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Help with pricing a record collection

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Posted on June 25, 2017 at 06:28:51
Da He Hua
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 Hello, I came across a classical music record collection and have gathered the following information via email from the owner. I have not looked at the collection yet, but before I drive all the way there to see it, I am interested in your thoughts as to how much in a very rough sense I should pay for this collection based on the description below.

Well over 1,000 records, selling as a whole lot

Records are in beautiful condition

Not much opera in it

All are good brand name or audiophile labels; no budget labels like Turnabout, CBS Odyssey, Nonesuch, Angel, Longines, Vox, RCA Gold, Seraphin, Musical Heritage Society etc.

Some sample labels are: Over 100 Philips Digital Classics, RCA Living Stereo same, Columbia 6 Eyes and 2 Eyes over 300, also have Telarc, London blueback, Mercury Living Presence etc. and audiophile records

 

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RE: Help with pricing a record collection, posted on June 25, 2017 at 06:42:52
fstein
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 go to discog.com

 

RE: Help with pricing a record collection, posted on June 25, 2017 at 06:48:19
vinyl1
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 Prices on these sorts of common audiophile records are way down from the peak. Except for the very top records, they sell for 10-20% of what they used to sell for - and that is retail. The wholesale price of records, however, is 10-20% of retail.

I suspect that if you offered this seller fair wholesale for the entire lot, the seller wouldn't sell. I don't think any dealer would offer more than $2-3 record in the current market. He would be probably be counting on making his money on just a handful of pieces, and dumping the rest for whatever he could get. Even if he sold each record individually on eBay, an enormous amount of work, he probably wouldn't average much higher than $10 a record, which would just about justify a wholesale price of $2 each.

As an individual buying for your own use, you could pay more, if you really wanted the records.

 

RE: Help with pricing a record collection, posted on June 25, 2017 at 07:48:01
6bq5
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Location: SF Bay
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 agreed-
Last time I made a sizable buy at a local emporium - Amoebae in SF -
The classical titles were ~$2-3 ea...
Happy Listening

 

RE: Help with pricing a record collection, posted on June 25, 2017 at 08:31:03
Jeffrey Lee
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Location: Louisville
Joined: September 24, 2002
 I don't know any dealers who would pay more than $500 for a a lot of classical records that size. They've all been saddled with way too many classical titles to risk adding another stack.

 

Pay what you can comfortably afford..., posted on June 25, 2017 at 10:29:44
musetap
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Posts: 31879
Location: San Francisco
Joined: July 8, 2003
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 based on what YOU feel they are worth to YOU.

Let your moral compass be your guide, your wallet compass a close second.

IF you are buying for resale OR an investment be a jerk and pay WAY lower than your moral compass indicates.

Pay enough that you and the seller part happy.

Spending time researching prices on websites to determine a price is time VERY well wasted,
especially if you are a novice record person.

If you're seeking heilp here you are.

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure




 

You would have to be an experienced classical dealer....., posted on June 25, 2017 at 15:56:25
vinyl1
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 ....who knows exactly how much each pressing of each record sells for on eBay or Discogs. I agree a general-market record dealer wouldn't want this kind of collection at all, since he doesn't have the knowledge or customer list to sell it profitably. But the right guy could make money on it, particularly if there are a few high-value records in there.

 

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