Vinyl job lots on fleabay.

[luckylion100]

Hi all

Was wondering if anybody has any experience with these sometimes descriptively rather vague offerings? I've seen some that are focused on particular acts, an Iron Maiden lot that didn't reach its reserve comes to mind, but most are simply listed by genre and laughably many apparently have 'rare' items just waiting to be discovered after purchasing! ;-)

LL

 

[Waxy]

... it's mostly the stuff that shops can't sell to walk-in customers. I suppose occasionally it may be someone who just can't be bothered to sell items individually,

I'd rather pay more for fewer, better quality LPs than buy a bulk load of ****.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

My experiences of both buying and selling job lots are these.
If the seller is a bit of a record dealer, I wouldn't go near one of his job lots. Conditions will vary, but you can bet your bottom dollar the records in good condition will be the records you'd rather not have.
Look for job lots with as much detail as possible, not vague descriptions.
I'd write more, but I'm on my phone and it's getting to be hard work to post on this forum with your phone.

 

[Jim-W]

They're job lots for a reason ie they include a load of rubbish, but given that, there may be one or two reasonably collctable records, maybe £15-£30 types. Unless there's a full description of contents and condition and each item has some sort of price guide, I wouldn't touch them. Occasionally, on ebay, you do get maybe 50 or so very rare records job-lotted together for some bonkers reason; they can go for thousands of pounds...and they do. It's rare, though. Best to look at records before you buy them, although even this is no guard against deep pits in the vinyl and inner-groove distortion...I've fallen foul of this on many occasions.

 

[Waxy]

It would be like buying a box of Revels...

...and all but one or two turn out to be the coffee flavour ones. *shok*

 

[jetski]

I like the coffee flavoured Revels.

Sorry, but I do.

 

[Jim-W]

I like the coffee flavoured Revels.

Sorry, but I do.

I like the coffee ones, too. Can't stand the orange ones though; far too sickly.

 

[Waxy]

So wrong, so very wrong. They are the Devil's Revel.

 

[luckylion100]

OK that's it my curiousity is satisfied, from a safe dstance. I wasn't tempted, well apart from that Iron Maiden bundle but that wasn't really a' job lot', more a collection. I like the revels analogy, spot on! ;-)

 

[Waxy]

All bundles shall contain at least one release from the following list:

James Last

Perry Como

Pam Ayres

 

[Mr Giblets]

Thats What I call Music Volume 25 , 13 ,15 and 35

And The Sound Of Music

The Orange ones are gross

 

[AmigaNut]

My mate bought a few job lots.

Mostly priced at £1 each on covers from Oxfam as cast offs.

A wide variety of music, James Last, Klaus Wunderlich, Jim Reeves some clssical a few pops ones mainly 60's 70s in general.

Conditon in the main was very good, but out of 100 probably 10-15 were what he wanted and some were attrocius quality. for the cost of about £20 or less you get your moies worth but most then consigned back to the charity shops to get rid.

AmigaNut

 

[daytona600]

only worth buying if you have a RCM ( record cleaning machine )