discogs marketplace?

lol I feel the same way, Paul, I’ve just given up hope on ever getting that cassette. It’s a really good set of tracks!!!

I know! I have a digital copy but it just isn't the same. Glad to know I'm not the only one dealing with this, though!

I'm always paranoid my record gradin g will be bad and people will angrily get vinyl and demand a refund because it wasn't really VG+ or something

Am I an idiot, or did they change the seller function to where you have to click on each individual pressing of a record and open a new window to view it, rather than it popping up on the right like it used to?

Nevermind, I figured it out. You just have to click on the text below the artist / release name now, rather than the release itself, otherwise it opens a new window. Which is annoying but whatever

two questions

1.
EU people: does it really cost 35 euros to ship a cassette tape to the US. cuz damn that's a lot

2.
Is the "you must place a minimum order amount from this seller" thing new, or have I just never encountered it before?

1. Don’t know about EU, sounds like price gouging to me. Don’t sell cassettes but UK would probably be 6 or 7 euros.

2. Think that option came in around 2019. I use it, as it’s such a pain looking for a disc and going to post office just for something which I’ve listed for a couple of quid.

am still confused about how the fuck I'm meant to attach an A4 invoice to a CD sized jiffy bag.

I've got away with just ticking Gift on the customs form apart from 1 order to Italy where they had to pay VAT again which I refunded them, luckily Italy doesn't tack on ridiculous "handling fees" like the Royal Mail do so it was only a couple of quid but still, would like to avoid that if possible

I just fold the invoice to a quarter of A4, stick it in a plastic wallet and tape it to the back of the padded envelope, leaving the top open so that it can be extracted, unfolded and read.

ah I found some A6 ones fairly cheap - tbh didn't really know where to find something like that but sometimes googling does actually work. I guess I could try to fold it so the VAT codes are visible too. thanks!

pricing out hundreds of records for a show next month and it really feels like prices are crashing, so much of this stuff (especially any newer reissue type thing) has median values that are half or less of what they cost new

I track the average item value in my collection just out of curiosity, along with a couple other data points, and it has been declining since early this year

I should probably amend the above to "it really feels like used prices are crashing"

on the other side of the equation, those formerly-ubiquitous $1 J.R.R. Tolkien spoken word LPs are now going for $20

There’s a weird thing where former dollar records are now $20 records, $10 records are $5 records, and $5 records are $40 records.

Is there an ilx marketplace

An ilx marketplace would probably involve posting your records for sale, then other users ripping your taste to shreds.

Bring it on.

*cough*

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=1425799748

Well, I already have no taste so tat's ok

reminds me of the days of Audiogalaxy when people could browse yoru peer to peer stuff and some guy left me a message about how shit my taste in music was

thanks for making the world a brighter place

one thing I've noticed is that with the Pound, Euro, and Yen all crashing compared to the US Dollar it's now usually cheaper to import records than it is to buy them domestically. especially if you get a few items at once.

mm maybe not the best time to sell vinyl in general

It's made buying in USD when you're outside the US far too pricey. I can take the hit buying in GBP or Euros but the USD is way too strong against the NZD. Consequently been buying a lot more from Europe and less from the States. Also US shipping prices have never been cost competitive.

But yeah CDs that used to cost like $8 NZD are now close to twice that. Sad Ghost Club. The cheap CD era is ending for now...

I wonder when CDs will stop being produced for major artists

This buyer keeps messaging me over and over complaining about how much tax (probably import duties) he paid for a record he bought. I’m like “I literally don’t know what you want me to do here; take it up with your government.” In sending me the same message repeatedly I think he’s trying to leave feedback but can’t figure out how. Kinda glad of his incompetence, TBH.

Another left me negative feedback because his record hadn’t arrived after 30 days from Canada to UK. Tracked shipping would have been $60 and I told him before it shipped that intercontinental shipping can take up to 3 months (yes, it’s happened).

It’s been many years since I worked retail but I’m getting that old time feeling again of like “Not only is the customer not always right, they’re likely to be a dick.”

Had my first purchase go completely astray in the postal system, and while the seller is being really decent and helpful and chasing it all up, I'm still quietly bummed about the fact that a) he charged £10 P&P for a double album and a single album, but b) didn't send it tracked, only signed-for. £10 feels a lot for postage to not be sending it special delivery or whatever.

postage is expensive unfortunately. people message me for tracking numbers all the time and I'm like did you think you were getting tracked postage for that price, because lol. mind you I'm selling CDs, so I have no idea if £10 is reasonable for 3 LPs or not, does seem a little high.

but yeah, stuff is taking forever to arrive. I had 2 people not get their parcels sent on the same day 1st class 3 weeks ago, 1 of them just arrived on Saturday, the other one still hasn't turned up yet. people in the UK have been OK about it because they know about the strikes, people abroad mostly OK when I explain that but there's a not can be done about it.

