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

Joe Mac said:
So I ran out of space. My kallax are full and i have no more room. I always owned CDs, I had 1200 before I even started collecting vinyl, but my old player went on the blink a while ago.

Running out of space made me have a rerhink and an audit. I got a really top new CD player and splitting my collection into CD artists and vinyl artists has allowed me to clear 100 records, including some fat box sets, and have more space for new stuff and I’ve also got about 600 CDs in the collection now.

Your right to spend more on going out, you’re young, have fun,
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That’s really nice to have a big CD collection! I always throw out all my box set packaging as they’re bulky too! Only the MoFi Step-One’s I can’t as they don’t contain a jacket inside! The VMP Anthology box sets and UHQR’s have the album jackets inside, so I get rid of the box set itself!

I haven’t ran out of space as I’ve got a really big lounge, but I also got quite a bit of records at my parents which helps! I probably from now on will only get two VMP ROTM’s max a month, until I get my system fixed! Even after I get my system fixed, I’ll only be able to afford a few records a month!
 
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NathanRicaud said:
That’s really nice to have a big CD collection! I always throw out all my box set packaging as it they’re bulky too! Only the MoFi Step-One’s I can’t as they don’t contain a jacket inside! The VMP Anthology box sets and UHQR’s have the album jackets inside, so I get rid of the box set itself!

I haven’t ran out of space as I’ve got a really big lounge, but I also got quite a bit of records at my parents which helps! I probably from now on will only get two VMP ROTM’s max a month, until I get my system fixed! Even after I get my system fixed, I’ll only be able to afford a few records a month!
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I saw you mention that on the discord and I totally understand it. I would not do that myself, I think the boxes might fetch a quick bit of cash on a secondary market like ebay. I decided to homebrew my own Herbie collection (before I went and got his discography on CD....) and a box to keep the vinyl Herbie I did pick up would be quite nice!
 
Skalap said:
Ok, now that I am back and paid for it. It's time to ask for the real questions. Do VMP now have a real quality control, how stress free it is if replacements are needed and did they sold all their Torres records ?
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Last time I was with them before Christmas not so much. It’s still GZ so that’s an Achilles heel for them. They are still pretty generous with replacements.
 
Joe Mac said:
Yeah but to be fair those things take an age to get going. Last I heard they’ll start next year and it’ll likely be from a small initial base and gradually building up numbers if they’re sensible.
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Sounds good. I was reading the article from April 2022 and they were saying it would open before the end of year. Maybe they understood that more and better things can be done with more time 😜 Good move IMO as they will have a better control on timing and quality... At least they should have.
 
Skalap said:
Sounds good. I was reading the article from April 2022 and they were saying it would open before the end of year. Maybe they understood that more and better things can be done with more time 😜 Good move IMO as they will have a better control on timing and quality... At least they should have.
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In pinching from QRP they hired well in terms of who they’ve got to run the operation so hopefully they just leave him to it to do the job properly in the time it takes to do it.
 
Skalap said:
Sounds good. I was reading the article from April 2022 and they were saying it would open before the end of year. Maybe they understood that more and better things can be done with more time 😜 Good move IMO as they will have a better control on timing and quality... At least they should have.
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They apparently got held up in permit hell. This was the last update a week or so ago:

main delay has been a result of the city permitting office being very backed up, but finally at the top of the queue

first pressing machine arrives in the next few weeks with 4 more following closely

buildout should be done by end of Q1 with machines coming online in Q2

all of the plating & silvering equipment has arrived and was custom-made to Gary's specs

Also I haven’t had any issues with the classics track lately but might just be luck. They still are good about sending replacements if there’s an issue
 
MikeH said:
They apparently got held up in permit hell. This was the last update a week or so ago:

main delay has been a result of the city permitting office being very backed up, but finally at the top of the queue

first pressing machine arrives in the next few weeks with 4 more following closely

buildout should be done by end of Q1 with machines coming online in Q2

all of the plating & silvering equipment has arrived and was custom-made to Gary's specs

Also I haven’t had any issues with the classics track lately but might just be luck. They still are good about sending replacements if there’s an issue
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Thanks for this update. So no big changes at VMP except this soon to be operational pressing plant.

Of the 6 records (including tracks) ordered, 4 are Classics so it should be ok :)
 
Skalap said:
Thanks for this update. So no big changes at VMP except this soon to be operational pressing plant.

Of the 6 records (including tracks) ordered, 4 are Classics so it should be ok :)
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The pressing plant will be pretty huge for them once it opens. If I had to guess, they will be repressing lots of old sold out ROTM. They also mentioned that they are reissuing a few of their first ROTM ever and giving them the VMP treatment (aka actually recutting them since the first bunch of VMPs just reused existing plates). Forget the time frame on that but should be launching soon.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
Ordered a record yesterday using the 20% off code. Figured it would ship next week with my ROTM. Nope, got shipping notice this morning. You keep on being you VMP.
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Same for me. Grabbed the Jazz Legends bundle and had the shipping notice this morning. I am in France and they won't charge a dollar for shipment.

On the other hand, if I wanted to take advantage of the 20% off code I had to accept my order to be shipped immediately and they were charging $19,90.

VMP as usual.
 
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