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Another trick/tip for you.

Ever wanted to set different shipping on different items? Like to have a sale on something where shipping is free, or reduced shipping, or Both on several different items?

Set your shipping for weight and add Tiers for different charges that are below the lightest thing you sell. I do mine like this:

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So if I want to offer free shipping, I go to the inventory entry and tell it the weight of the record is 1 (or whatever pricing tier I want), and I don't affect the rest of my items.

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Then you get this:

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Has anyone had requests to send to a freight forwarding address?
I have someone interested in a record and the live abroad but said I can send to a U.K. address and it will get forwarded on. The only concern I have is I don’t want to be held responsible for any damage the package may have once it’s in the hands of the freight forwarder.
 
Skacel said:
Has anyone had requests to send to a freight forwarding address?
I have someone interested in a record and the live abroad but said I can send to a U.K. address and it will get forwarded on. The only concern I have is I don’t want to be held responsible for any damage the package may have once it’s in the hands of the freight forwarder.
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I've done it several times, no issues at all. To me my responsibility ends when it gets delivered to the address they asked me to send to.

And I'm sure paypal recognizes that as the destination as well.
 
I think someone else may need to explain how vinyl releases can be considered reissue of CDs

This user seems to think vinyl being a different medium can't be a reissue of a CD release....even though the reissue guideline specifically states reissues are independent of format.

This release was recently edited to the expanded format - which then allows for the use of the Reissue tag in each format line. Their one argument that vinyl can't be a reissue of a cd release is not correct.

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Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Soundtrack

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2018 Vinyl release of "The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Soundtrack" on Discogs.
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I added the reissue tags to each album line and posted a link to a thread that discussed adding the reissue tag to separate albums within a box set, thinking this would be the issue people had.

They reverted this edit - I added it back - explaining things a bit better - they then reverted it again - I followed with an E.I.
 
How long do you wait on a payment being flipped to received? It's been 4 days and I've reached out to the seller with no response and thinking about disputing it through PP.
 
AnthonyI said:
How long do you wait on a payment being flipped to received? It's been 4 days and I've reached out to the seller with no response and thinking about disputing it through PP.
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does the seller outline how long they will take to ship? might check their terms first. a little patience might be in order. not everyone is running a full-fledged store. i definitely try to ship out within 2 business days, but i'm just one guy doing this as a hobby and there are tons just like me.

regardless, if they ignore you just ASKING a question, click the "seller not responding" button to have the discogs system ping them.
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Seller Not Responding & Buyer Awaiting Response

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GentleSenator said:
does the seller outline how long they will take to ship? might check their terms first. a little patience might be in order. not everyone is running a full-fledged store. i definitely try to ship out within 2 business days, but i'm just one guy doing this as a hobby and there are tons just like me.

regardless, if they ignore you just ASKING a question, click the "seller not responding" button to have the discogs system ping them.
support.discogs.com

Seller Not Responding & Buyer Awaiting Response

Seller Not Responding reports and Buyer Awaiting Response notices are part of an automated process begun by the buyer, to prompt communication on the order page from a seller. If a seller is not co...
support.discogs.com support.discogs.com
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Oh, I'm patient, I just sent a message asking if they got my payment since it had been sitting as payment pending for 3 days.........crickets as of yet.
 
I always manually move the order to Payment Received but some sellers might skip to moving the order to Shipped. If you ordered on Friday, that’s two business days without a response or your order being shipped. The Seller Not Responding button should appear right around the time when I’d say it’s worth escalating, so just keep an eye out for it and click it, if the seller doesn’t reply or ship before then. IMO, filing a dispute on PayPal 2-3 business days after an order is placed is an aggressive approach to asking for a message reply—I’d stick with the Discogs options for now. Good luck!
 
AnthonyI said:
Oh, I'm patient, I just sent a message asking if they got my payment since it had been sitting as payment pending for 3 days.........crickets as of yet.
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just follow the above then. no real reason for a seller to be completely inattentive to someone who's given you their money. that's why they have the function.
 
LeeVing said:
Got some assholes that don't understand the new-ish Stereo tag guideline or the blanked country to signify a worldwide release.

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The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2014 Vinyl release of "Lost In The Dream" on Discogs.
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I vote EI when valid data is removed
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I don't like the new Stereo tag guidelines. But guidelines are guidelines so trying to argue it is useless. Again, people think it's their own personal database instead of a community.
 
dbarila said:
I don't like the new Stereo tag guidelines. But guidelines are guidelines so trying to argue it is useless. Again, people think it's their own personal database instead of a community.
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I actually think it's better than it used to be. I get that most releases are now in Stereo, but I'm of the "document the release" camp. Needing to know about all other releases for differentiation purposes makes no sense when collecting data.

It's like the "gatefold" guideline. If one single release among 100 comes out in a single sleeve vs the 99 that are gatefold, those 99 then can be edited to have gatefold in the FTF. Where as if the releases were just documented with what they are, then we wouldn't need all the retconning.
 
LeeVing said:
Got some assholes that don't understand the new-ish Stereo tag guideline or the blanked country to signify a worldwide release.

www.discogs.com

The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2014 Vinyl release of "Lost In The Dream" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com www.discogs.com


I vote EI when valid data is removed
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that ViNyL.ExPLoSion guy has been making stupid comments on a handful of my edits/submissions too.
 
And from that other users post I guess I'm either a noob or noob minded person.

The user that said "Valid data that is absolutely useless should be taken out." called me a noob.


I do get that I shouldn't post that many comments...but a lot of this was happening while I was at work and could only get on my phone at random times to post a link to the guidelines when I could.
 
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LeeVing said:
And from that other users post I guess I'm either a noob or noob minded person.

The user that said "Valid data that is absolutely useless should be taken out." called me a noob.


I do get that I shouldn't post that many comments...but a lot of this was happening while I was at work and could only get on my phone at random times to post a link to the guidelines when I could.
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yeah, well the cherry on top was my idiotic complete & correct vote. sorry about that.
 
GentleSenator said:
does the seller outline how long they will take to ship? might check their terms first. a little patience might be in order. not everyone is running a full-fledged store. i definitely try to ship out within 2 business days, but i'm just one guy doing this as a hobby and there are tons just like me.
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I’ve just started properly listing things for sale this week (trying to thin out the collection) and it feels like I’ve got a second job! It’s been quite eye opening tbh.

Here’s a tip for folk tho (since this is the tips thread) if you see a record listed for a reasonable price and it’s the only one and doesn’t come up very often then maybe you should just buy it instead of trying to haggle because someone will just swoop in and buy it for the listed price.
 
GentleSenator said:
yeah, well the cherry on top was my idiotic complete & correct vote. sorry about that.
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No worries. I have a feeling those 2 users that don't like the Stereo tag aren't going to be of assistance figuring out which stays and which goes.

The 28427 RTI number in variant 1 is a later reissue, pressed in 2017.

The 22984 RTI number in variant 2 looks to be the original 2014 release.

I would suggest removing variant 1 and 3 to a new subs, as the sub was made in 2014 for the original release.
 
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