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Clear Vinyl copy of Polysemy is on Amazon Warehouse deals (VG) for $8.93. Mestis

Amazon Warehouse has a 'very good' condition Placebo box for $36.69: Placebo Box

That's a tremendous price on the Beatles set. Free Shipping too!

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I have received all of my oddbanana buys from last week now. All were in new condition, all were LPs and not CDs. I'm a little ticked off, though: for my Day Of the Dead set they used the nice printed white 4AD pizza box as the outside packing box: it is covered with the mailing and tracking labels and packing tape. Grrrr!

Man, those are top-dollar albums you are asking for, and most of us bought the Day Of The Dead set last week on EBay for cheap. Good luck.

Thank you for your post, but I respectfully disagree. I believe emphatically that the customer can end up with the money and the LP. Perhaps your different experiences were Paypal transactions that went through EBay first? The policies for Ebay / Paypal transactions are different. It also matters HOW the customer funded his Paypal payment. If he used a credit card, and he is complaining through a credit card chargeback, I think he actually has greater leverage over the seller than I suggested earlier.

I think you are just putting yourself in a weak position. As it stands: 1) If you stop communicating: you lose the case, you lose your money, he keeps the LP. 2) If he stops communicating: the case expires, you keep your money, he keeps the LP. He doesn't sound like he plans to stop communicating, so all you are doing is forcing him to provide proof of damage. The photos he sends you will be sent through by Paypal and reviewable by them if called upon. You are creating a situation where the customer might consider damaging the item further and then sending photos to prove his point. The customer's photos, regardless of what they show, will not help your case get resolved. 1) The photos show the item is clearly damaged (whether by you, the customer, or the post office: it doesn't matter): Paypal will probably resolve the claim in the customer's favor: he gets to keep the item and the money. 2) The photos do NOT show the item is clearly damaged: I think Paypal will side with the customer regardless and ask him to return the item to receive a refund. You can accomplish the same result right now without forcing the customer to photograph, and potentially damage, the LP. He will return the LP, perhaps in perfect condition, for a refund. Or, as I expect might happen, he gives up, keeps the LP and you recover your money after the complaint expires. There are no photos that the customers can provide that can win your case for you. You do not have the option of cancelling the complaint if you feel the photos prove you are right and the customer is wrong. All it does is help you decide whether you will require the customer to return the item before he gets his refund from you.

"Ask for pictures"?? Seriously? As a Discogs buyer I would stop communication at this point in the conversation and demand my money back from Paypal and use your message as proof that you are not negotiating in good faith. I think you should just authorize the customer's return. He will be responsible for return shipping and providing proof of delivery back to you. He has a certain time limit to do so, I can't remember how long he has. Paypal has already taken the money from your account anyway so you have to do something to get the process of recovering the money under way. In my experience, you will shake out 50% of the buyer complaints at this point in the process. They will be unhappy but will never complete the return. On Amazon or Ebay, where customer's feedback is an issue to consider, I might recommend something different, but on Discogs I don't have the sense that feedback numbers matter so much. All IMO.

I mentioned my experience before. I ordered 4 Nightwish albums recently at $9.99/each on one of the Popmarket sales. They promptly shipped 3, but all 4 were shown on the packing slip, and my order online read fulfilled. Popmarket did not respond to two emails. I visited their Facebook page and learned that others were having similar experiences. I filed a claim through American Express to recover the $9.99 I was out. Several days after my claim I received an appropriate refund and a short email from Popmarket. It wasn't really an apology, it was more of a short 'here is your money back, thankyouverymuch'. Listen, I have a particular philosophical problem with this business model: it is at least 10 years old, maybe 15 years old. When my order arrived from a Kentucky fulfillment center I realized that, in all likelihood, Popmarket is simply marketing the inventory of a larger wholesaler, not marketing their own inventory or expertise. There was an excellent post on this topic in another thread several days ago. This business model for media came and went 10 years ago. Nowadays, as we've all seen, the wholesalers and one-stops routinely make their own retail sales on all the same popular websites. Popmarket and their handful of employees hopes (hoped?) to provide some sort of unique content and draw customers to them, but perhaps it isn't happening quickly enough to be profitable. IMO, the dollars you might save is not worth the potential for aggravation later, and Popmarket does not offer any unique products. Everything on their site was available elsewhere at similar prices.

The one on Discogs for $30 plus s/h is the cheapest I've seen in a while.

