Has the arse fallen outta the vinyl market ?

Shooms · #1 21st August 2007, 12:57 PM

I seem to be picking up some right beasts for next to nowt these days....

Which is a double edged sword as I'm having to drop my prices on my spare beasts on Ogs....

Anyone else seeing this ?

pauly p · #2 21st August 2007, 12:59 PM

It has unless you live in Tenerife and like hardcore

easty · #3 21st August 2007, 01:02 PM

it depends what your selling, proper old skool is cheaper, retro type stuff is getting more expensive

Buzz · #4 21st August 2007, 01:03 PM

Yeah take Back to the Future - Kick it, thats going for fuck all these days

Though i agree shooms its swings and roundabouts init (just the place where you like to hang out)

Presuming Ed · #5 21st August 2007, 01:04 PM

Yeah alot of the Oldskool house is alot cheaper on ogs of late. Id agree hardcore prices are still up there, and like Easty says the Retro tunes make some serious money most of the time

anthonyf218 · #6 21st August 2007, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Buzz

Yeah take Back to the Future - Kick it, thats going for fuck all these days

Though i agree shooms its swings and roundabouts init (just the place where you like to hang out)

some tunes are dropping as more and more people scratch them off their wants lists, but i think its somat do with summer too, (even though we've not had one this yr). Things go quiet as people save for hols and stuff like that, and no dark nights so people are out doing things in the evening rather than on their decks or sat at their pcs searching for tunes so sales are slow which means sellers drop the prices.

nathan · #7 21st August 2007, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by presuminged

Yeah alot of the Oldskool house is alot cheaper on ogs of late. Id agree hardcore prices are still up there, and like Easty says the Retro tunes make some serious money most of the time

said it before and I'll say it again. If you've got vinyl to sell. SELL IT NOW!!

lastnightadj · #8 21st August 2007, 01:17 PM

I think we're at the stage now where 99% of tunes have dropped in price considerably - and the odd (generally overhyped on the internet) has shot up to a stupid price (although these tunes generally drop in price after 6/12 months when the hype has died down)

Bread and butter tunes that were worth £5 5 years ago seem to be going unsold at £2

I think everybody is pretty much selling/sold up at the minute - and not many people are buying .... TBH what' the point with MP3's and CDJs/Ableton etc?

IMHO it's all about the long game - look at Northern Soul - mega expensive in the 70's (when the punters were in their 20's), dropped off badly in 80's (same punters now hit 30's - get married/have kids/stay in etc) and has been slowly improving thru 90's until today where it is pretty much back to the kind of prices it was getting in 70s (punters are now in there 40's, with grown up kids and likely to be divorced - start going out again and getting into their old passion -going to revival clubs/meeting new people/buying tunes again)

Only difference now is that you can get pretty much any tune on an MP3 within an hour of deciding you want it - therefore you do not need to buy the vinyl

definatley a buyers market - and theres not that many people interested in buying except the hardcore - who pretty much have everything they want anyway

lastnightadj · #9 21st August 2007, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by presuminged

Id agree hardcore prices are still up there

I'd disagree - I'd say tunes like Acen - Trip To The Moon etc have dropped by 50% in the last few years

JACKG · #10 21st August 2007, 01:24 PM

The market fell dramatically for hardcore tunes a couple of year back imo.

Its just that there are now a few crazy spanish buyers who pay top $ for certain tunes. I sold one a while back for £170 which went in under 10 minutes of being listed on discogs

Shooms · #11 21st August 2007, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by JACKG

Its just that there are now a few crazy spanish buyers who pay top $ for certain tunes. I sold one a while back for £170 which went in under 10 minutes of being listed on discogs

lol which one