unloading cd collection -- advice needed

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so i'm sick of having to store my cds (roughly 2500 of em) and i recently purchased a 250 gig external drive with plans to sell off my entire cd collection. i'm trying to figure out the best way to handle it. box sets, new stuff, and artist collections i was gonna ebay (i've never ebayed before and am wary of how much time it will take out of my life), the rest either take to record stores here in nyc or contact one of those shifty dealers who comes to your house to buy cds in bulk. what's the best way to sell off these records while getting the most money and taking the least amount of time?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i think E-bay would be like a badly paying job under those circumstances...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

it'll probably take longer to rip all those cds to the drive, no?

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I sense terror and calamity and regret.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

You could try Craigslist NYC...maybe barter a bunch of them for an iPod or something? It's easier than using eBay, cause you can arrange to meet buyers / sellers in person which removes (most) concerns about getting ripped off.

― Graeme (Graeme), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

ripping the cds will take time, yes. but i've thought this through and have decided that it's totally worth it. i don't even PLAY cds anymore -- having an ipod and a stereo connected to my laptop has rendered them useless (and, in a small nyc apartment, unwieldy).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

what are your backup plans for that external drive?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Memories!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

ILM FEARS THE FUTURE

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(as do I)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

There are people who will ebay your stuff for a cut. You'd probably make more money than dumping them at a store, etc. I've never done this though.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I've heard of storefronts that will do the eBay-ing for you. They've started to crop up here in Chicago. Not sure of the details, but if the collection has some discs of value, it may be worth your time...

― frankE (frankE), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

backup plans for drive = another external drive

links on people who will ebay for you?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

(and a friend has a huge amount of server space that i'm going to upload everything to)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i read an article about those companies that ebay stuff for you the other day but i cannot remember where the hell it was - i thought the guardian, but their website reveals nothing. therefore it was probably on a Britich Airways flight last week, which means either their in-flight magazine or the daily mail - good luck!!

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe you should try to sell your CD collection as a whole on ebay, depending on how much you want for them. I had a friend who sold 5000 CDs after spending a solid year burning them all onto new CDRs and replicating the artwork, he netted 12 Gs from someone.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

are you going to rip to mp3 or store them in a non-lossy format like FLAC?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

this is depressing me

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i knew nothing of FLAC until you mentioned it. i will look into how FLAC works with iTunes (i have a mac) and consider it. however, i already have 100gigs worth of mp3s from a friend (we copied his external hd directly onto mine when i bought it).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

How about considering linking a list file to this thread? Just a thought... ;)

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i will once i start in on the ripping process, rest assured.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a friend who sold 5000 CDs after spending a solid year burning them all onto new CDRs and replicating the artwork, he netted 12 Gs from someone.

Yer friend sounds like a total loser. Does he find nifty loopholes to avoid paying income tax too?

― JJ Bittenbinder (King Kobra), Monday, 17 May 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I had some pretty good success with Amazon Marketplace for downsizing my cd collection. Averaged about $7 a cd (after cost of a mailer and postage), and that's much higher than any record store would give me.

If you have any more questions about the process feel free to email me.

― jubal harshaw (jube), Monday, 17 May 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Why change your name to "JJ", KK?

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 17 May 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

ripping to flac -> ~5x the space required to rip to decent mp3 -> 300-500 MB per disc -> 500-800 discs fitting on yr HD. even if you rip to 192kbps mp3, you're still not quite going to make it fit. storage is ever cheaper, but maybe not quite enough yet.

unless you need the money, i would wait. if you need the space, put the cds in binders. cds are still best and safest (for now), plus you don't spend your next year ripping everything.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 May 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

there's also that new apple lossless format

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 May 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

you gotta throw some of 'em away just for the sheer liberating cleansing thrill of it. Seriously.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 17 May 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with s1ocki. You should be fine with .m4a files.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Monday, 17 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

(by the time that m4a is severely outdated, your external harddrive will have likely died anyways)

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Monday, 17 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm not talking about m4a but about this new lossless format apple introduced with itunes4.5 and the new quicktime (files half the size of aiffs)

don't know how it stacks up against flac tho.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i say keep the cds and sell your mp3s.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd sell them on ebay. It's not that hard. Cds are easy to sell and deal with. You don't need to post pictures. Just a brief description. Tell people that you ONLY take paypal (get a paypal account) and that you ONLY ship in the U.S. Easy as pie. Just get a bunch of those little padded mailers that are the perfect size for cds and post the cds on ebay as soon as you have burned them. Start all your cds at 5 bucks. Which is still more than a store would give you and worth the time to slip something into an envelope and send it to Des Moine. (and if you get more than 5 bucks, all the better.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Yancey - Why not just find somebody with a car, a cart them all to Princeton Record Exchange? They'd be gone in an afternoon!

