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This is my theory. Either it was broken already and they were asked to return it or the customer was just upset that they didn’t get a no questions asked Amazon style replacement on a warp or ding and this was their act of protest.

EWBAITE- happy
White - happy
Pacific Daydream - very sad
Black Album - very sad minus High as a Kite which is a pretty dope song
OK Human - tentatively happy
Van Weezer - happy enough, seems like it’ll be fun and not too embarrassing

EWBAITE- happy
White - happy
Pacific Daydream - very sad
Black Album - very sad minus High as a Kite which is a pretty dope song
OK Human - tentatively happy
Van Weezer - happy enough, seems like it’ll be fun and not too embarrassing

Explain clearly you everything this thank

Explain clearly you everything this thank

Explain clearly you everything this thank

Explain clearly you everything this thank

Explain clearly you everything this thank

I literally don’t have time/energy to do this with a $10 order by a customer who is already riled up. And I wouldn’t call them a scammer automatically or in this instance. More opportunist, IMO.

Is this actually limited? I see people “missed out” on it shortly after it went up but now it seems to be everywhere via distro copies and Amazon.

I had one person who dropped their claim after I explained that the tracking shows it’s still moving albeit slowly, asked them if they could hold for another week or two, and assured them that, worst case scenario, I’d gladly refund them if it’s truly lost or accept a return with full refund if they no longer want it because of the delay.
The other person opened the claim with a long paragraph pre-arguing a “it didn’t arrive by Xmas, it’s lost its value, I don’t want it” so I just apologized and refunded them. Better to eat $13 and move on with my life than try and convert someone who comes in guns a-blazing.
In general, hobby sellers can be a bit too personally invested and expend more emotional energy than required to resolve issues but I do think, as a general message, we should all take an extra breath this season, buyers included. I have 4-5 other customers waiting on packages who have quietly opened cases with USPS to try and expedite their package arriving or just been hanging tight. It’s much appreciated.

I had one person who dropped their claim after I explained that the tracking shows it’s still moving albeit slowly, asked them if they could hold for another week or two, and assured them that, worst case scenario, I’d gladly refund them if it’s truly lost or accept a return with full refund if they no longer want it because of the delay.
The other person opened the claim with a long paragraph pre-arguing a “it didn’t arrive by Xmas, it’s lost its value, I don’t want it” so I just apologized and refunded them. Better to eat $13 and move on with my life than try and convert someone who comes in guns a-blazing.
In general, hobby sellers can be a bit too personally invested and expend more emotional energy than required to resolve issues but I do think, as a general message, we should all take an extra breath this season, buyers included. I have 4-5 other customers waiting on packages who have quietly opened cases with USPS to try and expedite their package arriving or just been hanging tight. It’s much appreciated.

On the other end of the THE HOBBY spectrum:
Heres a 99 cent charity auction for a new copy of this.
http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/

PayPal should tell people to wait, if tracking shows it’s in transit. I could see an agent hastily back a refund request if a package is never scanned in though.
 
IMO, the bigger headache is avoiding bad feedback. Some people are acting like you offered them a “get it by Xmas or your order is free” guarantee and they know they can use negative feedback as leverage. Sellers have to decide whether to lose money and hopefully avoid bad feedback or stick to their guns, make customers exhibit patience as their package shows up in a week or two, and possibly get their feedback score ‘ruined’.  I think most people will take December 2020 negative reviews with a grain of salt, so it’s not as bad as it feels, but some marketplaces like Etsy will shut you down or punish you for not having a perfect feedback rating, so it can be impacting.

While we’re ranting...so many people using these unprecedented USPS delays as an excuse to get out of their impulse December purchases. Luckily, I’ve only had 1 person drop the “THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A XMAS GIFT YOU RUINED THE MEMORIES I CAN NEVER WANT THIS NOW” line on me but,  reading on some Etsy/eBay forums, it’s wild out there. Small full time shops are getting slammed with a ton of  1 star reviews and refund requests, even though it’s a pandemic and the packages are still arriving, just 1-3 weeks late. I get that the pandemic and life makes us do some weird stuff but pls chill for the next few weeks while your records and gifts make their way to you. Be well, all!

They’re legit but they’re an impersonal retailer with slow customer service. Stuff usually ships a week or more after you buy and each reply you get from customer service takes 4-5 days and it’s a different agent each time. It’s worth the slowness for the great deals they run every so often. Too late for this order but I’d never trust their estimated shipping times or guarantees and expect to get your records from them at their own pace.

It seems to happen to me randomly. I don’t really care about jacket damage.
 
