discogs marketplace?

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.

Do bootlegs matter? What Discogs’ new crackdown means for the site’s future

https://thevinylfactory.com/features/do-bootlegs-matter-what-discogs-new-crackdown-means-for-future/

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