If you hover over them it tells you.
― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
ah! thank you. i've been searching for hours
― jaxon, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks!
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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― sleeve, Friday, 17 April 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
hmm discogs is really a good database and have often thought it would be nice to be able to look up different editions of books/comics/movies instead of just doing ebay-searches but not sure if this seems like a greedy move or an enthusiast move, also not sure if such databases/market places already exist
also, any thoughts on whether the new tax policy will be very harmful to the 2nd hand market place? (apparently Discogs will add 25% tax or something for all orders going from US to EU)
― niels, Friday, 17 April 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Whoa- what? Really?
― Evan, Friday, 17 April 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
It's VAT that's now payable on *fees* paid by sellers at their local rate if they are in the EU. Fees are 8% of sales prices.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 17 April 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
So it only applies to sellers in the EU and it's nothing to do with where orders are going. I think it works out to no more than around 1.8% on the price of a record in practice. Presumably VAT registered businesses would be able to claim it back as well so no need to pass it on to customers.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 17 April 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
I'll give Discogs credit for hooking me up with a good guy from Norway who had a Neil Young tribute LP I'd been trying to get for eight years (Everybody Knows This Is Norway. It's worth more than I was prepared to pay, so he ripped the CD, put it up on Soulseek, and I got it from him that way.
The other thing I've listed on my want-list is a Velvet Underground tribute that came out in the late '80s. I get an e-mail every few weeks saying one's up for sale, but it's always around 20 pounds, which after conversion and shipping is just way out of my buying range.
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 April 2015 01:29 (nine years ago) link
It seems to be a good place to buy from. I've only had one negative experience I can think of where a cd arrived shattered because it was sent with neither jewel case or adequate padding. May have been others but that is the only one came to mind. Think I got a refund but not the cd I wanted.Discogs is also a reasonably ok resource though it does have gaps. I use it frequently when EACing cds I've bought when they're not in the EAC database. Tends to have tracklisting down for main release version at least. Gap can be in what releases are listed though.Would be useful to have reviews of lps and individual release versions too. I think there are some reviews on site but sporadic. There is rateyourmusic I guess. But would be useful.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 18 April 2015 07:00 (nine years ago) link
I actually appreciate discogs more because of the lack of reviews. Everyone on Rateyourmusic considers themselves geniuses but they're really just a slightly better class of youtube commenter.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 18 April 2015 07:04 (nine years ago) link
I had someone buy from me in Argentina but wanted me to ship to his sister in Chile as you are 'not allowed' more than two foreign packages a year or some such.
So I did, and it all went fine.
― Mark G, Saturday, 18 April 2015 10:13 (nine years ago) link
JUst thinking that it would make it a full resource if people said what they thought of the lp since it could help one work out which lps by an artist were worth getting. also which pressings/releases of which lp.BUt I guess that most people going to discogs are doing so to buy material they're already aware of. Particularly marketplace.Just thought if it was done right it could help the experience. But not sure how 'doing it right' would be achieved anyway since I can see what johnny's saying about rateyourmusic being true at least to some extent. Ego/opinion outweighing info etc
Do wonder where you get information on the best sounding versions of things from since it doesn't seem to be fully utilised on RYM and Amazon just mixes all reviews for all releases under a title together.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 18 April 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
Of course anyone can post reviews on there and the entire database is user populated. The process of submitting release data excludes editorialising though, which is as it should or it would never get done and.disagreements would be endless.
I like that the site still feels a bit down-home and ungentrified. Not unlike this place really. My impression is that the staff are still enthusiasts for the most part.
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 18 April 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
discogs are reviews are great, it's either:a) old school clubbers reminiscing and being crazy hyperbolic about old school house/raveb) a bunch of people posting "repress please?" or "you gougers should be ashamed or yourself" (hip euro "underground" deep house 12"s on small labels)c) some person posting "the label on my copy is more periwinkle than violet and 'chuggin gasoline' is about 6 seconds longer than on the original uk chiswick issue"
― brimstead, Sunday, 19 April 2015 03:39 (nine years ago) link
haha that is so spot on. absolutely love the reviews that fall into the first category, they always make me smile. also love visiting profiles and seeing something like "I have been spinning UK Garage records for more than two decades now and have thousands of records in my collection! UK GARAGE FOR LIFE!!!!!!"
It's like some completely different side of the internet where the majority of people seem incredibly passionate and cynicism doesn't exist.
― misterjoshua, Sunday, 19 April 2015 03:48 (nine years ago) link
I have the 2014 issue, does it need a new entry ?or, can someone pleas do an entry for the 2014 issue so's I can add it to my collection.
