What's in the box?
Add your records one at a time and you'll see a rough range as you go. When you're done, the list comes to me as an email from you. I'll write back, and if it makes sense we'll work out how they get to me.
Not up for typing them all in? A rough count and a few phone photos of the spines is plenty to start. Email me those instead.
Add a record
The price check is the easy way. It walks you to your pressing on Discogs, does the math, and adds it here with one tap. You can also type one in yourself.
Your list
Nothing yetNothing on the list yet. Add your first record above, or price one in the price check and add it from there.
"I'd pass" doesn't mean it's a bad record. Either it sells for too little to cover eBay's cut and the time it takes, or I already have two on my shelf waiting for a home.
Send it to me
This opens your own email with the list written out. Nothing goes anywhere until you press send there.
Twenty-five records or more in the Bay Area? I can usually come to you instead.
The range on this page is an estimate, not an offer. I only make an offer once I've had the records in my hands, because grade and pressing can only be checked in person. Honest mistakes happen all the time, and a reissue can look just like the original until you read the dead wax. If a record turns out to be a later pressing or a lower grade, the number changes, and it usually goes down. Some records I'll pass on, and that's OK.
Your list stays in this browser until you send it. It goes from your own email, and I'll only use your address to reply about this list.
Add a record and tick the box above to send.
Didn't open? Some computers don't have an email app set up. Tap Copy the list instead, then paste it into an email to [email protected].
Why I pay what I pay
Here's why the numbers are what they are. eBay keeps about 21 cents of every dollar once fees, discounts and ads are counted. A lot of records take a year or two to find a buyer, and the dear ones usually sell for less than their first price. Every record gets cleaned, graded, photographed, listed, sleeved, shelved and packed by hand, and that takes time and room.
So a $20 record is worth about $5 to me today. A $5 record isn't worth anything to me, even though it's a fine record to own. That's why there's no minimum per record on my side. Records worth more than $50 get a bigger share, because one good record pays for a lot of its own time.
How the range works. The top takes your list at its word. The bottom drops every record one grade, because that's the most common difference between a list and the records in my hands. A record worth $40 or more without a run-out gets a bottom that assumes a later pressing, until the dead wax says otherwise. A jacket two grades worse than the vinyl takes a quarter off.
What's already on my shelf. The list checks every record against what I have for sale right now. If I already have two or more of the same record, or of the same album at about the same price, I'll pass and say so. If I have one, it still counts, just for less, because the two of them will take turns finding a buyer.
Bigger collections are easier. If you're in the Bay Area with 25 or more records, I can usually come to you. Here's more on how I buy collections.