discogs marketplace?

Whenever I see records leaning forward I always try to set them back, but my personal rule is to only try twice and if they insist on leaning forward I leave them.

hi enochroot, I did get your ILXmail but I was unable to translate that message to a FB profile, you can email me directly using sleeve (at) efn (dot) org

Discogs has acquired wantlister.com so at least the fucking wantlist emails will actually be useful now

I hadn’t heard of them, has anyone tried it… hope they have some good devs they can bring along!

yeah I've been using it for ages, they sent me an email saying since I was already using it on their site I'm on the early adoption list on Discogs so I've just copied the filters over, but I'm not sure when/if that switches over to my Discogs wantlist emails which I just delete without reading normally. and don't know when regular Discogs users can use it

basically it means you can specify things like country, minimum sleeve/media conditions, max price etc and you can configure that per artist/release or just for everything

it also filters out when sellers relist their whole inventory every day

that's the best feature of all. I've removed things I've wanted from my list just because I got sick of seeing the same overpriced copy appear every single day

Would be good if you could see what someone wanted to pay for something so you could adjust the price if it was worthwhile.

xp same

i tried wantlister but it wasn't able to do any of the things i wanted, and it was impossible to use, so i gave up. maybe this will be better though

it's definitely true that the discogs wantlist feature leaves a lot to be desired

it's basically the same as wantlister, but I thought it was pretty simple to use? not sure what the problem was

there was this whole interface where you had to basically manually enter each record you wanted to add to each grouping of filters as i recall? so it just ended up being like you would have to construct a new wantlist from scratch because you couldn't even use your existing wantlist to build new groupings. and the whole thing just struck me as naive, like "never see a record in less than VG+ condition" and it's like dude i'm collecting jamaican 7"s

you can add each record individually if you want to, but you can just leave that blank and it applies to everything

if you don't want to exclude VG or G+ just set it to that? or don't set it? not really understanding the problem here tbh

i actually corresponded with the guy who made wantlister and he told me that most ppl who use wantlister have less than 30 records in their list, and the majority of them simply want to set a minimum grade and country of seller and then essentially leave it as is until forever

which is a model that doesn't really work for the kind of collecting i do

it doesn't work for me to apply the same settings to all 3000 records in my wantlist, and i found it way too time-consuming to build sub-groups, so i gave it up. does that make sense?

lol I have 19000 in my wantlist and works for me, but then I don't really want to buy records from other countries and pay more in shipping than the record cost

plus with that many in the wantlist the daily relisting thing made the original discogs email completely useless

yeah. it wasn't clear to me how wantlister solved that problem either actually, which is of course the most annoying thing about the discogs wantlist. to me the greatest improvement would be if you could simply filter out certain sellers when you are using the Marketplace feature

it just does that internally, you don't need to do anything, it must keep a cache of listings and if the seller and price matches the cache it doesn't bother to include it again

I’ve not looked at it but presumably it’s a bit like camelcamelcamel in you can set a maximum price you’d want to pay.

unfortunately blocking individual sellers doesn't seem to be a thing

xp yes you can do that

Hey all, as a Discogs novice, I'm wondering what is an acceptable time to wait before giving a seller a nudge? I ordered something on the 13th June and we're still at 'payment received', there's been no notification of despatch yet.

That’s plenty of time for a nudge.

Thanks!

I seem to come across a lot of discogs sellers that have stuff in there terms like DO NOT HASSLE ME, I AM A BUSY PERSON WITH A DAY JOB AND WILL GET AROUND TO SHIPPING WHEN I FEEL LIKE IT. IF YOU BOTHER ME I WILL JUST CANCEL YOUR ORDER, MANY THANKS. I usually don’t mind waiting a couple of weeks for domestic orders.

Yeah I wait at least a week but idk

I recently bought an item from a seller in Germany (I live in France). He gave me a tracking number which confirms that he posted it four weeks ago. Both the German and French postal websites just say that the item is "currently being delivered". The seller has no additional information. What am I supposed to do? How can it take 4 weeks for an item to move from one neighbouring EU country to another?

That doesn’t sound right. Is there a way to follow up with your local service? I waited 3 working days for a standard shipping service from Germany to the UK last month. That’s pretty normal.

I've had stuff take 6 weeks to get from the UK to mainland Europe tbf

Royal Mail won't consider a refund for lost packages before 4 weeks

I try to get everything out within three days, will send an apology if I don't.

my seller terms say I post once a week on Saturdays (I quite often do more than that but don't want to hold myself to it) but nobody reads those, although I've only had 2 disgruntled customers who failed to read, the rest were fine about it

the last time I nudged someone after 5 or so days they responded that they had been going through some shit with their elderly parent. i replied, oh no take your time and sorry that's happening. a few days later i got one email saying my record had shipped and another telling me i got a full refund. it was only a 7 dollar record but they paid for shipping as well. i think talking to someone like an actual human and not writing something like "wtf where's my record???" can go a long way

I'm going to go back and read the terms then probably leave it until after the weekend

the last time I nudged someone after 5 or so days they responded that they had been going through some shit with their elderly parent. i replied, oh no take your time and sorry that’s happening. a few days later i got one email saying my record had shipped and another telling me i got a full refund. it was only a 7 dollar record but they paid for shipping as well. i think talking to someone like an actual human and not writing something like “wtf where’s my record???” can go a long way

Absolutely. I’ve nudged a couple of times, both at around a week of no movement. The first one, the guy replied that his store was moving premises and it turned out they didn’t have what I want (that pissed me off a bit, I could have gone somewhere else sooner) but I didn’t make a thing of it. The other one, the guy said he was dealing with cancer treatment and I was obviously like, take your time (I got it a couple of weeks later). Really, mostly I just want to know that someone at the other end got my order; if it takes a few weeks, so be it, so long as I know a human is handling it. I don’t need it tomorrow, it’s not Amazon Prime.

Quick update, sent a polite message three days ago requesting an update, no response. I believe Discogs advises a four days wait before any more action, I'll leave it another four days, then that'll be a week since my message (and more than two weeks since the initial purchase). Curious though, the seller has 100% feedback.

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thanks, i have a couple dozen faberge eggs i've been meaning to unload.

I had a CD sale to someone in Chile. No problem, I thought.

Then I find the cheapest postage is £35

Happy to report that my guy got back with profuse apologies and even an offer to refund some of the money for the extra hassle (which I refused), he seemed genuine but also (reading between the lines) a little anxious that I might leave him negative feedback, which I won't, life happens.

Once on eBay I had someone leave negative feedback after they a) won the auction, b) vanished and never paid, c) and then after i left negative feedback they claimed they had the record because they had paid and i already sent it.

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Had one on Discogs that bought a cd, never paid, a month later I cancelled. Then a week later they left me a positive review!

Arg, watch out - the “new improved” inventory tools managed to relist some banned bootlegs which had been sitting around for years and which I had sold elsewhere in the meantime. These were then ordered by sellers and now I’m out of pocket for Paypal fees.

Hang on, you can still cancel "item unavailable" and get your PayPal fees back directly

you don't get a refund on Paypal fees when you cancel an order. only Discogs fees

Swines

Yeah, Paypal brought that in 2 or 3 years ago.

site now appears to be 100% broken, all the time

Fun!

It's ok now