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?
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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
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.
― misterjoshua, Sunday, 19 April 2015 03:48 (eight years ago) link
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.
― brimstead, Sunday, 19 April 2015 05:49 (eight years ago) link
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.
― NotKnowPotato (stevie), Thursday, 21 May 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
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....
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 10:28 (eight years ago) link
Wouldn't he have to buy something from you to give you bad feedback?
― paolo, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
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
― paolo, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
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
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
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!
― Wimmels, Monday, 31 August 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
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?
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
It pops it out in Excel and it takes just a few seconds.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 31 August 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Wimmels, Monday, 31 August 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
well yeah i can copy and paste 25 entries at a time but any more than that and it crashes excel.
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
hey but if you paste it into notepad and then copy and paste into excel it works.
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
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!
― Wimmels, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
https://www.imf.org/external/help/csv.htm
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Wimmels, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
Well it can be good to have for insurance purposes, I guess.
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
Marketplace 1 For Sale from £35.25
Have: 17 Want: 7Avg Rating: 3.75 / 5Ratings: 4Last Sold: 06 Jul 15Lowest: £3.60Median: £3.99Highest: £4.32
seeing so much of this!
― saer, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:32 (eight years ago) link
but someone will pay it, and in a few months time it will say
Marketplace 1 For Sale from £95.25
Highest: £35.25
― saer, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:34 (eight years ago) link
Free money!
― niels, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
Here's the record in question...actually feeling this one might not sell (ive never heard it...and the video on the page...is some kind of error)
http://www.discogs.com/Various-003/release/197168?ev=item-vc
― saer, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
found some clips at juno...wont be adding that to my wishlist
― saer, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:59 (eight years ago) link
Ordering a record from abroad plus a bunch of cheap makeweight stuff to lower the postage cost per record and act as stiffeners, then getting an email to say they don't actually have a copy of the one thing you really wanted anymore, but don't worry, all the other garbage has already been packed up and despatched to you
― djp HOOS clouds (NickB), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
how much are the cheap makeweight ones and were they completely unhearable before you bought them?
― saer, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
Only four or five things for a couple of quid each, stuff I know and like well enough, but hardly records I would have elected to have sent to me transcontinentally in their own right. Can't even remember what they are tbh
― djp HOOS clouds (NickB), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
Just an everyday tale of dumb luck really
― djp HOOS clouds (NickB), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
In that case I always complain and make sure I get at least a very substantial refund.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
I often add cheap records if ive no idea what they are and cant hear them otherwise
― saer, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
the exchange rate for US dollars is as favorable as it has been for years, but man those int'l shipping fees add up.
― skip, Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
another way to look at it - I've been spoiled rotten by Amazon Prime.
― skip, Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
Marketplace 1 For Sale from £723.44
Order Date Condition Sleeve Condition Price in your currency Price2014-03-30 Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good Plus (VG+) £6.642013-09-04 Near Mint (NM or M-) Not Graded £499.642011-03-26 Near Mint (NM or M-) Generic £265.792010-07-04 Very Good Plus (VG+) Not Graded £199.992007-01-24 Mint (M) Generic £5.712006-05-23 Mint (M) £34.98
wow
― saer, Saturday, 7 November 2015 10:07 (eight years ago) link
Boots mixed in with genuine articles? Not supposed to happen of course.
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 7 November 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
or with cover/without cover maybe as per the "generic" tag
― sleeve, Saturday, 7 November 2015 17:04 (eight years 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