MrMatt767

From Discogs: "Hi there, the original notice we received did not meet regulatory requirements and it should not have been blocked. That was our bad. The notice we received last week is a legal notice that complies with US DMCA requirements. We are not a rights society and can only rely on information provided by the community and online when investigating releases. In this case, there is a clear dispute and we need to side with the rights holder's request to avoid further legal issues on our end. The DMCA counter claim procedures are included in the notes on the release - this is the official/legal way to dispute the original notice requesting us to take the release down from the marketplace. We support both rights holders and the flow of great music through the marketplace, but where there is conflict, ultimately, we are going to comply with legally valid requests." The question is now who sent Discogs the DMCA notice?

Get on this everyone, Casey rule

You make a good point but I think chalking it up to a life lesson doesn't really work in this situation because there's nothing really to take away from it. The only lesson is to use F&F for all future transactions considering this guy wouldn't have appeared too sketchy on first glance as he has a large number of positive feedbacks. Of course doing that will turn away almost all buyers for this seller and that's probably worse than getting scammed on occasion. Luckily for the seller the guy wasn't smart enough to just chuck a few more pieces of cardboard into the box to bring it up to weight, so he still has a very small chance of seeing his money again. However, this is a huge problem for Paypal. All the scammer has to do is bring the box up to weight and he has a watertight excuse to get his money back + keep whatever good he initially purchased. It quite literally is a tactic that will work with any purchase and I reckon Paypal would let a scammer do it a few times before they actually look at his transaction/dispute history and cotton on. I sell quite a few expensive bikes through Paypal and this a big fear of mine since I know that one bad buyer has the ability to put me massively out of pocket D:

Haha yeah, there's only 18 back in stock at the time of writing this - I wonder if/hope these were orders made by flippers that merchnow cancelled?

This. I have no idea how they're still allowed to operate the way they do since literally half the merch they advertise consists of things that they are never actually going to get in stock.

So wait, do you reckon the stuff listed at the bottom of the table are indie releases coming out next month (as the dates in the table would suggest)? The maroon indie variant of TWY sister cities has piqued my interest lol...nice find btw!

Only 109 of the Smartpunk one left

"In the next few days, or before shipment." That is insanely poor and lazy customer service. It was their own fault that this problem occurred and they plan on inexplicably cancelling peoples' orders on a whim over the coming months? If I had ordered the deluxe I would be messaging merchnow/fearless right now.

Thanks! yeah I saw that but for some reason 24hundred only got like 12 in stock according to the source code so its already sold out However if anyone is looking JB hi fi has quite a few copies still in stock! https://www.jbhifi.com.au/music/Whats-Hot/metal/erase-me-limited-edition-transparent-acid-green-vinyl/605230/

Please tell me there will be some sort of Aus variant or some other variant available in Aus soon...these shipping prices got me SAD

I kinda like it too

WHAT

Yeah because I messaged them and they fixed it within a day

Panopticon hates the working class?

Chances of a Banquet Records exclusive?

Probably going to cop the book and another more limited pressing if I can...fingers crossed!

Those BASTARDS

Still trying to sort out with merchdirect why they're trying to charge $60 USD for international shipping for this LP...

I mean really, all us vinyl collectors often care about is having a rare and nice looking, quality sounding variant. As long as the new ones are different/distinguishable in some way from the 1st press its totally fine (although IMO it would have been cooler if the x500 was the only multi stripped tri-colour pressing done, but that's neither here nor there). As others have said, its only annoying when a limited press is repressed identically and essentially has its pressing quantity siginificantly increased after it has sold out. I think record companies/bands/labels should be totally free to make as much money as they are entitled to, after all its their hard work that has resulted in the production of a quality piece of music. I just reckon they should do it by releasing pressings that are distinct from one another in terms of appearance and sticking to advertised pressing quantities. In short, Saddle Creek has gone about this the right way imo, and this is how other labels should do it if they want to press more limited vinyl after a first run has sold out.

Only 95 of the 500 left so don't sleep on this etc. etc.

Nah, theres still 186 of the black up on Merchnow, splatter is gone though but I'd assume some are being kept for tour

Surely not, doubt a band as small as these guys could move 1000 that quickly. Reckon they're at least saving some for their tour (which they've been hyping up a lot)

Yeah, really weird. I copped the splatter about an hour ago and at that point it said there were 4 of each variant still in stock. Those took until now to sell out. I reckon maybe merchnow didn't put all 500 up? Might be saving some for the tour?

Wait, sold out already?

Kurt hands down best vocalist imo, despite probably being the weakest in the actual "raw talent" department. His stuff with both DGD and ALLB as well as his solo stuff have all been so good and super consistent.