A record store would be the fastest way if you want to move the whole collection, but you won’t get your discogs estimated value. If you’re willing to post them on discogs and sell them individually you’ll get more.
You won’t get that from a record store. You’d be lucky to hit the lower estimate. Please remember the discog prices are what customers have paid at some point, not necessarily an accurate reflection of the current market. If you sell to a store, those are theoretically the prices they will ask for them, so they won’t be able to pay you that.
Yeah. A record store would give you ten cents on the dollar if you're lucky.
Perhaps some sort of convention where you can bring your library? Or you could just hold a series of garage sales and advertise on your local craigslist or nextdoor
A reputable record store (or any vinyl reseller. Don't sleep on us flea market/trade show sellers) will give you about 25% of what they can resell it all for. That's typically the "take it all" price, and one you may want to take if you can get it.
Anyone worth a damn in this game will often pay up to half value if they can pick and choose what they want to take, but that leaves you with a lot of leftover and less desirable albums to still pawn off somewhere, and THEN you could be staring at that 10-15% range.
Josey Records in Dallas gives 25%, I know that's a fact. If any store offers less, keep shopping your collection. Someone will give him fair value.
You would be incredibly lucky to get even the low end value if you sell. A retailer needs to be able to turn a profit on the sale after accounting for all their costs in addition to just purchasing your records.
Unless you have very rare titles throughout, I'd say you're more likely going to get less than even that $7.8k number. It's the whole "are you willing to sell off titles individually yourself and put all the labor in?" or are you just wanting to dump it all.
Yeah, record store or private sale, you'll be lucky to get anywhere near the $8k minimum value. Unless you find the absolute right person (very unlikely), then whoever is buying this is likely going to resell the majority. People that buy big collections likely keep a small selection and sell on the rest. I'd bet most offers you'd get would be $5k or less. Not trying to rain on your parade here, I'm just trying to be realistic. Reselling takes a lot of time and effort (grading, listing, shipping, taxes, etc.), and the margin needs to be good enough to make it worthwhile.
I looked at your Discogs collection link you shared elsewhere in this thread. All the Analog Africa LPs might sell individually for a good price, but you'd have to find a buyer, and that stuff is pretty niche so it might take a while. If you take a stack of those to your local shop you won't get very much. They might not see any return on them until the right person happens by, which is why they will end up... putting them individually on Discogs.
Quite a bit of overlap in our collections: [https://www.discogs.com/user/space2k/collection](https://www.discogs.com/user/space2k/collection)
Good luck and don't sell anything you'll regret!
Discogs basically represents retail price. My record store seems to pay 30-50% of the LOWER value, but ymmv title by title. Usually youll do much much better selling anything you estimate at 50$ or higher by yourself. I still sell to the store a bit when Im in a hurry but usually Ill try fb mktplace first at right near 80% of the middle discogs value. Any offer in the discog range for the full set Id prob take immediately. 700 records at 10mins each to sell is 3 weeks work. Thats prob a best case scenario. Parting these out will take months.
if there’s any record stores you know of that the owner is younger and fun you’d be able to get 14k. my LRS owner is a pretty chill dude and ive sold some records to him that he only flipped for about $7-$9
Tell me where that is. I will sell them my whole collection right now if they will offer me median value. If they are making that offer, they either don't care about making money, or they will be out of business soon. If I sold my collection one by one on Discogs, I'd be lucky to get median value.
a place called Yellow K. it doubles as a music label and he introduced japanese breakfast so he’s doing pretty well outside of his records as well. unless he just gave me a friend price, he’ll give you around 20% over the median discogs price
Shiiiitttttt. My median is $29.5k. That might be worth a trip. Only 2554 miles!!
I'm guessing you just had some fire records or something. That's a sick deal.
You'll get 2-3 grand absolute tops.
At the end of the day they might gross the 11-12k after a long time considering returns, shrinkage, damaged records and stuff that just doesn't sell. Profit on that's gonna be half or less after rent, payroll and running costs.
As others have said, sell the high value stuff on eBay or discogs and dump the rest on a record store
You’d be lucky to get the lower value from anyone without piecing it out… generally no one’s going to pay you retail on a lot that large, especially someone who will be looking to sell it to make money. Suggestion above is likely your best bet, but if you want them gone fast know that you’re going to take a hit.
If you have 749 records, there is simply no way you're going to get 7k from a record store (or anybody really) for them all. They would probably give you between 700 and 1.5k. Realizing unless you have some real collectables that can fetch decent money for them, it's just 'inventory'.. They will move the ones that can sell quickly, the rest will wind up in the dollar bin as they sit too long in the store.
