sounds like dropshipping and using AI as an excuse.
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What nonsense. It’s hardly improved their efficiency has it? Name & shame!
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I am at six orders in a row now that have been cancelled on Discogs due to not having the records in stock. One had an AI inventory excuse, the others just good old human error.
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That’s exactly what it is. The supplier being another Discogs user selling the item at a much lower price.
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Saw a Discogs seller offering around 1,500 records all at the same price ($500 each), and all mostly in the same condition, Poor. Most of it total chud too. The fuck’s that about?
His handle is badseller, which is funny. Great records though.
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Sounds like money laundering
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Do you think its a ‘some clown might pay this much and its free to list them so why not?’ type move or something more exciting like money laundering with the same bloke paying himself $500 in dodgy money and then, via discogs, creating a legit source for that cash?
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I’ve wondered this too. I stumbled across a very ordinary record priced at around $200K, and I mean ‘around’ it was a bizarre price to put on anything.
I checked a few others in the inventory and there were similarly priced records.
A mate said it was probably just in the hope that Musk and the facebook guy might havie a drug fuelled pissing contest on who could buy the most expensive vinyls.
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I’d begrudge paying the 26 quid postage.
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That’s the fella.
Yeah that was my initial thought. Seems a bit of a faff.
Weirdly in this case there doesn’t seem to have been a cheaper copy on there since 2023, it was this https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/397443 (I was mainly after the Chapter and Verse track on there) which he listed at £8, the next cheapest now available is £22.
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Assume there’s not much in the way of feedback?
if they graded it as “poor” that must be as a deterrent for any potential buyers. No one will touch it and they can use the page as a platform to make ghost purchases through. Discogs fees are probably just collateral damage.
Could be miles off but cant think of anything else it could be!
surely having so many titles is a red flag though? If you are using it for nefarious purposes, surely you could just add them as and when you needed to be laundering money? I am maybe overthinking it, it also could just be something else entirely that isn’t immediately obvious to look at.
im a big fan of this guy. -hope he’s not on here - offering ‘the best copy on discogs’. Just how good do you want your Africa shaped 7" of Toto’s ‘Africa’ to be, in order to pay 2450 quid more for it than the next most expensive copy?
https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1542194?sort=price%2Cdesc
possibly Cyberdene systems AI robots becoming conscious via Discogs and their universe is entirely shaped by collecting Vinyl? Thats the next most likely explanation.
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Mike Skinner/The Streets
That dreadful M+S ad being the latest example
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Maybe Badseller is in marital distress and passively aggressively told his wife/partner he’d put all his records up for sale…
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