For individuasl selling anything audio these days is one big hassle and fraught with rip-offs both for sellers and buyers. The insistence on many platforms using Paypal as a payment method has only negatives.
Firstly, Paypal currency transfers are outrageous, the rates used are worse than tourist rates. Currency transfer companies, there are many and they are all regulated charge a little over the 'inter bank rate'. I have used Transferwise, now called Wise is now a listed bank and you can hold different currencies which means that buyers can pay in their own currencies. There are other features of this bank which are excellent but not relevant to this thread.
For someone like me that has an extensive LP collection to sell soon just take a look at the marketplace forum on discogs to see the nightmares you can get involved in both as a seller and as a buyer. Then there is a worldwide effort by tax authorities across the world to screw as much as they can out of anything imported into a country. What really hacks me off is they put an import tax on the shipping/insurance as well.
Record Fairs - at the moment in Europe there are not many and not often so I am going to my local commune (I live in France) to see how much it will cost to hire a big hall that is near to me. It has loads of free parking, is near a rail station that links to a big city, Toulouse and another Rodez and has excellent major road connections.
There are so many positives for Record Fairs:
(1) you cannot get ripped-off with total lying descriptions be it an LP/CD/DVD/tape - you see exactly what you are buying. As well as media, valves, resistors,caps, all kinds of components can be sold and bought.
(2) postage/shipping costs - to buy a single LP via post in France is a minimum of €6.50 and there is no risk of damage. If you visit a R/F by car and come with 3 other friends, if you only buy 4 LPs/CDs each then you save around €100 that buys an awful lot of fuel and you know exactly what you have bought.
Maybe you and your friends have media, LPs/CDs you want to sell, so you can both buy and sell - no risk of a scammer using Paypal procedures to rip you off. No packaging to buy or protocols to go through (IOSS). Selling platforms, discogs,ebay etc. hve charges which are around 20-30%.
I want to try to get amateurs interested if I can before the professional sellers. I intend to visit radio stations to get DJs on board - publicity is everything and of course social media. If the first is successful then this will generate interest in regular R/Fs.
As well as buying and selling there is the real chance to make friends and contacts. The i/net is great but personal contact is the best.
Firstly, Paypal currency transfers are outrageous, the rates used are worse than tourist rates. Currency transfer companies, there are many and they are all regulated charge a little over the 'inter bank rate'. I have used Transferwise, now called Wise is now a listed bank and you can hold different currencies which means that buyers can pay in their own currencies. There are other features of this bank which are excellent but not relevant to this thread.
For someone like me that has an extensive LP collection to sell soon just take a look at the marketplace forum on discogs to see the nightmares you can get involved in both as a seller and as a buyer. Then there is a worldwide effort by tax authorities across the world to screw as much as they can out of anything imported into a country. What really hacks me off is they put an import tax on the shipping/insurance as well.
Record Fairs - at the moment in Europe there are not many and not often so I am going to my local commune (I live in France) to see how much it will cost to hire a big hall that is near to me. It has loads of free parking, is near a rail station that links to a big city, Toulouse and another Rodez and has excellent major road connections.
There are so many positives for Record Fairs:
(1) you cannot get ripped-off with total lying descriptions be it an LP/CD/DVD/tape - you see exactly what you are buying. As well as media, valves, resistors,caps, all kinds of components can be sold and bought.
(2) postage/shipping costs - to buy a single LP via post in France is a minimum of €6.50 and there is no risk of damage. If you visit a R/F by car and come with 3 other friends, if you only buy 4 LPs/CDs each then you save around €100 that buys an awful lot of fuel and you know exactly what you have bought.
Maybe you and your friends have media, LPs/CDs you want to sell, so you can both buy and sell - no risk of a scammer using Paypal procedures to rip you off. No packaging to buy or protocols to go through (IOSS). Selling platforms, discogs,ebay etc. hve charges which are around 20-30%.
I want to try to get amateurs interested if I can before the professional sellers. I intend to visit radio stations to get DJs on board - publicity is everything and of course social media. If the first is successful then this will generate interest in regular R/Fs.
As well as buying and selling there is the real chance to make friends and contacts. The i/net is great but personal contact is the best.
I'm surprised there are no responses. Using the established platforms like discogs/ebay etc. are fraught with problems and very expensive. We all have media LPs/CDs/DVDs we would like to sell and buy not to mention loads of components we have not used for one reason or another. If we can organize events all across the EU most of us have friends in many EU countries who we can trust to buy for us at local fairs/events and not only save a lot of money but avoid a lot of stress as well - think about it?