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

After 8 and a bit years I’m thinking of dropping my VMP. I have Classics sub but have been enjoying less and less of late. I have two pre-orders Stakes is High and the Marantz compilation and I’m still considering the Fela box set, which no doubt they’ll hit me up for paid shipping despite buying as a paid member at the time of purchase.

My 12 month Sub renews in a few hours so might weigh up continuing but at this stage I feel like I’m collecting for collecting sake. I’d probably stick around if there was a clear roster of upcoming releases instead of being drip fed releases or forced to listen to rumour and gossip based on handful of clues every few months.

I have to say that this forum was probably the best thing have come out of VMP’s existence.
 
Lacubrious said:
After 8 and a bit years I’m thinking of dropping my VMP. I have Classics sub but have been enjoying less and less of late. I have two pre-orders Stakes is High and the Marantz compilation and I’m still considering the Fela box set, which no doubt they’ll hit me up for paid shipping despite buying as a paid member at the time of purchase.

My 12 month Sub renews in a few hours so might weigh up continuing but at this stage I feel like I’m collecting for collecting sake. I’d probably stick around if there was a clear roster of upcoming releases instead of being drip fed releases or forced to listen to rumour and gossip based on handful of clues every few months.

I have to say that this forum was probably the best thing have come out of VMP’s existence.
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FWIW, I’ve never gotten charged for shipping for an order I’ve made while a member that shipped when I wasn’t one. I’ve been an on and off member for years.

Personally, I’d let the sub lapse and hop back in for a month or so if some upcoming releases piqued my interest. Based on what you’re saying and some of the moves VMP has made lately, I wouldn’t personally give them the money for a year up front.

I feel like the timing of their quarterly announcements is wrong too. Would make more sense if they had announced the next titles now to entice people to stay or give them more of an informed decision.
 
Lacubrious said:
After 8 and a bit years I’m thinking of dropping my VMP. I have Classics sub but have been enjoying less and less of late. I have two pre-orders Stakes is High and the Marantz compilation and I’m still considering the Fela box set, which no doubt they’ll hit me up for paid shipping despite buying as a paid member at the time of purchase.

My 12 month Sub renews in a few hours so might weigh up continuing but at this stage I feel like I’m collecting for collecting sake. I’d probably stick around if there was a clear roster of upcoming releases instead of being drip fed releases or forced to listen to rumour and gossip based on handful of clues every few months.
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I'm with you here. I've gathered every classics release from the beginning but I'm starting to feel like I'm just getting them just to get them at this point. I can probably stop my sub next month, wait 6 months and grab all the releases I missed in a sale for a fraction of the price of the sub.

I used to justify the yearly price with the great selection of limited store track drops and adding an Essentials or RHH pretty regularly. The store drops have been just color alts of widely pressed records or open pre-orders that are way overpriced. Nothing truly exclusive that isn't upcharged out the wazoo. The tracks I've added have withered as well. I've added 4 Essentials and only 1 RHH track in the last year. Some of the curation from RHH has been good, it's just not things that I NEED on vinyl so I've been passing a lot.

Given the current assumed state of the company I could see them losing a ton of subscribers if this next quarter isn't containing some heavy hitters. This is probably the most important quarter for the company it's ever seen.
 
MikeH said:
FWIW, I’ve never gotten charged for shipping for an order I’ve made while a member that shipped when I wasn’t one. I’ve been an on and off member for years.

Personally, I’d let the sub lapse and hop back in for a month or so if some upcoming releases piqued my interest. Based on what you’re saying and some of the moves VMP has made lately, I wouldn’t personally give them the money for a year up front.

I feel like the timing of their quarterly announcements is wrong too. Would make more sense if they had announced the next titles now to entice people to stay or give them more of an informed decision.
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Cheers @MikeH

I just pulled the pin on Fela and then dropped my sub.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Rockets To Russia is both popular and essential and should be a title that VMP doesn’t mind ordering a surplus of because it would be a popular swaption for months to come.
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Each to there own of course, I can see why people would want it but was an easy swap for me and surprised it has caused this overstock issue.
I can buy this in multiple places, in fact it’s currently half price at £18 at HMV Ramones | Vinyl 12" Album | Free shipping over £20 | HMV Store for any UK members interested.
 
MyWifeHatesTrain said:
I don’t know why, but my gut told me to change my primary. I was a Country sub. A week before swaps opened, I changed my primary to essentials.

You know, this raises a whole other way they could fuck up… so all of the Country and Rock and Roll subs will be switched to essentials next month. What if this happens again! 👀
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Thats why October essentials is guaranteed to suck
 
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