discogs marketplace?

They blocked an old bootmix 12" I had on sale for £3 yesterday.

I reposted it on a different 'version' which was exactly the same.

I'm not sure why some people (like one quoted in the article above) seem to be under the impression that items blocked from sale can't still be included in collection catalogues on the site.

That shouldn't be affected. Actually even if releases were removed fully (they aren't) you can include private 'draft' release submissions in collections.

After a week, emailed a seller (from a record store!) and asked "uh hey any news on that CD I ordered from you?" Two days later "oh sorry! i'll check if we have this at our warehouse but i'm pretty sure we already looked....can you check back tomorrow?"

Like, uh, can you know if you checked and maybe message me, the guy who is trying to give you money, if you find it?

And... order cancelled.

a dreaded bmg club edition... gah!

I dunno why I thought I'd find some interesting records when I checked the marketplace for most expensive releases this year
https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?sort=price%2Cdesc&limit=250&q=&ev=sr&year=2017¤cy=GBP&page=1

Quaeschning* & Schnauss* - Among Mannatees / Off-Theater Final Season (10", EP, Ltd)

New seller
Ships From:United Kingdom

£500.00

Unplayed. Impulse buy. Selling for less than the price I paid.

Slowdive 12" for 2000 pounds?!?!

It's getting so crowded where I live, sometimes commute wise there's just no escape

I dunno why I thought I'd find some interesting records when I checked the marketplace for most expensive releases this year
https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?sort=price%2Cdesc&limit=250&q=&ev=sr&year=2017¤cy=GBP&page=1🕸

lol zing hanging on to rejected half post for ile thread

where do you find the monthly ones?

Six grand for a Max Bygraves EP? Good luck with that.
https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/338949683

niels, they blog about the monthlies...

https://blog.discogs.com/en/top-30-most-expensive-releases-sold-discogs-august-2017/

and all the monthlies are listed here:

https://www.discogs.com/user/discogs/lists?header=1

^ The above being actual things that have sold rather than prices of things that have not sold ;-)

If people were really paying £2000 for Slowdive 12s I'd be digging out ticket stubs to auction.

xp that's so cool, will be checking out those records!

Quite a few weird updates being rolled out to collections without any beta testing, it would seem. Takes as long as 20 seconds to load the page and doesn't remember your previous page or view.

Interested if anyone else here uses discogs for their collections and is a underwhelmed by the updates.

https://strawpoll.com/5xxypbxg

will check it out, thanks

i can't spot anything new at my end tbh. everything works fine afaict apart from having to log in to the phone app all the frigging time.

I use Discogs for my collection, it was a lot of work but I can pretty much find anything I have a half-thought about now. As opposed to 'hey I'll buy another one it'll be here quick enough'

Not seen the updates..

The updates have been rolled out to members with less than 1400 entries.
From a forum here are some images of the old v new cover layout that will no doubt be rolled out to the rest of the users before too long.
https://imgur.com/t2kOHPy
https://imgur.com/mDgr1CA

Hmmm.

Dunno.

The issue is mainly for users who use the cover view. If you have more than 100 records, 3-4 records in a massive format just aren't practical. The old format worked fine for all.

oh fuck that, give me the damn artist and title links

I use that view a lot

Wonder if the updates are connected to any pressure they’re feeling from the new Reverb records site? Haven’t explored that yet, but with the time I’ve invested entering part of my collection, I’m pretty well committed to discogs.

