Has anyone put their collection up on discogs? Mate of mine has, and his collection has a max worth of about £100k. Am not quite in that bracket (!), but for ages I referred to discogs for this and that, and always wondered what the 'add to collection' button was all about. For years I've wanted to do an excel spreadsheet on my collection, but it was all too daunting and frankly never had the time. I even started painting pictures of my records (long story) to catalogue them that way - an idea that never really worked (I like lists) - but it sparked another idea which I'd love to do still... but on discogs... you can do it with a simple click of a button (simple-ish anyway). Some records have 145 versions and you have to click the right one, so it can be a ball ache at times.
Have only put up 145 so far - yet to open my boxes, but a thoroughly enjoyable excercise.
I put a chunk of my collection up a few years back and sold most of them. It took me a about a week to list them all. Made a nice few quid though, and sold a lot of them for what I paid for them or more.
I had to add a lot of new listings as there was some quite esoteric stuff and promos in there, which was quite tedious. And yes, browsing all the different versions and releases to make sure you had the right one was a pain.
It was a bit sad letting some of them go, even though I was only selling things I didn't care that much for. Each one reminded me of certain times in my life, or people and places. Some of them I could never let go even though they're just stuck in boxes in the cupboard now.
I could probably do with another clean out as I rarely get the record deck out these days and still have a lot of nice LPs. I stopped buying vinyl a few years ago for various reasons. Mostly because I really missed browsing record shops. Buying online was never as much fun. Record shops for me were an education and places of discovery. There were things you would find and be compelled to buy because you didn't know if you'd ever find them again. Now I can go online and there's 100 copies on ebay or discogs.