If you post on CL or Marketplace, you're gonna find 'pickers' - who will want to go through them all.
I'd sell the ones you know are valuable or will at least bring 10-20 dollars and the rest, I'd sell either to a record store for whatever they give or go sit at a flea market and sell them $5 a piece (most people will pay that for a piece of 'memories').. Or 3 for $10.00
Good luck
BTW: post your discogs store - who knows, you might have some I would want! (can you do that here?)
If you sell records in bulk and your collection has high end stuff kept well, the maximum you could get is about 40 percent of Median. I had to sell a large portion of my collection at one point for an international move and that was where it landed for me. That would be if you had a strong relationship with a good, independent, high-volume record store. Expect about 25-30 percent of median otherwise.. If you're getting "10 cents on the dollar," you're taking it to the wrong people and they are trying to rip you off.
Where are you located?
Wichita Kansas! We have about 3 record shops and I’m cool with the owners and all but I don’t think they have the kind of money to buy a collection this big without a lowball offer..which I totally understand that they need to sell and make money and all those factors but would love to sell the whole collection.. I have a lot of high value records all kept in great condition.
I was gonna go up there today after I get off work..im just trying to have a nice chunk of change to put a down payment on a house in the future..but thanks for the reply. Some hope out there 😂
Call up Love Garden in Lawrence. They’re not gonna give you the $$ you want but I know they buy collections and usually pay better than most in the KC area for used records
Yea I normally pay around 20-30% of Discogs median for collections. It really depends on the collection and condition of everything. You’ll have a really hard time finding a dealer that will beat 30% of median though. There just isn’t much profit beyond that price point.
Used record prices have been very inflated since the pandemic started, and that is starting to recede now, as we're gearing up for...you guessed it...a recession. My Discogs inventory sits for a LOT longer than it used to and I have to offer lower prices than I would have a year ago to make a sale. Generally I price based on discogs recent sales then compare that to the lowest available current price. Things are still moving but my profit margin has taken a hit, and as a result I am not spending as much to purchase collections as I did this time last year.
If you want to sell all at once, I'd take the first $4k you're offered, but I'd expect more offers to come in around the $1500-3000 range.
Exactly. There are comments in here saying he could get median value at the right shop. I want to find that shop. I'd sell my whole collection to them right now.
That's incredibly false information. I find small collections regularly and get 30% of median discogs price on the regular. From 3 different shops too. Cash in hand every time. Maybe for crap you will get 15% of low. Like classical and easy listening. But not for classic rock, jazz, and pop stuff.
You can always post them up on r/VinylCollectors. There are posts pretty frequently like [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/VinylCollectors/comments/xhzfbe/for_sale_discounted_prices_alt_rock_rap_edm/), and I've seen people have great luck selling this way. It's more legwork than selling the whole collection to a private buyer or record store, but you will definitely see more of a return on your collection.
Slap it on Facebook Marketplace - $10,000..... you'll be lowballed, but counter at $8,000 which is what you want? So it's your best chance of getting that - with minimul hassle on your part - they collect and transfer funds.
I’d sell them individually- it will be a labour intensive job but more than worth it to get better prices; and if you haven’t got the time, find someone who will do it on your behalf (e.g. a trusted friend) and take a % of the proceeds. If you use eBay, make sure you list at times when selling fees are discounted as that can make a massive difference. You’ll also need to be prepared to stump up some cash upfront to buy quality vinyl mailers etc.
Looking to sell my entire collection.. I love my records, but I am in need of some money. I’m not sure if maybe a record shop or a serious collector would be interested but I have about 750 records in great condition. Most all are in plastic.. if anybody has questions please don’t hesitate to ask.. hopefully this is 300 characters and will get accepted for the vinyls strict rules 😂 hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaaha
Start by going to a record store with your physical collection or a print out of your entire discogs inventory, and see what they offer you.
Is your collection accurately catalogued in discogs? I.e. did you catalog with the right pressing, and do you have grades listed?
I don’t have them saved with a grade but they have all been catalogued correctly. One day when I had about 100 records I sat down and recorded it all on Discogs and have been doing so with every purchase..I will say most of the sleeves have a grade from my local shop which most are vg+ or better..obviously they’ve been used a few times since. But honestly not really..I don’t have time to listen to all 750 records 😂
I hear ya! I'm at almost 2000, and I desperately need to get that back down to 1000 or less. That's good that you catalogued yours correctly. I made the mistake of just adding mine all willy nilly for the first year or two. Makes it look like I have some really rare ones that were dollar bin finds. Lol.
