discogs marketplace?

Yeah, I used to use that view all the time, would print one "folder" then check off what was still there, what was sold and what should be added. One page of easy to see covers Vs three pages of unnecessary text (I know what album that is, etc)

Hope it's back soon.

Shipped could just mean that they've printed the postage out. That's become more common these days in all sorts of online ordering

Discogs/Reverb/Etsy: Your item has shipped!
Me: Oh joy!
*checks tracking*
USPS: Label Created - USPS is currently awaiting item.

― peace, man, Wednesday, February 9, 2022 10:51 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

yup, this is the case with almost every other thing I buy now, and it is not an issue relegated solely to Discogs. I wonder who these people think they are fooling

for some reason I didn't think you could make an order without paying for it since they changed the shipping policy so it auto-generates. but I now have an order which has not been paid for. the buyer has just 1 feedback, negative, non-paying buyer, from 12 years ago! WTF.

I think you can configure your settings to not sell to people with less than perfect feedback?

You can still order and not pay. My standard response is to confirm that the item is still in stock, and that i can ship promptly once payment is made. That almost always does the trick.

additionally you can go to your seller settings and configure an auto-cancellation after X amount of days of no payment.

In my experience tracking - USPS and FedEx - has gone completely off the rails in the last month or two. Things marked as USPS waiting, have indeed shipped, packages stalled for weeks on end at some distribution center or other. Not news, ofc, but economies of scale are melting down.

Whereas I got a package from Japan-->USA, via DHL, in a matter of days.

man, the Discogs Enhancer plugin truly is a must-have IMHO. just being able to add minimum grades (for media and sleeve) and a blocked-sellers list to the filters REALLY saves tons of time. thanks to whoever it was on ILM that recommended this to me a while back!

man, the Discogs Enhancer plugin truly is a must-have IMHO.

Had no idea this existed! https://www.discogs-enhancer.com

yeah I gotta check that out

Just had a particularly irritating experience finally resolve itself.

Placed an order January 26
Messaged the seller February 3: "Has my order shipped yet?"
Order changed to Shipped on February 5
Package received March 9, and postal stamp says it was sent on March 1.

ZERO communication in between. And this was something (the 3CD version of Loop's The World In Your Eyes compilation) that I paid 50 Euro for, including shipping.

Fortunately, the item arrived exactly as described - brand new, still in shrink wrap, perfect condition. But fuck, man, waiting a month to mail it? What the hell?

If you needed it for work, alright. If you needed it for fun, wgas.

50€ for that huh, might list my copy.

it's one of those weeks on discogs, 2 non-paying buyers and some dimwit emailed me saying they've been looking for 2 CDs I'm selling forever and will I do combined postage on them, which discogs just does automatically and they have more feedback than I do so how do they not know this? I replied (nicely) but they didn't order them anyway

my 2 non-paying buyers almost resolved, one apparently couldn't get the payment to go through on their phone but managed to do it on a desktop, the other fucking idiot was waiting for me to confirm that I have the items in stock and the shipping is correct apparently?? seriously what is wrong with these people, why do we have to fill in these ridiculously complex shipping policies, cunts will still waste our time anyway, you got a fucking invoice moron

it's been lean times for me as a seller. how's everybody else holding up?

The CD revival hasn’t yet made it to Discogs.

I’m ready for when it happens though.

I sold three CDs this month.

First sale this year!

I keep saying it but I’ve gotta get out of the buying game soon. I’m NOT your fussy record guy when it comes to condition, but I keep buying records listed at VG+ and when they arrive I think you would have a very hard argument even saying they’re VG- (I had one that was entirely split around all four sides, barely held together, AND had significant ringwear). I don’t want to blast these people in the feedback because condition is subjective and I’m afraid they’ll retaliate but there’s no way these people think these are truly that condition.

On the flip side, I’ll occasionally get a VG that looks nearly mint. There’s just too much inconsistency and prices are generally stupid high for the older pressings I’m looking for.

IMHO you should feel very free to write to them, describe the discrepancy, and ask for a refund. When they say yes, ask for a shipping label if they didn't already offer to pay the return shipping. Discogs is explicit about using the Goldmine standard and you're on solid ground asking for a return.

If they won't do it, then appealing to Discogs or leaving negative feedback are the appropriate recourse. Feedback is also the main warning available to other buyers that this is one of those stores that overgrades everything, so it's a public service.

i sold about 200 CDs on discogs over the past few years but I did sell most of them for bargain prices.

at the moment I mostly only have some very expensive vinyl listed, but I'm reliably selling one thing every week or every other week.

when you look at the actual definitions for VG etc on discogs it allows for a lotttttt of leeway. too much really. “very good” should not mean “kinda scratchy” but yet

the only time i ever complained the seller was amazing, told me to keep it and they’d ship me another better copy for free

“Very Good” allows for light scratches that can be felt with a fingernail. To me, that’s bonkers. But I didn’t write the Goldmine standard.

Also, virtually nobody adheres to the values ascribed to the condition; if a NM copy sells for $50, then the VG+ copies are like $40 and VG copies are maybe 30, instead of $25 and $12.50 like they “should” be. But that seems to be what the market will bear.

I’ve had excellent luck with sellers’ grading on Discogs in the main. But I don’t buy from sellers with virtually any negative feedback and I rarely buy from sellers who don’t go into some detail about the condition.

