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Discogs’ Vibrant Vinyl Community Is Shattering

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  1. Melody Bot Oct 8, 2023
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    Natalie Weiner, writing at The Verge:

    Discogs attributed the need to raise fees to its “significant investments in recent years to ensure compliance with various regulatory programs, including tax support and privacy protection.” The company said the change would allow it to “continue to devote resources to maintaining the Discogs Marketplace and develop better tools for collecting, selling, and enjoying music.”

    Many sellers who spoke with The Verge speculated, in line with the viral thread, that the company was trying to pump up its valuation for a potential sale. All of them, though, had the sense that Discogs was trying to increase its profit margins without necessarily offering any improvements to its product in retur

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  2. Snoblin Oct 9, 2023
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    I use discogs fairly frequently and wasn't aware this was happening.
     
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  3. kyleadams Oct 9, 2023
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    I was just about to get on discogs the other day to catalog my collection so I can start to sell some. I could see someone like spotify acquiring discogs.
     
  4. mmhmm Oct 10, 2023
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    Yeah, I completely stopped selling on Discogs recently after an international transaction resulted in 35% of the revenue being lost to fees.
     
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  6. Yourbiggestflan Oct 10, 2023
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    Yikes. I really like discogs, but i don't use it much for buying or selling. I'm mostly cataloging and finding out which pressing/variant i want based on reviews.
     
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  7. mmhmm Oct 10, 2023
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    It's a great site for cataloging and finding out detailed info about releases, I agree. But I wouldn't be surprised if there was, and continues to be, a migration to eBay for selling. When Discogs raised their fees and started applying the fees to the cost of shipping, it became no better than eBay and eBay has a much wider net for selling. The article above quotes at least one person as saying they have twice as many sales on eBay as Discogs and that is very accurate from my experience.
     
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  8. Serenity Now Oct 10, 2023
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    Nothing gold can stay.
     
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