discogs marketplace?

what i cant stand about discogs is the inflexiblity of postage rates. if im ordering one white label 12, theres no way the postage will be £2.75 or £3. very fucking annoying.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:36 (18 minutes ago)

Postage rates have nothing to do with discogs though, they're entirely up to the individual seller, so I'm not sure what you mean by them being inflexible. You should contact the seller if you think they're charging over the odds.

I happily both send and receive offers on prices via discogs, often the listed price is just a ball park, or best hope, or even a stab in the dark if you're the only person selling an item.

Again, if you think something's over priced then just speak to the seller. No big deal. If they don't like your offer they'll ignore it or let you know. Easy as pie.

well i mean the indvidual seller obv, yeah.

I need to get rid of lots of dance vinyl - some desirable, some considerably less so - and ebay seems like a busted flush for this kind of thing: a few tumbleweed auctions surrounded by acres of Buy It Now postings from professional retailers. Has anyone here used it for selling recently? Is it better than ebay now? Does stuff shift fairly quickly or sit around for months?

I use discogs for buying and selling fairly often. For dance vinyl, I'd say it's def better than ebay. It's really quick and simple to list items, and there are no fees unless your items actually sell, whereas Ebay charges a listing fee. I have some things on discogs that have been sitting for quite a while now, but it all depends on what you have vs. how many others are selling the same item.

Best to put them on Discogs a couple bucks below whatever is the cheapest copy if you want to move it immediately. if you're in no hurry, put it at a good price, offer a discount for multiple items in the Comments field and wait.

Good advice. Thanks. Tbh I'm more interested in offloading most of it than making big £££.

ive put some stuff around the lowest price theyre listed at on discogs but still waiting to shift them. starting to think im possibly the only person buying old grime or dubstep 12s.

what does it mean when there's a color bar to the side of a release in discogs.

there's yellow, grey and orange here http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rolling+Stones%2C+The

If you hover over them it tells you.

ah! thank you. i've been searching for hours

So, if one were selling off a few hundred records of the psych / noise / jazz / indie variety, discogs over eBay, for sure? My issue with discogs (and, for CDs, Amazon) is the fact that things sell in spurts, with no deadline. It tends to make packing records and regular trips to the post office a full time job. Any advice?

i dunno, i always buy on discogs, sell on amazon. i don't want to wait for people to stumble over what i'm trying to unload, and on average, i get really good money from ebay sales.

i think the upside (sale price) on ebay is (or can be) higher, but the ease of doing stuff on discogs might be better, depending on how much hassle you're willing to go through

Yeah, I find Discogs has rarer stuff in the first place, and then for a more reasonable price than Amazon. If what you're selling is aimed at the collectors market or folks that may not look at Amazon first, Discogs is the way to go.

Thanks!

it feels good to sell rare-ish things on ebay for +£££s to people who don't know about discogs ;)

Coincidentally they just linked to this via their Facebook page:

http://www.discogs.com/blog/339369-top-30-most-expensive-items-sold-by-month

Advice on this:

Person contacts me on Discogs about an item that I am not listing for sale, offers me a large (but not obscene) amount for it, then paypals me with his "brother-in-law's" account and wants me to ship it to his sister (he's in Europe). Obviously I'm not going to ship it to anyone other than his brother-in-law (since anything else violates PayPal's Seller TOS) but should I even do that? Is this some sort of crazy elaborate scam to get a CD single? His Discogs rating is fine... but the whole thing seems pretty suspicious.

Obviously I will not accept the payment if I don't ship him anything btw.

I would just make sure to do delivery confirmation/insurance so he can't say it never arrived and file a claim with Paypal. That's the only scam I could think of if he already paid. Unless he somehow got hold of someone else's Paypal account but that seems far fetched.

Does seem a little suspicious to have done enough business on discogs to have a rating and yet you don't have your own Paypal acct?

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hmm discogs is really a good database and have often thought it would be nice to be able to look up different editions of books/comics/movies instead of just doing ebay-searches but not sure if this seems like a greedy move or an enthusiast move, also not sure if such databases/market places already exist

also, any thoughts on whether the new tax policy will be very harmful to the 2nd hand market place? (apparently Discogs will add 25% tax or something for all orders going from US to EU)

Whoa- what? Really?

It's VAT that's now payable on *fees* paid by sellers at their local rate if they are in the EU. Fees are 8% of sales prices.

