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

Rowan said:
I suppose the main issue is that this code is going to get hammered (both by people who knew the reason it was put and and those who were/ are oblivious) and it may prevent people like VMP doing something similar again in future.
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I get where you're coming from on this, but VMP once again operating as if they've never used the internet before should not preclude them from actively trying to do better in the future
 
Skalap said:
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I emailed them last night and threw it back to them. I’m actually a Blue Light card holder in the uk as a health worker but I’d rather have a clear conscience than still marginally expensive ATCQ and Alicia Keys albums.

Plus I’ve friends that served during the troubles, Iraq etc and if they’d known I’d been using service personnel discount codes…. Well honestly they’d not be arsed in the slightest. In fact they’d probably rip the piss out of me for being soft and fessing up after the fact and ask why I didn’t order them a few albums too 😂
 
roffle24 said:
I mean it's cool that some of ya'll can stand on your moral high ground and decline 40% off just to feel good about yourself.

Isn't half of this thread dedicated to complaining about their pricing anyway?
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You’re free to use the code just as you’re free to mock those who don’t wanna use it. I get why people wanna use it and doesn’t matter to me. It’s a loophole and they are a big company that charges too much for their product. Go for it.
 
roffle24 said:
I mean it's cool that some of ya'll can stand on your moral high ground and decline 40% off just to feel good about yourself.

Isn't half of this thread dedicated to complaining about their pricing anyway?
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MikeH said:
You’re free to use the code just as you’re free to mock those who don’t wanna use it. I get why people wanna use it and doesn’t matter to me. It’s a loophole and they are a big company that charges too much for their product. Go for it.
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I respect everyone's opinion and decision on this sensitive question. We probably react and have different opinions depending on how this situation can affect us.
Mine is that I wouldn't blame any customer to take profit of this discount code as it doesn't steal a single dollar from the people this offer was supposedly intended for. I actually blame VMP to put out a discount code supposedly only veterans could use when actually everyone can use it. Again, if they want to help veterans in need, give part of the sales to associations instead of giving veterans the opportunity to buy overpriced items at a less excessive price.
 
Skalap said:
I respect everyone's opinion and decision on this sensitive question. We probably react and have different opinions depending on how this situation can affect us.
Mine is that I wouldn't blame any customer to take profit of this discount code as it doesn't steal a single dollar from the people this offer was supposedly intended for. I actually blame VMP to put out a discount code supposedly only veterans could use when actually everyone can use it. Again, if they want to help veterans in need, give part of the sales to associations instead of giving veterans the opportunity to buy overpriced items at a less excessive price.
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Something like 20% off plus 20% of proceeds to a veterans association for everyone and 40% off for active military, vets, and EMT would have been best of both worlds. Entice people to buy more with discount + giving to charity and then give something directly to those who the discount was meant for.
 
MikeH said:
Something like 20% off plus 20% of proceeds to a veterans association for everyone and 40% off for active military, vets, and EMT would have been best of both worlds. Entice people to buy more with discount + giving to charity and then give something directly to those who the discount was meant for.
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So leaving the stable door ajar rather than forgetting to build the stable at all?
 
Skalap said:
I respect everyone's opinion and decision on this sensitive question. We probably react and have different opinions depending on how this situation can affect us.
Mine is that I wouldn't blame any customer to take profit of this discount code as it doesn't steal a single dollar from the people this offer was supposedly intended for. I actually blame VMP to put out a discount code supposedly only veterans could use when actually everyone can use it. Again, if they want to help veterans in need, give part of the sales to associations instead of giving veterans the opportunity to buy overpriced items at a less excessive price.
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I have very complicated thoughts around the current need to fetishise military service as a means of churning more and more men and women from a lower socio economic class through the military industrial complex, spitting them out the other side without support. The displays this weekend every year and the feeling of being compelled into participating have increased year on year over the last 20 years and I’m glad to be in neutral country the more and more I see of it. It felt much less mandatory and much more of a personal choice when I was younger.

I see this as a part of it. Everyone has to be seen to be participating more than doing. I don’t blame either VMP, they’re just bowing to the climate, or the people taking advantage, they’re getting a few quid off from a hollow gesture.

We need more mature adult conversations and less displays of public sorrow and celebration of people who are just doing their jobs and who we ignore when the reality of them doing their jobs confronts us over the rest of the year.
 
Joe Mac said:
I have very complicated thoughts around the current need to fetishise military service as a means of churning more and more men and women from a lower socio economic class through the military industrial complex, spitting them out the other side without support. The displays this weekend every year and the feeling of being compelled into participating have increased year on year over the last 20 years and I’m glad to be in neutral country the more and more I see of it. It felt much less mandatory and much more of a personal choice when I was younger.

I see this as a part of it. Everyone has to be seen to be participating more than doing. I don’t blame either VMP, they’re just bowing to the climate, or the people taking advantage, they’re getting a few quid off from a hollow gesture.

We need more mature adult conversations and less displays of public sorrow and celebration of people who are just doing their jobs and who we ignore when the reality of them doing their jobs confronts us over the rest of the year.
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Not to mention that, at least when it comes to the military and police, a lot of their jobs support some truly awful and inhumane things. I know many in the military join when they are young and ignorant of such things, and I don't blame them for joining. But many do celebrate those awful things and I am not blindly thankful for what they do. I hate it. It just being a job or just following orders shouldn't be an excuse for a lot of bad that is done in the name of America. It makes living in the top global militaristic country difficult because a lot of folks see any criticism as being taboo.

Honestly the harshest criticisms of this often come from veterans. But so too are many distributors of the Kool aid who dismiss any legitimate critique as off limits and ignore or dismiss what their fellow vets say. But so many of them have been screwed over and seen first hand the effect of the military machine that they know it's not a good system.

Police are a whole other hornets nest in this country.
 
Hemotep said:
Not to mention that, at least when it comes to the military and police, a lot of their jobs support some truly awful and inhumane things. I know many in the military join when they are young and ignorant of such things, and I don't blame them for joining. But many do celebrate those awful things and I am not blindly thankful for what they do. I hate it. It just being a job or just following orders shouldn't be an excuse for a lot of bad that is done in the name of America. It makes living in the top global militaristic country difficult because a lot of folks see any criticism as being taboo.

Honestly the harshest criticisms of this often come from veterans. But so too are many distributors of the Kool aid who dismiss any legitimate critique as off limits and ignore or dismiss what their fellow vets say. But so many of them have been screwed over and seen first hand the effect of the military machine that they know it's not a good system.

Police are a who other hornets nest in this country.
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Police are a hornets nest everywhere. They protect money and all the awful things that people with money do to protect their money and to bend the system to protect their money. I have an inherent distrust for all police everywhere, I don’t see how you can join without having some worrying traits.
 
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