How to Grade & Value your Records // Vinyl Selling 101 

Thank you! I’ve just recently got into flipping vinyl and have found that folks are listing VG+ vinyl as M or NM on eBay. I’ve bought maybe 500 records and have yet to come across anything M. Most everything I have is VG+ or below.

Why in the world don't you have more subscribers??!! Your vids are the best, to the point but not too rushed, you show examples and/or demonstrations, just overall really informative. Thanks for your posts!

I’ve got a lot of Pink Floyd from my dad….I think I stick to it..also a the wall memorial box of with marbles and tickets to the gig in Berlin 1990! I was flabbergasted when I saw that show on tv…still got it somewhere on VHS 📼 😊 that’s why I bought the box

This has helped me a tonne. I have a handful of sabbath and some early thrash that I'm going to try flip on eBay, and with the prices varying on the same copy, I wasn't sure what to charge. I'm still not 100% sure, but you have me on the correct path. Thank you

Thank you for breaking it down so easily! My knowledge base has drastically improved. Subscribed to your channel too! 🤙

Another great video, Deaf Man! Thanks for the good info. Now to go search through my record collection! :)

Great tips been trying to resell records these tips helped a lot

You have all my favorite records! Stampede is my favorite from the Doobie Brothers and Nashville Skyline is my favorite from Dylan! Beautiful Heart record too👍🏼

Very short but entirely accurate video. However it could have been better if you included pressings rather than have a separate video. It makes sense to have an entirely separate video for the topic of pressings but it seems to be hinted that original pressings are necessarily more valuable than other pressings. And while I haven't seen that video yet, the hinting that original pressings are more valuable than other pressings is misleading especially considering that it's suggested that the White Album isn't as valuable as people might think. I state this because the most valuable White Album pressing isn't the first pressing, it's the UK 10th anniversary pressing which is last time the original tapes were used to cut a lacquer for the stereo version of this album. It was a very limited run and only available in the UK and it has some additional cache for be being on white vinyl when colored vinyl was outside the norm. Clearly some extra care was taken for this particularly limited pressing. So this stresses how one particular pressing of an album that is otherwise not generally all that valuable can break the rules. I just think this is missed opportunity where you could have convinced others to view the folllow-up video to watch and learn what other considerations makes a particular pressing more valuable than other pressings.

I just sold a huge collection ( mostly 60 s & 70 s ) to a dealer who had to haul it away in a cube van. I kept about 300 albums for posterity. Don't see the point when the music can be accessed online one way or another. I did some research before I made the sale and the bottom line is that there is no money in vinyl. Records are not lost artifacts from the Ming Dynasty. They are just freaking records. This craze will go out as fast as hockey cards. Just my take.

One thing I can't really find guidance on is corner dings. I have some records that have almost imperceptible corner dings as their only flaws, and they aren't something you notice without really examining. Goldmine says NM "covers are free of creases, ring wear and seam splits of any kind" - but say nothing about corner dings. How big does a corner ding have to be to be relevant?

Really enjoy your enthusiasm and knowledge ty for your content

About five years ago,I think,I checked out an unopened copy of IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL by The Rolling Stones in a curio/thrift/etc.. shop. The shop is gone. Don't know why I didn't buy that lp. Always wanted one back in the 70s when it was no more than five bucks or less. This one was only 20.

This was really helpful. I have 9 boxes of records that were my brother’s. He was 66 yrs old. Also have 2 tubs of his CD’s. Need to sell!

Great video! Personally I would avoid anything below VG+ as you just don’t know what you’re going to get. I bought some records on Discogs and the VG’s are very much hit or miss. Number one is going to a record store yourself and see what’s what.

Great video! Trying to get back into having a good collection of the classic rock albums. Curious as to your take on original pressings versus remastered????

Love these videos! Just found your channel recently and have been binging! Easy to follow video and would be great for those just getting into records. Keep it up! Subbed!

