My vinyl and CD collection gives me huge pleasure, and I still enjoy adding to it. What ultimately happens to it, I presume you mean when I die, I’m not really bothered about. It will pass onto someone and they can either try and flog it or sling it.
Fair point, although if you had a potential plan for doing something else, and that collection could make it reality? Horses for courses, obvs,
I know. I wasn’t saying don’t do it…more think about it.
Natch! It's certainly not something to do lightly.
Discogs values are calculated based on previously sold items. They don't show which items have held their value and which haven't. They will not give any value at all to an item that has no sales history on Discogs. They also don't take postage costs into account and a lot of sellers seem to be offering at cheaper rates and making it up on the shipping. The high end for my collection currently shows at just over £69k, but you can definitely take that figure with a pinch of salt. I have a huge number of CDs and a world in which most CDs get anywhere near what they may have sold for before streaming allowed me to hoover them up for next to nothing is not returning any time soon.
Not that helpful to your specific question about selling in bulk, but here's my recent experience at any rate.
it does seem fantasy land at times. I use it purely to remember what I’ve got in my collection; I have a few duplicates from my pre-Discogs says.
Probably better than me! Mine just sit in my notes section on my phone.
With CDs I've got a few from my post Discog days. Sometimes I haven't even checked because I've been so sure I don't have it.
I love nothing better than filtering through the crap. When I first started collecting records I mainly collected singles, and back in the late eighties, I had an unexpected afternoon off work and stopped off at a record shop on the way to get the train home. The bloke was getting rid of his huge stock of 7"s and I was in there for hours on the floor going through cardboard boxes. One of my most enjoyable afternoons ever and, I went home with four or five carrier bags full. If memory serves I picked up something like 250 singles for around twenty quid. (about 8p each). That was back when I actually had some quality control and narrower music tastes, so I occasionally think back to how many I rejected that day that I would have taken home now.
Might be worth having some of it valued if you have a decent size collection. I had my collection valued by an independent valuer last year at close to £100k (I have a lot and many originals signed by the likes of Zep and the Stones).
hmmm interesting..
What a great idea. Maybe even have some decks at the wake so spin the vinyl on?
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