liquidating your collection
TREW
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so it's about that time.. the collection is about to be gutted. only thing is i'm having trouble decided what stays and what goes. i know a few of you have liquidated in the past, how did you get the ball rolling?
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I had some success in doing a sidewalk sale to clear through some stuff off the top. Advertising for that ended up netting me two private buyers who ended up picking up about a crate of records each on top of that. Alas, out of the 400 or so LPs I was selling, I was still left with around 150. I still haven't figured out what to do with 'em though.
Set sales sounds like a good move if you're already eBaying shit off.
WE CAN HELP YOU
Get rid of the ones you're hanging onto for some reason other than that you enjoy listening to them... reasons like "But I have all his other LPS from '68 to '73" or "But my man so-and-so played on this one" or "But I have almost the entire output of this label" or "Even though I can't hear anything good on this record, I understand it to be historically important".
Basically, trust your taste.
seriously. these are the things that always go through my head. those, and,"Premo has a two second sample on side one. but its the only two good seconds on the record" or the ol' "I may sample something off this someday"
THE LATIN STAYS
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every crate is chock full of 'those' pieces. braeks, prestige jazz funk pfft, eddie harris on atlantic etc...
but taste, that's a good question. funk raer will likely stay, as will the classic stuff (isleys, rick james, al green, et al) rock is a toss up, same goes w/ spritual/cosmic jazz/quality jazz funk
This is the place to start.
= SELL
same thing happened. i went to a store in denver to sell stuff that i had no intention of ebaying and stuff that was still decent music and they examined the record made two piles the shitty ones and the good ones quality and condition alike. and they bought the shit pile. i was flabbergasted.
Hey hey now, the Prestige stuff isn't bad!
Your crates obviously require thinning.
This schitt was literally the inspiration for the phrase "tepid funk".
To reiterate what's been said before for those who don't know, Amoeba will still try to rip you and just make meaningless piles when in reality they're buying everything for a dollar or less. It's all about selling to that store where you find great records for cheap and bad records overpriced, because it shows their buyer is a nut.
On the whole, the less intelligent the buyer/seller, the more money to be made. Sad but true.
Amoeba is probably the worst place to sell records that I've ever been to. I will only take records there that are one step away from the dump.
Hey now. I know Prestige is no Pablo!
Look, man - keep the word "Pablo" out of your snackhole!
I probably have 30+ records on Prestige. They are goin nowhere! Funk Inc and Gary Bartz to end you beezies.
Cosign (do we still cosign around here or is that hopelessly passe'?) I haven't sold a record to them in four years of living in the Bay Area. Buying from them, hmmm, that's a different story altogether.
If you were "about schitt" you would care for Funk Inc.
That schitt is real tepid; I rid myself of the self-titled joint just last year.
I forgot you are an album man. s/t and Chicken Lickin are one trackers but those tracks rule IMO.
BAN
Lots of great records on Prestige... but none of them are by Melvin Sparks, Charles Earland, Funk, Inc., etc.
^^^^^BAN
Not even Leaving This Planet?