Selling my entire CD collection.

I'm nearly at the end of selling my entire CD collection of around 600 discs. It used to be vinyl,  spending a lot of time 'record hopping' all over London and in New York and wherever. They were all sold off in 2002- around 2,000 albums and 12's. I moved to CDs mainly because of the convenience and the invention of the wonderful Ipod-I've bought every one of them over the years. 

But, one day, I realised that my apartment (flat) was turning into a hoarders paradise, with literally stacks and stacks of the discs on my shelves, shelves which should be used for a fancy clock or a photo or two. So, I set about selling the whole lot on Ebay. For the most part, this has gone well with most people bidding, winning and paying. But there have been a small minority- which keeps growing- of buyers chiseling discounts for postage, paying in a tardy fashion, and the old chestnut complaint of saying the CD never arrived, causing me to be out of pocket and without the CD. Unless someone wants to pay insurance, it's out of my control what happens to it after it's posted.

Try telling these goobars that. Endless emails, threats of non-payment, bad feedback,  lies, claims of non-arrival of goods, it all adds up to quite a shite series of experiences. I can see why people are leaving Ebay in droves- and they are, and that there are collective experiences of people being ripped off, with one side not having trust for the other. One seller said "life's too short", when I profusely apologised for not having his item sent out as quickly as it should. It's a pity others don't take that approach, throwing their rattle out of the pram at the first sign of a problem. 

To keep these idiots happy, I've waived the postage, offered free cds, offered discounts for postage, got back to people in a timely fashion with any problems, and still they keep-a-complaining.

Because of the volume of sales in such a short space of time, even Paypal came after me for money laundering. The issues were resolved, but it shows what kind of society we're living in right about now.

Despite this, the feedback score is fantastic and for the most part my European buyers have been fantastic, as have those in Canada and the U.S and Australia. The end is in sight. I managed to give 100 cds away to charity- it felt good. It will feel even better when the mantlepiece isn't clogged by the dusty, imposing stacks of cds. 

For me, it's all about the music, and it's a lot easier shoving them on a dvd mp3, holding 1200 tracks on each disc. Music will never die, but the ways of storing them are far easier with  the 80,000 or so Mp3s being safely stored on just a fraction of discs in comparison to what I used to have. The money raised has come in useful too.