The Great Vintage Computing Heist??? And yes on the time it takes. There is a guy on ebay called scifiman. He has been unloading an absolutely massive vintage computer collection, especially rare commodores, for like 6 or 7 years now. He is being kind of firm on a lot of his prices though. I do dread the idea of having to package and ship this stuff. Never enjoyed that process.
-----Original Message----- From: Sellam Abraham via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 10:00 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Cc: Sellam Abraham <sellam.ism...@gmail.com> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Revocable Living Trust for Computer Collectors On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 9:31 AM Teo Zenios via cctalk <cctalk@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
