Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)

Speaking of exclusives, anyone know what's up with VMP's Shabaka? I ordered that in January and still hasn't shipped out, but the webpage says it will ship in 3-5 days(yeah right) out of the warehouse?

Anyone else order it and received it?
 
mudketeer said:
~560 of Shabaka left too, which I think is surprising, it's a cracking album. Looks like it might be one available in swaps moving forward..
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Yeah, I’d say it will definitely be a future swap! Was a great deal getting that and Yussef/Tom Misch at 25% off though with free shipping! 👍

I want Shabaka to make it to swaps and to sell out, because so much people need to enjoy that album! I want everyone to enjoy it! 🏆

Perfume Genius will also be a really nice swap next month too I think! It’s ready to ship soon! It’s $34 and there’s quite a lot of copies too! ☺️
 
Phaneronic said:
I guess I should ask, has anyone gotten Waitressboy sorted yet?
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Mather said:
I would but shipping from Canada would make it totally pointless. @Waitressboy are you good for this yet? Somebody stepped up?
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Phaneronic said:
I've already ordered mine and made peace with the baggae that came with, but it's @Waitressboy I'm worried about.
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Thank you so much for thinking 'bout me with this thing! 🥰
I think I might get it through a friend in Spain,, but he couldn't check it yesterday. But I have to say that the fact that nobody had problems yesterday buying, it's not OOS and it's going to be shipped on September, makes me not worry about losing this one.
But maybe next week I'll be asking for help cause my friend couldn't do it, so stay online! :D
 
NewsFedora said:
Oh wow, that's really cool... and probably something easily exploited by flippers if they figure it out. :|

Having said that, Shabaka is at 561 (please no one buy this I really want it to make it to swaps next month), Ivy Sole Live is at 195 while the Ivy Sole bundle is 105.
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Interesting but i dont really know how to do this. I followed the method but was never taken to any shopify link but instead to VMP Store. When i added to cart, it remained within VMP’s website and the only way to change the quantity is to press the + sign repeatedly but even then restricted to 2
 
Atvinyl said:
Interesting but i dont really know how to do this. I followed the method but was never taken to any shopify link but instead to VMP Store. When i added to cart, it remained within VMP’s website and the only way to change the quantity is to press the + sign repeatedly but even then restricted to 2
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You have to do it on the ones where the ability to add to the cart is in the article, not the ones that are just linked images to the store.
 
Was curious so here’s a few others:

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gaporter said:
VMP represents everything I've grown to hate about this hobby … VMP can still sell a $50 record with ease. Do whatever you want with your money but the only purpose this thread really serves at this point is promoting VMP and sending VMP the message that they can screw up as much as they want and people will still throw money at them.
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I can not love this enough. I am giving you a standing ovation in my living room (the dogs are confused).

I don't buy new anymore. I buy used. Why? VMP destroying the QC in the marketplace. VMP driving prices sky high. VMP's strategy of FOMO that has seeped into every other aspect of this hobby.

AND GET OFF MY LAWN!

Thank you Gap! Perfect.
 
Teeeee said:
I can not love this enough. I am giving you a standing ovation in my living room (the dogs are confused).

I don't buy new anymore. I buy used. Why? VMP destroying the QC in the marketplace. VMP driving prices sky high. VMP's strategy of FOMO that has seeped into every other aspect of this hobby.

AND GET OFF MY LAWN!

Thank you Gap! Perfect.
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I agree with your sentiment, and also feel that VMP is run by a bunch of tits

But i have to disagree on the idea that they are destroying QC in the marketplace. The first ones to do it in the Vinyl resurgence was Plain and 4 Men With Beards, who just pumped trash into the market. These were dark times. Then labels got wise and acquired lots of these back but pressed them at Rainbo and United en masse. Then Newbury just started paying an exclusive fee to produce these in print masters on various colors at a markup for collect-ability.

