How to delete your Discogs account

Two documented blockers. First, if you are a seller with any incomplete order — anything not set to 'Shipped', 'Cancelled' or 'Merged' — closure is refused. Discogs specifically tells you to check archived orders too, because a stale archived order in the wrong status will block you, and it notes that outstanding invoices must also be completed. Fix the statuses, then retry the form. Second, if your account is suspended you cannot use the form at all; you have to open a ticket at support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/requests/new and ask Discogs to close it for you.

No. Discogs states that closing your account loses your private account data and preferences, but "public information, like comments in the forum, reviews or database submissions, will remain visible on the site." The database is crowdsourced and Discogs keeps the contributions. If you want your name off them, you must separately submit a 'Request for Erasure/Deletion of Data' through the Privacy form in the Help Center — that anonymizes your contributions by replacing your username with a generic term like 'previous user1234' or 'anonymous1234', but the content itself stays and the policy says Discogs is entitled to keep using it.

No. Discogs' help article says outright that the operation "is not recoverable, so please use with caution!" There is no documented grace period or reactivation window — unlike platforms that soft-delete for 14 or 30 days, closing here is a one-way door. Export your Collection, Wantlist and inventory first, while you can still sign in.

Use the export tool at discogs.com/users/export while you can still sign in. Pick what you want from the dropdown and click 'Request Data Export'. Per Discogs' Wantlist help article, "a green banner will appear confirming that your export request was scheduled. You will be notified when the file is available." Because it is scheduled rather than instant, request it days before you close, not minutes before. The Wantlist page has an 'Export My Wantlist' button that takes you straight to the export page; from your Collection page, use the settings options at the top right to download a CSV of your Collection. Sellers can also reach the export page from the bottom of the Inventory page via 'Export CSV'.

Closing the account and exercising your erasure right are two different actions. For the second, submit a ticket at support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000062653 (the 'Privacy' form) and select 'Request for Erasure/Deletion of Data' from the request-type dropdown. The policy says Discogs verifies requests "by confirming the email address that sent the request is attached to a registered account on Our system" and that "Erasure/Deletion requests include a second verification from the user sending the request," then responds within 30 days. EU/UK users can also contact the Data Protection Officer at [email protected]; Discogs B.V. is Zink Media's Article 27 EU representative and the Dutch DPA (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) is its lead supervisory authority.

Up to seven years. Discogs' privacy policy says the biometric data and personal identification numbers its third-party provider processes for sellers — a photo of you on government identification cards, and social security, drivers license, passport or state ID card numbers — "is kept on file for up to seven years depending on the applicable regulation pursuant to which it was obtained." Closing your account does not shorten that; the policy separately notes Discogs may be required to retain information to comply with tax/revenue laws and KYC obligations, which an erasure request will not override.

Discogs does not document any deactivation or temporary-suspend option, but you can quiet the account down without destroying it. At discogs.com/settings/privacy you can set privacy preferences for your collection and wantlist, control contact by other users and block users — for example the 'Allow others to browse my wantlist' toggle. At discogs.com/settings/notifications there is an 'Unsubscribe From Emails' button at the bottom of the page. At discogs.com/settings/user you can add, change or remove personal information in your profile and update your username. None of this deletes data Discogs holds — it only reduces what other members see.