Trying to sell Vinyl

[Dorsetmike]

As part of my downsizing house move I'm thinking of selling my collection of LPs and cassettes, a mixture of classical, jazz and 50s-70s pop; I phoned a local rcord shop that specialises in second hand, I reeled off names of a number of performers etc and got the "nah they don't sell" or "got plenty of those" lines. yet looking on Ebay and Amazon, many of the titles I have are listed at good prices some over £50, example a boxed 2 LP set of Porgy and Bess sung by Cleo Laine and Ray Charles on Amazon at prices ranging from £68 (New but out of stock) to £116 S/H from Japan.

I'll also be selling a Technics transcrition deck, must have a look at Ebay for current prices.

 

[JHC]

Amazing the dealer was not interested, the recent resurgence in LPs is due mainly to the youngsters (15-25) discovering the media so they probable would not be interested.

 

[Dorsetmike]

The way I interpreted his words was as a ploy to get the lot for peanuts. Hoping to get the lot - well over 100 - for about £20 or less, then sell each one for anything from £5 up. I got caught like that once selling some railway books when I got made redundant, got £70 for about 120 books, Many of which I later saw in the shop, none priced under £7.50, needless to say I didn't use that shop again.

 

[JHC]

Why no make them into 3 lots jazz, classical and pop and put on Ebay only sold as lots can't loose much.

 

[Dorsetmike]

Have you thought what postage on 100+ LPs might be? I have difficulty carrying about 20! Methinks Gumtree & specifying buyer collects would make more sense in my view.

 

[JHC]

Have you thought what postage on 100+ LPs might be? I have difficulty carrying about 20! Methinks Gumtree & specifying buyer collects would make more sense in my view.

Mike,I don't know what Gumtree is but buyer collects would sort the serious ones out, you say many of your titles are listed @ £.50 so to sell as a lot even 10% of sale should cover freight look on it as equal to commission.
So how are you listening to your music now PC, a streamer or head phones via CD player?

 

[wljmrbill]

Have you thought what postage on 100+ LPs might be? I have difficulty carrying about 20! Methinks Gumtree & specifying buyer collects would make more sense in my view.

In most cases with ebay/amazon etc..the customer pays the postage and handling upfront too..just have to box them and ship

 

[Dorsetmike]

So how are you listening to your music now PC, a streamer or head phones via CD player?

Various ways, radio & CDs with Sony and Samsung mini radio/CD/cassette stereos, PC playing via Technics amp and KEF speakers. PC has 35 x 3 hour playlists, also use the PCs CD/DVD, youtube and other web sources.

Think I will retain the LPs and deck for a while copy a few more tracks to PC/CD.

 

[JHC]

I have KEF 104 Reference I think, with coupled bass, they must be about 20+ years but fantastic speakers

 

[Dorsetmike]

I used to have a pair of Kefkit 3 dating from 1975, tweeter, mid and bass speakers on a panel with crossover network, and recommended dimensions for enclosing them, I used the maximum, about 36"x18"x18" real window rattlers, driven by a Goodmans module 90 and a Garrard zero100 deck, had them for near 20 years, domestic boss decided they took up too much space so replaced them in late 80s with a pair of C series "book shelf" ones, finally forced to sell the big 'uns early 90s.

The Goodmans gave up the ghost and was replaced by a Pioneer Rx, which in turn got replaced by Technics Rx, Cassette, CD and SL-DL1 deck. still with the KEF C series.

 

[JHC]

Have you upgraded your sound card in the PC?

 

[Dorsetmike]

No both PCs have integrated sound on the motherboard, the newer one has its sound processor built into the CPU, I've no complaints about sound quality, but then my hearing range is obviously not what it was in my yoof.

 

[teddy]

Not as good as speakers but a good pair of earphones also ensures that you don't upset the neighbours.

teddy

 

[JHC]

A good pair of headphones beats a pair of bad speakers

 

[teddy]

I agree. You must be referring to Milliband and Clegg :grin:

teddy