kleef74 wrote:

ive heard that discogs is selling out to ebay, would the owners of discogs like to comment on this and settle the rumours.

rile3e wrote:

Couldn't get much worse TBH

iuval wrote:

Yes because this is obviously a raging point of contention... somewhere.

burpie wrote:

Join the club:

http://www.discogs.com/group/1350

burpie wrote:

Or last FM ???

http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/394865

burpie wrote:

he other way around:
Why Amazon Should Buy eBay

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...zon-should-buy-ebay/

burpie wrote:

Rumours, rumours

TEKNONUTTER wrote:

Discogs buying ebay?

little_alien wrote:

Yeah and we'll get PayPal integration in the marketplace checkout process :D I do feel a bit sad for all the employees of eBay though as they are going to loose their job because they are going to be replaced by 2 programmers, a community manager and a marketplace manager.

TEKNONUTTER wrote:

LOL. Indeed.


Can't help but visialise some sort of IT geek's late 80s revival take on a familiar US warehouse band :P

tom wrote:

LOL, that last.fm one is mine. I posted that around the time of V4.0 and was quite rightly a little narced. didn't illicit a response from the higher powers. bit like here, really

kleef74 wrote:

cant believe no 1 has commented on the charges ebay would charge if there own discogs,
i noticed how people kicked off at the 1% increase that discogs made not so long ago.
i think it would be a disaster IF it happens imo

cypherism wrote:

Hurrah

No more scratched to death "Mint" records, at least with ebay there is a strike system not just feedback where sellers wait for their feedback first

And recs are cheaper on t' bay

spiraltribeliverpool wrote:

Silly comment. All depends what you're after. People buy on Discogs cos it's specialised in musical rarities as where Ebay is clearly not unless your collection is full of Positiva tunes for 99p.

Record traders on Ebay can also advertise records as MINT and sell you a copy handled with sandpaper.

iuval wrote:

Internet grading system:

M: Never been played!*
NM: I only played it about 70 times.
VG+: The van wasn't going *very* fast when I dropped it out of the window.
VG: Less than 5 gouges.
G+: May be melted slightly, otherwise fine.
G: Record in less than 10 pieces.

*Doesn't preclude being shaped like a Pringle.