Vinyl to get rid of - best way?

welnik

I have about 150 vinyl albums that I dont really want to just give away. I thought I might be able to put them on Amazon but when you search for the particular album there isn't anyother listed so you cannot "sell yours here". Can you get them item listed still?

Or, is there anywhere else I could sell them to/via?

cheers

Nile

Hello welnik

I think that you'll get more responses in the 'Ebay & other auctions' board, so I'll move it across for you.

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soolin

Vinyl is difficult to sell as it has become quite a specialist area. You could take a look on ebay to see what sales have been made in the past 30 days. Just put your details in the search area and on the LH margin you have the option of completed items, click on that and you will get the auctions that finished in the past 30 days.

You might find that you have some worth selling on there, but if you have albums that have not managed to sell before it might be easier just to freecycle them.

Soo

frivolous_fay

That's freecycle.org, if you haven't heard of it

welnik

frivolous_fay wrote:

That's freecycle.org, if you haven't heard of it

Yes, I have. Got rid of half my house when I moved! It just grieves me to give away all my albums as they have costs me hundreds over the years. I think a lot of stuff gets sold on too.

Moglex

I had to junk around 350 vinyls around a year ago as I was obviously never going to play them again.

Apart from a relatively few albums that retain some value because of rarity, these must be some of the most oversupplied items in existance what with hundreds of millions of people changing to CD over the last 20 years.

I couldn't even give mine away, although you might be lucky.

miss_lisalou

I've been selling off my vinyl collection for a few months on ebay. It's mostly rare and independent stuff that either sells suprisingly well (upto £30. for a 7") or some have not sold at all. The worst part is packaging it all up securely to make sure it arrives in one piece.

I'd say you're best to do a search on ebay beforehand to see if anyone else is selling similar stuff by the same artists etc and whether they have much interest in it, to give you an idea whether it's worth listing it. You can also check sites like eil.com and musicstack.com for more rare items - they do buy from the public but probably not nearly as much as you could make if you sell it yourself

There will always be a market for vinyl which is still much-loved, it's just not as big a pool as we'd like :cool:

Contains_Mild_Peril

Check Completed Listings on eBay (you need to be registered to do so) to find out if any of your records are worth money there. Most aren't worth selling on eBay though, since the market is saturated with the more common ones which cost more to post than they're worth. Are there any secondhand record shops in your area? If so, I'd try there, otherwise consider a car boot sale (but take other stuff as well, so you still make money even if the record buyers aren't there).

angchris

take your old vinyl to a car boot, i did this last year and my boxes of old albums etc were the first thing people made a beeline for, they all sold remarkably well even the naff ones