Disc Golf Trading Post — Site Guide

A user-facing reference for everyone interacting with disctradingpost.com. If you're a buyer, seller, or curious visitor, this guide covers what the site does, how to use it, and how money + shipping work.

Last updated: 2026-05-25. Currently in test mode — site is fully functional but real payments aren't processing yet. Live-mode launch is gated on NJ marketplace-facilitator sales tax registration (filed 2026-05-25, permit expected within 15 business days) and peer-testing sign-off. Terms of Service + Privacy Policy already published.

What this is

Disc Golf Trading Post (DGTP) is a peer-to-peer consignment marketplace for used disc golf discs. Many sellers, many buyers, in-site checkout. We're a marketplace — not a reseller — so every disc is sold by an individual seller who ships it directly to you via USPS.

Think Reddit's r/discexchange or Facebook disc-trading groups, but with:

• A structured catalog (Brand → Mold → Plastic with verified flight numbers)
• In-site checkout (no Venmo/PayPal-FF, no DM coordination)
• USPS labels generated automatically at purchase
• A seller rating system to surface trustworthy sellers
• Email alerts when discs you want hit the marketplace

DGTP is operated by Last Tree Disc Golf LLC (a New Jersey single-member LLC). "Disc Golf Trading Post" is a trade name of the LLC.

Quick start

Browsing without an account. You can explore everything publicly:

• /discs — the disc database (every PDGA-approved mold, ~2,371 entries)
• /listings — every active listing currently for sale
• /condition-guide — the Sleepy 0–10 condition scale
• /how-it-works — short version of how the marketplace works

Buying a disc. You'll need an account (sign up takes 30 seconds via email or Google).

1. Browse listings or use the catalog to find a specific mold
2. Add discs to your cart (one cart can hold items from multiple sellers — checkout splits into one order per seller, Etsy-style)
3. Enter your shipping ZIP to see route-aware USPS rates
4. Check out with a credit card via Stripe
5. The seller drops your package at USPS within 2 business days
6. Confirm receipt on your /orders page or report an issue if something's wrong
7. Leave a rating once the order completes

Selling a disc. A bit more setup, but it's a one-time investment:

1. Create an account
2. Walk through the 4-step onboarding at /sell/getting-started (Stripe payouts → ship-from address → packaging starter kit → first listing)
3. Photograph your disc (top, bottom, rim, weight on a scale, stamp closeup)
4. List it via /sell/new (single) or /sell/bulk (up to 20 at once)
5. Set your price — we show you the new-retail price band as a reference
6. When a buyer purchases, you get an email with the USPS shipping label attached
7. Print, pack, ship within 2 business days
8. Get paid 3 days after delivery (or sooner if the buyer confirms early)

For buyers

Finding discs

Three entry points depending on how you shop:

• Catalog-first (/discs) — you know what mold you want. Filter by brand, category, popularity, or review count. Each row links to a detail page with PDGA dimensions, similar molds, and any current listings. Tap the heart to add the mold to your wishlist; we'll email you when one is listed for sale.
• Brand-first (/discs/{brand} — e.g., /discs/innova-champion-discs, /discs/discraft) — you want to explore one manufacturer's full lineup. The "Disc Database" nav dropdown gives one-click access to the six biggest brands (Innova, Discraft, Prodigy, Discmania, Latitude 64, MVP). Each brand page has stats, a brand story, a 2D lineup map (Speed × Stability scatter colored by category — click any dot to see that disc), and the full lineup table grouped by category.
• Listings-first (/listings) — you want to see what's available right now. Filter by mold, plastic, weight, condition, color, glow, dyed, flight tags, or seller. Cards show photo + price + condition + seller rating.
• Search-first — the search bar autocompletes against active listings; "Destroyer" or "Star" jumps straight to a matching listing.

