discogs marketplace?

^hope that takes off and makes it easy to buy s/h stuff for cheap without having to resort to Amazon

someone ordered poss the only bootleg I had for sale? (Genetic Control 7") about an hour ago, prob coincidental but maybe not

Abebooks is already fine for second-hand books though.

Xpost its likely "buy yr boots now before the squad catch on"

Abebooks is Amazon tho

oh shit they're going to ruin the used book market now, too? awesome

Awesome (despite the abysmal name)

Recently changed from biblio.gs (the url still works.)

You can see why but ugh.

Many of the listings on Abebooks are wildly overpriced, moreso than on Amazon Marketplace.

here's the store that ripped me (and a bunch of other discogs buyers) off if anyone's in Poland and feeling mischievous: http://sundrecords.pl

weird, when I sort my collection by median value the VU "Caught Between The Twisted Stars" 4CD set still shows up in the top 250 most expensive, even though it no longer lists a median price.

going on six days with zero response from seller on an order

I filed a "seller not responding" report, but am I correct that there is no way for me to cancel the order on my end?

maybe they're away for the week?

btw is there a way of switching on a holiday message somehow?

good question!

Not on discogs, no. Wish there was.

There is, on eBay.

I usually just put a conspicuous "***OUT OF TOWN UNTIL...***" note at the top of my "seller's shipping information" page, and there's no excuse for not checking that before ordering. You can always add something in the comment section for each item (which you can do that for multiple items in your inventory).

People don't check the shipping information though. Someone bought a CD single off me last night, they're in the UK, clearly says £1.35 shipping for a CD single, they then sent me a message asking how much shipping would be.

I checked :)

the seller has five more days to respond fwiw

That happened to me once earlier this year and after 7 days I think discogs cancelled the order

I usually just put a conspicuous "***OUT OF TOWN UNTIL...***" note at the top of my "seller's shipping information" page

oh yeah, good idea! bold and underlined, take note suckers

if you go to marketplace -> inventory you can "unlist" everything and then "mark for sale" when you get back

I wonder if that's why stuff falls out of my cart and I have to go back and re-add it.

ah, that would work too - thank you brimstead!

"Expire All For Sale Items" is what you want. Then you can easily relist all those in one go. It's at the bottom of the Inventory page under "With entire inventory".

Unresponsive sellers at this point really are in the wrong business. If you're that involved in online selling, you undoubtedly have an internet connection in your pocket. Inexcusable.

Within reason. Folks still have lives to lead and for many it's not business but just something on the side, so I'd always forgive (and hope to be forgiven for) a day or two or three's delay on messaging. Personally I don't think it's worth de-listing inventory just because I know I'm going to be too busy for online stuff for a few days.

I just say "Might be a while, I'm out of the country", every time they've just said "no problem" like I have when it's been the other way around.

Unresponsive sellers at this point really are in the wrong business. If you're that involved in online selling, you undoubtedly have an internet connection in your pocket. Inexcusable.

or you have a job and it might take you a day to be able to check the runout groove on a record in your cupboard for some dickhead from France who then asks if you can send a $3.23 sale for free instead of the A$24.70 it will cost you at POS, not counting time & labour & materials

That's besides the point. You have an internet connection in your pocket, you can easily respond and say, "No."

nine days now with zero response from seller, I think three more until the order gets cancelled automatically

That's besides the point. You have an internet connection in your pocket, you can easily respond and say, "No."

You have an internet connection in your pocket, you should constantly go to the office toilets to check it, and reply "NO SALE FUCK OFF" to all enquiries, if you have a job and are not home to immediately check what background colour the cover sticker on some 1997 CD single is

Ha, that happened. I got a "sorry no thanks" to a Sleeper 12" in mint condition that was short of one sticker.

i have a job

being reliable and consistent is good

check what background colour the cover sticker on some 1997 CD single is

yeah but this is just musical dorkism of which you don't approve or whatever, and you're bashing it on ILM to boot, these things are important!!!

but i say if people are being unreasonable and treating you like amazon, that's definitely fucked

so everybodys right

I 100% approve of people asking annoying, tediously nerdy questions about something I have for sale, or exact postage to whatever country on the other side of an entire planet that they live on, which is why I answer them. It's Austin who says it's "inexcusable" to actually bother to find out the answer before replying.

fair enough

this one buyer sent me a message saying "I trust you are being honest about condition blah blah blah" regarding the G graded records he was buying... I was all "umm you might want to look at the grading guide" and was expecting major hassle but he ended up being delighted with the records and sent me a very sweet thank you note later on. It felt nice because I do try to grade as strict as I can, as if I was the one doing the buying

Did I say that?

Pretty sure I did not.

I just said that no response was not acceptable. "Let me check and get back to you within (time frame)" is obviously the acceptable response if the question cannot be immediately answered.

Austin, I love you as a poster, but these past few days seems like there's been a lot of negativity in your posts. You're totally justified in being critical, but if there's something personal behind this I hope you're OK. This coming from a guy who only knows you from a message board, so please ignore if this is stepping over the line or just completely unwarranted.

I wanna call out small-time seller "ingoodstanding" for selling me a G rated piece of shit advertised as "NM/VG+," for charging me extra for domestic shipping above the quoted rate on his page, and for being a dickbag in general and treating me like I haven't been spending enough money on records in the past twenty years to buy a house or two.

the record was sir edward's "the power of feeling" btw. good record. I like david lee's drumming on it. totally conservative median price.

seller in my case was suspended for not responding. since they never responded with a shipping amount, I never sent them money, so it's all done.

i love putting something up for sale and getting a buyer like 10 minutes later

My record is one minute. Which made me think I could have priced it higher.

That's always my first thought when something sells the first day/hour/minute heh.

My record is one minute. Which made me think I could have priced it higher.

yeah, I put up a CD that had never sold before, at a wildly speculative $92

sold within minutes to a guy who'd messaged me directly a few months before and offered $350 for a 7" that had one track in common with the CD

What was it???

Heen Beat, a sampler CD for a local indie label of the mid-'90s.