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You guys (I'm talking about album buyers, not producers) sure do have a little business going there on Discogs.

Well, I've only made two purchase transactions on discogs.  The first one I got no response from anyone.  The second one went smooth. I'm not totally comfortable with discogs yet for buying.  The selling is probably better than I made it sound, just takes a long time for payment and a couple no-shows, and there was one disc I sent out that apparently didn't have the disc inside (it was shrinkwrapped so I didn't know) and the person who bought it lives in Germany and just flipped out on me calling me a "murderer" (must have been a language barrier thing there because that's kinda crazy talk) but otherwise OK I guess.  I've only sold one title to the U.S. and the rest to Europe & Canada via discogs (Europe is where most orders originate these days).

Yeah, that's really dumb, but problem I've had is more trouble with buyers. 1 out of 3 orders the person doesn't respond to the invoice I send and since discogs' fee format doesn't keep track of when or even if I receive a payment I still have to pay the $1 per disc it costs me to sell on there. But I never get a darn payment. Apparently, I can't get a refund from discogs but I can get credit for the next sale, but i have to mess around with some form and stuff.... Kind of a mess on both ends of the transaction.

Hang in there though!

J.

Actually Forrest, I'm a pretty shy person myself.  Jesse was my first big celebrity so I don't know why I bombed so much the 2nd time with Mr. Rich .  I didn't really approach him conventionally like an obtrusive fan.   Jesse put me up to it... 

Don't forget that you stayed at this celebrity's house for a couple weeks too! 

Zeit is deep!

Interesting and thank you for the reviews. I agree that from what I've heard From these releases - both the actual albums and the audio snippets - that vol. 5 & 6 are, so far, the more interesting and enjoyable to listen to. I'll take your advice on 1 & 2. I am a little up and down on KS's operatic and manic stuff. Some of it is.... listenable while at other times cringeworthy. Still, it can be fun but usually a one-time listening experience.

Looks like you got the drone on special there Jesse 

 

Agreed. Time for an upgrade!

Hi guys, thanks for the input (and sorry Mike, I meant to put this thread in the technology section. I thought I was in there when I typed this up).

I have thought of the options you guys mentioned - a power switch or disconnecting the USB and I have also just used the 'eject' option (but then I do need to power cycle for the drive to show back up).  Problem is none of this is particularly practical for a few reasons. It doesn't seem practical to turn the power off and on several times throughout the day (and maybe harder on it than if it kept running?) and it's not particularly easy to access the USB connection. I guess I could 'eject' the drive then do a power cycle with a power strip, but seems excessive. At this point I wonder if I should bother changing anything because the drive is so used to spinning and reading. Some nights I've left the computer on for 24 hours and the drive is still spinning away.

I guess I was hoping to find out that there is a power control or indexing feature that might be doing this that could be adjusted.  I just can't figure out why this has to spin non stop.

Thanks for the help!

Yeah, this is a fairly frequent problem.  What gets me is when I order things from Europe and their bubble mailers are wimpier than the typical ones you find in the U.S., or so it seems.  I wouldn't normally shed a tear of a cracked case except one album I picked up there was a unique title sticker on the case and the cover had cracked right through the sticker all because it was just the disc inside a really thin mailer.  My bigger complaint is that nearly every double-CD set with the flip-tray arrive broken and the all-clear 2-sided flip trays are not easy to find (I suppose if you buy in bulk, but can't find them locally, only solid black flip trays)... however, I figured out a way around this... thrift stores! There's almost always a really bad religious 2-CD set that's in near perfect condition with those clear 2-disc trays and I buy them for a couple bucks when I need one.

For my Numinamusic orders that I ship out, I buy these cardboard boxes specifically designed for CD sales.  I have ones that hold 2 CDs at a time and use them for 1 or 2 order sizes. If it goes up to 3 I'll use a bubble mailer with some cardboard inserted on the two ends and for more I recycle boxes I have and/or cut out my own cardboard mailer - which is kind of a pain in the ass and can take 20 minutes to size it up and cut it just right and tape it all up, but it beats wasting more cardboard by buying a lot of oversized boxes and stuff.  If I was high-volume I would do that, but it's just not economical for me at this time.

Hypnos, Roach, Rich, and Projekt have always had perfect packaging from my experience.

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