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I dunno....... No Firestone Christmas? I hope there's at least some Herb Alpert in there, maybe a Barbara Streisand discography.

You know, something desirable.
 
At $0.16 per disc, how can you go wrong? That's less than any thrift store or yard sale charges, and there's bound to be some diamonds in that rough. Still, I'd want to have a catalog before committing.
 
rustycat said:
At $0.16 per disc, how can you go wrong? That's less than any thrift store or yard sale charges, and there's bound to be some diamonds in that rough. Still, I'd want to have a catalog before committing.
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Sounds like he doesn't want to put any time or effort into getting rid of these, so you won't be getting a catalog. The good news is, if in good shape, you would certainly be able to make a huge profit while simultaneously getting some keepers for yourself.
 
I recently hauled home about 500-600 or so LPs and it was no fun.
20x that work would be brutal, as would sorting and evaluating it.
At 30 seconds an LP, you have 100 hours of work and that's just physically checking them out. Plus, you'd really need a storage unit or an empty garage or basement to store them as I'd estimate each 1000 would require about 4'x8' to store. 48 linear feet stacked 8' tall.. WOW!!!
I'd really need to see what's in there, but it's hard to imagine this as a gold mine.
 
I have a friend who does this quantity once a year, roughly, every year for the last 20 years, and he doesn't use brick and morter. That said, there's nothing better I like to do than peruse a nice clean used record store on a Saturday afternoon. I've done that many a time in the last 30 years!
 
I could move that in no time. It can't be any worse than all of the shoveling I've been doing for the past two weeks.
I would agree that there must be some nice titles in there if it is one collection and not just the dregs of some vinyl flipper. There could be a couple hundred Streisand albums with her half-nekkid on the cover.
 
I emailed him and this is what I got back:

"They are all boxed up Mostly Rock and R&B All conditions from trashed to mint. I describe it as having all the junk taken out but also most of the cream if that makes sense."

So it looks all of the junk and good stuff is gone and he just wants someone to pay to haul it off for him. No thanks.
 
If I got that lot I'd first go through and keep any Mamas & Papas LPs I find and then other late 60s early 70s stuff that is not disco.
 
So if you could sell half of them for $2 each on eBay, you'd still make ten grand over maybe a three or four year period with a modest amount of "spare time" effort. That's not terrible, but it's also probably a best-case scenario.
 
JonL said:
So if you could sell half of them for $2 each on eBay, you'd still make ten grand over maybe a three or four year period with a modest amount of "spare time" effort. That's not terrible, but it's also probably a best-case scenario.
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That scenario sounds extremely optimistic at best.
Go take a look on ebay for completed sales on some typical common album titles and you'll see how few actually sell.
Add to that the amount of labor involved in each sale and you may come to the conclusion that flipping burgers is financially more lucrative.
Best way to sell these would be to go to record sales and sell them for ~$2 each.
Then with the leftovers try selling them on CL a couple hundred at a time.
The balance go to a charity for the write-off. Or the dump.
 
JonL said:
So if you could sell half of them for $2 each on eBay, you'd still make ten grand over maybe a three or four year period with a modest amount of "spare time" effort.
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Have you ever sold an LP on eBay??? If you have I can't beleive you call this a "modest amount of effort".

For EVERY LP you have to...

Visually rate it and the cover. Be prepared for challenges to the rating.
Take pictures, crop, edit, and upload.
Enter LP info in boiler plate auction template.
Answer emails.
Procure shippers of some sort, pack, label and ship.
Pay PayPal fees
Pay eBay fees

Repeat 6000 times....

Effort, yes; modest, no :no:
 
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