I have been selling Cds on Amazon for about 8 years and have not tried to sell much vinyl online yet. As of March 1st Amazon has increased their Media Fees, for professional sellers(those who pay 40$ a month) there is a 1.80 charge and a 15%charge on the entire (shipping included which is a default 3.99 for most sellers) transaction. This means if you sold a cd for a penny and the buyer paid the 3.99$ for shipping Amazon would receive 2.40$ of the 4$ the buyer paid. It usually costs about $3 to ship a single Cd if you include buying padded mailers in bulk and if you pay standard postage. That means a net loss of about 1.40 for that cd(assuming you had no cost for the actual disc!!). For a Janos Starker disc on the Sefel label that I had the only copy of last week that a buyer paid about $166 for Amazon took about 25$. Amazon may be better for expensive items. I am trying to sell sealed vinyl on my own web site (trytoneclassical.com) but not a lot of people may want to deal with a relative unknown and the site is still young and only has about a thousand LPs right now. I had always hoped that given the time to carefully clean and audition(as I write this a Lyrita recording of the Bax Symphony #7 is playing) vinyl that Audiogon might be a cost competitive site. I still hope that is the case. LS
Selling in audiogon vs amazon vs ebay?
This is just my experience to share.
I almost always have had a better experience in selling or buying audio gears (mid-high end) in Audiogon compared to Amazon or Ebay.
However, selling music had been different. I have quite a collections of LPs and I am thinning them down. Mostly classical LPs. I have sold quite a few of them in Amazon, but very few in Ebay and none in Audiogon. With equal price, do you think selling LPs in Audiogon is tougher than in Amazon or Ebay? Amazon and Ebay have much wider exposure, so it is understandable, but I wonder if it also has to do with kinds of audiences: Audiogon users are generally more for gears than music, and for music, more for audiophile grade recordings or sought after recordings than average recordings.
Just a thought.
Your opinions are welcome.
I almost always have had a better experience in selling or buying audio gears (mid-high end) in Audiogon compared to Amazon or Ebay.
However, selling music had been different. I have quite a collections of LPs and I am thinning them down. Mostly classical LPs. I have sold quite a few of them in Amazon, but very few in Ebay and none in Audiogon. With equal price, do you think selling LPs in Audiogon is tougher than in Amazon or Ebay? Amazon and Ebay have much wider exposure, so it is understandable, but I wonder if it also has to do with kinds of audiences: Audiogon users are generally more for gears than music, and for music, more for audiophile grade recordings or sought after recordings than average recordings.
Just a thought.
Your opinions are welcome.