is this usually OK to use? looks to have a much better selection than ebay, or does anyone know of any good alternatives?
(sorry if this has been asked before, couldn't find anything when I searched?)
― vain_bowers, Monday, 29 December 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
discogs imho is in the same league as Gemm and Musicstack--generally a slightly more esoteric selection, but the pitfalls and price-gouging remain the same. (i.e. it's a number of individual sellers and so it's dicey no matter what. I guess that's why there's a feedback system? I've never used discogs.)
― ian, Monday, 29 December 2008 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i assume you're looking for vinyl? discogs is usually fine, but i wouldn't buy anything labeled below nm-, unless you've scanned the seller's profile and s/he seems like a saint
― unclejam79, Monday, 29 December 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah just vinyl and CDs that you can no longer get elsewhere really, thanks for the warning!
― vain_bowers, Monday, 29 December 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i started using it a few months ago and have found it to be pretty great in general though i would agree about not buying below mint. out of about 30 purchases i've only had to deal with one person who ripped me off. i now look on discogs before ebay if looking for a record.
― stirmonster, Monday, 29 December 2008 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I was able to score a highly OOP release from overseas, and as long as you have PayPal, you're quick, and you're picky about feedback ratings, you should be fine. (same goes with Gemm and the like.)
― soyrizo headache (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 29 December 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
via discogs that is. Granted, I've only bought one thing from Discogs marketplace, but it was a simple and quick transaction, especially for overseas.
+1 to discogs: they don't have Gemm's crappy UI (Gemm usually contains these impossibly long forms with checkboxes and radio selection buttons all obfuscated while you're trying to buy or sell through them.)
― soyrizo headache (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 29 December 2008 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i buy and sell on discogs. have only had 1 bad experience with a guy who tried to charge me 10 dollars to ship a cd single from Canada.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 29 December 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i've shopped quite a bit on Discogs, 30+ purchases or so, and I have been satisfied in all but one. And in that instance I filed a claim through PayPal and got my money back. As long as you use PayPal you should be fine and protected, prices are high though and I don't buy anything under NM-, like everyone else here has said.
― san frandisco, Monday, 29 December 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I've used it once so far without problem. There are some rare and/or hard to get things on there, but the prices seem a little over the odds a lot of the time.
― krakow, Monday, 29 December 2008 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
lol last post on thread: http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?seller=musicberlin
Um, someone want to try and explain this to me? Also WRT his feedback rating/comments?
― you used to sleep with somebody who avoided a soap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha. so weird. just 5 seconds ago i sent my friend a link to a record that is also $1540.00. 2 days ago it was $15. something's wacky.
― jaxon, Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit, so weird. it's actually the same seller. wtf
discogs allows you to bulk upload items to your marketplace account for sale via a .csv file. I guess with an inventory of 25000 items this is what that seller does and that their prices got out of whack somehow in the process.
― krakow, Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
should that weigh less than a non white label?
― jaxon, Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
xp OK that probably explains that
titchy are you saying that's over the odds? It's not if you consider postage plus if you have to buy a mailer!
― you used to sleep with somebody who avoided a soap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i suppose. but white labels are still cheaper than normal lps.
i do like discogs though, the offers system is good too. some of the prices people put on their records though is ridiculous (and i do wonder if they do end up getting the prices they ask for).
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― 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.
― krakow, Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
well i mean the indvidual seller obv, yeah.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 25 January 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Monday, 25 January 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 25 January 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Good advice. Thanks. Tbh I'm more interested in offloading most of it than making big £££.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 25 January 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― jaxon, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
If you hover over them it tells you.
― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
ah! thank you. i've been searching for hours
― jaxon, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
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
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks!
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
it feels good to sell rare-ish things on ebay for +£££s to people who don't know about discogs ;)
― jed_, Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
Coincidentally they just linked to this via their Facebook page:
http://www.discogs.com/blog/339369-top-30-most-expensive-items-sold-by-month
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
Obviously I will not accept the payment if I don't ship him anything btw.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― dmr, Monday, 7 January 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
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― sleeve, Friday, 17 April 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
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)
― niels, Friday, 17 April 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
Whoa- what? Really?
