Okay, so what's the date today?
September 15?
Just now I listed the very LAST vinyl record from that vast, 1400-disc collection that I wrote about below... back in MAY!
Of course I have not been processing, listing, and selling these records every single day. In fact, the first month was spent mostly throwing out the garbage, which was more than half. Then, I grouped the most promising records together first, followed by the secondary batch, and finally the stragglers. Many of the stragglers had no existing product page on Amazon, so they had to be created ( like the very last one, above.)
I've WAY lost count by now, but at one point I figured out I had at least 80 records with a good chance of being sold (anywhere from 5.99 to 32.99 each, with a couple maybe even higher.)
Since I spent $160 on the whole batch, that's comes to about $2 per record, which ain't bad.
How have sales been? Slower than I expected. I know the 80's are the most difficult period for vinyl, because there was just so much of it... but I know some of these remixes and imported 12" singles are rare, and I fully expect to get top dollar for them eventually. But at this moment, I've only made about half my money back.
In contrast, I've gone to other sales recently where I spent about $40 and more than doubled my money in a week.
Would I do such a large purchase again? Sure, but not for 80's records, unless they were in way better shape than these. But I did discover that 1400 records is the outer limit of what I can handle on my own, and can cause way too much distraction from my family and working life to be worth it.
Fun, though!!
