Vinyl Record Collection Disposal

NSG666

Googling 'selling vinyl records' throws up vinylwanted.com who are also Rare Vinyl and eil another separate company is 991

Has anyone experience of selling to these guys or recommendations as to who else to use?

droopsnoot

With vinyl, it all depends on what you have, and what condition it's in. For any value, it all needs to be mint. Chatting to someone at a local car boot sale who'd just snagged a few boxes of vinyl when the stall holder started giving stuff away, he reckoned some of it would still be worth listing on eBay, though I'm not so sure these days.

I used to buy stuff off eil, but not for many years. Have you had a look around for local record shops / stalls who might be wanting stock?

rhyski

If you want to spend some time listing records individually, www.discogs.com/ is the largest online music database where people can buy / sell records. You can search for the records you own, see how many other people are listing the same record for sale, and how much they are selling them for and in what condition. Obviously the rarer the record, the higher the price tends to be. It might only be worth doing for some of the records in your collection that you think have a good chance of selling. Do bear in mind you would need to post the records to the purchaser, so you’d need include postage & packaging costs to your listings.

If you are looking to sell them in bulk, then if you don’t have any joy with record stores, Facebook marketplace can be good at finding local buyers.

Good luck!

Grumpelstiltskin

My local Antique Auction s sells records sometimes.

Scroll through last week's results to give you some idea of what rare records fetch.

Arthur Johnson & Son | Auction Results | The Saturday Auctions 16th July 2022

But if they are of the Abba greatest hits type put them on Freecycle.