Murfocakes
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I thought this one would be straight for the second hand shop.
Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)
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Skalap
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Never listened to this one but her first and second album are both really good.
tvham
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I have the AP and surprisingly the recent 20th Anniversary reissue is really close sound wise!
bdrummond
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That sea of red on VMP's store drop scheduling tracker....that's good, right? Like all that overwhelming red means things are going great?
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Vinyl Me, Please is a record of the month club. The best damn record club, in fact. Our goal is to be the greatest music company ever, and to make your life even more awesome than it already is. We do this by not only sending you great music, but by also offering an amazing experience every month.
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Bull Shannon
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I still get promotional emails despite not being a member for a bit. Are...are things going ok over there? This seems like major damage control, considering how close to the vest they've seemed to be about delays in the past.
bdrummond
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17 on time. 26 delayed, and I bet that 17 will start eventually adding to the 26. Things seem peachy.
MikeH
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new/old CEO promised more transparency and a lot of people have been complaining/asking about dates on when represses and some exclusive preorders were happening as some got pushed back. Many of these were going to be pressed at the VMP plant (that was also not their plant?) so have been shifted elsewhere and delayed.
Colonel4Bin
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“Something unfortunate has happened” is very funny.
bdrummond
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In the past they've been pretty good about refunds. I'm not sure how that works now they canned their CS department, but I've always had good experience cancelling preorders.
MikeH
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they are typically quick to refund but unsure of how backed up CS is after they switched all the agents over. they seem to be really behind on stuff at the moment.
spilledleche
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their actual savings is probably in reducing the amount of square feet of warehouse space they're paying for - my guess is by selling these to wholesalers, they no longer have to physically house the product and can reduce that footprint and see immediate savings. post covid, commercial warehousing space costs have gone up quite a bit from what i've been told.
spilledleche
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the production of those items at this point is a sunk cost, so recouping whatever they do from wholesalers is better than the nothing plus warehousing costs they gain from sitting on the product at this point
MikeH
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i'll whole-heartedly disagree on the "good point" being made in the post. pretty much none of it makes sense to me. this is like people saying "nike sneakers only cost $5 to make so why don't they sell them to me for $5??"
this is not the price that people will be paying. this is a distributor/wholesale price for record stores to buy from. look at the prices Chad and HHV are charging for the VMP stuff. It's pretty close to what VMP charges. People seem to forget that VMP's shipping + overhead is baked into these prices so they would be adding that onto the "wholesale" price if they were selling direct to customers in a big sale. It's a move that makes sense for them IMO. Reduce warehouse inventory (which costs a lot of money), move dead stock, open up a new customer base by selling at retail, etc. VMP's subscriber base has had at least 7 months to grab these titles and have not. they are not interested in them.
That sea of red on VMP's store drop scheduling tracker....that's good, right? Like all that overwhelming red means things are going great?
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Vinyl Me, Please is a record of the month club. The best damn record club, in fact. Our goal is to be the greatest music company ever, and to make your life even more awesome than it already is. We do this by not only sending you great music, but by also offering an amazing experience every month.
Nee Lewman
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Because they did slash prices in a lot of it and people still didn’t buy?
D Jilla
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Two of those 17 are hats. Good to know that Cafe Press isn't backed up!
Jeff Lerner
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What does it mean if something is NOT on the tracker? I have pending orders for Magic Potion and Jolene, and I don't see them on thisThat sea of red on VMP's store drop scheduling tracker....that's good, right? Like all that overwhelming red means things are going great?
Production Calendar
Vinyl Me, Please is a record of the month club. The best damn record club, in fact. Our goal is to be the greatest music company ever, and to make your life even more awesome than it already is. We do this by not only sending you great music, but by also offering an amazing experience every month.