[Demoniarch]

If one mans home burns should they not all burn? ...spread the flames, is there any insurance for planet earth? ...we are consuming it's soul daily.

Let the lost be lost... the damned be damned.

[siax2.0]

it would actually be a cool feature for Discogs, to show the value of your collection based on sale statistics of their site (you can already watch sale's history for a certain item, so it's only a small step to sum that up over a whole collection)

EDIT: oh wait, they already have it: http://www.discogs.com/mycollection?layout=stats

[Weltering in Blood]

[Reaper's Grave]

Minimum: $10,546.69 Median: $13,837.47 Maximum: $19,607.47

Mine doesn't account for my tapes or CD's which 90% of have not been added to mine yet due to laziness, or the things that aren't on the database, or i somehow managed to forget to add.

[Heirophant.326.AV]

interesting stuff. I'm interested to have a look over my policy now. If my house burned down I'm honestly going to be a lot more concerned about having them pay out the value of the house rather than the contents. Aside from the records not a lot of my posessions are worth a massive amount of cash. The policy I have is pretty decent I think - my instruments are covered under the home policy if they are damaged or stolen at gigs, which is a nice touch.
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[NK7]

[Reaper's Grave]

^ that leads to the question of how some people assess the value of some records with so much price fluctuations on the market. I guess we could argue all day how any values are assigned on any market of antiques or collectible items in those books or by any "experts" in the field. With metal records specifically though what we have for "market research" has so much variance i don't think its entirely possible to come up with an objective number or average to value a record at. There's also so many factors that play into what an album sells for in a particular auction from the seller's reputation, location (especially with postage rates lately), if the album has turned up frequently (say 3-4 auctions in a month) or rarely (first auction for the item in months), overall demand, and how many people see the item for sale...all this in mind and the same album can go for very different numbers without a definite average that doesn't seem to high or too low.

[NK7]

Items sold on discogs tend to go for lower amounts of money than they do when they're listed on Ebay, in the case of Deathcrush the most expensive copy sold there apparently went for less than €800 whereas I saw it reach €900-1000 on a couple of auctions. But besides that, their database just isn't accurate, those recent Satyricon, Dodheimsgard bootlegs for example made it in the lists as originals thus completely altering the value of the legit 1st editions. I think it wouldn't entirely be impossible to come up with a catalogue of the genre's most wanted jewels and their realistic average value (which at leasts for the top rarities is quite stable) but that could be confined to 200, may be 300 records at best, and we know our collections are way bigger than that.
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Thread derailed
The bass drum on Grifteskymfning djavulens boning are annoying
Interested in trading a dub of Apokalypsimz for a dub of Purpurearagotamiceps?
I want that Balwezo Westijiz–Urkraftens Mystik LP but wanted to get it with the Bekëth Nexëhmü

[siax2.0]

[DSS]

Most insurance companies that I talked to are only willing to insure records for $1 a piece unless I get everything appraised.

One good thing about PayPal is that you can easily view your purchase history going back many years. Now that's proof what you actually paid for the merchandise, not what it might be worth today. Better than nothing I guess.
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[boogs]

I have a house insurance for my all my personal belongings if my apartment burns down or get damaged, it was no problem to insure a value of 75K Euro. They also did not want a detailed list of things but obviously it's good to have something like your record collection on file. I also use discogs for this. The insurance costs me about 100 Euro per year. it would also not be a problem to insure a higher value if need be.
Considering the sales history on discogs: it's for every item in their database, hence there's separate sales histories for dfferent pressings, LP/CD etc. Of course you will always have people selling a die hard version under something else because they can't be assed to list the die hard themselves which in effect will corrupt the data of course. However you will also see a detailed history for every item which is greatly helpful because sometimes a copy will go for less than average because it's in bad condition etc. so you can actually determine the real value that way. At the end of the day the value of a record varies on its current popularity, especially in Metal as we all can see right now. So getting something "officially" appraised today will be useless in a few years anyway.

[NK7]

[Cursed Emperor]

Insurance is nice and all, but it's just another way to take your money. I never understood why people want insurance for this and insurance for that. Are you guys going to take your collection with you in your grave also, to prevent damage or loss after you died? And while you're at it, get one of these: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248071/20-000-coffin-plays-music-loop-loved-ones-listen-tunes-afterlife.html#axzz2Jr3Fz4js
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[Reaper's Grave]

[Conservationist]