Best Option To Liquidate CD Collection

Onhwy61,

You don't like capitalism, do what do you care? If everyone gets free music, then the system is fair, no?

"Amazon apparently has a plan to warehouse the discs and ship for you. Anyone tried that?"

Amazon fees are very expensive. Unless you have CD's that sell for a lot of money, you'll just be giving them away. I would not be so fast to sell them anyway. People find out that they didn't rip their CD's properly and have to go back and redo them all the time. Also, not everyone likes computer audio. Keep the CD's for at least another year or two.

"These old self-righteous delusive people speaking out here have no life and need something to believe in no matter how
retarded their automatonophobiatic puppet strings are pulled."

And you're getting all this from reading and posting opinions in threads talking about stereo equipment? What makes you any different? You're posting too.

"there's BIGGER things in this world to worry about for Allah's sake...."

Who's Allah? The name sounds familiar. Does he make cables?

"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.

Its probably worth noting that the people record companies are going after are file sharers. In order to win a law suit, you need to show damages. So, if a person has a few burned CD's that fit the definition of illegal, the damage is very small. There's no way record companies co go after that type of thing. The dollar amounts are just not there. No so with file sharing. If you upload 1 CD and share it, it has the potential hurt sales of thousands, or possibly millions of CD's. Those are the people that companies go after.

"What about all those CD's I purchased early on that the foil separated from the plastic. The record company's never gave me new product or my money back. I even wrote them letters about it and got not replies. If the record companies are not honest ...."

When you bought the CD's, were they supposed to come with a lifetime warranty? If they were covered, I can't imagine that they would give you new CD's without sending them your defective ones.

"08-22-14: Jperry
Could you post a list of recording companies I can feel good about cheating, and a list of the ones that I should feel bad about cheating (maybe artist owned?). Thanks."

You have to cheat them all, even the good ones. Otherwise you'll have a discrimination lawsuit to deal with, as well.

Now I know why my uncle Vinny always tells me to have people meet me under the bridge with the money in a brown paper bag and not tell anyone. At this point, Blueskiephd, I think you should just go down to your nearest FBI office and turn yourself in. Something tells me that if you so much as walk out your front door with a CD in hand, the SWAT team will take you out.

What happens if he gets divorced and his ex wife gets the computer and he gets to keep the CD's. Assume also that the wife has no idea that the music on the HD was ripped from her husbands collection. For all she knows, they were downloads that were paid for.