Discogs: Countries from Which You Avoid Shipping From?

The causes would be mainly countries where you don't trust either the generality of sellers, they business is done, their mail service, or whatever other reason. What countries you see, say, a lower price for the same item than anywhere else but you hesitate (to stop altogether) and think ".. yeah, but it's from X. Let me see if this anywhere else. Don't mind paying a but more if it comes from elsewhere"?

 

Greece, Russian Federation, Italy. Not dealing with those countries' postal systems.
China due to knockoffs.

BTW, there's a great Chrome plugin called Discogs Enhancer that lets you filter out specific countries and sellers automatically.

 

Yep those are some I sort of avoid. Any central european countries also leave me wondering.

Thanks for thay tip for Chrome!

 

China. Knock-offs big time.

 

This is superb!!!
Thanks!

 

Generally, I stick with the standard countries that recognize and enforce copyright, e.g. UK, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, a few others.

Shipping costs being what they are, I don't buy much from anyone outside the US anymore, unless it's a huge operation that bulk ships stuff to the US and offers modest shipping prices.

 

Italy - Poor Postal Service

Greece - Greek pressings are generally crap

US - Exorbitant shipping rates

I can usually find what I’m looking for from German, Austrian or UK sellers.

 

I used to order lots from US sellers, but the shipping costs are now so outrageous and combined with a poor exchange rate, it's a no-go for me. The only US seller on Discogs I'd order from now is pop.market, which still has low shipping costs, but mostly because they are run by the same large company as ImportCds, Wowhd, Deep Discount, etc.

Ukraine is another one I avoid since they can't accept Paypal payments. You can only pay them via bank transfer.

Btw, I ordered some used vinyl from a China-based seller once and they were legit items - only downside is the order took nearly three months to arrive.

 

very anxious three months, I'd assume

 

Leaving aside custom bureaucracy and costs as well as delivery costs, we have Greece, Italy, China, Russian Federation and Ukraine from which people tend not to order because of past issues related with untrustworthy mail delivery system or high presence of untrustworthy sellers or otherwise fraudulent practices. Some just stick with certain key countries.

Now, on the same basis, does anyone had experience with the following countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, Israel, Poland, Croatia, Baltic Countries to name a few more? What others?

This is admittedly this is prejudice driven on my side. Apologies to anyone living in the cited countries, as no offense is intended. On the other hand if you're a seller based in these countries is good for you to know what is the image the market has of you, so that you can compensate with service or other reassurance. That said, I'd be surprised if many of you make orders from Portugal, but that would be due to the rarity of good pressings.

 

Ya Portugal is defiantly on the do NOT buy from list.

 

I've had trouble free exchanges both buying and selling to/from Portugal, Bulgaria, Hungry, Romania, Israel, Poland, Croatia, Russian Federation, Africa, Iceland, Isle Of Man, Hong Kong, Mexico and Brazil.

 

Anyone have trouble with items out of the Philippines?

 

For the past few months I have been avoiding purchases from the US, because the USPS virtually halted shipping out overseas packages in April. Now as my March/April purchases have just started to arrive, I'll be lifting my embargo soon.

 

not just discogs, but ebay and amazon too, the only countries i like to deal with are canada and england.

 

That's truly amazing to have had your product held up for 3 months. Do you happen to know where it was held? Could it have been held at customs?: Just curious.

 

A US-based Discog seller wrote me a few weeks ago that the USPS had been holding most outbound packages in their facilities due to Covid and would eventually release all of them. They were right. The tracking did not indicate any sort of customs: the last message was "in transit between facilities" or "departed to the destination country". The latter obviously incorrect, given that suddenly all of my orders from the US started to move around the same time and there was no such issue with the packages from other countries (actually Spanish post operations had got frozen too, but only for a few weeks in April).

 

You know something like that happened to me. I had a package from Whittier California get shipped to a distribution center in Norwalk California and get stuck there for almost 3 weeks. Then all of a sudden it was right next to me and was delivered within the allotted time that they give themselves one month to deliver something. this has been a learning experience for me that whenever you order something in these troubled times you have to give it up to one month to be delivered to you.

Sounds kind of crazy? No? I personally don't think it has anything to do with what country it is coming from. I just think it has to do with the post office being overwhelmed and not being able to rise to the challenge and becoming inefficient overall with what they do.

 

Not Scotland or Wales, just England?

 

It seems like most of the CDs on the market for sale are being sold either out of the United States, Canada, or England. Now if I were to see something being sold out of Scotland it Wales I wouldn't hesitate to buy that. Occasionally you'll see items come up in other countries but it's not as much as the countries listed above. I'm seeing a few items being listed out of Spain. I just bought a Rush disc we'll see how long that takes.

Some people have said it's dicey to buy from Russia because of counterfeit CDs. There were some objections to buying things from Israel. There were some objections from buying things out of China. I haven't heard anything about buying something from the Philippines.

I heard that the post office in Italy is kind of dicey but some of said it's fine so I don't know what to think. I really don't see many things sold out of France or Switzerland or some other European countries. I think that many of the other countries don't really list things the same way that America Canada and England does.

Maybe Scandinavia list their product differently or on a different market. How does Africa sell their product or do they even? I know some Australian product is listed and I bought from them before and it's fine however it's just expensive to ship I'm sure both ways.

 

the UK.

 

Discogs doesn’t actually list sellers as from England, Scotland or Wales so I am somewhat confused as to how you know that the seller is specifically from England.

 

I haven't been buying anything from outside the US because I can't afford the postage. I'll ship anywhere in the world you are willing to pay for, though.

 

I've been buying from Russia, Greece, Italy, Spain, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Brazil, Denmark, Japan etc. all with great success. I avoid the Asian countries such as Indonesia, Korea & China.

 

I won't buy or ship to any of the following places for various reasons: Africa, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, South, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Central America and Caribbean, Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Guernsey, Latvia, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Ukraine, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Mexico, South America, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam