Guides

Fees, grading, pressings, shipping and selling a collection: guides for record sellers and collectors.

• What it costs to sell a record on Discogs, eBay and GrailBin

  What it costs to sell a record on Discogs, eBay and GrailBin, worked out at four prices, with the fee rules behind each number.

• Record grading explained: the Goldmine scale

  What each record grade means on the Goldmine scale, how grade affects value, and how to grade a record and its cover.

• How to sell a record collection

  Sort, identify, grade, price and sell a vinyl record collection, and choose between selling it all at once or record by record.

• How to ship vinyl records so they arrive safe

  How to pack and ship a vinyl record so it arrives undamaged: the record outside the cover, a rigid LP mailer, stiffeners and tracking.

• How to tell an original pressing from a reissue

  Six checks to tell an original vinyl pressing from a reissue: catalog number, label, runout, barcode, cover details and modern reissue signs.