The list view with no pictures has been removed too fwiw and the max listing per page is 50. It also takes ages to load 10-20 seconds from the link being clicked.

oh bollocks that does not sound good at all!

if they do the same thing to your want list, then you won't just be able to just scan through them to see what for sale and for roughly how much

i'm about halfway through entering my collection on to it - mostly a small mountain of general cds and all of my jazz / blues / world stuff and classical to go, a lot of which i suspect i'll need to add myself. not sure how it handles classical, have shied away from that after a shitty itunes experience.

oh shit, i still need to add all my singles too!

if anyone has the urge to be discogs buddies btw - whatever the heck that entails - my empire of tat resides here:

https://www.discogs.com/user/Mount_Analogue/collection?header=1

the one good thing about the new layout (especially if it carries over to the app) is that it looks a lot easier just to view certain genres, which would be handy for example if you were walking into a jazz store and you just wanted to check what jazz records were on your wantlist.

i do love some of those jarring juxtapositions you get when there's no genre sort though, i think my favourite atm in my collection is the shadow ring rubbing shoulders with shakatak

I wish there was a way to only see wantlist results for items being shipped from your specific country. It could work like an advanced search. I'm not paying $24 to someone to ship a $10 record, but it seems like 80% of my wantlist results are sellers in Europe and the uk

I buy a lot of techno, though, so

you can set it to only display records priced in USD, on the left side of the screen.

I know you can - once you search. But is there a way to only get wantlist results in US dollars?

oh, I see. not that I know of, but you can go to the "Items I Want" drop-down from the marketplace tab, that displays everything currently for sale in your list, then change to USD.

New collection view gives me the fantods. Fuck paging through 50 items at a fucking time. Fuck the three (!) ineradicable value columns that force descriptive notes into a space about an inch wide. Dipshitted.

xp that's a good hack! thanks. Always wondered about the difference was between "Items I Want" and "Wantlist"

xp vote "yes" here:

https://strawpoll.com/5xxypbxg

The format and genre filters in the new layout don't work for me. For too much or nothing at all.

There's an official survey here that you may be able to get some requests met - the developers have been awol since rolling out this view through so I don't think they're that bothere with what users want
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JC2DQ5Y

I'm not paying $24 to someone to ship a $10 record

if an individual, as opposed to an intentional postage service, can get it to you for $24 that's pretty impressive tbh

pedantry on a discogs thread

Well I am shocked sir, shocked

based on the number of people who would enquire as to postage for a 12" to their country, I would package up the specific record they asked after, take it to the post office and get a quote, then get berated and rejected for giving them the actual price - having already put a couple of hours labour into it - I'm pretty comfortable blaming the buyer, not the postal service

You don't need to physically visit a post office to get a shipping quote. All you need is scales and an internet connection. And you can store your rates in your seller settings, so that prospective buyers can check them before ordering.

I had stored rates for everything except LPs/12"s, because it could vary from $9 to $84.

Yes. In my experience prospective buyers can be absolute dicks about international postage quotes.

Never had any trouble with that. Some do balk at the price, but no one's ever been rude about it.

I've never had that problem either, although I do restrict international sales to the EU, USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. But I've processed hundreds of international orders, and never once had a buyer take issue with the shipping charge.

Just started selling on Discogs, and have noticed an annoying trend of buyers not posting any feedback. I've tried putting a 'please leave feedback so I know it's arrived safely, etc' message in my 'Marked as Shipped' messages, and also a hand-written note inside packages. What's up with this?

the CEO of Australia's postal service raised his own salary to be ten times that of the Prime Minister in 2016. Postage prices did not remain stable between 2014 and 2017.

(when the above was revealed, after months of fighting FOI requests, he resigned and got an $11M payout.)

xpost re feedback: I've processed just over 1300 orders and had feedback left for just over 800, so that's a 61% response rate. Before I started, I "sold" one item to a friend who I'd asked to leave feedback, so that I could begin with a 100% score rather than "new seller" status.

advice please! i sold a record to someone in canada in february but it seems to have got lost in the mail somewhere (canadian customs office by the looks of things). i've just put in a claim for it with UK royal mail - would you folk issue a refund at this stage or should i wait until my claim has been processed? total cost inc postage was £65, royal mail say it could take up to 90 days for the claim to be processed.

Domestic shipping are troublesome enough getting claims filled -- i avoid "International" sales altogether. I would not issue any refund before the process finishes its due course. If you're worried about a poor rating from the buyer, i would recommend you stay in constant contact with them even if there is no further info to share -- and do the same with the claims dept as the 90-day deadline approaches.