Shady scams and other silly business ideas to take advantage of earnest new vinyl collectors

TPES

still no mention of the hot stamper dude on here...maybe we've talked about him enough already.

http://www.better-records.com/dept.asp?dept_id=14-015-034

― sleeve, Thursday, May 14, 2015 7:45 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oops, okay!

i have less of a problem with the hot stamper dude though. the people who buy his 400 dollar eagles records seem to be really happy with what he gives them. so, he is providing some sort of crazy service to crazy people. the vnyl people on the other hand, man, i don't even know what's going through their heads.

agreed

https://twitter.com/Vnylz

Just had a look here. Golden.

I think all companies should answer their consumer complaints with a form letter that begins with "It fucking sucks when we disappoint our customers"

"...and that's why i'm going to ritually disembowel myself right now."

Like Fripp & Eno? We think you'll LOVE Loggins & Messina!

It just occurred to me, after reading this satirical tweet, that VNYL is an elaborate operation in IRL trolling.

Twitter Vnylz some good zingers going on. That's one of you, right? C'mon speak up.

I think all companies should answer their consumer complaints with a form letter that begins with "It fucking sucks when we disappoint our customers"

Imagining the letter McDonald's would write about the infamous too-hot coffee.

saw a pro-VNYL dude getting aggro on instagram, saying they were great and fuck the hipsters and he'd never seen foghat in a dollar bin.

Celebrate the life and music of BB King with some gently used Barbara Streisand records! Sign up today using code "BB" and get 3% off! #vibe

Why go from yard sale to yard sale searching for that perfect water-damaged Neil Diamond record? For only $15 a month we'll ship you three!

saw a pro-VNYL dude getting aggro on instagram, saying they were great and fuck the hipsters and he'd never seen foghat in a dollar bin.

― ceres, Friday, May 15, 2015 4:03 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

please lynk

have the VNYL fans ever been in a record store other than urban outfitters?

I think all companies should answer their consumer complaints with a form letter that begins with "It fucking sucks when we disappoint our customers"

In a way, bad customer service can be of benefit to a company. It can provide an easy scapegoat in the form of a low-paid phone worker who takes the brunt of the anger and can often use that opportunity to sell the customer on additional services.

Have the VNYL fans been in a record store?

saw a pro-VNYL dude getting aggro on instagram, saying they were great and fuck the hipsters and he'd never seen foghat in a dollar bin.

Hipsters ruin everything. Even things that are doomed from the get-go: Hipsters ruined it.

http://instagram.com/p/2mMCPnDIo3/

happy customer right here:

https://instagram.com/p/2pX5a1vDZq/?tagged=vnyl

what is up with the linda ronstadt and mary travers? good for any occasion, i guess...

https://instagram.com/p/2kECKouMlw/?tagged=vnyl

level with me, scott, do you have any foghat in a discount bin?

pretty sweet looking store...

https://scontent-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/11150840_1570216133258817_9016011502914235091_n.jpg?oh=222012ac6a830bf7b6ab1a50a0983199&oe=55D1D6EEp

oops...

i'd have to check. i have a two dollar bin near my door. inflation and all that...

Good luck. I've never seen one in there in all my years.

https://scontent-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/11150840_1570216133258817_9016011502914235091_n.jpg

anyway, their facebook has pictures...

https://www.facebook.com/getvnyl

https://twitter.com/DaleNibbe/status/598811707562065920/photo/1

some of those positive instagram people seem like street teamers...wouldn't doubt it...

for sure

really hard to distinguish between earnest kickstarter supporters and street teamers

i wound up on their 'director of product's instagram last night; she is like, 19, and they are all awful. how does this shit happen

https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/11174899_670693216391539_4597169060904868997_n.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tJpElgD.jpg

between this kind of thing and the major labels churning out crappy digital-sourced $30 reissues vinyl is due for its 2nd death any day now. people are so good at ruining fun things.

putting Love Beach in my mailbox is like sending someone anthrax

that big KEEP EM just looks more and more like FUCK YOU to me.

that reminds me, I kinda want a copy of the J. Geils record, I should check my local thrift store

it's a good album

You actually don't need to leave the house to get one now

#keepem sounds an awful lot like "eh, keep 'em, i certainly don't want 'em"

the 2nd death of vinyl cannot come soon enough

i even hate that word "vinyl" and all the fetishism it implies

they're just records, man. in whatever format.

saw a pro-VNYL dude getting aggro on instagram, saying they were great and fuck the hipsters and he'd never seen foghat in a dollar bin.

Hipsters ruin everything. Even things that are doomed from the get-go: Hipsters ruined it.

― austinato (Austin), Friday, May 15, 2015 1:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"I've never seen Andres Segovia or Foghat in a bargain bin in all my years, TBH."
I've never seen them in free boxes, my grandma's attic, a church flea market or in a goddamn dumpster either. But those are all very likely places to encounter these records.

someone needs to start working on a way to turn old linda ronstadt records into fuel.

i think that's what neil young's been working on all these years.

a glimpse into one of my two dollar rock sections. to be fair, when people buy stuff i tell them to take a couple of two dollar records on the way out...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMC94VXDla0