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Steeleye Span, I'm out.
Discogs is fine but you need to be selling hundreds to shift a few a week, then the postage costs (especially tracked international) can be brutal so it ends up being very expensive and consequently only worth selling stuff above £15. Ebay for bulk buys can end up netting very little money and you have to describe everything that's wrong with them to avoid disputes. Record stores are taking the proverbial but wouldn't you if you had 1000's of records already and you need a big margin to pay the stupid overheads.
My experience comes from selling 1600 of 2000 12" dance vinyl for a friends estate.
As an example with discogs, check your version the price it's sold at and then check everything about your example and knock all your estimates back a grade. If it's brand new and you've played it once it's NM not M for example. Plenty of brand new sealed vinyl comes out of the sleeve covered in paper, scuffs, dirt, scratches, warped etc. you need to describe that if you want to cover your arse.
Selling on here is probably easier but I've never done it as it's a much smaller group of people so you need fairly mainstream/sought after vinyl to have a chance of finding a buyer and if you have that you can sell it on discogs anyway! :)