So it only applies to sellers in the EU and it's nothing to do with where orders are going. I think it works out to no more than around 1.8% on the price of a record in practice. Presumably VAT registered businesses would be able to claim it back as well so no need to pass it on to customers.

I'll give Discogs credit for hooking me up with a good guy from Norway who had a Neil Young tribute LP I'd been trying to get for eight years (Everybody Knows This Is Norway. It's worth more than I was prepared to pay, so he ripped the CD, put it up on Soulseek, and I got it from him that way.

The other thing I've listed on my want-list is a Velvet Underground tribute that came out in the late '80s. I get an e-mail every few weeks saying one's up for sale, but it's always around 20 pounds, which after conversion and shipping is just way out of my buying range.

It seems to be a good place to buy from. I've only had one negative experience I can think of where a cd arrived shattered because it was sent with neither jewel case or adequate padding.
May have been others but that is the only one came to mind. Think I got a refund but not the cd I wanted.
Discogs is also a reasonably ok resource though it does have gaps. I use it frequently when EACing cds I've bought when they're not in the EAC database. Tends to have tracklisting down for main release version at least.
Gap can be in what releases are listed though.
Would be useful to have reviews of lps and individual release versions too. I think there are some reviews on site but sporadic. There is rateyourmusic I guess. But would be useful.

I actually appreciate discogs more because of the lack of reviews. Everyone on Rateyourmusic considers themselves geniuses but they're really just a slightly better class of youtube commenter.

I had someone buy from me in Argentina but wanted me to ship to his sister in Chile as you are 'not allowed' more than two foreign packages a year or some such.

So I did, and it all went fine.

JUst thinking that it would make it a full resource if people said what they thought of the lp since it could help one work out which lps by an artist were worth getting. also which pressings/releases of which lp.
BUt I guess that most people going to discogs are doing so to buy material they're already aware of. Particularly marketplace.
Just thought if it was done right it could help the experience. But not sure how 'doing it right' would be achieved anyway since I can see what johnny's saying about rateyourmusic being true at least to some extent. Ego/opinion outweighing info etc

Do wonder where you get information on the best sounding versions of things from since it doesn't seem to be fully utilised on RYM and Amazon just mixes all reviews for all releases under a title together.

Of course anyone can post reviews on there and the entire database is user populated. The process of submitting release data excludes editorialising though, which is as it should or it would never get done and.disagreements would be endless.

I like that the site still feels a bit down-home and ungentrified. Not unlike this place really. My impression is that the staff are still enthusiasts for the most part.

discogs are reviews are great, it's either:
a) old school clubbers reminiscing and being crazy hyperbolic about old school house/rave
b) a bunch of people posting "repress please?" or "you gougers should be ashamed or yourself" (hip euro "underground" deep house 12"s on small labels)
c) some person posting "the label on my copy is more periwinkle than violet and 'chuggin gasoline' is about 6 seconds longer than on the original uk chiswick issue"

haha that is so spot on. absolutely love the reviews that fall into the first category, they always make me smile. also love visiting profiles and seeing something like "I have been spinning UK Garage records for more than two decades now and have thousands of records in my collection! UK GARAGE FOR LIFE!!!!!!"

It's like some completely different side of the internet where the majority of people seem incredibly passionate and cynicism doesn't exist.

I have the 2014 issue, does it need a new entry ?
or, can someone pleas do an entry for the 2014 issue so's I can add it to my collection.

Really got into buying cheap records off discogs the last few months, but now a seller seems really flakey, took ages to send records and stopped replying to messages and then was all like "I sent your records two days ago according to my records" but they've not arrived and now I'm like ugh ugh ugh.

I posted in the vinyl/scams thread a month ago about a dispute with a seller on Discogs who sent me the wrong record and then has refused to deal with me (e.g. he said "I have someone who handles discogs for me - email them" but then won't give me that person's email address).

I've opened up a PayPal dispute but they give the seller ages to respond and it hasn't happened yet.

So I just had a (maybe stupid) question about Discogs feedback: If I give him Poor feedback, can't he also just respond with Poor feedback for me? I have a perfect record and don't want to tarnish it because he's been a dick, you know? Thanks for any guidance....

Wouldn't he have to buy something from you to give you bad feedback?

I once had someone send me a copy of the second Neu! album instead of the first but it's dead good so I wasn't too bothered

No, you can give feedback as a seller as well as a buyer.

