How to dispose of your system?


A lot of us are getting to the age where  we may start thinking about what will happen to our precious systems when we’re gone?  Will they be sold in pieces, breaking up the synergy we’ve worked so hard to establish? That seems to me to be criminal.  
What about trying to sell the whole system, kit and kaboodle, maybe to a member of this forum? Would anyone, perhaps a novice, be willing to pay for a very finely tuned instrument? 
If the system cost say,  $35K to put together, what would a fair price be?

rvpiano

@rvpiano The other option you have with TMR which likely produces a better return is to consign the equipment for TMR to sell. They take a healthy commission-maybe 35%-but still quite a bit better than an outright sale to TMR. If the gear is in good shape and in reasonable demand, its likely to sell in a few weeks. TMR will test the equipment, put it on the website, and deal with buyers both before and after the sale. That's really important to me-I don't want my daughters burdened with dealing with an unhappy or unscrupulous buyer.

I have no rooting interest in TMR, but I think it offers a good service in turning surplus equipment into cash.

I spent a huge amount of effort building some giant corner horn cabinets. Must be about 6 years ago now that I finished them. I’ve lost track. It struck me as a looming huge waste of resources if they just ended up in landfill at some point after my demise. I don’t expect that any of my relatives will have any interest in owning them. Somebody else might. If not, it’s not a huge deal. I may  try to find an interested party to take ownership of them before it gets to a point where I’m out of the picture and a relative has to figure out how to deal with them.

Now that I’ve gotten a lot of use out of them I’m far less concerned about it. I intend to keep using them for the foreseeable future, which could be another 20 or 30 years if I’m lucky and take care of myself. In my opinion they’ve paid for themselves in terms of personal enjoyment, and are really nothing in terms of a resource sink compared to so many other things in life. None of this stuff is going to last forever anyway. 

I am actually thinking of selling 90% of my entire audio collection, locally, as to many pieces to ship, and expensive, likely. Would like to sell it all to one buyer (a reseller, maybe). Anyone do this?