discogs marketplace?

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....

Wouldn't he have to buy something from you to give you bad feedback?

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

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

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!

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?

It pops it out in Excel and it takes just a few seconds.

And yes it's just a copy.

Thanks!

xp not sure how copy and pasting would work. I may try that if I run into any problems doing what Alex suggested.

well yeah i can copy and paste 25 entries at a time but any more than that and it crashes excel.

hey but if you paste it into notepad and then copy and paste into excel it works.

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!

https://www.imf.org/external/help/csv.htm

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.

Well it can be good to have for insurance purposes, I guess.

Marketplace 1 For Sale from £35.25

Have: 17 Want: 7
Avg Rating: 3.75 / 5
Ratings: 4
Last Sold: 06 Jul 15
Lowest: £3.60
Median: £3.99
Highest: £4.32

seeing so much of this!

but someone will pay it, and in a few months time it will say

Marketplace 1 For Sale from £95.25

Highest: £35.25

Free money!

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

found some clips at juno...wont be adding that to my wishlist

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

how much are the cheap makeweight ones and were they completely unhearable before you bought them?

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

Just an everyday tale of dumb luck really

In that case I always complain and make sure I get at least a very substantial refund.

I often add cheap records if ive no idea what they are and cant hear them otherwise

the exchange rate for US dollars is as favorable as it has been for years, but man those int'l shipping fees add up.

another way to look at it - I've been spoiled rotten by Amazon Prime.

Marketplace 1 For Sale from £723.44

Order Date Condition Sleeve Condition Price in your currency Price
2014-03-30 Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good Plus (VG+) £6.64
2013-09-04 Near Mint (NM or M-) Not Graded £499.64
2011-03-26 Near Mint (NM or M-) Generic £265.79
2010-07-04 Very Good Plus (VG+) Not Graded £199.99
2007-01-24 Mint (M) Generic £5.71
2006-05-23 Mint (M) £34.98

wow

Boots mixed in with genuine articles? Not supposed to happen of course.

or with cover/without cover maybe as per the "generic" tag

Bear in mind, sometimes the lowest price is because it sold for £10 when first issued, and now it sold out and prices have shot up.

what item is that?

http://www.discogs.com/Jeremy-Semi-Structured-Life/release/566640

okaaayy

http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/255027859

I saw some some expensive autographed LPs on the wall at Amoeba the other day and I don't understand the idea of selling something that's "autographed" without a certificate of authenticity.

a piece of vinyl and some instructions

http://www.discogs.com/Honeymoon-Production-Manipulation-Muzak/release/1102919

I love all of those RRR anti-records conceptually, but I don't actually own any.... I do have multiple copies of the lock groove releases.

I own this record. Didn't realize it was going for so much.

semi related... has anyone bought collections or groupings of records before? If so how did you find them? I would love, say, to get a bunch of BOMP records, or a disco collection, or whatever, but most things you can find online seem to be a bunch of crap, horribly maintained, or both.

A DJ in Seattle sold/consigned his collection to Silver Platters. There were so many they had their own section of the store. It was a gold mine for weeks. You can see who has the most records in your wantlist in Discogs. Can be useful and frustrating. There's a shop in Denmark that has 18 records I want and I only have 50 on my want list.

MYT profile:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/media/discogs-turns-record-collectors-obsessions-into-big-business.html?ref=topics&_r=1

NYT, sorry

dying @ photo

haha yes

kinda funny typo halfway through

The site, once run from a computer in Mr. Lewandowski’s closet and originally restricted to electronic music, has grown rapidly. It now has 37 employees around the world, 20 million online visitors a month and three million registered users. It eventually opened to all genres of music and has a mission of cataloging every record in existence.

oh wait, i thought that said 37 MILLION employees. kinda not funny misreading there by me

I dunno. I think it's funnier.

otm

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