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Hearing that Amoeba and other stores are turning collections away is saddening to hear. I TOO was hoping to sell a large chuck of my collection, but have not engaged in it yet, fearing that everyone coming out of the last two years would be wanting to unload. The local shop in NYC Academy records is the only store that might pay a decent price for used CDs BUT they are very selective. Basically they won't touch anything post 1970, even if they are out of print and rare titles. Each time I speak with the main buyer, named Blake (Really, really nice guy too! Very approachable. Highly recommend to start a chat) he says that only stuff that sells is "classic" pre 1970's titles. He stated that he wished he could buy more stuff, but he simply can't move it, even on Discogs, which is where most of the stuff moves, when it does. He loves soundtracks as well, so I could sense his frustration too,
There's also a store called Book Off that will take any CDs and have a large soundtrack collection, BUT their buyback price are between 1 penny to 50cents per disc and most disc they give one 5-10 cents. Ridiculous as they resell their stock for much higher prices.
Ive sold to Screen Archives many times in the past, but in my experience they did not offer very much. I've thought about sending them another list to see what they will offer now, but since they were offering so little for what was otherwise rare stuff when I last sold about 9 years ago, I wonder if it's ever worth it now.
Either way, guess it's the sign of the times.
Oh and to all the folks making statements that EBay sellers have CDs up for insane prices. (I see Predator 2 Deluxe and The Dark Crystal going for $175-200) but take notice that these copies NEVER EVER sell. I watched a copy of The Dark Crystal get relisted each cycle it went unsold for over a year. The price that was so high, it makes that it never sold. One time I asked the seller for wiggle room on the price and the seller bumped the price up up even more. Still, never selling. In short, you can't gage the value of these things on Ebay. They look insane for a reason. Same for Amazon too.
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Yeah, it's a tough, fine line to determine the price of certain titles.
The seller wants some kind of perceived market value, but the buyer wants a bargain of sorts.
I always wonder how long a seller leaves a title on offer, at a ridiculous price, before they consider a more reasonable amount.
Some sellers are just deluded.
I collect old hotel brochures on eBay, and I saw one I wanted listed for $50 when it's worth $5 to $10.
I offered $15.
The seller declined.
I found it for $10 from another seller about a year later.
Meanwhile, that first guy has been relisting the original one EVERY WEEK on eBay for the last 5 years, at least. I see it there every time I check eBay.
By now, I have to think he has spent more than $50 just on the listing fees each time, I think they're like $0.50 or $0.25. Week after week, year after year, that adds up.
Like I say, some sellers are strange, lol.
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One time I asked the seller for wiggle room on the price and the seller bumped the price up up even more. Still, never selling. In short, you can't gage the value of these things on Ebay. They look insane for a reason. Same for Amazon too.
That reminded me, I had totally forgotten, the guy selling the hotel brochure I mentioned above did the SAME THING.
After I offered $15 for the brochure priced at $50, he bumped the price up by like $10 or $20. He clearly saw interest from me and assumed that I would eventually bite, no matter what the price. Obviously, I didn't, lol.
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When my time comes, I'd really rather my collection go to someone who would appreciate it and take care of it.
Not interested in monetary gain, but it would still have to be either picked up or shipped, and that would be costly by itself.
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What we should whip up for this forum is a stickied "swap a CD" thread. I don't care about getting money for CDs I no longer want, but if I could swap it for another CD I do want, it'd be an ideal way to prune down my stack of unwanted releases. It'd be a much better value than bringing them down to Newberry Comics and getting fifty cents apiece.
Oh, I LIKE this idea. I have a lot of older rare titles I no longer need...at a time of being out of work. Might be better off if a swap thing could happen. I don't expect to be spending much in the near future. Could be a Win-Win for both parties if done right.
Maybe start this in the Trading Post thread?
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Are dealers saying there is a glut? Then why are the prices of used CDs on eBay so high? It seems like every seller wants maximum dollar for classical or soundtrack music. Most anything good is priced like a high-end collectible. You want Alien3 ? Get a bank loan. Glut????
I can't believe I missed out on Pink Floyd's Animals. I mean, yeah, it's been decades, but still.
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Feb 10, 2022 - 4:40 PM
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LRobHubbard
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The sad hard fact is, we're going to have to face the fact that not Everything That We Love will have a dollar value that we can retire on - saw it with comics, and we'll see it with the DVD/BR market as well. It's niche, and it's not that scarce. The true value it has is cultural, and that changes with generations.
Having had to deal with disposing 'treasured' possessions of recently dead family members over the last two years, the reality is, if I no longer need it, best to pass it on - whether that's by auction for the really valuable items (if I'm lucky, I might get decent money for those), gifting it to interested friends/acquaintances or donating it to my local library for library sales and letting someone discover it, and hopefully getting as much satisfaction from it as I did when I had it.
If I sit on it hoping for some huge payout, I'm probably going to be VERY disappointed... (looking at you, Wade Williams and others of the ilk)
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The sad hard fact is, we're going to have to face the fact that not Everything That We Love will have a dollar value that we can retire on - saw it with comics, and we'll see it with the DVD/BR market as well. It's niche, and it's not that scarce. The true value it has is cultural, and that changes with generations.
Don't tell my steelbook-hogging brother this. He lives for that market's secondhand potential. He'll probably profit from the books alone, on the provision that he takes the discs out and burns them in effigy.
Having had to deal with disposing 'treasured' possessions of recently dead family members over the last two years, the reality is, if I no longer need it, best to pass it on - whether that's by auction for the really valuable items (if I'm lucky, I might get decent money for those), gifting it to interested friends/acquaintances or donating it to my local library for library sales and letting someone discover it, and hopefully getting as much satisfaction from it as I did when I had it.
If I sit on it hoping for some huge payout, I'm probably going to be VERY disappointed... (looking at you, Wade Williams and others of the ilk)
And yet vinyl, with more limited editions than regular issues, continues to lure the unsuspected...
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