How to Grade Vinyl Records - The Goldmine Standard

If you've ever bought or sold used vintage vinyl, you'll know it can be difficult to assess the fair condition and correct price.

Particularly when selling or buying online, it's more important than ever to have a standard system in place to describe the condition of used records.

It's important as a seller, as you want to provide an honest and fair assessment of what you're selling, but it's also important for the customer as a key indicator of quality.

By far the most established and widely used grading system for judging the condition of records is the Goldmine Standard. This is the same system used by marketplaces like Discogs, which is generally the same system used across eBay and many used record stores. In most cases, you will find a grading system either the same, or very similar to this method.

For the purpose of this video, we will refer to the Goldmine system.

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