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dcunkelman
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Dec 11, 2018
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https://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/264525 $35.99 (less upto 5% for frequent flyers AND always free s/h on orders over $100).
MASSDROP - if you are not selling something out of stock at least TRY to be competitive on prices?!?!?
I would consider buying the drop here for about $36-39 (w/free s/h) or so to get one game versus spending $100 online to get free shipping.
billofpa
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Dec 12, 2018
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dcunkelmanBut the game is out of stock currently :-)
Not competitive?? You’re comparing apples to oranges. Not everybody is a CoolStuffInc “frequent flyer,” and not everybody wants to have to buy $65 more worth of games at the moment this becomes available.
To anybody that really wants the game, doesn’t want to have to sit waiting to respond to a restock alert, isn’t a CoolStuffInc “frequent flyer”, and really doesn’t want to have to buy other games when this restocks, this is a fair (not great) deal — 10% off MSRP plus free shipping.
dcunkelman
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Dec 12, 2018
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billofpaIt was in stock at CSI when I posted the comment and even without the loyalty discount it was a $9 difference. Tack on the $5.99 shipping if you'd like to not spend the other $65 and it's CLOSER, but still cheaper and will be delivered in 5-8 days from CSI - I have yet to get ANY Massdrop delivered in less than 2-3 weeks, most over a month or more.
The point of my post was to inform other consumers of other places and resources to comparison shop. Buy where you want to buy all your apples, oranges and board games. :)
This has a ship date of Jan 10, 2019... a month out to SHIP, not arrive. Point made.
So without competitive pricing AND delays on shipping, there are almost always better deals on board games here. I've been buying from Massdrop for about 2, maybe 3 years and have yet to buy a board game that I can think of...
billofpa
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Dec 12, 2018
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dcunkelmanNot sure when you looked, but this game has been out of stock at CoolStuffInc for at least a bit over a week. In fact, it’s out of stock everywhere I know of. One person in my group considered himself lucky early last week to find it online for MSRP (plus shipping) from some brick and mortar game store somewhere in the USA. Another has been looking in vain for the last week.
As for pointing out other places to buy, that’s fine, but you seemed VERY upset that the price was not competitive.
Yet now you say there is basically a $3 difference for a single game purchase. Not sure why $3 deserves a NOT competitive stamp. You sure do seem very angry with MassDrop.
As for shipping — Neither MassDrop nor CoolstuffInc can ship a game they do not have, and since the reprints aren’t due for a while,, you really don’t know whether you would get the game faster from them or from here. And that $6 CoolStuffInc shipping might very easily disappear by then. I remember a few years back seeing that only around Christmas time, so I wouldn’t want to guarantee that rate to anybody looking here. And if it does disappear, the rate goes way up making this a much better deal.
Anyway, if you know where to find it cheaper than this drop right now, please do share that information with everybody here. Can’t preorder from CoolStuffInc right now. Could try Amazon, they are taking preorders if you don’t mind paying $69 and up delivered.
As as I keep saying, the price here is fair.
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dcunkelman
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Dec 12, 2018
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billofpaNot angry at all... and I look at price. shipping times and likely hood that it'll get delivered (I've had two different Massdrops canceled weeks after the end date - yes, got a refund, but that doesn't help if its something that you were expecting for an event or something).
CSI has stock go up and down all the time, I'm pretty sure the "Add to cart" button was the right color and on, but I could have been mistaken. Anyway, I'll concede that +$3 is competitive and hope that these do ship for those that take the plunge. My friend picked up a copy last week at a brick and mortar so I can play well before Jan 2019 so I'm good.
For those that are curious about pricing in general: https://www.boardgameprices.com/ although their "In Stock" tags are often not correct. Cheers!
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