discogs marketplace?

When I first began buying again, I set myself a $5 limit. I've since broken it many times (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic don't come cheap, among others... though, at $40, it's in line with what some crazy elaborate reissues go for), but generally the bulk of what I've got is in the absolute best $5 or less records I could find.

do you not have decent record stores / record fairs where you live ? i buy all my bread-and-butter $ 5-10 records locally and generally just use discogs for imports and rarities.

I never have a ton of luck locally, despite Atlanta having a number of fair to good shops. Occasionally I'll come home with a worthy score, but most of my shit gets bought online.

I have decent record stores where I live

Ironically, I had to buy two of my R.E.M. lps from a guy in Alaska. You sure as hell can't find that stuff in the wild around here.

$40 for an admittedly clean copy of Agents of Fortune

Jeeeeeeesus christ. Also when I worked in a record store a year and a half ago that Prine album was $7-12.

I have bought some very desirable items that have been listed as P or G condition and at around £10. All have been fine, crackly not poppy, and not jumpy.

The guy selling Agents for that price is also a guy whose pricing I think is generally fair-- he's always got good stuff for $5 & $10.

I don't remember exactly how much I paid for Agents, but I'm 99% sure it was less than $5. Of course this was about 10 years ago for a slightly worn copy.

it makes sense that with shipping costs, online stores/sellers have little incentive to price things below a certain amount. It just bites, is all.

especially if it carries over to brick n mortar store pricing

via stores using Discogs as pricing guide

There's a local shop that has a huge collection of unpriced used stuff under their racks (a mix of overstocks and less desirable titles) that they'll price for you upon request. They use discogs for that, but knock off a percentage.

yeah there’s this store near me that I honestly wish would just close because it’s obviously just become a front for their Discogs business at this point. Absolutely zero used incoming product. massive amounts of stuff behind the counter. loads of overpriced new reissues if you like though!!!

re Agents I'd been shopping for it for a while on eBay and discogs and clean copies were always in the $10-15 range. I completely lucked out on eBay one night and got a nice non-gatefold later press for a couple bucks because the seller spelled something wrong and listed it under cds instead of records or something like that. The stars were aligned in my favor.

the reissue thing is wild. I saw a 180g reissue of Weather Report's 'Sweetnighter' for $25... you could easily get clean copies of WR's entire discography for that, and probably still buy a hotdog when you're done.

Yep. The dumbest expensive reissue I've noticed is Carpenters Singles 1969-73. I could wallpaper my entire house with $1 copies of that record.

The last round of Ebay auctions I did, last summer, most things sold for considerably below their typical Discogs value, whereas I used to do pretty well. It seems like auctions don't work for sellers anymore. I myself often forget to bid on something and then it sells for some ridiculously low price (I was after a copy of Neuromantic and one sold from a US seller for $1.25).

I've lost some Joe Hendersons with bargain prices forgetting to come back and bid on them... 'Multiple' for $16??? Damn!

er does anyone know how to temporarily close your discogs shop because you aren't going to be able to post anything for the foreseeable future? I'm either too drunk or too stupid to figure this out

Go to marketplace-inventory, with entire inventory-show actions, expire for sale items.

Alternatively, don't pay your monthly.

Seriously, they should have the ability to shut your 'shop', ebay does!

thx, got it!

I can concur from stupidity that if you don't pay your bill they'll shutter you til you do.

a seller describing a nigerian record:

worn edges, looks like a rat or camel chewed top left corner about an inch in, some pen marks and creasing, still looks dope af

Rat chew marks hugely different to camel chew marks

I'll buy it if it's dope af

“Vinyl is mint...vinyl has been cleaned on a VPI 16.5”

Unless it was cleaned on a VPI at the pressing plant before being assembled and shrink wrapped, this statement contradicts itself

unsealed vinyl = not mint. Come on people it isn't that fucking hard

Problem is, Discogs doesn’t have an option for “minty”.

I offer the option of opening & cleaning for sealed LPs. About half of my buyers take me up on it.

hardcore dilettante otm

Unless it was cleaned on a VPI at the pressing plant before being assembled and shrink wrapped

Problem is, Discogs doesn’t have an option for “minty”.

― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, May 10, 2020 11:43 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

you might be joking but that isn't a terrible idea especially given the high number of vinyl buyers who only open the record to use the dl code and never play the vinyl

i mean, you're allowed to add a short text description of every record you list

takes seconds to type "original owner, only played once or twice, minty vinyl, jacket still in shrink"

that’s called near mint

mint is like absolute 0 or something, it doesn’t exist. well you know what I mean

I don’t even really like calling sealed things “mint”. call them sealed.

vinyl can be NM and be either minty or just regular NM, though imo an unsealed record is never mint. i agree with you that it's like an idea more than anything.

always best to be as cautious as possible when grading records you're selling to people of course, but in my head there's a small but noteworthy distinction between "that's near mint, not question" and "DANG that disc looks fresh off the press, all minty" also sometimes you will hear older heads say "stone mint"

Ah hmm ok not sure I personally could tell if a record had been played once or twice versus not at all, is that the distinction being made here?

I had a potential buyer ask me if I'd "just sell directly through PayPal" instead of Discogs. Why? If he buys my record, I'm the one that pays Discog's fee. What am I missing here?

btw I asked him, and he didn't answer.

He wanted you to delist it from Discogs and just sell it to him directly through PayPal. Used to happen to me on eBay a lot, can save both parties money. Also the opening move in like half a dozen different scams, so.

xp @ brim

no not exactly, i guess i'm just saying that i find it fun to find names for perceived minor gradations between the more official goldmine designations, mostly in my head or between friends. just dumb nerd stuff.

A buyer talked me into selling direct through paypal at a discount equal to Discogs' fee. He seemed serious and reasonable, so I went along with it. Having never occurred to me at the time that I could have gotten scammed, I guess I got lucky, since it was a fairly expensive LP. Now I doubt I'd do it having read enough horror stories.

Why would they scam you after making the effort to lower the price by 10% - they‘d just scam you if they felt like it.

I’ve had a couple of wierd discogs/posting issues over the last year.

- One person bought a relatively expensive record from me, but from the tracking I could see it was waiting for them in the post office, I kept contacting them through Discogs and through their email account by just constantly got blanked and eventually it got returned to me.

- I sent another record to Israel in November, after a month or so the buyer asked where it was, and looking at the tracking it had arrived in Israel but then the trail went cold. After another month I was able to get compensation from the Post Office and refund them. End of story I thought… Last weekend, 6 months after sending it I get a slighly bent parcel which looks like it has sat in a puddle for a while with a sticker saying 'address unknown' on it. Thankfully because the record was in a plastic sleeve and the bending was only on the cover it’s not actually in too bad a shape.

My local record shop has put his inventory up as his "collection" on discogs, but asks that you email him directly to purchase. It's a little awkward, because he's obviously cutting discogs out.

Classy, cuts out paying anything to Discogs who are promoting his business and gives buyer no protection when things go wrong.

Why would they scam you after making the effort to lower the price by 10% - they‘d just scam you if they felt like it.

The discount is the pretext for getting you to do the transaction off of Discogs, and once you agree to that the scope for ripping you off expands. Sure, some people just want to save $10-20 by cutting out Discogs, which is also lame but in a different way.

- One person bought a relatively expensive record from me, but from the tracking I could see it was waiting for them in the post office, I kept contacting them through Discogs and through their email account by just constantly got blanked and eventually it got returned to me.