The record I got instead of the one I wanted was NOWHERE NEAR as good as Neu!s second LP, I can assure you

Hi gang - I have a question. I've recently spent over four weeks painstakingly entering my entire CD collection (with vinyl and cassettes planned for later) and was planning to print out this master list for safe keeping (in case, you know, Discogs doesn't exist at some point or something). Then I noticed the "export" feature. Is this what I think it is? A way to save all this data to a hard drive, or Word doc or something? Why must I "request" a data export? Once it's exported, it's copied, (not transferred), right? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Because of the amount of data, your export request will be queued and processed in the order it was received. We will email you when it is ready for download.

you could just copy and paste the list into an excel document or text file though, right?

It pops it out in Excel and it takes just a few seconds.

And yes it's just a copy.

Thanks!

xp not sure how copy and pasting would work. I may try that if I run into any problems doing what Alex suggested.

well yeah i can copy and paste 25 entries at a time but any more than that and it crashes excel.

hey but if you paste it into notepad and then copy and paste into excel it works.

Successfully did this and downloaded a zip in CSV format. Not ideal: I was hoping it would default to my alphabetical list (it seems to be going by catalog numbers, despite the fact that my Collection is currently organized alphabetically), and it's awfully difficult to read this way. Still, OCD nit-picking aside, this a far better solution than printing all 4,000 titles on what would be at least a full ream of paper. Thanks again!

https://www.imf.org/external/help/csv.htm

Helpful - thanks! Looks like the bottom of that page will solve my problem.

BTW, does anyone else do this? Print out their Discogs stuff (inventory, Collection, otherwise), I mean? My wife thinks I'm crazy. "Discogs isn't going anywhere," etc etc.

Well it can be good to have for insurance purposes, I guess.

Plastic Crimewave bought a record from me once

more cool people in the store then online. i sold stuff for years on ebay and nobody well-known bought stuff. same with discogs mostly. other than henry rollins. but i think he buys from everyone eventually.

but in the store all kinds of cool cats. thurston obviously cuz he lived around here. marc ribot. terry adams. ian svenonious, the sassiest boy in america. penn gillette. mark robinson of unrest. michael hurley. most recently the beatnuts. even that guy from the mountain goats bought some records once. oh probably lots of people i'm forgetting.

i don't think dude from the pixies has come in? he lives near here. but its possible i just might not recognize him anymore. and lloyd cole lives nearby but i haven't seen him.

i do kinda live off the beaten path. Greenfield isn't exactly a tourist destination. it is nearby tourist destinations. like, you know, vermont.

sold some obscure electro to Aphex once on ebay, also some libraries to DJ QBert. this was like 20 years ago tho, hardly ever see libraries about these days.

J@mes Duval (known for a lot of Gregg Araki films and Independence Day) bought a Jazz Butcher CD from me on ebay. i thought it probably wasn't *that* particular JD, but actually --

https://www.facebook.com/jazz.butcher.official/posts/673220864363138/

iirc the communication w/him, that dude was EXTREMELY excited to get that CD

i've mentioned this before i think but one of my favorite customers for years was this guy who always wanted the weirdest records i had and he was always a treat to talk to. he knew about all kinds of cool stuff. i saw him at a friend's party one summer and then i went out front and i saw a car with a license plate that said ELFQST and i was like holy shit that is the coolest license and it turned out it was his and that he was one half of the duo that made my favorite sexy elf comic when i was a kid! i couldn't believe it. in the early 80s i actually had my dad take me all the way to a store in New Haven for an Elfquest signing. small world. i wasn't a real fantasy comic reader but i always loved her art and his writing and the elf cleavage. and they were totally DIY too until someone like Marvel licensed their stuff.

RICHARD PINI!!!

sold some obscure electro to Aphex once on ebay

how would you know though?

i sold some Tragically Hip cassettes to a Vincent Gallo.

Not on discogs but years ago I was cleaning house on some *R@RE 00P* japanese stuff that was collecting dust and the buyer asked where I lived and we started chatting and it turns out he lived around the corner from me so I ended up just dropping the records off at his house and after some chit-chat he casually mentions he is (or rather was, as this was a v. long time ago) the guitar tech for Sonic Youth and also Nils Cline/Wilco so he's always traveling around and seldom home. That was the only time I saw him and I lived in that neighborhood for a longggg time lol. Nevertheless he has some deep cut EYE 12"s, thanks m'bro!

lollin' @ "elf cleavage"

xp I think I may have met that guy! once in Portland OR when Metal Mountains was recording, he was the engineer.

