discogs marketplace?

Different Nicholas

How did you lose money when you got a full refund?

My PayPal account went from 11.13 Eu before sending that (as well as a CC payment that was refunded in full) to 3.14 Eu after the refund. My guess is the Euro vs the NZD strengthened in between me paying him and him giving me the refund. 7.99 EU is unaccounted for?

Did he give a full refund or partial refund? Find it difficult to believe that changes in exchange rate over a week or two would eat up 3/4 of the refund.

Ah, misunderstood your post. I thought the item cost 11.13, I guess that exchange rate around have made a difference given it was 130 Euro.

There's an image a few posts earlier that shows the details of the two transactions and the balance of my PayPal before and after.

It's only the difference between 11.13€ and 3.14€ but I think that's still far more than you'd expect for the exchange rate difference over four days. It doesn't look like a prtial refund - it's showing the same figures as for the original payment.

I don't really understand why it would affect your paypal balance if it went to the credit card but maybe that's how the do it.

what happened to me was super weird, dude prob never sent the tape, I told him I'd have to take it to PayPal after a while, he said OK, I got a refund, then an email from PayPal saying "your refund has been delayed", then it was canceled, this then happened like 4 times and the last time he sent the "payment" PayPal closed the case and I couldn't seem to reopen it no matter where I navigated to.

then, of course, that last one was canceled as well

I don't really understand why it would affect your paypal balance if it went to the credit card but maybe that's how the do it.

I use the PayPal credit I have from selling records to buy more but this purchase I only had 11.13 EU as a balance so the rest of the payment was deducted from my credit card. I would expect to get the same amount back but I didn't even though the refund was the full amount. The only thing I can think of is the exchange rate changing so the credit was full for my credit card but only partial of my PayPal balance. It's weird to me too.

OK, yeah I think that could make sense. It's maybe worth knowing as well that if a refund is issued within 24 hours Paypal uses the same exchange rate as the original payment.

Right. Too bad this guy took 4 days after receiving payment to work out he didn't have it.

To be honest, that's happened with me occasionally. An item I thought I had, turned out to have been sold a long time back. I have processed full refunds in those cases, and everyone's been fine. Apart from one who went on ridiculous and wanted to sue for compensation for the disappointment, but I never heard a peep after day two so hey.

I can see how it could happen, but from now on I will ask for confirmation that the items are in stock before I process a payment. If that means the seller has to locate them, so what? They will need to to ship them anyway.

And if you're a seller and the buyer has purchased but not processed payment I don't see the big deal in confirming items are in stock and you will get them shipped as soon as payment clears.

Agreed, it’s not a big deal to do so. I’ve sent dude a reminder as such. Thanks for the feedback!

I agree with you, but the temptation to pay it then and there is strong.

Why does 90% of my wantlist always consist of listings from Europe? I can’t figure out if Americans don’t sell their records or if I’m just looking for albums that were released by European labels or something.

Sometimes I just accidentally add the UK or European version to my wantlist, but sometimes it'll be the US edition and still when I click on the link it's like:

16 For Sale from $24.99

Well, that almost seems like a reasonable price!

$24.99
+$40.00 shipping
$64.99 total

Ships From:Peru

I think certain UK sellers just relist their entire stock more often. the first two pages of my wantlist are always the same 2-3 shops over and over again. definitely wish there were an easier way to filter around this

You have 17 new items in your wantlist

Same overpriced stuff every day from the same sellers.

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I've been dying for a filter that only shows me US listings of things in my wantlist. It's such a slog to scroll through, as frogbs said, the same damn relistings every single day in the "98 new albums for sale in your wantlist" emails, and they are also international so they're not only part of the furniture in the emails but wouldn't have been a consideration either way. And yeah I've wondered similar things as zacata... why is discogs more of an international marketplace overall? Most items for sale seem to be dominated by sellers outside US regardless of whether they're relisted or not.

You can filter by USD which at least gets you like halfway there

one thing that really annoys me is all the stuff listed at unserious prices, since these are the albums that are always clogging up the wantlist. you know the ones, where the lowest/median/highest is like $15/20/25 and then every available copy is $55+. I wish you could just filter out anything that's like 10% above the highest price.

