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

[hatfieldpdx]

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Thanks, that is the same info page link I shared. Maybe there is a sign up link on there somewhere...but I surely haven't been able to locate it.

EDIT: my adblocker was removing it. All set now.

 

[MikeH]

Hope they actually do revisit them.

Funny enough, I was trying to check stock on the Sparklehorse box set and a pop up came up that said "limit 2 per order". Not 2 per customer...2 per order. So theoretically I could just do a bunch of orders of 2 box sets if I wanted to flip 'em.

I get that if flippers are using multiple accounts, and bots and things it may be hard to track flippers. But it surely can't be that difficult to find someone like Vinceron.

 

[MikeH]

Thanks, that is the same info page link I shared. Maybe there is a sign up link on there somewhere...but I surely haven't been able to locate it.

EDIT: my adblocker was removing it. All set now.

I was gonna suggest that haha. It showed the sign up link for me there. Seems like a cool label!

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Funny story about The Glands, I kept holding off and it eventually sold out and then there was a reasonable priced copy on on Amazon and I didn’t pull the trigger and it eventually sold out. Then last week I was on the New West website due to there store sale and Lo and behold...

The Glands - I Can See My House From Here [Color Vinyl Box Set]

140g colored vinyl (clear, transparent pink, and Coke bottle) 12" 5-LP Box set includes 52-page book featuring photos and testimonials New West Records is humbled and proud to release recordings from Athens, GA luminaries The Glands. After nearly two decades of radio silence, new music has...

store.newwestrecords.com

I swear it was sold out so I don’t know if they found more copies or if they repressed or if this is an error (No shipping notification yet) but I finally purchased a copy.

I just got my shipping notice so it must have been a restock.

 

[Tys1]

They all just want a piece of the pie but you're right. Most people do not really understand it the second hand market. I've been to record stores where they are pricing things around listing prices on discogs instead of even median values. They think "well--it's listed at $150 so you can't buy it for cheaper than that!" Yet nobody has even purchased that record at anywhere near that price. Listed prices on albums have gone CRAZY the past few months it seems too.

Look at Rappcats and how they sold some leftover copies of the Zamrock box, which I believe was list price of $225 on VMP:

The Story of Zamrock has been long sold out via Vinyl Me, Please. These are the last remaining copies – which we are happy to offer for half of the lowest listing on Discogs.

There was one listing on discogs at that point, which was $800. Rappcats flipped their own product for $400. That's INSANE to me. These companies are manufacturing things with false scarcity, then using that to justify raising prices because the "resale value" is high. They are setting the market rate themselves and then trying to use that to justify represses to charge more money. Just because one person bought Blonde for $1,500 on discogs doesn't mean Frank Ocean should charge $1,000 for his next LP.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Getting together a buyers club (where multiple people within a group buy each others product with no intentions of paying in order to set the new floor for what something is worth) is where the money is truly at for the flippers. It’s been happening for over a decade with sports cards and is starting to happen now with vinyl, but I don’t think it’ll have the longevity as we see with sports collectibles.

 

[MikeH]

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Getting together a buyers club (where multiple people within a group buy each others product with no intentions of paying in order to set the new floor for what something is worth) is where the money is truly at for the flippers. It’s been happening for over a decade with sports cards and is starting to happen now with vinyl, but I don’t think it’ll have the longevity as we see with sports collectibles.

Yep--I bring this up with people now ever since you talked about it awhile back haha. I was talking to a guy on a facebook group the other day about the VMP anthologies. He buys two of every anthology because of how the prices have "skyrocketed" on all of them. Yet he has had his Zamrock box listed for $450 for the past few months and nobody is even sending any inquiries to him about it.

 

[andyf]

...doesn't mean Frank Ocean should charge $1,000 for his next LP.

I'd still buy it though.

 

[MikeH]

I'd still buy it though.

And it would still take 8+ months to ship.

 

[thejot]

This is where I take issue with how that sub is moderated (as a mod of r/vinylcollectors, which is a larger sub with nearly 5x the subscribers) -

A 1am-6am poll conducted to provide the answer they wanted, with a pretty clear intent in the post and a sarcastic "You asked. You have it", and then locking the post for comments.

That sub is just a disaster right now, and the Mods need to get their shit together.

Here's the profile pic of the mod handing out the bans & shutting down the talk



And here's Vinceron's ebay profile pic



Is there a fox in the hen house?

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

You didn’t hear it from me but I heard they were in cahoots with Qanon AND The Illuminati too.

 

[MikeH]

Here's the profile pic of the mod handing out the bans & shutting down the talk

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And here's Vinceron's ebay profile pic

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Is there a fox in the hen house?

Hahah. Vinyl Me, Pepesilvia

I will say that I have heard that at least one mod on Reddit is a VMP employee and people messaged me on reddit after my post was taken down to tell me that the mod handing out bans works for VMP...

 

[thejot]

the mod handing out bans works for VMP...

Vinceron confirmed.

 

[Tys1]

Vinceron confirmed.

Also “Vinceron” has the same amount of letters in his name as AStorfer.... hmmmm

 

[Btsvinylfarm]

l say that I have heard that at least one mod on Reddit is a VMP employee and people messaged me on reddit after my post was taken down to tell me that the mod handing out bans works for VMP...

I believe the mod who was a VMP employee is no longer a mod (and wasn't really active prior to being removed after the issues last fall).

I don't think the mod handing out bans and posting 1am polls is a VMP employee. I think they just don't know what they're doing, and likely didn't consult the other mods based on their responses.

 

[Urbs_hott]

Yeah wasn’t the VMP employee Cam?

 

[duke86fan]

it seems that mod has lost moderation privileges now.. it says there are only 3 mods so cameron is no longer a mod

 

[slabsofvinyl]

Just catching-up on this Vinceron Reddit nonsense. That mod is power-tripping so hard it makes me wonder if he's getting some kind of kickback from VMP to clean it all up.

Here's some of the stuff that was deleted: snew

 

[Ethos99]

And discount codes working?

 

[MikeH]

And discount codes working?

Nope! Discount code got killed at the end of July.

 

[GentleSenator]

so even though i swapped out BVSC for extra credit and then tacked on the rap track to swap for a copy of BVSC that would come eventually, they shipped BVSC today along with the classics track. doesn't appear the other stuff that was supposed to "ship with the ROTM" was included though.

glad things are still operationally sound.