Hi again everyone
Glad to see this thread seems to be getting started off with more sensible replies and ideas!
To ‘doubleHappinessRecords’ – hope your optimism bears fruit
To ‘huddylion’ – I will build up my ‘about me’ page and try that; nice pic by the way
To Sarah @ Raindropsies2 – (great handle) I will read through your help pages and see if there is anything I can tweak on my listings
Bob @ WindsorBear – hi, seen your pic else where, maybe another thread? Anyway you sound very like me, the audio testing I find the most time consuming, it can also lead to you not wanting to sell! As you say not listed = not sold.
Booksntings – I think you are right in just keeping this a hobby
Ratlintoez – from my many years of trading/collecting/selling (and a few fellow traders) - from what we have seen and concluded, the vinyl bubble burst when
1) feebay and the internet made make the vinyl market place ‘everyone’s market,’ everyone had access and started to get instant answers to ‘how much is this worth,’ the true numbers available became easily assessed (eg, as a chart return shop we had seen the ‘truth’ of limited editions etc.) it was just the ease of information.
2) Also back catalogue music became more readily available, I saw myself as a ‘music’ collector rather then a ‘vinyl’ collector, once back cat stuff became downloadable etc many music collectors switched – I didn’t as I loved the 3 min 7” slice and being an indie addict I was still being catered for.
Getting a bit boring now aren’t I, we could all analyse this for ages, the point is the market changed, collectors became more diverse, collections became ‘complete’ and in some case collectors realised a whole section of their own collection lacked something they had just not know about before.
Heres to more sales to us all!