discogs marketplace?

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.

Do you have any terms in your shipping rates, like untracked freight at buyers risk? Has the buyer requested a refund yet?

I've currently got a parcel sitting with a courier company because the buyer wasn't home to receive the goods but hasn't gone to pick it up. He's made no contact with me though so i'm not sure what's going on. It could even be a similar issue with the parcel being undelivered and then sitting with a local mail centre before slowly being redirected back to you.

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?

― nerve_pylon, Sunday, March 25, 2018 1:30 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I do enough business both buying and selling that I only leave positive feedback if the seller does something beyond the call of duty: item arrives faster than expected, seller actually undergrades condition (this one's rare), was willing to bundle / accept an offer.

I don't leave buyers feedback unless they don't pay. The way I see it is: you bought something, you pay for it, I send it, end of transaction. You want a medal for paying for the thing you bought?

also, it's obnoxious getting pestered to leave feedback. Not saying you're doing this but I'll often see a message on Discogs related to an item I sold a month prior and think "uh oh, the package was lost," only to find the message is just some dude asking me to leave feedback. Granted, it's like two seconds out of my day, but it's still annoying.

it helps both you and them to leave reciprocal feedback. people are definitely WAY laxer on Discogs than on eBay though. which I'll attribute to eBay being a seething mass of humanity, but Discogs largely self-selecting for uptight nerds who are already there getting loads of tiny details correct for no rewards whatsoever.

thanks for the advice bodacious/micarl. not too worried about negative feedback, just feel a bitt bad for the buyer tbh. i shipped the record tracked & signed and i can see that it got as far as the aeroplane but then the trail goes cold - still no record of it at all on the canada post tracking site. i guess keeping in touch with them is the key for now, even if i basically have zero fresh news.

I've currently got a parcel sitting with a courier company because the buyer wasn't home to receive the goods but hasn't gone to pick it up. He's made no contact with me though so i'm not sure what's going on. It could even be a similar issue with the parcel being undelivered and then sitting with a local mail centre before slowly being redirected back to you.

lol i have had this happen before. someone paid me £12 to have a £3 record sent to them in germany. then they missed the delivery and never picked it up from the post collection place in the two weeks that it was held there. then it got flown all the way back here to me and it was only the day before it reached me again when they sent me a message to ask where it was :\

Not leaving feedback is a bit of a dick move imo. If everyone did that people would either have 0% or 100%.

Varg will be pleased
https://blog.discogs.com/en/top-30-most-expensive-items-sold-in-discogs-marketplace-for-february-2018/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=dashboard&utm_campaign=Top_30_2018_04_05

24. Burzum – Burzum
Sold for $1666.00
Label: Deathlike Silence Productions Format: LP, Album, RP Country: Norway Released: 1992
Genres: Rock Styles: Black Metal

xp this thread has prompted me to go and leave feedback for the buyer who bought a CD from me 2 weeks ago, they were a new user and had no feedback at all.

questions:

what do you call those arc-shaped wear lines around the grooves? you know those whitish marks - is there a shorthand name for those?

if a record has those but it plays just fine without any issues, what would you normally grade it at?

i hate them btw, they make a record look horrible and i normally avoid buying that shit

You mean where it's wear to the groove itself? We call that "groove wear," it's definitely worth mentioning (also worth mentioning that it sounds ok if it has it) but you'll probably lose some customers by being honest.

As for grading I don't know, maybe drop it a grade but mention "plays VG+" with specific mentions of times it doesn't.

VG+ or whatever

i think i've always thought that groove wear was more wear inside the groove rather than that abrasion you get on the tops of the groove if the cartridge has been rubbing on the record (oh the days of overloading the arm with pennies when i was a kid, oops). i guess it applies to both though?

abrasion you get on the tops of the groove if the cartridge has been rubbing on the record (oh the days of overloading the arm with pennies when i was a kid, oops)

I would specifically detail this in the listing.

haha maybe not! am not selling any of the terrible records i trashed as a teenager btw just to clarify, that stuff went in the bin years back

Btw today was a banner day for me on discogs cos I actually sold a herb alpert album. To someone in the US in fact - is there a shortage of herb over there or something?

That is hilarious. Herb Alpert records make up abt 40% of U.S. dollar bins

I figure they’ll refuse it entry at border control tbh

Was it the one with Janet Jackson? That song's a jam, but even so it's still a dollar bin LP.