How Do You Sell Old Phonograph Records?
• Study your ABCs — Attics, Basements and Closets. They could yield some extra money and free up some valuable space in your home for other uses. LPs (long-playing 10 and 12 inch discs, playing at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute), 78s (somewhat breakable discs, playing at 78 revolutions per minute with one tune on each side) and 45s (7 inch discs playing at 45 revolutions per minute) could prove valuable. Loading… • Gather together all the records you think you may want to get rid of, and prepare to profit off your past. • Consider supply and demand. How available is the record? If millions were initially sold, it is likely that many will turn up in thrift shops, used record stores, and many homes. The scarcity factor must be present. There must be a demand for that record because of the artist performing (for example, a major talent who died young, before being able to make many records), the label on which it was recorded (the original recording as distinguished from a “reissue”), o
• Study your ABCs — Attics, Basements and Closets. They could yield some extra money and free up some valuable space in your home for other uses. LPs (long-playing 10 and 12 inch discs, playing at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute), 78s (somewhat breakable discs, playing at 78 revolutions per minute with one tune on each side) and 45s (7 inch discs playing at 45 revolutions per minute) could prove valuable. • Gather together all the records you think you may want to get rid of, and prepare to profit off your past. • Consider supply and demand. How available is the record? If millions were initially sold, it is likely that many will turn up in thrift shops, used record stores, and many homes. The scarcity factor must be present. There must be a demand for that record because of the artists performing (for example, a major talent who died young, before being able to make many records), the label on which it was recorded (the original recording as distinguished from a “reissue”), or an oddit
