Buying Wargames from Etsy

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Cyrano

September 04, 2015, 10:31:46 AM
So Doug's got me into a Napoleonic completionist binge (*facepunch*...we need an emoji for that) and I was searching, and searching, and searching, and eventually settled on an MIB "Napoleon's Last Battles" First Edition SPI flatpack that comes with the "Napoleon at Waterloo" add-on game...also MIB.

Thing is, I bought it from Etsy.

Now, I've bought things from Etsy before, but always for my wife.  Perhaps I missed it, or perhaps this seller is unique, but, frankly, when I buy something for you, I like a good description of the product, preferably with pictures, prior to purchase (check), I want you to ship promptly (check), and I want you to let me know if there are problems.

I do not, I don't think, want an effusive note welcoming me to your on-line "family" and encouraging me to not only browse your other goods (that I get), but share my thoughts about "our" hobby (they actually specialize in vintage family games), and anything else that might be on my mind.  I am, perhaps, being curmudgeonly on a Friday morning -- and I may be too used to the weirdness that is Wally's Basement -- but it came off as a little cult-y and weird...

Best,

Jim
"Cyrano"
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Nefaro

#1
September 04, 2015, 11:47:55 AM
Is this a desperate cry for Napoleonic purchasing intervention?  :D

bayonetbrant

#2
September 04, 2015, 11:52:49 AM
I thought Etsy was a cult...
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bbmike

#3
September 04, 2015, 12:03:53 PM
I thought Etsy made plastic model kits.
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LongBlade

#4
September 04, 2015, 12:24:34 PM
Quote from: Cyrano on September 04, 2015, 10:31:46 AM
So Doug's got me into a Napoleonic completionist binge (*facepunch*...we need an emoji for that)

Sorry, fresh outta facepunches.

Will this do? 
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Staggerwing

#5
September 04, 2015, 08:21:01 PM
Quote from: bbmike on September 04, 2015, 12:03:53 PM
I thought Etsy made plastic model kits.

Or model rockets?

Oh, wait- that's Estes...

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Richie61

#6
September 04, 2015, 11:22:42 PM
I have bought a few off their site. Picked up Squad Leader un-punched for $10 less shipping.
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bbmike

#7
September 05, 2015, 07:18:07 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 04, 2015, 08:21:01 PM
Quote from: bbmike on September 04, 2015, 12:03:53 PM
I thought Etsy made plastic model kits.

Or model rockets?

Oh, wait- that's Estes...

Maybe I was thinking Ertl. I remember seeing that on my model kits year ago.
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

Staggerwing

#8
September 05, 2015, 07:28:32 AM
I think Ertl made toy farm sets with animals or something like that.
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

GJK

#9
September 05, 2015, 10:54:50 AM
There's a guy that makes some pretty cool looking dice towers on there that I've been looking at getting.  Wasn't sure how or what Etsy was though.
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panzerde

#10
September 05, 2015, 11:00:23 AM
Quote from: Cyrano on September 04, 2015, 10:31:46 AM
So Doug's got me into a Napoleonic completionist binge (*facepunch*...we need an emoji for that) and I was searching, and searching, and searching, and eventually settled on an MIB "Napoleon's Last Battles" First Edition SPI flatpack that comes with the "Napoleon at Waterloo" add-on game...also MIB.




Quit yer whinging. I just ponied up for the MMP Marengo game because I just covered that campaign/battle in my re-read of Chandler and I don't have anything that covers it. And I'm re-reading Chandler because of you.

Quote from: Cyrano on September 04, 2015, 10:31:46 AM
I do not, I don't think, want an effusive note welcoming me to your on-line "family" and encouraging me to not only browse your other goods (that I get), but share my thoughts about "our" hobby (they actually specialize in vintage family games), and anything else that might be on my mind.  I am, perhaps, being curmudgeonly on a Friday morning -- and I may be too used to the weirdness that is Wally's Basement -- but it came off as a little cult-y and weird...


You are, in fact, a curmudgeon. Or at least well on your way. This is not a bad thing, but rather a state that gentlemen of a certain age and social standing naturally achieve and revel in. Some men achieve it at an even younger age. It simply represents that point at which our hormones recede enough that we can finally see that people have been walking on our damn lawns.


As for "cult-y..." well, I'm not sure any of us belonging to the "International Hard-core Napoleonic Gaming Society" are really in any position to cast stones. :)
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Cyrano

#11
September 05, 2015, 07:51:51 PM
OK, so, for the record...

The game came completed as advertised, in excellent packaging, and sooner than I had expected.  High points!  Behold the glory of SPI in those halcyon days:



Oh...right...and before I go...THIS is what was packed on top of my game:



Nope, not kidding.

I'm wearing the wrist band (which wishes me a Happy Birthday) to Origins.  Peach schnapps all around...

Sergeant at Arms of La Fraternite des Boutons Carres

One mustachioed, cigar-chomping, bespectacled deity, entirely at your service.

You didn't know? My Corps has already sailed to Berlin. We got there 3 days ago and we've been in the Tiergarten on the piss ever since. -- Marshal Soult, October 1806

bbmike

#12
September 05, 2015, 07:54:27 PM
Forget all of that! Are you going to trim the corners or not?  :P
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

panzerde

#13
September 05, 2015, 10:35:49 PM
Dude! Aquaman sticker!


I just finished punching the counters on Danube 20. Laser-cut, 5/8", 4 color with amazing unit graphics and a good 1.8" thick. Things have come a long, long way.
"This damned Bonaparte is going to get us all killed" - Jean Lannes, 1809

Castellan -  La Fraternite des Boutons Carres

Nefaro

#14
September 06, 2015, 01:20:39 AM
Quote from: panzerde on September 05, 2015, 10:35:49 PM



I just finished punching the counters on Danube 20. Laser-cut, 5/8", 4 color with amazing unit graphics and a good 1.8" thick. Things have come a long, long way.


Those nice, heavy, no-clipping-required laser cut counters from VPG are wonderful.  At least, the ones that I own.

I'd much rather wipe the residual ash off the sides of those counters than clip the corners off the scrawny little GMT ones.
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