How to sell a large classical CD collection?

We’ve inherited a large classical CD collection – there must literally be over a thousand in total from Bach box sets through to obscure recordings.

It must have cost a fortune to collect them all, but as we are unlikely to ever play a single one we need to get rid of them.

The first thought was to put them on eBay, but life is too short to list, package and post 10 CDs at a time. Equally I’m not sure the local Oxfam would be too pleased to be gifted such a massive collection.

Any other options? I’d hate to just take them to the tip!

Music magpie?

Leave them in your will to the RSPCA and the local priest.

(that will make absolutely no sense to anyone browsing this thread in a few years’ time, but eh)

If it makes Ambientcoast feel any better I’ll happily donate them all to his mum!

Does MusicMagpie allow you to scan the barcode of CDs? If so, I’d do that, and sell the ones that are worth anything. Even though it might be a thousand, even £5 each for 10% of them would be worth it, right?
The ones that aren’t, take them to the charity shop, or sell them as a joblot on Ebay.

Music magpie give you about 15p a CD if you’re lucky. It’s hardly even worth the calories it burns to package them up…

I’m going through the same with a load of 50s 78s and 60 45s. The 78s are worthless, don’t think the 45s are worth a lot more. Just cataloguing them at the moment, if one of the dealers will take for free I’ll be happy as they’ve been clogging up the house for a year and taking them to the tip seems plain wrong.

Search for @DaddyPopMusic on facebook & send him a message – it’s a guy who’s built a business buying & selling large collections of vinyl & CD’s from his Garage.

Music magpie give you about 15p a CD if you’re lucky.

actually we went through this with some old CDs recently. Most were worth 50p odd – if you were lucky – but the few classical ones we put on there went for about £4 each. I got the impression the only people buying CDs were the older generation who like classical…

What are the Bach boxsets?

I was up at the dump the other day and someone had just thrown out 7 or 8 Billy book cases. They hadn’t even bothered taking the CDs out first.

Crazy to think that I when I was 16 I got £28 a day for my Saturday job. I used to go straight into Fopp and spend almost all of it on CDs.

Not sure what the point of this post is. Except that I’m really not sure what to do with my CD collection now. It’s sitting in banana boxes in the basement at the moment.

Music Maggie. You should be able to process about 50 CDs per hour via the barcode scanner in the app. As petec says, you might be surprised what is “worth” the most.

Scan then, whack them in a suitable box, wait for the cash. Might get £50 an hour?

Anything that doesn’t scan just put into another box, don’t even try and get creative. It’s not worth it.

Or, put the whole lot on your local Facebook group for £1-200, pickup only. Gets rid of them all, and someone else will be doing the ebaying.

If you’ve got kids, it could be a decent way to keep them busy and earn some cash.

If you were near me I’d be up for it – I learned how to do it efficiently by being donated a bunch of CDs from IHN on here which I kept some of, ripped most of, and moved the rest on to MM for a donation to charity.

People who dump stuff down the tip make me despair. Even putting the CDs and cases in the plastic recycling would be a start 🙁

Thanks all!

I scanned a random sample of 20 and MusicMagpie have offered £15. That’s got to make a few hundred pounds in total for a few evenings work. The money will be donated to a charity close to the original owners heart.

Cheers.

From dealing with music magpie I recommend when you are scanning them check the case is perfect on the high value cds as they deduct the value to zero for broken cases.

I used to love classical CDs I’d do all of the local carboot sales and pickup every box of cds/dvds/video games I could get hold of.
I’d then get home and scan the barcodes, pack them up and send them off and watch the money role In.

Whilst zOVerstocks/musicMagpie were building up there inventory of back catalogue they’d pay £3 a CD for really obscure cd albums hence a box of classical and country music would earn top dollar
whereas a box full of popular music like steps, West life or sclub7 you’d get the basic 15-20p a cd..

People who dump stuff down the tip make me despair. Even putting the CDs and cases in the plastic recycling would be a start

CDs are notoriously difficult to recycle as they are composites. If you know of any recycling scheme that takes 78s made of shellac I’m open to hearing about it. Our council only take specific plastics, the hard plastics skip at the recycling centre is often locked because it gets so contaminated with non plastic refuse.