Log the price you paid for each record

A record from a car boot and a record from a shop should not both show a generic asking price if you remember what you spent. The price you paid is the one figure you actually know.

You can leave the field empty. The guide fills in only where you have not typed a price. The moment you type one, including zero, that number is the one used for that copy.

Write it down while you remember the shop. A year later, 'about a tenner' becomes a blank, and the blank becomes a market guide that may not describe the afternoon you bought it.

The price you paid is not always what the record would sell for now. That is fine. It is your record of the purchase. If you would rather the total used a current guide, leave the field empty.

A gift can be zero. Zero is a real price, not a missing one. It keeps that record in the total as nothing, instead of letting a marketplace price pretend you spent money you did not spend.

Open the record and enter the price you paid. Collection value uses that number. Records with no typed price fall back to a middle Discogs asking price, then recent eBay sales if Discogs has nothing usable.

The note on the record can say which shop and which year. The price field is the number. Together they are the story of the purchase.