Price Check In Aisle 3

got a 2nd state pasted over butcher cover. has some splits but it's not in terrible shape. the vinyl is pretty beat but i figure that don't matter much. someone can just swap another copy for the beat one. was gonna bring it to the record show tomorrow. any thoughts? 2nd state covers seem to be in the 3 to 4 hundred range, so i thought about going low at 250 and actually selling the damn thing. or should i be a record show jerk and go high?

also got THE nicest copy of ummagumma that i've ever seen. first press u.k. copy. gigi cover. don't think it was ever played. vinyl is so beautiful. put 200 on that. (i'm bringing mostly cheap stuff to the show.)

big show in new jersey this weekend. but i will be at the local yokel umass show.

price to sell is my advice, the recession is still out there. I lowballed a lot of my stuff at the February show I tabled at, and still did less than I expected.

yah, i'm bringing a lot of five dollar stuff that i would price at 6 to 10 in the store.

basically my being there is just an ad for the store in a way. so, i'm not all that concerned about selling a ton. i'm not even bringing a ton of stuff. just a good cross-section of what i sell. hand out a bunch of cards, etc. (oh and buy way too much stuff so that i can say i help keep the local record economy rolling...)

what the hell does this current 93 tibetan monk chant record sell for? i've never seen one before.

jeezus, not much i guess. one just sold for a dollar.

you can still probably put $20 on it in the store.

if there are goths in greenfield anyway.

yeah that's what i was thinking. i put ten on it.

just sold some records to terry adams. i like that cuz i know they'll go to a good home.

i got this sweet minty 60's u.k. comp of memphis blues in and man i can't find a price anywhere so fuggit i put 30 bucks on it. so pretty. i don't want to give it away. nobody buys it in a month it goes home with me.

Is $25 for Dr. John's "Babylon" reasonable? I know what Popsike says, dudes, I want the real world price!

if it were a clean early pressing i might put 20 on it. but i'm cheap. 25 is fine. nice copies of his records aren't that easy to find.

well and that one especially is harder to find in general.

i think i usually price it about $20 too

Thanks dudes. Asked my boss and he doesn't recall seeing a copy recently, so I might just do it. $25 seems so expensive! I'm cheap!

Had a dude tell me he didn't know how to price something today because he couldn't find it on the internet. So back on the secret shelf it went.

Internet's really ruined record stores around here, like fantasy-land Amazon prices should have any bearing on reality.

i have a hard time going high, even if it's "what it's worth" by the current market.

glenn branca's ascension really worth 50-90?
http://www.discogs.com/sell/history/154035

i sold one last summer on eBay: $20.77.

i usually sell it between 20-30.

i tihnk $25 is kind of my standard price for a nice copy of that record.

i should have kept it for the cover.

Is $20 too much for John Hartford's 'Earthwords and Music' ?

seems a little high. its the kind of thing you can find cheaper eventually if you dig long enough, but maybe you want one right now. its kinda hard to find really clean copies.

yeah, that's kinda what I figured. I don't necessarily *need* it now, lord knows, but it's also one of things where it could take a couple of years of digging to find a cheap, decent copy

I bought mine at standard used LP prices for that store, albeit 10 years ago.

i really fucking hate coming in after a few days off to find that [GUY @ WORK I HATE] has mis-priced a bunch of shit in my absence. This time it was gratuitously overpricing james bond soundtracks. ugh. makes me so mad.

hit him with a stick.

does this guy also do your Facebook page? because I remember seeing an "OMG all these James Bond soundtracks came in" post over the weekend, maybe he was just super enthusiastic

he sometimes does facebook stuff yeah.

Well, at least mispricing too high means you still have the records..

yes i'm sure a record store is happy they didn't sell some records

Happier than selling them for quarter price, or something..

it's the lesser of two evils i guess. but i just don't like that someone else's mistakes reflect badly on me.

What did he charge?

The store I used to work at there was someone who had no knowledge of music and is just there for the job, basically priced everything to sell immediately on Amazon. So our actual visiting customers generally would have only the shitty records that went for way less online in stock, along with overpriced shit that we were forced to just about match prices with online and end up sitting on forever (until 6 month price adjustments). Drove me kind of crazy, since any good fresh used inventory that just came in would be 60% gone the next day due to amazon sales.

i think this guy kinda just looks at discogs and chooses a number? like, i don't care that some dude sold octopussy for 10 pounds in the UK, that does not mean it's a $15 record here.

Yeah an international sale certainly does not reflect local demand. Things can go for all sorts of wonky prices globally.

did you price the disco records, ian? man, i would kill to be able to sell 40 dollar disco singles in my store. only the japanese will buy pricey 12 inches from me. and they don't come around that frequently.

i didn't price the disco stuff -- that is my man eric. but yeah, there are a lot of dj's in new york! and lots of japanese tourists too. and the french, and sometimes the english..

we bought 17 crates yesterdaty

if you get rare disco do you just throw it up on ebay? do you not get rare disco?

when we get good disco records in it tends to be a pretty big deal. people buy a lot so they haggle a little and you give them a break and everyone's happy.

i'm starting to think i should bump the price of john prine's first record up to $6. it sells so fast at $5.

oh yeah no i know you can sell good disco in new york. if you can't sell it there...

i just don't get that kind of traffic. i end up keeping stuff. or i'll ebay it or put it on discogs. or keep it in the store for 6 months until a japanese dealer buys it.

i've put 8 or even 10 on first john prine for really nice copies. like, perfect copies. but mostly 6 or 7.

i also need more dedicated space for 12 inches. i need more shelves. tons of stuff i don't even put out because i don't have the room for it. if i build it they will come.

ugh i am drowning in crappy country records over here. the bottom 20% of the huge collection i bought last year. stuff that's been sitting around at $3-4. marking it all down to a buck, which is the point at which i can take stuff home for free. how many bluegrass & late-seventies honky tonk records do i need?

love to come in and see a used copy of a record on the wall for $25 when we have it new & sealed for $22.

or how about $20 on a used Jon Spencer record that's currently in print for $14?