How much do large Vinyl collections go for these days?


What is vinyl pricing doing these days? Is good used vinyl appreciating or depreciating?

I have a collection of about 1700 Jazz LP's. 95%+ are VG+ or better (I bought them that way and clean records every time on a Loricraft)

About 500 are earlier (50's, 60's) issues like Blue note w42, NY USA, a few Lex Ave, Bergenfield Prestige, Columbia, Savoy, Verve, Riverside, Atlantic etc.

The rest are OJC reissues, and other later good jazz labels like Enja, Soul Note, Inner City Mo fi etc.

Many were purchased from big jazz collections on Ebay over the years. About 20% were purchased new and have seen only a few plays (given there are so many). The rest were mostly purchased from the Jazz Record Center in NYC and anyone who knows them is well acquainted with the quality of their records.

I estimate I paid about 50K in total for these, so an average of $30. The best stuff was $100 or so on Ebay. The OJC's were $8 years ago new from Acoustic Sounds. Would you hold or sell?

I know the answer is "it depends" but any other insights are appreciated.


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Showing 1 response by jazzcourier

Depending on what you have and the condition you might be in for a surprise regarding the skyrocketing prices of certain Jazz records.First and second pressings are in high demand and there are a growing number of "sleeper" records that fall between the cracks that demand high figures.You got some very sketchy advice from the people here and this place is not the source you want to deal with determining the future and/or liquidation of your Jazz records.Another place you don't want anything to do with is a retail record store,you will get screwed for sure.
   Looking at DISCOGS is a good idea for a general ballpark price and i would direct you to JAZZCOLLECTOR.COM which is a site devoted to the tracking and discussion of the ebb and flow of Jazz records sold on Ebay and they have a alphabetical list of records and prices.I just hate to see people get boned on their record collections,unless of course,it is i who do the boning.Insert annoying snide smile icon here.
 Truth be told,you are a dolphin in the shark infested and highly competitive waters of the buying and selling of records.Most collections usually house a small percentage of truly valuable records,once you research them you might try selling these yourself on Ebay.Let the market determine the value.Good luck!!!!