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In Reply to: RE: Help with pricing a record collection posted by Da He Hua on June 25, 2017 at 06:28:51
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.
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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.
....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.
agreed-
Last time I made a sizable buy at a local emporium - Amoebae in SF -
The classical titles were ~$2-3 ea...
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