Where to sell CDs in (new york) city?

I don't think selling on the street is worth your time.

I brought in a zillion CDs to Kim's and they bought like five

on the other hand, you are probably selling some things that are actually good

if you know the person buying at kim's, the amount of money you get will be much higher. it's almost not worth it if you don't. i'd try amazon marketplace.

I quit selling on Amazon Mktplace a couple of years ago because the bottom seemed to be falling out of prices there like everywhere else, but the sales I did make averaged out to $17 per. (There were a few box sets, but mostly single discs.) If prices have stabilized, if you don't mind the cutthroat bigger sellers and dropshippers, and if you're not in a hurry, that's a good way to go.

When I sold stuff at Amoeba, it was usually $5/disc for credit, $4/disc for cash. (this was 1999-2001)

Never mind the Amoeba stuff, I just caught the Kim's/Other Music mentions.

I have been liquidating my cds on half.com for about a year now. I kind of list them while I am cooking. If they seem to be going for less than $4 I don't list it, but their system takes like 10 seconds to list a cd. And then when someone buys one I just stick it in a small 6x9 envelope with cardboard around it (or recycled padded envelope from stuff I've received) and then I stick 3 stamps on it to cover postage for a single cd and drop it in the mailbox, super easy. I never go to the post office except to every so often buy books of stamps.

I've gotten $30 bucks for things like the raincoats, roky erickson, the feelies, the clean, the 2nd ny dolls album which is not on cd anymore and $10 for out of print sundazed stuff or random indie stuff that no one bought in the first place.

I don't wanna do it online...some of the CDs liners got some water damage from a leaky apt. I can't handle the idea of people complaining about condition...or going to the post office every day. I'd rather somebody see it all and know what they're getting.

if you're able to wait four months, you're welcome to join us putting on another stoop sale.

Academy gave me a reasonable deal for a couple hundred discs.

perhaps wait a bit and then organize a blowout when the stoopsale season returns...someone you know is bound to have one...

or take a roadtrip. i used to always pack 30 to 50 promo's and shit when i would go up to albany/saratoga and sell up there. im sure a trip jersey or conn or someplace might allow for this option. less competition as a seller

the other way to go (although you won't get top dollar) is to try to sell the whole box at once on craigslist

i know ian did this recently, maybe email him?

I wouldn't sell the whole box...except for a few promos, this is all grade-a stuff from my collection...Terry Riley CDs on Organ of Corti, the first Avey Tare and Panda Bear, almost everything from Skullflower and Total, 90s hipster indie stuff, krautrock, new zealand etc etc. One key is to get them out of my house as soon as possible.

i would not take them to EAT for the same reasons you shouldn't take them to Kims. i haven't sold a CD since 2002 and i'm not sure how much the market has bottomed out. online it's looking good though:

ebay completed CDs / Terry Riley

Terry Riley - Reed Streams / L'Infonie - In C (Cortical $17.33 Jan-19 01:44
Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes $20.53 Jan-19 01:48
Minimalist Music Piano CD Box Philip Glass Terry Riley $21.05 Jan-14 12:34
Terry Riley - You're NoGood 2xCD (Organ of Corti 2000) $25.27 Jan-18 23:33

i think Carey's approach is best, though slow.

With half.com you have to set the price, right? I'm sorta in the I need this out of the house NOW/I need money NOW boat, maybe I'll research it so that I only take to Other the stuff that isn't worth 15+

I have no idea how I'm going to liquidate the CDs in storage in RI

I have His Name is Alive King of Sweet which is a buy it now for 50-80 and on ebay for 25 but nobody's bidding. What a hassle...

Eat came to my stoop sale from when I moved and gave me good money for a lot of hip noise stuff, and I like the idea of supporting the "scene" and all that, but I think Other's gonna give me the best deal, I just wish I could sit there and see how much they're offering for each CD to make sure I'm not selling those Riley CDs or this His Name Is Alive for 3 or 5 dollars.

Oh damn, Yerac, I'd have taken you up on some of those albums you listed, big time.

Wait, people pay money for HNIA? I have a fair bit of that.

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that one CD was a limited edition compiling a bunch of tape only tracks. It was way less "produced" or glossy then the actual releases on 4ad and thus is a bit more awesome. Can't say if the other releases are worth anything.

Yeah okay, I wasn't looking to sell anything but I guess I could check.

we've been listing stuff on amazon and/or half and it's worked out well. nothing has gone for under $10. if you want them all sold instantly then giving the lot to a store is the best option, but you're not going to be able to control the pricing.

how does it work, do you set the prices?

yes, although you have to keep in mind what the going rate seems to be. if you can be bothered to split up your collection into stuff that you know other will pay up for and stuff that isn't as collector scummy, then it might be worth it to try both methods.

I don't know if I can deal with grading everything or rating everything then having people be like "you said this was near mint but its actually medium rare" or whatever. Do you have problems or returns? I suppose I could always under grade most a bit? And there's a chunk with water-damaged liner notes from a flood, as mentioned. I think in person somebody would be like, sure I'd buy that Can CD for cheap even though I can't read the liner notes...

so far no problems. you just need to be really honest, i think, and it seems that a majority people aren't out to cause trouble. when we listed my pink flamingos soundtrack, we stressed that it looked bad (scratched case, very scratched cd though it played fine). no complaints from the buyer.

unfortunately your need to maximize $$ clashes with the need to get these out of your house immediately. you really have to choose one or the other.

otherwise, assuming you have an ebay account go to advanced search and look up cds with completed items checked. some night when you have time, look up everything you're selling. this is time consuming, but it's how EAT prices their stock, i've seen them do it. all you got to do is make a >$15 pile and a <$15 pile. you can rest easy taking the <$15 pile to OM and getting $3 per or whatever it is now. assuming the $$ cd pile is a manageable one, you could have OM appraise them separately, or craigslist them as RARE CDS OOP L@@K, or just hold onto them until you figure out a way to move them.

I may do that...they're mostly not super rare, just stuff that might sell for enough...maybe I'll do a <10 pile and bring that to other, then everything else put up on half.com. Do enough people use half.com?

we've had better response from amazon.

yeah, and I used half.com because I didn't want to set up an amazon account and I already had an ebay account. I usually price things .50 cents to $1 less than the lowest price being listed in my category. I just know from buying things in record stores that even if a customer is going to pay $30 eventually for your cd don't expect the store to pay more than $4-$5 tops to you for it.

I kind of estimate that I have sold only about 200 cds on half.com but have made over $1500. But these were the hard to find, worthwhile cds. I think I have mostly stuff that is not worth anything left, like beck, stuff that has been remastered again, stereolab, bjork, etc. no one has ever complained about the condition of my cds too.

it's kind of funny though, how i have sold cds for 3xs more than they were when I bought them new, especially when cds are worth absolutely nothing now. I am so glad I worked in a record store in 1999 that ordered anything you wanted to.

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when i moved out here i sold as many of my records as i could and then dropped the rest off at a charity shop. (i shipped maybe 600 out here and got rid of maybe 2000).

i put the 200 cds i wanted to keep in a book and threw the rest in a giant garbage bag and left it on the doorstep of my old college dorm at 2:00 AM.