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Vinyl Record Value Worksheet

CRATTO vinyl value worksheet · cratto.app/tools/vinyl-value-worksheet

Work out what one record is worth in four steps. Everything stays in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere. Print it to fill in by hand at a record fair.

01Identify the pressing

Copy what is printed and etched. The catalog number narrows it down; the runout (matrix) usually pins it to one pressing. Search Discogs by catalog number, then match the runout.

02Grade the disc and the sleeve

Grade them separately. Play it through: the disc grade depends on how it sounds, not only how it looks. See the grading guide for each grade. ↗

03Enter the sold prices

Use sold prices for this exact pressing, not asking prices. Copy the Statistics box from its Discogs page, and add individual recent sales if you can (Discogs sales history, eBay sold listings).

Recent individual sales (optional, better)

DateDiscSleevePrice

04 · Your price range

    How the range is worked out

    1. If you enter two or more sales of this pressing at your disc grade, the range runs from the lowest to the highest of them (with five or more, the single highest is dropped).
    2. If your sales are at other grades, they are converted with Goldmine's rule of thumb: a VG+ copy is worth about half a Near Mint one, a VG copy no more than a quarter. This only works for NM, VG+ and VG.
    3. With only the Discogs Statistics box, the median is the anchor: NM 1–2×, VG+ 0.7–1.1×, VG 0.35–0.7×, G+/G 0.15–0.35×, F/P 0.05–0.15×. If the sleeve is graded lower than the disc, the low end drops by 25%. The range never goes outside Discogs' Low and High. These multipliers are our rough rule, not a market standard.
    4. Demand is read from the Want and For sale numbers, and a last sale more than 90 days ago is flagged as slow.

    The full method, with this example worked through: How to value vinyl records