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Anyone interested? I'm selling about 10k CDs through eBay - rare postpunk, old soul, reggae and other odd stuff, very little you'd call "mainstream" in any way. Below is a link; I'm selling CDs about 200 at a time, so this will take forever, and this auction is all soul - mostly UK compilations, heavy on the Kent stuff. If you've got wantlists, let me know . . . every CD I don't have to type into eBay is more time for leisure!

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZaliledQQhtZ-1

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm not very ebay knowledgeable, but...

If you don't sell them in 7 days, doesn't ebay charge you some money for each one? And then you have to relist them and if they don't sell, you get charged again, etc.?

― Uri Frendimein (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

"Postpunk," eh? You don't happen to have Fush You Mang by Smash Mouth, do you?

― Joseph Patrick Larkin (Joseph P. Larkin), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

There's a listing fee on eBay - for mid-priced CDs, it's something like 45¢. You get two tries to sell something for that price. Having sold something like 3000 CDs on eBay, I've only had 10-15 items not sell after two tries, so it's not much of a risk.

I don't consider Smash Mouth "postpunk" in that they are a not terribly interesting band and are fairly conventional in most ways, whereas postpunk (to me) is loosely a genre of music in which wholly new, interesting and unique things were manifested in the wake of punk - so the Raincoats or Josef K or the Fire Engines or This Heat were postpunk, but Smash Mouth is a novelty-esque band with some vaguely "punky" influences, but essentially just a rock band. I think you can guess from this commentary that I don't have the record!

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Saturday, 10 June 2006 04:15 (twenty years ago)

It's probably not worth it if you don't overcharge for postage, though. I could sell some Jandek and some Anthrax... you know, shit. Who's going to pay any amount for this shit that's worth the effort? Nobody, right?

― Uri Frendimein (Uri Frendimein), Saturday, 10 June 2006 04:32 (twenty years ago)

How much you want for the Jandek, Uri?

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 10 June 2006 04:53 (twenty years ago)

Dee, do you have that Hi Rhythm CD?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 10 June 2006 05:50 (twenty years ago)

The average price I get for used CDs is about $11.25. But it varies. The median price is probably closer to $9.50, but nearly every auction, I have four or five CDs that sell for $100; you can never tell.

Anecdotal aside: A CD that I had Björk sign went for $1100 on eBay. It was a bootleg CD of her (age of 12) debut album, she wrote "This is a bootleg but I still love you!" and signed her name and drew a funny face. I had a photo of her doing it, too - for proof. She asked me why I was doing this (we weren't strangers) and I told her it was for that month's rent. That sort of thing pushes the average up quite a bit!

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Saturday, 10 June 2006 05:51 (twenty years ago)

You mean that Hi Records rhythm section thing that was released in the UK. Yeah, I think I do (actually, I know I do, I just have to figure out where it is in my many boxes.) I'll e-mail you privately . . . but keep those want lists coming, folks!

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Saturday, 10 June 2006 07:34 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

i never heard back from you..

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 8 July 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

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