  and list it in the appropriate places (and pack and ship everything) for a 10% cut (to keep the incentives aligned).

You could get 80% of it out of your house in a month that way. 

Anyway, that's what I'd do.
don_c55
1,025 posts
 
hifishark.com  for prices

Audiogon for sales

cragslist is for getting screwed
flembo
18 posts
 
bastereo,

I wouldn't get in too much of a hurry. I'd subscribe to the blue book and get some idea of used prices, then go about pricing things to move, i.e. a discount from the blue book prices. But I would not sell quick for whatever I could get. You deserve to get some money back out of the stuff I think...
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curiousjim
5,071 posts
 
So sorry to hear about your husband.  We went through it with my mother.

If you get some ideas on what things are worth, Craig’s list is free and usaudiomart.com charges like 1 or 2% and you can specify pickup only on both.

All the best.

JD
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