muleFunk said:

jthad1129 said:

Thank you! This last minute xmas rush shit.

I am sooo glad they asked! I haven't gotten mine yet...

HEY!!!
I sent the email because I did not have it.
BUT I just got IT!!!

My confirm # was 63239

I'm guessingall have been sent out and there will be no duplicates.

Prince probably had some guarantee delivery date and intends to get a refund
from postal service for all late deliveries

OR he may determine the store release based on what response he gets.

WELL, I SAID I was guessing...

I don't know why in the HELL they wanted to ship UPS .They are the slowest MOFO's on the planet.

rdhull said:

Its funny how people resort to insults and grammatical and spelling mistakes to try and gain the upperhand..

sad really...

The difference is that you came in trying to have an upper hand and insulting people WITH a grammatical error...I merely responded and included one. Don't be a dumbhead.

Muthafucka I Count The Days

comeon said:

It's funny really, how people resort to insults and grammatical and spelling mistakes. period.

As an avid watcher of the org people for a year, it gives me great pleasure to see the replys to this thread and realize...

1.obsession does enter into it
2.the word "urgent" is a call to arms
3.i can admit i haven't lisened to any prince for about six weeks waiting for the cd's
4.if we have absolutely NOTHING in common, it's all about PRINCE, baby!!

(POsted elesewhere, but this seems to be the "official" thread on this mail:

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Now, you've got to be fucking kidding me. One: you mean they DON'T KNOW who they've sent it to? and Two: If you wrote THEM a letter and asked THEM for information, you MIGHT get a response if they fucking felt like it or if they approved of the way you wrote it.


I suppose I could play devil's advocate and compliment them on at least TRYING to get on opinion on whether or not they're doing their fucking job, but frankly, I'm blue in the face from talking about how disappointed I am with the whole damned experience (Atlanta aftershow and front row seats not withstanding, but I paid MAD JACK for those tickets and endured a minor nervous breakdown with their server ordering them). That, and I'm sure the usual crowd will roll out and advise me to stop whining, remind me that its "only" $100 and that if I don't like the Club, not to join - which I am not, BTW.

So save your energy.

I just found this e-mail hilarious. I wrote them a LONG letter, politely and eloquently expressing my views about the Club and advising them that I planned to let my membership expire after this year (posted it here) followed up on it twice and never heard shit. Now they want to know from me if they've done their job. Can you imagine the Electric Company, Cable Company or telephone company contacting you to see if your phone, TV or lights were working? Unreal.

That, and they mispelled "Love4oneanother", or it's just some Clubspeak that I haven't deciphered yet.

Send the fucking discs, cash my check and kiss my ass goodbye. "Free the music" or open the vaults and I may just come back one day. Prince, I love your music, and I'll get my hands (and ears) on as much of it is I possibly can, whther you choose to receive compensation directly from me or indirectly from the people you sue is entirely up to you, but your Club needs to re-address its priorities and make up it's mind whether or not it's a "business" (which it most certainly is) or an "experiment"; a "service" or some kind of half baked religous cult. I thank you for all of the art you've graced me with over the years, but I have personally paid for my last "symbol cane"...

..and, no, I DON'T have my CD's. Thanks for asking.

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You know, a part of me wonders if this isn't just some way of covering their ass. Obviously, they're aware that some of us are disatisfied and that a few members are persuing legal action (I'm not). Is it possible that they're looking into PRECISELY what they promised and advertised in their CON-tract?

Whether or not exclusivisity was ever promised has been debated, but the fact that MEMBERS WILL BE SERVED FIRST has never been. Now, if members don't get their CD first, clearly THAT is a violation of some sort. Maybe they want to guranteee that all (or most) of us get the damned thing before it goes to retail...?

Really, I don't give a shit. It'll get here when it gets here and I'm certain I'll love it. But, you gotta' admit, if you were a Music Club member rolling through Tower Records and saw the fucker on the rack before you recieved it in the mail, and you posessed the slightest bit of objectivity about Prince, you might be a little pissed.

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I'm done with this topic. Have fun in 2003.

Ok, just an idea.

Has anyone here been involved in mass-mailings? I have.

It is EASY to mess up, trust me. Whether by error with printing labels, incorrectly planning the database design, or by losing your database - forgetting to back it up...it isn't always the fault of the deliverer. Simple human error in printing labels could have turned this event upside-down! Like not marking which label was printed, as they are printed.

My guess is somehow the records got messed up, and it turned into a fiasco when the boss came home and saw what happened.

No matter how great your system of records are, it doesn't take much to mess them up. It doesn't help if you are running a business with very little experience, and are trying to do your best - but it keeps messing up somehow.

The Live set could have even had a manufacturing problem which caused its delay. We can only speculate, since it isn't common practice to expose your "business problems" out in the open.

LaVisHh said:

Yes I have been involved in mass mailing...
on ebay that is, and I tell ya what, I would have been embarassed as hell to send out a letter to my ebay bidders asking them if they hadnt received thier package yet to email me...
without any type of apologetic explination at that.
That wouldnt be a good ebayer and woulda probablly gave me some negitive stars...
and thats just ebay.
Now take it a step further to the club...
this is a internet club, computers people...
there should be a computerized web base wouldnt u think?...
above n beyond a santa clause list where u check off the names.