Discogs

I sold a vinyl record on Discogs and used Paypal as the means of being paid. The record cost 29 euros. Shipping was 17 euros. Tax was 4.75, so the purchase total was 50.75 euros and the purchaser sent this in good faith. From this I had 2.83 deducted as Discogs' 9% fee. However, I only received 38.16 euros. Paypal indicates that a staggering 9.76 euros has been deducted in addition in the concept of a "Partner fee". This is more than 21%; with the previous fee it is 25%. This is totally abusive. In the first place, it is arbitrary and unannounced. How do I know what price to charge if Discogs are going to charge me 21% more without warning? I am no longer going to deal with them.
They use dishonest business practices and the internet is full of angry sellers saying the same thing.

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I was charged VAT in an order, and then a second time in costums. First i complaint with costums, who said that no VAT was payed in the origin. I've contacted the seller, and he said that is an automatic charge that the site www.discogs.com makes, but that all the supposed "taxes" are for discogs pocket. I read then the vat issues in the site, and it's something it happens, but that they will make a refund. I've opened a ticket, with all the proofs asked, they don't answer, just keeps closing tickets. They've gotten the money, if i send it to paypall it's the seller who looses and not discogs, and are just closing tickets without a word why.

If you want to buy vinyl records go anywhere else basically, favours sellers if you miss an email for three days you are potentially subject to abuse and negative public reviews, been like this for years not a great way to grow a website and community oh well

They are impossible to contact. They renounce all responsibility! There are far to many dishonest sellers on their site! The raiting systym is not good enough. When you give a bad review to a seller he immediately give you a the same that make many pull a way from giving bad review...

What was once a place made up of music enthusiasts is now at the mercy of shady people and scammers who act freely, also thanks to the site's policy and its administrators who increasingly tolerate certain attitudes. Personally, after receiving another scam and losing money (and reporting the incident without any meaningful response), I've chosen to severely limit my presence on the site, preferring other ones that offer much more guarantees and protections.

They offer absolutely no buyer protection. I paid a considerable amount of money for a rare record and when I didn't receive it the seller said their account had been hacked and that they had not received my money. There was nothing they could do. I thought I would try again and I bought off another scammer. I don't understand why Discogs don't remove these sellers or offer protection for their buyers. No wonder there are so many scammers, it's a paradise for them.

I've been a seller on Discogs for over 6 years. Recently, they implemented a 2-factor login process. Since doing so, I have been unable to access my account. I have reached out to them numerous times and still (almost a month later) cannot access my account. It is extremely frustrating that I have spent countless hours logging my inventory and building a customer base only to be locked out of my account and no one will respond to my email. If you are considering selling on this site, do yourself a favor and find a different medium.

I have just been scammed by one of their bootleggers via Discogs marketplace for just under £50.

Discogs are facilitating the illegal sale of bootlegs via their marketplace. Some titles listed never even existed until a bootlegger comes along and creates a so-called 'release page.' They do not care for intellectual property rights or copyrighted materials in general.

Discogs are just cluttered with inaccurate information and guesswork which they allow these bootleggers to hide behind!

A realistic reflection of what you have in your collection, then don't use this site, it's $#*!! Many self appointment experts constantly sabotaging submissions or having them merged, thinking they know better. And yet most of them don't have a copy in hand of the said record themselves. Too many inflated egos and too much jealousy over records that people don't own personally in particular a user going by the name Opdiner, avoid at all costs the guy is a complete cockwomble who should have been kicked off the database a long time ago.

But that aside I have been happy with things that I've purchased from there.

I just purchased what I thought was a Box set of 3 disk and when this came it only contained 1 cd. I messaged the company and they said it was only supposed to ever be one disc! Beware!
THIEVES!

These people allow the sellers to steal your money for a product you're buying and leave it up to the same seller to make things right.If they decides not to respond back to you, you're out of your money with no product and the fee for shipping is very expensive. I would never wish what happen to me on any honest buyers. I wanted the christian music so bad I over paid for the shipping never receiving anything.not even a refund.

Made my first purchase on Discogs. The seller diligently processed the payment and took my money. When my order had not arrived after more than a reasonable amount of time I tried to contact the seller multiple times without a response. Then i did the "seller not responding" as per Discogs system, still no contact from seller so now I'm out of pocket, no vinyl record sent or received and the seller just gets away with it. First and last time I use this site, it is dodgy and it is set up to make it easy for shonky, shady characters to RIP YOU OFF. Stay away from Discogs do not purchase anything on this site. You have been warned people.

This site is full of self-proclaimed "experts" who disagree just for the sake of disagreeing!

I updated some of my records with INFORMATION FROM DISCOGA and people were $#*!ing and complaining that it was incorrect! I cited the SAME INFORMATION from other sources and the "experts" said it was incorrect!

The hate messages you get are incredible and how heaven help you if you disagree with anyone of the "experts"... they will try to get you banned!

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I just wished I had stopped by here before involving myself with Discogs as a customer. Would've been spared all the displeasure and trouble come my way. For reasons that baffle, the site favors sellers over buyers, even to the point of allowing the former to verbally abuse and threaten (as I was) the latter with seeming impunity. My complaint about being so poorly treated by a vendor was met with little empathy but much beating-around-the-bush concerning site "policies" that serve little purpose other than as evasive measures. Meanwhile, sellers take your money, take their sweet time about putting purchases in the post, all the while free to mis-represent the condition and the quality of what's on offer. Again, your complaints about these egregious practices will be slow-walked through the site's "policy" mill. Shame on everyone at Discogs for conducting business in such a careless, shabby way!

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

Full of scam sellers that Discogs doesn't do anything about. If a price seems too good to be true then it probably is. If anyone asks you to pay outside of PayPal its a scam. Use with caution, Discogs won't help if there's a problem.

I signed up to this website in order to catalogue my music collection. None of the features make any sense. Almost impossible to navigate and do anything for a newby. Very confusing. Not user friendly.

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.

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.

Discogs is a den of deceitful sellers, whose scams are backed by the company's unfair policies, at the expense of buyers. They even remove feedback as they please, with no respect for users, and are disgustingly incompetent in handling disputes between the parties. If you can, shop elsewhere. They should definitely be avoided like the plague!

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!

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Avoid at all costs