― Evan, Friday, 17 April 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 17 April 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 17 April 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 April 2015 01:29 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 18 April 2015 07:00 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 18 April 2015 07:04 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Saturday, 18 April 2015 10:13 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 18 April 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 18 April 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link
discogs are reviews are great, it's either:a) old school clubbers reminiscing and being crazy hyperbolic about old school house/raveb) 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"
― brimstead, Sunday, 19 April 2015 03:39 (eight years ago) link
and yes of course i own that 12XLP house box. no home should be without it.
― scott seward, Thursday, 29 February 2024 14:39 (four weeks ago) link
you should have it next to the fire extinguisher and the candles and the cases of bottled water.
Well, the subhed — "Discover house music with these essential albums" — puts you on the wrong foot right from the beginning. I mean, this is not an album genre, right? It should be an entire list of multi-artist compilations, seems to me.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 29 February 2024 15:13 (four weeks ago) link
all of their “content” is awful advertorial crap
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 February 2024 15:22 (four weeks ago) link
yes
― budo jeru, Thursday, 29 February 2024 15:28 (four weeks ago) link
Asked a seller this question: I'm located in Canada. Looking at buying multiple 7"s, but after I add two to my cart, the 3rd is an extra $4 shipping - wondering if there's a way around this? Most US sellers, I seem to be able to buy 8-10 before the shipping cost jumps.Thanks for looking into it! And received this response:I’m on the verge of turning off all international shipping, and messages like this push me closer to doing so. The price shown is my shipping and handling price. Like, a simple factual answer would have been sufficient, no need to be a dick about it. As a seller myself, I don’t have the shipping 100% dialed in and I’m glad to quote someone if I can give them a bit of a break & they don’t just sound like an entitled lowballer. I just mailed a record to chile that I might barely have broken even on, because it was obvious the buyer was just a fan, not rolling in dough, and in a place where a lot of records are obviously hard to come by. Too bad Discogs Enhancer only works on desktop… would love a decent mobile app for this site; “block seller” is a godsend but I only use desktop for Discogs about 1/3 of the time or less. Thanks for letting me rant. Back to positive vibes only mode.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 06:21 (three weeks ago) link
TBH, the cantankerousness of some sellers is part of the charm of record collecting. When I see a bunch of yelp reviews for a shop that say things like "the owner didn't even say hi when i walked through the door", that makes me want to check it out.
(that said, your request is completely reasonable - it seems pretty unlikely that the extra 40 grams for a third 7" pushes that shipment into a higher postage bracket. that extra $4 is definitely "handling" not "shipping")
― enochroot, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 13:02 (three weeks ago) link
Your post puts me in mind of the record shop I heard about recently (on Reddit?) where the owner won’t allow browsing — you stand at the door and tell him what you want and he goes & finds it. If you complain he goes full soup Nazi. And he responds to every google review and neveruseshisspacebar. Everyone who doesn’t knowwhattheywantiswastinghistime.Somehow I love that this store exists, even as I never ever want to visit. ***“Handling”, sure — 90% of the PITA of shipping is taping up the package & printing the label & of course going to drop the packages. Once you’re on the path of sending a parcel to someone, adding another item to the package is like a freebie. “Gouging” is more like it, but hey, it’s his shop, he can do as he pleases. Plenty of reasonable humans to do business with in this world.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 13:52 (three weeks ago) link
(Any ire detectable in the above post is, of course, not directed at you, enochroot)
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 13:54 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah there's a record store in Edinburgh where you can't browse and can only ask for what you want.He's gotten a little more mellow recently but he's still a pretty irascible dude.I do know someone who has managed to get inside the store and it's floor to ceiling plastic crates across multiple rooms. It's not designed to be browsable at all
― treefell, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 15:27 (three weeks ago) link
that’s kinda cool, do they list their full inventory online or do you just have to wing it? a local store here does nightly “drops” on instagram where most of their hot records get sold, it’s fun tho!
