The KickFlips Vinyl Investment Portfolio Update - May 2023
How I'm getting returns over 11x higher than the stock market with lower risk.
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Welcome to the KickFlips Vinyl Investment Portfolio Update. This is where I show you the exact vinyls I am currently invested in, as well as which ones I sold recently.
We break down the exact % returns of my sold vinyls compared to the stock market as well as do analysis on the vinyls I am holding but have not yet sold.
If you read my last Substack post about vinyl investing, you’d know that the right vinyl records can absolute destroy the returns you can find in the stock market.
You get to see exactly which vinyls I bought, how much I bought them for, how much they are currently worth and my % returns - both realized and unrealized.
Quarter 4 is the biggest quarter for ecommerce, so I am steadily ramping up my investing efforts so that I can unload these in 3-6 months for some massive profits. However, some vinyls have already appreciated ahead of schedule, so I took profits on them after they cleared my price targets.
That being said, Quarter 2 is the perfect time to start building your own vinyl portfolio. I tend to hold vinyls for a few months and, with Quarter 4 coming up, now is the absolute best time to enter the vinyl investing market… if you know what you’re doing.
So, without any further ado, let’s get into exactly how The KickFlips Vinyl Investment Portfolio has been performing.
Realized Gains
Let’s start off with the vinyls I have already sold in 2023. These are all records I bought this year and already sold after a relatively short holding period.
An important note:
ALL of these return figures INCLUDE sellers fees and shipping costs.
There are plenty of “gurus” on the internet who will tell you that they bought something for $60 and sold it for $100, so that means they made $40 profit.
No, they did not.
When you sell online, you incur seller fees and you have to pay to ship the item.
All of my return figures below account for those fees and shipping. The return percentages you’re seeing is the exact return you would have gotten if you would have bought and sold these vinyls when I told members of my reselling community to do the same.
These returns also do NOT include any cash-back I got from Rakuten… which I often do.
Yesterday, I bought 4 more vinyls for $159.99 total at Urban Outfitters.
Rakuten was paying 15% cash back at Urban Outfitters.
This brings my effective buy cost down from $159.99 to $136 - an automatic 15% increase in my margins.
If you’re not already using Rakuten, you need to. And, if you sign up today, they’re going to give you a FREE $40 after you make your first purchase.
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But, to reiterate: My returns below do NOT include any of that cash back. That’s all just icing on the cake.
With that disclaimer, I’ll skip the theatrics and get right to the headline:
S&P 500 YTD Returns: 7.86%
My Vinyl Portfolio YTD Returns: 84.34%
In other words:
If you invested $1,000 into the stock market on January 1, you would have $1,078.60 in your account.
If you invested $1,000 into the same vinyls I bought, you would have $1,843.40 in your account.
So what vinyls was I buying and what was the variance in returns? What made for a winner and what made for a loser?
In the image below, you can see exactly what they are, how much I made, and what my average ROI has been year-to-date.
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