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How much do large Vinyl collections go for these days?

What is vinyl pricing doing these days? Is good used vinyl appreciating or depreciating?

I have a collection of about 1700 Jazz LP's. 95%+ are VG+ or better (I bought them that way and clean records every time on a Loricraft)

About 500 are earlier (50's, 60's) issues like Blue note w42, NY USA, a few Lex Ave, Bergenfield Prestige, Columbia, Savoy, Verve, Riverside, Atlantic etc.

The rest are OJC reissues, and other later good jazz labels like Enja, Soul Note, Inner City Mo fi etc.

Many were purchased from big jazz collections on Ebay over the years. About 20% were purchased new and have seen only a few plays (given there are so many). The rest were mostly purchased from the Jazz Record Center in NYC and anyone who knows them is well acquainted with the quality of their records.

I estimate I paid about 50K in total for these, so an average of $30. The best stuff was $100 or so on Ebay. The OJC's were $8 years ago new from Acoustic Sounds. Would you hold or sell?

I know the answer is "it depends" but any other insights are appreciated.


jyprez
jl35
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my experience is that unless a record is true Mint, the value is relatively low
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jyprez OP
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If I figured half of retail on the best 500 as suggested, and then $1 per record for the rest it would be about 15K which sounds like a number I could live with assuming retail is actually still what it was on ebay 5 years ago.
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folkfreak
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If you have a few hours to spare it may be worth cataloging your collection on Discogs. Using the app it's pretty easy and fun -- I just went through my collection (1200 or so). This will help you a) get a range on value (using the Discog sales history), b) generate a list you could use with sellers and c) give you an insurance record

You might also then decide to sell some of them yourself especially the high value ones -- I've had good luck selling on eBay but have yet to try selling (rather than buying) on Discogs

Provided you grade well and pack securely you should have no problems selling
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toddverrone
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I've sold stuff on discogs.. You may not get as high a price as an auction on eBay, but that's also not a guaranteed price either. For rare stuff, discogs is priced accordingly, though, so you will get a higher price for rare/in demand discs without worrying about an auction petering out below what you were hoping to get.
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