Discogs

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.

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

I have been on Discogs since 2014 and have had excellent service. If you are looking for vinyl, cd's, you should give them an opportunity to provide, but remember, they are a service and not the seller on the item you order.

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.

I've bought quite some vinyls on Discogs.
On the positive side: you can find almost anything worldwide.
The payment system is really bad. There is often only Paypal and sometimes wire transfer but if your money doesn't reach the seller in time you automatically get negative buyer feedback, even if you tell the seller that the money is on it's way with a payment screenshot.
It happened to me while I was waiting for the seller's answers.
That seller also had free shipping until I submitted my cart, then he added shipping costs.
The seller also offered retrieval but when asked about this he did not reply.
I had this experience with seller Dr_groovy who didn't answer my questions and after wasting a lot of time not answering I wired the money anyway and informed him with a payment screenshot.
Even though he knew the money was wired he still gave me negative buyer feedback anyway, when he got the money he sent the items but there was no way of giving negative feedback to the seller.
This seller had 99,5 % or so positive reviews but no wonder because negative feedback could not even be submitted.
I sent a couple of emails to Discogs but deafenig silence from their side. Nothing. No answer at all.
I even found that Discogs somehow deleted my messages to and from that seller Dr_groovy. I had to check my email account to retrieve the emails.
I sometimes buy from Groovesland Berlin and except for the stress I get from the payment system that seems to work out.

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.

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?

There are weak forms of protection against scammers: the sole possibility is represented by Paypal, that is by eBay! The competition! It would be like buying a car from Renault and contacting Volkswagen for warranty service!
Personally I made several purchases (maybe twenty) almost all unsatisfactory, and I received only 5 positive feedbacks (many sellers forget to leave it) and two negatives - one because I dared to complain about a decidedly overgraded VG + disk - the retaliation system is routinedly applied, that is, if you leave a negative feedback for a dishonest seller, you get it back: such things happened on eBay many years ago.
A second negative was for non-payment: I had ordered (I think) 10 LPs but only 7 or 8 were available, the three that I was most interested in were missing, so I asked for the cancellation of the order but as a response I got a negative feedback. These things do not happen on eBay (I buy more than 500 euros a month on records).