(ian to thread)

Famous Discogs buyers I have had (more famous if you’re in the UK): Danny Baker, Ben Watt, Alexis Petridis, Ian Levine, Luke Unabomber, Boz Boorer, guy from The Allergies (buying his own record!), Psychemagik guy, err can’t think of any more.

knew you'd have some good 'uns mike!

A buddy of mine sold a cd to Michael Ontkean (Twin Peaks, Sheriff Truman) in Hawaii, via Ebay.

I sold a CD player cleaner to Gerard Butler when I worked at HMV Grafton Street.

I like to think that I’m the famous Discogs buyer people talk about. They’re cracking up. Holy shit you’ll never guess who just bought the worst 2 dollar hinrg record from me.

Brick and mortar wise I probably rang up Mike from Pearl Jam at some point but I have no idea what he looks like

i bought four records online! i got them in the mail! i'm gonna play them!

they are new. i can't remember the last time i bought a used record online. years ago. long before the pandemic. i only buy new. from labels. metal labels usually.
i do buy new stuff for the store sometimes and that kinda feels like record shopping. but every once in a while i just have to get a couple of things for myself.
these came speedy!

What'd you get? I just got a bunch of Niney the Observer stuff from Cherry Red.

I was today years old when I learned that he's called Niney because he lost a thumb.

I fix forward leaning stacks when i’m in a store. What kind of monster leaves it like that?!?

― Cow_Art, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 9:45 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

lots of people!

― scott seward, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 9:59 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is like asking how you place a book back in a bookstore, etc.

people still place their coffee cups on the records while they look. right next to them. we make quick work of that. last week i just grabbed a cup and put it by the front door. we also have a no food/drink sign on our front door for that reason. but people don't read it. whole families with ice cream cones from the ice cream place down the street just looking at records with one hand and eating with their other hand. savages. i tell them to come back when they are done licking.

haha after working in a music store for seven years, I still straighten CD and vinyl racks as I browse

it just seems like basic common decency to leave things how you left them, even if you've never worked in a record store

the food and coffee shit is just unforgivable though

I worked at a library for four years, and we had signs asking people to please NOT reshelve their books. Leave them on the tables, leave them laying on the shelves.

If they put a book back in the wrong place it could take a very long time to find it again. We would also have shelf-reading time where we just read the numbers on the spine to make sure they were in proper order.

people who walk in with their beverages and treat stores like some cross between a museum and petting zoo

"What'd you get? I just got a bunch of Niney the Observer stuff from Cherry Red."

I was just listening to some Niney single comps on CD last week.

I bought noisy stuff. Full Of Hell. Scalp. I really like Full Of Hell. I bought the latest Gatecreeper album. It's great, but it almost feels like listening to Foo Fighters compared to the crap I've been listening to the last few weeks. That hardcore thread i started on ILM tells the tale. Just in...the mood, I guess? For abrasiveness. It's good to work to.

Bought from here: https://closedcasketactivities.com/

i had to stop myself. there was so much i wanted. but $25 bucks apiece adds up quick. i wanted the Full Of Hell/Nothing collab album and the Full Of Hell/Primitive Man collab too. but Youtube will have to suffice.

oh and i got a Vermin Womb LP too...

people still place their coffee cups on the records while they look. right next to them. we make quick work of that. last week i just grabbed a cup and put it by the front door. we also have a no food/drink sign on our front door for that reason. but people don't read it. whole families with ice cream cones from the ice cream place down the street just looking at records with one hand and eating with their other hand. savages. i tell them to come back when they are done licking.

― scott seward, Thursday, May 23, 2024 4:43 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i grabbed a coffee from catalpa once and brought it into the nearby record store - can't remember the name.

Catalpa has millennial coffee i don't want millennial coffee on my rekkerds! that acidic stuff. it will burn right thru them. the IPA of coffee.

From memory, as far as I have noticed the most famous people who have bought from me on Discogs in the past are fairly underground DJs like Move D, Jane Fitz and Damo B.

the Vermin Womb album sounds amazing by the way. could not have been an easy album to mix and master. so dense. but they did a really good job.