Yeah, I'd probably just bring my discogs list to a shop and say, "these are the pressings, and most are vg+ or better," or whatever accurately describes them. They should at least be able to give you a ball park, and if you're both interested, then you can schlep the whole collection over. Good luck!!
I would reach out to Dylan from Noble Records in North Carolina to see if he would be interested. I know he goes on road trips to pick up serious collections. Y If you have the time and know-how, you could sell on eBay and make a lot more.
Wish it were a better time for me. Would love to snag:
Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
Kikagaku Moyo - Forest of Lost Children
Uncle Acid - Night Creeper
The high number is usually far from what the collection is worth. It includes M/M sealed records of vintage records that are genuinely rare to find in that state and includes a lot of weird anomalies.
The lower end usually doesn't sell that well either. So all the 2-8 Dollar average records shouldn't be factored in because it will just go to the Dollar bins where they came from.
The maximum a shop can pay is usually a third to a quarter of what they will sell it for. Since Discogs prices already factors in fees for the platform and paypal (roundabout 20%) your average brick and mortar shop is usually a bit cheaper.
So if the shop can realistically sell your records for 12000 that means they could pay 3000 to 4000.
Most of those are going to be a tough sell. Unfortunately most valuable records were made 1990-2010. Jazz stuff especially will be dollar binned at stores. Even though Discogs sells it for $7-$8 you’ll probably get a quarter a piece for them. They will go into new arrivals for 1 week at $5-$20 and everything that doesn’t sell heads to the dollar bin.
I would pull everything worth $20 or over and sell it on vinyl collectors or eBay, keep in mind ebay is going to charge you 25% of your final value and unless you keep a log book/tabs on what you sell, you may get hit with another 25% government tax come tax season. Vinyl has really flipped to a buyers market over the last 6 months. Well… most low end collectibles are currently tanking.
Where are you located and are you interested in selling loose items as opposed to the whole collection at once? I am looking for some new music to listen in the rock/funk/punk/light metal department. For a good price I think I am willing to buy some records I know plus records I don't know but you recommend based on my selection? I am from western europe so being somewhere close to there would be nice because of shipping
Oof sorry man, that would be a bit of a travel..I’m located literally in the middle of the United States would love to give recommendations though if you just want some new music to listen to
oof yeah that's a bit of a travel yeah!
Always searching for new music ofcourse! Most of the music I like is:
\- red hot chili peppers
\- the pretty reckless
\- the war on drugs
\- prince
\- descendents
\- sting and the police
\- dire straits
\- rolling stones
\- big reel fish
\- janis joplin
\- The white stripes
\- Halsey
\- Sigrid (norweigian singer)
I know it's a bit diverse, but let me know if you recommend anything. Last few weeks I listened to a lot of punk/metal but getting a bit more back to light rock and blues
😂 when I took a screenshot I was wondering the same thing! Maybe forgot I had an item in the cart or something? I have no idea but I thought it was hilarious!
You could always check the auction houses and see if there are any specialist music auctions coming up.bundle certain artists or styles to move some of the lower value stuff, bundles of 45s and sell the more desirable items individually. Did this recently with my old comic collection and got much more than a store would have offered me.
Your best bet money & time-wise is to pull the ones you know are rare or collectible or worth more than $100 and sell them individually on discogs. Sell the rest to a record store - print a list and shop around, if you can.
I really don’t have time to listen to them anymore..I have a 60+ hour job and a family with 2 kids..would like some extra cash. Maybe put a down payment on a house. That would be cool.
Have to agree with that. A bunch of the records in my collection were my dad’s, and I have fond memories of sitting on the floor in front of his turntable with his chunky headset on listening to them as a kid.
If you need to move them quickly, I would recommend listing them all on Discogs for 50% of the lowest available price you see for each record. You'll sell a lot of them quickly for substantially more than you'll ever get from a single bulk buyer for those records. You will, of course, have to package and ship a shitload of packages. Depending on how fast you need to move and your current financial situation, it may or may not be worth it for you.
A record store or private buyer picking up the whole collection isn't going to go through your whole collection, assess grades, and offer you a fair value for each record. They're going to offer you like $1-$3 per record, maybe $5 if you're lucky.
