Stupid, silly or what?

[Headsy]

So you have wants on discogs, some are always from same seller. 

Anyway, after being there at prices you wont pay as too high, some for a year, ish, the seller increases the prices by 25%

If they ain't sold before they certainly wont by putting the price up!

Rant over

A UK seller I might add !!!!

[Julianb]

19 minutes ago, Headsy said:

So you have wants on discogs, some are always from same seller. 

Anyway, after being there at prices you wont pay as too high, some for a year, ish, the seller increases the prices by 25%

If they ain't sold before they certainly wont by putting the price up!

Rant over

A UK seller I might add !!!!

See it on ebay as well. Unsold and relisted at higher prices. Both UK and US sellers!

[Solidsoul]

Probably because some people can't be bothered looking at, or don't want, cheap records!

So put it at a higher price and it gains more interest and maybe a sale. 

Silly I know, but true!

 

Edited July 5, 2022 by Solidsoul

[Twoshoes]

I watched a record on ebay the other week, wrongly listed as a demo, nine for sale on Discogs starting at £39 and up to £49. The guy on ebay started his at £30, after five days with no offers he reduced it to £28,further reduced it to £25 ending up at £22.50 unsold. If he had no interest at that price what chance have the Discogs sellers got. 

  I don't know whether some sellers take into account when listing records the number of people listed as wanting that record combined with the price of those already on offer before deciding what to ask but if they do and they can see x number for sale far outweighed by the number of people wanting surely common sense must tell them the the ones currently on there are overpriced, obviously I'm talking records with multiple copies avaliable. 

  If there are more people like myself who use the wants list as a convenience to list records I've heard, liked and checked the price of but in some cases have no desire to buy then the number of people actually wanting a record may be far less then sellers think. 

  

[Tomangoes]

Crazy to me....but there is some mileage in high prices give a sense of high quality.

Items are bought because it impresses other what you paid for it.

I have had advice before that the reason something I'm selling is not selling is because its priced to low!

Nuts

Ed

 

[Joesoap]

I'm fairly sure with Discogs, some people have just got their entire personal collection listed, all at crazy high prices that they're not that bothered about selling but would be prepared to let things go for if someone is daft enough to pay them. That would contribute to the stockpiles of unreasonably-priced unsold items and the ever-inflating prices we see..

Edited July 6, 2022 by Joesoap