My reaction when opening almost every online vinyl purchase

willing to bet that amazon will just let you keep the severed head and send replacement vinyl free of charge.

 

Yeah, they've done that for me a couple of times.

I just go to the used head store to get rid of the first delivery.

 

Laughed so hard I spit-out my coffee. Good one...

 

Have to find humor in things during times like this

 

lol exactly.

 

Amazon sent me the wrong LP today. Not even close. At least returning stuff is simple.

James Brown instead of The Syn trustworks. Stuff happens, in the grand scheme not a big deal.

 

My reaction is more like this

 

Holy cow that is an exact recreation of me getting my Nintendo 64 at Christmas

 

Totally agree. Unless it's my Donald Fagen One Step and it's lost by Fedex and MoFi can't send a replacement. Then heads will roll.

 

Sometimes I wonder whether I get more excited about getting my record delivered and opening it up or the music....

 

Looks like you had to fight the postman, too.

 

Times like these: Hurricanes, earthquakes, nuclear threats, Nazis? Or, like these: defective vinyl?

 

"What's in the box, Joe?"

 

45.

 

As if I'm the only member of these forums that has had to take such drastic measures...

 

UPS/Fedex drivers are the new Santa Claus for adults. I'm not sure what the USPS is...

 

I was gonna say they just send bills, but they don't even do that anymore...

 

I'm running a streak of about 5 deliveries in a row of damaged mint/mint vinyl.

But as someone else said in this thread, priorities. I don't even get upset when I open the package anymore. I just let the retailer/person know and send it back. Last one was a $35 loss for sending damaged vinyl back to South Korea. Good times.

 

The Easter Bunny....with chocolate trucks and suits.

 

For any album purchased on Amazon, with their typically spartan product description, my mantra when opening a box is “please don’t let there be a Four Men With Beards sticker on the the front....please don’t let there be a Four Men With Beards sticker on the the front....”

Been burned that way too many times on Amazon. Has anyone found a use for 4MWB pressings? I suppose melting them into candy dishes or making wall clocks is an option.

 

Is it just Seattle cause thats where amazon is based, but they dont ship thru US mail, they have these sketchball unmarked cars and then they get into your apartment bldg and knock on your door and then you answer it and the record is there. I strongly prefer US mail.

 

I rarely buy from Amazon. Have to pay for shipping and tax here.

 

At least you're getting plenty of use out of that woodchopper.

 

Well... I just bought an album used from a local through Discogs and he left the vinyl in the cover causing severe double seamsplit.

Now when I told him about it he denied all responsibility - "I send vinyl like this for ten years and this is the first complaint ever!" - suggested I turn to the post office for a refund - because the damage happened "in transit" - and then shut down communication altogether.

Of course I opened a case but PayPal wanted - dig this - a professional assessment. If it had been April 1st I wouldn't have thought twice but apparently they don't accept photos and forwarded mails any more. Excuse me? So I went to a record store I trust, showed them the sleeve and they wrote an assessment.

I always thought highly of PayPal buyer protection but this is just grotesque. Normally I'd say it's all too much hassle but I don't want to let that guy get away with a number like that.