discogs marketplace?

yah that's what you're gonna have to do.

they should pay for shipping though. but maybe that would be pointless to ask them.

if someone has a problem we usually just give a free refund immediately if the CD/LP is $10 or under. write it off as shrinkage. if it's $$$, sadly, we have to ask people to send the thing back. but we always pay for the return shipping.

not "free" refund. full refund.

Yeah when I asked if I would need to foot the shipping bill I got the duplicate apology reply. It’s confusing

i know he's ilx alumni and all but this list seems bad and dumb:

https://www.discogs.com/digs/music/essential-house-albums/

like snap! instead of like, i dunno, larry heard?

No Todd Terry!

or metro area or moodymann or theo parrish or dj sprinkles or

if you LEAD with the 12xLP house box then after that you can pick anything you want, no?

and yes of course i own that 12XLP house box. no home should be without it.

you should have it next to the fire extinguisher and the candles and the cases of bottled water.

Well, the subhed — "Discover house music with these essential albums" — puts you on the wrong foot right from the beginning. I mean, this is not an album genre, right? It should be an entire list of multi-artist compilations, seems to me.

all of their “content” is awful advertorial crap

yes

Asked a seller this question:
I'm located in Canada. Looking at buying multiple 7"s, but after I add two to my cart, the 3rd is an extra $4 shipping - wondering if there's a way around this? Most US sellers, I seem to be able to buy 8-10 before the shipping cost jumps.

Thanks for looking into it!

And received this response:

I’m on the verge of turning off all international shipping, and messages like this push me closer to doing so. The price shown is my shipping and handling price.

Like, a simple factual answer would have been sufficient, no need to be a dick about it. As a seller myself, I don’t have the shipping 100% dialed in and I’m glad to quote someone if I can give them a bit of a break & they don’t just sound like an entitled lowballer. I just mailed a record to chile that I might barely have broken even on, because it was obvious the buyer was just a fan, not rolling in dough, and in a place where a lot of records are obviously hard to come by.

Too bad Discogs Enhancer only works on desktop… would love a decent mobile app for this site; “block seller” is a godsend but I only use desktop for Discogs about 1/3 of the time or less.

Thanks for letting me rant. Back to positive vibes only mode.

TBH, the cantankerousness of some sellers is part of the charm of record collecting. When I see a bunch of yelp reviews for a shop that say things like "the owner didn't even say hi when i walked through the door", that makes me want to check it out.

(that said, your request is completely reasonable - it seems pretty unlikely that the extra 40 grams for a third 7" pushes that shipment into a higher postage bracket. that extra $4 is definitely "handling" not "shipping")

Your post puts me in mind of the record shop I heard about recently (on Reddit?) where the owner won’t allow browsing — you stand at the door and tell him what you want and he goes & finds it. If you complain he goes full soup Nazi. And he responds to every google review and neveruseshisspacebar. Everyone who doesn’t knowwhattheywantiswastinghistime.

Somehow I love that this store exists, even as I never ever want to visit.

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“Handling”, sure — 90% of the PITA of shipping is taping up the package & printing the label & of course going to drop the packages. Once you’re on the path of sending a parcel to someone, adding another item to the package is like a freebie. “Gouging” is more like it, but hey, it’s his shop, he can do as he pleases. Plenty of reasonable humans to do business with in this world.

(Any ire detectable in the above post is, of course, not directed at you, enochroot)

Yeah there's a record store in Edinburgh where you can't browse and can only ask for what you want.
He's gotten a little more mellow recently but he's still a pretty irascible dude.
I do know someone who has managed to get inside the store and it's floor to ceiling plastic crates across multiple rooms.
It's not designed to be browsable at all

that’s kinda cool, do they list their full inventory online or do you just have to wing it?

a local store here does nightly “drops” on instagram where most of their hot records get sold, it’s fun tho!

wtf

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I think he only lists on ebay because he gets most money that way. He has an email address so you can check on stock before you travel

val shively is famously like that. won't let you in without a list.

Val’s place is a ten minute drive from my house. I have never been because I wouldn’t even know where to start.

whoa I would kind of love to just hand a shop person my list, that is cool as hell. And it’s so old fashioned too <3

do these weirdos not know that they may get more sales from letting people browse?

the best thing about record shopping for me is finding amazing stuff that i've never even heard of before. kinda hard to put that on a list tbh

I’m with you, Nick. For me the heart and soul of the hobby is crate digging. But to each a zone, I guesp.

