It’a not that I dislike them, it’s that I feel let down by them, I see that they’ve made gargantuan errors. I don’t trust what they’re saying and I would be reticent to give them more money.
Honestly my instinct is that it’s 60/40 in favour of them being gone but if it does happen it’ll be quicker than June.
If you think the problems began with the migration then you’ve been burying your head in the sand for a long time. The migration issues are not an anomaly, they are symptomatic of the the types of mistakes VMP has been making since I’ve been a member, that’s March 2018, 21 months ago.
As someone that wished endless doom on them, I will say that it's pretty uncomfortable watching it actually happen. I'd imagine that I'm not alone in the fact that my hope's in them failing were only because I didn't want to support the idea that you could operate so callously and win at the end of the day. It was partly just that I believed their shortsighted tactics and increasing disregard for their customers would eventually blow up in their faces. I felt like it was inevitably going to come back and haunt them, both because I felt it should happen on a karmic level, and also because foolish decisions would indicate no other result to me, unless they made some drastic adjustments. I wanted those adjustments to come, but I stopped trusting they would well before the forum ended. Once that happened, it felt like they officially sealed their fate.
Who didn't think shifting to reddit was going to be a mistake for them? We warned them. If those anoraks sold out, I would have been amazed. If those Woodstock sets would have flown off the shelves, my head would have exploded. I would have had to admit I was wrong, but we all knew those weren't going anywhere. They should have known that too.
From the minute the forum went down, the exclusives stopped selling out so quick. The crazy part is that, once they began moving again and they actually had a supportive subreddit behind them, that's right when they fucked everything up. Such a twist!!
I'd still like to see them pull out of the nosedive -- if only long enough for me to get my Danny Brown and Fiona records -- but only if they fix things up, and I can't for the life of me, construct a scenario where that redemption could come about. I don't know how they could become what they once were. In the best case scenario, I don't see them returning to a reasonable price point, removing swap limits, restoring one month memberships, fixing the exchange policy, reinstating referrals (for real), etc.etc. And, even if they did, how will they address the radio silence and lack of transparency they've already exhibited up to this point? A lot of damage has been done. It's a really ugly fucking mess and, everytime I turn around, it doesn't get better, it actually gets worse. It's in their court to at least attempt to fix it, but they've been shifting responsibility so long, it's become their default.
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