Warps bug me a little more as, these days, the option to resell a record when money is tight is always on my mind and a bad warp can be the difference between getting full market value or 50-60% market value when the day to let the record go inevitably comes. You can sell a used record for close to market value if all that’s wrong is a bend or split...most buyers don’t really care as long as you’re upfront.
 
Larger point, I used to think there were records I could never get rid of and that I’d own forever. Not so much anymore. Anything that comes in will probably, at some point, get sold off or passed to a friend/family member for their birthday/holidays.

My favorite recent test press story is how the ‘test press’ copies of the new Matt Berninger album were produced and arrived with a delay AFTER every other variant was produced and delivered. Risky move to not get your test presses and check for audio flaws until after the entire run of vinyl is finished. 😁

They knew our disposition when they decided to sell vinyl to us.

I only ever owned the Music from Another Room EP when it was originally released but I’ll stay around this thread long enough to say this sounds like someone’s dad who used to be in a rock band in his 20s and then decided to start writing music again so he bought a bunch of instruments and equipment and Apple dongle adapters and set up a pretty cool studio in the basement and, most nights around 11pm, he goes down there and he just plays around on the keyboard a little bit, sometimes sequences some fun drum beats, sometimes just sits there in his pleather swivel chair and thinks about how music these days is missing an inspirational message, some groovy vibes, some soul, heart, the confidence to dance a little bit, not too much guitar or unpleasant distortion, and then, 10 months later, he’s written a watered down, toothless version of an Imagine Dragons or Local Natives arena mashed potato pop rock reverb party from 2013.

Can I have one friggin day where I log on this site and don’t have to read about vinyl records?!

I only ever owned the Music from Another Room EP when it was originally released but I’ll stay around this thread long enough to say this sounds like someone’s dad who used to be in a rock band in his 20s and then decided to start writing music again so he bought a bunch of instruments and equipment and Apple dongle adapters and set up a pretty cool studio in the basement and, most nights around 11pm, he goes down there and he just plays around on the keyboard a little bit, sometimes sequences some fun drum beats, sometimes just sits there in his pleather swivel chair and thinks about how music these days is missing an inspirational message, some groovy vibes, some soul, heart, the confidence to dance a little bit, not too much guitar or unpleasant distortion, and then, 10 months later, he’s written a watered down, toothless version of an Imagine Dragons or Local Natives arena mashed potato pop rock reverb party from 2013.

I only ever owned the Music from Another Room EP when it was originally released but I’ll stay around this thread long enough to say this sounds like someone’s dad who used to be in a rock band in his 20s and then decided to start writing music again so he bought a bunch of instruments and equipment and Apple dongle adapters and set up a pretty cool studio in the basement and, most nights around 11pm, he goes down there and he just plays around on the keyboard a little bit, sometimes sequences some fun drum beats, sometimes just sits there in his pleather swivel chair and thinks about how music these days is missing an inspirational message, some groovy vibes, some soul, heart, the confidence to dance a little bit, not too much guitar or unpleasant distortion, and then, 10 months later, he’s written a watered down, toothless version of an Imagine Dragons or Local Natives arena mashed potato pop rock reverb party from 2013.

I only ever owned the Music from Another Room EP when it was originally released but I’ll stay around this thread long enough to say this sounds like someone’s dad who used to be in a rock band in his 20s and then decided to start writing music again so he bought a bunch of instruments and equipment and Apple dongle adapters and set up a pretty cool studio in the basement and, most nights around 11pm, he goes down there and he just plays around on the keyboard a little bit, sometimes sequences some fun drum beats, sometimes just sits there in his pleather swivel chair and thinks about how music these days is missing an inspirational message, some groovy vibes, some soul, heart, the confidence to dance a little bit, not too much guitar or unpleasant distortion, and then, 10 months later, he’s written a watered down, toothless version of an Imagine Dragons or Local Natives arena mashed potato pop rock reverb party from 2013.

I only ever owned the Music from Another Room EP when it was originally released but I’ll stay around this thread long enough to say this sounds like someone’s dad who used to be in a rock band in his 20s and then decided to start writing music again so he bought a bunch of instruments and equipment and Apple dongle adapters and set up a pretty cool studio in the basement and, most nights around 11pm, he goes down there and he just plays around on the keyboard a little bit, sometimes sequences some fun drum beats, sometimes just sits there in his pleather swivel chair and thinks about how music these days is missing an inspirational message, some groovy vibes, some soul, heart, the confidence to dance a little bit, not too much guitar or unpleasant distortion, and then, 10 months later, he’s written a watered down, toothless version of an Imagine Dragons or Local Natives arena mashed potato pop rock reverb party from 2013.