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What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear

Have anyone of you actually calculated this ?

What's your personal ratio ?

I have not looked into this in any detail, and have if anything, only recently.....

Told family members (not my wife) 8^0..........something along the lines of ........." this piece of equipment is worth ......this (xxxx) ......." 

I have, told all family members that they could probably start an Ebay Record Selling Career; if their own career doesn't pan out.... with what is contained in the house. I don't think they are buying this idea ......right now.

This has me a little concerned.  

I assume the good records will only go up in value.  

Some gear I own, I believe is in this same state of fluctuating upward values.

Interested in your opinions, and findings on the subject.    Have you crossed this bridge yet ?  

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uberwaltz
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Rbstehno.

I don't think anyone was saying albums are worthless and I am really happy you are averaging $10 a pop for yours.

However that's individual, make no mistake if you had to sell them all urgently to a wholesale buyer they would realize far less.

Tomic has excellent point with discogs.
I started using it just to catalog all my music in one handy place so I did not buy duplicate albums as much as anything.
But the valuation which is supposed to reflect actual recorded sales on discogs only is useful.

I agree that the medium value is probably what you could hope for unless you know your copy is exceptional.
tablejockey
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I was just listening the CeeDee, and curiosity steered me to Ebay.

If you had an S load of stuff like this, along with the usual R&R, Jazz, Classical etc. maybe you can make a couple of bucks for a long week in Tahiti?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Soundgarden-Superunknown-Unopened-Original-1994-Release-Colored-Vinyl/22371...
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I just went through all this due to a sudden move/downsizing.   I sold my 2600 LPs relatively quickly through a variety of means: my high-dollar items (about 40 LPs) on eBay, another 1500 between two record stores and another 1000 donated to Goodwill to be claimed on my taxes.  Most of the records were flea market finds so I was not to concerned with making lots of money.  However, curating everything in Discogs allowed the dealers to know I had a collection they might be interested in and helped set a negotiating base.  Ebay helped me determine a reasonable price for my turntable and record cleaner.  And Craigslist help me sell my Kallax shelves.  I got everything out in one week, with enough to buy a Node 2i, HiFiMan headphones and subscribe to Qobuz for about 60 years.  
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@16F4 good on ya man :-) enjoy those 60 + years in excellent health !!!!
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I'll give you $5.00 for them.  I can never understand why anyone would own a turn table and records because most of the time you can hear the noise from tracking the needle in the grooves of the record and this is after you freshly clean a record. 

I think streaming music using Tidal sounds better because there is no noise and you would have to pay a fortune to buy the number of records or CD's they offer in their library.  I can sit on the sofa using my Bluesound Node 2i and select songs and album using my iPhone.  The days of using vinyl and CD's in my opinion is over.  Who wants to pull out a record, wash the record and then pay a lot of money for an expensive turntable these days when digital streaming is available.

If you want a better analog conversion then buy an expensive DAC. 
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