Vinyl Me Please Essentials

[Enoch]

You would think they would have everything out the door pretty quick this month since most of it is delayed

still have all those oversold OutKast to get out

I see all the extra focus they regained from putting the forum in the grave has led to faster out the door time.....

Still sitting at 5-7 business days to ship. Ugh.

SO Sc was handling the forum too

 

[sjaygray]

First VMP order since November of last year arrived damaged today. SHOCKING!

 

[tonythegamer]

First VMP order since November of last year arrived damaged today. SHOCKING!

What was in it may I ask?

 

[sjaygray]

What was in it may I ask?

Phoenix and Stars - bottom corners of each got a bit mashed. I haven't spun them yet to verify they're flat (as most tend not to be).

 

[tonythegamer]

Phoenix and Stars - bottom corners of each got a bit mashed. I haven't spun them yet to verify they're flat (as most tend not to be).

ouch, got both of those coming plus ugk and jenny hval. I'm now afraid for all of them.

 

[Ghost]

Looks like my box finally shipped. Fingers crossed both Alice and Outkast are in there!

 

[sjaygray]

ouch, got both of those coming plus ugk and jenny hval. I'm now afraid for all of them.

It looks like a shipping mishap to me. I'd be surprised if they were all like that!

 

[radiodead]

Still no shipping notice here.

 

[Enoch]

It looks like a shipping mishap to me. I'd be surprised if they were all like that!

yeah, it is usually easy to tell if something was packed damaged when you get more than one item

 

[Jeff Lerner]

My box arrived yesterday in NY

 

[Hollywood]

Shipping notice received and Weyes Blood included.

 

[mitchwagz]

Still waiting on shipping though I didn’t get a notice two months ago so who knows.

 

[tvham]

Still no shipping notice here.

Same...and I checked my informed delivery and it's still showing it in preshipment from 6/4

 

[Space Wanderer]

I see all the extra focus they regained from putting the forum in the grave has led to faster out the door time.....

Still sitting at 5-7 business days to ship. Ugh.

Well don't forget that they're working around the clock to implement a new model of community engagement that will replace and surpass the old forum. I mean it was obvious enough that they couldn't do that without shutting down the forum on two days' notice; it stands to reason that some other company functions (e.g. shipping, quality control) may also get short-changed while all hands are on deck building the great new thing that we're all going to love.

 

[zombie.modernist]

You would think they would have everything out the door pretty quick this month since most of it is delayed

Yeah that would only make sense, but that doesn't seem to be the case. In general I'm not loving this new shipping. For whatever reason their Media Mail shipments from NC seem to crawl to get up here, and it hasn't even shipped! It's funny because under the old system I would always get my stuff before most people's orders had shipped, and now it seems the tables are turned. Honestly I think getting the "record of the month" past the month's midpoint is very lame.

 

[sjaygray]

Any idea where we're at with July guesses? (apologies for not scrolling back)

 

[VMPKJ]

Any idea where we're at with July guesses? (apologies for not scrolling back)

For essentials? Africa Brasil Jorge Ben and Soul Sauce Cal Tjader seem to be the front runners.

 

[dbarila]

I don't have any other copies to compare it to.... but this Phoenix sounds outstanding!

 

[marshall]

I don't have any other copies to compare it to.... but this Phoenix sounds outstanding!

Agreed. Excellent pressing.

 

[Enoch]

Agreed. Excellent pressing.

I will get to find out soon as mine is on the way