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Lately I have found several nice Vanguard, Mercury, Epic records...I am pondering selling them on e-bay. I don't want to make tons of money. More or less I want to be paid back for all my diggin/recycle center efforts. I see lots of buy it now options for LP's from legit dealers and wonder if people would buy records in lesser condition but much greater quantities. What do audiophiles consider good condition. So far I have found the RCA mono box set LP's to have great sonics and tolerable surface noise. LP's do tick and pop...What does an audiophile consider VG condition or VG+? Would you pay 10$ for three box sets of a specific period of recordings in very good but not dead quiet condition?
I have been loving and listening to the records but want to sell them to people who would appreciate them more than me and pay modest prices. The LP market to me seems absurdly inflated. If I had known the price of my Columbia Sidney Bechet LP I would have never paid what I did knowing it could be had on ebay. I did support the local record store but they are know mainly digital and the vinyl is too pricey...
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hard to sell rca mono's on ebay in less than NM.
I sell quite a bit, I also buy and avoid anything less than NM-. The RCA monos you mention may have stereo counterparts that people would want instead in any case. The best thing to do is set your ebay to list Classical from highest price to lowest price, and after a few months you'll have a good feel for what sells. I would only sell clean dust-free records with absolutely no scratches, marks or scuffs that sound.
In my experience most stuff rated nm or mint on ebay usually isnt...at least by my standards. These days I almost never buy anything I cant inspect first and then only near perfect or better records. And I usualy pay $2-4 for them at a local used record store.
I'm mad as hell at having to return "G" grade (for "Garbage") records to people who marked them "Mint," or "Perfect." I'm not going to take it anymore.
Classical needs to be in even better condition than other genres because it tends to have more dynamics, and a (near) silent background is essential in the quiet passages.I get more classical than my wife will let me buy, from local charity stores and sales, and pay 50c on average. I once paid $2 per record for some virtually unplayed stuff. What I am trying to say is, I don't buy classical from eBay, and I wouldn't pay very much for them. I don't think you'll get many sales, except for the few very rare ones.
I could be wrong though, and good luck if you make the effort.
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most of those guys grade visually or from dirty records. So I know that if they say mint or near mint I can get the record quiet.VG or that VG+ thing means that the records will not get quiet. Worse the VG are damaged in most cases.
~Slainte, Pardner
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