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Thread Author: nice but dim	Replies: 28

New Mon 8 Jul 13 20:53   Selling old vinyl LP's - nice but dim

Hi all, I have been entrusted with the custody of my late fathers vinyl collection of mainly Hendrix, Bowie and others all early 70's. I wish to sell them to put to my savings. Could you please advise best route to go down to sell as I don't want to eBay for such an item - risk of getting scammed that's all. Thanks in advance. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 8 Jul 13 22:06   Selling old vinyl LP's - Dave_

You might struggle there - I sold my collection of 12" singles individually on eBay a few years ago and most of them only made a quid or so. It took a whole day to photograph and list them, and another day to pack and send the things. Your best bet is to search for a collector of old records who buys in bulk. However unless your father's discs were particularly rare pressings or signed by the artist for example, I think you'll have to settle for a fairly low value for the collection. I would research similar collections to get a feel for price, and you can always try advertising on Gumtree as it's free. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 8 Jul 13 22:30   Selling old vinyl LP's - RattleandSmoke

You could try selling them to a local record shop, you won't get much but it will solve a lot of hassle. Some of your stuff might be worth something, but it has to be classic or collectable. A lot of my Joy Division and Smiths stuff is valuable, but things like my Fleetwood Mac LPs are worth pence because there were millions of them pressed. Your Bowie stuff might be worth a bit, but it depends what it is. Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Mon 8 Jul 13 at 22:31 Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 8 Jul 13 22:31   Selling old vinyl LP's - Fenlander

I see a fair bit of vinyl in the course of my business... and after buying/selling some I avoid it if possible. Many 70s albums will either not sell or make just 99p on Ebay. The trouble of researching, photographing, buying LP mailers and posting is just too much faff. Postage prices are high now for LPs and it bumps the cost up to a degree folks are better off buying at vinyl stalls in markets. The other issue is condition. Unless you are prepared for bad feedback and refund claims you need to listen to every track of every album and declare clicks, pops and scratches. It only becomes worthwhile once a record exceeds a sale price of £5 and in selling some 200 70s albums this year only two have made it to a fiver. If you sell in bulk to a specialist about 15p-40p per record might be achieved.... if you get more they've seen something special. Having said that it is worth a seach on Ebay sold prices of each album just in case you have something special. Bear in mind though high prices are often made by very specific batch codes (etched in the runout grooves) so something that looks like yours might make £100 but your common version will be 99p. I still buy LPs in mixed lots of 30-50 but just to add to my own collection the ones I want and then give the rest to a charity shop after binning the scratched ones. Do the same with singles as I'm building a 60s/70s/80s collection gradually but now have about 200 of the ones I don't want in the garage as even the charity shop refuses them. Last edited by: Fenlander on Mon 8 Jul 13 at 22:34 Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 8 Jul 13 22:38   Selling old vinyl LP's - RattleandSmoke

Just to add my local record shop would sell Hendrix and Bowie stuff for about £5 an LP if it is in good condition. But as Fenlander said condition is everything. If will pay good prices for anything with cult status, but run of the mill pop is worthless. Expect something like ABBA's Greatest hits not even sell for a penny. You would be lucky to get 50p at a car boot. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 9 Jul 13 20:20   Selling old vinyl LP's - MD

Well that's really cheered me up. Orf to the dump then. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 10 Jul 13 07:49   Selling old vinyl LP's - Clk Sec

>> Well that's really cheered me up. Orf to the dump then. >> I'm quite surprised to hear that even the most sought after LPs are barely worth a fiver. I had kept my collection of little used mid 60 Beatles, Stones, etc, thinking that they would eventually make a bob or two. Looks like it's the local charity shop, then. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 10 Jul 13 08:34   Selling old vinyl LP's - Fenlander

>>>even the most sought after LPs Ahh no... *the* most sought after are worth hundreds even thousands. It's just that the most sought after are hard to identify and always a very specific early pressing. I put myself a £50 limit to buy ten early Beatles LPs the other week (from a house clearance) just for my own interest. Amazed they made almost £400 with buyers commision. Then looked some of them up and this was one in the box... www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Beatles-FOR-SALE-UK-LP-1ST-MONO-1964-YELLOW-BLACK-PLAYS-NEAR-MINT-/231007624176 The OP mentioned Bowie... so variable in price. For example similar sounding examples of Hunky Dory have made between £1.30 and £29.99. Last edited by: Fenlander on Wed 10 Jul 13 at 08:36 Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Wed 10 Jul 13 08:43   Selling old vinyl LP's - Zero

well he certainly didn't buy it to listen to. 1/ because you are scared of wearing it out or scratching it 2/ because the tracks are a pile of cack. (one good one on there) Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 10 Jul 13 08:46   Selling old vinyl LP's - Fenlander

Exactly Zero... of course many collectors of the high priced stuff don't actually want to play the albums. The value is in finding the earliest, most rare, Japanese pressing, picture disc, signed copy etc. Then they are kept as trophys. So prices rise many times above the true value as with rare race cards, programmes and other similar collector stuff with no artistic or intrinsic value. At the other end of the LP scale there were so many LPs pressed of the popular albums of the time they are being turned out of houses all the time so the supply is actually quite good which hauls prices down. The other major factor is that few folks now have a deck to play LPs on... to take an example I'm the only person in our immediate family (about 30 folks) with one and of my daughter's main friends not one of the Dads has a record deck. Last edited by: Fenlander on Wed 10 Jul 13 at 08:47 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 12 Jul 13 12:05   Selling old vinyl LP's - CGNorwich

took all my old LP's to the tip in the great garage clean out, about two hundred of the wretched things. All pretty mundane stuff - I have no musical taste. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 10 Jul 13 12:21   Selling old vinyl LP's - Zero

