The Top 30 Most Expensive Items Sold in the Discogs Marketplace for June 2020

I agree. I think there are very few shill bidders on ebay. I sell a lot of collectible, promo, and import CDs on ebay and ebay takes a pretty healthy commission. If you have a shill bidder win the auction, you have to pay the commission. Sure, you could then cancel the transaction, but ebay monitors that pretty closely.

I think that the vinyl prices are ridiculous at this moment, I remember this was the major cause of the vinyl decline when the CD arrived on the scene, when they were cheaper than the”old” grandfather LP. In this moment, thanks to some vultures and people’s (with money)hysteria to “collect” some kind of vinyls obviously the prices of the vinyls are rising up and the Cds are becoming nearly obsolete. Moreover I don’t understand why blocking “unofficial” releases in Discogs, it should be the buyer decision if pay for something unofficial or not, and nota “censorship tyranny” from someone else decision. Anyway this decision are pushing more an more people to buy in eBay something that before was instead available on this website. Bootlegs and “unofficial” release (sometimes made by the same label records “hidden”) always have existed on the market and they will always exist because sometimes these releases are even better than the “official” one, providing to the vinyl lovers some material previously unavailable (e.g. https://www.discogs.com/Duran-Duran-A-View-To-A-Kill-12-Remix/release/6591097). Finally after years of rumours and snippets I was able to have in my hands and listen to the official 12″ remix of DD’s A view To A Kill! For some strange reason this version was kept in the vault for 30 years but finally released by someone in the record label and finally pressed with a stunning artwork, whether is official or not and I’m extremely glad that I bought it before it was “blocked” on the website.
There are some gems unreleased “officially” on vinyl like GM’s Patience or Songs From The Last Century whose unofficial releases are hitting ridiculous prices when you even find a copy.
Another mystery is the choice of blocking some “unofficial” releases and some not even if there are 2 or 3 versions and sometimes only 1 or 2 blocked, it’s really strange to me the decision of blocking partially a release, at least it should all or nothing!
I think that very soon the buyers will realise that they’re paying unnecessary money for some records which are not even great repress of the original, and it will cause another fall of the vinyls, that was heaven for someone like me who really love vinyls for their sound and for the collectible and that gave me the opportunity to finally buy some specific records for a decent and fair price.
So, for the records labels and for the greedy vultures, enjoy the moment until it last!

@Record_Safari…it’s because it depends on the type of currency used by the seller

I love these lists for the obscure rare tracks you can check out on youtube & see why it’s so collectible quite often musically, the artist just never got distirbution/bad timing/etc.

I can vouch for #1 – it’s the Banksy sleeve, plenty more on popsike!

How did the Vothana – Vòng Hoa Chiến Thắng – Crown Of Victory release fetch so much when it is blocked for sale?

I agree. I think there are very few shill bidders on ebay. I sell a lot of collectible, promo, and import CDs on ebay and ebay takes a pretty healthy commission. If you have a shill bidder win the auction, you have to pay the commission. Sure, you could then cancel the transaction, but ebay monitors that pretty closely.

I do collect some OOP vinyl of recordings that never made it to digital or the digital masters are horrible (early Jimmy Buffett is a prime example). The vinyl has gone up because the numbers are getting fewer and fewer. Its that simple. Scarcity is why people collect them. Where I used to see dozens of OOP LPs by an artist like Rusty Weir (semi-obscure, but on Columbia), now you see a third of that. Where you used to see MINT/SEALED, you are often lucky to see Mint-.

The resurgence of vinyl has also been a major factor. Ten years ago, almost nobody was issuing new vinyl. Now everybody does. In fact there are some re-issues and anniversary editions that are only coming out on vinyl. Black Sabbath is issuing the 40th anniversary edition of Paranoid. It’s on vinyl. It will also come out on CD, but the CDs are the same that were issued in the 2016 super deluxe edition. Nothing new here. Cyndi Lauper is re-issuing “True Colors” next month — vinyl only. My point is that now that more and more people are buying turntables and have the ability to play vinyl, they are collecting older albums from their youth, driving up prices. It has nothing to do with shill bidders.

No. 1 is def evidence for money laundering

Can anyone explain why the price for no.1 when it used to sell for 8€ until January?

The sad relaity is that ebay and all its shill bidders has pushed the price of vinyl to silly levels. They do this by bidding on their own stuff using friends and family user names when they have one or two genuine buyers bidding. They then push up the price to exceptional levels and silly people then fall for it and pay it. Always bid and buy stuff on ebay at the last 5 seconds and make sure you only put a bid in for what its worth. I mean 1st press Led Zepplin LPs that were once £500 are now £1,500+ within ten years due to this problem and gullible buyers having no clue whatsoever