How rubbish is the Collectors Price Guide 2004?

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I mean, I was pricing up some vinyl yesterday, and the prices are bollox. £10 for a 12" if Never Gonna Give You Up? £5 for a slade single? Come ON!

Has anyone EVER known the prices to be right in that thing? If not, for the purposes of selling it (record fairs and ebay) what should be my pricing strategy?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Depends what exactly you are using it for. I know a lot of shops that use it to price things one way or another, normally using it to discount the price from. Metal Box on vinyl is about £15 in there, which I thought was pretty fair. Obviously, a lot of it should move with fashion.

― ___ (___), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

They are all pretty much rubbish. Those things are only good for gaging the rarity of LPs or telling if something is an irregular/misprinted record. Otherwise, bleh.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

So where DO they get the prices in that book? Surely they don't think "Oh, I like this, it must be wortha few bob to someone" - tell me they use a slightly more scientific method.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

something like this has little relevance in a post-ebay world

― purple patch (electricsound), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

That's what I figured - but do the prices have a little more relevence if I trawl them along to a Record Faire and sell them there? Are overpriced Rick Astley 12" singles likely to go at a decent price at a record fair instead of in a record shop or on ebay?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

no. these days at record fairs people just want bargains bargains bargains.

― purple patch (electricsound), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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