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

[Nee Lewman]

That and positioning the crate membership as comparisons to Costco / Amazon Prime.

My takeaway from all this is not VMP turning into fucking Blue Apron or whatever those meal things are called (this is a bad analogy in my opinion, it would seem to me that if they were doing build your own mixtape vinyls - then he might have been close) but Costco (except instead of discounted goods, you are getting outrageously priced goods).

The idea that members over there are buying into the crate is the best display of their lemming mentality.

Given the option of having to buy everything at a lesser discount OR buying everything, getting a better discount, and a record every month…. Unless they jack up the memberships the equivalent of $10 a month…. It’s an easy choice.

 

[Twentytwo]

That and positioning the crate membership as comparisons to Costco / Amazon Prime.

Only with Amazon Prime you get something besides free shipping.

 

[bdm105]

My takeaway from all this is not VMP turning into fucking Blue Apron or whatever those meal things are called (this is a bad analogy in my opinion, it would seem to me that if they were doing build your own mixtape vinyls - then he might have been close) but Costco (except instead of discounted goods, you are getting outrageously priced goods).

The idea that members over there are buying into the crate is the best display of their lemming mentality.

Given the option of having to buy everything at a lesser discount OR buying everything, getting a better discount, and a record every month…. Unless they jack up the memberships the equivalent of $10 a month…. It’s an easy choice.

I can see the crate sub working if you're brand new to collecting and will buy $1000 worth of albums over a year but that's the only use case I see that makes sense

 

[Jan]

Still don't fully understand how these store drops work. So they are dropping x release tomorrow,. Does it go directly to the store and what's left over is available swaps?

 

[Twentytwo]

I can see the crate sub working if you're brand new to collecting and will buy $1000 worth of albums over a year but that's the only use case I see that makes sense

I'd go for it it was like it used to be, $5 a month and I could dip in and out as I like.

 

[Portland Sheriff]

If your meal was $54 each and arrived 45 days to 2 years late. Yum.

I don't understand the cynicism about this meal service. It's clearly a way to motivate members who want to leverage and diversify use of the sleeve-opening knife as a meal utensil.

 

[Nee Lewman]

I can see the crate sub working if you're brand new to collecting and will buy $1000 worth of albums over a year but that's the only use case I see that makes sense

It doesn’t even make sense then. I imagine swaps will still have stuff that cost way more than entry. A swap to a future anthology will still basically net you a free membership.

They are pushing crates hard because it is literally free money. They charge you for shipping already it’s baked into their prices that’s why the majority of their exclusives are $10 or more higher than regular variants.

Not to mention there will be people who pay for crate and never buy a record.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Still don't fully understand how these store drops work. So they are dropping x release tomorrow,. Does it go directly to the store and what's left over is available swaps?

Yes.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Also @Jan , track releases will have the 48 hour member exclusivity (reinstated, I guess? They act like it never went away but ROTM are not available for like a month if they survive and exclusives don’t have a window anymore?)

 

[Skalap]

(One of) My favorite part is them opening Rock and Country tracks again so it gives more chances to swap...

 

[Nee Lewman]

(One of) My favorite part is them opening again Rock and Country rocks so it gives more chances to swap...

I mean that’s what they’re calling it but it’s really about rudimentary curation. If I sign up for rock and you send me Ja Rule - we’re going to be having a chat. They have to have a starting point to know what to send you if they don’t have 11 years of orders to mine.

 

[roffle24]

"While we recognize this change may feel big and like a departure from what has made VMP special, our mission to memorialize essential albums and help you build a record collection your friends and family will fight over when you’re dead has only grown stronger."

This is the quote that got me. What the fuck?

 

[Nee Lewman]

"While we recognize this change may feel big and like a departure from what has made VMP special, our mission to memorialize essential albums and help you build a record collection your friends and family will fight over when you’re dead has only grown stronger."

This is the quote that got me. What the fuck?

Is that from the email? lol. Matt maybe really did write it.

 

[Jan]

(One of) My favorite part is them opening Rock and Country tracks again so it gives more chances to swap...

I think what they mean by it is that albums they would have released as essentials after rock and country were done in are now called country vol xy which they can do since they don't need monthly records in the individual tracks anymore

 

[Nee Lewman]

I think what they mean by it is that albums they would have released as essentials after rock and country were done in are now called country vol xy which they can do since they don't need monthly records in the individual tracks anymore

lol. So what is essentials? Edm and experimental? Ooohhh, classical. That’s what the market really needs over priced sort of audiophile classical reissues in fun colors.

 

[Jan]

Yes.

So if they would release rocket to Russia, I'd have to decide to giveint9 fomo and buy it directly or wait out to swap for it but risk not getting the record

 

[Rowan]

(One of) My favorite part is them opening Rock and Country tracks again so it gives more chances to swap...

But does that not just involve them including records they class as rock or country from the store in swaps? It’s not new to the sub. It’s old shit they can’t sell that is tenuously linked to the genre.

At this point VMP has become the record retail equivalent of Apollo Creed telling Rocky not to throw in the towel. At least nothing bad happened there though

 

[Nee Lewman]

They’ve found a way to distill everything that sucks about their service and amplified it while gutting everything that was great.

 

[Nee Lewman]

So if they would release rocket to Russia, I'd have to decide to giveint9 fomo and buy it directly or wait out to swap for it but risk not getting the record

Yup.

 

[Jan]

Yup.

I cannot see how that would ever create unhappy customers