Hi folks.
I have realised that as of yesterday when I sold my car, I now don’t have any CD players in my life. I very rarely used it anyway, so this day has been coming sooner or later. I’ve got a load of CDs stored in the loft. About 500, not thousands. Some are sort of rare although not very sought after, but 99.9% of them are standard-issue 90s, 2000s and 2010s rock, metal and alternative albums that most folk my age probably own or used to own.
I’m thinking I pull out any interesting ones and then Music Magpie the rest of them in one go. I’ll probably only get about £50, but I can’t face selling them individually… I don’t think.
Has anyone done this recently that could offer me some advice?
Many thanks.
Andy
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Hope this helps
Grampa
500, listed for sale individually. You might sell half of them for perhaps £2 ea on average. = £500. The rest you try to persuade a charity shop to take.
Time taken to list them (wherever), update the list when one sells, put it in a mailer and post it = £ ? hours.
How much of your time is worth £500, and when will you get around to finding the time to do it?
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I need to shift a load too, just because I keep buying them and have run out of storage space, extra storage space, and the space I keep all the ones that I can't fit in anywhere else.
I'll probably create a few "bundles", each a mix of genres, and put them on here at a 50-for-£50 sort of deal in the hope that there'll be enough individual CDs in each bundle to tempt someone into buying a bundle and listening to stuff that they probably wouldn't otherwise bother with.
(I imagine that stuff you kept back would be quite different / interesting!)
Not a dealer, just a music but who like to own physical copies
I am going to dig them out this weekend and will most likely bundle them into similar stuff. I’ll come back to this thread with some sort of update with pics and info.
Cheers!
Andy
If you are selling I think the best way these days is to pile them up and take quick photos showing all the spines. Far easier than typing out stuff.
Do charity shops take anything, or are they fussy too?
Extreme hoarders... compact discs... when it comes and if it's a fretboarder then I'll watch...
I watched the show once, where the guy clearly needed help with his mental health, owned four houses in a village all full of crap and lived a miserable life eating beans cooked on a camping stove in a room full of dry paper, so waiting to be immolated basically. I felt incredibly sorry for him and it was all very sad, so never watched again.
Apparently one person hoarded and ate their own poop, so they at least did one to make anyone with forty years worth of magazines feel a bit normal...
Very much depends how many copies of Robbie William's swing album, Toploader, Orson and the Best of folk bands, military wives etc etc they already have...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I do feel slightly better now you've said that.
TBF - I love Achilles Heel by Toploader, great song, just in case their guitarist is a member