What to do with my old records???
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So I am downsizing my life and have some large boxes of LPs and Singles that are lurking!
I don't have a turntable, a lot of the sleeves have water damage and I don't think they are of any financial value.
But a sense of nostalgia still hits when rifling through them, I was thinking of photographing the covers but I am open to suggestions, chuck or keep?
I don't have a turntable, a lot of the sleeves have water damage and I don't think they are of any financial value.
But a sense of nostalgia still hits when rifling through them, I was thinking of photographing the covers but I am open to suggestions, chuck or keep?
I sold mine to a local shop for about £2.10 per LP. Now's a good time to sell as they are trying to restock after Christmas.
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Mark300zx said:
So I am downsizing my life and have some large boxes of LPs and Singles that are lurking!
I don't have a turntable, a lot of the sleeves have water damage and I don't think they are of any financial value.
But a sense of nostalgia still hits when rifling through them, I was thinking of photographing the covers but I am open to suggestions, chuck or keep?
Get some cover frames I don't have a turntable, a lot of the sleeves have water damage and I don't think they are of any financial value.
But a sense of nostalgia still hits when rifling through them, I was thinking of photographing the covers but I am open to suggestions, chuck or keep?
Good decoration for the man cave
Have a look at this site https://www.discogs.com/
Easy to document your collection and then the site provides a marketplace to buy/sell.
You'd be amazed at some of the prices rare vinyl makes.
E.g Pet Shop Boys records at £6k 😲
Easy to document your collection and then the site provides a marketplace to buy/sell.
You'd be amazed at some of the prices rare vinyl makes.
E.g Pet Shop Boys records at £6k 😲
Find a local record shop which you can just walk in to & get a price.
Rather than the hassle of dealing with retards online selling sites.
I worked out realistic sold prices by looking at the actual sold prices on an online site. In my case the online sold price for selected LPs I wanted rid of came to £350. Record shop gave me £225 cash in hand. Fair deal as no fees & no hassle.
I kept the best 100 Lps that I actually want & may play one day.. Invested in a nice record box for safe storage & doesn’t take up much space ..
Rather than the hassle of dealing with retards online selling sites.
I worked out realistic sold prices by looking at the actual sold prices on an online site. In my case the online sold price for selected LPs I wanted rid of came to £350. Record shop gave me £225 cash in hand. Fair deal as no fees & no hassle.
I kept the best 100 Lps that I actually want & may play one day.. Invested in a nice record box for safe storage & doesn’t take up much space ..
Jimboka said:
Find a local record shop which you can just walk in to & get a price.
Rather than the hassle of dealing with retards online selling sites.
I worked out realistic sold prices by looking at the actual sold prices on an online site. In my case the online sold price for selected LPs I wanted rid of came to £350. Record shop gave me £225 cash in hand. Fair deal as no fees & no hassle.
I kept the best 100 Lps that I actually want & may play one day.. Invested in a nice record box for safe storage & doesn’t take up much space ..
The site I posted shows real and median prices for records sold. It does not charge a fee.Rather than the hassle of dealing with retards online selling sites.
I worked out realistic sold prices by looking at the actual sold prices on an online site. In my case the online sold price for selected LPs I wanted rid of came to £350. Record shop gave me £225 cash in hand. Fair deal as no fees & no hassle.
I kept the best 100 Lps that I actually want & may play one day.. Invested in a nice record box for safe storage & doesn’t take up much space ..
Bandit said:
The site I posted shows real and median prices for records sold. It does not charge a fee.
Yes but you may have to wait months to sell a record as you're competeing with everyone else selling that record as well. Then if you get a nibble you've got to find a way of packing it securely & pay for shipping. Then you get into an argument wjth the buyer because what you thought was Very Good Plus condition they think is only Good. Then repeat all of that 150 times & probably get left with 50 that no-one wants in a year's time.It's fine if you actually like buying & selling records but if you just want to clear out it's a waste of time. The shop I linked to has a travelling buyer who will come to your house & make an offer on the spot. If you agree he writes a cheque & he takes them away.
Bandit said:
Jimboka said:
Find a local record shop which you can just walk in to & get a price.
Rather than the hassle of dealing with retards online selling sites.
I worked out realistic sold prices by looking at the actual sold prices on an online site. In my case the online sold price for selected LPs I wanted rid of came to £350. Record shop gave me £225 cash in hand. Fair deal as no fees & no hassle.
I kept the best 100 Lps that I actually want & may play one day.. Invested in a nice record box for safe storage & doesn’t take up much space ..
The site I posted shows real and median prices for records sold. It does not charge a fee.Rather than the hassle of dealing with retards online selling sites.
I worked out realistic sold prices by looking at the actual sold prices on an online site. In my case the online sold price for selected LPs I wanted rid of came to £350. Record shop gave me £225 cash in hand. Fair deal as no fees & no hassle.
I kept the best 100 Lps that I actually want & may play one day.. Invested in a nice record box for safe storage & doesn’t take up much space ..
I did look at that site to get values, also the Bay of E sold prices.
Based on the highest prices, my local record shop ( in the corner of an Antiques Emporium !) paid around 66% of that in cash. No hassle or comebacks, took all of 30 minutes. I resisted the temptation to buy anything else whilst browsing !
jas xjr said:
buy a turntable and convert them into mp3. it is a daunting task but very satisfying. +1 for the artwork/mancave
If converting to digital then convert to a lossless format like flac instead of mp3, digital storage is cheap and there is no point sacrificing quality if you don't have to.I recently retrieved several boxes of LPs and 12" singles from my loft - they'd been stored up there for ~15 years.
Treated myself to a new turntable - what a pleasure to revisit music I hadn't played for maybe 25 years.
OK, some of the vinyl was grubby but another small investment in a Project VC-S cleaner from Audio-T soon put that right.
A few Gorilla cases from eBay to properly house the records and the setup is complete. Have to say I'm loving it.
One downside is the amount of time I'm now spending on Discogs scavenging for albums & 12" singles at bargain prices.
If I'd sold my collection a few years back, I would certainly have come to regret it.
Treated myself to a new turntable - what a pleasure to revisit music I hadn't played for maybe 25 years.
OK, some of the vinyl was grubby but another small investment in a Project VC-S cleaner from Audio-T soon put that right.
A few Gorilla cases from eBay to properly house the records and the setup is complete. Have to say I'm loving it.
One downside is the amount of time I'm now spending on Discogs scavenging for albums & 12" singles at bargain prices.
If I'd sold my collection a few years back, I would certainly have come to regret it.
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