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Germany
2 reviews
23 helpful votes
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Totally fake site if it is a "database"! Only for "members" that contribute to vote for new releases and so making you dependent to contribute somehow! But people dont care about new artists. F*** you Discogs. Time for "The Bane Method" a la Batman Style. Watch out. Same as thedjlist.com: all money making promo machines, nothing more! All votes are fake and those who need votes dont get any! F*** you too! F*** your CEO and everybody who is involved, we will f*** your servers pretty soon

Date of experience: September 16, 2014
GB
10 reviews
57 helpful votes
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Excellent site for cataloging your collection, and allows you to easily add entries to the database if they are missing. You can sell releases you own, or buy any that are for sale. Only thing is I think a bit more buyer protection could be implemented: it currently works on a ratings system that allows retaliatory negative feedback from a seller if a buyer leaves negative feedback. Overall great site for anyone interested in music.

Date of experience: December 15, 2012
Minnesota
4 reviews
30 helpful votes
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A Vested Interest...
August 25, 2017

Any person who feels the need to defend Discogs, well, you are either a seller or you are somehow directly associated with that business. People who believe that problems on Discogs are created by the buyers either refusing to look at the facts, or have no idea how logic works. If I am a buyer, then my job, plain and simple is to BUY! If a problem arises from the fact that I bought a record, then guess what, the problem is not coming from the buyer, but rather, from the person whose only job and responsibility is to sell! Problems that come up on Discogs are directly associated with the sellers - period.

Date of experience: August 25, 2017
New York
1 review
11 helpful votes
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In January of 2022, Discogs forced its sellers to use PayPal. If you didn't, they shut you down and changed all the inventory listing dates so that it made it very difficult to find an item once it sold. The big screwing to sellers is a new hidden enormous fee on PayPal called "Partner fee"
Discogs pulled a fast one.

Date of experience: February 16, 2022
GB
1 review
20 helpful votes
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Discogs was the greatest site for music collectors and sellers but now they have introduced the most confusing mandatory shipping policies ever devised, they have nastily turned against all the small time sellers that helped build the site and have ignored repeated requests for a revision of these awful and stupid shipping policies.
I have deleted my account and I know many others have also deleted theirs, what a shame!

Date of experience: November 19, 2020
California
1 review
27 helpful votes
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I was a buyer with a 100% rating on Discogs. All of a sudden I was blocked from posting on the Discogs forum. I absolutely did nothing to justify this. In fact, all of my posts are still on the forum so obviously they would have been removed if I did anything wrong. I have sent several emails to Discogs without any response. You're telling me that they can't take 30 seconds to reply? What arrogance! They absolutely don't care about the customer. I will take my business elsewhere.

Date of experience: March 15, 2020
California
54 reviews
221 helpful votes
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Like Blu-ray.com, this is the place to build your collection of music on CD's, vinyl and audio cassettes. Even MP3 files are listed sometimes. This is the place I use to showcase my CD titles. I have not used the marketplace to buy or sell and therefore I cannot comment on that.

Date of experience: January 8, 2019
Japan
4 reviews
38 helpful votes
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A seller with multiple complaints remains on site after multiple refusals to issue refund even though they agree to do so in official communication via the transaction record.
Customer service is beyond worthless. No venue for selling vinyl could possible be worse than the unscrupulous sellers they do nothing to police. Had to make several complaints before blowing you off. AVOID LIKE A PLAGUE.

Date of experience: May 14, 2018
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Good resource for basic public domain information from a private site. Marketplace sales are billed at 8%. Some information has been revised in accordance to Discogs guidelines and Discogs community expectations. It is difficult to add new information due to the complexity of the system, guidelines and community expectations. Free membership is required to add, edit or use many custom features of the site. There is some trolling in the forums.

Date of experience: January 21, 2014
Tennessee
1 review
16 helpful votes
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Stealing music
June 19, 2018

Google my independent lables first release. Its being sold on this site with, no license, and completely wrong info. Looks like Ill have to get BMI. AND HARRY FOX involved. - Jen Jones. Stupid Records. Shy Girl Publishing.

