Well if there’s lots of copies floating around and no demand then yes, should be cheap. But there’s a caliber of record that will never sell at a steep discount at an op shop. Records in high demand that for a million copies in existence, a million people want to own them and they hold their value. There’s also pressings that come into it; a pressing from the 1980s will always be more valuable than a modern pressing because of scarcity and older vinyls have that nostalgia factor.

I agree with you though that records are very overvalued.

Or that that weren't just donated it for $ZERO, or that the fucking shop is called an OPPORTUNITY shop. I gotta go meditate, it gets me going.

Op shops often don't have the foggiest idea what they are dealing with. it's supposedly too time consuming to look up everything, however I assure you that that ratty looking 1st Ed [whatever] will sell for more than the 18 perfect copies of Twilight that will never move