I do list albums in general as vg+, and prior to despatch I'll do a closer check. If there are definite issues I'll let the buyer know and let them choose a discount or a cancel or whatever.

Ha, I’m the opposite and list most things as “VG”, but priced more like a VG+. I might sell less but I have an easy life.

One time I'd sent a nice looking mono "Rubber Soul" off, but the buyer sent it back for a refund, fair enough it happens but rarely.

I'd done due diligence, but. Anyway I looked again and thought it still looked good, in fact better than I remembered. I asked the buyer, he said yeah it looked better than it sounded so he had it professionally cleaned!

Anyway, all this was v.civil so we 'shook hands and parted

I guess the LP had been carefully handled but played a lot, maybe.

I'm only selling CDs right now but I undergrade them slightly so nothing gets listed higher than VG+ and they've been flying out tbh. I'm posting out 20+ in a minute.

Ha, I’m the opposite and list most things as “VG”, but priced more like a VG+. I might sell less but I have an easy life.

Yeah, if I ever encounter a seller who consciously undergrades records and I like what I bought, I'll keep going back again and again.

Totally. Also second not buying from people with more than a couple bits of negative feedback. Like, 99% positive is effectively my minimum, maybe 98.5% depending. If they're too new a seller for that to be meaningful then I flip through their listings as a whole, and if everything is "NM" then obviously they are overgrading hustlers and I add em to my blocked sellers list.

Another red flag is when every single negative review has an all-caps response from the seller reading something like "BAD ATTITUDE, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT A 30 YEAR OLD RECORD TO LOOK LIKE??? S C A M BUYER BEWARE!!!"

_Ha, I’m the opposite and list most things as “VG”, but priced more like a VG+. I might sell less but I have an easy life._

Yeah, if I ever encounter a seller who consciously undergrades records and I like what I bought, I'll keep going back again and again.

One thing I’ve learned is that the price of the record usually says more about the condition than what it’s graded at. A number of times I’ve scored great deals on here only to find the record itself was, at best, a full grade below what it was listed at

I also bought a 2LP set from a big seller and the jacket only contained one record. I messaged him about it and he said “oh, weird, let me look into that”. Still haven’t heard anything back. Strange cuz the dude still has like a 100% rating. I don’t wanna ruin it!!

Otoh some private sellers are pretty nice about this sort of thing - I got a $5 refund once because a record had two clicks at the beginning (the rest was perfect). Another gave me $5 because a corner was slightly dented - I probably wouldn’t have even noticed.

Bought something on Saturday, asked the seller on Sunday to cancel and he said he would. Monday he printed a shipping label, I asked why and he said oops! and canceled it. Now it's Tuesday and the USPS just picked up the package and it's, presumably, on its way to me.

I've never sold anything on Discogs, so I don't know, but is it *hard* to cancel an order after it's already been paid for? Because this guy made it sound like it was SUCH A BURDEN.

>>> he said oops! and canceled it.

The shipping label, I mean.

maybe he is just a whiner

lol okay I just heard back from him after I told him it had shipped. He immediately gave me a full refund. I told him I'd send it back when it gets here, but I'll be a little salty if he doesn't offer to pay for return shipping.

I had someone just cancel an order too with no explanation and I assumed it was out of flakiness.

According to this guy he got buried in orders of RSD titles, which is a reasonable explanation I suppose, but once I told him he had accidentally shipped it out anyway he refunded me within a couple minutes. Poor dude. If he'd just taken a moment on Sunday to do it, none of this would have even happened.

I suppose this is that "cancel culture" I've been hearing about

Why did you cancel your order though?

Because I found out later that day my insurance didn't cover an ER visit back in February, so I need all the money I can hang on to right now.

I'm out £40 this week because an order didn't make it to Italy :(

Wondering if I should either make everyone get tracked shipping (and potentially lose orders because it will be a lot more expensive) or limit the size of international orders so people can't make big orders so if the mail does lose stuff it's less likely to hurt as much

In the UK i have separate bands. e.g. under £20 order it can go standard post as that is covered by Royal Mail by standard, under £50 it’s the tracked option etc.

just don't ship to Italy xxp

To be honest, it's happened hardly ever that anything has got lost. And I don't think I've had a "dishonest' one (but how would I know? Because it's happened almost never)

.. anyway..

I don't use Tracked, unless the buyer requests BEFORE I'VE POSTED IT! and I tend to use insured if it's high value only.

If something goes awry for an outlay of £10, they can have their money back rather than have to reclaim it off the post office.

Don’t forget you can get up to £20 + cost of postage for missing items on standard post

I had 2 people message asking for tracking numbers the same week, one was this Italian guy. I haven't heard anything from the one in China since so hopefully that means that one arrived - they were both big orders. I did wonder if once he found out there was no tracking that meant he could just claim he never got it but obv have no way to prove that.

I will see if I can get anything out of the post office because £20 + postage would actually cover most of it, think the postage was about £12 and the order about £30. I did keep the postage receipt thankfully.

It’s relatively easy to claim online. You might have to wait a few weeks before you can put it in, and after that a few more weeks to get the cheque, but they’ve always paid up eventually for me.

https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/325/~/claims-centre

I would think it would be pretty easy to scam on discogs and just keep making new accounts when you get caught.

trying to navigate around teh site. Does everybody else have the problem with search engine results not linking you to the site page just stopping when clicked on. Seems o be a near constant that seems really frustrating. Just seems to dump you back on the page you're coming from