Understanding what you're buying

Every listing shows:

• Multiple photos of the exact disc you'll receive (we don't allow stock photos)
• Weight in grams, exact to the scale (sellers weigh before listing)
• Condition on the Sleepy 0–10 scale (explained here)
• Per-area wear notes (optional): the seller can call out specific marks on the flight plate, rim top, or rim bottom
• Flight numbers — manufacturer-published (stock) and optionally the seller's own assessment of how the disc actually flies
• Stamp + edition info — Tour Series, player runs, signature editions are all called out
• Plastic — every disc-golf plastic has different feel and durability characteristics
• Seller + their aggregate rating ("4.8★ across 47 sales" or "No ratings yet" for new sellers)

Re-engagement features

Two ways to stay on top of what's coming:

• Watch Price — on any listing's detail page, tap "Watch price." If the seller drops the price (and the listing is still active), we email you with the new vs. old price and a button to the listing. Manage your watched listings at /watched.
• Wishlist — on any mold in the catalog (or its detail page), tap the heart. If alerts are on (default), we email you when any seller posts a new listing for that mold. Manage at /wishlist. Used discs are one-of-one, so the alert gives you a chance to claim before someone else does.

Cart + checkout

Your cart can hold items from multiple sellers. At checkout, the cart splits into one order per seller — each becomes a separate payment + shipping label. You'll pay shipping for each seller's order separately (we don't combine shipments across sellers because each seller ships from their own address).

Shipping cost is based on USPS Ground Advantage at the buyer's ZIP. The estimate you see on the listing detail page is the same rate we charge at checkout — we just resolve it earlier so you're not surprised.

Reservation timeout: once you start checkout, the items in your cart are reserved for 20 minutes. If you abandon, the listing returns to active and someone else can buy it. If you go back to /cart mid-checkout, you'll see a green "Checkout in progress" banner with the option to Resume payment or Cancel and put items back — no need to wait 20 min if you change your mind.

After purchase

• Order confirmation email (sent from noreply@mail.disctradingpost.com, reply-to orders@disctradingpost.com) with a summary
• Shipping confirmation email with a USPS tracking link when the seller drops it at the post office (usually within 2 business days)
• Delivery confirmation email when USPS marks "Delivered"
• Your /orders page is the canonical view: track every order's status, get the tracking link, confirm receipt, or report an issue.

Confirming receipt and rating

When your disc arrives:

1. "Got it, looks good" button on /orders — confirms receipt and releases the seller's payout immediately (instead of waiting for the auto-release 3 days after USPS delivery).
2. "Report an issue" button — for misrepresented discs, missing items, or shipping problems. The seller's payout is held while admin reviews. We'll email you about the resolution.

Once your order is confirmed (or auto-completes), you'll see a "Rate this seller →" button. Take a minute — honest ratings are what keep the marketplace trustworthy. Star ratings + optional 2,000-character review. You can edit your rating later if your opinion changes.

For sellers

Getting set up

The 4-step walkthrough at /sell/getting-started gates publishing your first listing:

Step 1 — Stripe Connect onboarding. Stripe-hosted; takes ~5 minutes. They'll ask for your tax ID, bank account (where you want payouts deposited), and verification. This is between you and Stripe; DGTP never sees the bank details. You can save a draft listing without finishing Stripe, but you can't publish until Stripe says you're ready to receive funds.

Step 2 — Ship-from address. USPS Ground Advantage requires a sender name, full street address, and phone. We use this on every label.

Step 3 — Starter kit soft-check. A nudge to make sure you have a digital scale, poly bubble mailers, and cardboard backing on hand before listing. /seller-kit has specific Amazon recommendations. We don't enforce this — sellers acknowledge they have the gear, then move on.

Step 4 — First listing. Walks you through the form with a 5-shot photo checklist embedded.

Creating listings

Two paths:

• /sell/new — single-listing form. Mold and plastic are autocompletes against the catalog (no typos possible) — just type the mold name ("Destroyer"); the brand is optional and works in any order ("innova destroyer" finds it too). Required: mold, weight, condition, price. Optional: plastic, color, glow, dyed, stamp description, edition notes, per-area wear notes, your own flight-feel assessment, flight tags, description. Photos: up to 8 per listing, with one designated as cover — the upload button sits right under the mold picker.
• /sell/bulk — in-browser grid, up to 20 rows. Best for offloading a bag at once. Mold/plastic cells autocomplete; paste tab-separated rows from Excel or Google Sheets. Each row becomes a DRAFT listing. Photos still need to be added per-listing afterward.