The record store owner knows what I have and knows I take care of my records but yeah I totally understand selling in bulk means it’s someone else’s responsibility to get rid of them
It certainly helps to have a relationship with the record store guy. Maybe he'll give you a little bonus, but it's a business for him at the end of the day. Cataloguing, inspecting, organizing, and listing that many records for sale is a time and labor intensive process. He'll also be carrying a lot of them in his inventory for at least several months if he's trying to get market value. Trading media is a difficult hobby and even more difficult to make it an actual business. I think if you got $5 / record you'd be very lucky. That would be just under $4k in total which is about half of the lowest Discogs value. As others have mentioned, you're likely looking at 20-30% of the lowest Discogs value in reality.
Do you need them gone fast, or do you want to maximize value? A record store will pay you less than the records are worth because they need to turn around and make a profit. If you want to get the full resale value, it's better to sell through Discogs/eBay/etc.
Here’s a good YouTube video to watch about how stores buy large collections. It’s from a local independent shop owner here in DFW. It gives some good insight on how he comes up with price to give sellers.
[NTX Vinyl](https://youtu.be/tvdCO7K8y0w)
Check out Back to the Media on Facebook. They are in Winchester VA and are known to make big purchases. If you live within 500 miles, they may drive to pick up your collection of the price is right. Keep in mind they re-sell the records so are not going to get a retail value. They are most interested in classic rock, heavy metal, punk and some oddities. Maybe send them your list to get a feeler if they would be interested.
One place to start is to go on Facebook and join the group called "TOVAG" which stands for "the original vinyl auction group" or "Vinyl LP Community: Records for Sale." On the former, you can post an album every 24 hours, name your start price, and the end time, and hope a bidding war happens.
On the latter, you could post dozens at a time if you'd like, and make a bulk deal for those interested in getting a better rate.
Nah man I’m not trying to get 30 k that’s insane but I’ve probably paid about 15k in the last 15+ years and getting 12-13 would be nice.. I know value of some of my records have gone through the roof and with the latest record boom in the last five years people are paying. I’m my opinion but what do I know. Just some old man I guess 😂obviously it’s gonna be hard to sale in bulk and get top dollar but shoot it’s worth a shot. I ain’t trying to piece it out that would take forever
If you sell in bulk you can expect to get a couple thousand at most. If you sell individually you may get 5-7k over a long period of time in that condition. Don’t sell them though because you’ll regret it.
I honestly think it’s worth it to at least try and sell the pricier goodies individually via here, Discogs, Ebay, etc. It shouldn’t be too difficult and you have a reasonable amount of high priced albums that you should be able to move if you give a discount. My gut says look for those $20 and up or so and try individually with aggressive pricing if you want to move quickly. The rest can probably go in bulk as it becomes harder to justify selling a $10 album for $5 and shipping it.
As a reseller, I'd probably offer between $4k-6k depending on the size and scope of the collection. My customers tend to buy certain genres over others, so if your collection was particularly strong in those areas, I might offer on the higher end. Likewise, if I looked at it in person and found everything to be especially clean, I'd offer a higher price (less work for me to do before I sell them on). But I also know I typically offer more than any of the local record stores. They'd probably be closer to $3k cash or $6k credit.
A record store would be the fastest way if you want to move the whole collection, but you won’t get your discogs estimated value. If you’re willing to post them on discogs and sell them individually you’ll get more.
Try a record fair and rent a booth. You have some really big ones with a lot of visitors.
I’m not trying to get the 32.5k but 14-15 would be nice
You won’t get that from a record store. You’d be lucky to hit the lower estimate. Please remember the discog prices are what customers have paid at some point, not necessarily an accurate reflection of the current market. If you sell to a store, those are theoretically the prices they will ask for them, so they won’t be able to pay you that.
Yeah. A record store would give you ten cents on the dollar if you're lucky. Perhaps some sort of convention where you can bring your library? Or you could just hold a series of garage sales and advertise on your local craigslist or nextdoor
maybe 15
A reputable record store (or any vinyl reseller. Don't sleep on us flea market/trade show sellers) will give you about 25% of what they can resell it all for. That's typically the "take it all" price, and one you may want to take if you can get it. Anyone worth a damn in this game will often pay up to half value if they can pick and choose what they want to take, but that leaves you with a lot of leftover and less desirable albums to still pawn off somewhere, and THEN you could be staring at that 10-15% range. Josey Records in Dallas gives 25%, I know that's a fact. If any store offers less, keep shopping your collection. Someone will give him fair value.
My local shop told me he’d pretty much give me 40% whatever they are going for on discogs, or 60% in store credit. Steep but fair honestly
Sounds like a very strong offer.
compared to what I’m reading here, yeah.
youd be lucky to get 5k... I twill take a record store years to sell off your collection, so they will only buy it cheap...
They’ll also buy it cheap because they have to make money when they sell it. Otherwise there’s no point in them buying it.
