Discogs: Hot or Not

[captainsalty]

hey guys,

would be interested in your experiences with discogs. i remember many people ridiculed it when it started, claiming it was a graveyard for stale records.

in recent times, i've come to enjoy the site quite a bit. the info has improved, and it's always interesting to have statistics on on-site sales. you might even luck into finding a good deal if you are at the right place at the right time.

one might think that it could be a measure to regulate prices for records. like, if you wanna sell for example bobby brelyn, hanna, and you think it's the holy grail, you will have to adjust your pricing. of course, if you got the only copy of a record, it will be a different story.

discogs users: what was the best thing you got there?

 

[Dave Baldwin]

hey guys,

would be interested in your experiences with discogs. i remember many people ridiculed it when it started, claiming it was a graveyard for stale records.

in recent times, i've come to enjoy the site quite a bit. the info has improved, and it's always interesting to have statistics on on-site sales. you might even luck into finding a good deal if you are at the right place at the right time.

one might think that it could be a measure to regulate prices for records. like, if you wanna sell for example bobby brelyn, hanna, and you think it's the holy grail, you will have to adjust your pricing. of course, if you got the only copy of a record, it will be a different story.

discogs users: what was the best thing you got there?

I put up quality vinyl and it always sells if I price realistically. It's also a great place to offload rare CDs and box sets.
Lots of international buyers show up for the psych, soul and sunshine pop stuff. I've found a few really good deals
over the years, especially on UK freakbeat singles and oddball major label garage.

 

[sonnyboypaco]

hey guys,

would be interested in your experiences with discogs. i remember many people ridiculed it when it started, claiming it was a graveyard for stale records.

in recent times, i've come to enjoy the site quite a bit. the info has improved, and it's always interesting to have statistics on on-site sales. you might even luck into finding a good deal if you are at the right place at the right time.

one might think that it could be a measure to regulate prices for records. like, if you wanna sell for example bobby brelyn, hanna, and you think it's the holy grail, you will have to adjust your pricing. of course, if you got the only copy of a record, it will be a different story.

discogs users: what was the best thing you got there?

Best thing I got there?
A (close to) mint copy of The Alarm Clocks 45 for $125.

 

[undertheclock]

hey guys,

would be interested in your experiences with discogs. i remember many people ridiculed it when it started, claiming it was a graveyard for stale records.

in recent times, i've come to enjoy the site quite a bit. the info has improved, and it's always interesting to have statistics on on-site sales. you might even luck into finding a good deal if you are at the right place at the right time.

one might think that it could be a measure to regulate prices for records. like, if you wanna sell for example bobby brelyn, hanna, and you think it's the holy grail, you will have to adjust your pricing. of course, if you got the only copy of a record, it will be a different story.

discogs users: what was the best thing you got there?

Hangmen of Fairfield County Stacey

 

[Nightrocker]

Was that the recent $2,500 / best offer copy? Was curious what that wound up selling for, since there's no online price history for sellers to gauge.

 

[undertheclock]

In my opinion, this record is so rare it's in Holy Grail territory for CT collectors. Thus, I think that within a range the price depends to a significant degree on the motivation of the buyer ( assuming the seller knows what he has). Given that, my opinion is that right now a 1-2 grand range seems reasonable to me. There still is no online price history though.
Am I proud of physically threatening him? No, but I was a motivated buyer.

 

[vinyl01]

Was that the recent $2,500 / best offer copy? Was curious what that wound up selling for, since there's no online price history for sellers to gauge.

The way i understand it with Discogs is that the sale has to be completed with payment to have a sales history. Therefore, either the sale did not go through or the seller took it off the market. Since the record is not for sale now the seller removed it from his listings.

 

[Heitkotter77]

A sale isn't added immediately to the sales history. There's a time lag, usually until after the next invoicing period. This is to allow time to make sure the sale goes through and doesn't get cancelled (non-payment, never received, etc.).

