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According the law and VMP's own policies, you would not be a thief for keeping the records. They are in fact yours at this point.I once received someone else's VMP Blue Note Anthology shipment. I got mine earlier in the week so this was definitely a mistake that was sent to me. That was back when these episodes went out every couple of weeks. I immediately emailed support to let them know because it didn't feel right to hold onto someone else's records. That's bad karma. VMP sent me a label and I gladly sent it back. Took all of 5 minutes to print it, put the record back in the box, tape it up and set it out for the postal worker to pick up. It's not that hard to box something back up and send it on. It's bullshit, frankly, to keep something that isn't yours.
How would you feel if the record you wanted that sold out was sent on accident to someone else and they kept it, thereby keeping you from getting what you paid for? Yeah, I get it, VMP screwed up big time. But to keep something that isn't yours makes you not only a thief but an asshole. Ask for some credits to compensate you for your time or I don't know, just be a decent person and pay it forward.
It might make you an asshole to not send them back, I'll concede to that.
But boxing up 25 records and going to the post office peak holiday shipping season IS actually a big ask. I would barely consider doing that for family. I would be pretty annoyed if a company I paid money to asked me to do that unless they lead with a pretty decent incentive. My proposed offer to VMP would be a big incentive AND it does still give them an opportunity to make it right it right with their other customers.
If I paid for a VMP record, and I wasn't going to get it in this situation, I would be pissed... at VMP. I would not be pissed at customers for not sending them back. This is 100% on VMP. It's not right to put customers in the shoes of even needing to consider making any sort of ethical choice. I support those customers in whatever they do, even if it mean flipping a record that VMP had to cancel and refund me for.
And if VMP cancelled my order, I would expect it to be cancelled asap, and fully refunded. If that didn't happen, I would be contacting VMP pretty much daily until that money hit my account.
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