Swap vinyl records with people who play them.
Every shelf has a stretch that has not been played in years, and every collector has a want list. Put those two facts together and you have a swap that leaves both turntables busier.
Swapping the records you have stopped playing
Say the pressing, not just the title. Label, catalogue number, country and year are what a collector reads first, because the same album across two pressings is two different records to the person receiving it.
Grade the record and the sleeve separately, in the terms the hobby already uses. Everybody here knows what those letters mean, and using them saves a long conversation before anybody commits.
A notable pressing stands alone; a stack of well-loved albums works as one lot. Both are good listings — the first is found by somebody hunting that exact record, the second by somebody filling out a genre in an afternoon.
Photograph the label and the sleeve corners, and play the first track if you are unsure. Note any warp or seam split plainly. Then say what you are after — an artist, a label, an era, or one specific pressing you have been chasing.
The questions people ask first.
List what you are ready to move on and say what you would like instead. When your want list and somebody else's crate line up in both directions, we introduce you and you sort the handover between yourselves.
A box of singles with a common thread is usually the stronger listing — one genre, one label, one decade. A single with real standing is worth its own page, where it can be described properly.
You and your swap partner agree how it changes hands, and plenty of record swaps happen in person for exactly that reason. If it needs collecting rather than posting, say so on the listing and we match accordingly.
Nothing here has a price.
Barterama is a barter marketplace: a swap site where value is shown as a band rather than a figure, and where no money changes hands at any point. Every item sits in one of twelve bands that we work out — you never set your own, and neither does the person you are swapping with. If we are not confident, the band gets wider rather than more precise.
Where two sides do not quite balance, a small extra item closes the gap. Cash never does, and there is no balance or credit on this site to close it with.
Other things people swap.
Got vinyl records to swap?
List what you have, say what you are after, and we will introduce you when somebody wants yours and has something you want.