Date of experience: June 19, 2018
GB
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Enforcement of new shipping policies means the buyer suffers as well as the seller. There are a lot of items that are now unavailable because discogs refuses to allow them to be for sale unless the seller adheres to a new set of policies. They were fine without this. Use Elvinyl, a new up and coming site or check websites of independent record shops for a far more satisfactory experience.

Date of experience: November 25, 2020
Canada
1 review
12 helpful votes
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DO NOT purchase anything from a individual called Frenchbeat he's a scam artist at its best! Took my husband's money record came cracked and he refused to give him a refund or exchange stalled him over 45days the cut off paypal has in order to intervene. Never again!

Date of experience: October 23, 2014
GB
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Check out HTFR and other places. I thought that I was not committed to buying by having items in my basked, I was wrong, genuine mistake... people only leave negative reviews, positive ones people dont bother with so I cant buy vinyl's because of their penalising me for this mistake 10 years ago. Disogs dont resolve these issues and thus is preventing buyers making purchases. Try eBay and you local record shops... Disogs is a disaster

Date of experience: May 24, 2021
Sweden
3 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Have been selling on this site for a few years. It may not get the traffic of AMZ or EB, but the fees aren't high and there is much less B. S. to deal with from their customer service dept. I wish that I sold more on this site, but overall I'm happy with all that they provide. Hoping soon that they will create a site for selling new & used games. Way to go DISCOGS!

Date of experience: March 15, 2018
California
1 review
15 helpful votes
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One star rating is too many for Discogs since there is no zero star rating. The Discogs allows and even supports the bad sellers for it's profits. The 100% rating of sellers are meaningless since Discogs manipulate and change seller rating and negative feedback at will after bad sellers done something (sell defective records, take very long time to do the refund etc.) to cover it up for those sellers. If the seller rating is manipulated, how do you decide which seller to purchase from. This is the web site that you can not trust. Buying records on Discogs at your own risks.

Date of experience: June 8, 2020
Ohio
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Our experience on discos was just fine up until someone behind the scenes developed a personal vendetta against us. Moderator arrogantly refused a request to remove a negatively submitted feedback which CLEARLY violated their policy and guidelines.

Date of experience: December 6, 2016
New Hampshire
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Scammers
August 19, 2019

Don't bother with this site, their so called customer service is $#*!, there are sellers that advertise items that are not what they really are (scam), be extremely careful before you buy do not go by seller ratings as they are bull$#*!. You wanna be scammed then this is the site,

Date of experience: August 19, 2019
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I love Discogs and have used it for years and have purchased over 30 items mostly vinyl, 45's and CD's from all over the world. I have not had a problem with any purchase and you can also create a Want list and Discogs will tell you when and the item you want available.

Date of experience: January 28, 2022
GB
1 review
15 helpful votes
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SO FAR NO GOOD
November 15, 2016

Even at the point the sellers takes your money they seem to be under no obligation to provide a trading address, return address or contact telephone number. So far i have paid for 2 LPs from 2 different sellers and received nothing.

BUYER BEWARE

Date of experience: November 15, 2016
Georgia
1 review
12 helpful votes
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I Can't do it!
July 27, 2017

I added a cd to cart. When it came to purchasing it I couldn't bring myself to do it! I can't obligate myself to a BLIND purchase. When you place the order there is no shipping cost provided. Later the seller informs the buyer how much shipping will be and by Discogs policy you have committed and are obligated to pay no matter how much it is! I can't do it!
Has Discogs ever heard of any other website in the world that has full purchase price included at the point of purchase?

Date of experience: July 27, 2017

Overview

Discogs has a rating of 1.9 stars from 128 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Discogs most frequently mention customer service, negative feedback and long time. Discogs ranks 111th among Music Discovery sites.

service
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value
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shipping
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returns
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quality
38