Where to sell rare indie records online?

July 10, 2008 5:18 PM

I have hundreds of Sub Pop, Japanoise and Grindcore 7"s and LPs from 1989 to the present. Where is the best place online to sell these items? Any suggestions other than Ebay?

Some examples would be:

William Burroughs/ Kurt Cobain 10" numbered/etched picture disc from 1992

The Hellacopters Doggone Your Bad Luck Soul on Man's Ruin 10" colored vinyl

Spazz/Brutal Truth Split 7" on Bovine 1996

posted by yfatah to media & arts (8 answers total)

Gemm Marketplace is an auction site dedicated to music.
posted by ISeemToBeAVerb at 5:28 PM on July 10, 2008

vivalavinyl.org trade board.
posted by bradbane at 5:42 PM on July 10, 2008

talk to the dudes over at reeelapse.com
posted by low affect at 6:43 PM on July 10, 2008

Reeelapse actually has a classified section.
posted by The Straightener at 8:10 PM on July 10, 2008

Discogs Marketplace.
posted by mkb at 8:50 PM on July 10, 2008

I'll second GEMM (unless you want to unload them quickly) -- I've been selling there since 2002. Email me via profile if you want some help getting set up.
posted by omnidrew at 11:48 PM on July 10, 2008

I asked a very similar question a few years ago. I used GEMM for a lot of the records we sold and Amazon Marketplace to sell some CDs (some were surprisingly out of print and worth way more than I expected). They both worked very well. Good luck.
posted by sleepy pete at 7:04 AM on July 11, 2008

Why not eBay? The price you're going to get in an auction is related to the number of interested buyers. EBay has the largest audience, so it's most likely to have the largest number of interested buyers. I suppose it's possible for certain niches that interested buyers shop elsewhere, but you could easily check to see if similar records have sold on eBay for what you consider to be good prices.
posted by teaperson at 7:31 AM on July 11, 2008