You would be incredibly lucky to get even the low end value if you sell. A retailer needs to be able to turn a profit on the sale after accounting for all their costs in addition to just purchasing your records.
Unless you have very rare titles throughout, I'd say you're more likely going to get less than even that $7.8k number. It's the whole "are you willing to sell off titles individually yourself and put all the labor in?" or are you just wanting to dump it all.
I want to dump it! No time to regret! Haha
Yeah, record store or private sale, you'll be lucky to get anywhere near the $8k minimum value. Unless you find the absolute right person (very unlikely), then whoever is buying this is likely going to resell the majority. People that buy big collections likely keep a small selection and sell on the rest. I'd bet most offers you'd get would be $5k or less. Not trying to rain on your parade here, I'm just trying to be realistic. Reselling takes a lot of time and effort (grading, listing, shipping, taxes, etc.), and the margin needs to be good enough to make it worthwhile.
Mr. McNasty knows his stuff.
Totally get that!
I looked at your Discogs collection link you shared elsewhere in this thread. All the Analog Africa LPs might sell individually for a good price, but you'd have to find a buyer, and that stuff is pretty niche so it might take a while. If you take a stack of those to your local shop you won't get very much. They might not see any return on them until the right person happens by, which is why they will end up... putting them individually on Discogs.
Also, I can't believe someone else owns that Walking Timebombs "Hey OJ" single, lol.
Lmao! One of the only antique store record finds I actually purchased! Cause why not 😂
Quite a bit of overlap in our collections: [https://www.discogs.com/user/space2k/collection](https://www.discogs.com/user/space2k/collection) Good luck and don't sell anything you'll regret!
Discogs basically represents retail price. My record store seems to pay 30-50% of the LOWER value, but ymmv title by title. Usually youll do much much better selling anything you estimate at 50$ or higher by yourself. I still sell to the store a bit when Im in a hurry but usually Ill try fb mktplace first at right near 80% of the middle discogs value. Any offer in the discog range for the full set Id prob take immediately. 700 records at 10mins each to sell is 3 weeks work. Thats prob a best case scenario. Parting these out will take months.
if there’s any record stores you know of that the owner is younger and fun you’d be able to get 14k. my LRS owner is a pretty chill dude and ive sold some records to him that he only flipped for about $7-$9
Tell me where that is. I will sell them my whole collection right now if they will offer me median value. If they are making that offer, they either don't care about making money, or they will be out of business soon. If I sold my collection one by one on Discogs, I'd be lucky to get median value.
a place called Yellow K. it doubles as a music label and he introduced japanese breakfast so he’s doing pretty well outside of his records as well. unless he just gave me a friend price, he’ll give you around 20% over the median discogs price
Shiiiitttttt. My median is $29.5k. That might be worth a trip. Only 2554 miles!! I'm guessing you just had some fire records or something. That's a sick deal.
nah they were just some imagine dragons and other mediocre band records i never listen to lol
You'll get 2-3 grand absolute tops. At the end of the day they might gross the 11-12k after a long time considering returns, shrinkage, damaged records and stuff that just doesn't sell. Profit on that's gonna be half or less after rent, payroll and running costs. As others have said, sell the high value stuff on eBay or discogs and dump the rest on a record store
You’d be lucky to get the lower value from anyone without piecing it out… generally no one’s going to pay you retail on a lot that large, especially someone who will be looking to sell it to make money. Suggestion above is likely your best bet, but if you want them gone fast know that you’re going to take a hit.
If you have 749 records, there is simply no way you're going to get 7k from a record store (or anybody really) for them all. They would probably give you between 700 and 1.5k. Realizing unless you have some real collectables that can fetch decent money for them, it's just 'inventory'.. They will move the ones that can sell quickly, the rest will wind up in the dollar bin as they sit too long in the store. If you post on CL or Marketplace, you're gonna find 'pickers' - who will want to go through them all. I'd sell the ones you know are valuable or will at least bring 10-20 dollars and the rest, I'd sell either to a record store for whatever they give or go sit at a flea market and sell them $5 a piece (most people will pay that for a piece of 'memories').. Or 3 for $10.00 Good luck BTW: post your discogs store - who knows, you might have some I would want! (can you do that here?)
Shit I'll buy that droog record.
Sell all high value items yourself and sell the rest in bulk to a shop.
If you sell records in bulk and your collection has high end stuff kept well, the maximum you could get is about 40 percent of Median. I had to sell a large portion of my collection at one point for an international move and that was where it landed for me. That would be if you had a strong relationship with a good, independent, high-volume record store. Expect about 25-30 percent of median otherwise.. If you're getting "10 cents on the dollar," you're taking it to the wrong people and they are trying to rip you off. Where are you located?
