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Thinking about selling Vinyl collection - long

I am a new member, but have been lurking here for over 5 years now. I've been long debating whether or not to get back into using my LPs again - but don't think that I'm really up for the hassle. I am going to catalogue them after we get back from a short trip to NE to see our son in graduate school. I'm not looking forward to the cataloging - if memory serves I have somewhere north of 500 or so LPs. I started collecting circa 1968 - rock, folk, jazz, celtic, fusion - etc.

I went to work after college for Audio Associates in Arlington,VA - had many good TTs - Rabco, Thorens 125w/SME - etc. - Just don't listen to LPs anymore - I doubt if any are below average in condition - some - like Hendrix Electric Ladyland import and French Stones set might have been played once.

So my question is this - what's the best way to sell them after I come up with the list of what I have?

Thanks for the advice - and for all the info and fun I've had over the years reading here!
kencrouch
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mapman
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If they are in good condition, and are good pressings, you might be surprised what some less common titles or special pressings might go for on ebay.

I'd spend some time looking at prices for these on ebay and sell those that have value individually and put the rest in a lot or lots. If you don't have time, find someone who collects and ask them to help identify any diamonds in the rough more quickly with you.
kencrouch OP
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Thanks for the suggestions - I just spent about 8 hours going through and listing them on Excel and ended up with 490 or so titles. I've decided to list them first as a group here on A'gon in the next couple of days and e-mail a listing to anyone interested in the whole lot.

Thanks again
ken
maineiac
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You or I must be crazy because you can't see why you should keep those great LPs and I can't imagine being without vinyl. It sounds like you have a very nice collection, the money you would get for them wouldn't come close to the enjoyment you could have with a modest LP cleaning system and a decent playback system isn't too much of a hassle.
kencrouch OP
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Maineiac -
I do have much great music and it has been somewhat of a back-and-forth to try to decide what to do. I haven't used them in the better part of 20 years and I don't think I'm going to go back to changing records every 20 or so minutes. I'm probably going to go PC/server based - although some of the music like old Mayall, original Fleetwood Mac(pre-Stevie Nicks), some ECM and CTI and others are probably going to be hard to find.

At least that's the way I'm leaning now.
Ken
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mapman
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If you go to a server, make sure you have hard copy backup capabilities. Otherwise, if the server dies and your source material (records or CDs) are gone, you could lose material.
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