ras andejo wrote:ton1 wrote :ras andejo wrote :too much wailing, too little buying
too much greed...
the value of a record is not what the seller wants to earn but what the buyers are able and want to pay.
you don't know the whole history Antonin...
and...in the end it's all about demand and supply
Yes it's all about demand and supply and I will tell you why buyers have to decide of the prices of records and not sellers (or the sellers have to ask reasonable prices) :
in the industry, a good has to be made and needs people and material, which has a cost, hence the seller sets a price which take into account all this.
On second hand records market, exception made for professional sellers, you don't have to buy records in the aim of selling them, you buy records to listen to them and then when you need money or are bored with it, you sell it. So there is no cost price for the record you sell. If you want a higher price than the market, this is speculation.
Actually, for a given record, some people sell it at a high price and other at a low price. I'll tell you that selling records is a real job and is time consuming, look at how "upatoutonthefloor" sells records on ebay, he's not advertising like "hey guys I have this LP in perfect condition do you want this, I'm selling it for a lot of dunza", he makes effort to provide the most precise information on the record and has a very long time reputation with his shop in London. I'm sorry ras andejo but this is too easy ! you can't have money without working a minimum. If you provide quality pictures, quality audio extract and describe it as precisely as possible, I wouldn't react like this. Selling records at high price is not just hitting popsike. Moreover if you sell outside ebay, coz' there is no money guarantee and you don't have a good or bad reputation, we don't know anything about you !