Yesterday I received and notification from Discogs saying a want had come up. The seller had a large inventory include lots of rare soul:and had hundreds of positive feedbacks. I contacted them and asked for a sound file of the 45 and they responded positively and asked for my email to send it. This was yesterday - Saturday.
 

Today I received another Discogs ‘want’ notification for the same item. When I went to the item it was no longer for sale. OK no problem, but what was strange the whole inventory of the seller had disappeared and they no items for sale any longer.

So how can a seller with hundreds of positive feedbacks and items for sale disappear within 24 hours ?

40 minutes ago, Billy Jo Jim Bob said:

Yesterday I received and notification from Discogs saying a want had come up. The seller had a large inventory include lots of rare soul:and had hundreds of positive feedbacks. I contacted them and asked for a sound file of the 45 and they responded positively and asked for my email to send it. This was yesterday - Saturday.
 

Today I received another Discogs ‘want’ notification for the same item. When I went to the item it was no longer for sale. OK no problem, but what was strange the whole inventory of the seller had disappeared and they no items for sale any longer.

So how can a seller with hundreds of positive feedbacks and items for sale disappear within 24 hours ?

Seller can take his stock offline at any time. For instance if he is going on holiday or will be away from home for any other reason.  

Derek

No most likely this seller's account was hacked-in and someone used it to proposed numerous big popular 'wants items'. Beware as the payment recipient is then not the one from the original seller's page and the item is in no one's possession. Often these proposed at an attractive (bait) price... Screams warning ! Don't fall for those.

Accustomed to that malpractice Discogs now in suspicion block these presumed hacked-in seller's account and await the original account seller's feedback on the matter to sort the issue out; This malpractice began a year or so ago and apparently was based in Ukraine. Although could be Russian all the same. Smells like so to me..

Edited May 20, 20241 yr by Tlscapital

4 hours ago, Tlscapital said:

No most likely this seller's account was hacked-in and someone used it to proposed numerous big popular 'wants items'. Beware as the payment recipient is then not the one from the original seller's page and the item is in no one's possession. Often these proposed at an attractive (bait) price... Screams warning ! Don't fall for those.

Accustomed to that malpractice Discogs now in suspicion block these presumed hacked-in seller's account and await the original account seller's feedback on the matter to sort the issue out; This malpractice began a year or so ago and apparently was based in Ukraine. Although could be Russian all the same. Smells like so to me..

The seller has been selling good items for a while, and there is feedback over the years from people on here as I recognise names. I thought something was wrong when it just went offline. Also the item was a substantial price but less than what I’d expect. So it smelt wrong, and the sound file was never sent.

Edited May 20, 20241 yr by Billy Jo Jim Bob

All sorted 👍

What happened Billy Jo Jim Bob? 

Did you buy and all good...?

Just an interested observer...

On 20/05/2024 at 13:08, Billy Jo Jim Bob said:

All sorted 👍

So what happened?

Not sure if this is the correct post,and maybe more of a seller question rather than a Discogs question:

Why do an awful lot of USA sellers on Discogs advertise what is clearly a “northern soul 45” put on the listing “unavailable to the uk” ? This seems small minded as the uk is surely the most prolific buyers?

Ive messaged one or two USA sellers asking if they would ship to the uk,they don’t even replie?

The amount of increased paperwork and costs involved in sending stuff to the UK has put a lot of US sellers off from selling to the UK.

I agree with that. And it's not just sending to UK. I have a number of german soul releases on my Discogs wants list which are listed by US sellers for fair prices. Yet, they dont ship to Germany.

This happened to me a few years ago, I wanted a record from a Uk seller but it also had "not available in the Uk" which I thought rather odd. I contacted the seller to ask why he wasn't selling to the uk when he was based here. I got a reply pretty quick ,he wasn't aware that his listings had the "not available" line attached , he didn't know how it had got there and quickly sorted it. Always worth asking the seller , my experience could well be a one off but you never know.