Best Place/Way To Sell My CD Collection?

The problem is Cds in general are nearing 'worthless'.
Now 'special' Cds such as SACD, and MFSL etc have value.
If you look at Amazon and see your Cds are selling used as low as $0.01 then you KNOW your Cds are not going to bring much money.

Now it all depends on finding a buyer.
So A thousand Cds should bring you between $200. and $2,000.
depending on the specific music, the specialty, and who is offering.
Now I have local dealers who will buy CDs for a fair price. A buck to two bucks each.
That is really a spectacularly good price for selling in bulk.
If you took your CDs to Half Price Books.. They would offer you the $200. or LESS.
Now if your 1,000 CDs are all Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs.. And rare DCC discs.. Then you might get some real money from the right buyer.

If your collection is Supertramp, The Police, And Billy Joel, and all those other common albums... it is worthless.
Classical is woth less. Jazz a little more.
Selling in bulk means very little money is coming your way.

Elizabeth's response is spot on. I have a friend who recently disposed of 1,000 garden variety Blues cds (no MFSL or DCC). A locally well known used cd and vinyl shop owner declined to acquire the collection because it was just too many for him to be interested; however, the shop owner put my friend in touch with an individual collector who ended up buying the collection for $1500, which was a very good outcome for my friend! My friend and I both expected he'd get $1,000 at best.

Selling the CD collection can be really tough as you are finding. On other forums I've seen Jazz CD collections broken down into 4 big lots with the CDs being $5-$6 a piece but the seller said these weren't budget CDs.

I've gone to local CD stores and traded CDs in bulk for credit. If you have that many make an appointment.

One thing I might try is Amazon trade-in. The thing is though you have to key in the upc or sku #s on Amazon after setting up an account and then you get site credit on Amazon after you mail everything in. You would be sending the stuff in bulk though I think.

Maybe you can work out a consignment deal with music sellers here on A'gon?

Good luck

Look at any rare or audiophile CD's you have and send them to me:) No actually sell those as a singular sale and as mentioned build a list and auction the rest in lots of whatever size of lot you want to deal with. I think you will do better to sell smaller lots than try to sell 800-1000 at once. And if you have many of a single artsist you may try selling those as individual lots. But you are in the right place to do so, no listing fee for music. What do have to lose except your invested time?

Many thanks for all of your thoughts, folks. Interesting comments, I expected them to have a little more value than that but not too much ($4-5 ?). Along with here, I have also thought of listing on Discogs if I were to do them individually. No way I'd sell them all for a couple hundred bucks. I'd box em all up for a rainy day at that number.

I really appreciate the comments. Think it's going to be a project.