― chuck, Monday, 17 May 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

sell them all through amazon. I've had a lot of success doing this with things that I know I wouldn't get much money for if I sold them at a record store. It's not necessarily the fastest way to get rid of stuff that isn't in high demand, although, you'd be surprised. I'd only Ebay the stuff that you think is very rare or for some reason isn't listed in amazon's database.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

well, the difference between ebay and princeton is several thousand dollars, but it all depends on how much you need the money.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I still find Ebay to be the most lucrative. It IS a little time-consuming, but not as much as you might think. they have a newish system where you can enter the barcode and it posts all the basic details for you.

I wish I could do this. I'm impressed, Yanc3y.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

And how much time you have to devote to it, too, probably, and how SOON you need the money, I would think. (Actually, as somebody who has never sold a thing on e-bay, but who maybe should learn how since brick and mortars won't last forever, I have no idea what I'm talking about. But I always assumed e-bay would be this huge undertaking. Cataloging my CDs one by one would take centuries, at least!)

xpost

― chuck, Monday, 17 May 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The barcode of EACH INDIVIDUAL RECORD, though?? That's insane! Or am I missing something?? (Or do I just sell way more in bulk than most people?) (Three or four boxes full every two weeks, more or less...)

― chuck, Monday, 17 May 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

And do Amazon or Ebay care if anything is a promo, by the way?

― chuck, Monday, 17 May 2004 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

It takes a little time to get the money, but it doesn't take that much time to list cds and put them in envelopes. The post office is another story. As everyone wants priority mail. I'm just saying that cds are really the EASIEST thing to sell on ebay as far as packaging and all that.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

How many of you are storing most if all of your music on your computer?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

People care if it's a promo. if it doesn't have a cover people won't want it as badly unless the album hasn't come out yet. I've only sold regular cds on ebay though. I've never really had any promo that i thought was worth the effort.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

As a somewhat-related aside: If the All Music Guide wanted an ancillary source of income, this would be the place: for a fee, you could go into their complete database, check off the ones you own, and output the results to an Excel spreadsheet or Access database -- voila! A complete archived list of what you own.

I would pay trop de bucks to have this at my disposal.

― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 17 May 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Tell people that you ONLY take paypal (get a paypal account) and that you ONLY ship in the U.S.

I did this and the first batch of CDs I sold I got one guy from Germany and one guy complaining that I didn't accept a money order. I just relisted. People are stupid.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't need the money immediately at all. i just wanna maximize my dollar for my effort. i'm down with scott's idea, and i'm gonna order padded envelopes in bulk soon. part of why i'm doing this: i figure in the next couple of years as computer storage gets cheaper and mp3s become even more prevalent, this will happen more and more, making cds essentially worthless (especially trying to sell them). maybe i'm jumping the gun, but why the fuck not?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Look, deep in my heart I still like regular CD's a great deal, okay?
Is that so wrong?

BTW, J0hn Darn1elle , you have been excelsiored.

― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

yanc3y, which format will be irrelevant sooner: mp3 or CD?

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the company I use for shipping materials.

I have been selling on Ebay for years, my seller rating has just passed 500.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i9 would be interested in some of your cds yanc3y. I can't buy thousands but I am sure I would be interested in a few.

― hector (hector), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

mp3s should be easily converted into another format, gygax, so i don't think it matters so much

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

<quote>for a fee, you could go into their complete database, check off the ones you own, and output the results to an Excel spreadsheet or Access database -- voila! A complete archived list of what you own.</quote>

Discogs.com does this. for free. it's a DJ-centric service, but they're always expanding and they cover a lot.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm addicted to Discogs. All I really need is Discogs and slsk. And a neverending license to geek out.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm such an htmloser.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Yanc3y: I've been in the process of doing the same thing for most of a year. It's a time-eater but pretty worth it, I find. Don't let the hataz get you down!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

People that do this - don't you worry about your HDs??????

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

also, SAVE AND REUSE THE PADDED ENVELOPES that you get from record companies. most of 'em are addressed w/stickers; just rip the stickers off as best you can, or order big stickers and put 'em on over the old ones. the cost of stickers and packing tape is far, far less than the cost of padded envelopes, and you'll be doing the ecologically sound thing as well.

