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No skaven on bbfigs?

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:57 pm
by AK_Dave
I'm sad. I wanted a new Skaven team, but bbfigs doesn't show one. Had to order from GW. No Skaven on bbfigs? That sucks.

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:19 pm
by TeamTræls
I don't mean to sound rude, but what is the point of your post? Would you like to know when BBfigs restock Skaven, or? Because a PM to mr. Starscraper would have been easier, I think :)

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:40 pm
by AK_Dave
My "Psychic Friends Network" doesn't have "PM TeamTraels" on its list of suggested responses.

I'd heard that bbfigs was "reorganizing" some now that GW has decided to sell figs individually. But it was a shock and surprise that there was nothing but a blank page when I went shopping for Skaven.

Point? I checked bbfigs before I went to GW. Sale lost to GW for lack of info on product availability. Point? Yeah, I was ready to buy and might have even waited a reasonable delay but GW says "I got what you want right here" and bbfigs says "eh? wuzzat you want?"

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:35 pm
by mattwhile
I think what Team Traels was trying to say was that if you had contacted Tom through pm he may have been able to source some skaven fairly easily and rapidly for you.

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:48 pm
by TeamTræls
AK_Dave wrote:My "Psychic Friends Network" doesn't have "PM TeamTraels" on its list of suggested responses.

I'd heard that bbfigs was "reorganizing" some now that GW has decided to sell figs individually. But it was a shock and surprise that there was nothing but a blank page when I went shopping for Skaven.

Point? I checked bbfigs before I went to GW. Sale lost to GW for lack of info on product availability. Point? Yeah, I was ready to buy and might have even waited a reasonable delay but GW says "I got what you want right here" and bbfigs says "eh? wuzzat you want?"
You wouldn't want to PM me, nothing constructive would come out of that... ;) Psychic Friends Network? I don't get it. I reckon there is point in your post, now, but when I first read it it wasn't written like there was any other point than letting people know that you are a sad litle monkey. Of course, a Skaven team is on its way, so you should be a happy little monkey instead :) We all love monkeys.

I simply wanted to, indirectly, point a finger towards mr. Starscraper, since my current impressions of this man is sort of like a drug dealer; you need some? He gots some. Or he gets some, then you are a happy little monkey.

As I said, it wasn't to sound rude, or offend in any way :) Guess I'm good at offending people even though I don't intend to. Meh, a bad reputation is better than no reputation, I guess.

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:02 pm
by AK_Dave
Too bad the clue about PMing Tom wasn't on the Skaven page link I tried to click on over at bbfigs. I might have put the clues together at that point. When I'm in "shopping" mode, I guess I didn't make the shift to "go chat" mode until after the transaction was completed. Or I can just blame it all on being tired. Methinks the bbfigs website might need some subtle updating.

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:05 pm
by TeamTræls
Did I hit something when I replied? Sounds like you are very displeased, my apologies if I did.

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:26 pm
by AK_Dave
Nah, I'm just bummed like when I found out Santa Claus was really my folks ordering toys out of the Sears catalog. Back when Sears had a catalog. Man, that dates me.

Hey, bbfigs is awesome buy your teams there we gotcha covered. Okay, they're reorganizing a little because GW has reorganized how the BB line is being sold. Hey, bbfigs don't even offer Skaven at all! Thats not right!

So, no it did not occur to me that when I ran into confusion at bbfigs that my next course of action should be to come here and PM Tom. After finding what I wanted through GW, and ordering it, my thought was to post here for the purpose of a) finding out why bbfigs doesn't have skaven at all, b) saving someone else the effort of "shopping around", or c) offering my observation in case someone associated with bbfigs sees it and takes it as the "customer feedback" that it was intended as.

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:29 pm
by TeamTræls
I understand what you did, but would like to offer some positive critique - write what you want to say more clearly so it doesn't seem pointless! :D

I agree with your dissatisfaction - I would really like to place an order with BBfigs (don't know on what, guess I'd figure that out when they have all the models I would possibly ever want restocked).

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:02 am
by Decker_cky
Tom has a timeline for ordering the different teams in. He's working on a set budget, and it depends on income before he can add more to the line. I agree some communication about this on the website would be nice.

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:36 am
by thechosengobbo
He DID have a nice timeline, but I guess GW changing things and making him re-organise his own plans regarding bbfigs as a result have put paid to his origional plans.

I have every confidence we'll be back in the loop once Tom finalises his plan.

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:46 am
by GalakStarscraper
AK_Dave wrote:Nah, I'm just bummed like when I found out Santa Claus was really my folks ordering toys out of the Sears catalog. Back when Sears had a catalog. Man, that dates me.

Hey, bbfigs is awesome buy your teams there we gotcha covered. Okay, they're reorganizing a little because GW has reorganized how the BB line is being sold. Hey, bbfigs don't even offer Skaven at all! Thats not right!

So, no it did not occur to me that when I ran into confusion at bbfigs that my next course of action should be to come here and PM Tom. After finding what I wanted through GW, and ordering it, my thought was to post here for the purpose of a) finding out why bbfigs doesn't have skaven at all, b) saving someone else the effort of "shopping around", or c) offering my observation in case someone associated with bbfigs sees it and takes it as the "customer feedback" that it was intended as.
Ah well.

Too bad as we've had Skaven in stock since last Monday (working on getting the webstore ready for them) and we would have sold you a full team of 16 or a partial team of 12 to 13 for less than GW's prices.

As for putting notices on the website ... I'm doing the best I can ... there is a clear Contact Us item on the webpage and numerous people find it and use it to ask me if I can get them something special or the timing of when a certain team will be coming in stock.

I'm sorry you spent too much money on your purchase this week.

Tom/Galak

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Expectations and timeline:

Skaven and Underworld by end of next week (hopefully Monday)
Norse and Chaos Pact by end of February
Dark Elf, Elf and Halfling by end of March
High Elf and Khemri by end of April
Amazon, Chaos Dwarf, Orc and Vampire by end of July
Necromantic, Undead, Dwarf, Human, Slann, Star players, Sideline staff and Boxed Components ... unknown ... depends on sales

Tom

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:25 am
by Norse
by the way, as an aside, what is with all the guys allegedly quoting Galak in their sig? it's like seeing the John 3:16 signs at random sports events.. only I know Tom, so I know he's no damned apostle...

Tom, you starting a cult or something?? :-? :roll:









can I join? :lol:

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:35 am
by GalakStarscraper
Norse wrote:by the way, as an aside, what is with all the guys allegedly quoting Galak in their sig?

can I join? :lol:
It is a real quote that I said on TBB ... I think what makes it funny is that it sounds like I was making a joke ... at the time I said that ... it was pretty serious. :D

But you are right ... I'm definitely no apostle. :lol:

Galak

Re: No skaven on bbfigs?

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:06 pm
by GalakStarscraper
AK_Dave wrote:I'm sad. I wanted a new Skaven team, but bbfigs doesn't show one. Had to order from GW. No Skaven on bbfigs? That sucks.
3 days later ... discounted proper packed Skaven teams are now on BBFigs.com.

Galak