How to Sell or Trade Books and Records at Millpond
Bring down your books or records any time the store is open. We will take your information and try to have a look within 1-2 days. We will call you to confirm next steps*. Please read below about what types of books and records we are generally interested in.
Buying/Trading for Records
We are always interested in new collections of vinyl, mostly focusing on the following genres:
- Rock
- Blues / Blues Rock
- Post Punk / Post Rock / Garage
- Soul/Funk
- Jazz (mid 1960s and on)
- Hop Hop
- Indie / Punk
- Electronic
We do not buy or trade for 78s, 45s, CDs, tapes, or other forms of physical music.
Trading for Books
We do not buy books. We do trade books for store credit (which can be used to purchase other books only), and are always interested in trade-ins or donations of books in great shape. We tend to look for books in the following genres:
- Fiction
- Mystery/Thriller
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Recent Current Affairs / Politics
- History
- Nature / Environment
- Biographies
- Music Biographies
- Music history
- Children’s books of all ages
- Young Adult fiction
* If you leave items at the store to be assessed, you must be available to be contacted, and we reserve the right to dispose of any unclaimed books and records after a period of 1 week if we are not able to get in touch with you (we have a small space and cannot store things for long periods of time). All trade credit notes are valid for one year from time of transaction. Record credit notes can be used to purchase books or records. Book credit notes can be used to purchase books only.