TRNTBL’s delayed launch has some customers worried they've been scammed

In May of last year, I wrote about TRNTBL, a $420 record player that claimed to somehow interoperate with Sonos and modernize the vinyl experience. It was available for direct preorder, with a Kickstarter-style early-bird price, and was supposed to ship that summer.

Fast-forward more than a year later, and my DMs are being lit up by disappointed customers. VNYL, the company behind the device, says that it has started shipping TRNTBL to customers. But it has already been written off by some angry customers as a scam.

I spoke with two people who claimed they'd asked for a refund, but had not received...

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