Selling Sex Pistols, Iggy, The Who
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I've been selling off my record collection (most of it) on EBay for a few weeks now and it's surprisingly cathartic. What's also surprising is what people want and what they don't. Bryan Ferry? Dead. Gang of Four? Desired.
Starting this week, all my Sex Pistols, Iggy/Stooges and Who 45s are getting listed. Original pressing Sex Pistols with picture sleeves. A Bomp EP and rare French fan 45 on Iggy. A wild party of Who singles on Track, Reaction, Brunswick, Decca, etc., both UK and US pressings.
You can start the trip by clicking here.
Also, in the next few weeks, all of Nils Lofgren's Grin LPs.
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Why oh why
Perfect timing - I've just bought a portable vinyl player, so am in the market for singles (Head, Hands and Feet - Warming Up The Band - being my last 'bay buy).
Have you got The Mohawks - Champ or Keith Mansfield Soul Thing in the collection?
Mitchy - There comes a time when those thousands of records just look like a huge burden. I'm keeping the stuff that really matters to me.
PM - Sorry mate, don't have either of those.
Though I'm not a potential purchaser, I love hearing about what sells and what doesn't...
Well the 80s is supposed to be a big groundswell of influence in the UK but you'd never know it from my listings. Culture Club, Billy Idol, Thompson Twins...nada. It took several times for fairly rare Human League albums to go and the rarest still hasn't. On the other hand, The Cramps, Gof4, Heartbreakers and Americana (Gene Clark, Arlo Guthrie, etc) attract attention.
My guess would be that the people who are still buying physical music like CDs and vinyl are not notably "fashion-forward." Also, without being sure how things are in Britain right now, over in the States it hasn't felt like a pop place for quite some time. Which probably means we're due for a renaissance...
Bill - check the pop landscape that is Britain: The Saturdays (bland), Little Boots (quirky), La Roux (solid 80s), and a load more. Where 5 years ago about 30,000 sales could get you comfortably into the Top 10 singles, now it's taking about 200,000. It's in rude health, as we say. You may be right about this audience not looking on eBay. Probably think that if it's not on Spotify it doesn't exist.
When I sold most of my vinyl collection on eBay, late 90's Indie went really well as almost everyone had by then switched over to CD. I posted a LOT to Japan. £80+ for The Wannadies LP anyone?
I am still watching but have most of what you are selling but also see the bids aren't that high.disappointing in a way, however i never did buy for investment purposes.will keep watching
Try using craig's list too. I don't think you can auction, but you can bargain and sell I think. It's quite popular in the states- not sure about the U.K. Perhaps worth a try though.
These are markets I'm interested for sure...the reitirement money, well yeah, I do pay attention to that one,too.