Sell your Collection
MR_ZIMMS
210 Posts
You start getting older & are thinking about selling your records all at once.
What would be the best bid for your entire collection?
I started collecting in 1987 (funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, reggae) & have 10.000 records.
I would say yes to 100.000 euro cash.
What would be the best bid for your entire collection?
I started collecting in 1987 (funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, reggae) & have 10.000 records.
I would say yes to 100.000 euro cash.
Comments
There are not many people who are able (and willing) to whip out 100.000 at once.
I've listed some major raers (as well as some more regular stuff) and in all, it's been liberating. I have no regrets. All of the raers I have digital copies of, and being able to listen to them is more important than the format they come on.
Times have been tight for me lately, so the cash is definitely helping, and I've been able to purchase other vinyl from Discogs, stuff that I really will listen to, instead of some obscure raer library LP that just sits on my shelf.
You have to be a ficticious character.
I believe what Mr. Beast is saying is that in order to sell them in one fell swoop all anyone is going to offer you is ten cents on the dollar of what they are worth....in order to get $10 a piece for the entire collection they better be worth $100 a piece...and I totally agree.
You are totally right. I poasted before I got any caffeine this AM. Apologies to DiscogsRecordBeast for misreading his post and insulting his maths.
As for the second part, that sounds like a pretty good way to get shafted for your hard-earned records. 10%???? I'd recommend floating the best 3/4 of your records to a consignment eBay seller (there are some seriously professional dudes doing this right now with great results), or just list them yourself. With consignment you'd get 60% if you can work out a good deal, not 10 percent. You'd pretty much have to take off two weeks of your life for some gruelingly long days just to list 1,000 - let alone 10K - if you did it yourself.
"Wow, records!"
"yeah"
I did about 50 records on SS set sale. Decent stuff, flew well at sensible prices for buyer and seller, drama free give or take the odd Aussie.
Did two punk 45 clusters on eBay this month, took 2 days out of my life for about a thousand bucks, 150 records.
Will do another few rounds this year of rock and punk, another few g.
Couple more SS set sales, then that's all the juicy stuff gone to a better home.
Then about 500 to a charity shop. Then a bulk sale of the leftovers, small but worthwhile for a store or dealer.
Done inside 6 months.
The thing with catapult style is that all those records will be gone. Gone from your home and your town and perhaps your country, leaving nothing for future record browsing.
The thing with pushing records around town is coming home with more than I started. I might sell 40 records and then get a lead, or two, for whole collections.
Even better, if you think you'd like to hear a record that you sold, you can just go round their house and listen to it.
It's a sensible idea.
This could work in the other direction as well. "Well, for $30 I'll sell you the record outright. But for $15, we'll just keep it at my house and you can come by and listen to it any time."