Need To Get Rid Of My Blu-ray Collection, But Am A Total Newb Re:Selling

[Hunk Golden]

Please forgive me if this is not the right forum for this post.

I have a large Blu-ray collection. It includes a decent # of Criterion, 3D, complete series of TV shows ("Battlestar Galactica" & "Lost" just came to mind), & some 4K. A lot of my collection has never been opened & includes slipcovers.

I'm moving for a new job (travel medicine), and am going the airstream route. I won't room for my possessions anymore.

I'd like to sell any of my collection of value. I would like to donate the rest. In all my life I've never sold anything anywhere. I always kept my old phones, just plopping them in drawers. I never sold that collector's item I had just gathering dust. I've bought on sites like eBay, but never sold.

I see selling on amazon requires being a professional Amazon seller or FBA account or something. That's out. I look at eBay. Seems okay. I read about Mediaswap on Reddit. Looks like it works well.

But going back to being total newb. I don't know the first thing about selling. i I know those sites walk you through & make it easy. But there's so much involved. I don't have time to list each disk individually. I don't care if I'm leaving $$ on the table. I'd rather sell them in lots.

But once a seller offers a price,I don't know how to go about shipping. I don't currently own a printer. If I got access to one, I wouldn't know what type of packaging in which to mail it. I'm not going to use a humungous box to ship 1 Blu. But I woudn't use an envelope either.

I don't want this to take months. I cculd meet someone here in the Eastern IA/Southwestern WI, Western IL area to sell a bunch of them.

Is it best just to donate my collection to quality charities?

Thanks for any advice you may have!

[Hitman Horton]

Originally Posted by Hunk Golden

Please forgive me if this is not the right forum for this post.

I have a large Blu-ray collection. It includes a decent # of Criterion, 3D, complete series of TV shows ("Battlestar Galactica" & "Lost" just came to mind), & some 4K. A lot of my collection has never been opened & includes slipcovers.

I'm moving for a new job (travel medicine), and am going the airstream route. I won't room for my possessions anymore.

I'd like to sell any of my collection of value. I would like to donate the rest. In all my life I've never sold anything anywhere. I always kept my old phones, just plopping them in drawers. I never sold that collector's item I had just gathering dust. I've bought on sites like eBay, but never sold.

I see selling on amazon requires being a professional Amazon seller or FBA account or something. That's out. I look at eBay. Seems okay. I read about Mediaswap on Reddit. Looks like it works well.

But going back to being total newb. I don't know the first thing about selling. i I know those sites walk you through & make it easy. But there's so much involved. I don't have time to list each disk individually. I don't care if I'm leaving $$ on the table. I'd rather sell them in lots.

But once a seller offers a price,I don't know how to go about shipping. I don't currently own a printer. If I got access to one, I wouldn't know what type of packaging in which to mail it. I'm not going to use a humungous box to ship 1 Blu. But I woudn't use an envelope either.

I don't want this to take months. I cculd meet someone here in the Eastern IA/Southwestern WI, Western IL area to sell a bunch of them.

Is it best just to donate my collection to quality charities?

Thanks for any advice you may have!

Look for a store in your area that buys used movies. That would be the easiest way to unload your collection fairly quickly.

[filmbuffTX]

Are you going to be living in an Airstream trailer forever? Rent a storage unit and keep your physical media collection and other material possessions you might want to keep in it. Your living situation could change in the next few years and you'll be glad you kept your stuff and won't have any regrets about getting rid of it.

[Hitman Horton]

Originally Posted by filmbuffTX

Are you going to be living in an Airstream trailer forever? Rent a storage unit and keep your physical media collection and other material possessions you might want to keep in it. Your living situation could change in the next few years and you'll be glad you kept your stuff and won't have any regrets about getting rid of it.

I was coming back to suggest this too.

[Hunk Golden]

Thanks for the replies!

I live in a smallish area. It's Dubuque, Iowa. There are no stores here that buy used physical media, at least not to my knowledge. There's a GameStop, but that's just for games. As for renting space for my Blu-rays, I'm looking to move on from them too. I haven't watched a physical disk in a long time.

I hear about people donating to libraries & goodwill. I could do that. I could load them all into storage containers & drop them off. It would be lots of trips. Not looking forward to that!

I'd rather an enthusiast of physical copies of shows & movies was able to benefit. I don't care about the $$.

[Hitman Horton]

Originally Posted by Hunk Golden

Thanks for the replies!

I live in a smallish area. It's Dubuque, Iowa. There are no stores here that buy used physical media, at least not to my knowledge. There's a GameStop, but that's just for games. As for renting space for my Blu-rays, I'm looking to move on from them too. I haven't watched a physical disk in a long time.

I hear about people donating to libraries & goodwill. I could do that. I could load them all into storage containers & drop them off. It would be lots of trips. Not looking forward to that!

I'd rather an enthusiast of physical copies of shows & movies was able to benefit. I don't care about the $$.

If you want to sell these, you're going to have to do some work. Do a Google search for stores in the area. You need to be willing to drive into a larger city.

[TripleHBK]

If you are prepared to just walk away from them then my advice would be A) Look into any local facebook selling pages (not marketplace) and post there. I belong to some local swap pages and on occasion purchase something from there. It'd essentially just require you to post what you posted here, there, and then add some photos. I guarantee if you post some cheap lots, people will snap them up. Hell if I didn't live 6.5 hours away I'd love to take your collection. B) Facebook marketplace or Craigslist would be the next option, though be prepared to wade through scammers and other nonsense. C) Pawn shop. They won't give you much, but anything is more than nothing.

[gates70]

I've been trimming my collection by a lot. You buy some and they cost an arm and a leg on Amazon etc. You want to sell them, good luck. It's ****ed up.

[Hitman Horton]

Originally Posted by gates70

I've been trimming my collection by a lot. You buy some and they cost an arm and a leg on Amazon etc. You want to sell them, good luck. It's ****ed up.

That's why I buy what I want to keep. I only sell something if I buy a better copy. Then, I don't sell. I trade for store credit. I get more that way.

[Lemmy Lugosi]

I used to own a physical copy of every film I ever enjoyed that was available; I had a few thousand. I sold off the “I liked it, but I’m over it” stuff, but still have a few hundred favorites, as well as a couple hundred concerts on disc, and about one hundred documentaries. It’s still a massive collection, but much more manageable these days. Much more tolerable, too.