Friday, February 25, 2011
Follow Up II
Hey, the Dick Clarks sold! Got $300 for the collection (well, half the collection. There were two shows that I actually have copies of). I'm glad that paid off. Considering I paid $12 for this half of the collection, not a bad return on investment, even if it wasn't the thousands I thought I'd get for them. --JB
Friday, February 18, 2011
Follow up
Interesting. I got a note from someone who was watching the Dick Clark auction, and asked if I would be relisting the collection. Since someone's interested, I relisted them; the auction ends next week.
Meanwhile, I had a tough decision to make. I have about 190 remaining commercial LP's (down from almost 400 some years ago). They really needed to be reduced, leaving the most valuable ones and tossing the rest.
My criterion was this: if you can download it on iTunes, and there's nothing else special about the LP, out it goes. I ended up tossing all but a dozen of them. Bill Cosby, Tracey Ullman, the Go-Go's, The Who -- gone.
What I kept, though, were irreplaceable -- Promo copies of albums, LPs that were never released to CD (Americathon soundtrack, anyone?) Even a couple of test pressings!
What will be harder, and I haven't done it yet, is going through my Barry Manilow vinyl collection. For a few years, I would grab any copy of a Barry album I saw in a garage sale bin or a discount rack, just because I couldn't bear the thought of his music being tossed away. But -- I now have 9 copies of Barry Manilow II, and just about every other vinyl release of his. That's a little much. I will have to sort them for the absolute rarest ones (I have two promo copies of his original 1st album on Bell Records, for instance).
This is not for the faint of heart... --JB
Meanwhile, I had a tough decision to make. I have about 190 remaining commercial LP's (down from almost 400 some years ago). They really needed to be reduced, leaving the most valuable ones and tossing the rest.
My criterion was this: if you can download it on iTunes, and there's nothing else special about the LP, out it goes. I ended up tossing all but a dozen of them. Bill Cosby, Tracey Ullman, the Go-Go's, The Who -- gone.
What I kept, though, were irreplaceable -- Promo copies of albums, LPs that were never released to CD (Americathon soundtrack, anyone?) Even a couple of test pressings!
What will be harder, and I haven't done it yet, is going through my Barry Manilow vinyl collection. For a few years, I would grab any copy of a Barry album I saw in a garage sale bin or a discount rack, just because I couldn't bear the thought of his music being tossed away. But -- I now have 9 copies of Barry Manilow II, and just about every other vinyl release of his. That's a little much. I will have to sort them for the absolute rarest ones (I have two promo copies of his original 1st album on Bell Records, for instance).
This is not for the faint of heart... --JB
Monday, February 14, 2011
Setback
So, 10 long days of waiting while I put 1/2 my Dick Clark Collection for sale.
No bids.
So, I have a bit of a dilemma: on the one hand, I know these discs are valuable. Someday, I know I can get upwards of $10K for this collection. On the other hand, the pragmatic side of me is saying 'you can't sell them, therefore they are worthless'.
I would hate to dump these, and a few years from now be kicking myself for letting go of a fortune. On the other hand, to have hung on to worthless plastic since 1994 would be just as awful.
There's still some time on this one. I'm going to put them back in the closet, and see what else I can reduce in my home. --JB
No bids.
So, I have a bit of a dilemma: on the one hand, I know these discs are valuable. Someday, I know I can get upwards of $10K for this collection. On the other hand, the pragmatic side of me is saying 'you can't sell them, therefore they are worthless'.
I would hate to dump these, and a few years from now be kicking myself for letting go of a fortune. On the other hand, to have hung on to worthless plastic since 1994 would be just as awful.
There's still some time on this one. I'm going to put them back in the closet, and see what else I can reduce in my home. --JB
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