really not thrilled with this seemingly-recent trend of people rolling into reissue comments with "doesn't sound as good as my ($1000+) original"
this post inspired by a particularly snotty and pretentious review of the mono Piper At The Gates Of Dawn reissue
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 15 April 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
oh and this one too
"Sounds pretty bloody good to me even though it's not AAA. As do all the Grundman remasters. That is until you hear a mint OG UK press. And good luck getting one cheap. The original just has much more 3D and dynamics."
yeah, fuck you too, dude
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 15 April 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link
the other (1-star!!!) review I mentioned earlier was from a dude who was like "this doesn't sound anything like my 80's stereo pressing" rmde
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 15 April 2023 21:38 (one year ago) link
Some Discogs commenters seem even worse than Yelpers.
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Sunday, 16 April 2023 10:59 (one year ago) link
yeah nowadays all of the reviews are by wanna be audiophiles who think they know how things are supposed to sound or something, I want to drain their bank accounts
― brimstead, Sunday, 16 April 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
you couldn't pay me to read the reviews people leave on discogs
― budo jeru, Sunday, 16 April 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
eh I find 'em useful sometimes. the reality is that a lot of modern pressings are just not good. I think it's been steadily getting better since say 2008 or so, when I think a lot of new vinyl was sold without much consideration for people actually listening to it. but bad pressings still get out and the reviewers on discogs will let you know what to avoid.
― frogbs, Sunday, 16 April 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
agreed, I just hate wading through the snobby stuff, it's still very useful though
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Sunday, 16 April 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
Thanks to discogs reviews, I learned that someone else had an off-center pressing of the pressed off-center record I'd just gotten in the mail, so I used it for support when getting my money back from Verve Forecast.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 16 April 2023 22:37 (one year ago) link
Weird question: I just got the latest Lande Hekt lp in the mail today, new and sealed directly from Zia Records in Phoenix. It had the "Violet Marble" hype sticker on the shrink, but I opened it up and it had vinyl of a different variant—red/blue split—inside, which normally comes in a sleeve with different art. So I've got the sleeve and hype sticker from one version, the vinyl from another. This is obviously a packaging error at the plant, but how do I add it to my discogs collection? Does this warrant a new entry? I can't imagine it only happened once, so maybe it does. Anyone have experience with a situation anything like this?
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 05:12 (one year ago) link
Make new entry, sell variant on discogs for 10X baseline price
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 09:23 (one year ago) link
Just your own collection? I'd log it as either one. And then if I went to sell it, I'd explain in the description what you've put here.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link
Ok cool
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 13:19 (one year ago) link
speaking of odd scenarios for discogs... I have a spare of a recent first pressing that goes for a high price. The first copy I got was noisy as hell. Visibly fine but basically unlistenable. The company kindly sent me a new one when I wrote to tell them about it. I think I'll put up the first one I got for like 15% of the going rate and describe the deal. I dunno in case anyone ever needs a NM sleeve for the thing. Or thinks they can fix it with an expensive cleaner machine.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
that seems fair to me
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
ya I've seen that a few times, where a record looks visually perfect but plays like garbage. wonder why that is. it's usually not something you can just clean either.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
possibly infill issues aiui
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
yeah probably. If not for the look of it, I would think they dropped it on the floor
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
and scrubbed the floor with it
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
Selling Fees Will Update on May 22, 2023Discogs has made significant investments in recent years to ensure compliance with various regulatory programs, including tax support and privacy protection. These efforts have ensured a trusted international marketplace for buying and selling music, but they also come with real costs to provide these valuable services.After careful consideration, we are updating our selling fee for the first time in over 10 years. The selling fee will change from 8% to 9% on May 22, 2023. The new 9% selling fee applies to both the item and shipping costs. It is still free to list items for sale.This increase will help us continue to devote resources to maintaining the Discogs Marketplace and develop better tools for collecting, selling, and enjoying music.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:49 (eleven months ago) link
Charging 9% commish on shipping? Fuck right off.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:50 (eleven months ago) link
Discogs AND PayPal charge commission on shipping. eBay too FWIW. I got into an argument with one of them and the justification was that they are collecting payment for shipping so therefore they are entitled to a share. Really fucked up logic.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 01:03 (eleven months ago) link
That reminds me, eBay charges the seller a commission for collecting sales tax. Again, same reasoning.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 01:04 (eleven months ago) link
I have a few high dollar records that I’ve been meaning to sell for a while. Should have done it sooner I guess. Didn’t the shipping stuff get more complicated? If I only sell one record at a time, that should be relatively simple, right?
