avecigrec
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It's STILL in swaps, so I'd say a loss for sure
Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)
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It's STILL in swaps, so I'd say a loss for sure
Nee Lewman
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It’s clear that they need an adult in the room. No idea who is on the board but there don’t really appear to be any in the room.
Maybe instead of doing an anthology, you do a Carlin or Pryor or Foxx or Bruce album as an exclusive to see how it does. I mean there’s a reason that Comedy albums aren’t hot sellers anymore.
jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
I really wonder. They took money from VC guys, so usually that includes a seat at the board table. Unless they lucked out and got angel money from the one firm that is full of people who cannot read a basic ledger. But, since the pressing plant fiasco happened under the Board’s nose, it seems like that is the case.
Murfocakes
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If it was a Pryor or Carlin Anthology I might bite. But it is a various artists compilation with wildly varying sound quality, joke quality and suitability for vinyl. Lots of the stuff on it seems to be ‘sight gags’ and physical humour.
jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
So, perfect for an audio medium. Brilliant.
Twentytwo
Pre-order Goodness
MikeH
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what would you do with more transparency?
Nee Lewman
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MikeH
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I do find it funny and not surprising that Matt came back, promised transparency then dipped while people found out about VMP stuff through other links and companies
Nee Lewman
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I find it funny that he came back and I’m eying the door.
serotonein
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In all walks of life, there are people who are 100% focused on something, and then after a break from it return with clarity about what worked the first time and what needs to change for it all to go better. There are others who are going to do it their way no matter what.
I'm in the pharma/biotech industry, and you regularly see CEOs who are incredible at raising money and getting a company's first product from clinical trials through to market. They turn out to be not so good at driving future revenue with that marketed product and taking the company to the next level with label expansion and/or multiple products. Presuming the company doesn't get bought out or ends up in bankruptcy while they're in charge, that CEO is usually ousted within a year or two before one of those things happens, anyway. It can be near-impossible to get back to being on top of the world if you get too far behind.
With the limited information we have, it's impossible to know for sure where Matt falls along those groups. That said, unless the Board was truly committed to only having him serve as a 6-month to 1-year interim CEO, it currently feels as if they're more likely to fail than succeed because he has no interest in acknowledging any of his failures (or, if you want to presume that email a few weeks ago was sincere, truly doing the necessary work towards fixing those flaws). All of the decisions they've made recently indicate belt-tightening and aiming for stability, but largely with the same attitude that got them to this point.
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MikeH
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you have been eying the door since the old forum was nuked haha
Nee Lewman
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Was out the door until fucking Honky Tonk Heroes! I think Call Me was the last ROTM I got before that one.
Skalap
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Interesting. I received an email from VMP saying "they would love to have me stay on board". Thing is that my subscription, which is not my main, is ending in December (took a second subscription to take advantage of the freebies last year). On the other hand, I have my "main" subscription which is ending next month but I havenn't received any email asking the other me to stay...
MikeH
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you have two subscriptions??
Skalap
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Under two different emails yes. One that I opened in 2017, closed in 2019 and re-opened in 2022. It auto-renewed before I could take advantage of the freebies. So I opened a second one in December last year that I will close definitely when it ends.
serotonein
Well-Known Member
I received an auto email this morning that my sub is going to expire in a few days but if the best they can offer is "We'd love to have you stay on board as a subscriber and not only continue receiving awesome ROTMs each month, but keep your member perks like free shipping and member pricing." then you're not really trying to keep me around.
The laughable part was the previous paragraph - "Please log into your account to view or make any changes to your subscription(s), including reversing the cancelation, or adding other Tracks." We know you've cancelled but maybe you really meant to add more tracks instead?
ntaos
Member
I got the same email. I wonder if they’ll try some sort of incentive for these cases. Surprised they aren’t already tbh
serotonein
Well-Known Member
I mentioned a few pg back that I left some pointed commentary on my reasons for cancellation after 9 years as a member, and this is the first I've seen from the company that they're aware I've cancelled; the same email sent to anyone whose sub is lapsing.
Last year's 8 free records (got some great Chanukah/birthday presents for my niece out of it) was the only reason I reupped thx to the price increase. I've primarily stuck to Classics and added some other tracks multiple times each year, but I actually swapped for credit for the first time ever in June due to curation & lackluster swaps.
That said, I really would be open to a reasonable incentive if they could be bothered to try. Doing the free records offer again would both free up space in their warehouse and basically guarantee additional revenue from my store purchases, but my guess is they're far more focused at the moment on seeing what happens to overall memberships after track consolidation. My easy prediction is that it isn't going to boost numbers.