Recap.
Selling record collection – this week’s highlights.
Crabby Appleton – £15
Johnny G double ( with there is a Greenford far away..) 99p !
Keith Christmas Brighter day 99p
Band on the Run 99p
Combat Rock 311.50
Joy Davidson toe-tappers Closer £30 – Still £15
Clash ist. £9.50
There have been a good deal more enquiries re this batch..
I seem to have attracted the atention of a few dealers who’d like more info than I can be bothered to provide.
My standard reply is These are used record, which I’ve mostly owned from new and they are all eminently playable and piced to sell ( Usually starting at 99p.)
Most people are fine with this and join in the bidding .
I have, however, received a staggering amount of dealersplained patronising business hogwash and some abuse for not playing whatever game is required of me.
I’ve told 2 blokes that I won’t sell to them and one of them has unleashed blood curdling threats to report me to Mr Ebay and to tell my mum, or something.
Anyway
Still unloved
Neil young – Tonight’s the Night
Stiffs live
Leige and Leif
J Geils Live
40 sales and £500 in the coffers.
( Just bought the new Hollow Hand lp, and you shd do the same, so aggregate reduction decreased)
Next conundrum is How many to keep ?
I’m thinking 500, half of which wd be Reed / Velevets and the many boots..
Off to Valencia next week so won’t be putting any more up until return.
Have a weekend !
Can you e mail me at haroldandmaud@outlook.com. I live in Toronto and would love a crack at the Keith Christmas album. Just wondering how much including shipping and how I get the cash to you? Cheers bang em in…
Sorry mate..That was sold.. Someone’s got 99 pence worth..Cost me £3 a few years back..Played 4 or 5 times ? I’m ok with that..
ta very much….good luck with rest of your sale
Genuine question. Is it worth it? Having to pack records up really well for shipping, go to the post office etc And then there is also the possibility of disputes or returns from the buyers.
I will have quite a lot to sell at some point and may take the easier route and just go to a record store. May only get 50% of potential value but much less hassle. In fact the owner of the best record store in Ottawa will make house calls
That’s prob what I will do eventually; I can’t face the thought of seeing a lifetime’s collection of LPs dribble away one or two at a time over weeks and months. By the time they were all gone I’d have spent the proceeds on CD re-issues. There are a couple of really good second hand vinyl dealers in Brizzle, and I’ve already scoped them out to take the whole bloody lot for a round figure. The only thing stopping me is deciding which couple of hundred I’ll hang on to and take with me to the crem. That and the fact that I don’t even have a definitive list (there’s around 2,500 of the buggers) and I seriously cannot be arsed to make such a list. Vague plan is to ask one of the dealers to come to Foxy Towers in person and spend half an hour looking through the shelves with me. Shame your guy in Ottowa is a tad too far away to make a house call here!
I can ask. He likes UK pressings!
Can I ask who you regard as the good dealers in Bristol as I have some vinyl I am hoping to unload soonish.
Is the Joy Davidson one before or after she started the New Orders of the Pimpled Age?
The Nick Nick mix produced by Chalkie White?
I remember hearing Love Will Tear Us Apart when it was in the charts on Radio Luxemburg, the DJ said the singer was Joey Davidson
Is there a full list you can post/send? I’ll buy your Tonight’s the Night and pay for decent postage, for instance.
Thanks v much, but I’m so far from that degree of organisation and I’m quite enjoying the process..So no list, but hundreds of records.
If you search on eBay for the Tonight’s album and throw in an offer I’ll probably accept it
In my deluded world view, these records are bought by someone who will delight in them in the way that I have over the last 50 odd years..yes I know .
I’m just looking at a copy of Johnny Winter And..
I paid tuppence for it in 1973, …
I’ll stick it on eby for thruppence and see where it goes
“Guess I’ll Go Away” alone is worth a lot more than thruppence!
If anyone is looking to offload a substantial collection, it might be worth considering an auction – maybe a specialist music one like Omega (up north) or SAS (Newbury) or Wessex Auctions in the south. Plenty of others hold vinyl auctions but these three seem to be the ones record dealers I know sometimes put rare stuff through because they market the sales well and have large international buyer databases.
Prices are incredibly buoyant at the moment with plenty of overseas buyers looking for stuff – and anything remotely sought after – prog/soul/ska/90s vinyl going for way over estimate. For sure you pay commission but the specialists at the auction house are apparently friendly and helpful in advising how to break up your collection into sellable lots. Added bonus – you’ll probably shift the whole collection if you don’t put a reserve on.
I occasionally buy bits and bobs myself at auction – with some occasional bargains still to be had – but looking at the recent prices I struggle to understand how any record shop/dealers can make money on the crazy bids for some of the lots.
Here’s a link to this week’s SAS auction in Newbury to get a flavour of current estimates:
https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/special-auction-services/catalogue-id-srspe10540
Combat Rock has a few hits on it but I am guessing it went for 11.50 rather than 311.50?
I recently paid not much more than that for the 3LP Combat Rock + People’s Hall set. I don’t think it set the reissue charts alight.