Your thoughts on selling

Here is my advice, if what looks like a NM vinyl to you under a bright light (no hairline scratches of any kind) but it doesn't have a shiny gloss, it has been overplaid and needs to be graded VG+. Selling your records to a record store will get you a dollar or two per record at best. Sad.

As far as the newbies in vinyl, I agree that streaming will be the much easier road. I started collecting vinyl in the 60s so I have a lot of valuable analog records. Anything after 1981, I buy CDs since things went mainly digital then. You would have to spend a lot of money to get vinyl either as used original or new analog releases. Not to mention the much higher cost of equipment for vinyl over CDs or streaming to better them. I do all 3 because I have been at it a loooong time. I can't recommend vinyl to newbies.

I had a ton of Columbia LP sets  of Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mozart and more, that were my mothers and thought they’d sell in a heartbeat. The vinyl was in great shape and the boxes were as well.  Boy was I wrong. There were a couple hundred acetate 78’s as well, some not even opened. Nope, nobody in the Kansas City area wanted them either. I was able to sell her turntable to a collector.

Hopefully you’ll have better luck than I did.

JD

That’s a terrible idea on how to sell vinyl. I sold all my vinyl and everything analog a couple years ago. It was very easy. I went out and looked on a couple websites for the range of prices people were asking for each piece. Then, I would only sell in lots of 10 or more. I initially asked for a decent price for all of them, but selling them in bundles, I made over $1000 more than as a whole. Nobody asked for a refund or credit.

That’s a terrible idea on how to sell vinyl. I sold all my vinyl and everything analog a couple years ago. It was very easy. I went out and looked on a couple websites for the range of prices people were asking for each piece. Then, I would only sell in lots of 10 or more. I initially asked for a decent price for all of them, but selling them in bundles, I made over $1000 more than as a whole. Nobody asked for a refund or credit.

But if he is running a charity deal, then just giving them to some local young hipsters would be cheaper than scammers asking for refunds on everything including shipping.

or selling them to a local store that peddles LPs.

I just went through this process in selling my collection. I hadn’t been playing my records and wasn’t going to move them again. I looked at trying to sell them like you are considering but ultimately decided that was way too much work and brain damage. I sold them to a record store (1000 plus) for 7k win win they picked up and I was finished

done haven’t looked back