Oblivions

I believe people dunked on him cause he did embarrassing stuff like making typos, releasing silly nostalgia-bait titles that don’t really make sense as music releases, and coming up with bizarre/confusing cover EPs. And AFAIK he’s since stopped making as many of the same blunders and being as easy to make fun of. Now, what’s frustrating about him is no longer his follies but the fact that he’s denied all of us of a familiar easy target. Also he’s solid with customer service which goes a long ways with changing people’s tune.

Buyer feedback: NEGATIVE. Seller sent record in saran wrap with shipping label literally on record. Arrived broken. Refused to give refund. Had to file a PayPal claim & seller sent belligerent emails and threats. Seller response: SCAMMER!!!! SELLERS BEWARE!!!!! I only sell records that are M or higher. Unreasonable and just wanted a free record!!!!!!!!! DO NOT SELL TO THEMMM!!!!

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.

Missing out on the /500 killed the "I need the vinyl" FOMO for me. Music wise, this is like the most adult Rivers Cuomo song. The lyrics are simple and easy but they make some sense and there are no random, shoe-horned 5 syllable proper nouns from his lyrics spreadsheet. Very interested to hear if this is their "we're making a noticeable effort" late career gem.

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

I believe Rivers has a ‘career masterpiece’ piano-driven/orchestral pop record in him, even if it isn’t a proper Weezer sound. I can also see this being Pacific Daydream with more strings.

Allowing yourself to feel hope by pre-ordering the most limited edition of a new Weezer album - eventually hearing how bad it is + selling it for a profit = 0

Ah I didn’t know there was an all or nothing funding component.

These kinds of dudes get off on LARPing as silenced and oppressed to after-the-fact justify their natural state of being awful blowhards. For some reason, I always lumped him in with Connan Mockasin (sic) as two blonde haired dudes whose music I could listen to for 5 minutes without my ears being able to process or identify anything. Sorry to CM for mentally pairing him with this dude.

Vaguely reminds me of Los Angeles venues like the Whiskey-A-Go-Go getting eager acts to essentially agree to personally buy a sold out shows’ worth of tickets off their misguided hope of reselling them to a fan base that doesn’t exist. This happened to my little brother when he was 15 and my mom made me drive him back to their office and make them cancel the contract. They refused at first but they couldn’t really argue much since he was under 18 and it had been less than 24 hours since him and his HS friends signed it. Lol.

Too many kooks.

Explain clearly you everything this thank

The thing about this bait is that I’m totally chill and not invested as I set it down here in the thread then walk away (wait around the corner with binoculars).

Who has the best refund policy/service on unopened merchandise? Vinyl Me Please, Urban Outfitters, or Mondo?

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.

Yikes. I was referring to another eBay user who has since taken the listing down. It was at $100 then they kept raising it $50 like every 12 hours. It was $250 before the listing was closed.

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!

Dang. People really lean hard into the troll, huh? Dude keeps raising the Buy It Now price $50 every few days. I wonder what VC member he is. Lol.

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.

I started with a first pressing of Son, Ambulance’s Euphemystic. 😔