Re: [ARSCLIST] Encouraging ...

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Fine wrote:

 My friend who says he is "downsizing" his life just sold off his LP 
collection. All in good
 condition, a lot of audiophile pressings, mostly rock but plenty of jazz 
(at least what's left
 after
 I had a freebie day) and a smattering of classical. He got $4500 for the 
pile. Definitely less
 than
 he paid, by a long shot, but remember he collected for 30+ years and he at 
first considered
 just
 dropping the whole van-full of records off at the local library. So there 
IS still some value in
 them thar piles of olde vinyl. The buyer will undoubtedly make more than 
he paid selling
 them one by
 one on ebone.

 -- Tom Fine


And on the other side of the coin, I've been asked to help a dying collector 
who has what I'd
call a gorgeous collection of mostly classical LPs....about 20,000 discs and 
all "good ones".
He'd like to see the collection stay intact. So far, every Canadian library 
and university he's
tried has turned him down. A dealer may be the next step.

dl