Signed and not tracked? Now I've heard it all.

Not discogs but I had a record take three months to get from the US to EU recently.

This was UK address to UK address, and the average postage for 1-3 LPs is usually a fiver. But the guy had two obscure records I wanted for cheap-ish, so I leapt for it. It's been enough weeks now that the post office said they'd send it back to the depot if it was still there unclaimed. He's chasing it on his end and has already offered to reimburse, I just feel a bit like, dude, you were charging twice what you would charge for sending the double LP on its own... It is what it is, just the luck of the draw.

If you're buying on Discogs marketplace, you have to expect that shipping will be costly and take a while. I mostly opt for untracked due to the cost difference. Most things take four to six weeks from Europe, the UK or the US to reach me here in Aotearoa New Zealand. I love buying from German sellers - even the cheap shipping is tracked, and usually arrives within two weeks. I don't mind untracked because it's a nice surprise when it turns up. Mail days are exciting (or disappointing if there's nothing in the mailbox).

My biggest gripe is inadequate packaging to keep the costs down. I've had several CD cases arrived cracked because they've just been shoved between sheets of cardboard with a shitload of packing tape wound around. I mean, come on, just factor in the cost of a proper mailer please...

seems like all the functionality of this idiot website has been taken away from the orders portal. i guess they're spending all their time and resources on their monetized blog. a guy wanted to add another record to the handful he'd already bought and paid for, but he accidentally "offered" the wrong amount. all i can do was decline? awesome. so i told him to just "buy" the record and i'd change the price and shipping on my end. no, that's not possible either. just totally moronic. i had to request the money via paypal and cut discogs out of the transaction. morons.

It's frustrating to be unable to merge orders from the same buyer after they've paid for both orders. I think that used to be a thing... I don't remember for sure. Either way, Discogs should enable it going forward.

i started selling on discogs in 2014. i can no longer remember exactly what it used to be like. but i do know that i used to be able to manually change the status of my orders. the fact that i can't do that anymore really bugs me.

Why though?

Is it like the stage of 'ok, I see your order and will get on with it now' stage 2?

What I do remember back then, pre-paypal, was wondering if I set up as a seller that accepted credit card payments, would that put me ahead of sellers that don't?

Well, yeah it would have, probably. But not for long..

a Netflix show where contestants, the best of the Discogs community, have to determine if a record is M, NM, VG+, or Cake

— Tabs Out (checkmark viewable upon request) (@tabsout) December 2, 2022

lol.

sorry that i didn't reply, Mark G. just trying to keep my blood pressure down. my revive was classic rageposting

np

I ordered from a first-time seller who charged me $6 to ship two records — however, he sent them via UPS rather than Media Mail (with no notice of this ahead of time whatsoever) and is now asking for me to venmo him the $8 difference since he paid UPS $14 to ship two records domestically. How would you all handle this?

lol he's out of line. Learning experience for him.

Let him know about media mail maybe

Gently reiterate the agreed upon shipping expectation while informing him of the common practice so he doesn't make that mistake going forward? Sympathetic tone overall without further acknowledging the venmo request and maybe he'll give up and accept it as a learning experience?

Yeah, when I've shipped stuff and my post/packing prices have proved to be somewhat out of date, it's a case of ok, let's review. I did tell one purchaser "I'd have made more profit if I'd left it out for the binmen" one time, but that was more humour than bitterness.

venmo your regrets

I got completely screwed on an order to Poland last week, the postage was £30 more than I charged. I'm not sure how I managed to cock that up so badly, unless the Royal Mail changed their services or something. They ordered 26 CDs which came to about £90 so I still got £60 (minus Discogs/Paypal fees of course). Maybe I misread the price list because I thought the price only went up stupidly over 3kg but it's actually 2kg, and this order was 2.4kg :(

Anyway as I told the buyer on that one, it's the seller's problem, if they undercharge for the postage that's too bad for them.

Too late for this time, but in this situation it can often cheaper to split the order into 2 separate deliveries.

Is it effete coastal snobbery to expect records to be cleaned before they are shipped? Been getting a lot of purchases lately that are covered in dust, fingerprints, etc. Like, how did you even grade this record with all the dust on it?

unless it was a cheap "G" grade, that is strange

The lowest grade I'll go for an online purchase is Very Good.

god what a snob