Sell LP's: No visible scuffs. Let buyer remove static if needed?
I search the title in eBay and use SOLD listings as a guide. Why do you prefer ebay over discogs ? Discogs designed for music only, it's a discography first and sales option second, also a price guide, much better than ebay (imo). popsike.com is another tool to check prices for records, actual auction finals are there. |
Record grading is international standard, you can read here about grading: https://support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001566193-How-To-Grade-Items Nobody cares about static, find your record/release on discogs, make sure about pressing, click sell and add grading (you’d better undergrade than overgrade). It’s easy to sell on discogs, ebay is more complicated. It’s better to buy on discogs as you can see exact pressing, deadmarks and all details about each version. |
Discogs is for records, search system is better, sellers with 100% positive feedbacks are good (normally). I hate ebay, because when you search for one record they will display 500 more, including reissues and other junk you don’t even need. To find out which press it is you must spend hours. On discogs you know exactly what it is and you can only browse exact pressing and nothing else. The sales fee is lower on discogs and there is a sales statistic for each release. |
'Chakster', I mainly use eBay because I have for so long. I attempted to use Discogs some time ago as a buyer and would find 20 or 30 listings for an LP title and 1 picture. @arisonabob Picture is on release page, anyone can change this picture or add another in better quality (everyone is a contributor). Seller don't have to upload pictures in his listing since there is a picture uploaded by others on release page, but seller must check deadmarks etc to list exact pressing of the release. Picture can be emailed to the buyer by request, link to a picture can be in the seller's item description if needed. They do not block email contact sharing in discogs messenger (ebay block everything). Listing is free, sales fee is 8% (only if you sold something). Purchased a couple of titles and found the grading to be extremely poor. Returning the item was a nightmare too. Because it's free (I think it's still free), there are just too many listings to go thru and just searching a specific issue was also a negative. It's been many moons since this happened so I may look again. Every buyer is protected by paypal buyer's protection and refund is guaranteed. Feedback system is the key to buy from good sellers with accurate grading. |
