discogs marketplace?

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

The Discogs search function = clearly designed by the ghost of Borges.

Discogs is weird. It'll be tumbleweed for a month or two and then I'll suddenly get a flurry of orders all at once. No rhyme or reason.

I've managed to go a month without any orders, and counting.

Apart from one month last year, that's not happened since I started about 10 years ago!

Ha, yeah I get the same. I guess that’s just the nature of random chance, but when it happens it does give me pause for thought.

what is it with these people? can you use Mondial Relay please? apparently this is some French courier. for a £4.50 order. I wish there was a way to cancel orders without possibly leaving you open to negative feedback

I’m getting no Discogs orders at all either, and sales have slowed considerably on the bricks & mortar side. I think the combination of pandemic isolation ending, financial nervousness around inflation & high energy bills, and the general understanding that records are fuckin expensive these days is to blame.

Yeah, my sales have crashed too, and rather sharply at that. I thought this was simply due to stock depletion, but maybe not.

Well, I added a bunch of nice CD things, and made about ten sales this week, so yeah.

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.

and now I have a message from the one in China saying they didn't get it either. 2 big orders posted the same day lost :(

I do get a lot of overseas orders but I think I'm going to have to investigate how much tracked shipping costs and crank up the shipping costs which may hurt sales but fed up with this - out £65 on those 2 orders not including the postage. I have claimed for the Italy one but haven't heard anything from Royal Mail yet.

also is it normal to get a Seller Suspension Warning because I haven't replied to someone's message within 5 hours?? wtf

I've just restarted selling some stuff on discogs (last sold in 2010) and it seems now you sell an item and discogs charges a fee (fine), VAT/local taxes are charged to the purchaser (fine), but paypal also charges a fee (not fine). is there a way to get round having to pay the last of these items?

It used to be you could refuse credit card payments through PayPal, and thus incur no fees, but I think now all commercial transactions have fees regardless.

^

sorry to continually moan on this thread but just had a message from someone asking me to please confirm receipt of payment on an order which is set to Payment Received and has been since they paid

Paypal fees may actually be lower if the buyer uses a card without logging in to their Paypal account. In the UK it's 1.2% instead of the usual 2.9%. x-post.

My gripe - new buyer in Europe started asking where the package was four days after posting, now just over a month later they're still reporting non-delivery, so I'll be refunding it. Should get compensation from Royal Mail* but items going missing is so rare that it seems quite a coincidence for it to happen with a new user with no feedback who was jumpy from the off.

* but not sure if I calculated the 5 +20 working days right, can't find out if they count Saturdays for International Standard.

yeah I probably shouldn't be so distrusting but always suspicious when packages go missing. but since it happened to me with 2 parcels sent to different countries on the same day I think it's possible that they were actually lost by the post rather than 2 different buyers deciding to rip me off at the same time. I have put claims in for both of them but heard nothing from Royal Mail yet (says can take 60 days for international mail)

Yes, I have had that before where multiple parcels sent at the same time have all gone missing.

I thought it was common knowledge that packages tend to get lost at a greater rate if they are going to/from Italy or China.

Or Chicago.

I did get a cheque from Royal Mail today for the Italy one. so I only lost £10 because I didn't insure for over £20. hopefully will get one for the China one then.

Is the Discogs order page OK as evidence of value in your experience? I think that's what I've used previously and it's alwyas been fine but can't remember for sure.

It has always worked for me.

it's worked this time

I’m getting no Discogs orders at all either, and sales have slowed considerably on the bricks & mortar side. I think the combination of pandemic isolation ending, financial nervousness around inflation & high energy bills, and the general understanding that records are fuckin expensive these days is to blame.

Postage super expensive too, costs nearly £6 to mail a CD from UK to US.

I’m only buying records from Germany these days, the only country where postage is less than $20 to Canada

Including Canada

yeah, what's up with that? I've noticed as well

Germany is where I buy any kind of import if I can. Even if it's a UK or other EU country's release, I'll wait until a German seller offers it.

I've been wondering what the deal is with some UK sellers asking for triple-digit postage for a single CD.

Germany has enjoyed cheap international post for records but not for kuchinger because DHL are changing their parcel size brackets from July.

Kuchinger ? much longer.

I wonder if there's a word in German for the feeling of watching German sellers get up in arms about having to pay / charge the same as the rest of us?

As an American who's benefited greatly from that disparity, misery is the word.

Got some buyer feedback the other day: "dfb". Anyone know what that means?

Quick google search suggests maybe distributed feedback?

or perhaps "don't fucking bother"

Was it "Positive, Negative or Neutral"?

"damn fine bro"

I found a copy of the 4xLP of Live '93 by The Orb for $40 in NM condition, which would normally sell for like...three times that. usually deals like that are too good to be true (the "NM" record will have giant scratches in it) and I almost was like "nah, fuck it, that's a scam", but pulled the trigger anyway and got the order cancelled because apparently the seller got "hacked"? like come on he clearly just mistyped the price here right?

l33t h4xx0rs busting into discogs to change Orb prices.

When he relists it for $400 you will know for sure.

l33t h4xx0rs busting into discogs to change Orb prices.

― peace, man, Tuesday, May 31, 2022 7:45 AM

curses, foiled again!

(sorry frogs, i tried.)