After months of complaints that Vinyl Me, Please had stopped fulfilling orders, processing refunds, and responding to emails, the Denver-based file membership has introduced its liquidation. The decision of excellent orders—together with hefty annual subscription charges—is now within the fingers of a 3rd celebration, Vinyl Liquidators LLC, which has taken cost of Vinyl Me, Please property as a part of an Project for the Advantage of Collectors (ABC). These collectors, primarily clients with unfulfilled orders and subscriptions, should file their claims earlier than Wednesday, October 1, 2025, in response to a discover considered by Pitchfork. Any proceeds from the liquidation will then be distributed to the claimants.
Since launching in 2012, Vinyl Me, Please has supplied boutique, collectible file pressings to a subscriber base paying as a lot as $654 a month for the highest-tier membership, as The Denver Post’s John Wenzel reported final month. The article traces the interval of instability again to the firing, in March 2024, of three senior workers, whom the board of administrators allege had conspired to divert firm funds to construct a urgent plant. Cameron Schaefer, the corporate’s former chief govt, stated he believed that he and the 2 others had been fired to avoid wasting on severance.
The next disarray led to delivery delays, value will increase, and different points reported by members. A number of clients advised Wenzel that, as not too long ago as final week, the corporate was nonetheless charging for memberships and itemizing gadgets as in-stock, regardless of the obvious collapse of the platform and its buyer providers. Subscriber Erik “DJ Hazbro” Dunham advised The Denver Submit, “For sure this membership has been an enormous a part of my life and in the end formed not simply my music style but additionally the way in which I take pleasure in music. To see it ending this fashion, principally stealing the cash of the very individuals who had supported it through the years, cloaked in silence with no acknowledgment of the inevitable finish or what is occurring with orders, is heartbreaking on prime of being a disgusting abuse of belief.”
Confusingly, Vinyl Me, Please emailed subscribers late final month—weeks after initiating liquidation—to say that “operations will return to regular” in mid-Could. Subscribers ought to nonetheless have acquired directions on methods to file claims by way of e mail.