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 01:06 (eleven months ago) link
Discogs hitherto hasn’t charged fees on the shipping.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 01:13 (eleven months ago) link
Would have maybe been a reasonable decision to add charges to shipping if they had dropped the percentage to 6 or 7% at the same time.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 11:53 (eleven months ago) link
guess they just figured out how much it will actually cost for added security to get rid of the recent flood of scammers
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 21:15 (eleven months ago) link
Anyone else seen these Discogs scammers that keep popping up via the wishlist messages? I have Denim's Novelty Rock vinyl on my wishlist which goes for crazy money. Suddenly copies were showing up (one for $31 and one for $69 which are good prices). They have free shipping and say, shipping from unknown. When I clicked on the record it says not for sale and then the feedback is a bunch of people saying, beware scam account. That happened a few days ago and I just got another one with the same album for the same price from a seller with a different name (GivMusicRecords is the current name). This one has 253,791 items for sale including a bunch of other things from my wishlist.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:27 (eleven months ago) link
yes, they are uploading bulk csv files, prob gonna ruin the site soon if the owners don't get their shit together
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Thursday, 11 May 2023 01:53 (eleven months ago) link
I wondered how they had created so many listings already. Looks like Discogs are being quite quick in dealing with them but they should have found a way to block this seller somehow.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 11 May 2023 02:09 (eleven months ago) link
they just pop up again under another (hacked) inactive account alias, it's pretty fucked
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Thursday, 11 May 2023 02:46 (eleven months ago) link
here's another one
https://www.discogs.com/seller/MiroDiGhaesa/profile
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Thursday, 11 May 2023 03:14 (eleven months ago) link
The other day I actually fell for one of these blatant scammers in a weak moment; luckily only out $6.99. Hopefully PayPal will refund me.
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 11 May 2023 03:26 (eleven months ago) link
there's this boxset I really wanna get, on Discogs it's quite expensive but Amazon has it for $35 cheaper
weird thing is, it drops in price by exactly 3 cents every few hours. has anyone seen anything like this before?
― frogbs, Thursday, 11 May 2023 03:36 (eleven months ago) link
The Amazon price or the Discogs price? Amazon uses dynamic pricing all the time.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 11 May 2023 05:00 (eleven months ago) link
If the scammers figure out a way to create fake feedback, Discogs is done. It's now the only line of defense against these scumbags
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 11 May 2023 10:38 (eleven months ago) link
seller responding to an order with the message "don't have it, it was listed six years ago" and I just feel like replying 'so your incompetence isn't just a recent thing then?'
― rincton monkspoon (NickB), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 15:43 (eleven months ago) link
sorry that sounds a bit pompous, and to be fair, he did still have 3 of the 5 items i ordered in stock
― rincton monkspoon (NickB), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 16:14 (eleven months ago) link
LMAO. To be fair, I typically place orders with combined shipping - usually there's a used CD that with shipping would be the same price as a new copy elsewhere, but combined with at least one or two other items, it's real savings. I once bought a box set and another disc only to be told that the box set was no longer available but they're shipping the CD - I was able to message them before they did and basically said this is kind of a bait and switch.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:04 (eleven months ago) link
I would demand a full refund if any seller sent out an order like that without asking first.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:23 (eleven months ago) link
Update on my sorry tale - the seller couldn't find yet another one of the records (3 out of 5 missing!), so he just cancelled the order as it was down to a couple of one quid makeweights. Brilliant!
― rincton monkspoon (NickB), Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:38 (eleven months ago) link
It's always fun when the person I buy from turns out to be a musician or critic
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:21 (eleven months ago) link
one time I bought from an ilxor! (nerve pylon)
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:24 (eleven months ago) link
Been buying stuff off here for years without issue, but now I’m seeing a lot of very suspiciously priced records - bought one without really thinking and it turned out to be a scammer. PayPal gave me a refund real quick but still, check the feedback y’all
― frogbs, Sunday, 11 June 2023 20:13 (ten months ago) link
Yeah, it's become a real problem in recent months.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 11 June 2023 23:52 (ten months ago) link
This is not what I ordered, I could have gotten this pressing at like 5 stores near me :-(
― brimstead, Saturday, 8 July 2023 00:06 (nine months ago) link
― frogbs
Fell for my first scammer yesterday. It wasn't anything crazy or suspicious, just the new Sparks album on vinyl for a slightly better deal than I've seen anywhere else (seems like it's quite hard to get here in the U.S.). Got an email this morning saying their account had been suspended. I saw they had two good feedbacks and didn't think anything of it. Looking now at their feedback, it was two new sellers who had no feedback/history etc. Ugh, this really is going to ruin the site isn't it?
― kitchen person, Saturday, 8 July 2023 01:08 (nine months ago) link
i cant believe there isnt a music journalist out there documenting the fall of discogs. its fascinating watching it happen in real time.— ms (@MikeSimonetti) July 17, 2023
― (picnic, lightning) very very frightening (Chinaski), Monday, 17 July 2023 15:32 (nine months ago) link
Ugh. That's frustrating. Makes me feel like a sucker for cataloging all of my stuff; it took so much time! And it's going to wind up being useless. Lesson learned: free shit on the internet will not last.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 17 July 2023 15:40 (nine months ago) link
it's been dead for a long time imo
― budo jeru, Monday, 17 July 2023 15:40 (nine months ago) link