VNYL IS PRETTY MUCH A COMPLETE SCAM

[LazarusOblong]

G-Writah said:crabmongerfunk said:man, are you ever a rube.




Yes, because I don't roll all over the floor about some minor business launch that failed. Oh noes, he raised $30k on Kickstarter. He could be driving a used Honda Accord right now with his ill gotten gains. What a master schemer. Next Madoff.





If you want to toss around terms like sociopath and get all heated about the injustice of it all, go after someone who rips off orphans or scams old people in the name of charity. Some guy that gets a bunch of free press and raises money via platform used to raise money for speculative ventures and then actually rolls out the speculative venture... and it sucks... wtf? It's a shitty service, the end. Welcome to the world of commerce.





I'm not making any more bets, mainly because it blows my mind someone would waste so much time complaining about a service they didn't even use.




That's sort of what crappy lives for as far as I can tell.





He's a diaperopath.

 

[djtopcat]

The guy is just a hipster vinyl geek with a mountain of dollar bin crap in his collection. He's actually genius for finding a way to pawn that unwanted garbage on other naive hipsters. Unfortunately for him he also pissed off some actual collectors who contributed to the Kickstarter and they are the ones that are going to go after him. The rent on that Venice Beach shop has to be insane, don't expect they'll be in there long.

 

[fishmongerfunk]

 

[Gary]

This dude is a genius.





Tricking hipsters into buying dollar bin crap and then proudly posting that shit on Instagram.





Seriously if somebody told me that idea I would say it could never work, and yet there it is.

 

[djtopcat]

Hey VNYL is getting better just give them a chance. They sent me the Holy Grail Vinyl trifecta! #keepem #satisfied

 

[RAJ]

#Keepem









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[Grafwritah]

djtopcat and Raj's pics are both comedy gold.

 

[sticky_dojah]

http://vinylmeplease.com/how-it-works/

 

[LaserWolf]

sticky_dojah said:http://vinylmeplease.com/how-it-works/




This is the one I was getting emails for.


I asked for an "invite".


RSVPed no thanks.


Kept getting emails begging me to try it.





Seems like the exact same idea, except this one might be more legit.

 

[djtopcat]

vinylmeplease looks like they actually send out actual new "good records" not used thrift store reject crap like vnyl

 

[dukeofdelridge]

RAJ said:#Keepem

:face_melt:

 

[Grafwritah2]

How TF has this thing made it this far: https://vinylmeplease.com/

Record Subscription Company Vinyl Me, Please Acquired by VNYL Inc.; New Owners Vow to Restore Troubled Service to Former Glory (EXCLUSIVE)

Once beloved, recently troubled record subscription service Vinyl Me, Please has been acquired by VNYL Inc., with new owners vowing to right the ship.

variety.com

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

Oh my god... how? Am I correct in thinking "Vinyl Me Please" (kill me please) was at least new release stuff? Like basically paying for last year's record store day overstock or something. As opposed to VNYL which was the CEO's clearout of his Dan Fogelberg and 101 Strings collection? I'm not sure which subscription I'd want less.

But ten years, god damn! There must be people into this. Somebody out there is consuming physical music in a completely different dimension from how I do. Like... I got these shelves, gotta fill'em, don't care with what. Hit me with Streisand. A whole crate of Sayer. Gotta have "vinyl", just generally, as a concept, with little to no actual preference of what's on it. What??

 

[Grafwritah]

Gained my OG account back! I haven't even thought of that company since this thread from 15 years ago so I have no idea what they've done - I just so happened to see this thread and googled it. It's amazing if they've been able to keep a subscription service of Goodwill bin records going for 10 years.