Pricing your disc

The "Pricing" section of the listing form shows you a new-retail reference from Infinite Discs (when we have data — covers the majority of the catalog after our 2026-05-20 enrichment pass). That's the range every plastic of that mold is currently selling for new on infinitediscs.com. Your used-disc price should typically sit below the new-retail low — adjust for condition, run desirability, and how badly you want to sell vs. hold.

$5 minimum price. Not a unit-economics requirement — math works at any price. It's a brand-quality floor.

Earnings breakdown widget shows you exactly what you take home. Buyer pays item price + shipping. We charge a 10% platform fee on item price (not shipping). Stripe processing fees (2.9% + $0.30) and Shippo's $0.05 label fee come off the seller side. Shipping is pass-through — what the buyer pays for shipping is what we spend on the label, no markup.

Photos

Five recommended shots, in order:

1. Top — flight plate, full disc visible
2. Bottom — underside, full disc visible
3. Rim — side angle showing the rim height/shape
4. Weight — disc on a digital scale, weight reading visible
5. Stamp closeup — if it's a Tour Series, signature, dyed, etc.

We require photos of the exact disc you're selling. No stock photos. This shows up as a badge on every listing detail page: "Photos of this exact disc — never stock images." Buyers trust the marketplace because of this rule; sellers who break it get reported.

When someone buys

You'll get a "You sold one!" email immediately. The email includes:

• A printable PDF of the USPS Ground Advantage shipping label (already paid for by the buyer)
• The buyer's name + shipping address
• The exact packaging tier you should use (poly mailer vs. cardboard box, with weight cap)
• A reminder to ship within 2 business days

Your /sell/sales page also shows every pending sale with the same info. Tap "Mark as shipped" once the package leaves your hands (or just drop it at USPS — the package's first scan also triggers a SHIPPED status via Shippo's tracking webhook).

Packaging — the rules

We use a 4-tier packaging system keyed to disc count:

Multi-disc orders ship bottoms-down with a cardboard piece between each disc — not plate-to-plate. The cardboard divider isolates any puncture or impact damage to one disc instead of two.

Use poly bubble mailers, not rigid stay-flat. A 175g disc + poly mailer + cardboard weighs ~7.7 oz, fitting cleanly in USPS's ≤8 oz rate band. A rigid mailer adds 2–4 oz and pushes single discs into the next rate band — costs $0.30–$0.80 more per shipment.

Don't substitute a smaller or larger package than what we declared at checkout. USPS auto-measures parcels on the sorter belt. If the package is bigger than declared, they back-charge the difference ($5–$20 typical). Per the Terms of Service §4.3.4 (pre-deduction notice + 7-day dispute window), those back-charges are deducted from your payout for that order. Use the recommended packaging; if you don't have the right size, contact us before shipping rather than improvising.

Getting paid

The flow:

1. Buyer pays. Funds land in your Stripe Connect balance immediately (held).
2. You ship. USPS marks the package as delivered.
3. Held-payout window opens. Funds stay held for 3 days after delivery OR until the buyer taps "Got it, looks good" on /orders, whichever comes first.
4. Payout triggers. Our daily cron fires a Stripe transfer to your bank account; arrives 1–2 business days later.

You can see your pending payout and paid out totals on /sell/dashboard.

Sales analytics

/sell/dashboard shows:

• Total earned, paid out, pending payout, average sale, active listings count
• Your seller rating (avg + count + most-recent 10 reviews)
• Sales over the last 30 days
• Pipeline funnel (drafts → active → reserved → paid → shipped → delivered → completed)
• Top brands + categories you sell in
• Top molds you've sold + top buyer states

Listing-view tracking + month-over-month trends are on the roadmap.

