Where To Sell
Same stock, two very different shops. The right choice often isn't "pick one" — it's knowing which platform suits which record, and what each one actually asks of you as a seller before you list.
Discogs sells into a narrower, more specialized audience who already know what pressing they want — they're searching by catalog number and matrix detail, not browsing. That audience pays for accuracy and rewards correct grading and identification.
eBay sells into a vastly larger, more general audience. Faster turnover, less specialist knowledge among buyers — which can work for you or against you depending on whether what you're selling is common stock or a pressing only a Discogs-literate buyer would recognize the value of.
Most active resellers end up using both — common, high-turnover stock on eBay for speed and reach, correctly-identified rarities on Discogs where the right buyer will actually pay for the detail.
| Discogs | eBay | |
|---|---|---|
| Selling fee | Flat 9% on item + shipping. Min $0.10, max $150 per item. | Category-based, typically in the low-to-mid teens percent, plus a small per-order fee. |
| Listing fee | Always free to list, however many items you have. | A monthly allowance of free listings, then a small fee per extra listing — larger with a Store subscription. |
| Listing format | Fixed price, with an optional "Make an Offer." | Auction, fixed price (Buy It Now), or both together. |
| Monthly limits | No inventory cap — list as much as you have. | New sellers face a monthly item-count and total-value cap that eases as your track record builds. |
| Getting verified | Verified PayPal account required, plus identity verification before listings go live — commonly around a week for new sellers. | Identity and bank verification required to receive payouts; selling limits ease automatically with performance. |
| Getting paid | Funds land directly in your connected PayPal at the moment the buyer pays, fee already deducted. | eBay collects payment itself and pays out to your linked bank account on its own schedule. |
| Required grading | Goldmine scale is a mandatory field on every listing. | Free text — you set your own standard, buyers rely entirely on your description and photos. |
| Price guidance | Real median/low/high sold prices shown for the exact release you're listing. | No built-in sold-price history on the platform itself. |
Fee percentages checked against Discogs' current official fee page and eBay's own category fee documentation — eBay's exact figure moves over time and by category, so it's worth a quick check on your Seller Hub before pricing anything tight.
eBay treats Music > Vinyl Records as its own listing category, separate from the broader Books, Movies & TV, and Music grouping. That broader media category carries a noticeably higher final value fee — vinyl records specifically don't get charged that higher rate; they sit closer to eBay's standard rate instead.
Worth checking your listings are actually filed under Vinyl Records rather than a generic Music or Collectibles category — miscategorizing stock can mean paying the higher media rate for no reason.
Discogs enforces a standardized grade field, but that only sets the vocabulary — you still assign the grade. Overstating condition is a leading cause of returns on both platforms, and reputation damage outlasts any single sale.
New and lower-volume accounts are capped on both item count and total value each month. It resets monthly, and you can request an increase roughly once a month through Seller Hub — worth doing proactively rather than waiting until you're blocked mid-listing.
New seller accounts go through an identity and PayPal verification step before listings actually go live for sale — commonly around a week. Worth factoring in if you're planning to list a specific batch by a particular date.
Common, easily-identified pressings tend to move faster on eBay's larger audience. Anything where the specific pressing, country, or matrix genuinely matters to value is where Discogs' collector audience and price-history data earn back its higher percentage fee.