Buying/Selling via Discogs

[fred_funk]

Has anybody used it?

Waddya think?

 

[turpieaj]

Ive bought from discogs (SBAM -take me away £8)- only the once but a good experience. I have in my username profile added a list of pukka people who can be trusted with transactions and add to it as I go along.

Only problem is you click "buy" and you need to wait until the seller confirms that the item is still available


Andy

 

[fred_funk]

I was thinking about starting to use it, predominantly for selling but was a bit worried about the fact that I'd then have that and Gemm effectively selling the same stuff. I might give it a go. If anything, it'd be interesting to see how many people act on their wantlists.

 

[turpieaj]

Give it a go - trial say 100 tunes and take it from there

Andy

 

[Presuming Ed]

Yeah, I've used it for both buying and selling-so far it's been very positive! Ed

 

[Mike]

Likewise, have bought and sold on there, and so far there have been no problems! A great way of clearing out some of the stuff I don't listen to or play any more which is just taking up space.. There's no listing fee like ebay either, just the final value fee when you make a sale. When I'm after a tune now it's the first place I check to see if one's available - before ebay or gemm.

 

[fred_funk]

Give it a go - trial say 100 tunes and take it from there

Andy

I was thinking of doing that and seeing how I get on. I spent a bit of time sorting out postage rates, etc. last night so I'll maybe get a few listed tonight.

 

[Presuming Ed]

It's also loads easier to list, as all the information on the record is stored in the database, you just need to write a short description of Condition (don't even really need to do that if the condition matches one that's specified). Ed

 

[chris17]

I was thinking about starting to use it, predominantly for selling but was a bit worried about the fact that I'd then have that and Gemm effectively selling the same stuff. I might give it a go. If anything, it'd be interesting to see how many people act on their wantlists.

i've used it for buying once and it was spot on as for the wantlist thing there was only one copy of the record i bought but it was on 12 peoples wantlist and none of them had bought it
if you have a record on your want list does it email you when becomes available ????

 

[waxHead]

if you have a record on your want list does it email you when becomes available ????

No, discogs.com doesn't email you if someone's an item that's on your wantlist. It would be great if it did, save the hassle of continuosly going through my wantlist to see if someone listed a big want.

 

[Mike]

No, discogs.com doesn't email you if someone's an item that's on your wantlist. It would be great if it did, save the hassle of continuosly going through my wantlist to see if someone listed a big want.

I agree an email feature when the tune's listed would be nice - however if you go to 'my discogs' there's a feature on there at the bottom - 'show items for sale in my wantlist' Providing you don't have a stupidly large list of wants, it's fairly easy to browse every few days for a few minutes to see if anything's come up

 

[fred_funk]

Not sure I am too keen on the 60 day relisting rule