Oh yea. They are not LOSING money, but they are nowhere near maximizing their profits after all these years. But that's why I asked for a refund instead of store credits a few months back when they screwed me over in swaps and oversold. Even with giving you $40 in credits, they are still making money off of screwing you over because the records probably cost $10-12 for them to make.
I've noticed VMP variants tend to sell out quicker because of the brand name. Case in point, the new Bon Iver record. Newbury sold barely any copies, TTL has the price discounted, and Secretly still has the blue japanese obi edition...but the vmp green somehow keeps selling out. Same with the new Thundercat, their variant wasn't good but it's already gone
VMP has the built-in customer base so that certainly helps. I think the VMP ones sold out because they were in swaps so when people didn't have anything to swap to, they went with that one (it was in swaps again this month). And the "free shipping" gimmick works too. When you see "free shipping", you're more likely to buy it even though it's now included in the price. I also think that VMP saying it was originally only 1K copies made more people buy it initially--they thought it was the most limited, when really it wasn't.
I gave up after 4 copies. All with the clicking.
Late to the conversation but which Caribou has the issue? The new one or the Swim reissue?
Yea--the Secretly store variant was something like $28.49 shipped if you aren't a member. I like the wave version better personally. And getting Con Todo El Mundo for $11 is a steal.
Suddenly has the clicking (the newest). Rest of the album sounds incredible though.
Dammit... I didn't finish the purchase yesterday because some work shit came up. SIGH.
I have the standard black of that I got off an Amazon deal and it does sound really good. I've been keeping an eye out for the VMP Swim to pop up somewhere so just wanted to make sure there was no issue there.
No, its up to 50%. Only a handful are half off.
