bluesky
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Interesting. I have 150 +/-, M- actual vinyl, ready to go to the used record store right now. Good to know!! Thanks.
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Interesting. I have 150 +/-, M- actual vinyl, ready to go to the used record store right now. Good to know!! Thanks.
Get prepared to get paid a pittance for them. My experience is that you get less than 25% of Discogs/eBay pricing, but it beats messing with a garage sale or even FB Marketplace no shows....
Anytime you sell anything in bulk you get pennies on the dollar.
People underestimate how much time it takes to sell large lots one piece at a time and researching individual price trends while figuring out physical condition. Assuming people buy the lot to flip them. You would get more from a new collector who doesn't have duplicates and likes the same type of music.
If you want to maximize your money you sell off the top 1-5% individually and then just give away the rest or sell in bulk.
Back when I was looking over thrift store CD racks looking for PC game disks that get stuffed in there all I seen were gospel music and real old country CDs. I never even looked at their vinyl since I was never into it and the only record player I had was a plastic kid's toy with a floppy Burger Chef and Geff record in it. Considering people my age are starting to kick the bucket I expect a flood of 80's rock to hit thrift stores sooner or later.
People underestimate how much time it takes to sell large lots one piece at a time and researching individual price trends while figuring out physical condition. Assuming people buy the lot to flip them. You would get more from a new collector who doesn't have duplicates and likes the same type of music.
If you want to maximize your money you sell off the top 1-5% individually and then just give away the rest or sell in bulk.
Back when I was looking over thrift store CD racks looking for PC game disks that get stuffed in there all I seen were gospel music and real old country CDs. I never even looked at their vinyl since I was never into it and the only record player I had was a plastic kid's toy with a floppy Burger Chef and Geff record in it. Considering people my age are starting to kick the bucket I expect a flood of 80's rock to hit thrift stores sooner or later.
M70AB2
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I loved Burger Chef.
There is one left, so to speak, in Cleveland, Tennessee.
My family and I will be in the area this time next week, so I may insist on a visit.
Definitely got decent money for a bunch of promo vinyl and cassettes from when I was a newspaper music reviewer.
I suppose you just have to hit the right stores.
Ilikevinyl
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Loved Burger Chef too. Ate there all the time when I was a kid back in the late '60s & '70s. Closed in the late '70s I think.
bluesky
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The albums I'm taking in are 'good titles' but 'older titles', mostly 70s for rock. Also have 30 not great jazz albums, some good country, international, a little bit of everything. Just want to see how it goes - test the waters. Nothing I don't mind losing - don't listen to them anymore anyway Just taking up shelf space.
So about how much to they pay for albums in general - all vinyl pristine, covers in various states most VG to VG+. Some covers like new, some beaters, a few non-existent. I've never sold before or even bought in used stores really.
bluesky
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Great Idea!!
Destructor
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When I'm dead all my CD's, albums, vacuum tubes, output transformers, turntable, amps, preamps and receivers are going into the dumpster.
bluesky
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I surely hope not. Someone will carry on the audiophile tradition in your name!!
My wife will get mine for as long as she wants it. Hopefully she gives it to someone who will enjoy it - have a beer for me!!
M70AB2
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This guy is high. (Click for eBay page.)
Someone should mansplain to him how to properly hold a record.
RunOutGroove
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Why do people do that?!!!
DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
I still enjoy CDs as a source, There's no FM worth having a tuner. I gave up on TTs about 20 years ago (for the 3rd and final time). Good or bad, I'm not going back into that. That leaves CD and streaming. I joined Spotsi-Fi a couple years ago and was hoping they would go to HD of some kind. Never did happen. The sound of it has gotten tiresome - and they STILL haven't fixed "random play."
So, lately, listening to CDs much more often.
I live in a massive retirement world, which means lotsa people dying each week, and calling in the estate sale people. I go right to the CD bins when the sale is on the final day (when they really need to move the volume!). What I find is that most of the CDs have never been played...or maybe played once and put away. Usually $2 each. There's also lots of multi-CD sets - which I often like for convenience. I almost never see LPs at these estate sales. When I do, they look like they were used as playground frisbees. Like they have dragged these platters around since 1958.
Buying CDs like this is roughly like buying a used car using the RANDOM selector dial. You might get a Corvette, or you might get a Chevy Spark. It'll have four wheels and it will run, but..........
So, lately, listening to CDs much more often.
I live in a massive retirement world, which means lotsa people dying each week, and calling in the estate sale people. I go right to the CD bins when the sale is on the final day (when they really need to move the volume!). What I find is that most of the CDs have never been played...or maybe played once and put away. Usually $2 each. There's also lots of multi-CD sets - which I often like for convenience. I almost never see LPs at these estate sales. When I do, they look like they were used as playground frisbees. Like they have dragged these platters around since 1958.
Buying CDs like this is roughly like buying a used car using the RANDOM selector dial. You might get a Corvette, or you might get a Chevy Spark. It'll have four wheels and it will run, but..........
Enjoyed reading your exprience, if a bit bleak considering all the leaves falling off the trees around you.
Anyway, perhaps not of interest, but Spotify made high quality audio available a short while ago (not in all regions iirc), I turned it on and noticed a bit of difference here and there. However it (obviously) also massively increased disc space use of downloaded content, so I had to revise which lists actually live on my phone and take a few more steps to clean up which was all in all a bit of a ballache.
Also don't like their shuffle, but their 'song radio' functionality is often nice and sometimes brilliant.
Anyway, enough airtime for the Swedes already. (Spotify is from there.)
DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
Ohh? Interesting - I will have to check my app to see if we are in the zone--THX.
The one other space I find useful for Spotty, is in the CAR. Although 90% of my driving time, I prefer to use as QUIET THINK TIME.
Falling Leaves - LOL. Yeah, we are definitely in REALITY here. Hell, I'm 77 and turning pretty yellowish/gold myself!
bergun
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Blue sky, I truly hope you’re joking about this and if not please reconsider this since that’s trashing history AND your own history. If you’re pizzed-off with family and friends, I highly recommend selling off your stuff once poor health starts to kick in and enjoy the remaining time you have on this planet. Regardless, I do wish you well.
As for the question on the return of CDs, I think there are several factors that is actually influencing this. First, the economy and the reduction of our funds for “hobbies.” Linked to the economy, along with the supply and demand issues, vinyl LPs simply are pricing themselves out of the market, especially within the last four years. Also, used vinyl of popular artists are becoming more and more limited AND costly if found. Plus, a large percentage of members on this forum grew up during the “turntable era” and over the years returned back to vinyl after decades of enjoying CDs Now, that individuals who came of age in the late 1980s and 1990s, they grew up in the “CD era” are now in their 30s and 40s and after decades of compressed MP3s on iPos/iPhones are returning back to CDs.
IMHO, for the same reason why many (Not all) in their 50s, 60s, 70s and so on when we went back to vinyl. Plus, an outstanding CD player costs less than a good turntable setup.
Also, I think people are now realizing that their Apple/Amazon digital libraries are NOT actually theirs, even after paying for it, especially after some of their purchases disappeared from their lists. Another issue is the censorship of several classics to fit within today’s acceptable practices or reworking a song due to copyright/ownership issues. So, owning the original version of a song is becoming important… I have several CDs and even LPs where the song was altered from the original.
I’m sure there are more reason for the current interests in CDs but I think that the return of CDs is real.