Ebay, Light Of My Life, Fire Of My Loins, My Sin, My Soul

i put a ten inch up and started it at 9.95. five day auction. it didn't sell. relisted it and it just sold for $109. this is a reminder that i should always relist. sometimes i don't bother and just throw things out into the store if they don't sell.

That's awesome! I'm about to do a big email sale, I think maybe 80 records. It's time for a purge.

I did that one time with a Bob Dylan album, it was on "Buy it now" for £4 for ages.

I re-started it as an auction at £4, it got an opening bid within 1 hour, and ended up going for £12.

JACOB ILL BE WAITING PATIENTLY! your purges are always interesting to me!!!

this guy is local to me. quite a payday. and my kind of stuff. sadly he has only brought me garbage in the past for credit.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/thenon/m.html?_ipg=50&_sop=3&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc

that is 100% records I like, records I need, and records I didn't know I needed. would be hard to sell but that's also a lot of money.

yeah i'm guessing they were things he had collected over time. doubt he stumbled upon all that at once. and definitely lots of stuff i would love to have.

thats a lotta psych...!
i'd love to an orig Savage Ressurection..

jeeesus I stopped counting at $15K

http://www.ebay.com/sch/tomkellyarchives/m.html?item=321231094028&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

really glad ebay started showing me thumbnails of adults only items sold by this guy (who also sells records.)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-33-Star-Wars-Science-Fiction-Paperback-Books-X-Wing-Jedi-Skywalker-/290996054185?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43c0b768a9

how many sophie tucker records would I have to buy for him to throw in a gratis "50+"?

you should email him and ask.

So I've decided on about 50 records to sell on ebay. I've spent today recording clips of some of the xian yacht rock folk dogshit that maybe I can get money for. I've graded and written descriptions of half of them. This is grueling work. I don't see how people make a living doing this.Would having in the description: "Featuring in the private press coffee table book 'Enjoy The Experience' be in bad form? I don't know how else to sell some of this christian crap.

Would having in the description: "Featuring in the private press coffee table book 'Enjoy The Experience' be in bad form?

no way, that's just straight up marketing. nothing wrong with it imo. (assuming the records you're talking about are actually in the book!)

yeah I have a bunch of bad christian records with cool covers that are in the book. I guess the music has a "real people" vibe but it's unlistenable to my ears.

Tell you, I've decamped to Discogs' selling interface..

They have pics and tracklistings of most everything, whichever originating country the LP was pressed in, etc.

When you select the album to 'sell', they ask the condition and suggest a price for you.

Basically, how long it took to list one item on ebay (with pics and tracklisting), I could do 50 on Discogs.

For actual auctions of valuable stuff, i'd still use ebay though. But for 'buy-it-now', no.

agreed.

there's pretty much only a couple reasons to sell on ebay instead of discogs:

1. there's no listing for the item on discogs
2. it's a super rare item that hasn't had its "value" sorted already so you really need to auction it on ebay for max price/exposure
3. you have a dedicated list of many titles in the same genre/realm

re 3, potential buyers can click a category on your shop front and see all yr 'Christian Rock' eg on one page.

yeah it's a shame you can't do lots on discogs

Q: So both the cover and record are in excellent condition instead of the VG+ rating from Ebay? Oct-27-13
A: I use the word "excellent" as a descriptive term, not as a grade. I use the old Goldmine record grading, and there was no Excellent grade using Goldmine standards once upon a time. Excellent is an Ebay-derived grade. VG+ to me means very close to Near Mint. And something that is close to Near Mint is in excellent condition. Goldmine does consider Excellent to be comparable to VG+ now though: http://www.goldminemag.com/collector-resources/record-grading-101/2. I can't help but think of 78 rpm record grading when I see the grade E or E+ though. Anyway, by current Goldmine standards this record is either VG+ or Excellent. But I was not grading the record as excellent. Merely mentioning that it is in excellent shape. If you are uncomfortable with the word excellent in my description, feel free to change the word to "great" or "wonderful" in your head if it helps. Thanks for the question!

lol

i actually had a guy really chew me out recently cuz a cover i graded as VG+ had a name written on the back. a small name. see, i don't know why, but i do consider ex to be seprarate from VG+. i dunno why. always have, even before i started collecting 78s.

i lost a lot of Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers 78s on ebay today. All three of their records in VG/VG+ condition - i.e. some wear, surface noise, maybe some distressed grooves. went for $92. i bid $91. they were at $35 til the last minute.

so, as a consolation, i am buying some french-canadian fiddle 78s from a friend of mine who lives up there. hurray.