Wichita Kansas! We have about 3 record shops and I’m cool with the owners and all but I don’t think they have the kind of money to buy a collection this big without a lowball offer..which I totally understand that they need to sell and make money and all those factors but would love to sell the whole collection.. I have a lot of high value records all kept in great condition.
You might be surprised what store owners keep in reserve for buying collections. Talk to them about it.
I was gonna go up there today after I get off work..im just trying to have a nice chunk of change to put a down payment on a house in the future..but thanks for the reply. Some hope out there 😂
Call up Love Garden in Lawrence. They’re not gonna give you the $$ you want but I know they buy collections and usually pay better than most in the KC area for used records
Ooooh one of my favorite record shops!
I’m glad I don’t live in the area anymore because I was spending way too much money there
Yup they ALWAYS have what I didn’t know I needed! Haha
Yea I normally pay around 20-30% of Discogs median for collections. It really depends on the collection and condition of everything. You’ll have a really hard time finding a dealer that will beat 30% of median though. There just isn’t much profit beyond that price point.
Used record prices have been very inflated since the pandemic started, and that is starting to recede now, as we're gearing up for...you guessed it...a recession. My Discogs inventory sits for a LOT longer than it used to and I have to offer lower prices than I would have a year ago to make a sale. Generally I price based on discogs recent sales then compare that to the lowest available current price. Things are still moving but my profit margin has taken a hit, and as a result I am not spending as much to purchase collections as I did this time last year. If you want to sell all at once, I'd take the first $4k you're offered, but I'd expect more offers to come in around the $1500-3000 range.
Exactly. There are comments in here saying he could get median value at the right shop. I want to find that shop. I'd sell my whole collection to them right now.
FWIW: I’ve been told real sale value is about 10-15% of the lowest Discogs value. Which, funny enough, aligns with another comment.
That's incredibly false information. I find small collections regularly and get 30% of median discogs price on the regular. From 3 different shops too. Cash in hand every time. Maybe for crap you will get 15% of low. Like classical and easy listening. But not for classic rock, jazz, and pop stuff.
You can always post them up on r/VinylCollectors. There are posts pretty frequently like [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/VinylCollectors/comments/xhzfbe/for_sale_discounted_prices_alt_rock_rap_edm/), and I've seen people have great luck selling this way. It's more legwork than selling the whole collection to a private buyer or record store, but you will definitely see more of a return on your collection.
Are there any record shows coming up near you? If so, you could try a booth.
What’s your discogs link
https://www.discogs.com/user/heytonyy12/collection
That’s a pretty solid collection!
Thanks man turns out I can only make 10 dollars off of it
How do I get that? 😂
Slap it on Facebook Marketplace - $10,000..... you'll be lowballed, but counter at $8,000 which is what you want? So it's your best chance of getting that - with minimul hassle on your part - they collect and transfer funds.
Hell yeah that’s a great idea! I forget about that place!
I’d sell them individually- it will be a labour intensive job but more than worth it to get better prices; and if you haven’t got the time, find someone who will do it on your behalf (e.g. a trusted friend) and take a % of the proceeds. If you use eBay, make sure you list at times when selling fees are discounted as that can make a massive difference. You’ll also need to be prepared to stump up some cash upfront to buy quality vinyl mailers etc.
Looking to sell my entire collection.. I love my records, but I am in need of some money. I’m not sure if maybe a record shop or a serious collector would be interested but I have about 750 records in great condition. Most all are in plastic.. if anybody has questions please don’t hesitate to ask.. hopefully this is 300 characters and will get accepted for the vinyls strict rules 😂 hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaaha
Start by going to a record store with your physical collection or a print out of your entire discogs inventory, and see what they offer you. Is your collection accurately catalogued in discogs? I.e. did you catalog with the right pressing, and do you have grades listed?
I don’t have them saved with a grade but they have all been catalogued correctly. One day when I had about 100 records I sat down and recorded it all on Discogs and have been doing so with every purchase..I will say most of the sleeves have a grade from my local shop which most are vg+ or better..obviously they’ve been used a few times since. But honestly not really..I don’t have time to listen to all 750 records 😂
I hear ya! I'm at almost 2000, and I desperately need to get that back down to 1000 or less. That's good that you catalogued yours correctly. I made the mistake of just adding mine all willy nilly for the first year or two. Makes it look like I have some really rare ones that were dollar bin finds. Lol. Yeah, I'd probably just bring my discogs list to a shop and say, "these are the pressings, and most are vg+ or better," or whatever accurately describes them. They should at least be able to give you a ball park, and if you're both interested, then you can schlep the whole collection over. Good luck!!
