Mine’s a Dymo M5
― brimstead, Saturday, 12 December 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
it’s small though, so for lps you have to press the hold button on it cuz otherwise you can’t see the reading lol
― brimstead, Saturday, 12 December 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
friend of mine recommends the dymo sp5 and says he's used it for over a dozen years, with the caveat that it only goes to 5 pounds
― budo jeru, Saturday, 12 December 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
Yeah, mine's basically a kitchen scale. I took it thinking I'd use it just for coffee beans (and still do), but it's perfect for small packages.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 12 December 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
I’m pretty sure e-40 rapped about weighing drugs on an iPhone before it was actually possible
― brimstead, Saturday, 12 December 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
Mine’s a hand-me-down Jamie Oliver! It’s a nifty little nipper, though; I couldn’t manage without it, especially in post-ASP world where all new items are weighed.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 12 December 2020 07:57 (three years ago) link
okay, any suggestions on a brand of scale?
I have this and it works fine: https://www.amazon.com/ACCUTECK-W-8250-50bs-Digital-Adapter-Silver/dp/B00SMHWZ42/
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 13 December 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
lol
Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-) Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)Played once. DO NOT MAKE IMMEDIATE PAYMENT!!! I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT DISCOGS HAS DONE TO THE SHIPPING POLICIES SINCE I LAST SOLD ON HERE. PLEASE DO NOT PAY UNTIL I HAVE SENT INVOICE!
is it just me or are entire stores consistently removing/reposting their entire inventory on here? I look at "new items for sale on my wantlist" and 75% of it is stuff I've seen before from the exact same sellers. pretty annoying because a lot of these items are at non-serious prices
― frogbs, Saturday, 2 January 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
it's absolutely the worst and basically ruins the function of the wantlist. i wish there were a way to block sellers who relist their inventory every day
― budo jeru, Saturday, 2 January 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
yeah I couldn't figure out if this was the sellers or if discogs was doing this automatically somehow. seems like it would be remarkably easy for them to prevent.
― frogbs, Saturday, 2 January 2021 18:13 (three years ago) link
I used to get wantlist emails daily when I bought more and the same sellers were always appearing.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 2 January 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
Unless you're buying multiple items a week, the wantlist in its current form is basically useless and shit.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 2 January 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link
It also happens depending on how.stores update their listings.
Other than "blocking sellers" (which they apparently just won't allow, maybe for valid reasons) it's difficult to see a technical solution. It would have to go through some heuristic gymnastics to try and distinguish a relisted item from a genuine new listing. Even if that could be made to work it would likely add a significant processing overhead to each listing.
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 2 January 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
nothing to add except that it sucks, and I just have to take items out of my wantlist when sellers do that
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Saturday, 2 January 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
Their automatic postage calculation sucks. Countless times it has gotten it wrong. And then people didnt want to pay extra. Argh. Was so much better before.
― candyman, Saturday, 2 January 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
I turned off wantlist emails for that reason. Now I just check my wantlist every once in a while on the app. Probably have missed some serious bargains, but whatchagonnado?
― the thing that the angry Left forbids (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 3 January 2021 01:59 (three years ago) link
i'm wanting to purchase some regular ass old catalogue titles on cd and i think that discogs might not be my most cost effective option. i know there was a topic posted for sharing places to shop online for these kinds of things but i am having a hard time locating that topic — little help?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 15 January 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
and i'm currently boycotting amazon, so please do not recommend that. i'm sure you understand, thx.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 15 January 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
i think it's Continuing with CD's
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 15 January 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link
cheers.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 15 January 2021 18:34 (three years ago) link
juno.co.uk is great, even when shipping to the US. So fast, huge / great selection, really good prices.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:48 (three years ago) link
you know forced exposure, right. Austin? just got a package from them the other day, they packed their CDs really well, no broken cases etc.
