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Tys1 said:
An interesting case study: The fact that people are STILL entrusting their funds to this company, and willing to overlook the dozens and dozens of very large mistakes simply because a STAX box set with a bunch of second best albums that will soon be repressed and available for a cheaper price comes out
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The Stax boxes are already being delivered

Nevermind. I misinterpreted another post. Nothing to see here.
 
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Just as a counterpoint, not an apologist, Sev and Tyler (two of the OG VMP four) are both righteous guys. I know everyone is poking fun at the current state of VMP, deservedly so. But those two cats I would trust to start any business as well as to always do the right thing.

Just wanted to throw that out there as those are two people who helped build and cultivate the VMP we knew and loved, not the VMP of today.
 
Tyr said:
Just as a counterpoint, not an apologist, Sev and Tyler (two of the OG VMP four) are both righteous guys. I know everyone is poking fun at the current state of VMP, deservedly so. But those two cats I would trust to start any business as well as to always do the right thing.

Just wanted to throw that out there as those are two people who helped build and cultivate the VMP we knew and loved, not the VMP of today.
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Agreed. And it feels like the collective soul (and personality) of VMP is completely gone. It's just another company now.
 
Tyr said:
Just as a counterpoint, not an apologist, Sev and Tyler (two of the OG VMP four) are both righteous guys. I know everyone is poking fun at the current state of VMP, deservedly so. But those two cats I would trust to start any business as well as to always do the right thing.

Just wanted to throw that out there as those are two people who helped build and cultivate the VMP we knew and loved, not the VMP of today.
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And they're gone. It reminds me of Sub Pop. Bruce Pavitt started it but, in the 90s, Jonathan Poneman sold 49% of the company to Warner Brothers and blindly started signing garbage in hopes of getting larger and gaining more commercial success. Pavitt left the company and wound up eating ayahuasca in the rainforest. I've met Bruce and have a lot of respect for that guy. I wrote a piece about him and his Nirvana book and he told me that it was his favorite thing that he's read about it, while staring me in the eyes so directly that it was super uncomfortable. He's a real guy and couldn't deal with the direction his company was going, so he bounced.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
Agreed. And it feels like the collective soul (and personality) of VMP is completely gone. It's just another company now.
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You couldn't be more correct, my man. Props

Dead C said:
And they're gone. It reminds me of Sub Pop. Bruce Pavitt started it but, in the 90s, Jonathan Poneman sold 49% of the company to Warner Brothers and blindly started signing garbage in hopes of getting larger and gaining more commercial success. Pavitt left the company and wound up eating ayahuasca in the rainforest. I've met Bruce and have a lot of respect for that guy. I wrote a piece about him and his Nirvana book and he told me that it was his favorite thing that he's read about it, while staring me in the eyes so directly that it was super uncomfortable. He's a real guy and couldn't deal with the direction his company was going, so he bounced.
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LOL great story! You're right, the company started small and felt like a community. It felt decidedly less so after the initial departure of Sev a couple years ago. I get it, scaling up a business is a delicate balancing act. I actually just wrote a piece on just that topic, strategy for scaling your business without losing the high quality of customer/client/patient care that defined your business in the first place.

I guess I just wanted to say something as both gents have been mentioned by name in this thread recently.
 
Tyr said:
You couldn't be more correct, my man. Props


LOL great story! You're right, the company started small and felt like a community. It felt decidedly less so after the initial departure of Sev a couple years ago. I get it, scaling up a business is a delicate balancing act. I actually just wrote a piece on just that topic, strategy for scaling your business without losing the high quality of customer/client/patient care that defined your business in the first place.

I guess I just wanted to say something as both gents have been mentioned by name in this thread recently.
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Definitely. On one hand, that article with Tyler discussing the importance of transparency and communication with the consumer seems like an ironic joke, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Sometime over the last 6 months since they tanked the forum, he's left a company that demonstrated how little they value that perspective and approach
 
I signed up for QOTSA as theyre one of my favorite bands. never got shipping confirmation. just showed up at my doorstep one day. Just recently. Still waiting for my December release and a few others i purchased. Not getting responses to emails is pretty frustrating and an awkward way to start a new "club" membership. Probably not keeping it past the 3 months.
 
frodo-pkt said:
Just a quick update that I still have no tracking information or a package for my November shipping. I'm just going to re-read my generic boiler plate email response I got back since that's all I can really expect anymore.
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This is me too. Order happened before site merge. Also Black Friday sale purchase is MIA with no tracking. Support is overwhelmed or is continuing to ignore me. Just want my money back at this point.
 
Dead C said:
I'd imagine it also relates to making people stick with the first swap they choose, because they clearly can't track a fucking thing at this point
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the fact that (I think) I've heard them say that they use Saddle Creek for inventory fulfillment but have no VMP employee on site to manage the inventory is insane to me. It means there is literally no VMP employee who has an accurate understanding of what inventory they are sitting on at any time and it requires traveling through two time zones just to get on site. That's wild...
 
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