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

Any news on joining for their 3 months offer, but swaping for McCoy (or any ther record)? I sent an email asking a couple of days ago, but have had no luck. Has anyone tried this yet?
 
agutierrezb said:
Any news on joining for their 3 months offer, but swaping for McCoy (or any ther record)? I sent an email asking a couple of days ago, but have had no luck. Has anyone tried this yet?
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You can join with any previous ROTM in essentials or hip hop only. The deal says Classics are not part of the deal. You also aren't able to manual swap although some people I believe said they were able to get a manual swap. You cannot get Classics for the first month, but any month past that and you can swap as normal.

When I did the deal last time, I signed up with Jorge Ben and it was shipped to me within a few days.
 
NoTrend said:
Yeah, I don't think it would be the physical product so much as the titles and their selections, but again, a lot of what I'm into prob isn't anything (for the most part) VMP would license (then again they did sonny sharrock...)
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I'm in the same sort of world as you but I will say VMP's remasters and AAA Classics track sounds awesome. Their Blue Note pressings rival the quality of Music Matters/AP IMO (with not as nice packaging). I do think a lot of people unfairly write them off as snobbery with people thinking a vinyl club is a gimmick but they do tend to care about the remastering. They partner with lots of great remastering studios and most Classics are pressed at QRP or RTI.

I also think they have been crushing it with the jazz releases lately.
 
Joe Mac said:
In the US, not the world surely? Unless like with baseball you only need to win in one country to be world champions
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The article I saw didn't specify. But I assume, perhaps unfairly, that the US holds a huge market share of vinyl purchasers. I believe the ranking was Amazon, Urban Outfitters, Newbury then VMP. This was I think from 2017.
 
MikeH said:
The article I saw didn't specify. But I assume, perhaps unfairly, that the US holds a huge market share of vinyl purchasers. I believe the ranking was Amazon, Urban Outfitters, Newbury then VMP. This was I think from 2017.
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Yeah that was a US list, I remember VMP publicising it. Amazon are undoubtedly the worlds biggest but the other 3 aren’t really significant players outside the US and funnily enough Europe, Canada, the land down under, Japan etc etc are pretty damn significant markets!
 
MikeH said:
I'm in the same sort of world as you but I will say VMP's remasters and AAA Classics track sounds awesome. Their Blue Note pressings rival the quality of Music Matters/AP IMO (with not as nice packaging). I do think a lot of people unfairly write them off as snobbery with people thinking a vinyl club is a gimmick but they do tend to care about the remastering. They partner with lots of great remastering studios and most Classics are pressed at QRP or RTI.

I also think they have been crushing it with the jazz releases lately.
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Yeah, I mean I think it's fair to say for the most part Jazz collectors can smell BS from a mile away, so them being on point is good, for sure, but also they are smart enough to know they kind of have to be

but yeah I agree, although if they really want me to drop money, they should just do a sun ra boxset. Which look, i know is "basic" when it comes to free jazz, but I'd bet with the right selection and price, that would go faster than the dead box (which I know the pressing count is also insane)

Sadly this probably will never happen due to the fact the sun ra record exclusive alone is still in the store..
 
MikeH said:
You can join with any previous ROTM in essentials or hip hop only. The deal says Classics are not part of the deal. You also aren't able to manual swap although some people I believe said they were able to get a manual swap. You cannot get Classics for the first month, but any month past that and you can swap as normal.

When I did the deal last time, I signed up with Jorge Ben and it was shipped to me within a few days.
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That makes sense. Thanks for your reply! There isn't much that I'm grabs my eye among the previous Esentials and RHH. If they would at least let me sawp for Celia and Johnny I'd be in.
 
Joe Mac said:
Yeah that was a US list, I remember VMP publicising it. Amazon are undoubtedly the worlds biggest but the other 3 aren’t really significant players outside the US and funnily enough Europe, Canada, the land down under, Japan etc etc are pretty damn significant markets!
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This was the article I saw it in. I'm guessing they mean retailer of NEW records, vs new + used which I'm sure discogs or ebay is #1, or maybe still Amazon. You're right though--I looked it up and on their kickfurther campaign, they said they sell over $10 million per year in records and are the 3rd largest online record seller in the US.

I'd be curious to see who sells the top 5 online in the world. You're right in that Amazon is likely #1 but maybe somewhere in Japan is #2.
 
MikeH said:
This was the article I saw it in. I'm guessing they mean retailer of NEW records, vs new + used which I'm sure discogs or ebay is #1, or maybe still Amazon. You're right though--I looked it up and on their kickfurther campaign, they said they sell over $10 million per year in records and are the 3rd largest online record seller in the US.

I'd be curious to see who sells the top 5 online in the world. You're right in that Amazon is likely #1 but maybe somewhere in Japan is #2.
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I would assume this may be Disk Union or Tower if I had to guess

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agutierrezb said:
That makes sense. Thanks for your reply! There isn't much that I'm grabs my eye among the previous Esentials and RHH. If they would at least let me sawp for Celia and Johnny I'd be in.
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Sadly, they would not let me manually swap last time and you cannot join with a swap since swaps are closed. Maybe if you talk to a CS person they will let you swap but they are doing the deal with RHH and Essentials because the former ROTMs of those haven't sold out a to so they are trying to offload inventory.
 
4080 said:
I got this response:

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If I swaped for store credit, would I then be able to add the classics track with that money? I remember back in the days I could add a track even after my main track was charged, so I guess that would be a posibility, right? I mean, if I can get McCoy, Celia Cruz or even use the credits towards Sonny Sharrock, then I'm in. Otherwise, I don't want to give in to FOMO and buy records that I dont REALLY want.
 
agutierrezb said:
If I swaped for store credit, would I then be able to add the classics track with that money? I remember back in the days I could add a track even after my main track was charged, so I guess that would be a posibility, right? I mean, if I can get McCoy, Celia Cruz or even use the credits towards Sonny Sharrock, then I'm in. Otherwise, I don't want to give in to FOMO and buy records that I dont REALLY want.
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Not sure but given their track record I'm guessing it's yes for some and no for others?

Remember when you swap credit on a deal you get a third of what you paid so if you do the $60 deal you get $20 credit and I don't think you get that credit right away so you can't use it on add-on tracks as far as I know! I could be totally wrong though...
 
agutierrezb said:
If I swaped for store credit, would I then be able to add the classics track with that money? I remember back in the days I could add a track even after my main track was charged, so I guess that would be a posibility, right? I mean, if I can get McCoy, Celia Cruz or even use the credits towards Sonny Sharrock, then I'm in. Otherwise, I don't want to give in to FOMO and buy records that I dont REALLY want.
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I thought the problem was that you couldn’t swap at all right now, including for credit.
 
Ponman2003 said:
Oh damn is that what they're doing? Offering a $20 swap credit (1/3rd of the $60 buy-in)? Thereby making you drop another $5 to get Sahara? Yikes
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I mean...yea it makes sense. You have to subscribe for 3 months to get the deal and the deal knocks monthly price to $20/month. Wouldn’t make sense to give you more than $20 in swap credits. To be honest I’m surprised they even let you swap for credit.
 
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