Hi All,
Can anyone recommend a good auction house to list a reasonable size Reggae/Soul/Psyche collection?
Many thanks
Vinyl?
Ultra rare stuff? Signed?
Some detail would be useful
It’s a bit mixed. Quite a bit of the northern soul is rare and I dare say there are other rare gems. It’s a friends collection so don’t have it in front of me unfortunately
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There have been a few threads on here about off loading collections and I have sold my vinyl collection of 350 albums and CD collection of 10,000 albums and I can tell you it is very very very in deed very difficult to offload collections.
End result unless they are extremely rare like Danny Baker’s recent auction or your friend is willing to cherry pick and sell them off one by one then my tip is hire a mini digger, dig a hole and bury the lot.
Take a tip from one who has tried - Karen on Facebook will tell your friend he or she is sitting on a fortune but in reality despite what everyone says no one wants this stuff.
Thank you for the advice. It’s about 2000-3000 records. It remains to be seen how we break it down to offload but it isn’t just a load of music someone doesn’t have any use for…it’s a collectors collection.
You could try off loading on the pink fish website. They do classifieds. And are all a trustworthy bunch
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Good shout, thanks!
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Ummm yes but you have to find the person that wants to buy the collection and my experience is these people or traders are few and far between.
The number of ‘collectors’ who said to me I love the collection you have but I just don’t have the cash at the moment.
Or I’ll have that one or that one but I don’t need another copy of….
There’s the rub! I was hoping someone might have experience with a specialist auction house
Edit: I see the Danny Baker collection is listed via Omega auctions. Might speak to them once it’s all catalogued.
You’ve got around 2,500 albums at say an average price of £4 for vinyl that’s £10,000
Very few people just have that sort of cash to splash out on a record collection.
Selling them one by one could take you years.
Sorry to be so negative but as I say I have been there with a CD collection of 10,000 it was like the financial crises valued on the books at £10 a CD at cost gave me assets of £100,000 in reality they were worth £0.20 hence misery of £2,000.
No problem, I appreciate your view on it.
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Hopefully there is someone here who has had a positive experience selling a collection.
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Interestingly, in the process of decluttering the house, we’re trying to offload around 700 DVDs. The word on the street is that nobody (including the charity shops!) wants DVDs anymore. We have a similar number of books as well. All are in good to very good condition, but apparently these days it’s all about downloads.
Rough Trade has just suspended it’s involvement with ‘flipvinyl’ - a way to trade in your vinyl collection.
Here is what SDE site had to say about it:-
“By way of example, Rough Trade will pay you just £10.06 for the 8LP Nirvana Nevermind super deluxe box set. Since this box set was only released little over a year ago, Rough Trade still have this on sale at £189.99!
Likewise David Bowie’s Five Years 13LP box set from 2015 is now extremely rare and has been out-of-print for a long time. So much so that the cheapest copy from a UK seller on Discogs is currently £800, and even that has “shelf wear”. The median price on Discogs is £626. However, Rough Trade’s Flip Vinyl portal is offering you an insanely low £9.28 “
Blimey. Absolute vultures!
Oxfam have ‘special’ shops that deal with books as well as records and cds. They may well take your books at intervals. I gave them my parents large collection of old and not so old books over a period of some months. We agreed I could just give them a call every fortnight and see if they could take a box. A bit long as my daughter would say, but I felt they were going to a place where someone with an interest would buy them. Oxfam also sell particular donations online. And judging from the gift aid note that I get at intervals, they made quite a bit of money out of them which is great
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Wallis & Wallis in Lewes auction militaria, toys and collectibles. I’ve see a few vinyl auctions they’ve done. Could be worth contacting.
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