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Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 10:45 pm
by bansel
This came up in another forum but I thought I'd make a separate post here to get others perspectives, as it's been on my mind a lot lately. Especially with the amount of dough I've been dropping on vinyl. I found this link with some general info, but would love to hear about anyone's personal experience with this.
http://www.recordcollectorsguild.org/mo ... =18&page=1
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 7:19 pm
by hncreature
Bookmarked! Thanks!
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:33 pm
by freshoj
in case anyone is wondering here is the discogs 'what's your collection worth?' feature.
(which should be taken with many grains of salt, but it is not without its' value)
http://www.discogs.com/blog/how-much-is ... tion-worth
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 8:08 pm
by bansel
Thanks for the link jmctodo, I didn't know that feature existed. I was shocked to see the max that some have paid for things I have. The bad part is my records that I would think are most valuable gave no data, so I guess they've never sold on discogs. I guess that's where popsike comes into play since that pulls from eBay sales, etc.
I'm glad there's not a graph that calculates all the shipping costs I've paid over the years! Now that would be depressing ;-/
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 8:22 pm
by freshoj
ha, yes, or even just the money I spent on discogs. not numbers I want to see (though maybe they would have a sobering effect on me!).
at this point, my mind is racing with all of the amazing variations on this data that I want access to! how about the amount that paypal and discogs make each year on these sales? as a seller, it boggles my mind the amount of fees I pay discogs each month, but paypal is smart enought to obscure their cut from me.
A lot of my more valuable older records also have no sales data - which is a bummer but I'm too lazy to look them all up. I hope with time discogs will eventually get more of this data. please send folks interesting in buying/selling records from the 50s and 60s to discogs!
Some of the 'max' prices are indeed hard to believe - so I wonder if they reflect some of the 'above and beyond' type items (signed, extras, etc). either way, the 'total collection value' is generally a very useful piece of data.