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Those look great man. What did you use for the border/background? The color match is perfect.

Thanks for the info. I actually have a bunch of plastic bins from target that fit records perfectly but they aren't sturdy enough for bulk shipping. I'm just going to pack up a few of those with my more expensive/rare stuff and bring them in the car with me. When you receive bulk orders on pallets how are they typically packed? How high approximately? I'm guessing it was a bunch of smaller cardboard boxes packed with 25-50 records, stacked and the whole pallet wrapped tightly with plastic wrap? Are the records typically stacked in the boxes horizontally on top of eachother or vertically? (i've seen a bunch of debate about this one, i'm leaning towards packing them upright, side by side)

Do you know of a particular plastic types of boxes that works well for LP's? I'm most worried about the sturdiness of the boxes and if I could find some reasonably priced, stack-able, heavy duty plastic ones that would be preferable.

I was actually hoping I could load a pallet myself and have them pick it up. I trust myself stacking them more than some random freight employee. Not sure if that's possible though. Any recommendations on particularly sturdy boxes?

Alright folks, i'm planning a move cross country (Florida to Oregon) and i'm trying to figure out the logistics of getting all my records cross country. I think i'm probably going to pay for some kind of freight rather than a u-haul since i'm going to take my time during the trip and want to be driving my own car. Anywho I haven't counted but between everything i've collected and the records my father passed down to me I probably have at least 5,000 records I need to move. I'm not even sure the best way to pack such a large quantity, anyone have some tips or recommendations? I was thinking of doing a pallet but i'm worried about stacking too high and damaging records on the bottom. Maybe some labels and/or distros have some tips?

I think you would be surprised how cheap bananas would be if they weren't essentially "flipped" by companies like Chiquita. The only difference between record flippers and them is that bananas are "flipped" before they get to the grocery store and records are flipped after. The same concepts apply to both. As for someone buying out all the bananas from grocery stores and reselling them trust me someone would be doing it if the price/market would allow it. The only way to "solve" flipping is for labels to stop doing a million different pressings in small quantities, which will never happen because it is a way for them to get people to buy the same record multiple times.

The same argument can be made for nearly everything that is sold for a profit. Yet no one goes "Oh my gawd this grocery store bought all this food without the intention of eating it?!?! They bought all this food for the sole purpose of selling it for a profit? WTF?!?!" It's a dumb and useless thing to get angry about. Bitching about flippers isn't suddenly going to make the principles of supply and demand no longer apply to the medium.

You gave your friend shit because the company he works for was selling a record at a price too high for your liking? No offense, but you sound like a twat of a friend.

That is sexy my friend. Did you somehow hinge those glasdex and use them as doors or are they just leaning up against your records?

I'm not sure you understand how our current economy/economic ladder works.

You could just suppress your urge to have your colored piece of plastic right now and wait until after Christmas.

Harassing overworked and underpaid retail workers is how we American's spread Christmas cheer.

Looks awesome man. Approximately how many records is that setup holding for you?

No worries my dude, I don't take anything said on the interweb personally.

Uh oh we've got the username police over here. Next time i'll try something more creative, maybe i'll go with "BillyB"

You are an extremely helpful and welcoming member of this community. Thanks for your help.

You are a good man (or woman). Thanks!

ok anyone have a cliff notes version as to where this will be available?....or can the OP edit his original post with the relevant information. Don't really have time to go through 110 pages of people complaining about stickers to find out where to buy what pressing.

Either way they buy exclusivity and that cost is passed on to the consumer. The end result is the same, we get record prices that keep creeping up as everyone tries to get a piece of the pie.

Meh, I don't buy that being the reason. They just know a bunch of people will happily pay $20-$25 so that's what they are charging. I don't neccesarily blame them, they are a large corporation and their goal is to make money. It's what they do. I just can't help to think that while flawed (see MTS and suburban home) i'd much prefer to see these represses being done by smaller labels/distros. As much shit as RJ got for MTS (which he deserved) he did at least put together really nice looking, high quality 2xLP packages when he charged $25 a pop. Hot Topic is charging nearly the same for high run, single LP's in cheap/standard packaging.

Man Hot Topic is really creeping towards that $30 for an LP mark...seems like $20+ has become the norm. I mean it's not even like their packaging is elaborate or anything, usually it is pretty damn bare bones. Oh well, I've pretty much come to terms with the fact that i'm going to not be able to afford to keep up with this hobby for much longer

I honestly never even gave the feet enough attention to notice they were plastic, never had any problems with them and seem sturdy enough to me. With that said I haven't really moved it around much at all since buying it.

Like someone said earlier they should have came with anchors but if you can't find them it should be easy enough for your dad to rig something together. With that said your setup does look really great man! Is that receiver a Harman Kardon HK-3490? If so I have the same one, love it.

beat me to it

Are these being anchored or mounted on the walls in any way? Really not trying to bust your balls here but if not that setup could be super dangerous, especially if you ever have any children around.