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

[David A.]

I woke up this morning and realized that if my girlfriend realized I had $1000 worth of pre orders tied to a record club that’s potentially in dire financial straights , she’d kill me. I canceled all my pre orders. I’ll buy the sets once I have confirmation that they are shipping .

 

[Hemotep]

I woke up this morning and realized that if my girlfriend realized I had $1000 worth of pre orders tied to a record club that’s potentially in dire financial straights , she’d kill me. I canceled all my pre orders. I’ll buy the sets once I have confirmation that they are shipping .

Hell, my wife would kill me even if she knew it was in good financial straights.

 

[avecigrec]

Hell, my wife would kill me even if she knew it was in good financial straight.

^ This.

 

[Elric of Melnibone]

I woke up this morning and realized that if my girlfriend realized I had $1000 worth of pre orders tied to a record club that’s potentially in dire financial straights , she’d kill me. I canceled all my pre orders. I’ll buy the sets once I have confirmation that they are shipping .

If they come in stock and i can get them 40% off again, ill go back for em. Thats literally only reason people are keeping the preorders and not bitching more “well, it was 40% off, ill wait a lil longer”

 

[David A.]

Yeah, it’s just absurd. I’ll keep my sub but I pre ordered Impulse almost two years ago. I’m not even sure if my cc company would help mitigate any losses if VMP went belly up.

I’m keeping my sub for the time being .

 

[Elric of Melnibone]

Yeah, it’s just absurd. I’ll keep my sub but I pre ordered Impulse almost two years ago. I’m not even sure if my cc company would help mitigate any losses if VMP went belly up.

I’m keeping my sub for the time being .

My sub expires after june, I plan to let it lapse until their is some incentive to come back

 

[MikeH]

If they come in stock and i can get them 40% off again, ill go back for em. Thats literally only reason people are keeping the preorders and not bitching more “well, it was 40% off, ill wait a lil longer”

Yes I only have two preorders still waiting because I got them for 40% off AND I used entirely referral credits for them. Otherwise would have cancelled

 

[Elric of Melnibone]

Yes I only have two preorders still waiting because I got them for 40% off AND I used entirely referral credits for them. Otherwise would have cancelled

Exactly, i dont see a single person in the discord saying they paid full price for the dead box ($500 after tax) and will keep waiting. Theyre all “well it was 40% off”

 

[Melt Face Molly Drop]

Yes I only have two preorders still waiting because I got them for 40% off AND I used entirely referral credits for them. Otherwise would have cancelled

I thought you could cancel membership and still receive what you’ve already ordered

 

[YoHabloEspanol]

It's kinda entertaining watching Vinyl Me Fyre Fest in real time. Having said that, I don't wish any ill on any party. Sucks when a good idea comes to life only to crash and burn. Hope everyone gets their records at some point and perhaps we have a Fyre sale of color variants at some point.

 

[MikeH]

Anyway, its pretty clear from this alone that the guys at VMP were under the same assumption we were, that this was a VMP owned facility.

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I’d say it’s pretty clear that the person writing and approving this magazine article thought that VMP owned it. I’d bet that VMP does not in fact own ALL of the plant, and board didn’t like their own money being spent by Cam for 3 years with no benefit to them. And in actuality, it’s been worse for them to be tied to the plant given all the delays, people cancelling preorders, projects being pulled from other plants because of promises to be pressed at VMpressing, etc. that’s how the complaint reads to me anyway…will be interesting to see the VMPressing side of the story.

 

[MikeH]

I thought you could cancel membership and still receive what you’ve already ordered

I have my year long membership through November I think. Can’t cancel and get a refund on a membership. I have Impulse and I think one other item on preorder with the 40% off and used full store credit on it. So if those never come to fruition, I spend nothing on them. It was all member referral credit, not swap credit.

For some reason people take this suit as VMP is going bankrupt. I truly doubt they are. They likely just want out of the plant now.

 

[Melt Face Molly Drop]

For some reason people take this suit as VMP is going bankrupt. I truly doubt they are. They likely just want out of the plant now

Probably not bankrupt but they certainly flew too close to the sun. It’s clear they took on the adage ‘if you’re not growing, you’re dying’ and it backfired. Plenty of labels do fine just existing, I think they need to scale back closer to that model.

 

[yukbon]

I thought you could cancel membership and still receive what you’ve already ordered

You can. You don’t have to be an active member to receive what you paid for.

 

[MikeH]

Probably not bankrupt but they certainly flew too close to the sun. It’s clear they took on the adage ‘if you’re not growing, you’re dying’ and it backfired. Plenty of labels do fine just existing, I think they need to scale back closer to that model.

I just think half their board didn’t want the plant to begin with. Then when the board realized that more and more money was being sunk into the plant for 3 years without it ever opening, they probably tried to find a way to get out of it. selling stuff pressed at their plant before it’s up and running was a bad idea too

 

[Nee Lewman]

I just think half their board didn’t want the plant to begin with. Then when the board realized that more and more money was being sunk into the plant for 3 years without it ever opening, they probably tried to find a way to get out of it.

This seems likely and is also why the complaint seems full of holes, because it’s weak sauce. The lawyers are probably
Hoping to settle without going to court.

 

[MikeH]

This seems likely and is also why the complaint seems full of holes, because it’s weak sauce. The lawyers are probably
Hoping to settle without going to court.

Oh I doubt it ever goes to court. Will be interesting to see what happens to the plant…

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Oh I doubt it ever goes to court. Will be interesting to see what happens to the plant…

Ends up getting sold to Turd Man?

 

[tvham]

My membership ended a week or so ago - I still have both membership and account credits, I'll hop back in for a 3 month when (if?) they have a couple things I'm interested in. But hell no on rejoining for any longer than that, the VMP plant was a huge reason I jumped
back in 6 months ago.

 

[Skalap]

Not sure how they will make money on this Impulse box. They spent three years working on it, bet they could control manufacturing and pressing costs with their "own" plant and now they will have to press the records somewhere else (it can't be GZ so will have to be an expensive pressing plant) and sell it to customers who bought this with a 40% discount.