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

Joe Mac said:
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.
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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.
 
Well, after five and a half years, this is the move that is finally going to get me to cancel.

So I've made it a bit of a point not to do too much piling on of a lot of things with VMP because...honestly, I've not had many issues with what they have sent me at all. I've never once had a record show up with an unplayable warp. I did go through 4 copies of "Set Yourself On Fire" before getting a clean copy, but they were dealt with pretty promptly each time. I received some store credit for a couple of dinged covers on stuff that was sold out (Durand Jones and something else I can't recall at the moment...). Not anything even close to the more egregious stuff that I have seen from many of you lovely folks.

When they shut the old forum down, I tried not to hurl negatives around. Clearly those points were already being stated, and I was much more impressed with how N&G came together so quickly. It made me realize that I value this community and the people I've interacted with on it. (Some of them even in real life! What up @BjorgenFjorgen @Mather @juiceless you wonderful Weird Boys you!)

That being said, I was still very much enjoying the products I was getting from VMP. This includes some big ones from the want list, like QOTSA, Blackalicious, The Roots, El-P, The Flaming Lips, Phoenix, Outkast, and several others. It's even helped with my budding interest in jazz: Alice Coltrane, Art Blakey, Charlie Rouse, Johnny Griffin, Archie Shepp.....lots of stuff that I really love and am grateful to own in these editions.

I'm on an International month-to-month plan ($42 USD per month, which is around $55 CDN). When I started with VMP a long time ago I was doing three months at a time, but found that put more of a strain on my budget than I wanted. It is a bit pricey, certainly, but access to editions of stuff without the extra shipping costs (I know the Canadian contigent will back me up here, but shipping from US to Canada for vinyl is prohibitively expensive. For example, it was far cheaper for me to grab the VMP edition of Fetch The Bolt Cutters than from Fiona's site). Even with having a better job and making more money now, I've never wanted to do anything other than month-to-month, as I now have a bigger car payment, other bills, etc.

It was either going to take a massive dip in what I was getting from VMP, or an unreasonable price hike. $52 per month (approx. $70 CDN) is that unreasonable price hike. I've got several awesome local record stores that I would rather support even more at that price, and in the shorter term it should help me get to my new turntable even quicker.
 
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RobbieBobby said:
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.
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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.
 
Bsdmr2 said:
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.
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I still don’t think you can sugar coat that big a rise, people would still see the trend. They could have done it better but not even Tom Hanks could lend them enough goodwill to get over that level of price hike.
 
NathanRicaud said:
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! 🌈💯✅👍
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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.
 
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)
 
duke86fan said:
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)
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How many of those did they press again? Can't seem to find that info.
 
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