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

NathanRicaud said:
I’m happy to give money to the artists and labels too, but then I have to pay on average a USD$20 shipping fee, and the $20 isn’t going to the artist, it’s going towards the shipping company. So that’s why I don’t support labels directly. I still do it occasionally (just purchased some stuff off from George Clanton recently even though shipping was a lot). But yeah, I don’t support labels directly due to shipping costs which is a shame.

That’s why nearly all my purchases are via Amazon and VMP because they do free shipping. Shipping determines a lot of the times what I ‘cannot’ buy.
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Get out of bed, walk down the road into a record store, save yourself money on shipping and invest in a small business in the local community rather than a multinational tax avoiding vulture or a company that thinks that this community is worth less than the dirt or the sole of their shoes...
 
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scotthilk said:
So, VMP is inevitably going to have to repress more? Thinking if I should take the credit, and grab it later down the road when it actually starts going out.
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They have already said they need to press more. There's no way to know if you're in the first batch or 2nd batch of represses but it says that the repress won't arrive until at least October. My guess is the same as @punchy --they will inevitably screw up who gets in which batch and a 20% off coupon will make it's way onto here. For international subscribers, I'd take the extra credit. For US customers I don't see the point really...unless there is an album on preorder you really want from VMP right now and it's around $32. If you want BVSC I'd stand pat for a US subscriber and just get the inevitably 20% off coupon.
 
MikeH said:
They have already said they need to press more. There's no way to know if you're in the first batch or 2nd batch of represses but it says that the repress won't arrive until at least October. My guess is the same as @punchy --they will inevitably screw up who gets in which batch and a 20% off coupon will make it's way onto here. For international subscribers, I'd take the extra credit. For US customers I don't see the point really...unless there is an album on preorder you really want from VMP right now and it's around $32. If you want BVSC I'd stand pat for a US subscriber and just get the inevitably 20% off coupon.
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Looks like it is getting close to bucket time
 
mingerton said:
I almost swapped BVSC earlier this week and just got the email about 20% more credit. Now that we all know they are desperate for people to swap, I'm thinking I'll hold out until just before tomorrow's deadline. Maybe they'll up the ante on credit? Or throw some AP titles in swaps?
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I'd be shocked if they did either of those, but worth a gamble I suppose? International subscribers could take advantage of this extra credit and snag an AP for a good price by international standards.
 
MikeH said:
Are those not the same? Or are you saying you swapped classics or RHH for BVSC? They are trying to get people to swap out of BVSC because they massively oversold it. It now says that any new orders of BVSC won't ship until at least October.
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I am trying to figure this out too. My main track is classics, so can I swap that for credit and then use my essentials add on to swap for the classics record and receive $32.40 in store credit? I emailed them asking this but I assume they won't reply in time. I saw someone else on reddit ask this exact thing and people seem to be unsure as well.
 
Rowan said:
Do they not do things like (a) count how many of an item they have, (b) count how many people are trying to buy that item and then stop selling it when (b) becomes more than (a). I'm not going mad here am I? Thats standard practice in music sales too?
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The issue, as I see it, is that they put in orders months ago for these albums to be pressed. Since then, they have run multiple promos to get new customers and returning customers at a discount (the get $20 off 3 month deal). They are also just absolutely awful at knowing what will sell and cannot estimate swaps.

The last time they tried capping number of albums sold/swapped was Outkast and people got REALLY pissed about it, rightfully. They do not want to turn down sales so they are choosing to repress instead of telling people they cannot have it.
 
SpinningSince85 said:
I am trying to figure this out too. My main track is classics, so can I swap that for credit and then use my essentials add on to swap for the classics record and receive $32.40 in store credit? I emailed them asking this but I assume they won't reply in time. I saw someone else on reddit ask this exact thing and people seem to be unsure as well.
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No. That's not how it works. It is only for people who are CURRENTLY signed up for BVSC. If your add on track is essentials and you have not swapped out for it, you can get 20% extra store credit. If you're in the US, that would be $23+ 20% extra.

You will only get $32.40 in credit if your main track is essentials and you are currently signed up for BVSC and swap for credit. If BVSC is your current main track, you could theoretically do an add-on, swap that for BVSC (which you will not receive until at least October) and take the 20% extra store credit. But I really don't see any world in which they don't issue a blanket 20% off coupon because of this screw up.
 
NathanRicaud said:
I am hoping we don’t get a country track! 🤞🙏
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NathanRicaud said:
I don’t want a country track...EVER! 🙅‍♂️
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NathanRicaud said:
Omg, I really, really, really don’t want VMP to have a Country track! 🤞🤞🤞

I’d rather a metal track over a country track! 🙈
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NathanRicaud said:
I also love Country then! 🤠🥃

But I still hope we never get a country track! 🤞
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NathanRicaud said:
Yeah, it's true. Mac DeMarco isn't country! I won't put his name with country ever again! I promise! I just......wanted country music to be sexy because a lot of his music is sexy! 😉😏🙊
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NathanRicaud said:
I only said that I really don’t want VMP to do a country track around 4-6 times!
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So, just caught up reading....What's this about VMP's number one customer, Nathan, teaming up with Storf to bring a Country track to VMP??!??! 2020 just keeps getting wilder :)😊
 
jfitzy said:
Adding a new track is seeming like a bad idea more and more. They can’t even handle the three they already have!
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Most of their issues still seem to be in inventory, shipping, fulfillment. Id honestly be very in favor of them scaling back on overpriced colored variants of wide releases in favor of more tracks. And it would probably help streamline the inventory and fulfillment (maybe wishful thinking on my part).
 
wynn72 said:
Most of their issues still seem to be in inventory, shipping, fulfillment. Id honestly be very in favor of them scaling back on overpriced colored variants of wide releases in favor of more tracks. And it would probably help streamline the inventory and fulfillment (maybe wishful thinking on my part).
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I still hear a good amount of CS ignoring and forever wait times for responses.
 
KenKaniff said:
I still hear a good amount of CS ignoring and forever wait times for responses.
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True, customer service is a huge issue as well. But hopefully that would be part of the streamlining. If they just have the once a month tracks and maybe a few true exclusives per month, that would hopefully mean far less issues for CS to get backed up.
 
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