Best Option To Liquidate CD Collection

Czarivey said

I would pick up the record, record it onto cassette and kept the record till I wanted to purchase different one playing just a cassette after the record was opened and recorded.

Your economic situation has no relevance to the discussion. Making a copy onto cassette to use it in your car is, in my opinion as a non-lawyer, clearly within the fair use exemption allowing reproduction of copyrighted material. Re-selling it and keeping the reproduction is not. While the legal system cannot prevent people from committing an illegal act, that does not make it legal, ethical or moral. You've clearly failed the honor system test and your actions are part of the reason those of us who passed have to deal w copy-protection and DRM and etc. Thanks, dude.

You can't control seller from copying material one wants to sell(and still want to listen). One who just want to listen to music has a right to be happy with burned CD or recorded cassette for PERSONAL use. That is considred to be legal anywhere you go.

Now I'm remembering the litigation back in the 80's regarding home recording to cassette and the recording of video rentals. The court ruled that it was legal to keep a copy for your personal use.

In the case of VHS movie rentals, it was also legal to keep a copy for personal use. That's when the movie studios started to use "Copyguard" on VHS rentals. The most effective system distorted the vertical sync on the tape enabling it to play, but couldn't be recorded. Next, copyguard was applied to DVD rentals but was too expensive to apply to every DVD released.

We are less than 10 heads away from CDs becoming entirely irrelevant and I will tell you why. If you could have access to virtually every recording ever made and steam that music in CD resolution or higher would you still want to own CDs? Why on earth would you. The one and only reason I buy and own CDs is because mog and spotify don't stream uncompressed music. Once they do, I'm done owning or buying music. No reason to.

10 years. Damn autocorrect!

"Now I want to sell the entire collection of appx.
800 discs. A nice mix of genres, some originals, some remasters, a few box sets, some with dvds
Has anyone had good success doing this in bulk? Of course
pricing is always the sticking point."

Break your collection up into several smaller groups. Make each group consist of material that's all related. For example, say you have 100 classical CD's in your collection, along with another 100 in heavy metal. If you sold it all in 1 big lot, chances are that whoever buys it won't pay as much for it. Someone may want your classical cd's only. But if you force the buyer to take them all, they won't pay as much.

Given that, I think ebay is definitely the way to go. You reach a huge amount of people with ebay, and the auction format doesn't lock you into a single price. You have the potential get more for you cd's than you thought.

If you don't already have an ebay account you'll have to create one. That means you won't have any feedback. Before you list your CD's, buy a few things on ebay first. That way you can get some feedback on your account. Also, don't list all of your CD's at once. List just 1 lot at a time. Doing it this way, you'll be able to add more feedback to your account. When you sell your 2nd lot you now have the feedback from the first sale on your account. Not only that, when people see that you've already sold some cd's and have good feedback for the sale, they're more likely to trust you, resulting in higher bids on your items.