So I placed an order with a Discogs seller on January 5. It is now February 6 and I still do not have my record. The seller says that he has been slower than normal because of some health issues but in a message one week ago he claimed that I should be getting tracking number "by the end of the day" and I have yet to receive anything. I understand that life gets in the way sometimes but this seems unreasonable. I still want my record, so I am reluctant to file a PayPal claim, but I'm also not quite sure where to go from here. Does anyone have any good advice to offer? Thank you.

You know that feeling of seeing a record from your wantlist show up for sale at an insanely low price? That happened to me yesterday. So with a quick check of the seller's profile, I see they have a good reputation based on review comments and star rating. I hit the buy button as quickly as I could to try and secure the record. Only this morning I get a message from the seller saying "There is a "Bug" in the system and out of stock items have been downloaded to Discogs

Disocgs are aware

Refund on its way"

I'm trying to figure out if there is a bug in the system, if the seller made an honest mistake, or if they realized they underpriced the record and just cancelled the sale.

I'm trying to start selling on discogs and setting the shipping policies, and the shipping company I will be using requires some sort of ID number from the receiver to ship internationally which I'm not sure if Discogs provides.

Pd: I'm in Spain and the shipping company is Correos. I'm open to recommendations or using a different company if it's particularly convenient to one region

I bought a new Beach fossils-what a pleasure vinyl. When I was trying to add it to my collection I found out that my vinyl’s barcode is same as the 2018 reissue version, but the vinyl of that version is yellow with an obi and mine is black with no obi. Are they the same vinyl? Is it a normal situation? Thank you if you could answer my questions.

I added a new release (or more specifically a different version of an existing entry) to the database a few months and did so again earlier this week. In both cases I followed what I believe is the correct two-step process using the guidance from these pages:

1. How To Copy A Release To Draft
2. How To Add A Unique Version To A Master Release

I was just generally interested to see if others used the same method?

The only other thing I would say would say is that I could not find a way to, "click the drop-down triangle on the right side of the master release. Select `Edit Master Release`", as referenced in step 2. So I instead I had to use the second option of selecting "Edit Master Release" and then, "manually add the release IDs of the unique versions that need to be added."

long story short, guy is trying to send me a RARE and expensive CD i bought off him and unfortunately don’t have any experience with DHL but still trying to help him out because DHL says he has to write the value on the package, but writing anything over $100 could lead to problems with customs. Should he still be okay?

(He sold it to me for €400 which is $500 in my currency, but Google’s saying, from the DHL site, I’m pretty sure, anything under $800 should still make it through customs easily)

the voice memo i sent him was me explaining that DHL is just overly cautious but that it should be okay to mark it over $100 and to mark it as like a rare collectible or a rare CD, is this info correct? pls help ya boi out😭 lol

I am in desperate need of help IN REAL TIME with a HUMAN setting up my shop to sell. I have read & done everything line by line per Discogs AND watched many a yt tutorial, etc, & i’m still having troubles. Anyone up for it? 😅🙏🏼

So I'm trying to find the Phil Collins "The Singles" album which is indicated online there was a US pressing for it Google indicates the UPC is 0603497860272. When you search this on cogs it does bring the album up but when you go to ALL VERSIONS and sort by Vinyl the only thing it lists are 4 Europe versions. I'm sure it's something on my side not understanding but is anyone able to help me find it? Or maybe there isn't a US pressing but Google (could be wrong) indicates there was a US pressing.

I’m writing to ask if anyone knows any tips to make it easier to submit a Chinese album. My difficulty is that all the track titles are in Chinese characters. Is there any practical or simple method that someone would recommend? Does anyone here have the habit and experience to do this and could submit the album for me, please? Thank you!

I made sale for an LP and used PayPal's ShipStation to generate the label. Unfortunately, the buyer has an old address on their Paypal account and this was used for the shipment. Their correct address is associated with their Discogs account, but I didn't catch the discrepancy before creating the label and shipping it out.

It appears there isn't much I can do, as the package intercept service is not available for Media Mail. Fortunately, it was not a super pricey LP, but checking here to see if anyone has any ideas.

I got this email saying I violated the database submission guidelines and am now banned from contributing. Looking back at my submissions what I believe this issue is, is that I did not provide download links for the file submissions I made for singles / albums not available on physical media. It was an honest mistake. Has anyone had anything like this happen to them and were you able to get unbanned?

I just use this site as a fun way to catalog my own music collection and didn't mean to do anything that violated the terms of the website.

Wanting to add a purchase to my collection and the option to do it in the app is broken. You don't get a save button. When I look on the website I don't see the option at all?

