ViniVault/Value
A vinyl price guide for your own shelf
A price guide is useful when it prices the records you own, not a generic chart. ViniVault builds a guide across your vault.
Your copies, current prices
Marketplace prices move. A guide taken today will not match a guide taken next year, especially on common reissues, where a few new listings can shift the middle price.
Scarce records may have nothing sensible listed. An empty price is more honest than a guessed one. The count under the total is how you see those gaps, instead of pretending every record has a figure.
A price guide for your shelf is not a chart of famous albums. It prices the copies you catalogued. A record you have not added cannot appear, and a record on the wishlist is not yours yet.
Your price, then a market guide
Type what you paid, or what you believe that copy is worth to the total, and that number replaces the guide. Leave the field empty and ViniVault uses a middle Discogs asking price for a Very Good, Very Good Plus, or Near Mint copy.
The cheapest listing is ignored on purpose. It is often a poor jacket, a stray item, or a price too low to be a real sale. Penny listings should not drag a whole shelf down.
How this works in ViniVault
Collection value on Statistics is the shelf total, with a count of how many records are included. Typed prices replace the guide on that copy. eBay can supply a recent sold price when Discogs has nothing usable.
Read it as a collector's guide. It is not a formal valuation, and it is not a promise of what a buyer would pay for the collection as a lot.
Questions
- Does it price records I do not own?
- No. The total is for records in your vault. The wishlist is not included.
- Can I replace the guide on one record?
- Yes. Type a price on that record, including zero, and that figure is the one used.