posted on February 9, 2001 12:32:51 AM
I've been trying to sell some LPs lately on Ebay, but haven't had much luck. Is there still a market for clean vinyl records(other than Beatles/Elvis)? Is there anybody on the earth who still collects movie soundtracks on LP?
posted on February 9, 2001 01:18:18 AM
If you are having no luck selling on ebay do the thing that is taking away your market on ebay. Half.com. It is another ebay company that has fixed prices.
Check into it.
BUT! If you have LP's that you know are worth some real money, then hold off. The market for everything is soft right now due to the doom-and-gloomers predicting a recession (the big R).
The high cost of heat is also part of the equation.
I know of a ton of purists who are willing to pay big bucks for virgin LP's...if it's the right title. Those I don't know. I'll talk to a friend who is a maniac about the stuff the next time I see him and post it.
Believe it or not he's our UPS driver which we rarely use anymore but he is connected and knows what the going price on any LP is at any given point.
Life has to be the weirdest thing in life.
I digress.
I don't encourage half.com.
It takes away from the buyers on ebay that made ebay what it is.
I heard an interview with Bobby Vee on NPR a while back. Bobby Vee? Yuk! Wrong. The guy was so interesting and when they played the clips I was not amazed that he had such a string of hits.
So.
I went to search on ebay, got a list of BV's greatest hits and at the bottom of the ebay search I saw half .com already filled in with my search. I clicked. It brought up the same BV CD at way less than half the ebay auction.
Did I buy it?
The echeapest guy on the planet?
The guy who goes to the grocery store with a calculator to see if a square inch of double ply toilet paper at .00121 will do the job that a free corn cob used to do?
I looked at corn on the cob. Too high!
Then I went back to the half.com.
Then I went back to the ebay listing at 2x the price.
Then I got the ebay.
We all have to eat. It's your decision.
Hold off on the good stuff right now. The market will fatten up. Don't be surprised if the Fed does another meeting before the regularly scheduled meeting to cut interest rates. The economy is headed t'word the crapper faster than they are.
To answer your question. Lp's are crap. Just kidding!
Good luck!
posted on February 9, 2001 08:38:39 AM
It all depends on the records..I am selling vinyl as fast as I can list it, none of the big sellers are ever Beatles or Elvis.. My biggest sale in 2001 so far has been a 10" childrens safety record ($345.00!).
I sell many oddballs like "The United States Postal Workers Sing" from 1950... "Music To Perform Bladder Surgery By"... "Real Sounds of Crashes at the Indy 500"..All goofy, all brought a nice chunk of change.
The 80's music has to be pristine, maybe sealed..70's Oddball groups sell well in any condition, and believe it or not, Burl Ives has become my hero..Old Burl is always a sure sale...There are many other sure sells, but I have to keep those to myself...(I gotta eat too) Good Luck!
I forgot to add..COVER ART SELLS! If you have an Lp with a cover drawn by Jack Davis or Crumb, or anyone else popular, say so in the ad. I had a goofy old Dracula Lp and noticed it was drawn by Jack Davis, listed it for 7.99 without mentioning Jack Davis..No Bids. I edited it to say Jack Davis, it became a "hot item" and ended at $161.00.
[ edited by kyms on Feb 9, 2001 08:43 AM ]
posted on February 9, 2001 08:44:47 AM
Virgin/mint/super clean. That's what you want. Worn records and/or worn dust jackets just won't bring much, if anything, unless truly rare. I tried to sell a very early Janis Joplin that booked for 30.00 (in near mint cond.), but the record and dust jacket had too much wear and I couldn't even get 4.95. OTOH, I did manage to get 15.00 for a worn Bo Diddley, but I just got lucky on that one. Stay away from queasy listening stuff.
Movie soundtracks can be OK. For instance, Deathwish III must have been one of the worse movies of all time, but Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin wrote the soundtrack. Zep collectors will want it for that reason alone and will probably fight over a mint copy.
[ edited by loosecannon on Feb 9, 2001 08:49 AM ]
I went to half.com and didn't find any lp's. I'm probably doing something wrong and will feel really dumb, but where should I have looked? I only saw Cd's and cassettes. I tried calling up lp's, vinyl, etc. but only got a listing for cd's fo the lp's.