Notice your hot tuna shirt,great group. Mentioned it cause I went and ordered my favorite, double dose well anyway it's a special order gotit so didn't need to use my vynal, warning DON'T DO IT for some reason they leave off one of my favorites killing time in the crystal city , how the hell can't you fit a song on a cd? It's a double lp just thought I'd mention it after noticing the shirt. Otherwise I appreciate the good info you give. Thanks from a old vynal head

Hey there just discovered your channel, good stuff! I certainly never knew that any of the British New Wave heavy metal from late 70s/early 80s was worth anything, I have a bunch of that stashed away back home in the UK never been played in nearly 40 years. Off the top of my head I know I have Iron Maiden's first album; AC/DC Let there be Rock, For Those About To Rock, Dirty Deeds; Saxon Denim & Leather; Whitesnake Come & Get It; Rainbow Rising/Richie Blackmores's Rainbow gatefold edition...all will be first pressings for sure. Any grails in there?! Cheers!

Like your Tee Shirt.... Great band. The Great Society is better {!} with JA last. LOL... Now I'll go listen to your presentation.

Let me no if you about a much is worth thank you for your help I got to Elvies blue records and one record the Beatles a much in good condition

04:26 The guy in the wall picture reflection is super thirsty! :)

Gr8 vid mate. I lot my old mum records, in pretty bad shape, do I just bin them? I have looked at the records, but covers are crap. Any help? All vids I watch never talk about them, Cheers Graham.

Thanks

My entire collision from 40s and 50s a few early 60s,I got aot of Bing crosby,eddy Arnold ,alot of holiday albums,,r these worth anything and r worth holding on too???,,thanks for ur time .⁰

Hey there. Loving your vids. Hope you keep making them. Just abit of advice needed. I have KISS Best of the Solo records Australian release with sticker insert and promo insert for their film that came out in 1979. Its a first edition Aussie release. I listened to the record and the only noise i could hear was between the tracks so i was going to grade VG. However on the final song during the outro it got stuck and repeated 3 times and then continued to play normally. I was so annoyed! I purchased some record cleaner so hoping that may fix it. If not what should i grade it?

Love what you did, but any of these records with dust or debris will have pops. Are you saying this post cleaning?

That’s my whole collection

Hey deaf man!! I just came across a crate of vinyls from i job I was working. Got home to find unopened records and much soul, orchestra, and funk music. Also some Marley and 90’s rap! Even as much as unopened Rocky soundtrack. Before this I hadn’t given much thought to vinyl. But I have 102 records now and am looking for advice/help judging the quality and price of these pieces. I know you haven’t seen what I have, but What do you think?

Nice video now a new subscriber 👍

My uncle just passed and we were going through his things. He’s got a ton of vinyl, he had a Beatles white album that has a serial number on the front and it’s pressed as a white vinyl. Any idea on that thing?

His grading is basically 1 grade high based on Discogs... his VG+ is more like NM on Discogs... of course it will depend on the seller...

It's pure supply and demand just like everything else that determines value.. Perfect example.. Kate Bush.. Her music couldn't seem for a dollar.. Then her song was on the show Stranger Things.. Now her cassettes are selling for 600 each on Ebay.. The demand went through the roof.. And her albums are now doing the same.. Some albums will always have high demand no matter what.. If an album says Led Zeppelin.. Beatles.. Pink Floyd it will always be worth a lot because the demand will always be there.. I laugh everytime I see a dark side of the moon.. The most produced album of all time but goes for a ton always even though everyone has more than one copy.. It's one of those anomalies.. The supply is huge and the demand is huge

I had a 1250

I have a Shirley .Temple record

Hi 👋 is Beethoven,s vinyls symphonies no 3 through to no 9 of any value and also Decca lp,s and other famous composers vinyls

how to you grade records that are VG+ but the albums have minor defects. Which is more important? Is it worth all the time cleaning up these records? And the value of so many of these is so unfortunately not related to quality of the music. Like the stock market it's what's "in." So many great artists with phenomenal music are wholly undervalued. Sorry AC/DC is not one of them. Pink Floyd is.

Is there a way to get a record graded? For example if you have a clean copy of Prince's Black Album?

How do you know if you have a rare album?

is there any value for george harrisons electronic sound on the zapple label?

Is.40's and 50's worth anything?

A much a the picture of the Beatles not open bran new picture of Beeatles my brother got that what to no sent me a answer if you no

The George Bush of vinyls 🤘🏻😎

Good videos, no comment on that. But PLEASE do NOT put your fingers on the grooves when you take them out of the cover...😳 That is one of the great sins when handling a record....