THESE things destroyed QC in the market. Eventually enough collectors proved that they would pay a premium for well mastered, well packaged content and VMP has legit made a name for themselves with quality. When they get it right they get it very, very right. So we are really just seeing the natural pendulum swing of the market- ok, we have proven we will pay more for quality so how MUCH more will we pay? The market is testing that now.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Gonna pick on this for a second, not that you're the only one who says it. People give VMP a lot of flak about the FOMO stuff. Nearly everything they do gets chalked up to this strategy. Hype drop times in advance? FOMO. Drop things in the store unannounced? FOMO. List pressing sizes? FOMO. Keep pressing sizes quiet? FOMO. Tell people they expect something to go quickly? FOMO. Let people hype things amongst themselves without commenting? FOMO. Announce one month of AOTMs at a time? FOMO. Announce three months up front? FOMO. And so on.

VMP's job is to sell records, however they can. Records aren't -- in my opinion -- too sacred to be subject to the vagaries of online marketing schemes. It's frustrating when I want something and it's selling out because everyone wants it too. It's also frustrating when I convince myself that I want something and then later figure out that I just got suckered by the hype.

Why is VMP's brand of FOMO any different or worse than what we do to each other here in the forum all the time? Is it because we aren't getting paid for it?

I don't know. I obviously think there are many, many things to dislike about VMP that will keep me from being their customer again anytime soon (this When the Pawn price is just one egregious example). It just seems to me that the FOMO accusation gets applied to so much, so often, that it's sort of a watered-down, meaningless complaint. If curation is the art of identifying what belongs in a collection, and retail is about sustaining demand, then it seems like the implication that you might miss something great if you fail to act is built into the business model....somewhat artificially, I'll grant, because of the limited variant pressings and so on, but aside from the Fiona Apples and Nat Turner Rebellions, that's pretty much the only feature VMP has to differentiate their products from others' (or it was, until everyone else started to catch on that bright colors will draw the eye).

Anyway, not trying to poop on your thoughts personally @Teeeee , that's just been percolating in the back of my head for a while and I wanted to throw it out there. I know I cherry picked that one phrase out of a list of complaints and that you also have plenty of valid reasons not to want to support them, generally speaking.

Curious to hear others' thoughts about this too: what, specifically, does FOMO mean to you, and what would you want to see VMP do -- specifically -- to reduce it?
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Ugh, I don't like spending this much time on a company that treats its customers like absolute shit and yet the customers are still die-hards.

My post could have gone on and on and on about the things VMP does that makes this hobby not fun for me anymore. But I decided to highlight the ones that were relevant to the sitch. And I didn't want to write an essay, so I stuck to a few and very general thoughts. I had more thoughts but they fall on deaf ears.

Not for you Indy: And for the record, I was NEVER a person that wanted VMP to press this, so please do not accuse me of being one of the "we've been begging them to do this for years and now that they do it we still complain" people. I think it is absolutely valid to wonder why something that took 3 years of teasing is so half-assed and overpriced.
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
I agree with your sentiment, and also feel that VMP is run by a bunch of tits

But i have to disagree on the idea that they are destroying QC in the marketplace. The first ones to do it in the Vinyl resurgence was Plain and 4 Men With Beards, who just pumped trash into the market. These were dark times. Then labels got wise and acquired lots of these back but pressed them at Rainbo and United en masse. Then Newbury just started paying an exclusive fee to produce these in print masters on various colors at a markup for collect-ability.

THESE things destroyed QC in the market. Eventually enough collectors proved that they would pay a premium for well mastered, well packaged content and VMP has legit made a name for themselves with quality. When they get it right they get it very, very right. So we are really just seeing the natural pendulum swing of the market- ok, we have proven we will pay more for quality so how MUCH more will we pay? The market is testing that now.
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Oh man, you are right, I forgot about how bad 4 Men With Beards was. I still shudder when I see one of their pressings.
 
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