Now this post is not meant to scaremonger in anyway
But I am hoping for some honest opinions on where collectors see the collecting side of the scene going, lets be real, its never going to last forever, we have some young folk attending and maybe a younger generation abroad appreciating this scene called Northern but is it enough to sustain a healthy record buying market
Top tunes will for now ! have buyers wiling to shell out a couple of grand etc, but what happens when we have a generation of collectors who say to themselves thats it now
time to cash in, only to find theres not enough people out there willing to pay the prices they were prepared to pay, if we are honest with each other, there must be a number out there who look upon there collections as there pension, there nest egg, not all, but some, but as a starter how do you see the scene in say 15 years, I personaly will be over 60 and a I know a lot of my friends will be in that era and age group, will we see a record crunch where lots of the £100 + tunes around today fail to fetch 30% of there prices as the market is flooded with collections and people trying to cash in, I think its been apparant over the last couple of years some collectors have already taken advantage of todays prices
Speaking to a couple of my very old collecting mates, we disscussed this very subject over the weekend, we mentioned how a great number of the doo-wop & rock & roll collecting fraternity had sold up many years ago for this very reason, just not enough younger collectors coming through
I may add I unfortunatley will not be in such a position as a divorce some years back put paid to any dreams I had of a nest egg, although through my records I was able to start my life back on the property ladder
Its just something I ask myself
& wonder how others see it I know it wont realy bother some folk but other may be very reliant on there investments, just thought it made a good topic for discussion
Now this post is not meant to scaremonger in anyway
But I am hoping for some honest opinions on where collectors see the collecting side of the scene going, lets be real, its never going to last forever, we have some young folk attending and maybe a younger generation abroad appreciating this scene called Northern but is it enough to sustain a healthy record buying market
Top tunes will for now ! have buyers wiling to shell out a couple of grand etc, but what happens when we have a generation of collectors who say to themselves thats it now
time to cash in, only to find theres not enough people out there willing to pay the prices they were prepared to pay, if we are honest with each other, there must be a number out there who look upon there collections as there pension, there nest egg, not all, but some, but as a starter how do you see the scene in say 15 years, I personaly will be over 60 and a I know a lot of my friends will be in that era and age group, will we see a record crunch where lots of the £100 + tunes around today fail to fetch 30% of there prices as the market is flooded with collections and people trying to cash in, I think its been apparant over the last couple of years some collectors have already taken advantage of todays prices
Speaking to a couple of my very old collecting mates, we disscussed this very subject over the weekend, we mentioned how a great number of the doo-wop & rock & roll collecting fraternity had sold up many years ago for this very reason, just not enough younger collectors coming through
I may add I unfortunatley will not be in such a position as a divorce some years back put paid to any dreams I had of a nest egg, although through my records I was able to start my life back on the property ladder
Its just something I ask myself
& wonder how others see it I know it wont realy bother some folk but other may be very reliant on there investments, just thought it made a good topic for discussion