― brimstead, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 16:50 (three weeks ago) link
wtf
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 16:52 (three weeks ago) link
xpostI think he only lists on ebay because he gets most money that way. He has an email address so you can check on stock before you travel
― treefell, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 17:02 (three weeks ago) link
val shively is famously like that. won't let you in without a list.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 18:08 (three weeks ago) link
Val’s place is a ten minute drive from my house. I have never been because I wouldn’t even know where to start.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 11:59 (three weeks ago) link
whoa I would kind of love to just hand a shop person my list, that is cool as hell. And it’s so old fashioned too <3
― brimstead, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:26 (three weeks ago) link
do these weirdos not know that they may get more sales from letting people browse?
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:40 (three weeks ago) link
the best thing about record shopping for me is finding amazing stuff that i've never even heard of before. kinda hard to put that on a list tbh
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 23:04 (three weeks ago) link
I’m with you, Nick. For me the heart and soul of the hobby is crate digging. But to each a zone, I guesp.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 7 March 2024 01:57 (three weeks ago) link
… ok but…why not both.. most “crate digging” stuff I’ve found since like 2008 isn’t any good
― brimstead, Thursday, 7 March 2024 05:24 (three weeks ago) link
hardcore dil otm
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 March 2024 16:53 (three weeks ago) link
there was SO much good stuff at the record show last Sunday. yeesh. and prices were good! i really did feel like peak vinyl had passed and people were getting real again. like they just wanted to sell stuff. i was buying stuff from a guy and he was basically giving me half off everything i wanted. it was great.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 March 2024 17:33 (three weeks ago) link
love to hear that
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 March 2024 17:34 (three weeks ago) link
i sold a ton of CDs. i brought really good CDs. i probably sold a hundred CDs.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 March 2024 17:36 (three weeks ago) link
there was a guy who had multiple tables who had bought a distro and was selling new records for $15 a pop. i got sealed Bitches Brew reissues. Blue Note stuff. that massive beyonce on a horse thing with the book inside. people swarmed him. every dealer. i have no idea how much money he made. but what i loved was that he was just blowing it out like the old days! not trying to get every last cent out of it. i bought maria three sweet dorothy ashby reissues.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 March 2024 17:41 (three weeks ago) link
Peak vinyl has absolutely passed. The used market is normalizing a bit. We’ll probably still see high spots getting higher, and with more mainstream adoption we’ll continue to see Herb Alpert and John Denver at “retail” prices ($10+) but the idea that every hoard of beat-up shite is a goldmine is hopefully on the wane.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 7 March 2024 18:17 (three weeks ago) link
i keep thinking that record shows are my future. not now but someday. i made as much in one day as i make in a week. i could do two a month and not have any store overhead and probably be good. we are celebrating our 15th year in Greenfield and the 20th anniversary seems like it might be a cool time to get out and wind down. cuz old. but we will see.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 March 2024 18:27 (three weeks ago) link
don’t get me wrong, I love “crate digging”, I am straight up obsessed with browsing in record stores, I literally dream about it every night. I tend to want to go through EVERYTHING at a store, shop until I get light headed. Sometimes I wish that stores didn’t organize their stock at all, by far my favorite thing to do is go through the recent arrival bins.Personally, though, i did a cull recently and sold a bunch of stuff I punted on over the years that just didn’t do it for me. The process just kind of lowered my enthusiasm for that kind of thing. Too much stuff just taking up space that I don’t especially love or even like listening to much.And where I live now, any random cool looking thing is not going to be in any bargain bin. I see cool railroad field recordings from the 50s/60s and they’re like 30 bucks. Maybe I just need to get out of the Bay Area. There are a few stores around that are pretty chill. I need to check the Groove Yard out, it’s fucking criminal that I’ve never been there.
― brimstead, Thursday, 7 March 2024 18:43 (three weeks ago) link
super happy to hear recent development re: dying down of vinyl bubble tho!
― brimstead, Thursday, 7 March 2024 18:44 (three weeks ago) link
yeah I'm about ready to do 50% off on all my sell crates, doing a show in May
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 7 March 2024 19:43 (three weeks ago) link
I just checked a Melanie De Biasio record from a few years back, fully expecting to snort derisively at the price - damn if it isn't an entirely reasonable £20 including postage. Could be an anomaly but really hoping it's a sign things have calmed down.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, 7 March 2024 20:53 (three weeks ago) link
Oh man that's weird, I was searching through my archive of unlabelled interviews WAV files for something yesterday and found an interview with Melanie from a decade or so ago - she's great. But that might have been the first time I'd thought of her in years and years.
