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

bdrummond said:
So, am I correct in assuming that they hyped this up, and only had one or two copies of the popular titles they found in the back room?
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Back 'in the day' thats exactly what it was minus the hype. They used to limit it to 1-2 titles and announce on Twitter before dropping them.

It was always tricky to get anything but because it wasn't hyped it seemed more fair(?). I managed to get The National's Cherry Tree that way.
 
VMP's hype sales are so ridiculous that you really just have to pick that one thing you really really want, get it in your cart, immediately check out and pray it worked. Trying to get multiple items is impossible.
 
hahahaha_totally said:
Alice Coltrane sold out while PayPal was redirecting me back to VMP to bask in the Tina... instead I got slapped with an OOS error 🤬 I'm salty
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yea elton john and djo sold out in my cart when i went to check out....

the best way to do it is shop pay. least amount of clicks to check out. but also you need to just do one at a time to check out and prioritize what you want it seems.
 
bdrummond said:
ALL of the popular titles were on the 13 copies end. I can't even call that a restock.
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not sure that's entirely true. i bet low end theory had a few hundred restocked and sold out quickly. i wanted that one and missed out on it.

at the end of the day, it's pretty much a lose-lose situation. there's no real way to make it fair to add warehouse finds and make everyone happy. is it better for them to just not sell these copies at all? i get that it's frustrating but honestly don't know what the solution is?
 
MikeH said:
not sure that's entirely true. i bet low end theory had a few hundred restocked and sold out quickly. i wanted that one and missed out on it.

at the end of the day, it's pretty much a lose-lose situation. there's no real way to make it fair to add warehouse finds and make everyone happy. is it better for them to just not sell these copies at all? i get that it's frustrating but honestly don't know what the solution is?
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It feels like something that a company could use their waitlist function for. Add to the waitlist and if extra copies are found those folks are notified via a restock email as opposed to a wide scale social post.
 
MikeH said:
not sure that's entirely true. i bet low end theory had a few hundred restocked and sold out quickly. i wanted that one and missed out on it.

at the end of the day, it's pretty much a lose-lose situation. there's no real way to make it fair to add warehouse finds and make everyone happy. is it better for them to just not sell these copies at all? i get that it's frustrating but honestly don't know what the solution is?
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Low End Theory sold out as soon as it became available.

Here's my thoughts on this at the end of the day:

If you're going only going to have a small handful of these titles available, don't put them in the restocks unless you're going to ACTUALLY restock. You're just going to piss off 100s of customers to make only a few happy.
 
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