Mark L.
They’ll Take and Take and Take
I unknowingly paid VNYL $39 a month for 28 months and never used the service once. Their own records confirm that I had no authenticated logins, no interaction with Account Settings, and no membership activity during that entire period. When I discovered the charges and contacted them, VNYL refused to refund the unused membership fees. Their solution was to convert $1,092 of unused membership value into store credit. To be fair, I later regained access to the old email address associated with the account and confirmed that VNYL had been sending renewal and reminder emails there. I am not claiming they failed to send notices. What I am saying is that this company looked at an account that had been completely inactive for nearly three years, confirmed there had been no logins or use, and still decided that keeping more than a thousand dollars was an acceptable outcome. The store credit would be easier to swallow if their selection were remotely compelling. It is not. I found the catalog extremely underwhelming, which makes $1,092 in VNYL credit feel like a particularly hollow resolution. They repeatedly cited their Terms of Service and described the account as “unattended” rather than inaccessible. TERRIBLE company.