@d@ml, I don't save anything to hard drive. I burn MP3 CD-Rs and store 'em in books. simple.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmmm...I guess I'm just a sentimental fool. I can't part with the great majority of my collection.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I burn MP3 CD-Rs and store 'em in books. simple

Definitely the way to go. I've been doing some reduction on this front myself -- not a lot, but enough to help pay for my summer vacation, get some extra cash and pick up on credit a few specific discs I know I'll actually be listening to more than once.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

And do Amazon or Ebay care if anything is a promo, by the way?

Amazon and eBay probably don't give a stuff about that, but some reocrd companies will have the auction pulled. I think that Sophie B Hawkin's successfully sued some trader recently for selling her new album before it hit the shops.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

and if you worry about the padded envelopes taking up too much space, just do what I do and fill up a box (I use a U.S. Postal Service box w/handles, but a regular cardboard box will work just as well), then use 'em all. repeat.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

You gentlemen are very persuasive.

(x-post)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

FANTASTIC idea on the padded envelope tip, matos. would not have occurred to me. thx!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Yanc3y - if you're interested - I live in NY and I will absolutely put these up for you on eBay for a small fee. I've done it for others. My feedback rating is 100% and I've been on eBay practically since it started - am something of an expert, if I do say so myself. Email me off thread if yr interested, I could use some cash to move.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

What's your rating, Roger? Don't be shy.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

No more kidding around, who on ILX actually has the biggest...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Michaelangelo (or whoever -- somebody who gets a lot of CDs in their mail every day) - How many hours a week do you spend doing this? I'm really curious; to me, it seems like I'd have to devote an entire day to it every week, just to keep up. (Or do you only sell big-name stuff, or what? What do you do with all the no name stuff? Does that go up there for five dollars too? Does anybody actually buy it??)

― chuck, Monday, 17 May 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

If I am certain that something is going to sell, I always list it for one cent. Gets people bidding and putting it on their tracking lists. I guess I'm a high stakes player.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! I feel like Roger or Jim now.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i may very well, roger. lemme try it a few times to see how much time it's taking me.

(and chuck, no, i'm not going to save every single promo. but if something seems interesting, i'll keep)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

matos and anyone else ripping their entire collections: what bitrate do you use? do you go high?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I use AAC myself, as I'm Macboy. 128 for that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i use aac too but at 192

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

224 VBR mp3s encoded with LAME sound excellent and until I got really lazy and started just ripping stuff with itunes, that's what I used for anythin that I was getting rid of but keeping around as MP3s. If I were to actually do what yanc3y is doing then I'd probably do a higher bitrate for stuff that I really care about; alas, I can't bring myself to part with most of it.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

So far all the stuff I've been ripping is material I really haven't touched in forever and a day, so the sound quality means less than the vague archival purposes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

So, rip at 128+ and burn at 4x or less, right? RIGHT?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

ned, I'm proud of you for being able to think about music in such objective terms. but then, we're probably talking about some really awful music, aren't we?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. More nondescript. Awful I wouldn't have held onto in the first place (this is mostly stuff I got as promos and held onto out of vague interest).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Chuck--I only recently picked this up again (meaning this past weekend), and hadn't done it in about a month, thanks to my office being a total fucking mess. (It still is, but it's less of one now.) If you're using iTunes on a machine connected to the net, it automatically reads track titles and artists etc., so that's a lot of work eliminated. however, I do quite a bit of ripping on my laptop, which I haven't connected to the net yet, so I do a lot of inputting on my own time. It consumes a lot of time, but I don't have kids or anything (I know you visit yours on alternate weekends) so it's not such a big deal to me, timewise. plus I have a large collection anyway so there's always the option of doing or not doing it--but on average, I'd say 5 to 20 hours or so, usually while doing other stuff (reading, writing, etc.) as well. my other thing is that I have to either like or wish to keep the record for archival purposes in order to rip it. otherwise, out the door. I sell mostly to one place, and they pay for damn near everything, paper promos included.

slocki: 192, almost always, though if I'm trying to fit another CD onto a MP3-disc, I'll go lower.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet you lot NEVER go back and listen to stuff that you've archived away. If it's not worth keeping *as is* i.e with sleeve/booklet/box etc then get rid completely. There's too much music.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i just sold about 100 cds on ebay, made good money, but yes it can be very time-consuming and annoying if there is a problem. if i don't expect a cd to get more than 10 dollars online then i'll just sell it at a record store.

