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

Here:
www.shopify.com

The 8-Figure Business Built on Vinyl Records and Subscriptions (2023) - Shopify

Matt Fiedler co-founded Vinyl Me, Please, a subscription-based vinyl-membership business, to give people the tangible connection to music they craved. After the first five years of bootstrapping, the business brought in over $11 million in revenue, and signed up more than 30,000 subscribers.
www.shopify.com www.shopify.com

Lots of fun tidbits in there, like they’ve always known that inventory is an issue…

But yeah Matt left VMp to start this company:
www.unbrkble.com

UNBRKBLE

Founded by serial entrepreneurs, and subscription & membership economy experts, Dave Cobban and Matt Fiedler, UNBRKBLE develops and delivers consumer-centric tools and strategies for companies to deepen their relationship with their customers.
www.unbrkble.com www.unbrkble.com

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MyWifeHatesTrain said:
Here:
www.shopify.com

The 8-Figure Business Built on Vinyl Records and Subscriptions (2023) - Shopify

Matt Fiedler co-founded Vinyl Me, Please, a subscription-based vinyl-membership business, to give people the tangible connection to music they craved. After the first five years of bootstrapping, the business brought in over $11 million in revenue, and signed up more than 30,000 subscribers.
www.shopify.com www.shopify.com

Lots of fun tidbits in there, like they’ve always known that inventory is an issue…

But yeah Matt left VMp to start this company:
www.unbrkble.com

UNBRKBLE

Founded by serial entrepreneurs, and subscription & membership economy experts, Dave Cobban and Matt Fiedler, UNBRKBLE develops and delivers consumer-centric tools and strategies for companies to deepen their relationship with their customers.
www.unbrkble.com www.unbrkble.com

Hahahahaha. lol hahahahahahaha lol hahahahahahah.
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Unbarkable. We teach your dog not to bark at those delivering your records.
 
Skalap said:
From July to December is not a delay, it is putting it back at the end of the queue of records to press.
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I believe they had more records than jackets or something like that originally? Or more jackets than records? But yea —seems maybe they pushed this repress back. Wonder if it had the lowest preorder numbers so they pushed it?

Yet again, the frustration of a preorder date coming and going before VMP even communicates that there’s a 5 month delay.
 
MikeH said:
I believe they had more records than jackets or something like that originally? Or more jackets than records? But yea —seems maybe they pushed this repress back. Wonder if it had the lowest preorder numbers so they pushed it?

Yet again, the frustration of a preorder date coming and going before VMP even communicates that there’s a 5 month delay.
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I don't know about Jolene but TLCs sold pretty well. FanMail shows as "almost gone" while the other is already on waitlist. Might be a record they planned to press at their factory or they made a deal with RTI to press other stuff (Impulse box?) and push TLCs.
 
Skalap said:
I don't know about Jolene but TLCs sold pretty well. FanMail shows as "almost gone" while the other is already on waitlist. Might be a record they planned to press at their factory or they made a deal with RTI to press other stuff (Impulse box?) and push TLCs.
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5 months is just a LONG time for a delay for an album that already has plates cut…and it went on sale 3 months ago or something?

I think FanMail was pressed to order right? So would make sense it’s low stock as they only probably pressed a limited amount of extra copies. I get the delays with stuff that was meant to be pressed at the plant but…All around just weird with some of these other delays. the plant news was known in March
 
MikeH said:
5 months is just a LONG time for a delay for an album that already has plates cut…and it went on sale 3 months ago or something?

I think FanMail was pressed to order right? So would make sense it’s low stock as they only probably pressed a limited amount of extra copies. I get the delays with stuff that was meant to be pressed at the plant but…All around just weird with some of these other delays. the plant news was known in March
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For us, public. I hope they knew about this situation way before that.
 
I started some kind of game on Discord now. Everytime I can, I tend the use the word "time" in one of my post and there is always an old forum member who comes with the "what would they do with more time" sentence. It feels like showing your member card to someone you don't know.

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Jeff Lerner said:
This should not cause a 5 month delay. I can solve this in five minutes: send everyone one record and one jacket, take the remaining jackets and burn them. Or thrown them in the trash. Or recycle them. Hell, send me two jackets I don't care. They should hire me.
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As for me, I would have put remaining Lapsley and Da Brat copies in Dolly Partons's sleeves. Then wait for complaints, then say "oh damn' it's Shopify again! Bad Shopify!". Say new copies would be repressed and ask to kindly wait 6 months.
 
MikeH said:
5 months is just a LONG time for a delay for an album that already has plates cut…and it went on sale 3 months ago or something?

I think FanMail was pressed to order right? So would make sense it’s low stock as they only probably pressed a limited amount of extra copies. I get the delays with stuff that was meant to be pressed at the plant but…All around just weird with some of these other delays. the plant news was known in March
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FWIW, they first offered it up for sale on February 1st. So it's now been 5 months and they just added another 5. And as you mentioned, the plates were already cut. Will be interesting to see how VMP tries to rationally explain this delay.
 
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