The douches that run Discogs are raising their fees:
To enable the hiring of additional staff and improve our level of service to you, we're going to be increasing Marketplace selling fees effective May 1st, 2012.
Items sold on or after that date will have the following fees:
8% for Standard Listings
10% for Product Search Listings
(a $0.10 minimum fee will remain in place)
Invoices sent on or after May 1st, 2012 will now be due 10 days after the invoice date.
Increasing fees is something we try to do as infrequently and with as much notice as possible. Our last fee increase was almost 3 years ago in July 2009. As a result we've made a number of significant improvements to Discogs:
grew our team from 4 people to 9 people
delivered over 1,300 features and bug fixes
increased conversion rate in the Marketplace by more than 84%
more than doubled the number of servers, making the site faster and more reliable
This fee increase will allow us to:
bring on additional software developers, so that we can add additional features
hire a customer support rep based in Europe, so that we can respond to requests in a more timely manner, and in multiple languages
improve our marketing efforts, to increase site awareness and expand our user base
continue investing in new hardware to keep Discogs fast and stable
We sincerely thank you for choosing to sell on Discogs and we look forward to your continued success.
Kevin
I really find it hard to believe they need to raise their fees by what seems 33% to cover hiring 4-9 people. It's such a bare bones site. This place banks on fees. Seems any place whether it be ebay, amazon, discogs is really trying to kill sellers making any money off their own items. Someone needs to create an alternate place to sell online and not have it be some weird flight by night looking site no one would use.
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) Discogs is ruled by a bunch of prat mods who are super meticulous about listings. I.E. it has to be exactly word for word the way it looks on the vinyl (credits etc). I've had my submissions changed for not putting a space in between something (catalog etchings). It use to be only mods could change things but now any jackass with a bootleg copy thinking you're wrong can update your entry. I've had numerous flame wars with jackwads who think they know what they're talking about but don't.
Thanks for the info Lixx