[bansel]

This came up in another forum but I thought I'd make a separate post here to get others perspectives, as it's been on my mind a lot lately. Especially with the amount of dough I've been dropping on vinyl. I found this link with some general info, but would love to hear about anyone's personal experience with this.

http://www.recordcollectorsguild.org/mo ... =18&page=1

[hncreature]

Bookmarked! Thanks!

[freshoj]

in case anyone is wondering here is the discogs 'what's your collection worth?' feature.

(which should be taken with many grains of salt, but it is not without its' value)

http://www.discogs.com/blog/how-much-is ... tion-worth

[bansel]

Thanks for the link jmctodo, I didn't know that feature existed. I was shocked to see the max that some have paid for things I have. The bad part is my records that I would think are most valuable gave no data, so I guess they've never sold on discogs. I guess that's where popsike comes into play since that pulls from eBay sales, etc.

I'm glad there's not a graph that calculates all the shipping costs I've paid over the years! Now that would be depressing ;-/

[freshoj]

ha, yes, or even just the money I spent on discogs. not numbers I want to see (though maybe they would have a sobering effect on me!).

at this point, my mind is racing with all of the amazing variations on this data that I want access to! how about the amount that paypal and discogs make each year on these sales? as a seller, it boggles my mind the amount of fees I pay discogs each month, but paypal is smart enought to obscure their cut from me.

A lot of my more valuable older records also have no sales data - which is a bummer but I'm too lazy to look them all up. I hope with time discogs will eventually get more of this data. please send folks interesting in buying/selling records from the 50s and 60s to discogs!

Some of the 'max' prices are indeed hard to believe - so I wonder if they reflect some of the 'above and beyond' type items (signed, extras, etc). either way, the 'total collection value' is generally a very useful piece of data.