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Don’t worry, at that crap non member price of $47 y’all should be able to buy them from flippers for $470 next week and VMP will release another 500 the week after.

Note: I meant to type out “cheap”. My phone changed it to “crap”. Who am I to disagree with Apple?
 
After a quick back and forth with a VMP staffer on reddit:

The link was available to non-members through an exploit, which they haven't patched. They say any non VMP purchase will be cancelled so there may be more copies in stock for members soon.
 
Lord Diaper Baby said:
How was it an exploit? The email gave a non member price.
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I don't know tbh. You can start here and go through Paulium's responses. I'm getting a bit annoyed because he was basically "There's a lot of assumptions so I'm going to stop responding, which to me is infuriating. If there are assumptions, then clear it up. You're the goddamn "guy" from VMP on reddit. Nobody asked you to jump in.
 
Oh sweet baby Jesus.

I am currently digging in with the team to see if indeed this was available to non members due to an issue thing, or human error, or if it was only through the exploit.
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bdrummond said:
I don't know tbh. You can start here and go through Paulium's responses. I'm getting a bit annoyed because he was basically "There's a lot of assumptions so I'm going to stop responding, which to me is infuriating. If there are assumptions, then clear it up. You're the goddamn "guy" from VMP on reddit. Nobody asked you to jump in.
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Sounds like they fucked up, didn’t respect the waitlist that they put on their site (it would probably be better as an email me when available list; waitlist sounds like there is prioritization), and when members got angry they blamed technology
 
Lord Diaper Baby said:
Lol an “issue thing”. Yes, there’s an issue. It was totally human error. They sent an email explicitly advertising it to non members. Why would they even try to dance around that?
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I mean it's technically possible it's just a template email and then they didn't code it right on the back end to restrict non members. Now that is 2 failures so not much better but would fall in line with intending to be member exclusive but just an inept company running the show
 
frodo-pkt said:
I mean it's technically possible it's just a template email and then they didn't code it right on the back end to restrict non members. Now that is 2 failures so not much better but would fall in line with intending to be member exclusive but just an inept company running the show
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Still human error. And I’m not a VMP bear (although I’m no longer a member and already have this release). But they should definitely not cancel non member orders. It’s on VMP not those WILLING to pay that price. They should do another restock and get it right.
 
Lord Diaper Baby said:
Still human error. And I’m not a VMP bear (although I’m no longer a member and already have this release). But they should definitely not cancel non member orders. It’s on VMP not those WILLING to pay that price. They should do another restock and get it right.
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Agreed if they messed up they should stick with the orders placed. This whole thing is messed up, and I actually feel bad for the CS guy dealing with this nonsense. He apologized for his biting response which was appreciated, but still he's getting dumped with someone's massive fuckup here and maybe shouldn't have responded before getting all the facts. To be clear, I already have the release, and this is no skin off my back, but it'd be nice that they lock this shit down for all future restocks on popular releases for members.
 
bdrummond said:
Agreed if they messed up they should stick with the orders placed. This whole thing is messed up, and I actually feel bad for the CS guy dealing with this nonsense. He apologized for his biting response which was appreciated, but still he's getting dumped with someone's massive fuckup here and maybe shouldn't have responded before getting all the facts. To be clear, I already have the release, and this is no skin off my back, but it'd be nice that they lock this shit down for all future restocks on popular releases for members.
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Is it Pauly? Isn’t it always Pauly?

Dude should quit at this point. Always left holding the bag. Write a tell all book. It’ll be more interesting than the VMP book. Then have Storf do the audiobook and put it out in their Rising series
 
Lord Diaper Baby said:
Is it Pauly? Isn’t it always Pauly?

Dude should quit at this point. Always left holding the bag. Write a tell all book. It’ll be more interesting than the VMP book. Then have Storf do the audiobook and put it out in their Rising series
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Yup, Pauly. He's trying, lord he's trying but it seems from his answers he's getting left holding a giant bag of shit.
 
bdrummond said:
Agreed if they messed up they should stick with the orders placed. This whole thing is messed up, and I actually feel bad for the CS guy dealing with this nonsense. He apologized for his biting response which was appreciated, but still he's getting dumped with someone's massive fuckup here and maybe shouldn't have responded before getting all the facts.
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I honestly cut VMP a lot of slack. They've always been very good to me. But this allowing non members to purchase big drops has been going on forever and they should be catching hell for this one. They make the same "mistake" over and over again (not sure it's actually a mistake)... There should be advantages to being a member beyond slightly cheaper prices, this is EXACTLY the type of thing that should be given member priority. Not Paulie's fault at all, he's just the scapegoat every damn time...

And those wait lists? Has anyone ever gotten a single email from those things? I'm pretty sure that every time an item comes back into stock that's on a member waitlist, the only thing that happens is a faint beep goes off somewhere in Siberia.
 
Mather said:
I honestly cut VMP a lot of slack. They've always been very good to me. But this allowing non members to purchase big drops has been going on forever and they should be catching hell for this one. They make the same "mistake" over and over again (not sure it's actually a mistake)... There should be advantages to being a member beyond slightly cheaper prices, this is EXACTLY the type of thing that should be given member priority. Not Paulie's fault at all, he's just the scapegoat every damn time...

And those wait lists? Has anyone ever gotten a single email from those things? I'm pretty sure that every time an item comes back into stock that's on a member waitlist, the only thing that happens is a faint beep goes off somewhere in Siberia.
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To be fair I actually did get the waitlist email for this one...but as others pointed out it has the non-members price so it seems clear that this wasn't a members only exclusive drop. Someone dropped the ball here and yeah, as a paying member who's cut them a ton of slack it'd be nice if there was some benefit aside from lower prices.
 
bdrummond said:
To be fair I actually did get the waitlist email for this one...but as others pointed out it has the non-members price so it seems clear that this wasn't a members only exclusive drop. Someone dropped the ball here and yeah, as a paying member who's cut them a ton of slack it'd be nice if there was some benefit aside from lower prices.
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Really? What does the wait-list email look like? I'm not sure it matters if they send an email out to everyone not on the wait list for it at the same time, though.
 
Mather said:
And those wait lists? Has anyone ever gotten a single email from those things? I'm pretty sure that every time an item comes back into stock that's on a member waitlist, the only thing that happens is a faint beep goes off somewhere in Siberia.
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Haven't they stated in the past that those lists don't count as dibs or anything, their sole purpose is just to help them gauge interest for repress priority? Maybe I dreamed that.
 
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