Vinyl Me Please Essentials

zdkaiser said:
It appears that I'm old and out of touch because I don't get the joke. :D
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There's another vinyl club that advertised signed albums and then sent signed paper bags and all the cool kids on the interwebs are totally TikToking about it and it's not at all just something that we and one lonely Reddit thread are bitching about because I AM CURRENT AND HIP AND COOL AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT OH MY GOD WHAT IS A TIKTOK
 
zdkaiser said:
It appears that I'm old and out of touch because I don't get the joke. :D
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It's in reference to Rough Trade's Album Circle club that they completely scammed everyone into paying a $15 premium for leftover stock with a piece of paper that had QR codes to wikipedia pages and a signed paper bag... that they folded multiple times to put in the box so that no one would ever want to display it. Then changed the wording on their website after they got called out.
 
Hemotep said:
It's in reference to Rough Trade's Album Circle club that they completely scammed everyone into paying a $15 premium for leftover stock with a piece of paper that had QR codes to wikipedia pages and a signed paper bag... that they folded multiple times to put in the box so that no one would ever want to display it. Then changed the wording on their website after they got called out.
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Add these, too:

• Marketed as an exclusive variant out of 500; package contained the Rough Trade Edit variant
• worse, Rough Trade variant is an edition of 2500​
•maybe even worse, the signatures are on back of (creased) paper bag​
• Many subscribers' shipping boxes were not sealed
• the tear strip was ripped before packaging​
• the adhesive portion above was completely absent​
• Marketed with an enclosed "handmade vovelle"
• almost certainly was not​
• Deflection to blame on artists from Album Circle when questioned about signatures on Discord
• Gaslighting from Album Circle account on Discord
 
Chris V said:
reminds me of when I ordered 6 for the price of 1 from BMG back in the 80s and they tacked on that ridiculous shipping and handling fee #airingofgrievances
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Columbia House was the better deal. 11 for a penny. Use a po box and a fake name on your mail order and you were golden. Mike Hunt and Harry P Ness must have the worst credit history.
 
Hemotep said:
It's in reference to Rough Trade's Album Circle club that they completely scammed everyone into paying a $15 premium for leftover stock with a piece of paper that had QR codes to wikipedia pages and a signed paper bag... that they folded multiple times to put in the box so that no one would ever want to display it. Then changed the wording on their website after they got called out.
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Yeah, pretty happy not to have taken part in that one.
 
Rip_City said:
Add these, too:

• Marketed as an exclusive variant out of 500; package contained the Rough Trade Edit variant
• worse, Rough Trade variant is an edition of 2500​
•maybe even worse, the signatures are on back of (creased) paper bag​
• Many subscribers' shipping boxes were not sealed
• the tear strip was ripped before packaging​
• the adhesive portion above was completely absent​
• Marketed with an enclosed "handmade vovelle"
• almost certainly was not​
• Deflection to blame on artists from Album Circle when questioned about signatures on Discord
• Gaslighting from Album Circle account on Discord
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At first I was sad to have missed out on this, but after reading about it I am so happy I missed out on this.

Rough Trade really screwed the pooch on that one. In this case though, the cover-up may be worse than the crime. At least in my opinion.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
Columbia House was the better deal. 11 for a penny. Use a po box and a fake name on your mail order and you were golden. Mike Hunt and Harry P Ness must have the worst credit history.
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Or just have them sent to your house when you are 16 and let your dad tell them to get fucked when they send a collection notice because minors aren't liable for contracts
 
Joe Mac said:
They’ll spin the usual shit about how such groups are the complainers who are more into the audio end of the hobby and that we are in a minority and that most of their community doesn’t complain. That was always the tactic on their own forum from my memory of these things anyway.
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So you're telling me people with suitcase record players won't be able to tell the difference?
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
Or just have them sent to your house when you are 16 and let your dad tell them to get fucked when they send a collection notice because minors aren't liable for contracts
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With the po box trick, my friends and I did it several times with all the different ___ of the month clubs. Life was so much easier when you could buy postal money orders with cash, no one would find out who you were.
 
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