Do any ninjas make decent money buying/selling vinyls?

[Func]

OP didn't think this through, the new records that go for stupid money are all unplayed (which is why people get upset) you'll never ever see an ex DJ copy anywhere near £50. Also keep in mind people will avoid ordering from the US if there are other choices.

[titchbit]

OP didn't think this through, the new records that go for stupid money are all unplayed (which is why people get upset) you'll never ever see an ex DJ copy anywhere near £50. Also keep in mind people will avoid ordering from the US if there are other choices.

lol that's why I posted. now i know there's almost no chance of recovering any money if i choose to sell in the future.

[wolf89]

If you don't fuck em up they should hold a fair amount of value though still unless they're tunes that turn out to not be wanted by anyone down the line.

I reckon you should just buy records and enjoy having them. If you need to sell them in the future just see what happens then.

[murky21]

also note to OP
if you play your records they are worth nothing, they need to be 'mint' or 'unplayed' to have any value

this true?

think cloaked_up is joking i.e. ridiculing buying records for anything other than playing them i.e. what you're meant to do with them.

If you buy fresh needles on the regs that are weighted correctly, play records carefully and stick em back in sleeves straight away they lose fuck all value if they are sought after/ hard to come buy. Good VG+'s look pretty fresh

[benjam]

I wont buy overpriced vinyl on discogs takes the piss when some knob from the internet is making more money off it than the artist prob got for the whole release

[Harkat]

I really need to get my own technics turntable

I'm using my parents' shitty automatic one down in the living room now, and I think the needle is majorly fucked up, hasn't been changed since the 80's. I don't end up playing my records too often even though I've got a decent stack of about 37 records.

[Phigure]

if you check ebay you can find old non-sl1200 technics models for really good prices . just stick on a new cartridge and youre good to go

got an sl1900 in perfect working condition for about $40, nice to listen to records on when youre not mixing since its automatic and can repeat

[mks]

if you check ebay you can find old non-sl1200 technics models for really good prices . just stick on a new cartridge and youre good to go

got an sl1900 in perfect working condition for about $40, nice to listen to records on when youre not mixing since its automatic and can repeat

Definitely, Technics made many more models than just the industry standard SL-1200/1210. I've had a few very solid turntables that were not 1200's from Technics, one belt, two were direct drives and they were great turntables. I got them for between $20 and 50 bucks. Those are what I learned how to DJ on before I could afford 1200's.

[skimpi]

So my club got money for Stanton's and I'm thinking it may be time to start buying myself some vinyls. After graduating they wouldn't really be of any use to me, unless I were to buy my own turntables of course, so I may sell all the vinyl in like 2 years. Do you think this would make for a worthwhile expenditure? I see so many ridiculous prices on discogs, but do most records actually sell at good enough prices to actually make your money back and/or make a profit a few years down the road?

[OGLemon]

dead

[cloaked_up]

So my club got money for Stanton's and I'm thinking it may be time to start buying myself some vinyls. After graduating they wouldn't really be of any use to me, unless I were to buy my own turntables of course, so I may sell all the vinyl in like 2 years. Do you think this would make for a worthwhile expenditure? I see so many ridiculous prices on discogs, but do most records actually sell at good enough prices to actually make your money back and/or make a profit a few years down the road?

[ehbes]

dubunked is 100% that guy who will mark a misprinted label on discogs as RARE

[titchbit]

guilty as charged.


i don't know what that means

[rickyarbino]

You'll lie about the value of your record to weasel a few bucks out of people.

[titchbit]

I never lie.

[Direflow]

my guitar teacher makes a decent amount of money buying/selling records, mostly jazz it seems

he sifts through the dollar bins hoping to find an expensive record and he actually finds a lot of good stuff. like when i have a lesson with him he'll be all like "oh i just picked this record up for like 2 bucks and turns out it's worth like 80 on discogs!" his discogs account is ridiculous though, much respect

[OGLemon]

capitalist pig in the making tbh

[ehbes]

capitalist pig in the making tbh

we about to get proletariat on a OP ass

[nobody]

Yeah I got binders full of women I dunno if collecting vinyl can beat that tbh

what is that from?

[Phigure]

romney during the presidential debates where he responded to a question about hiring female staff or something and his answer was i dont discriminate, "ive got binders full of women" (ie, women to hire)