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

Used my credit to pick up some test pressings. Anthology felt like the safest bet for me, since they said they weren't going to ruin anyone's day by including the Comedy Anthology (lol) and there are very few other misses in those box sets. And if I end up getting dupes from something like the Cadet or Herbie sets? Eh, those are still nifty novelties.

I also went for a single Exclusive test pressing, which is definitely a lot riskier but eh, you never know.
 
Rowan said:
I finally got fed up and cancelled my pre-orders. Got an email a few days back saying they’d sort and it would be done in the next 30 days!!!

How the mighty have fallen
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It should be done pretty quickly. Mine was. I think they said within 30 days in case everybody cancelled subscriptions at once and wanted refunds 😬
 
Nee Lewman said:
I also wonder how much make everything a hassle is at play. Like if you make it a hassle a lot of people will just throw their arms up and be like “fuck it.”
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not really sure what the hassle is. i guess if you are checking every day to see if a refund is processed, but you've already requested it.

i think more people have been hesitant to cancel stuff that they have waited a year on because some of the stuff like BN and Grateful Dead box are now finally shipping. if you ordered with a 40% discount code, might be worth sticking around on some of those.

the bigger annoyance is there stupid AI not understanding stuff and cancelling the wrong items...
 
MikeH said:
not really sure what the hassle is. i guess if you are checking every day to see if a refund is processed, but you've already requested it.

i think more people have been hesitant to cancel stuff that they have waited a year on because some of the stuff like BN and Grateful Dead box are now finally shipping. if you ordered with a 40% discount code, might be worth sticking around on some of those.

the bigger annoyance is there stupid AI not understanding stuff and cancelling the wrong items...
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You create a scenario where you have to scour the internet for their communications practices and eventually maybe end up on the discord where there are people having to go to varying lengths to get refunds processed/processed correctly… hassle.
 
Nee Lewman said:
You create a scenario where you have to scour the internet for their communications practices
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you do? you email and they get back to you. their response times have been pretty quick lately.

there was that one dude on discord who spent like a week looking up how to see if a company has gone bankrupt in colorado, then paid to have access to the system where you can do that, only to find out that.....VMP is not in fact bankrupt. lol
 
MikeH said:
not really sure what the hassle is. i guess if you are checking every day to see if a refund is processed, but you've already requested it.

i think more people have been hesitant to cancel stuff that they have waited a year on because some of the stuff like BN and Grateful Dead box are now finally shipping. if you ordered with a 40% discount code, might be worth sticking around on some of those.

the bigger annoyance is there stupid AI not understanding stuff and cancelling the wrong items...
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What swung it for me was when I was streaming them all to see how much I still wanted them and how much I would play them… only to realise at that moment that I actually have access to listen to them whenever I want anyway so don’t need to run the risk of VMP going down the toilet snd taking my cash/ credit with them. Didn’t get a discount and aside from Troussant and Mishima they’d only get a passing spin here and there. So now in addition to my cash refund I’ve $130 of VMP bucks to piss up the wall on the slop they hold back for us Gaijin.
 
Rowan said:
What swung it for me was when I was streaming them all to see how much I still wanted them and how much I would play them… only to realise at that moment that I actually have access to listen to them whenever I want anyway so don’t need to run the risk of VMP going down the toilet snd taking my cash/ credit with them. Didn’t get a discount and aside from Troussant and Mishima they’d only get a passing spin here and there. So now in addition to my cash refund I’ve $130 of VMP bucks to piss up the wall on the slop they hold back for us Gaijin.
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yea--i cancelled Fela for a similar reason. i have so many fela records and it was a comp in which i already owned most of the tracks on vinyl. plus i've been buying some of the barclays reissues and they sound awesome.
 
Joe Mac said:
I raise you Pussy Cats.
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ehhhhh, i understand your point, and i personally do not enjoy nilsson (and did not get any of them), so the whole ordeal was wasted on me, but there's an argument that there is an audience for those albums and there were no real good/great ones. Gus Cannon....less so; that is an oddity of no-one-has-the-rights-because-of-reasons and that made it scarce and that made it expensive and THAT made it desirable. outside of the limited scope of outsider and old-timer country fans, interest in the music itself was kinda .... not there? I'm glad he got the record out -- it exists and it wouldn't otherwise -- but as a business decision, it's not the choice i would have made. of course with the timelines and schedules they had to keep, those choices were set months before they actually happened. those long lead-times for releases definitely hurt them a lot.
 
yukbon said:
ehhhhh, i understand your point, and i personally do not enjoy nilsson (and did not get any of them), so the whole ordeal was wasted on me, but there's an argument that there is an audience for those albums and there were no real good/great ones. Gus Cannon....less so; that is an oddity of no-one-has-the-rights-because-of-reasons and that made it scarce and that made it expensive and THAT made it desirable. outside of the limited scope of outsider and old-timer country fans, interest in the music itself was kinda .... not there? I'm glad he got the record out -- it exists and it wouldn't otherwise -- but as a business decision, it's not the choice i would have made. of course with the timelines and schedules they had to keep, those choices were set months before they actually happened. those long lead-times for releases definitely hurt them a lot.
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Oh no I like Nilsson. I actually like Nilsson quite a lot. That’s just a shocking choice. It’s giving people a really bad album because it’s an entertaining story rather than just letting someone like Netflix do a doc on how mental the making of this awful album was!

A lot of the curation, even before the label woes of the last few years, was just a big bit odd, which happens when there is primarily one dominant voice.
 
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