Pre-Order Thread

I'm out. I would have considered it for under $80, but I can't do $100+ for 3 LP's... I'll probably go after a white whale of mine.

Sad to see everything is on the up side of cost. Would have considered grabbing the boxset & ashtray/lighter combo if it was cheaper.
I think I read they aren't shipping internationally now yet anyway, sadly. As for the price, I think I have become pretty numb sadly to stuff like this. a 3LP box set for $96 didn't seem insane to me. I figured it would always be $100+ just based on every other release lately. They probably could have charged $120+ plus shipping and it would have sold out immediately.
 
This is strange b/c I just kept hitting refresh on that beta link with no luck until I hit refresh repeatedly in succession and the site popped open long enough to complete an order for the LPs. I was not in a queue. But within a few seconds after the order confirmation, it shut down again with 503 Bad Gateway, and now I'm getting a 404 error on it.
Same exact thing happened to me. No queue or anything. I went in, clicked through to get to the cart and checked out fairly smoothly. But it took awhile of just reloading constantly to even get into the site then it redirected me to the beta site.
 
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This is a great great live album. And Jackpot has a different colorway for almost $10 cheaper for anyone interested.

 
Paul McCartney - McCartney III Imagined





Indie Gold here.

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Paul McCartney

McCartney III Imagined (Gold Vinyl)​

Indie Exclusive​


 
This is a great great live album. And Jackpot has a different colorway for almost $10 cheaper for anyone interested.

Oooh. This looks real nice.
 
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Never thought I'd see this pressed again. Always wanted a copy of it!
 
I agree it would be annoying to have an order canceled for missing one of these emails, but I think it's great that Target is on top of this stuff in this way. My understanding is that Target doesn't charge for the item until it's shipped, so I view these emails as an indication that the initial agreement ("you've ordered this title, we'll ship it on this date, you'll pay this amount") has changed and Target is seeking approval of a modified agreement. It's a system that seems to work very well in my experience. (Received the email re: the Blakey delay this morning.)
Yeah - we may have to agree to disagree on this. I’d be totally fine with them asking if I wanted to cancel an order because of a delay, but just defaulting to cancelling orders isn’t helpful. I’m not aware of any other online retailer that does business this way - and they ALL experience these delays. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that these cancellations only ever seem to happen on orders that were purchased at a sale price either.

Think I’m screwed cause I did the buy three canceled two. 🥺
It’s annoying but you CAN still contact them and just have them look it up and reorder the item and they’ll give you the same price. Just a waste of your time to jump through those extra hoops to reorder something you ordered haha, but they will honor the original price at least.
 
Paul McCartney - McCartney III Imagined



Fun fact- I recently received my copy of SFTCSTFS by PJ Harvey and on the B side label it displayed the tracklist from McCartney III's A side! Freaked the tf out for a second! Still laughing about it days later.
 
Yeah - we may have to agree to disagree on this. I’d be totally fine with them asking if I wanted to cancel an order because of a delay, but just defaulting to cancelling orders isn’t helpful. I’m not aware of any other online retailer that does business this way - and they ALL experience these delays. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that these cancellations only ever seem to happen on orders that were purchased at a sale price either.


It’s annoying but you CAN still contact them and just have them look it up and reorder the item and they’ll give you the same price. Just a waste of your time to jump through those extra hoops to reorder something you ordered haha, but they will honor the original price at least.
I hear what you're saying and you make a good point, so the opposite approach would be a default of assuming you do not want to cancel the order, and I have seen other retailers take that approach by sending an email about a delay, apologizing, and offering the option of canceling the order; no response leaves the order in place. Interesting point as well about it only ever happening with items purchased at a sale price. Truth is, I wouldn't really have any point of comparison because I don't know that I've ever ordered a record from Target that wasn't on sale! But I can say that I've ordered many, many sale records, and I think I've only ever had one of them canceled. It would be interesting to know how often it happens, and based on posts in this thread, my hunch is that it's limited to pre-orders for which they sell more than the stock they eventually are able to get. Has anyone ever had a cancellation for an in-stock sale item?
 
I hear what you're saying and you make a good point, so the opposite approach would be a default of assuming you do not want to cancel the order, and I have seen other retailers take that approach by sending an email about a delay, apologizing, and offering the option of canceling the order; no response leaves the order in place. Interesting point as well about it only ever happening with items purchased at a sale price. Truth is, I wouldn't really have any point of comparison because I don't know that I've ever ordered a record from Target that wasn't on sale! But I can say that I've ordered many, many sale records, and I think I've only ever had one of them canceled. It would be interesting to know how often it happens, and based on posts in this thread, my hunch is that it's limited to pre-orders for which they sell more than the stock they eventually are able to get. Has anyone ever had a cancellation for an in-stock sale item?
At least twice for me, they cancelled records that were pre-orders, like you're saying, but they were still available to pre-order through their site - just not at the sale price that I originally paid (because they seem wait until after the deal is off to cancel your order). It sounds like that's also what just happened to @Mack37. I agree that cancellation would be their only real option if they actually won't be able to fill the orders, but if they're still taking pre-orders and just cancelling the orders for people who got it on sale, it seems shady.
 
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