r/discogs

I see what you're doing today. I see the little tweaks in the search bar you're making.

Less search results in the drop down? Excellent.

First populated results to the catalog number being some obscure listing with no photos instead of the most common one? Brilliant.

Bigger/clunkier font? Oh my what a beauty.

Keep it up guys. You're really kicking ass since the new App UI everybody loves.

I'm looking at an album that was repressed in both 2018 and 2022, they have the same catalog number. Do you know the best ways for me to tell when looking at the vinyl or sleeve which year mine is from? Thanks!

I just went to buy a CD priced at $9.98 from a seller, but it turns out that they have a minimum order quantity, which appears to be $37.04 (the warning in the cart says I am $20.02 short of the min.). I mean, seriously, I know they are trying to get people to order more from them, but what is the point of even listing a CD for $10 if you aren't willing to fulfill the order? They have nothing else I want. Their policy says "no exceptions".

It’s a pressing that doesn’t change hands much and it sold for a new high. But I just got spooked when I noticed that the buyer has an account that’s 8 days old and has 0%, 0 ratings. Of course they have to start somewhere and that’s where we all start. As far as I can tell the payment is already in my PayPal. Just want to make sure I’m not walking into a situation where I’ll somehow be out the money and the record if this buyer turns out to be not on the level.

I'm newer to Discogs. I've placed three total orders. Two have been decent. The last one I got sent the wrong vinyl. I sent a message to who I purchased it from and am waiting to hear back but what usually happens in situations like this?

I (UK) bought $200 record from a Japanese seller on 23rd April. After 5 days I asked if they had shipped the item, the next day I asked if they could respond and clicked the seller not responding button, two days after that I gave up. I had no updates or replies or any acknowledgement at all so I presumed the seller either wasn’t checking their Discogs anymore or something had happened to them.

I opened a case with PayPal, upload images on our (non) conversation and to my surprise I was refunded instantly. I left a lengthy message explaining my disappointment to the seller about their lack of communication but no hard feelings. I had my refund and they should consider this cancelled. I then looked for another copy and found one so purchased that. Job done except guess what happened a few days later… yep, the record arrived. Still no response from the seller.

I didn’t really know how to deal with this so decided that the seller will surely get in touch when they realise what’s going on and I’ll just leave the record in their box ready to ship back when they do. A few days later they send a flood of messages one after the other with different “status” updates, pretending that nothing has happened and asking me to close a PayPal case that was closed instantly in my favour. No acknowledgment of the actual problem at hand.

I sent a very honest and to the point message about the situation just now but I’m concerned. Sending all those messages and pretending nothing out of the ordinary has happened feels duplicitous to me and obviously I don’t really want to have to spend nearly $200 again for a record I bought elsewhere in the meantime. Trust has been broken for me. I thought I’d get a message apologising and asking for it to be returned. Instead they’re burying their head in the sand.

I don’t want to rip anyone off but I don’t want to get ripped off myself either. It’s a lot of money to me that I can’t afford to spend twice. If I send it back, worst case scenario if that PayPal reverses my refund and I’m out $200. It’s not a great situation.

What’s the best way to deal with this? PayPal says it’s closed the case but I’m sure they can reopen it if they want and originally it said May 11th until the dispute would be final even though I got my money back already.

What’s the solution here and how would you deal with this?

All advice welcome. Thanks for reading.

EDIT: their feedback shows this is not an uncommon occurrence at all. Dang, I really need to check people’s feedback beyond the number more closely in the future.

I suppose this is Discogs adjacent, but does a marketplace that has live concert LPs and CDs exist?

I have been selling on Discogs for about six months now. I had been collecting music for about two years with this intent. The pricing I initially placed on about 1800 items was at a point that made the sale, and I thought perhaps a bit low as inventory moved pretty well. I have had about 150 transactions and sold over 500 LPs and CDs.

I charged a bit more for shipping - $8 for up to 2LPs or 4CDs and $1 more for each two additional items - and noted that I pack securely and ship promptly. I have gotten kudos on my packaging and send times.

Not wanting to do a bulk change to prices, but finding that multi-CD orders of 15-20 items in particular were grabbing a lot of the low priced stuff, I upped shipping to be an additional $1 for each additional item. Things still got bought. Then I raised prices on all CDs that were priced under $5 by fifty cents, sometimes a dollar, looking at each listing individually to decide change amount, and sales have skidded to a trickle. So I want to go back to the old item prices and looking at using a .csv format have stumbled upon the Discogs Labs New Inventory System.

I have found selling on Discogs to be a desktop job, not a phone job, and works OK. I really like the customers for their kindness and responses. But I am uncertain if I want to update to the New Inventory System, how long it has been available, if it is trustworthy.

Any opinions greatly appreciated, apologies for the long intro here.

Thank you!

I hate when I search for a record and can’t find it, and I hate submitting records even more. Is there a person/group you can reach out to to submit records on your behalf?

I mainly use discogs to catalog my record collection but since the various bad app updates I've found it unusable. Is there an alternative app or service that off similar features to discogs?

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.

Finally dawning on me that I'm better off selling some records for $1 at record shows than selling on discogs for 1.99/2.99