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

Ginormousthumbs said:
Maybe things would have been better had they stayed the course with the 3 main tracks?
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Or did better quality control, or actually had properly organized shipping procedures, or weren't sending full on replacements for the tiniest of things...

It was piss poor management from top down. Sure some of it would come off as "amazing customer service" but at the end of the day a lot of it was a small company acting like Amazon or Walmart wasteful.
 
bdrummond said:
Or did better quality control, or actually had properly organized shipping procedures, or weren't sending full on replacements for the tiniest of things...

It was piss poor management from top down. Sure some of it would come off as "amazing customer service" but at the end of the day a lot of it was a small company acting like Amazon or Walmart wasteful.
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Excellent points.
 
Oh, and maybe things like the comedy store anthology sounded good on paper to SOMEONE, but they should've maybe pressed stuff like that based on actual orders and not press so many they had to basically give them away.

I do look back at my time with VMP with fondness, but in the back of my mind a lot of the decisions came across as a completely impractical and unsustainable business model. When they had a stretch of really bad pressings they had to start firing off replacements left right and centre you kind of knew it was not long for this world. The shipping costs on the replacements must have been monumental.
 
bdrummond said:
Oh, and maybe things like the comedy store anthology sounded good on paper to SOMEONE, but they should've maybe pressed stuff like that based on actual orders and not press so many they had to basically give them away.
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There was definitely an issue of misjudging how much to press for any one thing on both sides of the spectrum, but thats also been an issue within the industry for 15+ years now.
 
A Lost Highway said:
There was definitely an issue of misjudging how much to press for any one thing on both sides of the spectrum, but thats also been an issue within the industry for 15+ years now.
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Oh for sure, that one Adele album that ended up in Goodwills highlighted that...but we're also talking about major labels vs someone like VMP thinking that people would jump all over a collection of comedy routines on vinyl and pay over $100 for that privilege.
 
Ginormousthumbs said:
Maybe things would have been better had they stayed the course with the 3 main tracks?
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they may have lasted longer but the issue was always going to be licensing.
bdrummond said:
Oh, and maybe things like the comedy store anthology sounded good on paper to SOMEONE, but they should've maybe pressed stuff like that based on actual orders and not press so many they had to basically give them away.

I do look back at my time with VMP with fondness, but in the back of my mind a lot of the decisions came across as a completely impractical and unsustainable business model. When they had a stretch of really bad pressings they had to start firing off replacements left right and centre you kind of knew it was not long for this world. The shipping costs on the replacements must have been monumental.
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i bet you’ll never guess who pushed for the comedy store anthology…

It was cam
 
A Lost Highway said:
There was definitely an issue of misjudging how much to press for any one thing on both sides of the spectrum, but thats also been an issue within the industry for 15+ years now.
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I think a fear of selling out ROTMs and members not being able to get something on month of release led them to overpress everything for awhile.

If you have 20k members, how many essentials do you press? I wouldn’t want the job of trying to estimate it. You’d be better off selling out vs being stuck with 10,000 copies of Sam Hunt or something but we saw how pissed people were with Ramones later on.

When you have 5-6 tracks that makes it even harder to figure out how many to press. And I imagine the free albums bonus made it even harder because you don’t know how many people would resub after and you need to press this stuff months in advance.
 
MikeH said:
For comedy? Or in general?

Some of those anthologies are the best things VMP has ever done IMO. The price just got too high on them
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In general. I never understood the concept beyond the single artist ones and even those didn’t take chronological chunks but random selections. It just messes with how I organise and think about music.

The whole launch day live from ikea and the vinyl junkies weirdo planted hype guy to the massive defensiveness just sorted made me hate it even more too.
 
So... got the ABC email. Prepaid for annual subscription ( with paypal ) April of 2024 that I did not renew for 2025. I swapped for credit last year - A Lot... and used most of it to preorder - have 5 lp's pending and still owed a replacement that was promised about a month ago. Also, still have about 80 bucks in swap credit on my account. Can anyone tell me if there is ANY effing way that I can get reimbursed for ANY of it?? I do plan to file a claim but I know how that usually turns out... Any insight/ help/ tricks would be greatly appreciated.
 
Joe Mac said:
In general. I never understood the concept beyond the single artist ones and even those didn’t take chronological chunks but random selections. It just messes with how I organise and think about music.

The whole launch day live from ikea and the vinyl junkies weirdo planted hype guy to the massive defensiveness just sorted made me hate it even more too.
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I used to think that guy was @Turbo
 
Joe Mac said:
The whole launch day live from ikea and the vinyl junkies weirdo planted hype guy to the massive defensiveness just sorted made me hate it even more too.
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I do not know what any of this means haha. I sort of remember vinyl junkies guy? What happened with ikea now??

You also hate Jazz so that knocks out like 1/3 of the anthologies for you anyway haha

I didn’t love the podcasts really or think they added much value. I think one or two of the podcasts were okay. The sets though that I got were incredible. Miles, Cadet, Impulse, PIR were all excellent. Also helps I got most at a discount. But the quality was largely excellent.
 
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