― brimstead, Sunday, 19 April 2015 05:49 (nine years ago) link
Really got into buying cheap records off discogs the last few months, but now a seller seems really flakey, took ages to send records and stopped replying to messages and then was all like "I sent your records two days ago according to my records" but they've not arrived and now I'm like ugh ugh ugh.
― NotKnowPotato (stevie), Thursday, 21 May 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
I posted in the vinyl/scams thread a month ago about a dispute with a seller on Discogs who sent me the wrong record and then has refused to deal with me (e.g. he said "I have someone who handles discogs for me - email them" but then won't give me that person's email address).
I've opened up a PayPal dispute but they give the seller ages to respond and it hasn't happened yet.
So I just had a (maybe stupid) question about Discogs feedback: If I give him Poor feedback, can't he also just respond with Poor feedback for me? I have a perfect record and don't want to tarnish it because he's been a dick, you know? Thanks for any guidance....
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 10:28 (eight years ago) link
Wouldn't he have to buy something from you to give you bad feedback?
― paolo, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
I once had someone send me a copy of the second Neu! album instead of the first but it's dead good so I wasn't too bothered
― paolo, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
No, you can give feedback as a seller as well as a buyer.
The record I got instead of the one I wanted was NOWHERE NEAR as good as Neu!s second LP, I can assure you
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
Hi gang - I have a question. I've recently spent over four weeks painstakingly entering my entire CD collection (with vinyl and cassettes planned for later) and was planning to print out this master list for safe keeping (in case, you know, Discogs doesn't exist at some point or something). Then I noticed the "export" feature. Is this what I think it is? A way to save all this data to a hard drive, or Word doc or something? Why must I "request" a data export? Once it's exported, it's copied, (not transferred), right? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
― Wimmels, Monday, 31 August 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
Because of the amount of data, your export request will be queued and processed in the order it was received. We will email you when it is ready for download.
you could just copy and paste the list into an excel document or text file though, right?
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
It pops it out in Excel and it takes just a few seconds.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 31 August 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
And yes it's just a copy.
xp not sure how copy and pasting would work. I may try that if I run into any problems doing what Alex suggested.
― Wimmels, Monday, 31 August 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
well yeah i can copy and paste 25 entries at a time but any more than that and it crashes excel.
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
hey but if you paste it into notepad and then copy and paste into excel it works.
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
Successfully did this and downloaded a zip in CSV format. Not ideal: I was hoping it would default to my alphabetical list (it seems to be going by catalog numbers, despite the fact that my Collection is currently organized alphabetically), and it's awfully difficult to read this way. Still, OCD nit-picking aside, this a far better solution than printing all 4,000 titles on what would be at least a full ream of paper. Thanks again!
― Wimmels, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
https://www.imf.org/external/help/csv.htm
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
Helpful - thanks! Looks like the bottom of that page will solve my problem.
BTW, does anyone else do this? Print out their Discogs stuff (inventory, Collection, otherwise), I mean? My wife thinks I'm crazy. "Discogs isn't going anywhere," etc etc.
― Wimmels, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
Well it can be good to have for insurance purposes, I guess.
― brimstead, Monday, 31 August 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
Marketplace 1 For Sale from £35.25
Have: 17 Want: 7Avg Rating: 3.75 / 5Ratings: 4Last Sold: 06 Jul 15Lowest: £3.60Median: £3.99Highest: £4.32
seeing so much of this!
― saer, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:32 (eight years ago) link
but someone will pay it, and in a few months time it will say
Marketplace 1 For Sale from £95.25
Highest: £35.25
― saer, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:34 (eight years ago) link
Free money!
― niels, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
Here's the record in question...actually feeling this one might not sell (ive never heard it...and the video on the page...is some kind of error)
http://www.discogs.com/Various-003/release/197168?ev=item-vc
― saer, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
found some clips at juno...wont be adding that to my wishlist
― saer, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:59 (eight years ago) link
Ordering a record from abroad plus a bunch of cheap makeweight stuff to lower the postage cost per record and act as stiffeners, then getting an email to say they don't actually have a copy of the one thing you really wanted anymore, but don't worry, all the other garbage has already been packed up and despatched to you
― djp HOOS clouds (NickB), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
how much are the cheap makeweight ones and were they completely unhearable before you bought them?
