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The Discogs fee calculator vs. doing the fee maths yourself

Most Discogs sellers price a record with a rule of thumb: take off about 10% and call it done. It is close for a mid-priced record sold with free shipping and wrong in four places the calculator handles.

QuestionRule of thumbCalculator
Is shipping in the fee base?Often forgottenYes, selling fee and processing both
Flat per-order processingIgnoredSeparate input
$150 cap on big salesOverpays the fee in your headApplied
Price for a target profitTrial and errorSolved, including across the cap
Fee at $3 vs $100 vs $2,500One numberFee ladder

Where a spreadsheet is fine

If you sell one kind of record at one price with one shipping rate, a spreadsheet with your own processing figure does the same thing. The calculator is for pricing a crate where the answer changes record by record, and for comparing Discogs against eBay, Etsy or Reverb on the same item through the where-to-sell calculator.

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Common questions

Why not just multiply by 0.91 in a spreadsheet?

Because the 9% is charged on item plus shipping, the processing has a flat per-order part, and the selling fee is capped at $150, so a flat percentage is wrong at both ends of your price range.

Do I need to know the Discogs processing rate?

It helps. Discogs does not publish one rate for every seller, so the calculator takes it as two boxes that start at 2.9% + $0.30. Copy your real figure from a payout statement and every result updates.