Big CD collection turns into big Jewel Box collection: Toss the boxes?

[buriedbeds]

My name is buriedbeds and I am a polltard. Hopefully this one is something at least a bunch of you can relate to.

Over the years, I've amassed a pretty hefty CD collection, somewhere in the 1600-1800 range. More than some, less than others. At any rate, when I went to college I started keeping them in binders to save on space, but I never tossed the jewel cases since I thought I'd never be able to re-sell the discs without the cases. Now, with the advent of MP3s I've digitized my whole collection (and triple-backed it up), so neither the CDs nor the jewel cases are necessary, and they both take up quite a bit of space. I had been storing the jewel cases at my parents' house, but they're moving and want them out. Since you can't get anything for used CDs anymore, here's the question - should I:

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[philnewall]

Of course you still need the Cds..mp3s are terrible sound quality.

[JMa]

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Of course you still need the Cds..mp3s are terrible sound quality.

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he may and hopefully did convert it to another format, say lossless flac

[BiPolar_Nut]

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Of course you still need the Cds..mp3s are terrible sound quality.

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wow...you must be one of those people that can tell the difference audibly from 192k and 256k rips...and can hear well beyond 20KHz and/or below 30Hz.

Reminds me of old video arguments where people claimed to be able to tell a difference between 24 and 32 bit color on a 1600x1200 (and smaller) screen.

I toss the cases and artwork, rip the cd's to mp3's, and keep the original discs on spindles. Once in the past 10 years I needed to re-rip due to not having backups of the mp3's.

Jewel cases suck.

[Cry Me A River]

Even if you only get $1 a CD from a used CD store that's $1500.

If you really don't care about them to the extent you're considering throwing them away, $1500 is pretty good for free money.

Unless all you listen too is Zamfir and Jefferson Starship I'd try selling them. You've prolly got some stuff that's out of print and you're prolly looking at an easy $1-$2K.

This is the "want list" for one of the local used CD stores. They pay up to $8 a CD. I'd expect this list is a pretty good guide wrt marketability. If your collection runs close to this list - You have a lot of artists on this list or related artists you could do well selling:

http://www.cdexchange.ca/wanted_cd.html

Obviously this is going to depend on where you are and whether there are any good used CD stores around (college town >>> Arkansas)

[akishore]

one word: antiques

keep them properly stored for 20+ years and profit?

[buriedbeds]

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Even if you only get $1 a CD from a used CD store that's $1500. [...]

http://www.cdexchange.ca/wanted_cd.html

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That's $1500 Canadian? Straight balla cash, baby. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I'm keeping the CDs, tossing the jewel cases. Once again, OOT gets it right and sets me straight.

-bb.

[Golden_Rhino]

People pay real money for jewel cases at places like Best Buy. How about you try to sell just the jewel cases in bulk on Ebay for like $100 or $150? May not be worth the trouble though.