This looks like a terrible investment

The lot just isn't  an attractive deal. Not even for half.

This guys score looks much better. He has some serious Classical pieces mixed in with RI's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Mj5GGrzwg&feature=youtu.be

Schlep boxes of records for weeks on end? Your margin when it's all said and done?

Trying to resell might be worthwhile for the lot @10K. That's  being optimistic. You're gonna get calls/emails from a minimum..5%? An album will be defective, and the customer wants an exchange/money back.

For the sellers sake someone  will bite,  with visions of grandeur$$.

Who has anything  in the pic"

Lee Morgan-Sidewinder...it's okay, but I could use a nicer copy.  I want  that Grant Green.
Double unobtanium.

" what's with how they are displayed laying on their spines?"
I just now looked at that pic. I think it's actually a bin pic 90 degrees out?

That's going to be some dead inventory.

Hope the seller can hold his breath for a loonnng  time before he can get anything near his reduced price.