I was able to score a highly OOP release from overseas, and as long as you have PayPal, you're quick, and you're picky about feedback ratings, you should be fine. (same goes with Gemm and the like.)
― soyrizo headache (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 29 December 2008 19:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
via discogs that is. Granted, I've only bought one thing from Discogs marketplace, but it was a simple and quick transaction, especially for overseas.
+1 to discogs: they don't have Gemm's crappy UI (Gemm usually contains these impossibly long forms with checkboxes and radio selection buttons all obfuscated while you're trying to buy or sell through them.)
― soyrizo headache (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 29 December 2008 19:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
i buy and sell on discogs. have only had 1 bad experience with a guy who tried to charge me 10 dollars to ship a cd single from Canada.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 29 December 2008 19:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
i've shopped quite a bit on Discogs, 30+ purchases or so, and I have been satisfied in all but one. And in that instance I filed a claim through PayPal and got my money back. As long as you use PayPal you should be fine and protected, prices are high though and I don't buy anything under NM-, like everyone else here has said.
― san frandisco, Monday, 29 December 2008 19:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
I've used it once so far without problem. There are some rare and/or hard to get things on there, but the prices seem a little over the odds a lot of the time.
― krakow, Monday, 29 December 2008 22:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol last post on thread: http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?seller=musicberlin
Um, someone want to try and explain this to me? Also WRT his feedback rating/comments?
― you used to sleep with somebody who avoided a soap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
hahaha. so weird. just 5 seconds ago i sent my friend a link to a record that is also $1540.00. 2 days ago it was $15. something's wacky.
― jaxon, Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
holy shit, so weird. it's actually the same seller. wtf
discogs allows you to bulk upload items to your marketplace account for sale via a .csv file. I guess with an inventory of 25000 items this is what that seller does and that their prices got out of whack somehow in the process.
― krakow, Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
what i cant stand about discogs is the inflexiblity of postage rates. if im ordering one white label 12, theres no way the postage will be £2.75 or £3. very fucking annoying.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
should that weigh less than a non white label?
― jaxon, Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
xp OK that probably explains that
titchy are you saying that's over the odds? It's not if you consider postage plus if you have to buy a mailer!
― you used to sleep with somebody who avoided a soap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
i suppose. but white labels are still cheaper than normal lps.
i do like discogs though, the offers system is good too. some of the prices people put on their records though is ridiculous (and i do wonder if they do end up getting the prices they ask for).
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
what i cant stand about discogs is the inflexiblity of postage rates. if im ordering one white label 12, theres no way the postage will be £2.75 or £3. very fucking annoying.― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:36 (18 minutes ago)
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:36 (18 minutes ago)
Postage rates have nothing to do with discogs though, they're entirely up to the individual seller, so I'm not sure what you mean by them being inflexible. You should contact the seller if you think they're charging over the odds.
I happily both send and receive offers on prices via discogs, often the listed price is just a ball park, or best hope, or even a stab in the dark if you're the only person selling an item.
Again, if you think something's over priced then just speak to the seller. No big deal. If they don't like your offer they'll ignore it or let you know. Easy as pie.
― krakow, Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
well i mean the indvidual seller obv, yeah.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
I need to get rid of lots of dance vinyl - some desirable, some considerably less so - and ebay seems like a busted flush for this kind of thing: a few tumbleweed auctions surrounded by acres of Buy It Now postings from professional retailers. Has anyone here used it for selling recently? Is it better than ebay now? Does stuff shift fairly quickly or sit around for months?
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 25 January 2010 17:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
I use discogs for buying and selling fairly often. For dance vinyl, I'd say it's def better than ebay. It's really quick and simple to list items, and there are no fees unless your items actually sell, whereas Ebay charges a listing fee. I have some things on discogs that have been sitting for quite a while now, but it all depends on what you have vs. how many others are selling the same item.
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Monday, 25 January 2010 19:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
Best to put them on Discogs a couple bucks below whatever is the cheapest copy if you want to move it immediately. if you're in no hurry, put it at a good price, offer a discount for multiple items in the Comments field and wait.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 25 January 2010 19:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
Good advice. Thanks. Tbh I'm more interested in offloading most of it than making big £££.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 25 January 2010 20:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
ive put some stuff around the lowest price theyre listed at on discogs but still waiting to shift them. starting to think im possibly the only person buying old grime or dubstep 12s.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
what does it mean when there's a color bar to the side of a release in discogs.
there's yellow, grey and orange here http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rolling+Stones%2C+The
― jaxon, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
If you hover over them it tells you.
― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
ah! thank you. i've been searching for hours
― jaxon, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 23:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
So, if one were selling off a few hundred records of the psych / noise / jazz / indie variety, discogs over eBay, for sure? My issue with discogs (and, for CDs, Amazon) is the fact that things sell in spurts, with no deadline. It tends to make packing records and regular trips to the post office a full time job. Any advice?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dunno, i always buy on discogs, sell on amazon. i don't want to wait for people to stumble over what i'm trying to unload, and on average, i get really good money from ebay sales.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think the upside (sale price) on ebay is (or can be) higher, but the ease of doing stuff on discogs might be better, depending on how much hassle you're willing to go through
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I find Discogs has rarer stuff in the first place, and then for a more reasonable price than Amazon. If what you're selling is aimed at the collectors market or folks that may not look at Amazon first, Discogs is the way to go.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks!
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
it feels good to sell rare-ish things on ebay for +£££s to people who don't know about discogs ;)
― jed_, Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Coincidentally they just linked to this via their Facebook page:
http://www.discogs.com/blog/339369-top-30-most-expensive-items-sold-by-month
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Advice on this:
Person contacts me on Discogs about an item that I am not listing for sale, offers me a large (but not obscene) amount for it, then paypals me with his "brother-in-law's" account and wants me to ship it to his sister (he's in Europe). Obviously I'm not going to ship it to anyone other than his brother-in-law (since anything else violates PayPal's Seller TOS) but should I even do that? Is this some sort of crazy elaborate scam to get a CD single? His Discogs rating is fine... but the whole thing seems pretty suspicious.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:02 (4 months ago) Permalink
Obviously I will not accept the payment if I don't ship him anything btw.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:06 (4 months ago) Permalink
I would just make sure to do delivery confirmation/insurance so he can't say it never arrived and file a claim with Paypal. That's the only scam I could think of if he already paid. Unless he somehow got hold of someone else's Paypal account but that seems far fetched.
Does seem a little suspicious to have done enough business on discogs to have a rating and yet you don't have your own Paypal acct?
― dmr, Monday, 7 January 2013 17:40 (4 months ago) Permalink