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DirectoryRetail & CommerceBookstoreBernThe Black Mandarin GmbH
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Summary

About the company

The Black Mandarin GmbH is a record shop specialising in psychedelic, stoner, krautrock and progressive music. It buys and sells records and offers vinyl cleaning.

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The Black Mandarin GmbH

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Vinyl record shop
Underground record store for vinyl records; buying, selling and trading records, specialising in Psychedelic, Stoner, Kraut and Progressive.
Vinyl cleaning
Washing vinyl for individual records or quantities; cleaning of 1 or 10 vinyl records, on request with a new inner sleeve and a new outer sleeve.
Buying vinyl records
Buying vinyl records via the contact form, email or phone; selling your own record collection to Black Mandarin Records.
Record genres
Main focus of the range on Heavy Metal, Kraut, Soul, Funk, Folk, Jazz, Prog, Jazzrock, Stoner, Blues, Garage, Punk and Psychedelic.
Original Artworks
Original record sleeves, posters and concert motifs from the Black-Mandarin scene, including drawings and artwork for releases and events.
Trust & reputation

ranQ Trust Score of The Black Mandarin GmbH: 4.2 out of 5.0

Trust Score4.2/ 5.0

Very high

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Data basis 96% · As of November 2026

The Black Mandarin GmbH scores 79.1 out of 100 points in the Reputation area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 42% of the weighting.
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  • Review quality: The average rating across all connected sources, smoothed against the industry mean. So 5.0 stars from three reviews do not outrank 4.7 from three hundred.83.024%
  • Review volume: The number of reviews across all sources. The scale is logarithmic: the first reviews count the most, and the maximum is reached at 50 reviews.70.510%
  • Review recency: The age of the most recent review. Two-year-old reviews deliberately sit in the middle, because that is normal for Swiss SMEs. Only after three years without a new voice does the value drop markedly.78.08%
The Black Mandarin GmbH scores 77.2 out of 100 points in the Substance area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 28% of the weighting.
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  • Establishment: Years since founding or brand launch, logarithmic. The maximum is reached at 15 years.86.512%
  • Company size: The headcount band, researched by ranQ or stated by the company. It is scored in steps rather than by head count, because the data only provides bands.55.07%
The Black Mandarin GmbH scores 86.7 out of 100 points in the Identity area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 22% of the weighting.
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  • Verification: Official register entry (commercial register with UID or professional-body record, 55 points), confirmed domain (20 points) and confirmed ranQ profile (up to 25 points, depending on completeness).86.722%
The Black Mandarin GmbH scores 10.9 out of 100 points in the Visibility area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 8% of the weighting.
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  • Website authority: Ahrefs' Domain Rating measures, on a scale of 0 to 100, how strongly a website is linked from other websites. For Swiss SMEs the range up to 40 is typical; the maximum is reached at 35.10.94%
  • Media authority: No data point — the criterion is taken out of the weighting and does not lower the score.—4%
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The Black Mandarin GmbH reaches a ranQ Trust Score of 4.2 out of 5.0 — rated «Very high». The rating draws, among other things, on 4.9 out of 5 stars from 15 customer reviews. The data basis is 96%, so the score is backed by part of the criteria. As of November 2026.

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Aggregated rating
4.9
of 5

Aggregated from 15 reviews across all connected sources

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Location

Optingenstrasse 31
3013 Bern
Opening hours
Mon
Closed
Tue
13:00 - 17:30
Wed
13:00 - 17:30
Thu
13:00 - 17:30
Fri
13:00 - 17:30
Sat
12:00 - 16:00
Sun
Closed

At a glance

Legal form
Limited Liability Company
UID
CHE-311.019.560
Founded
2016 · 10 years
Last commercial register change
September 18, 2018
Employees
1 to 10

Active in 1 of 26 cantons · 1 municipality

  • BEBern
Legal form: Graded by liability and disclosure. The weight is kept small: a sole proprietorship is not a dubious company, it is just liable differently.
88.0
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  • Branch offices: Branch offices linked in the commercial register. Having none is normal and costs no points.70.03%
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