This price rise has made the Sign ‘O’ The Times boxset even better value. £22 a disc. And a free DVD. And a book.
Just like the Blood on the Tracks one step, only €75 a disc...
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This price rise has made the Sign ‘O’ The Times boxset even better value. £22 a disc. And a free DVD. And a book.
I think they would do a partial refund upon proof of the partial issue. As to reimbursement, I think PayPal would take care of the customer and go after the company. They'd be able to aggregate the debts and have some chance of recovering some - and seller fees fund their protection programs anyway.What is the deal with PayPal and trying to claim back partial refunds because only partially fulfilled. Also can they charge back against a defunct company with no liquidity. But yeah PayPal, or credit card for payment insurance, definitely still because otherwise as an unsecured creditor/customer you are at the bottom of the list of creditors due pennies to the pound in a liquidated company.
That One Step is worth every penny.Just like the Blood on the Tracks one step, only €75 a disc...
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I would be very surprised if those boxes cost them more than around $150 shipped. Licensing, I'm not sure, but absolutely no way it cost them $40 per album.I just did quick dumb math, and it is really startling how much the Grateful Dead box may have screwed them. I imagine as a distributor, their margins are very thin so even conservatively if we were to say each Dead box cost them $300, and they are sitting on say 4,000 boxes...
That's 1.2 million dollars of dead inventory. I work for a distributor significantly larger than VMP, and for us that would be disastrous. For them? Its enough to tank the company, and in the interim lead to them trying to recoup losses through things like increasing prices.
Agreed, I adore that Bob Dylan One-Step!t
That One Step is worth every penny.
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That One Step is worth every penny.
Mmmmmmmmm agreed!It really is exceptional! But also kinda silly money for a bit of plastic with music pressed into it...
Off topic, but I just popped into the store in I don't know how long, and JFC they STILL can't sell that Jaye Bartell record?! Nobody has mounted a Tabakin-style mercy killing for that thing yet?
That’s why you don’t do it in one go, and dangle some carrots along the way. They don’t appear to have offered anything to keep people incentivised to stay from what I can see, other than the odd tweet reply to say they’ve got some good records coming.
Just ran the numbers for US Members: $142.53 USD for 4 months including free shipping ($35.64/month) ***Now Cheaper Than VMP***I also highly recommend Wax Buyers Club! It’s a magnificent club that has awesome ROTM’s, and I love the exclusive treatment each Wax Buyer’s Club gets! The service from Edd is exceptional and the colour variants for their ROTM’s are always exquisite!
plus interviews from all those people...Starting to think the Grateful Dead box set put them under That had to cost a fortune to license
Vinyl du mois is so much more sexier!Just ran the numbers for US Members: $142.53 USD for 4 months including free shipping ($35.64/month) ***Now Cheaper Than VMP***
Also "Vinyle du Mois" is much sexier than "Record of the Month" when spoken by the French voice in my head.
How many of those did they press again? Can't seem to find that info.i know that hindsight is 20/20 but here is how they could have fixed this situation so they had more money and didn't have to raise the prices so much to make even a slight bit of the extra profit
DO NOT GAMBLE YOUR COMPANY ON EXPENSIVE BOX SETS FULL OF RECORDS FANS OF THE BAND COULD HAVE GOTTEN FOR MUCH CHEAPER
basically what im saying is that they put way too much money into the grateful dead boxset (and probably the other anthologies) and they didn't sell out so they are desperate to recouperate the costs. i mean we should have seen this coming back when they tried to do the woodstock boxset and failed.. people dont want to buy expensive records like that unless they are valuable or of high audiophile quality (and even then there is a limit on the amount of people willing to buy it)
750,000How many of those did they press again? Can't seem to find that info.