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Topic: NEW: Price Valuations

  17th Mar 2020, 3:12 PM
OldMod67

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Fokeman wrote:
sladesounds wrote:
It's like many things on this site (45spaces; lists; tags; books world) that some view as "not of particular interest to me" therefore the stock answer should be just ignore them.

That's not quite true. It's not just that it doesn't interest me; it's that it risks to actively damage my ability to collect what interests me by paying a reasonable amount for any item. It risks also stagnating the market by causing sellers to believe that they MUST ask a certain amount of money for any item that has already achieved a certain amount through auction or sale. In short it risks to set in stone prices which are and always will have to be, flexible.

This problem has already been encountered by buyers and sellers alike as a result of the Record Collectors' Price Guide (which is now largely discredited), and whereas discogs provides a useful range of prices which adapt to circumstance, having a price on 45cat.com or 45worlds.com might give unreasonable expectations to sellers and stop buyers from otherwise making purchases.

Yeah, as much as I enjoyed Record Collector, I remember loaning that first A5 very slim price guide to my local indie, when starting the second hand section (80s). It was so hard to make them accept the 'guide' bit; Jan & Dean Meet Batman on Liberty was never going to go for the stated price! Big differences between Vinyl Experience in Hanway Street and a little indie on the outskirts of Bournemouth.
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