Going through another big purge of my CD collection...
Sites like Amazon Trade-In, Second Spin, and Spun give next to nothing for most cd's today unless they are billboard top 20 residents...

few years ago, i had some success with the trade sites, swapacd and music boomarang, and was curious if anyone has used these recently?

if i can't get cash or decent credit for these cd's, maybe i can at least trade them for stuff i want....

i may resort to selling in bulk on ebay....

donating to Goodwill is a good tax write off, i donated about 1000 cds one year and was able to get back about 2200 of my taxes paid

I'm considering that...
May just cherry pick the ones I know have 'some' worth, and not bother with the junk...
too 'tired' these days to list stuff, then pack it up and mail it out for a buck or two...

good idea...

Hard drives get corrupted. I'm keeping my CDs for a long while.

Same here! Just founk a beautiful oak dresser on CL for only $30 to store my overflow in

I'm not converting to all digital either. I don't think that's what Dov is talking about though. I think most of us have at various times, gone through our collections and sold off/traded in stuff that we don't like much anymore or don't think we'll ever listen to again. Its just hard to find anyone who wants to pay much for cds anymore whether in cash or store credit. I actually just threw away about 30-50 cds in the last year that I knew I didn't want anymore and didn't think were worth trying to sell or trade in. Once upon a time, I could trade any five cds in for enough credit to buy a new cd. Now, they'd probably say "no interest" to 40 of those, and offer me pocket change for the rest. If I had 1000 I wanted to get rid of, I'd probably try to find a better answer.

Yeah I don't see myself ever getting rid of the CDs I really like. I like having a physical library as opposed to a bunch of files on a computer.

That said I could still stand to do a very large purge sometime soon. I guess Goodwill or Salvation Army are the most likely candidates. I don't think I ever considered buying CDs an "investment" at any point in my life that I could expect some kind of monetary return on.

this.

I have over 5000 CD's and with two kids and their toys, I am sure my future home will see their stuff be a priority then me showcasing a dead format for my ego, while I primarily listen to stuff digitally anyway...

My purge is simply getting rid of CD's that I am content with 'owning' via digital or streaming services only , while I will be keeping the stuff I really like or love.....I figure there are at least 2000 CD's of mine that I am fine listening to via Spotify or whatever download / illegal source link I can find.

I have har drives which I am making copies of the stuff i intend to get rid of, and should they die, I will still be able to sleep at night...

mentioned that in my intro paragraph...
used them with moderate success 3-4 years ago...
curious if people still use them...
seems like i had a lot of intitial success with trades and the more popular items, but then it dried up pretty quick and i was only doing a trade or so a month....