Do you guy have countries you do not ship to or accept bids from?

i dont -- i havent had any bad experiences yet. i mention in my description that i "may require insurance/registration to some countries," but i havent had to exercise that yet.

i've had bad experiences shipping to italy and greece. i'll still do it, but i require insurance for any overseas order over $30 now.

Recently I sold a guy in sweden a rare record and when filling out the customs form I put down $115 as the value of the record. It was sent priority with everything else. But when the guy went to pick up the record, he had to pay $52 for a custom's tax! I didn't know about this, and dude wasn't happy with me. He said to never put a value over $10 on a package because of this. Has anybody else experience anything like this?

i've had people ask me to not put the real value on a package, but then if you send it with an insured value of $10 then yer fucked if something happens... it's a very tricky thing. not all countries have the same import duties of course, and i don't know what the standard is.

i just shipped a box of five records to germany and put the value as $120, which was the total before shipping. i wonder if the guy will be pissed off.

I'm also conflicted about grading after reading Scott's post above. I was thinking of using EX since I don't want to use NM unless something is sealed and no dings ,shrink completely intact etc.. I've always though VG+ is a lesser grading than EX, has light scuffs, plays with little surface noise, cover has mild wear, but EX is closer to NM almost mint. But is this a made up grading?

Yeah the customs stuff is weird. I've had ones where I put the real value but was asked to mark it as "gift" rather than "goods" but I'm sure every country is different on those rules.

He said to never put a value over $10 on a package because of this.

I guess if someone asked me to do this I would agree to it but tell them if the record gets lost they're SOL because of the insurance implications? Like, if they want to save money on customs then the burden's on them.

^^^ otm

i totally sell stuff that other people would list as near mint as vg+. but i don't care. i want people to be really happy when they get a record from me. and i feel like i'm covered that way. i do use the excellent grade sometimes when i have stuff that is pretty much unplayed/like new. i feel like near mint is almost a myth. i would have to listen to every record i sell very closely for me to call it near mint. i'd rather be safe than sorry. and i get repeat business as a result.

i used excellent for this. anyone else would have said near mint. i don't know how much more i would have made.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/331050930781?ssPageName=STRK:MESOX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1561.l2649

That les Baxter was nice looking! Does anybody know how this guy gets $31 for Eagles first record when there's 30 copies for less on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Eagles-Self-Titled-Original-/400591947873?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d45240861

ime, once you get a good ebay account going, selling some cool stuff at least some of the time, allowing for combined shipping, and always being responsive/deferential/quick about messages, shipping, and feedback, you can sell ANYTHING for $20+

that's my buddy. yeah, he's got such a great rep with people. he buys tons of stuff from me. he sends e-mails to over 3000 people before he starts an auction. i could do the same thing if all i did was ebay. but for some reason i enjoy having a store. but i could make more money with huge rock auctions.

i only wince a little bit when one of my 2 dollar records that he bought from me sells for 15 or whatever. and they don't ALWAYS go for more than he bought them for. he spends a lot of money to buy records.

that doesn't really explain how he gets 124 dollars for a fever tree record though. or bloodrock records. some things are a mystery. people are loyal to him though. he sells clean stuff and people depend on him.

he sold that dan lewis album i really want. gotta find one...

37 minutes to go I get a bid followed by this a few minutes later:

"hi sorry man can u cancel my bid i wasnt me my friend did this ..im so sorry"

Were you at least able to sell the record?

I canceled his bid at the last minute and the price dropped from $15.50 to $13.50, there were 4 bidders total so it wasn't a loss.

Afterwards I replied to be more careful in the future and that other sellers on eBay may not be as understanding as I am.

.. or even "around at the time"..

Wanna buy a record shop?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/On-The-Beat-Records-A-Classic-Vinyl-Collectors-Record-Store-in-Central-London-/221305313500?pt=UK_B_I_Business_for_Sale_CV&hash=item3386d318dc

I think I've been in there.

Assuming you don't get the property itself, cos that alone would be worth way in excess of £300k in that location, that seems a little steep. I wonder how much the rent is.

The bar in that picture, next door to the shop for sale was an early-days London ILx late night hangout.

I thought that might be the case!

"If you’re at the stage in your life when you don’t have to worry about making money but can live the bohemian life"

trans. "loss making business for sale: £300k"

Then again, there was an article in this morning's paper about how Edinburgh's Unknown Pleasures has just had its best ever year due to mad Russians paying top dollar for all manner of common as muck 70s vinyl so maybe it's a good time to buy.

Ian Curtis' kitchen table anyone?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ian-Curtis-Singer-Joy-Division-Unique-Personal-Item-His-Kitchen-Table-/190959624297