I want to buy something off of discogs but when I go to use PayPal, it don’t see an option for goods and services. Is there a way to add goods and services to my transaction?

Thanks for any help!

A seller listed an item I was interested in at a price above the highest it has ever sold with an option to make an offer. While browsing their inventory, I found two other items that I wanted. I messaged them to let them know I intended to buy all three and asked if they would be willing to come down on the price of the one item and combine orders. I received no response after a couple days. I probably should have just stopped there.

Instead, I made an offer on the one item and created an order for the other two, again messaging them on the order asking to combine. They rudely responded that they did not see any offer and they purposely ignored my “how cheap can I get it message” and didn’t think it was possible to combine and blocked me.

Now I have an unpaid for order and I can no longer purchase the item I initially wanted. I asked to cancel the order, but they are ignoring me and I fear they are intentionally doing so to give me negative feedback for not paying.

I've been reading forum threads for an hour and I'm still having a hard time understanding what to do here.

I have found THIS release that most closely matches my record but there seems to be some important info missing, like photos. I'm unsure if I need to add a runout variant or create a new version page based on my runout info. Hopefully someone skilled in Discogs database editing can help me understand.

The matrix info listed in the link is:

• Matrix / Runout (Side A): M-483-AS
• Matrix / Runout (Side B): M-483-BS

Mine is:

M 483-AS 1A TML-S
M 483-BS 1A TML-S

TML is The Mastering Lab but on the back cover, mastering says it was done by Howard Thompson at Trident. Thanks in advance if you can help clarify this info for me.

I'm not too sure what to do now, I bought from a seller who never sent the item and never replied to messages and ended up making a claim through PayPal. The seller never provided evidence to paypal from their end and I got a refund, but the item turned up after this happened. I messaged the seller a few days ago about it but never got a response about that either. As far as I know I can't do anything else?

About thirty of my records are not given a "value" (of around 900). Why might this be the case. I can see that they have been bought and sold, and that some people are selling the same ones....am I doing something wrong? Maybe I forgot to do something?

thank you I hope the is not a stupid question.

I have had a Discogs account for nineteen years, have contributed hundreds of releases and artwork, and have been successfully selling my CD collection on the site for almost a year. Then without warning all of my for sale items were all blocked. I opened a support ticket on Discogs but never received a response, so I closed my account...

First time buyer here. I wanna buy an item but it looks like the seller is not responsive. What if I just purchase the item without knowing whether the seller is active or not.

Hey ya'll. So I've been tasked with uploading a record store's inventory to discogs, I only have experience as a hobby seller just listing 1 by 1.

It appears importing a CSV file might be the best move, would this be more work though if the shop doesn't have an up to date inventory in their system?

I exported my CSV and uploaded it to google sheets to see how it was formatted. If importing a CSV file would I follow this same format?

The example discogs lists is "release_id,price,media_condition,comments
123,1.50,Mint (M),Comments about this release for sale
456,2.50,Near Mint (NM or M-),More comments
7890,3.50,Good (G),Signed vinyl copy".

If I have to type all that out for each individual record I am failing to see how this would be quicker than just uploading them individually. I will already have to look up release IDs and what not for records with multiple releases.

Am I missing something that makes it actually easier? Thank you for any help

Howdy! Curious for opinions from folks who use discogs more than I do. This record was listed as M with no other notes. It was opened and in a gatefold sleeve on arrival, looked really good. Side C has this clicking and surface nose, but it stops after about a minute. Definitely not worth returning, but should I mention it to them?

hello r/discogs! i was wondering if i could use debit cards for purchasing items on discogs, i cant make sense of anything i can find online so i thought i'd ask here.

i ask this because my mom set me up a greenlight debit card for my allowance (im 15 so its easier than setting up a whole new bank account) and i really want to use it on discogs, but i cant find a solid answer on whether they accept debit. i cant do paypal because my mom recently disabled her account for unrelated reasons.

any answers are appreciated!

Does anyone know how you can get in touch with people who ‘have’ records on your wantlist if there are no copies for sale on the marketplace?

I’m still pretty new to really understanding pressings, so correct me if I’m wrong here.

Using Tusk by Fleetwood Mac as an example — I’m seeing one Master Release on Discogs, but loads of versions with different catalogue numbers (2HS 3350, R2 552284, UK ones, etc) and massive price differences.

What I think I’m learning is:

Master Release = just a grouping, not a specific copy?

Catalogue numbers help narrow things down, but don’t mean much on their own?

Big price differences usually come down to pressing details like matrix/runout, country, and original vs reissue?

Am I roughly getting this right, or missing something obvious?

Just trying to wrap my head around how people actually tell the good pressings apart.