Discogs

I have been a Discogs member for many years and have always tried to use it to keep inventory and recently became a seller. Customer wrote a review that he told me he did not mean to say the things he said, and because I was out of town I could not ship it within two days and get back to him at a decent time. I shipped it two days later, but did not get back to him and he said that I did not get back to him at a decent amount of time and has since then not allowed me to sell. Because of this, I am unable to sell and as soon as another platform becomes available, I will be leaving Discogs. My side of the story was not even asked, so they took one bad review and cut me off from selling on Discogs, which is unacceptable without asking me first about what happened. I cannot wait for a new platform to come out as Discogs has been losing money as I have sold a lot of albums on eBay this past year and a half. Just a suggestion that you will ask your Discogs people their side of the story before you cut them off. As I have not been able to get it to work ever since. eBay loves the money I have made them by the way. Mitch Henderson.

I have always been a huge enjoyer of music especially in analog format. My mom lent me my first ever cassette and from there on out, I felt in love with the quality and depth of analog formats. My dad also moonlights as a sound engineer so I learned a lot about qualities of analog versus digital. I myself am a musician and take influences from musicians across genres. That said, over the years, I have accrued a collection that is a little too large to not catalog. My mother and I have a joint collection of cassettes and LPs. But I have a collection of my own stuff that she wouldn’t enjoy. After a while, I knew it was time I organize myself so I could easily recall information about my albums and which I had so that I don’t double collect if I don’t want to. Along the way, I started learning a lot about pressings and nomenclature regarding albums, particularly LPs. I’m now very into collecting older issues (if not first issues) and learning more about the qualities of a particular pressing of a record. Additionally, I take huge advantage of the ‘notes’ section of Discogs. I usually quickly jot down information about my specific pressings such as, “DSOTM 1975 Reissue w/ original posters” or “First US pressing Sgt. Pepper’s w/ original insert” or even just “2016 Remaster” on something I don’t much care for in terms of collectibility. Some other good features include a rough low, mid, and high estimate of your collection as well as a large (surpassing eBay), trustworthy market to buy specific pressings of records, cassettes, CDs or whatever you want. Discogs puts the fun back into record collecting and gives you the tools to learn more about your records so that you can show off to your friends! Lol if nothing else, use Discogs to buy records directly from the seller rather than a lame remaster from Target which lacks the depth and quality you should be purchasing vinyl for anyway. Great app!

eBay is the Netherworld of record collecting, Discogs is the Underworld. If you are familiar with Clive Barker’s “Cabal” or the film adaption “Night Breed” the creatures that inhabited that cursed place are relative to the sellers who are cast away from eBay, only to mislead, and be totally sketch on Discogs. Oh, the app, it’s so counterintuitive, I feel like I’m being gaslit by my ex every time I’m operating it. Also, it kicks you off constantly to go through a barrage of “We Use Cookies” prompts. Discogs, it is 2021 maybe update your game, so a seller can post a photo of the record they are selling? How about not having 20 pages created by 20 people for the same record. Seriously though, I’ve had a few good experiences on Discogs and about 50 terrible ones. Just a shout out to everyone. Record grading isn’t subjective, there is a right way to ship and a wrong way. Stop using “Mint” we don’t believe you. Learn how to note things like edge warps. Don’t get offended if we want to see the record before we buy it. We all know you ripped some grandma off to have it in stock in the first place. So if you pay .10 cents and we are paying $15, be pleasant. Show me a person selling a NM- 45 with hairline marks and a sticker on the label, and I’ll show you a liar. Discogs is only good to reference matrix number and if you’re lucky, you’ll find a decent seller who isn’t cross-listing. A final note, people who charge $5.00 for Media Mail or a $1.00 extra for each additional record, are con artists.