26 Jun
2024
26 Jun
'24
9:59 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 9:31 AM Teo Zenios via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Ditching a collection is a full time job. It took you
so many years to put
it together and it will take the same amount of time to part it out if you
expect to get any real money out of it (unless you sell the most wanted
items and recycle the rest).
This is very true, as I discovered when I began selling off (what remained
of) my collection in 2017. I thought I'd get it all out in a year or so.
It's been 7 years and I'm still at it, with no real end in sight. Granted
I haven't been working on it diligently, and I still ended up with 40
pallets of stuff after the Great Vintage Computing Heist of 2012, but
disgorging a large collection is in fact a major undertaking, unless you're
willing to sell it all at one price, and can find such a buyer to take it
in one lot.
Sellam