Anyone know about prices for rare vinyl?

A quick Google search suggests some of my old vinyl LPs are now worth a bit of money (NIrvana, Stereolab, PJ Harvey) but I was wondering if any of you are knowledgeable about this stuff? Like is there a price guide somewhere, where's the best place to sell etc. Any guidance would be appreciated.

Ping Pong by Stereolab is worth about £750 on 12"

We could be here all night trying to guess what it is I am thinking of selling. But it's not Ping Pong on 12".
I will leave this thread a day and then PM anyone who can offer me specialist knowledge. £750? Has the world gone mad?

Contact vinylpimp on here Will...he knows some good valuation sources.

I was taking the piss but it's a good 12"
It's all about supply and demand - can't see you getting much more than £5 for any LPs for Nirvan, Stereolab, PJ Harvey - ten a penny and can be found in any second hand record shop or bootsale

ah but the green vinyl 1st edition of Nirvana's Bleach is worth £100.

and I've got it.

should have flogged it last year though, who's going to be wanting pricey plastic now..

who's going to be wanting pricey plastic now..

cough...yeah...you'd never catch me buying pricey vintage records!

Will I'm sure there are more reliable sources, but isn't there a way you can find out how much things you have have gone for, in the past, on ebay? Ask an ebay nut like dogsballs.

RPM has a point though that this Credit Munch may have fucked your chances of selling the 1st press White Album for One Meelion Dollarrs.

It's hard work selling vinyl nowadays as people just download
I can't be arsed putting stuff on ebay any more as too much hard work for little return

Give it to me then pistanator...:)

ah but the green vinyl 1st edition of Nirvana's Bleach is worth £100.

and I've got it.

so have I... one down two to go.

I am grateful for all the advice BUT I am really looking for someone who knows this stuff inside out, in other words someone who knows more than I can discover on Google

Take it all down Sister Ray, Berwick St

that's ^ a big but.

Ok, don't want to be rude BUT unless your passion in life is rare vinyl and you have shit loads of experience in buying and selling it... :)

get yo'self logged into a record collectors forum? you damned uppity d'livery boy

another big but

does my BUT look big on this thread?

http://www.popsike.com/

It gives auction results.

http://www.recordcollectormag.com/

RPM has a point though that this Credit Munch may have fucked your chances of selling the 1st press White Album for One Meelion Dollarrs.

bollocks.. plenty of people with plenty of money to spend.. it'll sell fine

I'd say maybe don't use Record Collector - sorry rocksteady. In my experience they don't know enough about the shit people are really buying - ie the rare AND obscure stuff. For example, when the David Axelrod frenzy started proper in about 97 (and we had been digging for it for three years before that) Record Collector showed no knowledge of the price fluctuations and continued to have no clue some albums were going for silly money into the 00s..

This makes me sound like I know my vinyl - I kind of do, but only soul and jazz breaks - plus my knowledge of commandable prices nowadays is probably off-kilter. There is some kind of search you can do on ebay to see what previous examples of same have gone for though .... I think.....

yeah, i would have said ebay will give the most accurate idea of recent prices.

unfortunately ebay has meant that a lot of the old dealers (if they're muppets) now base their pricing on what some records have gone for on ebay. (It's a crap and greedy way of doing it though as they pit world-wide auction against face-to-face dedicated buying - the good ones don't and keep ebay seperate to their catalogue). The truth is just as everyone thought the inflated prices (for my area at least) were surely coming down, ebay grew in popularity and gave the rare stuff at least a boost that has thusfar not diminished.

Tick "Completed Listings" option on the left hand side (you need to be logged in) of ebay.

Yes, I know this wasn't the exact advice you wanted. Tough shit. It was free. :P

Any techno in your collection?

Techno? Do I sound like a drug addled teenager? Only joking and thanks for the useful advice Hippy and the rest of you. The truth is one of the records seems to be going for £448 and I frankly can't believe I can be that lucky.
Well, off to bed; us delivery boys need our sleep you know. Uppity yours y'all.