What to do with a large collection

@rvpiano Discogs site gives you opportunity to create your own collection, meaning to exactly catalogue it by edition and in the same time they provide you information about its resale value based on those same editions that were sold there.

You just need to read the number on your cd and with few clicks you will be ’building’ your personal collection, you will get the data for the lowest, medium and maximum amount for every cd.

Than, you may post all your collection for sale there, if you choose so. No trouble at all and when somebody buys any cd, you will get the money and than you send it.

I am still buying cd’s and the ones that are missing from my collection are sometimes quite expensive. Check the values of cd's in your collection, you might be pleasantly surprised. Best of luck

Tomcy6,

Good way to look at it.

@rvpiano 

”I have to decide if I want to sell in bulk or individually.  It seems a shame to have forked over so much money and wind up with nothing.”

Well, if you consider the hours, days, weeks spent searching for, buying, then listening to and appreciating the music on CD/vinyl you collected over a lifetime, that’s not really nothing.

I knew a guy once who used to collect little gummed pieces of paper used for postage in many countries before digitally-printed labels, another who collected rocks, “minerals, gems”. The value of a thing is what we (or a buyer) places in the thing, and we (most of us, anyway) don’t pursue our hobbies as a means of paying for our retirement.

I know what you’re saying though. The guy I bought my Thorens TD125 MkII turntable from several years ago got it from an estate sale. He also got about a thousand classical LPs he didn’t know what to do with. The deceased had been a conductor of a local symphony orchestra and had accumulated quite the collection of high-end audio gear.

None of which - obviously - would fit in his coffin. Imagine future archaeologists finding skeletal remains with remnants of (probably still intact and playable) LPs wondering what religious significance they held for primitive people.

I thought about offering him like ten cents an LP, but we discussed ways of selling on eBay, Discogs, a yard sale or at his antique shop over the next couple of years.

It could be worse for you though, it’s not like buying insurance that never pays off.

Good luck 

I’ve tried giving away Classical CDs as I burned them to a server.  As per the OP, even libraries and charities aren’t interested.  My heirs will be stuck with a few thousand.

I try to sell mine but the job asked for doing it was too much for me and at a ridiculously low price...

Those who are not streaming or listening files buy only vinyls...

Digital is immaterial, no fetichism here, a vinyl  album is a cult object and keep some value ...Even when it is on a wall and not playing ...

I dump all my remaining cd in bulk in a ONG for the poor ...many thousands ...😊

I now live with many thousands lossless files...