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

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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hah i think they only had one or the other--no records left, or no jackets. but yea--it'll be 10 months now from when it went on sale to when they say it will be arriving. wild.

Skalap said:
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.
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well now we know what VMP is gonna be sending you if you keep complaining!!!
 
Hey I just realized something and am short on time but they clocked up the plant so epically, they redefined cock up.

Think about it they packed for a plant they no longer have and will likely never use. Lost their executive team. And fubarred everything they do in the short term.
 
MyWifeHatesTrain said:
Hey I just realized something and am short on time but they clocked up the plant so epically, they redefined cock up.

Think about it they packed for a plant they no longer have and will likely never use. Lost their executive team. And fubarred everything they do in the short term.
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I am not sure Google is giving me the right translation for "cock up" EDIT: yeah, Linguee is better.

EDIT²: you might be right. In order to show that it was never meant to be THEIR plant, despite the name, they had to put an end to every contract with them?
 
MyWifeHatesTrain said:
Hey I just realized something and am short on time but they clocked up the plant so epically, they redefined cock up.

Think about it they packed for a plant they no longer have and will likely never use. Lost their executive team. And fubarred everything they do in the short term.
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It sorta seemed like the only people who wanted the plant, were the ones who got fired. It's gonna be really interesting to see A) how the lawsuit goes and B) how Paramount Pressings does. The fact that they were bankrolling a plant that they didn't even own equity in (apparently) is absolutely wild to me.
 
MikeH said:
It sorta seemed like the only people who wanted the plant, were the ones who got fired. It's gonna be really interesting to see A) how the lawsuit goes and B) how Paramount Pressings does. The fact that they were bankrolling a plant that they didn't even own equity in (apparently) is absolutely wild to me.
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I have a hard time swallowing the story they’ve presented, but even if all of this is 100% factual, it’s still a massive cock up.

I suspect that it is more likely the board which may have been less than keen on the plant was done with the never ending delays and this is an easy way to scapegoat the whole situation. They have repeatedly loved having scapegoats (Shopify, hurricanes, their shipping partner, etc)
 
MyWifeHatesTrain said:
I have a hard time swallowing the story they’ve presented, but even if all of this is 100% factual, it’s still a massive cock up.

I suspect that it is more likely the board which may have been less than keen on the plant was done with the never ending delays and this is an easy way to scapegoat the whole situation. They have repeatedly loved having scapegoats (Shopify, hurricanes, their shipping partner, etc)
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i don't believe most of the story, but imagine that a board vote was recorded and lying about that aspect of it seems extremely easy to disprove in court. i also wouldn't be surprised that the plant delays and money spent on it definitely caused that c-suite to be fired even if nothing illegal or shady happened. sorta seems like the board fell asleep at the wheel and didn't actually look into what was happening for nearly 3 years hah The suit reflects REALLY poorly on the board even if everything they said is true in the suit.
 
MikeH said:
It sorta seemed like the only people who wanted the plant, were the ones who got fired. It's gonna be really interesting to see A) how the lawsuit goes and B) how Paramount Pressings does. The fact that they were bankrolling a plant that they didn't even own equity in (apparently) is absolutely wild to me.
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It's also hilarious to me that, even outside of the fact that they bankrolled it, there's now a fully functional pressing plant right down the street that's seemingly inaccessible to them - I don't know if they'll eventually do business with them when they're ready to ramp up numbers or if they effectively pissed off Rawlings and Salstrom so much that they won't press VMP stuff.
 
D Jilla said:
It's also hilarious to me that, even outside of the fact that they bankrolled it, there's now a fully functional pressing plant right down the street that's seemingly inaccessible to them - I don't know if they'll eventually do business with them when they're ready to ramp up numbers or if they effectively pissed off Rawlings and Salstrom so much that they won't press VMP stuff.
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My understanding is that in the short term, the contracts were cancelled (as evident by moving all of the items that were to be pressed there elsewhere)
 
MyWifeHatesTrain said:
My understanding is that in the short term, the contracts were cancelled (as evident by moving all of the items that were to be pressed there elsewhere)
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Yeah makes sense - I wonder if they recently tried to renegotiate some of the contracts and failed. That might explain the random 5 month delays popping up (moving to the back of the line at another plant).
 
D Jilla said:
Yeah makes sense - I wonder if they recently tried to renegotiate some of the contracts and failed. That might explain the random 5 month delays popping up (moving to the back of the line at another plant).
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I’m more likely to believe the in stock date hit and the site guy said, “um we don’t have these” and some one said “oh shit? We better order these!”
 
D Jilla said:
It's also hilarious to me that, even outside of the fact that they bankrolled it, there's now a fully functional pressing plant right down the street that's seemingly inaccessible to them - I don't know if they'll eventually do business with them when they're ready to ramp up numbers or if they effectively pissed off Rawlings and Salstrom so much that they won't press VMP stuff.
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they can't be too pissed off because they walked away with their own pressing plant. unsure if Cam and co are fully divested at this point (which would seem bizarre to do in the midst of a lawsuit). VMP has said they have no plans to press there and I would bet that as long as Cam and co own part of it, they won't do business.
 
MyWifeHatesTrain said:
I’m more likely to believe the in stock date hit and the site guy said, “um we don’t have these” and some one said “oh shit? We better order these!”
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another wild thing about the site....how is it not automated yet that when they receive actual stock of a record in the warehouse, it changes to in-stock on the site?? they have to go in manually and change dates around right now. otherwise you get stuff issues like Shabaka showing up as in stock even though it hadn't had a test pressing approved...
 
MikeH said:
another wild thing about the site....how is it not automated yet that when they receive actual stock of a record in the warehouse, it changes to in-stock on the site?? they have to go in manually and change dates around right now. otherwise you get stuff issues like Shabaka showing up as in stock even though it hadn't had a test pressing approved...
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Idk man. I think they might use AI to do everything.
 
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