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

Here was the answer when I asked about keeping my grandfathered pricing. Also note that my renewal is on 9/30 which why i cant see the bridge discount yet. So the only people that can see it are ones set to renew on 8/30


You'll recieve an email prior to your subsciption renewal containing details on a bridge plan offer, which will give you a significant discount towards your next subscription renewal to help offset the price increase. We hope you'll stick around, but we totally understand if you need to cancel. Don't hesitate to reach out if there's anything at all we can help with moving forward.
Elli
Customer Support Agent
VMP
 
AC Slaughter said:
Here was the answer when I asked about keeping my grandfathered pricing. Also note that my renewal is on 9/30 which why i cant see the bridge discount yet. So the only people that can see it are ones set to renew on 8/30


You'll recieve an email prior to your subsciption renewal containing details on a bridge plan offer, which will give you a significant discount towards your next subscription renewal to help offset the price increase. We hope you'll stick around, but we totally understand if you need to cancel. Don't hesitate to reach out if there's anything at all we can help with moving forward.
Elli
Customer Support Agent
VMP
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Thanks for sharing this, I emailed asking the same so im intrigued to see if I get the same response.
 
AC Slaughter said:
Here was the answer when I asked about keeping my grandfathered pricing. Also note that my renewal is on 9/30 which why i cant see the bridge discount yet. So the only people that can see it are ones set to renew on 8/30


You'll recieve an email prior to your subsciption renewal containing details on a bridge plan offer, which will give you a significant discount towards your next subscription renewal to help offset the price increase. We hope you'll stick around, but we totally understand if you need to cancel. Don't hesitate to reach out if there's anything at all we can help with moving forward.
Elli
Customer Support Agent
VMP
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I love how they're all "cancel if you want; we don't care!"
 
$43 for a John Mayer record. I can think of very few VMP "Essentials" releases that I would pay $43 for. I am the furthest I've been from the moment I first opened the VMP box my wife got me for Christmas 2017 with Sorcerer by Miles Davis in it. That feeling is completely gone now.
 
siremobunny said:
Because my annual renewal is up in September, they sent me an email offering a discounted renewal for $299 instead of $399...anyone else getting that?

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Mine is up in September and I'm not receiving this. Not sure why, It'll make it much easier for me to decide if I'm staying If I can sign up for a 1 year at the discounted price.
 
mdmost said:
$43 for a John Mayer record. I can think of very few VMP "Essentials" releases that I would pay $43 for. I am the furthest I've been from the moment I first opened the VMP box my wife got me for Christmas 2017 with Sorcerer by Miles Davis in it. That feeling is completely gone now.
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I was tempted to go with the yearly when this came in but this is setting off massive red flags for me. I'm not entirely sure my investment would actually be that safe.

And if they do have short term cash flow issues I'd imagine the quality of exclusives may take even a hit (or even more of a hit depending on your views on recent releases) so you'd just end up with a shelf full of shiny, coloured vinyl equivalents to dog shit.

For internationals it was always a bargain to be honest but now at those prices it's just a bit too rich.
 
I just did quick dumb math, and it is really startling how much the Grateful Dead box may have screwed them. I imagine as a distributor, their margins are very thin so even conservatively if we were to say each Dead box cost them $300, and they are sitting on say 4,000 boxes...

That's 1.2 million dollars of dead inventory. I work for a distributor significantly larger than VMP, and for us that would be disastrous. For them? Its enough to tank the company, and in the interim lead to them trying to recoup losses through things like increasing prices.
 
  • Go into business with a shady 3rd party scalper
  • Get called out on it
  • “If we ignore this it will go away”
  • It doesn’t go away & cancellations start rolling in.
  • “Shit, we need to cut ties with this guy. But if we do, we’ll lose a lot of profit.”
  • Solution: raise prices on the customers we were already screwing over.
  • Customers: “Goodbye.”
Given the events of the past 72 hours, it seems plainly obvious that this is what’s happening.
 
So instead of a 3 month "rejoin" discount, they're trying a 3 month "please stay joined aka bridge" discount
Crazy to think if you signed up for the domestic version of both of these your subscription costs would be:

$54
April $18
May $18
June $18

$60
July $20
August $20
September $20

$90 (89.25)
October $30
November $30
December $30
 
slabsofvinyl said:
These guys desperately need a COO who knows how to run a business. It’s just embarrassing at this point.
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This is my exact thoughts. Pauly said on Reddit that they underestimated how quickly costs were growing compared to sales. You can't just stumble across something like that one day and decide to almost double prices...that's something that has to be implemented gradually. What a disgrace that this company is such a shit show.
 
I am just catching up, but I have a few thoughts:

1)There's some issue with their relationship with scalpers, timing cannot just be coincidence.

2) The GD Anthology could have been awesome, but instead it is grossly overpriced and is going to be an anchor and albatross on their bottom line

3) Of course they do this before Spirtiualized, which is going to have a huge demand.

4) Now I have to pay for their dumbass business decisions

I'm considering staying through for September because I really want Spirtualized, but no way I sign up for 2 more months without knowing in advance what they will be and them being awesome. I'm pretty much Spirtualized and out at this point.
 
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