discogs marketplace?

I’ve been weighing parcels at home and printing own postage if necessary. For vinyl I’ve started sending using Hermes - can buy the postage online the print the label on a machine at the wee shop down the road from me where I drop the parcels off. Been reliable so far. Maybe worth seeing if that’s an option?

yeah i'm not exactly a power seller but even shipping a few record out once or twice a week i find a kitchen scale and $100 brother laser printer to be invaluable.

plus then you can print out recipes and shit too instead of cooking from your phone like an animal

i've been thinking of getting a scale and starting to print my own labels tbh

Holy shit, this is so cost-effective to do that I can't imagine *not* doing it. Please do this and don't wait in the post office.

lol I even have a scale and I'm STILL too lazy to print at home

(I realize that is counter-intuitive and wrong)

I was handed down a scale last last year and I'm really glad to have it now. The post office nearby always has a ridiculous line (which now goes out the door due to social distancing and the ridiculously small amount of space inside) so ever since March, I just drop everything in, postage paid, into the mailbox outside about 10-15 minutes before it gets cleared out. Zero stress.

okay, any suggestions on a brand of scale? ideally something i could use in the kitchen too while i'm at it. last place i worked we had a couple avaweigh 20lb scales that i coveted — far better than the flimsy flat ones that always seem to turn off in the middle of use. but maybe i don't need to spend $50 actually

I just got a lil one at Office Depot for 20-30 bucks I think

Mine’s a Dymo M5

it’s small though, so for lps you have to press the hold button on it cuz otherwise you can’t see the reading lol

friend of mine recommends the dymo sp5 and says he's used it for over a dozen years, with the caveat that it only goes to 5 pounds

Yeah, mine's basically a kitchen scale. I took it thinking I'd use it just for coffee beans (and still do), but it's perfect for small packages.

I’m pretty sure e-40 rapped about weighing drugs on an iPhone before it was actually possible

Mine’s a hand-me-down Jamie Oliver! It’s a nifty little nipper, though; I couldn’t manage without it, especially in post-ASP world where all new items are weighed.

okay, any suggestions on a brand of scale?

I have this and it works fine: https://www.amazon.com/ACCUTECK-W-8250-50bs-Digital-Adapter-Silver/dp/B00SMHWZ42/

lol

Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Played once. DO NOT MAKE IMMEDIATE PAYMENT!!! I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT DISCOGS HAS DONE TO THE SHIPPING POLICIES SINCE I LAST SOLD ON HERE. PLEASE DO NOT PAY UNTIL I HAVE SENT INVOICE!

is it just me or are entire stores consistently removing/reposting their entire inventory on here? I look at "new items for sale on my wantlist" and 75% of it is stuff I've seen before from the exact same sellers. pretty annoying because a lot of these items are at non-serious prices

it's absolutely the worst and basically ruins the function of the wantlist. i wish there were a way to block sellers who relist their inventory every day

yeah I couldn't figure out if this was the sellers or if discogs was doing this automatically somehow. seems like it would be remarkably easy for them to prevent.

I used to get wantlist emails daily when I bought more and the same sellers were always appearing.

Unless you're buying multiple items a week, the wantlist in its current form is basically useless and shit.

It also happens depending on how.stores update their listings.

Other than "blocking sellers" (which they apparently just won't allow, maybe for valid reasons) it's difficult to see a technical solution. It would have to go through some heuristic gymnastics to try and distinguish a relisted item from a genuine new listing. Even if that could be made to work it would likely add a significant processing overhead to each listing.

nothing to add except that it sucks, and I just have to take items out of my wantlist when sellers do that

Their automatic postage calculation sucks. Countless times it has gotten it wrong. And then people didnt want to pay extra. Argh. Was so much better before.

I turned off wantlist emails for that reason. Now I just check my wantlist every once in a while on the app. Probably have missed some serious bargains, but whatchagonnado?

i'm wanting to purchase some regular ass old catalogue titles on cd and i think that discogs might not be my most cost effective option. i know there was a topic posted for sharing places to shop online for these kinds of things but i am having a hard time locating that topic — little help?

and i'm currently boycotting amazon, so please do not recommend that. i'm sure you understand, thx.

i think it's Continuing with CD's

cheers.

juno.co.uk is great, even when shipping to the US. So fast, huge / great selection, really good prices.

you know forced exposure, right. Austin? just got a package from them the other day, they packed their CDs really well, no broken cases etc.

i just got some cds from forced exposure, wrapped in bubble wrap, placed in a box, which was then placed in another larger box surrounded by wadded up newspaper, felt like i was in wages of fear

Other than "blocking sellers" (which they apparently just won't allow, maybe for valid reasons) it's difficult to see a technical solution. It would have to go through some heuristic gymnastics to try and distinguish a relisted item from a genuine new listing. Even if that could be made to work it would likely add a significant processing overhead to each listing.

idk it shouldn't be that difficult to tell if an item that's being added is identical to one that was recently listed

I do wish you could block sellers though, there's one in particular (KUPIKU) who has half of my wantlist at 3-5x the average price and they relist their entire stock every other day

oh yeah they are on the punisher list for sure

also, nobody ever buy anything from Giantleech on Discogs, awful troll and Trump supporter

Ha, just got my daily wantlist email and sure enough Kupiku is all over it

In addition to blocking sellers who list their damn stock every day, often at exorbitant prices, I do wish you could also filter your wishlist by country, especially now that the postal service is fucked and I rarely, if ever, order anything from overseas. I'd say over two-thirds of my wishlist is in foreign currency and I just scroll right past

also, nobody ever buy anything from Giantleech on Discogs, awful troll and Trump supporter

dangit he is one of the least infuriatingly priced VOD scalpers, thx for heads up

Discogs when royal mail cant deliver anything to me = just a big tease

Has anybody written any browser extensions to do this stuff, since Discogs themselves won't do it? The search filter aspects at least should be doable that way.

its frustrating because on individual items you can filter by the country it ships from but if you're going through your list as a whole you can't. as it is about half of my wantlist consists of items where the shipping is more than the album itself.

wait, back up, you can set Discogs to do a digest style email with everything in one? brb, gotta go to the "things you were shockingly old when you learned them" thread

You can filter by currency.

as it is about half of my wantlist consists of items where the shipping is more than the album itself.

mine too

You can filter by currency.

doesn't help - half of the international sellers have their prices in us currency for some reason, which is even more annoying because I'll be like "wow, only $10 for this 12" I've been looking for!" only to discover that it ships from France

Hmm, I wondered if that might be the case. It works quite well for GBP.

Unfortunately the daily email update system is completely broken/crappy and they seem to have no interest in fixing it.

The daily email update is just a reminder, it serves no real purpose except to make it more likely you might miss something. Assuming you can access a browser you can just check the Items I Want page any time you like.

weird that the app doesn't let you do that

Does it not? I uninstalled the app years ago having hardly used it. The mobile site works OK for me.

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this was listed as "Very Good Plus"

https://i.imgur.com/riJPa2j.jpg

I'd hate to see what "Very Good" looks like!

lol oh geez. I got a copy of Aladdin Sane a few weeks ago where the ostensibly VG+ sleeve has a bunch of brown stains and water damaged inserts :-( I really don’t mind ring wear/shelf wear etc but stains etc is a dealbreaker
the disc sounds incredible but if anyone has a spare Aladdin Sane gatefold hmu

not discogs but on ebay the other day i almost pulled the trigger on something billed as VG+, until i happened to scan through the sellers explanation of his grading scale, which also included VG++, NM--(wtf?), NM-, NM, NM+, M-, and M. no other explanation for such inanity other than just straight up trying to scam people.