Discogs was started in 2000 by Kevin Lewandowski who worked as a programmer at
Intel. The Discogs Marketplace is modeled similar to
Amazon and
eBay, where sellers offer items for sale and a fee is charged on the sold item. Its release listings are filterable by the country they ship from, format, currency, genre, style, format description, media condition, year released, seller name, and whether the buyer is invited to "make an offer." In July 2007, a new
subscription-based system for sellers was introduced on the site, called
Market Price History. It gave premium users access to the past price items that were sold for up to 12 months ago by previous sellers who had sold exactly the same release (though 60 days of information was free). At the same time, the US$12 per year charge for advanced subscriptions was abolished, as it was felt that the extra features should be made available to all subscribers, now that a different
revenue stream had been found from sellers and purchasers. Later that year, all paid access features were discarded and full use of the site became free of charge, allowing all users to view the full 12-month Market Price History of each item. ==See also==