Vinyl Me Please Rap & Hip Hop

I remember a few months back after the Carter III ROTM announcement, I basically asked them about this exact situation: When the amount of copies you press of a ROTM fluctuates so wildly, how do you deal with a situation where an incredibly popular ROTM is followed by a not-so-popular one? If you have 10,000 R&HH spots available for a Lil Wayne record, and 7,000 for a Juvenile record (Note: I'm making these numbers up), how do you deal with the fact that you already have more members than you do copies of the next ROTM in stock? Their response was basically "Don't worry about it, we have it figured out but we won't tell you how, and we'll cross that bridge when we come to it"

VMP, meet bridge
 
chrb98 said:
I remember a few months back after the Carter III ROTM announcement, I basically asked them about this exact situation: When the amount of copies you press of a ROTM fluctuates so wildly, how do you deal with a situation where an incredibly popular ROTM is followed by a not-so-popular one? If you have 10,000 R&HH spots available for a Lil Wayne record, and 7,000 for a Juvenile record (Note: I'm making these numbers up), how do you deal with the fact that you already have more members than you do copies of the next ROTM in stock? Their response was basically "Don't worry about it, we have it figured out but we won't tell you how, and we'll cross that bridge when we come to it"

VMP, meet bridge
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Yeah, much like last month I'm calling it right now. This is gunna be another debacle with Tical.
 
I really think they need to consider the Run Out Groove model. Announce the album months in advance and let the members decide if they want to pre order the album or swap it. I know some don’t want to wait 3-4 months but that’s kind of already happening now due to too many people in a sub and not enough copies to go around.

Either that or make a hard cap on subscribers (10k lets say) with a waitlist for every month and if a release doesn’t sell out, open it to non subscribers after the month it’s released.
 
I mean it's simple math. If you press 10,000 copies of Outkast and it sells out. Then you only press 7000 copies of Tical, you need 3000 people to voluntarily drop RHH or you are going to have members who have been signed up and paid for this track that are not going to get a copy, even though it says on their orders sheet they will. Because obviously the dumb inventory program just says "You're still signed up for RHH, congrats you'll get this!" Even though for 3000 people that won't be true.

(Numbers are made up, I have no idea what they are. Maybe they pressed the same amount of both Outkast and Tical... But I think that's unlikely.)
 
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