Best Place/Way To Sell My CD Collection?

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.

Of course, if you've ripped them all to a server, you'd have to delete them from the server as you sell them. Given that, the value for selling them is probably less than their value as a physical back-up.

I am curious as to why thye orginal owner would have to delete them from the server upon sale. What copywrite laws would be infringed upon if I owned them at the time I burned them on the server? Not being sarcastic here, but very curious as I plan to buy a server someday. Although I would keep my collection just in case the server ever crashed.

per elizabeth, the going rate for mainstream, supertramp type cds is a buck or so, and it's probably not worth the exercise of trying to sell 'em individually. however, for more esoteric & obscure stuff (which i surmise is most of your collection), there's still a robust market on ebay, which taps in most broadly on overseas collectors. the other, less granular approach would be hawking them at a record fair (where you'd typically get more focused buyers willing to pay more of a premium). if you send me a list i'll give ya a free opinion. still haven't forgiven you for laura marling, however :)

The going price for average demand used CDs at the only remaining local B&M record/CD shop that deals with them is $6-$7 max. "Budget Bin" titles go for as little as $1.00 up to about $5. Rare still in demand hard to find titles (mostly imports) get more.

Used prices you can get on ebay tend to reflect this I find as well however shipping costs typically $3 postal media rate per CD must be factored in lowering the actual sale price accordingly.

It can be time consuming to maximize the value of selling $1000 CDs . The best approach is to identify any high value CDs up front and sell those individually, then sell the rest in multiple lots at auction as best as possible to keep shipping costs low. But even then, you have to take the time to list our details of each lot to get maximum value. So if you must sell and that is too much work, just take it all to the local used CD store (if there is still any nearby) and let them do the work and make you an offer.

In any case, identifying any rare or high value CDs up front will probably almost always pay off best.