discogs marketplace?

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.

FFS

protip: if there's any doubt, it's fucking VG

seriously these people grade records like they're judging the NBA dunk contest

good news is you can generally Elmer's glue something like that back together, not sure if it's gonna hold but I guess we'll find out. and the record itself sounds pretty good, hard to ask for more from a $15 VdGG album

double sided tape is good to fix split sleeve ime

Oh, yes I've used gentle kid's paper / craft glue very sparingly and left to dry with some pressure applied for a few hours to put sleeves back together successfully.

gluestick imo

The number of times I've bought stuff graded as "P" or "G", things that would otherwise be fortunes, and found.. Yeah bit crackly but alright actually.

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

how do you even know this? does he fill his shipments with Trump stickers or something?

from folks who knew him on the Waxidermy board

^ slightly before my time lol

actually i disagree about that van der graf record. i think with the european-style sleeves it's really common for the glue to give out even when the rest of the jacket is in really nice shape -- no ring wear, no tears, etc. doesn't mean it needs a demotion. if somebody had repaired that sleeve before shipping you probably wouldn't have noticed -- but now you have the privilege of choosing your own glue brand (i would use elmer's school glue fwiw) and taking care to do a nice neat job, which is p cool imo

well, what i mean to say is that when a european-style sleeve like that, with the interior folds that are glued together -- when those come apart i don't think it's AUTOMATICALLY a demotion. looking at the photo, frogbs, i'm not actually sure i'd say that is VG+ (need more light imo). but as a seller i would've mentioned both the stains and the undone seams, because i'm courteous and like to use the "Description" box as much as possible to avoid misunderstandings.

true, it doesn't have ring wear or any big rips, but one of the corners (which you can't see on the picture) is pretty crinkled, there's writing on the back, the spine is basically unreadable...even if it wasn't split in half I wouldn't say it's "VG+"

looking at the order, it does kinda mention it:

beautiful copy!! Actual greade closer to EX. Mercury inner sleeve. Initials/name written on labels and jacket in pen. Jacket glue failing/separating, but easily fixable - no splits or cutouts - on sale!

I took that to mean it was starting to come apart, not that it was split all the way lol

either way I used some Elmer's glue and that seemed to work. I don't feel swindled or anything, it was a $15 copy of Still Life and it plays well so it's kind of a bargain. still pretty clear that it was "on sale" because the jacket was so rough

Kinda unreal that something with writing on labels & jacket could be considered a “beautiful copy”

Got a positive review this week, "records look great!" when one of them had this cosmetic scuffing all over one side, and since it didn't affect the sound i said NM...... i graded that a long time ago and wouldn't have been so generous now. Lucky he was happy with it.

I’d really like Discogs to adopt an EX rating between VG+ and NM, although grade inflation & abuse in the existing system would probably only compound. If spindle-marks alone are enough to downgrade a record from NM, yet VG allows scratches “that can be felt with a fingernail,” then VG+ is just too broad a grade.

would help the dilettantes like me for sure

How's shipping vinyl from the UK to US going these days? There's a 7" I want (Nots - "Reactor (Mikey Young Remix)") that only seems to be available from UK sellers and it's already more expensive than is justifiable, I'd hate to have it show up warped or broken.

Neither of the UK sellers of that 12” are offering you surface mail as an option, even though it’s much cheaper; I’d be charging you £8.45, whereas these sellers are charging you more than double that.

If you’re OK with the slower service (it goes by ship, not by plane, and typically takes 4 to 8 weeks), you could message the sellers and ask them to quote a rate for it (it’s also known here as International Economy).

Most UK sellers don’t offer this rate, because it can’t be processed seamlessly through PayPal in the usual way; we have to use Royal Mail Click and Drop instead. But since I made it my default for overseas sales, my US trade has been brisk.

Hmm, will have to look into that.

I don't offer it for EU sales, as the cost saving is minimal, but it's the default for everywhere else. It's the same rate for all countries; there's no extra premium for the US, unlike the other rates. It's important to set expectations as to the slow delivery and lack of tracking, though - I've added warning text to my seller terms, and I paste some standard wording to buyers when setting the order to Shipped. If you don't do that, you'll have a steady stream of "where it it?" messages.