discogs marketplace?

Discogs is weird. It'll be tumbleweed for a month or two and then I'll suddenly get a flurry of orders all at once. No rhyme or reason.

I've managed to go a month without any orders, and counting.

Apart from one month last year, that's not happened since I started about 10 years ago!

Ha, yeah I get the same. I guess that’s just the nature of random chance, but when it happens it does give me pause for thought.

what is it with these people? can you use Mondial Relay please? apparently this is some French courier. for a £4.50 order. I wish there was a way to cancel orders without possibly leaving you open to negative feedback

I’m getting no Discogs orders at all either, and sales have slowed considerably on the bricks & mortar side. I think the combination of pandemic isolation ending, financial nervousness around inflation & high energy bills, and the general understanding that records are fuckin expensive these days is to blame.

Yeah, my sales have crashed too, and rather sharply at that. I thought this was simply due to stock depletion, but maybe not.

Well, I added a bunch of nice CD things, and made about ten sales this week, so yeah.

I had 2 people message asking for tracking numbers the same week, one was this Italian guy. I haven't heard anything from the one in China since so hopefully that means that one arrived - they were both big orders.

and now I have a message from the one in China saying they didn't get it either. 2 big orders posted the same day lost :(

I do get a lot of overseas orders but I think I'm going to have to investigate how much tracked shipping costs and crank up the shipping costs which may hurt sales but fed up with this - out £65 on those 2 orders not including the postage. I have claimed for the Italy one but haven't heard anything from Royal Mail yet.

also is it normal to get a Seller Suspension Warning because I haven't replied to someone's message within 5 hours?? wtf

I've just restarted selling some stuff on discogs (last sold in 2010) and it seems now you sell an item and discogs charges a fee (fine), VAT/local taxes are charged to the purchaser (fine), but paypal also charges a fee (not fine). is there a way to get round having to pay the last of these items?

It used to be you could refuse credit card payments through PayPal, and thus incur no fees, but I think now all commercial transactions have fees regardless.

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sorry to continually moan on this thread but just had a message from someone asking me to please confirm receipt of payment on an order which is set to Payment Received and has been since they paid

Paypal fees may actually be lower if the buyer uses a card without logging in to their Paypal account. In the UK it's 1.2% instead of the usual 2.9%. x-post.

My gripe - new buyer in Europe started asking where the package was four days after posting, now just over a month later they're still reporting non-delivery, so I'll be refunding it. Should get compensation from Royal Mail* but items going missing is so rare that it seems quite a coincidence for it to happen with a new user with no feedback who was jumpy from the off.

* but not sure if I calculated the 5 +20 working days right, can't find out if they count Saturdays for International Standard.

yeah I probably shouldn't be so distrusting but always suspicious when packages go missing. but since it happened to me with 2 parcels sent to different countries on the same day I think it's possible that they were actually lost by the post rather than 2 different buyers deciding to rip me off at the same time. I have put claims in for both of them but heard nothing from Royal Mail yet (says can take 60 days for international mail)

Yes, I have had that before where multiple parcels sent at the same time have all gone missing.

I thought it was common knowledge that packages tend to get lost at a greater rate if they are going to/from Italy or China.

Or Chicago.

I did get a cheque from Royal Mail today for the Italy one. so I only lost £10 because I didn't insure for over £20. hopefully will get one for the China one then.

Is the Discogs order page OK as evidence of value in your experience? I think that's what I've used previously and it's alwyas been fine but can't remember for sure.

It has always worked for me.

it's worked this time

I’m getting no Discogs orders at all either, and sales have slowed considerably on the bricks & mortar side. I think the combination of pandemic isolation ending, financial nervousness around inflation & high energy bills, and the general understanding that records are fuckin expensive these days is to blame.

Postage super expensive too, costs nearly £6 to mail a CD from UK to US.

I’m only buying records from Germany these days, the only country where postage is less than $20 to Canada

Including Canada

yeah, what's up with that? I've noticed as well

Germany is where I buy any kind of import if I can. Even if it's a UK or other EU country's release, I'll wait until a German seller offers it.

I've been wondering what the deal is with some UK sellers asking for triple-digit postage for a single CD.

Germany has enjoyed cheap international post for records but not for kuchinger because DHL are changing their parcel size brackets from July.

Kuchinger ? much longer.

I wonder if there's a word in German for the feeling of watching German sellers get up in arms about having to pay / charge the same as the rest of us?

As an American who's benefited greatly from that disparity, misery is the word.

Got some buyer feedback the other day: "dfb". Anyone know what that means?

Quick google search suggests maybe distributed feedback?

or perhaps "don't fucking bother"

Was it "Positive, Negative or Neutral"?

"damn fine bro"

I found a copy of the 4xLP of Live '93 by The Orb for $40 in NM condition, which would normally sell for like...three times that. usually deals like that are too good to be true (the "NM" record will have giant scratches in it) and I almost was like "nah, fuck it, that's a scam", but pulled the trigger anyway and got the order cancelled because apparently the seller got "hacked"? like come on he clearly just mistyped the price here right?

l33t h4xx0rs busting into discogs to change Orb prices.

When he relists it for $400 you will know for sure.

l33t h4xx0rs busting into discogs to change Orb prices.

― peace, man, Tuesday, May 31, 2022 7:45 AM

curses, foiled again!

(sorry frogs, i tried.)

ugh some clown is going around arbitrarily changing the country of release on albums. Someone more bothered than I will report him and get his editing privileges taken away, but man are you THAT bored on Thursday night?

never underestimate pedantry

the perversity of this whole process pretty much confirms that I need to do it. CDs are still going out atm

Count me as a pedant. I meant this user is changing countries on pressings that have already have thoroughly documented information, for shits and giggles I guess.

sorry I misunderstood - thought they were correcting things correctly not just trolling

is the site broken? none of the releases load

(ok it's working again)

That happens every couple of days. Usually when I’m in a hurry to look something up.

Just got this feedback (with a 5-star rating):

Flippers suck, $100 profit on a record that came out a month ago is quite unethical. Still would be retail price in stores. I needed it for the collection though. That said, shipment was fast and packaged well.

I did feel a little gross about the transaction. It was a record that came and went really fast — by the time I received my order from the label, it was already sold out and prices were through the roof. I’d bought one for myself and two for the store. The one sale paid for all 3 records almost dead even. I share some of his sentiment about flippers, but … it’s also part of the vinyl game right now? (And always has been to some degree, although the current market has added additional speculative elements, tbf.)

What do y’all think?

It's not your fault flippers drove up the price. I mean, if it wasn't so valuable, you'd keep it right? But surprise, it is valuable, you're on a budget, you want to buy more records, so you sold it. The guy doesn't know that - why would he? - so it sucks he left that review. I wouldn't feel bad, he's taking it out on the wrong person.