MikeH
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They said there are no swap exclusives this month outside of the repress of El-P I’ll sleep
Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)
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Hhabelt
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What if a membership Is scheduled to end after receiving the June Essentials ROTM? The member will not be around in July because they only signed up with the promotion in April in order to secure a spot for The White Stripes in June. Should we expect there to be an issue receiving De Stijl with an expired membership?
Hollywood
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None whatsoever
MikeH
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I don't think you would. My membership is cancelled and I still received my preorders this month. I'd imagine that you will still have an "order" placed and will be sent out to you in July instead. I'd just make sure to make any adjustments to addresses or anything if that might be an issue.
Wes C. Attle
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This video suggests that there’s at least one copy available right now
Edit: Strike that, just saw that whole stack of them
Edit: Strike that... TWO stacks!
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dhodo
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My only issue is that there is no way they didn't know there would be a delay last week when Third Man was hyping the release by showing pictures of it being pressed. These were supposed to start shipping in a week, so there is either more to the story, or they waited until the last minute to admit there was an issue.
Obviously no big deal in the long run, just seems fishy and rubs me the wrong way.
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dhodo
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They never shipped it. The order disappeared. I waited until the day before they announced May ROTM to out a ticket in. It took them almost 3 weeks to respond to my ticket and then they shipped it the next day. They offered me a bonus record for the issue and how long it took and I chose Shabaka. They shipped it at the same time but in a different box for some reason.
Bluecloud777
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About this they also say:
"If you are an active member, we expect it to ship with your July ROTM. If you are not an active member in July, it will still ship to you, but most likely separate from any other records."
FWIW I received an email from TMR on May 11 to inform that the next Vault package that was supposed to be shipped in June would ship in July.
EDIT: So VMP've probably known about the issue for about 2 weeks now
radiodead
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I would also wager that they’ve known for a bit. And dropping an email the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, a couple days before it goes live, definitely seems intentional.
Was this an email? I didn’t get one...
Crabbers
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It was
MattS
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What store credit thing? I haven’t received any email
wmeugene
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This will be one of those months that the availability of swaps will go a long way, if Shabaka or Perfume Genius is available, I may stay in for June. Otherwise I'll just renew De Stijl and punt towards July. I'm not really excited and on the fence about the Albert King pick (yes it is hot playing, but still a covers album of songs I know really well).
Bluecloud777
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Swapping for store credit (Beta)
We're testing out a new, commonly requested feature in June: Swapping For Credit. Swapping for credit will give you credits equal to one month of your term cost (which varies depending on your mem...
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wmeugene
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They have stated that they in Beta testing of giving store credit as a swap this month. So instead of getting a record, you get store credit to apply to the record of your choice. This makes me think that the days of expensive swaps (ie $30 plus records is over), because they can always say we're giving you $23 (or whatever amount) to spend on what you want.
wmeugene
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The sole benefit really being is you can keep your membership active and not get a ROTM.
MattS
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Yeah, that’s a bummer if we lose out on more expensive exclusives. I’ve been able to get a lot of goodies out of the swaps, but also have had months where I didn’t like the swaps either and had to take a record I didn’t want to pay 25 for, because I was locked in for a long-term membership. I can get behind the credit thing, but hope we don’t lose out on all exclusives prices above the average monthly fee—aka every exclusive now
Didn't hear about the store credit thing either, interesting approach and not certain on it being a death knell for more expensive swaps. Other options in swaps have been cheaper than the add-on track itself so I imagine some variance will remain. Guess we'll see in the coming months, would be a bummer for that to be the case though.