Vinyl collectors and resellers are next level though. You’ll see them go straight to the vinyl, check everything quickly and leave. And then there’s the op shops themselves starting to list things closer to the resale values than the ‘opportunity’ value.
Comment on Discussion Thread: 👻🐈⬛ Wednesday 1 October 2025
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Observation about Op Shops.
for 5 decades Aussies were buying singles and vinyl LPs by the tens of millions a year, millions of the things should be floating around and they should be dirt cheap for an ordinary condition copy.
There are none in Op Shops, record shops have sprung up every where selling old stuff for over $20 at least. Bat out of Hell is not a collectors item. 🙄
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It’s insane when the shops ask prices as if the item they have is rare or pristine
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Or that that weren’t just donated it for $ZERO.
Catfish@aussie.zone 22 hours ago
Op shops often don’t have the foggiest idea what they are dealing with. it’s supposedly too time consuming to look up everything, however I assure you that that ratty looking 1st Ed [whatever] will sell for more than the 18 perfect copies of Twilight that will never move
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 22 hours ago
Like the artist signed ewer I bought for $6 last week? or the italian and silver and gemstone chain I bought for $5
unless it has obvious marking they have no clue
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I don’t even bother looking at record collections at op shops, anyone with money on their mind will take their collections to record stores who pay good $$ and sell for even higher.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 23 hours ago
I see huge bags of vintage pop LPs in the donation bins 🤨
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
how is a common record that sold by the million and is in average condition valuable?
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Well if there’s lots of copies floating around and no demand then yes, should be cheap. But there’s a caliber of record that will never sell at a steep discount at an op shop. There’s also pressings that come into it; a pressing from the 1980s will always be more valuable than a modern pressing register because of scarcity and older vinyls have that nostalgia factor.