Best Option To Liquidate CD Collection

Agree with Lindisfarne on the value of the CDs as back-up. Also question the legality, or at least the ethical aspect, of selling. I believe that if you sell your copies you don't really 'own' the burnt copies. I understand many people go to the library and check out copies to burn. I feel a little uncomfortable with that as I would selling my copies.

Ok some good comments but no one has answered my question .....have you sold your collection? I do not have the room to store them. All music is backed up on spare hard drives.
Are you saving your 8 tracks and cassettes too.

To answer your question, the amount you'll gain from selling your collection is directly proportional to the amount of work you put in selling it. If you want to sell in bulk you're not going to maximize your return. Why would anyone pay you top dollar if they have to turn around and do the work to sell them individually? Selling your cd collection is no different form selling any other category of collectible. It's a pain in the rump to list and sell each cd on Ebay or Amazon, but it's the only way you're going to get more than pennies on the dollar. I've known several individuals trying to sell their music collections and the results are similar. Classical is hard to sell, jazz a little less so, and rock/popular sells the easiest (unless it's Three Dog Night or Barry Manilow etc.) In the end, everyone I've known said it was a lot of work to try and get a decent return.

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It's very easy to list them on discogs. Will take approx few hours since you don't have to supply any pictures of your own.
Just make sure you're listing proper release.
CDs now not easily sold unless your asking price is darn low low. So far my sales from the store 1CD per few hundreds of records and same is online.