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:57 (three weeks ago) link
Someone ordered a 7" single from me, spent more than half an hour searching for it before realising it must have sold at a record fair last year, sent an apology and a refund - all within hours of sale, mind! - and the reward I get from her is negative feedback.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 10 March 2024 11:09 (two weeks ago) link
How annoying. If I am looking to buy from a seller with recent negative feedback I’ll always check to see what it was for. I’d be happy to order from someone that’s made the occasional stock check muddle. Not all negative feedbacks are equal.
― mmmm, Sunday, 10 March 2024 11:42 (two weeks ago) link
xp you might be able to get that removed, although I hear it takes a while
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 10 March 2024 13:33 (two weeks ago) link
that's so lame.
― budo jeru, Sunday, 10 March 2024 17:40 (two weeks ago) link
A kid gave me flaming negative feedback over some trivial thing. I worked it out with him & he rescinded. I think a lot of younger folks don’t grok the idea of customer service, or that every online shop isn’t Amazon somehow. I bet you can work it out with her.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 11 March 2024 03:14 (two weeks ago) link
got cold-messaged by someone today that they have a record that’s on my wishlist, offered it to me for cheaper than what it’s currently going for on the marketplace. they otherwise have nothing listed for sale and no buyer/seller rating even tho they’ve had an account since 2014. a scam?
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 04:18 (two weeks ago) link
What a weird scam. But yes, warning do not get scammed
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 04:20 (two weeks ago) link
maybe they're just trying to dodge paying fees? but yeah I probably wouldn't get involved
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 07:01 (two weeks ago) link
That's an old Ebay scam. If you buy outside the system you don't have any recourse (I guess unless they let you use PayPal).
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:44 (two weeks ago) link
not Discogs but related:bought a book at a decent price from a seller on Abe, didn’t do much research into them but they had a good rating. i got sent the wrong book, the sort of thing that isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, totally useless. i messaged them, they said sorry for mixup, they would get the right book to me. then they said getting the right book to me was impossible, but would i like something else from their inventory because a return hurts their rating. i said no. asked my bookseller pal about it— it’s a regular scam. a seller will list a book they don’t have, then attempt to buy it from another seller for cheap and make a tiny bit of profit. the issue is that sometimes these “booksellers” don’t keep up with pricing trends, so (as in my case) the book I ordered was being offered for 10-40 less than from other sellers. so because they couldn’t find a cheap copy to sell me, they sent me some trash, say it’s a mistake, then try to get you to choose something else from their “inventory” to keep their rating. insane and maddening.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 14 March 2024 11:44 (two weeks ago) link
possibly of interest
Adventures in buying and selling used books online: ABE, fvck bezos but Amazon secondhand, other suggestions, tales, advice, warnings and more
― budo jeru, Thursday, 14 March 2024 15:18 (two weeks ago) link
oh, duh, sorry for clogging up this thread, and thanks!!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 15 March 2024 00:07 (one week ago) link
no worries. in fairness, none of us have really kept the thread up to date
― budo jeru, Friday, 15 March 2024 16:13 (one week ago) link
Right after having to battle a seller for sending me a shitty copy of a VG+ album, the next seller accepts my payment, refunds me (including shipping) because he said the record wasn’t in as good shape as he remembered. Good to know there are some good ones out there.
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:31 (one week ago) link
one weird thing - have put my settings so that only people with over 95% positive feedback can order from me. and yet it still allows accounts with no purchasing history (essentially a 0% positive feedback score) to place orders. and hey surprise, surprise... they're a non-paying customer after more than a week
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 19:00 (one week ago) link
guess they'll be getting a 100% negative feedback score sometime in the next couple of days
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 19:01 (one week ago) link
yeah that's a thing. I guess it would put off new people from joining the site if they can't buy anything. so the feedback limit only applies to people that have feedback
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 19:03 (one week ago) link
got cold-messaged by someone today that they have a record that’s on my wishlist, offered it to me for cheaper than what it’s currently going for on the marketplace
yeah that's BS. they can enable 'make an offer' on a listing if they want to do that.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 19:45 (one week ago) link