― brimstead, Friday, 15 January 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
i just got some cds from forced exposure, wrapped in bubble wrap, placed in a box, which was then placed in another larger box surrounded by wadded up newspaper, felt like i was in wages of fear
― adam, Friday, 15 January 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
idk it shouldn't be that difficult to tell if an item that's being added is identical to one that was recently listed
I do wish you could block sellers though, there's one in particular (KUPIKU) who has half of my wantlist at 3-5x the average price and they relist their entire stock every other day
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:56 (three years ago) link
oh yeah they are on the punisher list for sure
also, nobody ever buy anything from Giantleech on Discogs, awful troll and Trump supporter
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 03:49 (three years ago) link
Ha, just got my daily wantlist email and sure enough Kupiku is all over it
In addition to blocking sellers who list their damn stock every day, often at exorbitant prices, I do wish you could also filter your wishlist by country, especially now that the postal service is fucked and I rarely, if ever, order anything from overseas. I'd say over two-thirds of my wishlist is in foreign currency and I just scroll right past
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 08:50 (three years ago) link
also, nobody ever buy anything from Giantleech on Discogs, awful troll and Trump supporterdangit he is one of the least infuriatingly priced VOD scalpers, thx for heads up
― adam, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:49 (three years ago) link
Discogs when royal mail cant deliver anything to me = just a big tease
― candyman, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 11:01 (three years ago) link
Has anybody written any browser extensions to do this stuff, since Discogs themselves won't do it? The search filter aspects at least should be doable that way.
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
its frustrating because on individual items you can filter by the country it ships from but if you're going through your list as a whole you can't. as it is about half of my wantlist consists of items where the shipping is more than the album itself.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
wait, back up, you can set Discogs to do a digest style email with everything in one? brb, gotta go to the "things you were shockingly old when you learned them" thread
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
You can filter by currency.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
as it is about half of my wantlist consists of items where the shipping is more than the album itself.
mine too
doesn't help - half of the international sellers have their prices in us currency for some reason, which is even more annoying because I'll be like "wow, only $10 for this 12" I've been looking for!" only to discover that it ships from France
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
Hmm, I wondered if that might be the case. It works quite well for GBP.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
Unfortunately the daily email update system is completely broken/crappy and they seem to have no interest in fixing it.
― skip, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
The daily email update is just a reminder, it serves no real purpose except to make it more likely you might miss something. Assuming you can access a browser you can just check the Items I Want page any time you like.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
weird that the app doesn't let you do that
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
Does it not? I uninstalled the app years ago having hardly used it. The mobile site works OK for me.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
New way to return records just dropped. pic.twitter.com/fZyXIzhHcs— Run For Cover (@rfcrecords) January 25, 2021
― satanist of size (map), Monday, 25 January 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
this was listed as "Very Good Plus"
https://i.imgur.com/riJPa2j.jpg
I'd hate to see what "Very Good" looks like!
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
lol oh geez. I got a copy of Aladdin Sane a few weeks ago where the ostensibly VG+ sleeve has a bunch of brown stains and water damaged inserts :-( I really don’t mind ring wear/shelf wear etc but stains etc is a dealbreakerthe disc sounds incredible but if anyone has a spare Aladdin Sane gatefold hmu
― brimstead, Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:33 (three years ago) link
not discogs but on ebay the other day i almost pulled the trigger on something billed as VG+, until i happened to scan through the sellers explanation of his grading scale, which also included VG++, NM--(wtf?), NM-, NM, NM+, M-, and M. no other explanation for such inanity other than just straight up trying to scam people.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
FFS
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
protip: if there's any doubt, it's fucking VG
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
seriously these people grade records like they're judging the NBA dunk contest
good news is you can generally Elmer's glue something like that back together, not sure if it's gonna hold but I guess we'll find out. and the record itself sounds pretty good, hard to ask for more from a $15 VdGG album
― frogbs, Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
double sided tape is good to fix split sleeve ime
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
Oh, yes I've used gentle kid's paper / craft glue very sparingly and left to dry with some pressure applied for a few hours to put sleeves back together successfully.
― spectralist brostep (Noel Emits), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
gluestick imo
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
The number of times I've bought stuff graded as "P" or "G", things that would otherwise be fortunes, and found.. Yeah bit crackly but alright actually.
― Mark G, Saturday, 30 January 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
"also, nobody ever buy anything from Giantleech on Discogs, awful troll and Trump supporter"
how do you even know this? does he fill his shipments with Trump stickers or something?
― akm, Saturday, 30 January 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link