A home for music diehards has been fractured by increased fees that are pushing sellers and shoppers to other platforms.
As a frequent Discogs user, this new fee change is so infuriating. I’m sure these changes aren’t as big for US or EU-based buyers, but the shipping fees I get in Singapore were very large even before this change, usually 2 or 3 times the cost of the item itself. Nowadays, there are some sellers who flat out refuse to sell items to me, specifically because of the fees. And this is just with CDs and cassettes, which have smaller shipping costs than a 12" record…
The problem is, I don’t really have any choice for getting used music. eBay has limited stock and even crazier shipping rates, especially if you want a specific edition of an album. I’ve heard talk of some sellers moving to Etsy, but if they have, they’re not showing up. And the few physical stores left here mostly carry stock in mainstream albums. So I mostly have to suck it up if I want a rare album, and pay the exorbitant costs :/
My problem with Discogs was trying to pay. “Pay by card” kept rejecting my debit card. “Pay with Paypal” didn’t have a guest option initially. I asked what to do on their forum. Someone told me to contact Paypal. So I contacted them via X. They just told me there’s nothing they can do.
2 days later, the option to pay as guest under “Pay with Paypal” silently appeared. But I probably wouldn’t notice unless I tried to do the payment over and over like 30 times.
CDs are be becoming the new vinyls 💿✨
God I hope not - the prices for used records are insane. I can usually buy 2 or 3 mint CDs for the price of 1 “Very Good” (i.e full of pops and scratches) vinyl