Yeah from their perspective it makes sense for them to, whether manually or with algorithms that adjust pricing competitively constantly, price things opportunistically if it seems an album might be on track to become rarer than the demand, but agreed like you I'm not interested in being the buyer that puts it on that track. To that same point I sometimes wonder about the person who bought something for +$20 more than what it sold for like a month or less prior. These people either do not fret over being a sucker and overpaying or they needed [album] BAD and they need it NOW.

Just got my first negative feedback from a buyer who was having problems with PayPal. I have received the payment, seemingly immediately, and was none the wiser there had been an issue. The negative feedback was left five minutes after the order was placed.

Did a purchase yesterday, I think my first since all the changes to automate shipping costs. I paid right away but the seller still has to review things and say it's looking fine, I guess (take the status from payment pending to payment received). Fine by me as I'm familiar with the site... but I could see how people would be confused by "pending" after they just paypal'd funds that the site should be aware of.

The negative feedback referenced an issue with a catchpa, which is very much out of my control, and seems to have successfully completed a number of other sales on Discogs. Just a bit frustrating.

You can definitely get that removed

In the meantime, you can always post a reply to the feedback, which everyone will be able to see.

Hi, have written the reply and will request removal, though have first asked the buyer to remove it.

I can accept negative feedback for something that was in my control, tbf this just looks like someone was pissed off and that appeared the route to complain!

did they ask to speak to your manager?

did they threaten to get you fired?

Disappointingly, neither.

Oh is there a way to block certain sellers from results in my Wantlist?
I get certain Japanese sellers (I think) who re-list or minutely adjust the price frequently, and their listings are absurdly priced. It's pretty annoying!

sadly, no

One that drives me nuts is the second volume of the Deutsche Elektronische Musik compilation CD, which is on my wishlist. Inexplicably, volumes 1, 2, and 4 are priced normally, but I guess this one went out of print and wasn't reissued because of a rights issue (or so I was told). So I have a notification set on eBay as well as on Discogs, and I've seen people asking as much as $400 for this thing. Like, I want it, but I'm getting so tired of seeing it in my email inbox every single day that I wanna just remove it from my wantlist altogether. This is just one example, of course there are others, but this one in particular drives me up the wall

Yeah I'd like mine to only show me US sellers... never want anything bad enough to pay $20+ shipping so I don't care to see any of those listings.

Can you set a filter so you’re only notified if it’s below a certain price (?)

I don't believe so but that would be awesome

Would be cool if camelcamelcamel worked on Discogs too.

I don't use it but I'm given to understand that the Discogs Enhancer plugin for Chrome does all of that (block items by seller, filter by country, filter by price etc.)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/discogs-enhancer/fljfmblajgejeicncojogelbkhbobejn

ooooh thx

relisting items every day should be punishable by death

One good trick is to just create a second account with a focused want list of the stuff that you really care about

I did this and every day I get an email about the same item that this seller lists every day. Though they did recently drop the price so it’s only 50% above the max price, lol

I’m nicer than sleeve so I wouldn’t necessarily have him killed but i wouldn’t mind a nice flogging

Just keep your Watchlist small imo

idk given shipping costs its been helpful for me to put a bunch of things on there that I'm not actively seeking but would buy if I came across it at a record store...like if I can get a $4 copy of Falco's Emotional as a toss in with something I really do want, that's pretty nice

I occasionally sell on Discogs, but only as an in-between for a close friend who is older and not on-line. For instance, my buddy will wind up with a reggae record that is worth $500 and I will sell it for him on discogs. How long should I wait before giving him his money? What is the deadline for registering a complaint on the buyer’s side?

I don’t spend money I get from selling till at least I know the person has received it. So long as you grade fairly and play test you might be able to give it sooner.

The one Discogs feature I'd really love is to be able to filter by sleeve condition as well as media condition, even if it's just to take out all the 'no cover' results.

Offers Open - from Vinyl COLLECTION stored PLASTIC SLEEVE * Why are they in exceptional conditions and expensive ? Because they were sorted in a library since all this years not manipulated not played ! Click on more images to discover all of them, sleeves labels * If you prefer ask me for my pictures ! Sent in Special Hard Card Board for 12 inch - What is rare is not cheap or it is not rare.

^^^ from ludicrous 200 Euro listing for Womack & Womack's unloved second LP, which I'm about to purchase a NM copy of for a pound.