Talking Miniatures - A new book about the Golden Era
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AranaszarSzuur
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Yeah, it's sort of shocking that they didn't even bother to format it for ebook reader since formating is usually main justification for high prices of ebooks.
AranaszarSzuur
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I ordered Talking Miniatures on Amazon after I got my first disabilitbux together with a 3 month backlog and
That was the first book I have sent back abroad.
One review mentioned someone having to send back book 3 times to get undamaged one.
For me one was enough, especially with shipping time to UK.
My special celebration purchase was ruined. Depressing.
To add an insult to injury, I realized the price would be the same from publisher. Didn't want to risk again, though.
So, yeah, don't order it from Amazon, they think that sending a 2+kg 65GBP book in a flimsy cardboard envelope is somehow a good idea.
That was the first book I have sent back abroad.
One review mentioned someone having to send back book 3 times to get undamaged one.
For me one was enough, especially with shipping time to UK.
My special celebration purchase was ruined. Depressing.
To add an insult to injury, I realized the price would be the same from publisher. Didn't want to risk again, though.
So, yeah, don't order it from Amazon, they think that sending a 2+kg 65GBP book in a flimsy cardboard envelope is somehow a good idea.
Eric
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Yes sadly Amazon's packaging can be somewhat lacking especially for heavy objects. Acrylic display cases are another one where you take a bit of a punt as it very much depends on the packaging the manufacturers have used given Amazon will probably just pop it in a bag (we seem to have moved from single wall boxes to mostly paper bags for stuff (at least in my bit of the UK)).
Glad you managed to get a copy. I still wish they'd commissioned one of the old GW artists to do a lovely cover and mocked each book up like a classic rulebook, but hey ho. The contents is a interesting read of course. Just finally finished up the Blanche biography so I'm out of GW-adjacent history books at present!
What did you think of Talking Miniatures?
Glad you managed to get a copy. I still wish they'd commissioned one of the old GW artists to do a lovely cover and mocked each book up like a classic rulebook, but hey ho. The contents is a interesting read of course. Just finally finished up the Blanche biography so I'm out of GW-adjacent history books at present!
What did you think of Talking Miniatures?
AranaszarSzuur
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It's bizarre how there can be a massive company that literally started out as an internet bookstore that can just choose to not secure packages and casually destroy expensive products.
I didn't manage to get a copy. I gave up after the first one. It took me, like, 3 weeks to get back money and they didn't even refund full cost of sending it back.
So I didn't want to risk again, even from publisher.
Eric
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That is a shame. I can imagine overseas returns not being much fun. I would imagine Amazon are just playing the odds, say 9 out of 10 parcels make it fine in the flimsy packaging - well the money they save in time/materials on the flimsy packaging is more than offset by the 1 out of 10 parcels they have to issue a refund for. I would imagine somewhere whatever the odds are they keep a healthy eye on it. Good for their bottom line, less so if you stuff gets broken. Same I expect is true for the delivery companies.
AranaszarSzuur
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I think it's more like they count on vast majority of people who get damaged books to not refund.