08 June 2015

5. AUCTIONS & MARKETPLACES

Marketplaces, auction sites and auction results aggregators are valuable sources for music collectibles and memorabilia - the more since sellers increasingly document their offerings with photos of their goods. Below is a shortlist of the moste interesting international players, but it's worth your time to also check smaller local and regional players.

5.1. Auction Sites

Ebay
World's biggest P2P marketplace & auction site, including loads of records, videos, music collectibles and music memorabilia. Their search features come with excellent filters (don't forget to try out "completed" and "wordwide").
Genres: All
Depth: 8
Breadth: 8
File Quality: 6
Accessibility: 8
Database: 8
Search Engine: 8
Writing: NA
Interface: 6
Accuracy: 5
Entertainment: 7
Regions: Global
Media: Text, Photo, Document
Period: 1900 - Now

Amazon
Interesting for their huge collection of new and secondhand records (users' reviews sometimes entail interesting bits of knowledge), for their P2P marketplace (although it's much smaller than Ebay's), but mainly for the "Look Inside" feature in their books section.
Genres: All
Depth: 5
Breadth: 8
File Quality: 7
Accessibility: 6
Database: 8
Search Engine: 7
Writing: NA
Interface: 5
Accuracy: 7
Entertainment: 7
Regions: Global
Media: Text, Photo, Document
Period: 1900 - Now


5.2. Marketplaces

Gemm
P2P marketplace for records, also including collectibles and music memorabilia.
Genres: All
Depth: 7
Breadth: 7
File Quality: 4
Accessibility: 7
Database: 7
Search Engine: 6
Writing: NA
Interface: 6
Accuracy: 5
Entertainment: 5
Regions: All
Media: Text, Photo, Document
Period: 1950 - Now

Delcampe
International P2P marketplace for collectibles.
Genres: All
Depth: 6
Breadth: 6
File Quality: 7
Accessibility: 7
Database: 6
Search Engine: 7
Writing: NA
Interface: 6
Accuracy: 6
Entertainment: 7
Regions: Global
Media: Photo, Document
Period: 1880 - Now


5.3. Auction Result Aggregators

Worthpoint TIP!
Database of +265 M items (and their images) sold or auctioned on Ebay and other auction websites. Includes many music collectibles and memorabilia.
Genres: All
Depth: 8
Breadth: 7
File Quality: 7
Accessibility: 7
Database: 6
Search Engine: 6
Writing: NA
Interface: 6
Accuracy: 5
Entertainment: 6
Regions: Global
Media: Text, Photo, Document
Period: 1900 - Now

Invaluable
Aggregator of auction results.
Genres: All
Depth: 7
Breadth: 7
File Quality: 7
Accessibility: 7
Database: 7
Search Engine: 7
Writing: NA
Interface: 7
Accuracy: 6
Entertainment: 6
Regions: Global
Media: Text, Photo, Document
Period: 1900 - Now

LiveAuctioneers
Aggregates wordwide auction results, including music collectibles and memorabilia.
Focus on searching within the "Sold" section!
Genres: All
Depth: 6
Breadth: 7
File Quality: 7
Accessibility: 8
Database: 8
Search Engine: 7
Writing: NA
Interface: 7
Accuracy: 7
Entertainment: 6
Regions: All
Media: Text, Photo, Document
Period: 1880 - Now

Popsike
Aggregates (often: rare!) records auction results (dominated by Ebay data).
Genres: All
Depth: 6
Breadth: 6
File Quality: 6
Accessibility: 8
Database: 6
Search Engine: 7
Writing: NA
Interface: 7
Accuracy: NA
Entertainment: 6
Regions: Global
Media: Text, Photo
Period: 1940 - Now

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