― saer, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
Only four or five things for a couple of quid each, stuff I know and like well enough, but hardly records I would have elected to have sent to me transcontinentally in their own right. Can't even remember what they are tbh
― djp HOOS clouds (NickB), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
It's amazing how many ex-A&Bers I run into randomly haha I was a metrotown guy.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 27 May 2024 14:20 (two weeks ago) link
I would never take a coffee cup into a record store, WTF.
― Enjoy Nuoc Mam With Mr. Qualk (I M Losted), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 14:50 (two weeks ago) link
Even more irritating are the folks who bring plastic cups of beer in whenever there is a street festival or something similar
― fasmackhead, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 15:08 (two weeks ago) link
Whenever I see records leaning forward I always try to set them back, but my personal rule is to only try twice and if they insist on leaning forward I leave them.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:56 (two weeks ago) link
hi enochroot, I did get your ILXmail but I was unable to translate that message to a FB profile, you can email me directly using sleeve (at) efn (dot) org
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 23:19 (two weeks ago) link
Discogs has acquired wantlister.com so at least the fucking wantlist emails will actually be useful now
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 6 June 2024 20:36 (one week ago) link
I hadn’t heard of them, has anyone tried it… hope they have some good devs they can bring along!
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 6 June 2024 21:36 (one week ago) link
yeah I've been using it for ages, they sent me an email saying since I was already using it on their site I'm on the early adoption list on Discogs so I've just copied the filters over, but I'm not sure when/if that switches over to my Discogs wantlist emails which I just delete without reading normally. and don't know when regular Discogs users can use it
basically it means you can specify things like country, minimum sleeve/media conditions, max price etc and you can configure that per artist/release or just for everything
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 6 June 2024 21:47 (one week ago) link
it also filters out when sellers relist their whole inventory every day
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 6 June 2024 21:49 (one week ago) link
that's the best feature of all. I've removed things I've wanted from my list just because I got sick of seeing the same overpriced copy appear every single day
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 6 June 2024 21:54 (one week ago) link
Would be good if you could see what someone wanted to pay for something so you could adjust the price if it was worthwhile.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 6 June 2024 21:56 (one week ago) link
xp same
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 6 June 2024 22:06 (one week ago) link
i tried wantlister but it wasn't able to do any of the things i wanted, and it was impossible to use, so i gave up. maybe this will be better though
― budo jeru, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:13 (one week ago) link
it's definitely true that the discogs wantlist feature leaves a lot to be desired
― budo jeru, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:14 (one week ago) link
it's basically the same as wantlister, but I thought it was pretty simple to use? not sure what the problem was
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:14 (one week ago) link
there was this whole interface where you had to basically manually enter each record you wanted to add to each grouping of filters as i recall? so it just ended up being like you would have to construct a new wantlist from scratch because you couldn't even use your existing wantlist to build new groupings. and the whole thing just struck me as naive, like "never see a record in less than VG+ condition" and it's like dude i'm collecting jamaican 7"s
― budo jeru, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:25 (one week ago) link
you can add each record individually if you want to, but you can just leave that blank and it applies to everything
if you don't want to exclude VG or G+ just set it to that? or don't set it? not really understanding the problem here tbh
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:27 (one week ago) link
i actually corresponded with the guy who made wantlister and he told me that most ppl who use wantlister have less than 30 records in their list, and the majority of them simply want to set a minimum grade and country of seller and then essentially leave it as is until forever
which is a model that doesn't really work for the kind of collecting i do
― budo jeru, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:30 (one week ago) link
it doesn't work for me to apply the same settings to all 3000 records in my wantlist, and i found it way too time-consuming to build sub-groups, so i gave it up. does that make sense?
― budo jeru, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:32 (one week ago) link
lol I have 19000 in my wantlist and works for me, but then I don't really want to buy records from other countries and pay more in shipping than the record cost
plus with that many in the wantlist the daily relisting thing made the original discogs email completely useless
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:34 (one week ago) link
yeah. it wasn't clear to me how wantlister solved that problem either actually, which is of course the most annoying thing about the discogs wantlist. to me the greatest improvement would be if you could simply filter out certain sellers when you are using the Marketplace feature
― budo jeru, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:44 (one week ago) link
it just does that internally, you don't need to do anything, it must keep a cache of listings and if the seller and price matches the cache it doesn't bother to include it again
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:47 (one week ago) link
I’ve not looked at it but presumably it’s a bit like camelcamelcamel in you can set a maximum price you’d want to pay.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:50 (one week ago) link
unfortunately blocking individual sellers doesn't seem to be a thing
xp yes you can do that
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:50 (one week ago) link