My Bag — collection manager (for players)

You don't need to buy or sell anything to use DGTP. My Bag is a free, private disc-collection manager built on the same catalog as the marketplace:

• Catalog your collection (/bag/manage) — add discs from the catalog (or free-text for off-catalog runs) with weight, plastic, a photo, and notes. One at a time, or up to 20 at once via the bulk grid (/bag/bulk).
• Multiple bags — organize discs into up to 10 named bags ("Tournament bag", "Glow bag", "Practice bag"…) or leave them on the shelf as collection-only. Each disc lives in one bag at a time; a dropdown on every row moves it, and deleting a bag returns its discs to the collection.
• Bag Analysis (/bag/analysis) — your discs plotted on a speed × stability hex map, colored by brand, with a stability-balance read, per-disc "flies for me" tuning, and a lefty (LHBH) view toggle. Got more than one bag? Switch the analysis between any single bag and all bags together.
• Fill the gaps — click an empty band on the map for ranked mold suggestions (weighted toward brands you already throw, plus a discovery pick), each linking straight to those discs for sale on the marketplace.
• List straight from your bag — a "List for sale" action on any catalog-backed disc pre-fills the listing form, and the collection entry then tracks the disc through owned → for sale → sold, keeping its history.
• Try it without an account (/bag/try) — a guest bag (up to 100 discs) lives in your browser with the full hex analysis; signing up imports it into your account automatically.

How money flows

For one $25 disc with $7 shipping (typical):

Buyer pays the displayed price; seller absorbs all fees (Stripe Connect destination-charge default behavior). The "Where your money goes" panel at checkout breaks this out for the buyer too.

Platform mechanics

Held-payout escrow

When you pay, your card is charged immediately — but the seller doesn't get the money instantly. Funds sit in DGTP's Stripe escrow for 3 days after USPS delivery, OR until you tap "Got it, looks good" on /orders.

This is chargeback prevention infrastructure, not a marketed "Buyer Protection guarantee." Here's what that means concretely:

• DGTP is peer-to-peer, like r/discexchange or Facebook disc-trading groups. We're not a guarantor of buyer satisfaction.
• Sellers are responsible for shipping the disc shown in their photos. The ToS commits each seller to ship-the-shown-disc; misrepresentation is a violation.
• The platform doesn't adjudicate condition complaints as a feature. "The dome feels less prominent than I expected" isn't a dispute we'll mediate — that's between you and the seller, and ultimately resolved through the rating system, not refunds.
• The escrow exists because we're merchant of record on Stripe Connect destination charges. If a buyer files a chargeback through their credit card company, the money pulls from DGTP's balance regardless of what our ToS says. The held-payout window is how we contain that risk.
• If something's actually wrong (wrong disc shipped, missing items, severe misrepresentation), you can "Report an issue" on /orders. The seller's payout is held while we review. Most resolutions are handled by us nudging the seller; chargeback-level disputes go through Stripe's process.

Seller ratings

Our load-bearing trust mechanism. After every completed order, the buyer can rate the seller 1–5 stars + optional review. The aggregate ("4.8★ across 47 sales") shows up:

• Next to the seller name on every listing detail page
• On every listing card in the /listings grid
• On the seller's own /sell/dashboard (so they see how they're doing)

Sellers with consistently low ratings will eventually face delisting thresholds — exact policy still being finalized before live-mode launch.

Shipping rates

Buyer pays the route-computed USPS Ground Advantage rate based on the seller's origin ZIP, the buyer's ZIP, and the packaging tier. There's no flat fee. Rates come from Shippo (which talks to USPS).

If you enter your ZIP on any listing page, we cookie it (dtp_ship_zip) for a year. Subsequent listings pre-render with your specific rate so you're not surprised at checkout.

If you don't enter a ZIP and proceed to checkout, we default to zone 9 (the worst-case cross-country rate) so the seller is never short. Entering your ZIP at any point fixes this.

FAQ

Is this real money?

Currently in test mode — the site is fully functional but Stripe is sandboxed, so no real money moves yet. Live-mode launch is imminent.

How do I report a bad seller?

On /orders, click "Report an issue" on the offending order. Their payout is held; we'll email you about the resolution. For repeat offenders, you can also email support@disctradingpost.com directly.

Why do I have to choose between Watch Price and Wishlist?

