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

When I got home from work today, I noticed a car in my driveway I didn't recognize.

It was a friend of my wife! With her six-month-old baby (a month younger than my son)! She informed me there was a present for me the kitchen counter to check out.

Now, keep in mind, I told her about VMP a while back, circa Arctic Monkeys.

On my kitchen counter was a VMP copy of Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca. Which I am waiting on and still have not received notification about. She already received TWO. And this is after not receiving QOTSA, but got an extra Aretha for not getting QOTSA for some reason?
Our conversation devolved about what's been happening and I pulled up this exact thread.

Long story short, I expect to see her on these forums REAL soon.

And we have two theories about what is happening with all these people receiving massive boxes of shit they didn't order. In short:

1. Tax fraud (my theory).
2. Someone in the warehouse is either deliberately sabotaging the company or is being told to do this for some unknown reason (her theory).

Thoughts?
 
MadLucas said:
When I got home from work today, I noticed a car in my driveway I didn't recognize.

It was a friend of my wife! With her six-month-old baby (a month younger than my son)! She informed me there was a present for me the kitchen counter to check out.

Now, keep in mind, I told her about VMP a while back, circa Arctic Monkeys.

On my kitchen counter was a VMP copy of Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca. Which I am waiting on and still have not received notification about. She already received TWO. And this is after not receiving QOTSA, but got an extra Aretha for not getting QOTSA for some reason?
Our conversation devolved about what's been happening and I pulled up this exact thread.

Long story short, I expect to see her on these forums REAL soon.

And we have two theories about what is happening with all these people receiving massive boxes of shit they didn't order. In short:

1. Tax fraud (my theory).
2. Someone in the warehouse is either deliberately sabotaging the company or is being told to do this for some unknown reason (her theory).

Thoughts?
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There's no way a major distribution company like Saddle Creek would survive if they had employees doing this. That's their entire bread and butter and would undermine the entire company if they let this happen. It's clearly something from VMP's side. I still think it may be tax-related as I'm 99% sure that's why they rushed over to Spotify but ... I don't know enough about US taxes to chime in on whether this is due to fraud or not.
 
Clint Howard said:
There's no way a major distribution company like Saddle Creek would survive if they had employees doing this. That's their entire bread and butter and would undermine the entire company if they let this happen. It's clearly something from VMP's side. I still think it may be tax-related as I'm 99% sure that's why they rushed over to Spotify but ... I don't know enough about US taxes to chime in on whether this is due to fraud or not.
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I live in the US and I don't know enough either... buttttttttttttttttt.........
If this stuff were shipped out via error and they took a huge loss... there's gotta be some positive fiduciary outcome?
 
NewsFedora said:
Migration FAQ updated! I'm sure it's just a coincidence it was posted the same day as Fiedler receiving a dozen "where the fuck is my stuff" emails.
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From the Migration FAQ update this is the key part:

"We anticipate a much smoother process this month, and expect shipping timelines to return to normal again next month. "

So with regards to shipping, December was a dumpster fire floating down a river while monkeys hurl feces at it. While January will only be a dumpster fire floating down a river, but the monkeys have run out of feces.
 
NewsFedora said:
Migration FAQ updated! I'm sure it's just a coincidence it was posted the same day as Fiedler receiving a dozen "where the fuck is my stuff" emails.
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I haven’t received anything since QOTSA and have emailed the info email address with only a stock reply. I’m waiting on Knxwledge, Isley Brothers and Shlohmo. None are out of stock or sold out on their site or limited or pre-sale and I haven’t been reached out to on a one-on-one “case by case” basis. All state unfulfilled on my orders page.

edit: shlohmo is limited to 500 but is still for sale on their site
 
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Ponman2003 said:
The line ‘Some tickets require extensive research’ cracks me the fuck up. CS is over here busting out the Bunsen burners and Erlenmeyer flasks trying to figure out what in God’s name is going on.
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Clint Howard said:
There's no way a major distribution company like Saddle Creek would survive if they had employees doing this. That's their entire bread and butter and would undermine the entire company if they let this happen. It's clearly something from VMP's side. I still think it may be tax-related as I'm 99% sure that's why they rushed over to Spotify but ... I don't know enough about US taxes to chime in on whether this is due to fraud or not.
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Well somebody did say that the move to shopify was because their old system wasn't calculating taxes correctly right? But what would they gain from shipping tons of records to all the wrong people plus taking huge hits from shipping people out tons of separate packages? Some sort of insurance money?
 
MadLucas said:
I live in the US and I don't know enough either... buttttttttttttttttt.........
If this stuff were shipped out via error and they took a huge loss... there's gotta be some positive fiduciary outcome?
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You could write losses off as losses and not have it taxed as income, but if they are refunding the original orders for the lost vinyl then they also wouldn’t need to report it as income.

What I’m saying is, don’t overlook the possibility of it just being due to incompetence.
 
JonnyH said:
You could write losses off as losses and not have it taxed as income, but if they are refunding the original orders for the lost vinyl then they also wouldn’t need to report it as income.

What I’m saying is, don’t overlook the possibility of it just being due to incompetence.
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Right—I get that some of this would be written off as a loss but it doesn’t make sense when it’s a way of losing money that not only affects the current business but future business as well...they have lost money from sending the wrong records to the wrong places but also in the terrible PR which has caused people to cancel subscriptions and new subscribers from not signing up...also, we are no longer in 2019 so don’t see how the errors still happening affect their 2019 income.
 
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