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What is your price range for used vinyl?

Personally, I enjoy finding nuggets in thriftstores the most. They usually sell for a buck, and if two out of five aren't so hot, no big deal. Once in a while I may spend
$10-15 on a very good condition LP, if I know the music but
haven't been able to find it. I'm curious what price criteria other analog aficionados use.
musicbuff
audiobugged
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I got a book for Xmas called "Vinyl Junkies" by Brett Milano a 2003 release which is really funny as it's all about one collectors adventures.

Personally I have been burnt on Ebay, as record grading has become Rocket Science.

I came back to analog w/ just 40 lp's to my name, & found that my local sources where dried up on anything of quality.

Frustrated, I was lucky to just 3 days ago to purchase a Agon members 1400 mint classical Lp collection. A fellow whom I had grand experiences on Ebay with Sacd's & Xrcd's. It was a once in a lifetime deal, which after my back recovers will keep me busy for years to come :)~
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marakanetz
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The overall average price among my near 2000 records collection is $7 per near-mint record.
That includes a COMPLETE collection of Can that has records upto $50 worth including Can artists solo albums as well.
xiekitchen
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IF you can find a good used record store, vinyl will be cheaper than buying over ebay. I've bought around 90 or so albums on ebay because of where I live now (in Georgia) and you end up paying that extra $10 or so for shipping from England or Japan (where I most often buy from). The trick here is to read between the lines to determine if the seller really is grading correctly and you must buy only lp's rated "Mint" or "Mint-" as the grade "Excellent" will many times buy you a chewed-up surface-noised LP.
At the Princeton Record Exchange in Princeton NJ I used to buy on a regular basis MFSL LP's in Mint condition for as little as 8 bucks... Most I've ever paid for an LP was $50 for MFSL Steely Dans's Katy Lied, and $75 for a sealed MFSL Supertramp Breakfast in America.
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rbstehno
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i purchase on average 2 or 3 used albums per week for a cost of $2.50 to $4.00 per album. New albums are around $10 on up. we have quite a few music stores that sell used cd's and albums. for example, some of the music stores have thousands of used albums and cd's on hand and they constantly receive trade-ins daily.
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