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Dear sellers,


Discogs has made significant investments in recent years to ensure compliance with various regulatory programs, including tax support and privacy protection. These efforts have ensured a trusted international marketplace for buying and selling music, but they also come with real costs to provide these valuable services.


After careful consideration, we are updating our selling fee for the first time in over 10 years. The selling fee will change from 8% to 9% on May 22, 2023. The new 9% selling fee applies to both the item and shipping costs. It is still free to list items for sale.


This increase will help us continue to devote resources to maintaining the Discogs Marketplace and develop better tools for collecting, selling, and enjoying music. However, we understand that any adjustment to fees can be disruptive and we are here to help you navigate the change:

  • One of the easiest things you can do to avoid any negative impact on your business’s margins is to increase the price of the items in your inventory by a percentage. See the complete pricing guide, including calculations that illustrate the impact that the new selling fee will have on your prices.
  • Discogs also introduced a new inventory management feature that allows you to increase all of the prices on your items for sale at one time. Learn more about this feature and other helpful inventory tools.




We will share more tips and suggestions leading up to the selling fee change on May 22, 2023. In the meantime, read more about how to navigate this change in our extensive FAQ. If you have additional questions, please contact Discogs Support.


Regards,
Discogs
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Joe Mac said:
Charging fees on the shipping too is just damn shady. No one is profiting off their bloody shipping.
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Joe Mac said:
Living over here shipping is just expensive and I doubt anyone is skimming off the top because it’d kill your price.
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I dunno. Shipping is mad expensive here too but taking a cross-section of US sellers alone shipping to Canada I've seen it vary from $15-35 for a single LP and that variance has zero to do with distance as they can be from the same city/state and have that much discrepancy.

Now, I get that materials cost money too, but anything over $25 to Canada for a single LP is definitely profiting of shipping.
 
avecigrec said:
I dunno. Shipping is mad expensive here too but taking a cross-section of US sellers alone shipping to Canada I've seen it vary from $15-35 for a single LP and that variance has zero to do with distance as they can be from the same city/state and have that much discrepancy.

Now, I get that materials cost money too, but anything over $25 to Canada for a single LP is definitely profiting of shipping.
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It’s also very easily policed. The cost of shipping shows on the stamp/shipping label. If it’s higher than what you were charged you report with a picture. There’s a strike system.

It actually also doesn’t even remotely address stopping that as a problem. It’s the opposite. It’s let us get our grubby mits some of the gains from it.

I just find the whole charging a cut on shipping to be so shady as to make me think fuck you cogs as a store.
 
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Oh, and fucking of course they hired an exec from VMP lmao

Billboard:

Lloyd Starr has been appointed COO at Discogs, the recorded music database, marketplace and community, effective May 1. He joins the company from vinyl subscription service Vinyl Me, Please; prior to that, he served as president/COO at digital electronic music marketplace Beatport.
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
Oh, and fucking of course they hired an exec from VMP lmao

Billboard:

Lloyd Starr has been appointed COO at Discogs, the recorded music database, marketplace and community, effective May 1. He joins the company from vinyl subscription service Vinyl Me, Please; prior to that, he served as president/COO at digital electronic music marketplace Beatport.
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Wow! I had not heard about that. What a joke.
 
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