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“It’s clear based on feedback that people viewed this service as inappropriate and saw us as profiteering”: Rough Trade bins Flip vinyl selling service after just two days

Rough Trade record shop.

It was only launched on Friday last week, but Rough Trade has already suspended its new vinyl selling service.

The scheme, a partnership with Flip Vinyl, reputedly the "fastest growing second hand vinyl buyers in Germany", essentially replicated the service offered by second-hand record shops up and down the country. But even on the first day it appeared that Rough Trade had got this badly wrong, as social media reported stories of derisory amounts being offered for genuinely valuable records.

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