- Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:28 am
#44696
Hey blindguy,
This is a totally valid remark and I'll be happy to comment on it.
I think your main question is why only 250 memberships are available? This has a couple of reasons.
First of all, it's not a financial thing why we offer Static Club, sure the upfront money is more than welcome and we invest it in new licenses like straight away, it helps our label grow. But the label does not depend on it, people who buy a sub would buy our releases anyway. If it were a financial thing we would just set the available spots to unlimited and cash in big time… but we don't. This is also why we give half of the spots to LITA for US members. With the euro conversion and shipping they would loose a lot of money if they were to become a member through us in Europe. Still we could do this and our customers are so loyal they would become a member. But we don't and by doing this we give +15k out of our hands… so once again: not a financial thing.
99% of our stuff is sold out. We have limited variants but we keep numbers reasonable so everybody has a chance to buy them. We rather keep it limited to say #500 units instead of #100. Still… it sells out rather quickly.
That's where the club comes in. We offer this service to thank people who really want to support our label and dig what we are doing since the get-go. We thank them by giving them advantages. If you are a member you don't have to worry about stuff selling out and hitting refresh all day. You sit back and relax. Since you make a commitment by becoming a member you get spoiled : variant choice, discounts, first picks, members only items, test pressing raffles, etc.
It's a win-win for both label and club member. Plain and simple.
Also, serving and helping out 250 people all year long is a full time job. That's why members get a contact person just for them. Sara does this and does this exclusively. By keeping membership numbers low she can offer an almost 24/7 service. If it were 500 people, the quality of this service would suffer from it and the personal contact would not be there. As you read through this tread it's safe to say Sara does a more than stellar job.
See it as a party you host…the more guests, the harder it gets to service them and chances are you probably won't have the chance to talk to or know everybody there.
Last year we opened the books for 188 members. All spots were filled (but not in like 24h, it took a couple of weeks)
Now we are accepting 250 members. So it's fair to say that chances are good you will get a spot.
As pricing goes (through LITA)
> Static Vinyl Club USA $125
> Static Cassette Club USA $40
> Static Vinyl & Cassette Club USA $155
> Static Vinyl Club CANADA $170
> Static Cassette Club CANADA $55
> Static Vinyl & Cassette Club CANADA $215
This includes four releases, shipping included.
You pay what you'd pay if you were to buy these separately, no discounts but no extra charge for all the perks and advantages either. Use of the perks, bonus item and personal discount code actually saves you money as opposed to not getting a sub. A lot of our members even made their sub back by frequent use of the discount code
The above prices are cool since it's for four releases instead of 8-10, meaning that basically everybody can afford to become a member.
It's half a blind buy, half not because we will announce the two first releases of the sub when we put it up for sale.
But I think that's irrelevant because everybody knows the shape of things we are releasing and if they dig it, they can become a member with confidence.
So, I hope this answers your question.
I'm glad you asked it.
Cheers
Seb
This is a totally valid remark and I'll be happy to comment on it.
I think your main question is why only 250 memberships are available? This has a couple of reasons.
First of all, it's not a financial thing why we offer Static Club, sure the upfront money is more than welcome and we invest it in new licenses like straight away, it helps our label grow. But the label does not depend on it, people who buy a sub would buy our releases anyway. If it were a financial thing we would just set the available spots to unlimited and cash in big time… but we don't. This is also why we give half of the spots to LITA for US members. With the euro conversion and shipping they would loose a lot of money if they were to become a member through us in Europe. Still we could do this and our customers are so loyal they would become a member. But we don't and by doing this we give +15k out of our hands… so once again: not a financial thing.
99% of our stuff is sold out. We have limited variants but we keep numbers reasonable so everybody has a chance to buy them. We rather keep it limited to say #500 units instead of #100. Still… it sells out rather quickly.
That's where the club comes in. We offer this service to thank people who really want to support our label and dig what we are doing since the get-go. We thank them by giving them advantages. If you are a member you don't have to worry about stuff selling out and hitting refresh all day. You sit back and relax. Since you make a commitment by becoming a member you get spoiled : variant choice, discounts, first picks, members only items, test pressing raffles, etc.
It's a win-win for both label and club member. Plain and simple.
Also, serving and helping out 250 people all year long is a full time job. That's why members get a contact person just for them. Sara does this and does this exclusively. By keeping membership numbers low she can offer an almost 24/7 service. If it were 500 people, the quality of this service would suffer from it and the personal contact would not be there. As you read through this tread it's safe to say Sara does a more than stellar job.
See it as a party you host…the more guests, the harder it gets to service them and chances are you probably won't have the chance to talk to or know everybody there.
Last year we opened the books for 188 members. All spots were filled (but not in like 24h, it took a couple of weeks)
Now we are accepting 250 members. So it's fair to say that chances are good you will get a spot.
As pricing goes (through LITA)
> Static Vinyl Club USA $125
> Static Cassette Club USA $40
> Static Vinyl & Cassette Club USA $155
> Static Vinyl Club CANADA $170
> Static Cassette Club CANADA $55
> Static Vinyl & Cassette Club CANADA $215
This includes four releases, shipping included.
You pay what you'd pay if you were to buy these separately, no discounts but no extra charge for all the perks and advantages either. Use of the perks, bonus item and personal discount code actually saves you money as opposed to not getting a sub. A lot of our members even made their sub back by frequent use of the discount code
The above prices are cool since it's for four releases instead of 8-10, meaning that basically everybody can afford to become a member.
It's half a blind buy, half not because we will announce the two first releases of the sub when we put it up for sale.
But I think that's irrelevant because everybody knows the shape of things we are releasing and if they dig it, they can become a member with confidence.
So, I hope this answers your question.
I'm glad you asked it.
Cheers
Seb
I never got an email about DW, so I guess I missed the boat on that one. I can buy locally anyway. No biggie I guess. I was a basic subber, so I'll be paying the same prices locally. 