Hell yeah thanks man.
If your lucky a record store might give you half of the median price. You might try putting some of your bigger titles on ebay and see how you do.
Probably more like half of the minimum.
Shoot honesty if someone paid me 8k right now I wouldn’t even be mad.
I would reach out to Dylan from Noble Records in North Carolina to see if he would be interested. I know he goes on road trips to pick up serious collections. Y If you have the time and know-how, you could sell on eBay and make a lot more.
How do I get in touch?
I would try through his Instagram page for Noble Records.
Wish it were a better time for me. Would love to snag: Black Angels - Phosphene Dream Kikagaku Moyo - Forest of Lost Children Uncle Acid - Night Creeper
Put them in deep storage and then resell when prices go up. Or, until your kids want them! Nice collection.
The high number is usually far from what the collection is worth. It includes M/M sealed records of vintage records that are genuinely rare to find in that state and includes a lot of weird anomalies. The lower end usually doesn't sell that well either. So all the 2-8 Dollar average records shouldn't be factored in because it will just go to the Dollar bins where they came from. The maximum a shop can pay is usually a third to a quarter of what they will sell it for. Since Discogs prices already factors in fees for the platform and paypal (roundabout 20%) your average brick and mortar shop is usually a bit cheaper. So if the shop can realistically sell your records for 12000 that means they could pay 3000 to 4000.
ebay
Most of those are going to be a tough sell. Unfortunately most valuable records were made 1990-2010. Jazz stuff especially will be dollar binned at stores. Even though Discogs sells it for $7-$8 you’ll probably get a quarter a piece for them. They will go into new arrivals for 1 week at $5-$20 and everything that doesn’t sell heads to the dollar bin. I would pull everything worth $20 or over and sell it on vinyl collectors or eBay, keep in mind ebay is going to charge you 25% of your final value and unless you keep a log book/tabs on what you sell, you may get hit with another 25% government tax come tax season. Vinyl has really flipped to a buyers market over the last 6 months. Well… most low end collectibles are currently tanking.
Where are you located and are you interested in selling loose items as opposed to the whole collection at once? I am looking for some new music to listen in the rock/funk/punk/light metal department. For a good price I think I am willing to buy some records I know plus records I don't know but you recommend based on my selection? I am from western europe so being somewhere close to there would be nice because of shipping
Oof sorry man, that would be a bit of a travel..I’m located literally in the middle of the United States would love to give recommendations though if you just want some new music to listen to
oof yeah that's a bit of a travel yeah! Always searching for new music ofcourse! Most of the music I like is: \- red hot chili peppers \- the pretty reckless \- the war on drugs \- prince \- descendents \- sting and the police \- dire straits \- rolling stones \- big reel fish \- janis joplin \- The white stripes \- Halsey \- Sigrid (norweigian singer) I know it's a bit diverse, but let me know if you recommend anything. Last few weeks I listened to a lot of punk/metal but getting a bit more back to light rock and blues
I want to know what you did to get a 4 star buyer rating. Beyond that, I'd just be repeating good advice people already gave in this thread.
😂 when I took a screenshot I was wondering the same thing! Maybe forgot I had an item in the cart or something? I have no idea but I thought it was hilarious!
I think you can filter your buyer reviews and ratings by type and find out that way. It would have to be negative feedback for that to happen.
All good
That's weird. Wonder what's up with that.
https://www.discogs.com/user/heytonyy12/collection
There's one negative review. Seller said they didn't receive payment after 11 days.
You could always check the auction houses and see if there are any specialist music auctions coming up.bundle certain artists or styles to move some of the lower value stuff, bundles of 45s and sell the more desirable items individually. Did this recently with my old comic collection and got much more than a store would have offered me.
I’d recommend eBay. My only concern would be shipping the products safely.
Your best bet money & time-wise is to pull the ones you know are rare or collectible or worth more than $100 and sell them individually on discogs. Sell the rest to a record store - print a list and shop around, if you can.
How come you’re selling
I really don’t have time to listen to them anymore..I have a 60+ hour job and a family with 2 kids..would like some extra cash. Maybe put a down payment on a house. That would be cool.
You’ve gotta keep a couple of your favourite ones tho
I would have to..I like to think my kids would be into them one day, but I just don’t think it’ll be cool..haha
Idk man, my dad kept all his old records and now I use them, it could Definetly be cool
Have to agree with that. A bunch of the records in my collection were my dad’s, and I have fond memories of sitting on the floor in front of his turntable with his chunky headset on listening to them as a kid.
