Vinyl Junkies …

Nagaoka MP-110 is decent for the asking price.

Ended up going with this, managed to pick one up for £95 if I can get away without paying customs!

I still have my worn one. Really enjoyed it for a year or 2.

I'm thinking of opening up my studio/record storage to any diggers.

Could be evening or weekends (definitely not every w/e) , and strictly by appointment.
Croydon area

If anyone's keen pls dm me. Thanks
I've got most genres covered, couple of 1000s to look at currently.

They're maybe like £40 for a replacement one, from CDJapan. I'll confirm all is good if and when mine arrives if you like?

I'm not using it now I have the AT VM95SH. I would be interested if yours comes through without customs though as the replacement styli from the UK are quite a bit more money. I think I paid about £110 for the cart about 5 years ago.

I think about this quite regularly too. I can't see why it wouldn't attract buyers but it seems like it would be quite tough as a seller. Have you thought about trying to hire a hall locally and get a small fair together. I have the occasional daydream about that.

You can ask them to mark it as a gift and if it's coming in under£39 it should go through.

I have plenty of opportunities already to showcase my stock at various events (record fairs, festivals...) but the issue is that I always leave so much stock at home as I can only take so many records with me.
I did a few pop-ups last year with another couple of other sellers locally in S25.
Sounds like you might want a table at our next one! :D

The cartridge has just arrived and I didn't have to pay customs.

Thanks for letting me know. A bargain then. Hope you enjoy it, I had many happy hours with mine.

Certainly! There were quite a few things on there that are about half the price they are here, air mail postage was pretty cheap if you fancy the risk and/or 8 week wait

I don't suppose anyone is using this are they?

https://pypi.org/project/discogs-alert/

I have been trying to get it working for weeks. I have some reasonable software understanding but not python, I have been working through examples but keep hitting a wall with this package.

I have setup a telegram bot for dealing with the alerts and have linked to my discogs account via my personal token.

I realise my lack of knowledge is the issue, but would love to know if someone actually has it working and I am not just wasting my time on something that doesn't actually work.

I have tried to contact the developer but they do not respond.

I’m very interested in this. Will give it a go when I get a chance and see if I can get it working. The dev says he’s happy to be contacted by the looks of it so worth giving them a shout

Let me know how you get on. I have contacted them twice and had no response.

I can't even install it, there's no 'setup.py' file in the package. Fallen at the first hurdle...

I managed to install it via pip

I just did the same, with a little help from chatGPT I've reached this roadblock:

It seems like downgrading webdriver_manager to version 3.9.1 didn't
resolve the issue.

It appears that there's an incompatibility between the version of
webdriver_manager you have installed and the discogs_alert package.

Given the current situation, you might need to reach out to the
maintainers of discogs-alert to report this issue, as it might require
a fix or update from their end to ensure compatibility with the latest
versions of webdriver_manager.

Alternatively, you can try using a different version of Python that is
officially supported by both packages. You could create a virtual
environment with a compatible Python version and install the packages
there.

Another option is to try a different alerting service provided by
discogs-alert if available, or explore other similar packages that may
meet your requirements.

From memory (and I have been messing with this on and off for months!). I had a mismatch to do with chrome driver (selenium). I think I managed to sort that by but that just created another error message!

How annoying. I've wasted an hour on this so that's my lot! I've emailed the dude too, will see if he fancies replying to me

It is annoying, it would be great if we could get it going and sending 'live' alerts.

Someone mysteriously dropped this into shop I work on the same day that he painted that pic in Finsbury Park. I cycled past pissed as a fart on the night it happened. So now thinking there’s a chance that I am actually banksy. It’s a mad record.

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Thanks for reaching out! While I can't speak in much detail without seeing the specific error, I did release a new version of discogs_alert (0.0.20) yesterday afternoon, completely by chance and independently of your message, haha. That version did fix a lot of issues with the webdriver stuff in general. Would you be able to update (pip install --upgrade discogs_alert) and try again, and then if you still see an error just copy and paste it here so I can take a look.

Oh great, what a coincidence. I may have a play later if I get time. Good to see the web driver side of things has some issues and it wasn't just me!

Thanks!

I've got it working! Terminal threw a huge error about currency conversion but shortly after I got a message about one item on my list on telgram, so I guess it's working

Amazing!!!!!

Hopefully I can as well. My idea was to have it sat on a pi running all the time. I have missed so many cheap copies on my want list because of the daily email.

Did you just run it command line to test?