>> I see a fair bit of vinyl in the course of my business.. I have a fine pair of stone horses heads that will look really good on your gateposts.....failing that can I sell you a battered old white transit? no tax or insurance required on this model. Last edited by: Zero on Wed 10 Jul 13 at 12:22 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 10 Jul 13 12:27   Selling old vinyl LP's - Fenlander

That's very kind of you Zero but I decided to limit my purchases to stuff that will fit easily in the Alfa 4dr.... saves having to lift fridge/freezers and all that junk. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 10 Jul 13 12:32   Selling old vinyl LP's - Zero

In the course of your business, in about two months or so, I will be in the market for a clock with a loud deep "tick tock" sound. Mantle or cased wall clock. wot number of spondulaks will I be looking at? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 10 Jul 13 13:22   Selling old vinyl LP's - Fenlander

Had an interest in this auction where lot 420 at £30 + buyers premium probably made a nice tick tock.... www.willinghamauctions.com/lots/view/26887/420 Lot 435 at £3200 + premium also would have made a slightly more refined tick tock. www.willinghamauctions.com/lots/view/26902/435 Or for you how about a station wall clock in the style similar to this... www.willinghamauctions.com/lots/view/26875/408 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 10 Jul 13 13:29   Selling old vinyl LP's - Zero

Liking the sound of the hammer price on lot 435. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 10 Jul 13 15:23   Selling old vinyl LP's - Fenlander

Yes if selling! How about this station clock... snip at £1500... or so the seller would tell you. www.theclockgallery.co.uk/Sale/Wall/Images/Original/100_2715.JPG They do have the advantage of simplicity and bulletproof build but, like the Beatles vinyl, are greatly over valued for what they are. Last edited by: Fenlander on Wed 10 Jul 13 at 15:23 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 10 Jul 13 15:45   Selling old vinyl LP's - Robin O'Reliant

Collectors are a strange breed. They'll pay a fortune for a model railway engine provided it's got the original box and a close examination of the wheels under a magnifying glass show it's never been run on rails. They won't run it either, it'll just stay in the box on a shelf. Utterly pointless IMO. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 10 Jul 13 16:23   Selling old vinyl LP's - Fenlander

>>>provided it's got the original box Which has driven a whole new trade in that repro boxes are being made now for the more valuable dinky and Corgi toys etc. See here www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dinky-310-27ak-Farm-Tractor-Hay-Rake-Reproduction-Box-by-DRRB-/290717523571 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 12 Jul 13 12:46   Selling old vinyl LP's - Mapmaker

N.B. also repro dust jackets for books. Some of them are very good "fakes" indeed. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 15 Jul 13 14:35   Selling old vinyl LP's - BobbyG

There is a thread running on another forum I frequent about a Ferrari with "intergalactic" mileage - or 32k miles to you and I. Its 8 years old, average of about 4k a year. Why buy and not use? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 15 Jul 13 15:27   Selling old vinyl LP's - Zero

Most of the time its broken down, 4k a year is about all you will manage,. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Mon 15 Jul 13 16:23   Selling old vinyl LP's - WillDeBeest

Don't Ferraris have horrendous running costs, aside from fuel - clutches, camshafts, that kind of thing? Even 4,000 miles might be more than some of us would choose to afford. Wouldn't buy a Focus instead of a Golf, though, OG - unless it came with a bootful of pristine LPs. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Jul 13 12:48   Selling old vinyl LP's - Manatee

>> Most of the time its broken down, 4k a year is about all you will >> manage,. Ferraris are notorious for "mileage adjustment". A Porsche specialist told me he assumes as a starting point that every Ferrari he is offered has been clocked. You can see why, if 4,000 miles a year makes them less desirable. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Jul 13 16:36   Selling old vinyl LP's - No FM2R

>>Most of the time its broken down, 4k a year is about all you will manage,. Had one, hated it, 4k per year is ambitious. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Jul 13 11:08   Selling old vinyl LP's - TeeCee

32k on a Ferrari? They must have run out of places to stamp its service book. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 14 Jul 13 21:33   Selling old vinyl LP's - swiss tony

Look here... www.howtosellvinylrecords.com/ and here... www.discogs.com Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 15 Jul 13 13:45   Selling old vinyl LP's - joshsalvage

I'll have your Hendrix Vinyls?? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Jul 13 09:09   Selling old vinyl LP's - Fenlander

>>>I'll have your Hendrix Vinyls?? I don't want the Hendrix and have much of the worthwhile Bowie but it would be very interesting to know what NBD has to sell. Discogs is a good site to get some ideas for selling vinyl. I'm always frustrated though by the over description of the grading systems... www.discogs.com/help/mp-grading.html i.e. to me very good should be... well very good. But their very good allows for surface noise in soft passages, groove wear and scratches that can be felt with a finger nail and are audible, written on labels and stickers or glue residue on sleeves. To me that's a pretty poor copy. Reply to this message | Report message