The 80's synth sound group Starfighter 'Night Runner': I am not using the download. bandcamp.com/yum rgd7-hkdg

I just received a refund for the second Ryan Adams Heartbreaker Deluxe I ordered. There was no explanation provided. I had bought it this morning.

Feb1775 is working for 20% off. Barnes and Noble has a 30% off coupon this weekend as well: L775CEDF61D74 . I just ordered the Porcupine Tree LP box set, came out cheaper from BN than CC. Free shipping!

... a/k/a Discogs sellers stevegamboa, I think. Good prices, prompt shipping. What's not to like? ... a/k/a Discogs sellers stevegamboa, I think. Good prices, prompt shipping. What's not to like?

Ebay seller This Ebay seller has re-stocked many of his sold items from yesterday: Screaming Females - Rose Mountain [Vinyl, New] $6.00 BENOIT PIOULARD Hymnal NEW/SEALED KRANKY DRONE/AMBIENT VINYL LP $5.00 One Second of Love by Nite Jewel (Vinyl, Mar-2012, Secretly Canadian) $7.50 Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2 EP LP Vinyl NEW $6.00 ADULT. The Way Things Fall LP NEW VINYL Ghostly International Ersatz Audio $4.75 Mastodon - The Motherload/Halloween [Vinyl 12" Picture Disc] RSD NEW $10.00 Turn to Gold * by Diarrhea Planet (Vinyl, Jun-2016, Infinity Cat Recordings) $5.32 Fever 121614 by Deerhoof (Vinyl, Nov-2015, Polyvinyl) $6.00 7 Skies H3 by The Flaming Lips (Vinyl, Apr-2014, Warner Bros.) $9.02 Besnard Lakes A Coliseum Complex Museum LP Colored vinyl $5.00

Panda Bear is back up for $8. Panda Bear deluxe

Here's another eBay seller with low prices and excellent feedback: he does not offer a shipping discount for combined items though. Examples: Besnard Lakes latest on colored wax: $5.00 plus shipping Besnard Lakes Panda Bear 'Grim Reaper' deluxe 3-LP set $8.00 plus shipping Panda Bear Aphex Twin 'Computer Controlled 2' EP $6.00 plus shipping Aphex Twin It looks like he has quantities of many of the titles. Here is a link to all of his active viny listings: EBay Seller

A couple of new oddbanana cheapie titles up on EBay now: Mew + / - from 2015: $4.76 plus shipping Mew Brothertiger 'Future Splendor' on the Mush UK label (it's a one man 80's electropop project like The Midnight): $2.38 plus shipping Brothertiger Saintseneca 'Such Things': $2.69 2LP SaintSeneca

I have looked into this a little further. It looks like importcds/ccmusic/deepdiscount/oddbanana all share a common heritage with the big California distributor Super D (www.sdcd.com). I am not sure how all of the shipments coming from Kentucky figure into it., but I see that many other types of businesses also have warehouses in the Louisville / Shepherdsville area. It must be their proximity to the big UPS hub there.

One other highly regarded soundtrack (on blue wax, I think): Slow West score on Lakeshore Records, Amazon Warehouse lists as Still Sealed for $10.75. Slow West score

Cheap on Amazon.com with free prime shipping: Condition listed as Still Sealed: Hans Zimmer 'The Milan Years' 2LP from Europe on 180g vinyl: 10.68 Hans Zimmer

I'm not sure what to say, I'm seeing $32.49 and the link is live and accepting orders. Maybe you have your Amazon set to only see in-stock offers? This is out-of-stock but accepted on February 21, per the listing.

Amazon Warehouse Deals is offering the DELUXE set for $32.49. It is out of stock but expected in soon. They are accepting large quantity orders, which might mean these are overstock, and not damaged. XX Deluxe 32.49

I won't belabor the point, this isn't the right thread and I don't think Vinyl Collective members really care that much, but in general terms, it goes back to the e-commerce concept of 'The Long Tail'. (You could start reading here: http://www.thelongtail.com/about.html . Basically, when you go to an obscure Amazon.com listing and see there are 29 dealers offering new copies for sale at various prices, the truth of the matter is there might be only a single copy of this record, sitting on a warehouse shelf in Kentucky, and everyone is offering the same exact disc as if it was there own. Most of VC's favorite dealers do not operate this way: they actually buy and hold the LP inventory they offer for sale online. Most importantly, they know when it goes out of stock and can adjust their listings accordingly. In the 'old days' of 2005, an active buyer of CDs or DVDs might receive cancel notices on 25% of their orders place with third-party sellers on Amazon.