discogs marketplace?

but someone will pay it, and in a few months time it will say

Marketplace 1 For Sale from £95.25

Highest: £35.25

Free money!

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

found some clips at juno...wont be adding that to my wishlist

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

how much are the cheap makeweight ones and were they completely unhearable before you bought them?

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

Just an everyday tale of dumb luck really

In that case I always complain and make sure I get at least a very substantial refund.

I often add cheap records if ive no idea what they are and cant hear them otherwise

the exchange rate for US dollars is as favorable as it has been for years, but man those int'l shipping fees add up.

another way to look at it - I've been spoiled rotten by Amazon Prime.

Marketplace 1 For Sale from £723.44

Order Date Condition Sleeve Condition Price in your currency Price
2014-03-30 Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good Plus (VG+) £6.64
2013-09-04 Near Mint (NM or M-) Not Graded £499.64
2011-03-26 Near Mint (NM or M-) Generic £265.79
2010-07-04 Very Good Plus (VG+) Not Graded £199.99
2007-01-24 Mint (M) Generic £5.71
2006-05-23 Mint (M) £34.98

wow

Boots mixed in with genuine articles? Not supposed to happen of course.

or with cover/without cover maybe as per the "generic" tag

Bear in mind, sometimes the lowest price is because it sold for £10 when first issued, and now it sold out and prices have shot up.

what item is that?

http://www.discogs.com/Jeremy-Semi-Structured-Life/release/566640

okaaayy

http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/255027859

I saw some some expensive autographed LPs on the wall at Amoeba the other day and I don't understand the idea of selling something that's "autographed" without a certificate of authenticity.

a piece of vinyl and some instructions

http://www.discogs.com/Honeymoon-Production-Manipulation-Muzak/release/1102919

I love all of those RRR anti-records conceptually, but I don't actually own any.... I do have multiple copies of the lock groove releases.

I own this record. Didn't realize it was going for so much.

semi related... has anyone bought collections or groupings of records before? If so how did you find them? I would love, say, to get a bunch of BOMP records, or a disco collection, or whatever, but most things you can find online seem to be a bunch of crap, horribly maintained, or both.

A DJ in Seattle sold/consigned his collection to Silver Platters. There were so many they had their own section of the store. It was a gold mine for weeks. You can see who has the most records in your wantlist in Discogs. Can be useful and frustrating. There's a shop in Denmark that has 18 records I want and I only have 50 on my want list.

MYT profile:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/media/discogs-turns-record-collectors-obsessions-into-big-business.html?ref=topics&_r=1

NYT, sorry

dying @ photo

haha yes

kinda funny typo halfway through

The site, once run from a computer in Mr. Lewandowski’s closet and originally restricted to electronic music, has grown rapidly. It now has 37 employees around the world, 20 million online visitors a month and three million registered users. It eventually opened to all genres of music and has a mission of cataloging every record in existence.

oh wait, i thought that said 37 MILLION employees. kinda not funny misreading there by me

I dunno. I think it's funnier.

otm

discogs.com, 2020's skynet

since i'm on a fucking ROLL in this thread i'll share the only other recent discogs anecdote that i have.

i don't have any of my records up for sale, but i do have them cataloged so that if my apartment ever burns down i can hopefully point the insurance company to the value estimates on my discogs page and then take the cool hard cash and move to a secret cave abutting countryside acres.

anyway, the other day i was surprised to receive a discogs message asking if i would be selling one of my records. it was for little wings' Wonderue, a record i would totally be willing to sell. i didn't realize it was kind of rare and fetches a decent price. unfortunately it's the ONE record i purchased new that i didn't take care of properly. in lol undergrad i was attempting to make some really, REALLY good art and used the Wonderue cover as a makeshift lap/table underneath a paper that i covered with black sharpie markings. when i finished my masterpiece i realized the sharpie bled through all over poor ol' wonderue. i had to tell the inquiring discogs buyer that i couldn't sell it to him due to lol college. no response from him for some reason!!

questions from would-be buyers are what made me change my collection to private viewing

I've made hundreds selling records I never played and had no idea were valuable by having people ask me to sell on Discogs.

I get ppl asking me if I want to buy a record on my want list that they're selling, but honestly they're so merry and polite I don't mind.

man I wish people would ask me about stuff on my want list!

xp have you never sorted yr collection by median value? very educational.

xp great story Karl, thx for sharing

http://www.oregonlive.com/music/index.ssf/2016/02/10_most_expensive_discogs_records.html#12

wow $6K for a Judge record, who knew?

http://revelationrecords.com/pressing/where/

They did!

Wow, there are two of these in my immediate area. If I ever need to hear some garbage ass NYHC I'll have to make some calls.

discogs app is near!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=33622

As someone who works in a record store? Great. I'll have every asshole on earth looking everything up and trying to lowball me for every piece of rare vinyl so he can flip it on Discogs.

Unlike every record store owner who checks Discogs to try to fleece their regulars by pricing at or near highest sold price. It's a two way street.

nah man, every store I've ever been in prices via the median sale value

I feel sorry for yr local stores if they are pricing on the high end there.

Yeah, that's generally true where i'm shopping too, I just thought i'd make a broad, unfair generalization too. FYI. If i'm in your shop, I will be looking at Discogs. Every time. I check to see if I have the record already, I check to see if you have priced it fairly. I check to see if there's a different pressing of the album i'd rather have. I also will preview everything on either Spotify or YouTube, saving you the hassle of arranging a listening station for me. Sometimes I do find a record that is more valuable than you've priced it. A few times i've flipped the record. It's generally not worth the effort though. If, as a record store owner, you found a record at Goodwill that was grossly underpriced, what would you do? Usually, if I don't want it for my personal collection, i'll tell you it's worth more than it's priced.

People who are using Discogs in your store aren't always trying to rip you off.

i love discogs so damn bad

mwah