Keep cheapo alive? Have your say today!

Hey everyone,

We’d love to share a pain point and get your input.

What happened? After introducing a flat €7 pre-order price, we expected volume to grow. In reality, the number of reasonable/regular pre-orders stayed about the same, but abuse attempts spiked. 

Over the last 10 days, we’ve seen dozens of proposals that are clearly overpriced—sometimes 2–3× market—with the final bill (shipping + taxes) landing in the big hundreds of euros. We’re spending a lot of time processing these, which isn’t great.

We also notice a pattern: many high-priced submissions come from weak/new Discogs accounts (few feedbacks, newly created) or repeatedly from the same account with pricing 2× above market—which looks like trying to arbitrage our user base. 

Our proposal: switch to a model where the buy-in is tied to the actual cost of the record: 

Record price + Discogs fee + Shipping + Taxes 

We handle digitization, mastering, rights clearance, and provide shared monetization for project backers.

Importantly, monetization will be retroactive—existing contributors/founders will start receiving a share from sales of already funded releases (we’ll share details separately).

Two options we’re considering:

Option 1 – Cut-in cost = total project cost / number of backers.
Option 2 – Projects up to €100 stay at a flat €7 per cut; anything above is calculated as in Option 1.

One concern: with Option 2, the much-loved “cheapo” category effectively disappears (it was popular before flat cut-in pricing).

Please drop us a message sharing your general thoughts on which option you would consider best. Thank you very much!

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Much love,

Anton

Founder, Revibed