discogs marketplace?

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

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.

Thankfully this does not seem to be the case at Toronto places I've been looking at lately. For example, scored a NM copy of one of my favorite albums, Pinetop Seven's The Night's Bloom, for $4.49 CAD. Tends to go for around $20 US on Discogs.

god bless reckless records in chicago which routinely prices stuff lower (often significantly lower) than the internet prices in the interest of keeping inventory moving. some of the stores around here price on the high end i guess figuring they might as well get as much out of each sale as possible, but the result is often that stuff just sits on the shelves for ever and ever.

My local store obv knows what stuff is worth but he says as a store you want stock moving in and out constantly, if that means making less than it's theoretically worth its still good business - it's a river not a lake as he says

In the UK I'm not sure if record shops use discogs at all or if they do they just double the price, most record shops are way more expensive than discogs prices. I suppose I usually just view it as a premium charge to be able to look at the record before you buy it. And then I usually just buy it on discogs anyway. I suppose that's why they've mostly all closed down.

That's why whenever I go to the USA, I come back with loads of records, because the prices are just so much cheaper.

I just listed a cassette for sale and a guy ordered it approx two minutes later. can you change your settings to get alerts as soon as something you want comes up or was it just happenstance? presuming it's not related to the app bc that starts tomorrow apparently?

yeah you can set it so that if something from yr wantlist is added for sale then you get an email

god bless reckless records in chicago which routinely prices stuff lower (often significantly lower) than the internet prices in the interest of keeping inventory moving.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, February 26, 2016 7:07 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My local store obv knows what stuff is worth but he says as a store you want stock moving in and out constantly, if that means making less than it's theoretically worth its still good business - it's a river not a lake as he says

― robbie ca$hflo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, February 26, 2016 7:10 PM (2 days ago)

^^^ approach taken by any/every store worth shopping at. like sure, pull a few prizes out and slap 'em up on the wall with a heartbreak sticker for the desperate and overpaid, but price everything else to flippin' move.

suggestion that there aren't any decent vinyl shops in UK is quietly blowing my mind

there are some but its true that its exxxpensive

It seems like it's down.

www.discogs.com

Works for me

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/discogs.com

ah,thanks.

I've never paid that much attention to listings that say "from a non-smoking home" before, but only because I had never - before today - received a record that STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN of thousands of cigarettes; like decades of stale ass - the wax itself reeks. I've actually had to put the record outside to see if that will help. I expect I'll just toss it - just holding the thing for a couple minutes meant my hands and clothes stank. (And I'm not some pathological anti-smoking tut-tutter - this was just INSANE)

Ugh. That's the worst >=I

Damn man. Last ditch resort, if you paid a fair amount for it, you might try getting some activated charcoal from an aquarium store and putting it in a sealed bag with the jacket. Record might need to be physically cleaned if it has tobacco residue on it, though.

I remember a few entire CD collections that we bought in that were caked in years or decades worth of brown cigarette smoke residue - it's horrible. We clean them off with surgical spirit and it's vile.

Yeah, if anything can put you off smoking, looking at those dark yellow jewel cases might be just the thing to do it. So gross

I've never paid that much attention to listings that say "from a non-smoking home" before, but only because I had never - before today - received a record that STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN of thousands of cigarettes; like decades of stale ass - the wax itself reeks. I've actually had to put the record outside to see if that will help. I expect I'll just toss it - just holding the thing for a couple minutes meant my hands and clothes stank. (And I'm not some pathological anti-smoking tut-tutter - this was just INSANE)

― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, April 26, 2016 9:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you sure it wasn't on limited-edition nicotine-infused 180g vinyl?