I, A FLAWLESS BUYER / SELLER from years and years APPLIED PRESSURE TO DISCOGS FOR NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT A GUY WHO HAS BEEN MIS-GRADING RECORDS, (CONNING PEOPLE REPEATEDLY) INCLUDING ME. THEN IGNORING ALL COMMS, DISCOGS RESPONSE? SUSPEND MY ACCOUNT AND LET HIM CONTINUE.BACKGROUNDi Spent 100 dollars on one order, of three records. They arrived not at all as described.I contacted the buyer. Never heard back. Went through the whole system step by step. For weeks, later months , all discogs would do was humour me and others with assurances the seller's account had been 'reviewed'. STRANGELY the seller kept getting daily feedback which effectively means they were actively selling. So i started to question discogs' 'review' of the seller's account.NEGATIVE FEEDBACK KEPT SHOWING , EXACT SAME CON and SAME COMPLAINTS (records not as described, absolutely zero response to messages, and more). This is when i knew Discogs were putting their comission first and protecting buyers last. in other words, corruption. I got in touch with several of the affected buyers, amongst them two who echoed my feelings with their words ''I hold Discogs partly responsible'' . WE ALL GOT IN TOUCH . NOTHING CHANGED.PAYPAL and us were LEFT TO PICKUP THE PIECES, AFTER ENDLESS ORDEALS often lasting weeks. Most of us lost money. We made sure paypal knew what was going on and they were not happy and promised to look into it. We are unsure what action followed.ON SEEING MORE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK FOR THE SELLER I contatced discogs again , to the same humouring assurances. ''The seller's account has been reviewed''.BUT THIS TIME I DIDN'T LET IT GO.DISCOGS RESPONSE when they got sick of my insistence that this guy was carrying on and that their 'review' was basically pure window-dressing ?SUSPEND MY ACCOUNT! (using any excuse they could, in this case me having sworn at the seller, after months of polite reasonable atemmpts with them and months pleading to Discogs with composure)SO I WROTE AGAIN TO DISCOGS INDICATING I WAS BEING BASICALLY SILENCED BY THEM. SO THAT I JUST SHUT UP AND PUT UP , in a move not unike what you see with tyrant governments and basically dark , dark stuff, totalitarian ways, alien to music. DISCOGS REPLY simply an ADDITIONAL ACCOUNT SUSPENSION NOTICE ( adding a second excuse 'Aggression to the seller' as an extra label to the same item they had already classed as 'use of foul language'THIS AUDACIOUS, ADDING OF INSULT TO INJURY was a clear message for me to:A) Just go away B) Now added trouble and being put through the mill with a different department should i ever want to right wrongs etc.MY ACCOUNT SUSPENDED for being outspoken . WHILST THE ROGUE SELLER'S ACCOUNT, FINE AND DANDY STILL CAUSING GRIEF AND LOSS TO BUYERS. A DISHONEST SELLER ACTIVE AND PROTECTED by discogs because he sells a lot) IT IS CALLED CORRUPTION and let's hope sooner or later it is exposed in the press. And with Trading standards, for effectively aiding and abetting dishonest online trading.