 

[vinyl01]

A sale isn't added immediately to the sales history. There's a time lag, usually until after the next invoicing period. This is to allow time to make sure the sale goes through and doesn't get cancelled (non-payment, never received, etc.).

Yes, once the seller pays his Discogs bill for all his item sold then the sales history gets updated.

 

[bosshoss]

I don't usually look at Discogs. However I took a look today and noticed this

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/930819735

The picture sleeve shown for sale must be a photocopy, because I own the original sleeve with those exact autographs.
Anyway, it's the yellow vinyl pressing which never had a picture sleeve.

edit - oh I see how it works. The data (including sleeve picture) is from the discogs database, not provided by the seller. Obviously that system is not ideal, and can be very misleading for a potential buyer.

 

[Heitkotter77]

Did you ever post a photo of your sleeve online? If so, someone used it to enter it on the release page for the yellow vinyl.

Even though one isn't supposed to make entries for records not owned, it happens all the time. They goes even more so for images.
I've had people there replace photos I put up from my own copies with images they found online (and all too often quite inferior ones) just so they could get a few more previous rank points.

 

[cracker]

i don't think sales get archived unless one or both parties leave feedback. i usually don't leave feedback, tho i probably should for things i get on the cheap

most of the garage up there is from the same 10 aggregators listing their same tired inventory for 200% on yet another platform. some nice random treats still slip thru the cracks tho. grading is hard to gauge, but in general people, esp. new sellers seem to undergrade so i've been happy with things most of the time. but the VG nosebleed price jailers who just leave that shit up month after month def ruin the possibility for deals, if anyone ever sells a copy for $$, the threshold is set, nobody ever goes below that number, even if the condition sucks

 

[Frantic]

A pretty famous record buyer, label owner, hipster once bought a $900 sealed LP from me. Double boxed and insured and positive feedback left for him by me as soon as he paid. It took him 3 days to pay. It was delivered safely and I waited almost 3 weeks for positive feedback, I dropped him a friendly line through ebay and asked him if he was happy with his purchase and could he please leave me feedback? He didn't answer. A week later I asked again. He came back within seconds and said and I quote "I'm too busy and I'll leave you feedback if I get time. I wrote back "In the time it just took you to respond to me you could have left feedback. I then blocked him and he will never have the opportunity to buy another rare record from me again. Weather I buy or sell on Ebay, I always leave feedback.

 

[MopTopMike]

I don't usually look at Discogs. However I took a look today and noticed this

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/930819735

The picture sleeve shown for sale must be a photocopy, because I own the original sleeve with those exact autographs.
Anyway, it's the yellow vinyl pressing which never had a picture sleeve.

edit - oh I see how it works. The data (including sleeve picture) is from the discogs database, not provided by the seller. Obviously that system is not ideal, and can be very misleading for a potential buyer.

That listing is incorrect (surprise), the red label 45 was not issued with the picture sleeve as shown.

The colored wax pressings were housed in the sleeves hyping movie theater appearances by the Monacles.

 

[bosshoss]

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The colored wax pressings were housed in the sleeves hyping movie theater appearances by the Monacles.

I have a couple of those but they are black & white photocopies, really badly reproduced. I've always wondered if that's the way they were issued? The one for "Debbie" is properly printed, but the others are not even sleeves, they are just roughly folded pieces of photocopy paper, with a hole hacked out with scissors. Are they all like that, or just mine?

 

[undertheclock]

For Hangmen of Fairfield County there will not be a sale listing.

 

[vinyl01]

According to the history it looks like our Chas-Kit put the scans up unless someone else is using that name.

 

[Heitkotter77]

That is Chas (profile has a link to Garage Hangover). He entered the record pics.
The sleeve pic was entered by someone called kiyote00. His submission note says he got it from 45cat.

 

[vinyl01]

That was 3 years ago, but Chas_kit was 7 months ago.

 

[vinyl01]

However, 6 months ago he did say that the black is probably the original release.