Hi guys! I want to start by saying that I am very new to discogs. I have never made a purchase on this platform before nor sold anything. I used it for a while to look up items.
However, I want to purchase a record that is only available on discogs. I am from Ireland and I found that all sellers that offer this record to ship to Ireland (after sending them a message) but they don't actually list Ireland as a place they ship to so I can't actually purchase this through the site. Any seller that has gotten back to me says they do ship to Ireland but are asking for bank transfers. All these sellers have 98%+ ratings with over 500+ sales.
Is this common on the platform? I was reading the ToS and discogs specifically says that bank transfers are not allowed and buyers lose protection by making a bank transfer, but every item I've ever wanted to purchase always gives me the "can't ship to your country" warning even though the seller does. I'm not really sure what to do here.