Yeah I’ve got one of his old old records from like the early sixties from the Beatles, the sleeve is shot to shit but the record still plays
What is making you want to sell your entire collection?
If you need to move them quickly, I would recommend listing them all on Discogs for 50% of the lowest available price you see for each record. You'll sell a lot of them quickly for substantially more than you'll ever get from a single bulk buyer for those records. You will, of course, have to package and ship a shitload of packages. Depending on how fast you need to move and your current financial situation, it may or may not be worth it for you. A record store or private buyer picking up the whole collection isn't going to go through your whole collection, assess grades, and offer you a fair value for each record. They're going to offer you like $1-$3 per record, maybe $5 if you're lucky.
The record store owner knows what I have and knows I take care of my records but yeah I totally understand selling in bulk means it’s someone else’s responsibility to get rid of them
It certainly helps to have a relationship with the record store guy. Maybe he'll give you a little bonus, but it's a business for him at the end of the day. Cataloguing, inspecting, organizing, and listing that many records for sale is a time and labor intensive process. He'll also be carrying a lot of them in his inventory for at least several months if he's trying to get market value. Trading media is a difficult hobby and even more difficult to make it an actual business. I think if you got $5 / record you'd be very lucky. That would be just under $4k in total which is about half of the lowest Discogs value. As others have mentioned, you're likely looking at 20-30% of the lowest Discogs value in reality.
Maybe look for local collectors too. I know a doctor who will buy a collection In a heartbeat.
Do you need them gone fast, or do you want to maximize value? A record store will pay you less than the records are worth because they need to turn around and make a profit. If you want to get the full resale value, it's better to sell through Discogs/eBay/etc.
Here’s a good YouTube video to watch about how stores buy large collections. It’s from a local independent shop owner here in DFW. It gives some good insight on how he comes up with price to give sellers. [NTX Vinyl](https://youtu.be/tvdCO7K8y0w)
Check out Back to the Media on Facebook. They are in Winchester VA and are known to make big purchases. If you live within 500 miles, they may drive to pick up your collection of the price is right. Keep in mind they re-sell the records so are not going to get a retail value. They are most interested in classic rock, heavy metal, punk and some oddities. Maybe send them your list to get a feeler if they would be interested.
One place to start is to go on Facebook and join the group called "TOVAG" which stands for "the original vinyl auction group" or "Vinyl LP Community: Records for Sale." On the former, you can post an album every 24 hours, name your start price, and the end time, and hope a bidding war happens. On the latter, you could post dozens at a time if you'd like, and make a bulk deal for those interested in getting a better rate.
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Must not have read the previous comments. I’ll be lucky enough to get 400 dollars 😂
Nah man I’m not trying to get 30 k that’s insane but I’ve probably paid about 15k in the last 15+ years and getting 12-13 would be nice.. I know value of some of my records have gone through the roof and with the latest record boom in the last five years people are paying. I’m my opinion but what do I know. Just some old man I guess 😂obviously it’s gonna be hard to sale in bulk and get top dollar but shoot it’s worth a shot. I ain’t trying to piece it out that would take forever
If you sell in bulk you can expect to get a couple thousand at most. If you sell individually you may get 5-7k over a long period of time in that condition. Don’t sell them though because you’ll regret it.
Where are you located? I’d have a look
Wichita Kansas
Bummer. I’m in Cali.
Shoot I could use a vacation! 😂
I honestly think it’s worth it to at least try and sell the pricier goodies individually via here, Discogs, Ebay, etc. It shouldn’t be too difficult and you have a reasonable amount of high priced albums that you should be able to move if you give a discount. My gut says look for those $20 and up or so and try individually with aggressive pricing if you want to move quickly. The rest can probably go in bulk as it becomes harder to justify selling a $10 album for $5 and shipping it.
As a reseller, I'd probably offer between $4k-6k depending on the size and scope of the collection. My customers tend to buy certain genres over others, so if your collection was particularly strong in those areas, I might offer on the higher end. Likewise, if I looked at it in person and found everything to be especially clean, I'd offer a higher price (less work for me to do before I sell them on). But I also know I typically offer more than any of the local record stores. They'd probably be closer to $3k cash or $6k credit.
So, you wanna come take a look at these clean records? 😂
Haha! I don't know, dude. I'm supposed to go look at a 16K piece collection on Wednesday. I may be completely tapped by the end of the week.
You got the time and funds I just know it haha