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SELLING IT ALL

Hi, all: I am in East Texas. My husband has so much equipment I can’t even spreadsheet it all. He is now in a nursing home with dementia and will not be coming home. I want to sell all the equipment, and am a motivated seller. Some of the brands: Marantz, Bryston, Linn Klout, Linn Kairn, Linn Magic, Linn Keil, Parasound, Theil, Klipsch, Polk Audio, Cambridge, Audio Research. Then lower end stuff like Sony, Yamaha, Onkyo, Teac, etc. Miles of cables/interconnects (Audio Magic, Audio Quest, Toslink, and others -- hard to inventory. Best ones are not on this list because they are behind equipment.) Lots of power wedges. DACs, power conditioners, and misc. other stuff like racks.
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fiesta75
1,378 posts
 
Best wishes, I went through this with both parents, not fun. Yes AG does charge significant listing and relisting fees, but if the price is right and the equipment is of the caliber you describe, you will find buyers. That being said, you will need to inventory, price, photograph and package everything. That could be more than you want to deal with in your present situation. Best of luck on your decision.
bpoletti
1,552 posts
 
I have a large SUV.  I will pick up ALL YOU R GEAR in one trip.  Everything cleared out.  One price for everything.  Cash with police witnessing, without your risk.  But you need to email me with specifics.  That equipment might be 2 years old or 30 years old.,  Big difference in value.  

Please either post the equipment or email me privately/  
boloe
2 posts
 
Marantz PM11S3 by chance?
dtrandall
43 posts
 
First off, I’m very sorry. What a difficult time.

The tension here is between getting the equipment gone and getting the best price. You seem more interested in clearance so I would suggest making a spreadsheet and then contacting several of the online resellers like audioclassics.com, skyfi, and themusicroom and offering them the entire lot. will you get a good price? No. probably not. But a bulk sell to them will cut out all the time, money and effort involved with listing and selling, carefully boxing snd shipping pieces individually.

I would avoid craigslist (shady and potentially dangerous).
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barts
712 posts
 
Sorry to hear of your troubles, went through the same thing with my father-in-law.

Many good suggestions above.  You didn't mention it, but are there any family members nearby that could step in and help?  I go along with everyone who says that it would be best to catalog everything first: make, model, condition, box/no-box, operating manuals.  Once that is accomplished you can send it off to different entities for evaluation and then chose the most pain free way for you to go.

This is a daunting task, but just think if you did 10 items a day...that would be 100 items in 10 days.  BTW, I'm not suggesting you do this with CDs, but vinyl is another story and could be very valuable.

How do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time!

All the best.

Regards,
barts

 
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