Discogs - Help, Tricks, Secrets And Tips

djdavedk said:
Does anyone else keep a 'running cart' of stuff you might buy on Discogs? I usually look mine over and think hard how much I really want something, removing them when the urge has worn off or priorities change.

One annoying thing is when sellers de-list and re-list their entire store, it takes those items out of my cart as if they sold. I can go back to the seller and re-add them. One seller has been doing this NIGHTLY. I assume it's to freshen their listings for the emails that Discogs sends out every day, but it's such a bother.
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I've actually emailed discogs about this issue, less about the cart disappearance issue than about how certain sellers delist/relist their inventory every day so they always rise to the top of the daily email, which makes the email pointless because it's always the same sellers and the same prices who get included as "newly listed" but they're not new at all.

Discogs claimed that "we're working on this issue" but that was months ago and also explained that while some sellers might delist/relist for that reason, others have an automatic inventory system where it does this every day to remove items bought, presumably from other platforms.
 
mingerton said:
I've actually emailed discogs about this issue, less about the cart disappearance issue than about how certain sellers delist/relist their inventory every day so they always rise to the top of the daily email, which makes the email pointless because it's always the same sellers and the same prices who get included as "newly listed" but they're not new at all.

Discogs claimed that "we're working on this issue" but that was months ago and also explained that while some sellers might delist/relist for that reason, others have an automatic inventory system where it does this every day to remove items bought, presumably from other platforms.
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I'll do this sometimes. Not daily, or even weekly mind you, but every so often when I feel the well's gone dry. But when I do, I feel like I've got at least a 75% success rate of a new order within the next few days. So I guess it works, but I agree it makes the e-mails/for sale messages pointless. I don't do the e-mails anymore and just look at my wish list when I'm feeling like it. I don't need any more FOMO pressure than I already get.
 
Finally took the pirate ship plunge but can't for the life of me figure out how to get it to do media mail for me. It seems dead set on priority only.
 
What's the price difference between PayPal shipping labels and PirateShip for media mail?

Edit: Just saw this on Pirate Ship's site: "There are no discounts available for Media Mail so the rates are the same no matter where you buy the postage."
 
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swamp jazz box set said:
What's the price difference between PayPal shipping labels and PirateShip for media mail?

Edit: Just saw this on Pirate Ship's site: "There are no discounts available for Media Mail so the rates are the same no matter where you buy the postage."
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Yeah I saw that too. That's fine. I still can't even use media mail on the site.
 
Is it true that Pirate Ship offers an inexpensive insurance option?
Has anyone had to use it to cover damage in transit?
 
Might be a random question, but a local shop near me listed something on Discogs as a VG+ and cleaned on ultrasonic cleaner. I ended up buying it at their shop because visibly it looked beautiful, but when I got home and listened to it, there's definitely some areas that don't sound perfect but not due to necessarily anything on the surface of the vinyl, but probably because the grooves themselves are a little busted. If I were to go ahead and sell this record myself, should I maybe list it as a VG? Again, visibly it looks great but I also don't want to steer anyone wrong because it's by no means a perfect record. Also a bit upset considering I spent $130 on it (it's a hard to find 90s deep house 12") 🙁

Never sold before and I'm always hesitant because of situations like this
 
mitchplease said:
Might be a random question, but a local shop near me listed something on Discogs as a VG+ and cleaned on ultrasonic cleaner. I ended up buying it at their shop because visibly it looked beautiful, but when I got home and listened to it, there's definitely some areas that don't sound perfect but not due to necessarily anything on the surface of the vinyl, but probably because the grooves themselves are a little busted. If I were to go ahead and sell this record myself, should I maybe list it as a VG? Again, visibly it looks great but I also don't want to steer anyone wrong because it's by no means a perfect record. Also a bit upset considering I spent $130 on it (it's a hard to find 90s deep house 12") 🙁

Never sold before and I'm always hesitant because of situations like this
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This is one of those “if you have to ask you know the answer” questions. If you think it might deserve VG you can be 100% certain a buyer will. According to discogs, VG+ is or approaching audibly perfect. I’d say your selling a VG record. Really, I think you should detail the issue in the listing regardless which grade you select for it.
 
debianlinux said:
This is one of those “if you have to ask you know the answer” questions. If you think it might deserve VG you can be 100% certain a buyer will. According to discogs, VG+ is or approaching audibly perfect. I’d say your selling a VG record. Really, I think you should detail the issue in the listing regardless which grade you select for it.
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Yeah that’s definitely what I’d plan on doing. I think you can also upload audio clips to listings as well which is something I’d also do. I really wouldn’t want anyone else to feel the way I did after listening to it the first time. I guess on the bright side, it sounds great where there aren’t any sound issues, but it seems like every minute there’s a small section that pops for a few revolutions. And nothing against the shop either because they’ve always been good to me but damn, I had a gut feeling something was gonna be off
 
mitchplease said:
Yeah that’s definitely what I’d plan on doing. I think you can also upload audio clips to listings as well which is something I’d also do. I really wouldn’t want anyone else to feel the way I did after listening to it the first time. I guess on the bright side, it sounds great where there aren’t any sound issues, but it seems like every minute there’s a small section that pops for a few revolutions. And nothing against the shop either because they’ve always been good to me but damn, I had a gut feeling something was gonna be off
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I would honestly take it back to your local and discuss it with them. If they don't take a return, maybe they'd give you some money back.
 
djdavedk said:
I would honestly take it back to your local and discuss it with them. If they don't take a return, maybe they'd give you some money back.
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Turns out those ultrasonic cleaners work wonders! I ended up taking it back to the shop today and we ran it through the cleaner a few times and it made it sound damn near perfect. Guess all it needed was a little TLC. Now I can rest easy 🙂
 
LeeVing said:
I got a user mad that I changed the color in the FTF to the ACTUAL color of the release from the marketed color on the hype sticker - which isn't totally accurate.

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Mort Garson - Music From Patch Cord Productions

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2020 Vinyl release of "Music From Patch Cord Productions" on Discogs.
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Why would you not want it to be the actual color? What happens in 10, 20 years when someone buy it and could care less what it was marketed as?
 
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