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.
Fimm McCool
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Likely most of the books they send aren't these kind of 'coffee table' browsing books. Your bog standard novel few people are really going to care if a corner gets dented.
AranaszarSzuur
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I noticed that people generally don't give a damn about books as long as they aren't torn or have broken backs. Like booktube and bookstagram is so big and judging by it, almost nobody cares if book is really in mint condition.
Online bookstores certainly don't because books are so often dirty or damaged even if well packaged. They already damage them in warehouses. Sometimes even publishers send out damaged books.
Amazon adds flimsy packaging on top of all of this.
ManicMan
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I believe in taking care of books but a book is an object. Take care but it's gonna get a bit damaged, so don't sweat it. I'm also quite used to old book shops where you have to search through piles of books to find some old ones you want etc. so again, all this grading which.. well, very few books or anything come out of the publishers in Mint condition by the old standards. best you can get is Near Mint.. these days they scrap the old grades and replace them with silly numbers which don't mean much..
Eric
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Happy to have a look in Feb and see if Warlord bring any copies down to the Beachead show and send one onto you suitably armour plated if you're happy to PayPal over the money for it and shipping. However it's rather expensive to ship from the UK to Poland, just weighed my copy at 2.3kgs so realistically it'd probably be over 3kgs by the time it was suitably protected (not sure 700g is going to cut it for padding) and that pushes it into the next tier with Royal Mail which is, ouch, £33, almost the cost of the actual book... FedEx looks a little better at more like £25 and at least it's just with the one courier company the whole way then rather than handed off to local postal service. Anyhow shout if you want me to look.
You could try emailing Warlord to discuss shipping with them - it's a little unclear exactly who is doing the actual shipping for the book on their website, but you could probably clarify the packing method and so forth with them.
You could try emailing Warlord to discuss shipping with them - it's a little unclear exactly who is doing the actual shipping for the book on their website, but you could probably clarify the packing method and so forth with them.