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Posting vinyl records.

toucanis — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:48:24 GMT

Hi All,

I have 'inherited' a stack of vinyl albums to sell and I was wondering if anyone had tips on the best way to post them.

My thoughts would be something like pizza boxes?

Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Mark

Re: Posting vinyl records.

phorum_junkie* — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:19:21 GMT

I have heard pizza bixes suggested on here before.

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digital*ghost — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:48:23 GMT

You can also buy mailers designed especially for posting records, not sure how cost-effective they are in comparison to other methods.

Just a tip - when you package them, I recommend leaving the record outside of the cover (in a plastic sleeve or similar) - if they're left inside, the record will often move around on the inside of the cover and the edges of it will damage the covers, sometimes quite badly.

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peridot55555 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 01:28:29 GMT

U will need more stronger cardboard than pizza boxes - U cannot afford to have them bent in any way. At the moment I am using a piece of strong cardboard each side of very old sheet music to stop the bending.

I did sell parcels of 78 records (result of the following was none broken) - I'd put a paper napkin between each, bubble wrap around the lot, then put in between a piece of pvc each side of the parcel & then place in a box. Because of the weight of these type of records I would put light rope around both directions of the box. I even tried thick plywood on one side & cardboard on the other at one stage for single or small number of records, but at the cost of a lot of weight.

Not sure how vinyl records will go, unless rare.

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australiapoststore — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:32:48 GMT

Hi toucanis

I would be more than happy to assist you with your enquiry.

I understand you are posting vinyl records, I thought I would provide you a link for packaging hints and tips to help you out http://auspost.com.au/parcels-mail/packaging-hints-and-tips.html I have also provided you the following for different packaging options you have http://shop.auspost.com.au/pack-post/packaging

I hope this information helps.

Deb

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flurosfairdinkumdeals — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:50:24 GMT

good luck selling those records I had the same thing and was left over 1000 lps but in the end it was so hard to sell the on ebay

as their are people out there that report your items as being bootleg....check the links above for packing great link but I do wish you all the best for selling them, there are so many narks on ebay and the fun of a sale could be taken over with non paying buyers and other sellers who have nothing better to do than report anything you sell.....check out popsike

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davewil1964 — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:15:22 GMT

I've heard corflute mentioned. Align it 90 degrees for each side and they should be pretty impossible to bend. And it's fairly light. Corrugated cardboard should also do the same job.

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janellehollycat — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:03:04 GMT

Hi there - saw this one and thought I'd let you know I sold my entire record collection and what was left of my father's collection and made some very good money doing so. I purchased the record mailers which you can buy on Ebay and put that cost of I think it was $1.80 a mailer on to the purchaser. I also put it in the ads for the LPs so it was transparent to the purchasers that I was charging that on top of postage. You can fit 4 vinyl LPs into one cardboard record mailer.

The rarer the LPs the better - for example, fringe or independent music LPs did very well for me price-wise. I did have to also box up a large amount of LPs I sold to one purchaser and I found a size appropriate box for alot of LPs at Officeworks.

Good luck with the selling!

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toucanis — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:36:54 GMT

Hi,

Thank you to everyone for their suggestions.

My wife has packaged up some tricky things but wasn't sure on the best way to do these.

I have some free listings so will give the albums a go and see how I do.

If they sell, good, if not I've lost nothing but my time.

Regards Mark 🙂