Vinyl - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Catcher10 wrote:

Just looking too at all my Riverside vinyl, on Discogs has triple digit prices now.....Second Life Syndrome $235...cool!

You serious ?? Hey, check out Yes - Live In Lyon triple vinyl - I bought mine for $70 when it came out, now there's 2 at Discogs - one is around a grand, and some other moron is trying to sell a sealed copy for almost 6 grand !! WTF ???

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Just looking too at all my Riverside vinyl, on Discogs has triple digit prices now.....Second Life Syndrome $235...cool!

Listening....

^ No doubt! I am not that type of collector for vinyl, although 2 yrs ago I struggled paying $60.00 for PT~Signify, an original pressing on Delerium label, its a PORKY PRIME CUT. The condition is VG++/Mint really. I have been offered $200 for it.....Discogs has a $160 high sell for it.

So I get it...but the music lover in me would rather sell to another music lover directly. Rather than these guys getting my rekkids..

TeleStrat wrote:

How's it going, Jose?

He's sixty-seven and he built the collection back in the sixties and seventies.

But unlike me, he lives in the same house that he did back then. He's never had to move his albums but I've moved my 2,000 album collection five times over the years.

Back when he decided to sell I talked to him a lot about the high dollar albums and even gave him a copy of the price list I had been putting together.

He's not into computers and wasn't interested in learning how to sell his valuable albums online so I think he always intended to sell in lump sum.

Going well.....

It's too bad, I think I would have at least liked to look at the list and probably bought some and easily pay the going rate of $6-$10 depending on quality.

I'm sure that $24K looked really nice.......

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Looking good, brah !!

How's it going, Jose?

He's sixty-seven and he built the collection back in the sixties and seventies.

But unlike me, he lives in the same house that he did back then. He's never had to move his albums but I've moved my 2,000 album collection five times over the years.

Back when he decided to sell I talked to him a lot about the high dollar albums and even gave him a copy of the price list I had been putting together.

He's not into computers and wasn't interested in learning how to sell his valuable albums online so I think he always intended to sell in lump sum.

^ I know his collection pretty well since he and I collected albums together in the late sixties and all through the seventies. As far as quality goes I would rate it at a solid 4,500 albums. The other 1,000 to 1,500 were bulk purchases from all the record stores that were selling off their vinyl stock. Most of the time he had no idea who these bands were.

Some of you may remember me posting some time ago about a friend who was thinking about selling his large vinyl collection (about 6,000 albums). Back then he had purchased a turntable with a USB port and was going to transfer about one thousand albums to CD and he was talking to a record flipper who had offered him $5 per album sight unseen.

He and I have not talked in quite awhile but I received a text message the other day saying that he had sold his collection for $24,000. The buyer was a collector who also owned a small record store.

Back then I was pricing some of my more valuable albums and I cautioned him about selling his entire collection without separating a few hundred of his high dollar albums. He wasn't interested in doing that so I have to assume he sold everything for $4 each.

I don't know how you guys feel but I think he made a big mistake. How hard would it have been to pull out about 500 albums and then sell the rest for $22,000?

I was not interested in buying anything from him but I just think he made a mistake doing the bulk deal without pulling some things out first.