… ok but…why not both.. most “crate digging” stuff I’ve found since like 2008 isn’t any good

hardcore dil otm

there was SO much good stuff at the record show last Sunday. yeesh. and prices were good! i really did feel like peak vinyl had passed and people were getting real again. like they just wanted to sell stuff. i was buying stuff from a guy and he was basically giving me half off everything i wanted. it was great.

love to hear that

i sold a ton of CDs. i brought really good CDs. i probably sold a hundred CDs.

there was a guy who had multiple tables who had bought a distro and was selling new records for $15 a pop. i got sealed Bitches Brew reissues. Blue Note stuff. that massive beyonce on a horse thing with the book inside. people swarmed him. every dealer. i have no idea how much money he made. but what i loved was that he was just blowing it out like the old days! not trying to get every last cent out of it. i bought maria three sweet dorothy ashby reissues.

Peak vinyl has absolutely passed. The used market is normalizing a bit. We’ll probably still see high spots getting higher, and with more mainstream adoption we’ll continue to see Herb Alpert and John Denver at “retail” prices ($10+) but the idea that every hoard of beat-up shite is a goldmine is hopefully on the wane.

i keep thinking that record shows are my future. not now but someday. i made as much in one day as i make in a week. i could do two a month and not have any store overhead and probably be good. we are celebrating our 15th year in Greenfield and the 20th anniversary seems like it might be a cool time to get out and wind down. cuz old. but we will see.

don’t get me wrong, I love “crate digging”, I am straight up obsessed with browsing in record stores, I literally dream about it every night. I tend to want to go through EVERYTHING at a store, shop until I get light headed. Sometimes I wish that stores didn’t organize their stock at all, by far my favorite thing to do is go through the recent arrival bins.

Personally, though, i did a cull recently and sold a bunch of stuff I punted on over the years that just didn’t do it for me. The process just kind of lowered my enthusiasm for that kind of thing. Too much stuff just taking up space that I don’t especially love or even like listening to much.

And where I live now, any random cool looking thing is not going to be in any bargain bin. I see cool railroad field recordings from the 50s/60s and they’re like 30 bucks. Maybe I just need to get out of the Bay Area. There are a few stores around that are pretty chill. I need to check the Groove Yard out, it’s fucking criminal that I’ve never been there.

super happy to hear recent development re: dying down of vinyl bubble tho!

yeah I'm about ready to do 50% off on all my sell crates, doing a show in May

I just checked a Melanie De Biasio record from a few years back, fully expecting to snort derisively at the price - damn if it isn't an entirely reasonable £20 including postage. Could be an anomaly but really hoping it's a sign things have calmed down.

Oh man that's weird, I was searching through my archive of unlabelled interviews WAV files for something yesterday and found an interview with Melanie from a decade or so ago - she's great. But that might have been the first time I'd thought of her in years and years.

Someone ordered a 7" single from me, spent more than half an hour searching for it before realising it must have sold at a record fair last year, sent an apology and a refund - all within hours of sale, mind! - and the reward I get from her is negative feedback.

How annoying. If I am looking to buy from a seller with recent negative feedback I’ll always check to see what it was for. I’d be happy to order from someone that’s made the occasional stock check muddle. Not all negative feedbacks are equal.

xp you might be able to get that removed, although I hear it takes a while

that's so lame.

A kid gave me flaming negative feedback over some trivial thing. I worked it out with him & he rescinded. I think a lot of younger folks don’t grok the idea of customer service, or that every online shop isn’t Amazon somehow. I bet you can work it out with her.

got cold-messaged by someone today that they have a record that’s on my wishlist, offered it to me for cheaper than what it’s currently going for on the marketplace. they otherwise have nothing listed for sale and no buyer/seller rating even tho they’ve had an account since 2014. a scam?

What a weird scam. But yes, warning do not get scammed

maybe they're just trying to dodge paying fees? but yeah I probably wouldn't get involved

That's an old Ebay scam. If you buy outside the system you don't have any recourse (I guess unless they let you use PayPal).