Mr Manships Auction Results 6-6-2012

[Pete S]

Customer database stands at over 26,000 members on the auction 11,000 +

Auction mailshot in individual mail boxes 6 times twice a week for 3 weeks..exposure on Facebook & YouTube. 42 years selling vinyl - MONEY BACK if your not delighted + your return POST

EXPOSURE, EXPOSURE, EXPOSURE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE!

with over 15million hits on the website a MONTH. That's how he gets better prices..

Just a point on the above, when I"ve done multiple mailouts I've had people actually complain that I'm doing too many mailouts, you can't win.

[Guest]

Thats right Pete, the above post wasn't 'an ad', its just the facts, John does well because of the exposure and the service.

now lets all find something more productive and positive to do with our time

enjoy yourself, its later than you think...

[paultp]

I agree with you, that is very annoying. When stuff goes lower than the average it's a "bargain" but if stuff goes super high, that's the new price. And what makes it worse is that there's a lot of buyers who for some reason only want expensive records, so increasing the price actually increases the demand, which can up the price even more.

Some people do only want expensive records, regardless of what they are. I used to go into a record shop in London quite regularly and one week he had hardly any singles when the previous week he'd had loads. So I asked him what had gone on.

He said a guy came in and bought everything that was priced over £25, didn't look at anything else. So the record store guy says "I only have part of my stock in the shop, I can bring the stuff in from the store tomorrow if you want to look through that?" "great!" says the buyer.

The record store guy then spends most of the night repricing half his cheap stock in the shop to above £25 and the buyer comes in next day and buys it all off him.

The day I was in I bought "no one there" for a fiver - it said "Nice Motown £5" on the sleeve which must have put the buyer off.

[Dylan]

if you had rich buyers you would have money. you can do things for free, like reach out to some of the people and ask for leads on their friends, etc.

also you said you have a 1500 person sales list. Aren't there wealthy people on your list? I just started and I have a 100 person list and there's at least a couple wealthy collectors. The problem for me is that if they are actually serious collectors they will already have everything except the ultra-rarities. A different type of wealthy collector is paying a lot of money for common records -- a more casual type of collector.

if I ever get to be super wealthy I would probably be happy to spend over the odds fro those great but not always rare records that floated my boat.

as thats unlikely to happen i'll continue to buy a few bits here and there on ebay.

bob its unlikely people will have everythgin except the ultra rarities as its a bottomless pit of 45s. I'm happy now juts buying cheap things I don't already know. I don;t realy chase rarities anymore unless they are under market value.

Edited June 7, 2012 by dylan

[Steve G]

Shock horror the price of rare and not so rare records goes up!

Bet those of us with collections are all waiting for the day when our rarities are worthless and the Manship auction items end up at £2.50 with one bidder eh?

[Guest turntableterra]

this is a rare record as a demo. and in mint condition even rarer as it is a diff version. try even finding a mint....... i mean mint... issue. i went to 300 as it was a required number.