discogs marketplace?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

discogs are reviews are great, it's either:
a) old school clubbers reminiscing and being crazy hyperbolic about old school house/rave
b) 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"

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.

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.

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.

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.

maria did really well. the guy who told her should could sell stuff for more didn't sell anything and was amazed when she started stacking up empty crates. some dealer came up at the very end and asked if he could get two records for $7 instead of $10 and she said: no, put one back. haha! that's my gal!

xp I don't understand this custom (which I have also witnessed). Is the idea that the vulture dealers are going straight back to their own tables to mark up those very same records for sale that day? What kind of profit could they actually gain from this? A few bucks? If they sell? Maybe I'm dumb.

Woops meant to just express my lols at your story Scott.

"Is the idea that the vulture dealers are going straight back to their own tables to mark up those very same records"

nah, they'll mark them up for the next show. these guys don't always find good stuff on their own. they rely on shows to find cheap stuff.

oh god and heaven forbid some normal citizen decides to sell at a show and prices everything really low. its like locusts. all of a sudden the poor guy is just standing there with empty boxes and no clothes on.

seen that too

i have a friend who goes to shows to stock his store and i honestly don't know how he does it. he buys good stuff! at high prices. but his bins look nice and shiny for a week. it works for him somehow. he bought a ton of my stuff today. but during the show. like a person. i don't begrudge that. i buy lots of store stuff during shows. i mostly look for cheap funk and soul because i don't get a lot of it where i am. and nobody wants the cheap stuff like that at shows. so, it works out for everyone.