Game Frus Tray Shun

[shannon_a]

My elder funagain.com order arrived pleasingly early this morning, with Carcassone: The Castle, King & Scout, Mystery Rummy #4, and San Marco all happily inside. I was quite looking forward to trying The Castle and perhaps MR #4 as well tonight. The anticipation has been growing, since FedEx lost the package for 3 days on the road (it was originally supposed to arrive Saturday).

Imagine my frustration when I opened up the Castle and found that it was missing 15 of the 60 playing tiles. Sigh.

I'm sure I'll get replacements from Rio Grande Games, but it'll probably be a week before K. & I get to try this game out now.

Edited to Add: On the bright side, RGG got back to me very promptly. On the down side, they don't have replacement pieces yet for the game, and don't expect them till next week. So, possibly we might have The Castle to play when I take a few days off around Christmas. Ah well. There will be a humongo pile of stuff arriving before then, including a couple of totally new, exciting games that I haven't played before.

Comments

[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

Website for Rio Grande Games? I would like to order the new Carcassone and a Mystery Rummy game for J-bear for Xmas.

[shannon_a]

Riograndegames is www.riograndegames.com. Mystery Rummy is put out by U.S. Games: www.usgamessystems.com.

However, I suggest doing all your ordering through one of the online hobby stores, rather than through the manufacturers, as the stores are much more adept about getting packages out, especially for the holidays. I personally use Funagain.com because they're decently cheap, have a great web site, and are 2 days away via FedEx (when FedEx doesn't misplace the package). If you look in my previous journal entry, DougO also lists a number of other online stores, some of which are cheaper, and some of which are on the East Coast.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Of the ones I listed, Game Surplus is the one I would check first. They also have a great website, very competitive prices, and they're very friendly. And they're prompt about shipping, plus they're in Pennsylvania so it doesn't take long to ship to New England.

[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

Thanks!!

But didn't you just get the Carcassone with missing pieces from Funagain.com?

[shannon_a]

Yes, but that's not their fault. It was a sealed game package that was put together by the manufactuer. And, that problem seems pretty common in the industry currently. Out of 20-35 new games that I've played in the last year, 4 of them were missing some piece.

On the other hand, funagain's constant slow handling on 2 of my last 3 orders to them says that they don't really want my business anymore.