unfortunately i am nothing if not low-tech so i have no option of burning/ripping/whatever my cds.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 06:10 (twenty-two years ago)

people who refuse to ship outside their home country are beneath my contempt

― the surface noise made by people (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i ship everywhere! which can be annoying if some dude in madagascar really wants a nico live cd.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

money's money. i've been ripped off so many times on postage as a buyer though. i try to see it from the perspective of total cost (i don't mind as much paying $8 for postage if i got the cd for $1 and would happily pay $3 or $4 for it)

― the surface noise made by people (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

the problem is i don't always know how much something is gonna cost, and i quote something a bit higher than what the actual shipping turns out to be. i feel bad about this, but the way paypal works it's not worth it to give a 1.00-2.00 USD refund.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Re: padded mailers. Unless you can get a phenomenally cheap deal on them in bulk, you can save money by going to an office supply store and buying regular non-padded manila envelopes and a big roll of bubble wrap. Then, it takes maybe ten seconds to snip off a piece of bubble wrap, tape it around the cd, and stuff it in the envelope.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet you lot NEVER go back and listen to stuff that you've archived away.

I'm going to say you're absolutely right, probably!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i've already started skipping over cds i know i'll never listen to

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

where do you go to sell things in the city, chuck? i'm new here and need to figure out who will take these things off my hands...

― todd burns (toddburns), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

so i've come up with a plan. i'm going to send around a list of my cds (it's up to date as of last summer) to friends and post it on this board. because i'm lazy, i will offer lower prices to people in nyc who would be willing to pick up their purchases at my house. i will mail others to ILMers, however. still deciding on a per-cd price. prolly $5. after doing that for a few weeks, i think i'm going to rent out space at one of the flea markets here in nyc and set up a table to sell the rest. i'm too lazy for ebay. it's official. anyway, look for my cd list on this thread within a week or two. holla!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 31 May 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yanc3y - DEFINITELY email me the list

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 31 May 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm actually thinking of doing the same thing myself. Dunno which CDs to get rid of yet. It's SO hard! $5 per CD is a good price.

― Fr4ncis W4tlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 31 May 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i want to put my eyes on that list.

― brock (brock), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Why not just find somebody with a car, a cart them all to Princeton Record Exchange? They'd be gone in an afternoon!

does princeton record exchange by everything, no matter what? is that what you're saying?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"by" = "buy"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i say make dubplates of all your cds and make vinyl copies. like mp3s, lps sound almost good as CDs and (similar to mp3s:ipod) require a new device to play them: a record player.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i say smear shite all over the cds and make a free-standing sculpture, and sell it as outsider art

― the surface noise made by people (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

FWIW, I just got done sellling about 700 CDs on eBay. I have been doing this for about 8 months. As I think I posted on that other thread, I did it originally to buy a new G5.

I ripped at full quality. You get roughly 2 CDs per gigabyte doing this. I bought external hard drives whenever one would get filled and used the eBay profits for funding. I should probably back up my two hard drives (250 gigs each) but won't bother until I can buy 500gig hard drive around the holidays for cheap. If my drive fails, I figure it is karma and can live without everthing I ripped. Or most everything. Plus, I've had computers (mostly Macs) since the late 80s and never had a hard drive fail. I'm not worried about that aspect. At $1 per gigabyte, you only need to make $.50 per CD to cover your storage cost when ripping at full quality.

It was a big pain in the ass dealing with eBay. I have been using the Matos method of saving all those padded envelopes that the rekkid labels send me, and that cuts your costs down (and more importantly, allows you to still charge the same amount for shipping, which increases overall profits.) But the thing about eBay is that you ultimately probably make more money. FYI, eBay doesn't like (nor do the labels) the selling of promos.

Also, it's probably illegal to rip CDs to your hard drive and then sell the physical CD. I'm pretty certain that the DRM laws forbid this.

― dan carville weiner, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be very wary of ripping all your CDs to MP3 if they're going to be on CD-R, especially if you're looking to keep them for the long haul. I find that almost every CD-R I've ever had has cakked out after a few years, whether they were burned really well or not. Mind you, I can erase floppies by touching them, so maybe it's just me.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

update update update

did you carry off this marvellous plan?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I'm trying to decide between selling a few hundred CDs individually through EBay, bulk through EBay or selling them to a CD World/warehouse/whatever.

I've never sold anything to a used record store before, what's the average on semi-recent stuff? Looking at the nearest elimination stack, I've got a Postal Service album, two Death Cab for Cuties, a Mooney Suzuki, Parklife, Dressy Bessy, the really boring Beck. Could I expect a couple of bucks apiece?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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