[Leica] (selling vinyl) Two from The Online Photographer

[Wilbur Norman]

I do not know where you live but many cities (especially if they are college towns) have buy/sell CD stores that also deal in vinyl.

If your records are in normal, well-played but very good condition they don't bring more than a few bucks each (if that.)

If they are immaculate with like-new covers it can often be a different story for albums seen as ground-breaking or important for any number of reasons (cover art, 1st album, etc.) There are also arcane issues like an original release vs. a popular album released again (kinda like a book in its 1st vs. later editions). It can get complicated.

Best to find a shop you think you an trust or put them on-line for local sale only (shipping is a hassle for breakables.)

Alternately, despite your comment, get a good turntable and enjoy them. I have a pretty high-end stereo system and when I compare even master-disc CDs to records in great condition the records have a luxuriance of sound that is unbeatable. Records, as you well know, are a commitment, however, in terms of keeping them clean, getting up to stop the player after each album, etc.!

Wilbur

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On Dec 4, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> I have a lot of jazz & rock vinyl albums, which I just dusted off last
> week. I am definitely not going to invest in a high quality turntable. Do
> any of you have any idea if there are any reliable ways of selling them?
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> My typing mistake Jayanand. Sorry Howard and Esther.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Geoff
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>> 
>> On 5 December 2014 at 13:13, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Howard Cummer, not Cummings
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> "Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:.........As for the M8, I'm not
>>>> sure
>>>> that info was available to those of us not well connected to Leica: not
>>>> widely announced for what I recall. Glad to hear
>>>> it: Means my M240 may have a useful life longer than 3-5 years, though
>> my
>>>> desire for the next best from Leica may not last that long :-)"
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Bob, I just read the public statement by Stefan Daniel at the time
>> on
>>>> the L Camera Forum. Their archives are searchable. This was nearly 2
>> 1/2
>>>> years ago. As far as I know the numbers actually involved were small
>> and
>>> I
>>>> have seen nothing new on anyone affected over the last 2 years or so.
>>>> A couple of the very senior people there are members who post very
>>>> occasionally in response to any development like that. Seems like a
>> good
>>>> idea when any issue becomes magnified by the magic of the internet ;-)
>> to
>>>> respond with the facts or their solution. They have a social media
>> person
>>>> too and they do follow that forum and the RF one I think, where those
>>>> conversations on Leica sometimes develop.
>>>> 
>>>> I remember that Howard Cummings was one of our folks who had a screen
>>>> problem. Perhaps there were others.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Geoff
>>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>> 
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