Question about album packaging/value

[punkinhead]

While I was looking through my vinyl last weekend...I noticed the copy of Dark Side of the Moon that I bought for five dollars at a head shop has 2 of the posters, still folded and in great shape...but for some reason, the past owner took the two PF stickers and put em on album cover, kinda ruined it for me. So I'm guessing the value went down with the stickers added on the cover but are the posters worth anything? If not, I really wanna hang em up or frame em or something.  This kinda goes along with other vinyl albums I have...what kind of factors knock off the value? besides crappy conditions of cover/record.

[hypehat]

It really depends - it's sorta irrelevant with DSOTM, because unless it's a mint as hell original pressing, in the shrinkwrap, or similar vinyl nerd bait it's one of the most common records in the history of time, and I don't think the posters count. So put them up! Copies with posters seem to be only worth a tenner or so on ebay.

I mean, I don't know much about pricing vinyl, but if it's not an original pressing, a rare version, or something deemed as 'better' by the populace (f'instance, pressings from certain countries can sell for more) or just a rare record, you aren't going to get much for them. My mate who works in a record shop has one peeve, for instance - when people try and sell him Beatles albums, and when he turns them down they go 'BUT IT'S SGT PEPPERS/THE WHITE ALBUM/WHATEVER' as if they aren't ridiculously common and he doesn't have twenty Beatles LPs gathering dust in the racks.

And, don't sell your vinyl! You'll regret it. 

[punkinhead]

What about records deemed "promos?" I have some that have the gold-ink-stamp on the record sleeve itself, indicating that it's a promo...then I have some records that have PROMO-NOT FOR SALE printed on the record label of the record disc (I think I have one for Holland, LA, and something else, like MIU.) are either one of those "promo" sorts worth more than regular copies?

[hypehat]

Tough to say - records are only really worth what people want to pay for them. I  have the Harry Nilsson Popeye soundtrack, original pressing, mint, has one of them gold promo stamps on it, never been printed on CD, etc, and I only paid £3 for it on ebay - I was the only bidder.

The caveat of the Beatles story I mentioned earlier is that The Beatles records they sell are expensive (£15 and over), because you do get people coming in and buying them on occasion. Whereas I can pick up a new TLOS in the same record shop for £8, marked down from £20. It's about supply and demand, I suppose, with an emphasis on demand. 

I would hazard a guess that a promotional copy of LA, say, is barely worth more than a regular one. These aren't popular records.

A good rule of thumb  (that said record shop uses, and it's pretty reasonably priced) is to check the price on Discogs.com - if you fancied selling it there or on ebay, you might have a wait but you'll almost certainly get a better price than if you walked into a record shop and sold it.

[Ron]

Vinyl collecting is one of those things like baseball cards and comic books that has a falsely inflated value, even if you've got a price guide or something you're never going to get what it says it's worth out of it.

What it comes down to is they made tons of that sh*t.  If it's easy enough for YOU to find in a record bin, anybody can find it in a record bin.  Your only exceptions are going to be albums that were made before somebody got 'big', like an early BB King album, or something like that. 

Anything you've ever heard of is never going to be worth anything.  Promo/Misprints/etc are items with a 'false' value too because there's really no reason for them to be worth anymore than the actual album, any bubble in price will eventually dissapear.

of course there's exceptions to all of that, but in general... yeah, hard to make money on Vinyl.

[punkinhead]

Tough to say - records are only really worth what people want to pay for them. I  have the Harry Nilsson Popeye soundtrack, original pressing, mint, has one of them gold promo stamps on it, never been printed on CD, etc, and I only paid £3 for it on ebay - I was the only bidder.

The caveat of the Beatles story I mentioned earlier is that The Beatles records they sell are expensive (£15 and over), because you do get people coming in and buying them on occasion. Whereas I can pick up a new TLOS in the same record shop for £8, marked down from £20. It's about supply and demand, I suppose, with an emphasis on demand. 

I would hazard a guess that a promotional copy of LA, say, is barely worth more than a regular one. These aren't popular records.

A good rule of thumb  (that said record shop uses, and it's pretty reasonably priced) is to check the price on Discogs.com - if you fancied selling it there or on ebay, you might have a wait but you'll almost certainly get a better price than if you walked into a record shop and sold it.

I've got Popeye as well.

To me, I thought, the less popular the album, the more value it'd have...like, since it didn't do well, maybe it wasn't bought as much and thus making it more rare than say Endless Summer or 15 Big Ones. But, I could be totally wrong.

[hypehat]

It so depends on other things. In that case, Popeye should be worth a fortune. But it ain't.

[SMiLE Brian]

It so depends on other things. In that case, Popeye should be worth a fortune. But it ain't.

Same with the endless copies of love you on ebay.