You don't — they solve different problems:

• Watch Price = "tell me when this specific listing drops in price" (per-listing, owner-specific)
• Wishlist = "tell me when any seller posts this mold" (catalog-level, all sellers)

A buyer hunting for a Destroyer at the right price probably wants both: Wishlist the Destroyer mold so they get pinged when any new one lists, and Watch Price on specific listings already up so they get pinged on drops.

Can I sell a disc that's not in the catalog?

The catalog covers every PDGA-approved disc (~2,371 molds). If yours is genuinely missing — OOP, niche, or just-approved — the "Request a mold addition" flow is on our roadmap. For now, email support@disctradingpost.com with the mold name + PDGA approval number (if known) and we'll add it manually.

What's the deal with InfiniteDiscs prices on listings?

We scrape the new-retail price band from infinitediscs.com (top-50 sales rank, total community review count, MSRP/sale ranges across all plastics). It's an anchor — not a price suggestion or floor. Use it to understand what new costs; price your used disc accordingly.

What happens if my listing doesn't sell?

Listings stay ACTIVE indefinitely. You can edit price/photos/description anytime. Eventually we'll add time-based dynamic discounting (auto-drop after X days unsold) but that's not built yet. For now, manually drop the price to re-trigger Track Price alerts to buyers watching the listing.

What about taxes?

Two different taxes:

Sales tax. Once live mode is on, DGTP collects + remits NJ marketplace-facilitator sales tax on every transaction shipping to a NJ buyer. Other states will be added as our facilitated sales into them cross each state's economic-nexus threshold (typically $100K sales or 200 transactions per year). Sellers don't deal with sales tax — their 10% economics are unchanged whether or not a sale is taxable. SST registration was filed 2026-05-25; NJ permit expected within 15 business days. See /how-it-works for the buyer-facing copy.

Income tax. Sellers are responsible for income tax on their earnings. Stripe issues a 1099-K to sellers who cross the IRS reporting threshold each year; your Stripe dashboard shows your gross receipts year-round. Talk to a CPA — this isn't tax advice.

Why does shipping cost vary?

USPS Ground Advantage uses zone-based pricing (1–9 zones based on distance from sender to recipient). A buyer in NJ buying from a NJ seller pays Zone 1 ($5.58 for a single-disc mailer). A buyer in CA buying from a NJ seller pays Zone 9 ($6.74). The difference is real — we pass it through directly, no markup.

Getting help

• Email: support@disctradingpost.com (general questions + bug reports + feature requests; reference your order ID if relevant). orders@disctradingpost.com works too — both addresses route to the same inbox.
• Disc-golf domain questions (about flight numbers, plastics, etc.): the /condition-guide and individual mold detail pages have everything we know

Roadmap (what's coming)

What just shipped (2026-05)

• Terms of Service (/terms) — published 2026-05-19, self-drafted with TCCWNA-protective + CCPA-compliant language
• Privacy Policy (/privacy) — published 2026-05-19
• Brand-specific catalog pages — six biggest brands now have dedicated pages with stats, brand story, lineup scatter, and full lineup tables
• Bulk listing intake (/sell/bulk) — up to 20 discs in one grid, paste-from-spreadsheet supported
• Catalog enrichment — flight numbers + category filled in for hundreds of previously-bare PDGA-approved molds via cached InfiniteDiscs data
• In-progress checkout banner on /cart — Resume or Cancel a checkout you started but didn't finish

Live-launch gates (in progress)

• NJ marketplace-facilitator sales tax — SST registration filed 2026-05-25; permit + first remittance config gating the live-mode flip
• Peer-testing rounds — wrapping up ahead of the live-mode launch
• Tier D (7+ disc) packaging — box still to be test-packed before high-volume sellers can ship 7+ disc orders confidently

Post-launch features queued

• Buyer-seller messaging (pre-purchase questions + post-purchase coordination)
• Valuation Guide ("what's my disc worth?" estimator using comparable-listing math)
• Auctions for high-value discs (code-complete; flipped on with Vercel Pro upgrade after live launch)
• Time-based dynamic price drops on aged listings
• Listing-view tracking + funnel analytics
• Seller response on reviews
• Photo upload on reviews
• Mobile app (PWA-style for now; native deferred indefinitely)