Vinyl Junkies …

The little card that came with this record must cause outrage in the vinyl washing community.

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I also got this recently and appreciated it a great deal.

We're washing to increase the clarity of the distortion :)

Cheers. Yes I'm being conservative with my grading, but possibly need to be more harsh. I have some 7" mailers ready to go. Do you bother with sound clips? I see it's possible, don't know if there's a limit on total storage/number though.

It's such a faff already there's no way on earth I'd bother with sound clips. Just grade fairly, set prices to sell and postage rates fairly. I make all my own mailers at work from strong cardboard, saves a bit and is a good way to reuse cardboard.

I know people who have put every record they own up on discogs, not for sale, just to share... Why anyone would do that I don't know, but there you are... Soft advertising maybe?

Actually, it probably is soft advertising... Reminds me of a flurry of emails I got a few years back asking about a particular late 60s white boy NOLA garage/soul/R&B 45 I've got... Some mod DJ had started spinning it and it got up to AU$700 on eBay... Turns out they'd found an old forum post on a soul group, I was going on about this particular label and listing which releases I had... Post was from the mid/late-90s so heavy data dredging much?

I didn't sell, probably worth fuck all now... It ain't all that, IMVHO...

https://youtu.be/qfjrLauSjsk

If they are valuable and sending via Royal Mail check their packaging advice (https://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/Royal-Mail-Our-Services-March-2017.pdf) because if something gets damaged in transit they will not payout unless it has been packed as per their guidelines. Most record mailers do not comply to this! I found this out when a copy of this got broken in transit:

https://www.discogs.com/Loefah-Digital-Mystikz-Twisup-B/release/338126

I don't bother with sound clips. Like all online selling there's some amount of smart buyers and smart sellers getting along with a few a**holes flailing around messing with the peace and calm.

I've sold a few hundred over many years and very few have gone wrong recently but in the beginning it was tricky.

Do you mean you know people who have their collections on Discogs so they can say to other people look at what I've got?

My collection used to be public and I sold a few records that way but I got too many requests for mp3's which I struggle to be polite about. I do have almost everything I own in my Discogs collection though. It's taken years.

Yeah, I did... Who has the time for that?!?

Twenty plus years ago I mp3d a hundred or so of my favourite party banger 45s just so I could listen to them on my iPod and share them with friends, I think it took me a whole weekend... Nah, can't be bothered with that stuff anymore... 😋

It's weird. I'm only into it for the music so the collection is how I got to where I am now. I don't think it would mean much to anyone else to see it all listed on Discogs. It's worth it for me to keep an eye on what it's worth and sell some stuff I'm not using though.

Another silly discogs Q. I assume it's possible, but can you change pricing once a record is listed? I see you have to set price as part of the batch upload process, but it's going to be easier for me to navigate to each record once they're up there, not but much, but copy and pasting 300+ listing numbers is going to get annoying, so considering uploading all with a silly price of £100 or something, then going through and editing prices once they're all up.

Wait, why am I even bothering with my own spreadsheet!? I should be cataloguing everything directly on discogs

That is what I am slowly doing

I do it piece by piece. If you then want to dump the inventory to a spreadsheet and edit it to re upload that might be sensible.

Anyone ordered the "jazz bundle" from Zavvi during recent Black Friday?
I've received mine and got a few duplicates.
Would like to swap for similar new/sealed/unplayed 180gr jazz vinyls, ideally from SE London as I'd like to avoid using the postal service for now since they all seem overwhelmed and running off their feet.

I seem to remember you can upload a csv to discogs.

Yeah that was my plan originally, but you have to find the listing number anyway, so it turned out to be much easier to hit the 'sell this record' button on each listing.

There are downloads available for inventory and collection. You can unlist items in the inventory and they become draft items. Then download a csv of the inventory and change details/prices if you find that easier. Upload again.

There are some more sophisticated programs available for bigger sellers and the discogs API is fairly open if you can write a bit of script. It doesn't really get around the fact that you need an accurate release number and a grading for the item you want to sell.

One of my regrets is not taking pictures of the items when I first added and graded them, that way they could be easily advertised on ebay which is apparently still quite a good way to sell some records. People like to see the actual item and the buying process is a bit more unified and streamlined on ebay.

You can download the info from Discogs as a CSV which should give that.

You need to have added the item to a collection before you can download it as a csv so you still need to have identified the actual release on the site.

I keep a spreadsheet system with the release numbers attached but I still have to look them up and add them to my collection. They then get listed in the inventory if they are being sold. Oddly though they don't get erased from the collection if they're sold. In fact it's very easy to run an inventory without having a collection. You see quite a few examples. Where there are only 10 or so of a release in collections but 20 offered for sale.

There's a new site which has a slightly different approach. I'm probably going to give it a try with some of the more expensive records.

https://www.elvinyl.com

I am late to the party as ever, but did lol

I'm joining the Vinyl Cleaning Club this Christmas.

I've only got deionised water rather than distilled water. Is it okay to use still? Or should I really need the distilled one?